skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about state law, though? Wouldn't they have to win the State Supreme Court case and also get the state law amended?

https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=36.65.030
They do this after so many companies decided to move to seattle. Very greedy.
That's not a practical reality for many of us.

Economics textbooks assume there are an infinite number of suppliers to choose from, but in reality there's often only two or three, so "do something else" isn't often an option.
The Very Weird History of the SNES CD-ROM
yeah I know that cutting cost is almost a definition of business, I meant the fact that in the same time it forces a different rhythm that is very self sustaining; it's a double win, and I wonder how long they knew that fact. It's probably a naive question, I remember seeing old quotes about "if doctor cured you of all, they'd be jobless" or one about Michelin "they knew how to make 10x better 10x cheaper, but why should they release that".. it's just the dual.
For some people who moved to Washington at least in part because it has no state income tax, any income tax is too much and it isn't always about the money per se. I hate FILING income tax and I hate the idea that I can be audited. I have considered moving someplace without an income tax for that reason, having nothing to do with how much actually gets paid per se.
In my opinion, these subscription-only articles are not helpful to Hacker News community. This is what I learned from this one: Bitcoin is booming because it....
Follow up, that same RELEASE mode .NET hello world app shows 153MB in the VMMAP tool used in the blog post, so i's not entirely because of the configuration.

I think the issue is that the tool is showing you what is mapped into the address space of the process which may not use any memory. It could be mapped files or copy on write pages etc.
New rule on arbitration to help groups of people take companies to court
The CLR is quite terrible at small programs, as you're seeing.

That being said, the huge "Image" section doesn't have to be as big as you're seeing. If you look at the breakdown [0], then you can see some debugging, in the form of "TraceDLL". He also mentions that the four biggest memory eaters: System.Private.CoreLib.dll, coreclr.dll, clrjit.dll and CoreRun.exe are probably bigger than normal, because he's using a debug version of the CLR.

Outside those five, every other piece of memory is shared, which changes how you see its allocation.

I'd expect it'd change a measurable amount, but as before... The CLR is best when handling bigger programs, where JITing can actually make sense.

[0] http://mattwarren.org/images/2017/07/Image%20Memory%20Usage....
It may seem hard to believe but China is much more "late-stage" than the West. Or at least that's what it feels like when living there.
The ones rich enough can simply move their residence outside, and simply rent wherever.
>You are taking their two-faced behavior as evidence against global warming...

You cannot logically conclude that based on what I wrote.
This sounds an awful lot like what happened to the .sr ccTLD on 06/23/17. Part of my business runs on a .sr and we were down several days.

Any way to look up a history of such an event?
I was an intern at a Wall Street investment bank in 2004 and I remember the unbridled anger that animated any senior banker who started talking about Google and their efforts to "cut out the Street." It's not "collusion." It's simply that Wall Street banks are the ones with access to mutual funds and other buy-side investors, not tech companies. The bankers work with those investors every day, the tech companies once in their history. The behavior is enabled by what in Silicon Valley would be called a "moat."
Ask YC: How much friction was involved in moving to SV
I want to throw a question out there to anyone who has done YC. How difficult is the physical process of moving to the Bay Area to do the program? And what I mean by that is the process of securing a place to live, furnishing it with the necessities of life, finding a doctor to see if needed, a dentist, interface with local or state governments?

Was this a time consuming process?
100s of years though, so from the perspective of an individual on the island it's exactly the same -- their entire life was on that island. So, the distinction is pointless and reeks of apologetics IMO.

"Sir Bruce Greatbatch, KCVO, CMG, MBE, governor of the Seychelles, ordered all the dogs on Diego Garcia to be killed. More than 1000 pets were gassed with exhaust fumes. "They put the dogs in a furnace where the people worked", Lisette Talatte, in her 60s, told me, "and when their dogs were taken away in front of them our children screamed and cried". Sir Bruce had been given responsibility for what the US called "cleansing" and "sanitising" the islands; and the killing of the pets was taken by the islanders as a warning."
> I find this attitude really odd. (snip) I just tend to believe there ain't no such thing as a free lunch - someone has to pay for the medical services, highway pavement or sewer line installation. People can't be expected to work for free, right?

I think the issue is that most of these services are so cheap that the cost isn't ever a major factor. "No one cares" is probably more accurately stated as "no one is forced to care, because the general public can have confidence it's handled mostly responsibly".

In Michigan, for example, to completely tear down and rebuild new a lane-mile of freeway that is rated to last 20 years, cost roughly $2 million dollars in 2016. So, a brand new stretch of freeway, 4 lanes wide and 100 miles long, would cost about $400 million dollars. (That distance covers, just as an example, an entire trip from Chicago to Milwaukee)

That cost sounds insane at face value, and gets everyone worked up about "costs". Until you math that out and realize it comes out to 33 cents per citizen per month. At which point, freeways seem like a crazy good bargain. Even if you go crazy and build 20 times more freeway than that, the total cost is still cheaper than a Netflix subscription.

They're not all that low of course, but this tends generally holds true of many social services or utilities (water, sewer, electrical, firefighters, schools, police, etc). High upfront cost, high "sticker shock" value, but as a common good everyone can benefit from it becomes a pretty reasonable cost per person. Far lower than it would ever cost to do so any other way.

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The only thing that doesn't seem to work that way in the US is healthcare. And I don't know why, but I suspect it's because it's so privatized and unregulated (so lots of profit and overhead) and also so intentionally hidden in terms of cost (so there's no way to look up costs, the way you can with any normal social service).
>[...] concerned regulators say it might be time to link wallet IDs with actual humans

Good luck with that! :D
Yeah the Catholic Church has never been against pregnancy...
Yeah, I don't experience a lot of obvious shilling on Reddit, but I've unsubscribed to most of the default subs and mostly just read small subs relevant to my interests.
I used Nylas a little while ago, loved the N1 client. But had to stop due to restrictions on emails being stored off site. Is there an option for people wanting to use Nylas where they have restrictive security policies on where email can be stored?
Snap needs to double down location based ads
At https://youtu.be/EAKrLprUcK4 according to later comment above.
This is exactly what happened to a lot of ofo bikes. They then scratch off the serial number and qr code so that no one else can use it.
I'm a huge fan of these simple projects that are not attempting to create a company, but instead sharing a useful tool.

A similar one I put together last year for my own uses: http://textdash.xyz/
The question for me is why.

According to http://openbudget.seattle.gov/#!/year/default

2013: 4.32Billion

2014: 4.72Billion

2015: 5.14Billion

2016: 5:41Billion

2017: 5.71Billion

The city is having almost half a billion extra revenue every year in the past 4 years, and yet it feels compelled to increase taxes.

This has to be just a money grab.
And the tax rate up!
True enough, but I'm not compelled to stick my fingers over the ears over hard-to-hear dialogue.
> these are the types of things we do several times a day now

And this type of marketing posing as news, pushed to the front page by bots and fake accounts is precisely why /r/politics is now a shitbed.

Thanks Hack-PR.
Earth's sixth mass extinction event already under way, scientists warn
I really amused and annoyed a few with this.
No. It is one curve per class.
When stating facts is criticized as fear mongering by "intellectuals," you know the world is irreversibly fucked
What's funny is I got rejected from YC with Guildwork years ago. After flailing around trying to make it work I reflected on why it didn't work, Discord was the result. :)
Tyco? Google brings up nothing

Edit: Nevermind, just had to search Tyco Toys
I think they meant they would still have insurance, just not for preventive care.
Kotlin – Constants
These are common patterns I have extracted from things that are innovative. Most of the time, the innovation is a simple perspective transformation.

Read 1000 patents and extract the abstract refactorings that made the idea possible.
Ask HN: What to ask after advising a startup that start to pick steam
Going anonymous for this one: for the past 20 months, I have been helping/advising a startup on what to focus on for their mobile apps (especially for iOS), and because of my personal network with some Apple App Store folks, their app is now getting noticed and climbing the chart: taking over some well known apps in their category.

I was introduced to the CEO through a common friend, and I didn’t mind advising the startup’s CEO for free: advices did include some technical solution to solve some issues they were facing, recommendations on some features the app should be pushing forward, etc.

A few months back, the CEO reached out since they had a major issue and their app failed the App Store submission; after spending an hour on the phone and advising what should be done, and using some personal connections to understand why the Review was really rejected, they got the next version approved in a couple hours: the previous rejection had their app rejected for over 5 weeks and they were going nowhere.

Over the 20 months period, I did meet with the CEO a few times, and had at least monthly discussions with him through email or phone call. I have never asked anything in return, but now that the app start to get more users and climbing the chart, I am thinking it maybe time to discuss a deal; especially since the CEO reached again out to me earlier today to let me know how well their app was doing. After a quick congratulations he is asking me now more advices, and would like to access more of my personal network to take the app to the next level.

Any advice / suggestions appreciated; I have myself already a full time job (which I like), so not considering to join the startup. My background is mostly on the engineering side, but after working years with product manager and marketing folks especially in the iOS ecosystem I have picked up some good knowledge.
If I'm reading https://whois.ai/cgi-bin/register.py? correctly, I'm not sure it's strictly required - it might just delay our account by a month (it's not 100% clear IMO):

> We will email you a password after which you need to login and pay the $100, unless you are resident in Anguilla.

> After this we will send you a letter, fax and short text message (SMS) with codes on them. Please, be sure your information is correct so you can receive verifiaction codes. When you get these you need to login and enter them.

> We will also wait 3 months to make sure there is no problem with your credit card. But each successfully verification will decrease this period by one month, so if you pass all of them you do not need to wait 3 month.

Shame it's so arcane/expensive ($100 for account, then $100/2 years per domain) - there's a couple of joke domains I might have picked up if they were cheap enough (gomennas.ai / ebihara.ai [character from Persona4]).

I do appreciate that the TLD alone resolves though: http://ai./
Awk is much faster, and much more consistent in its memory management, and doesn't have some of the things that trip people up in JS (== vs ===, order of operations).

Plus, awk is probably in any *nix system, and probably doesn't need any updates to behave as expected. (And my favourite little thing: awk's executable is tiny.)
Why would you consider this isolated to /r/politics? This happens on every subreddit that is big enough to have value in reaching the targeted audience. That is one of the many reasons why the best subreddits are usually the ones with the smallest communities.
stack is just software. It's software that a large portion (maybe the majority?) of the community prefers to use. Haskell is an open source project. Someone wanted to do package management in a different way, so they put in the work and wrote the code, and it turns out a lot of people like it.

I've seen some intense debates over the merits of the two package managers, but ultimately they both have their pros and cons, and are fortunately fairly compatible.
Algorithm diagnoses heart arrhythmias with cardiologist-level accuracy
They have 1-5K employees. Even if you take a median salary of $40K, that's $40-200M/year. That's just the salaries with no taxes/overhead and no consideration that IT salaries are generally much higher.
For the truly data-hungry, this NASA document (NASA Technical Publication TP-2009-214174) has every eclipse through the year 3000:

https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEpubs/5MKSE.html
Cows are the only animals that can turn indigestible (for human) grasslands, and deserts, into rich, plant diverse carbon sinks that produce food for humans.
Found the CEO.
Facebook's IPO was botched which caused a pretty big slide the day of the offering. The next two weeks it continued to go further below IPO price to -50%. Quarter after quarter analysts questioned if they could maintain growth and profits.
You are supported by the social systems that surround you. They aren't conjured out of thin air. But if you don't want to support them in turn, then you are hardly being forced to. Just move somewhere else. There are a lot of cities in this country.
Wells Fargo to Pay $142M to Customers Hurt by Bogus Accounts
I mean if you're dead set on mobile development, yeah, your choices are iOS and Android, and if you want to make more money, prioritizing iOS. But you don't have to be in mobile development. "Do something else" is an option, because there are a vast number of opportunities in the wider tech arena. That's what I'm getting at.

Edit: also do you have any thoughts on the idea of legislation forcing you to maintain an old app? There's a Go game scoring app I use on android but it's buggy as hell, not as good as it used to be, as far as I can tell the developer keeps some servers on but hasn't updated it for a very long time. Should there be a law requiring him to keep the servers on? I can't use anything else on android (that I know of), I'd have to develop it myself.
At some point, bots will produce more music a week than humans have produced in all of history. Then, when humans go outside and play a real instrument, a bot listening in will deliver a bill for royalties to the song that sounds nearly identical to one they wrote first.
Hi there. Really simple one that you may be missing, hydration. I don't know why but I don't really get thirsty very often. Instead I get the symptoms you described. Normally it hits me the next day. I'll go a day forgetting to drink enough water and the next day I'm smashed. It took me a long time to notice the correlation.

Also you probably know this but coffee and alcohol don't hydrate very well. I used to think I was getting plenty of water, but as it was mostly coffee and the occasional after work beer, I wasn't really.
I don't get the impression that there's any substantial vote monitoring, and so it surprises me that it even cost money to do this kind of astroturfing. How hard would it be to setup and maintain a dozen Reddit accounts and spread them over a VPN service? 10 min initial startup, and not more than a minute a day of doing innocuous activity on those accounts, occasionally. When a campaign rolls out, then have the accounts work in concert.

Sure, it might not be as 100% successful as Fiverr (though I imagine it's fairly easy for Reddit to ad-hoc identify voting blocs if something was known to be bought). But you could employ additional optimization techniques, such as the one used by most high-karma users (e.g. Gallowboob): if a post fails to hit critical upvote mass, then delete and resubmit later in the day.

To give you an idea of how things seem to be relatively unmonitored until users flag it, there's the story of Unidan:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MuseumOfReddit/comments/2m5q11/a_fe...

And as a more recent, obscure example, there was the mystery of why the mod of r/evilbuildings had something like 499 of the 500 most upvoted posts in his own subreddit. The math was so laughably in favor of manipulation but a Reddit admin, using whatever shit tools they have to investigate this, acquitted the mod:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/67r1ht/the_...

Follow up:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/6ao8cv/dram...

The details of how this mod was able to boost his own posts without being called out for vote manipulation is too banal to explain in detail (basically, he would shadowdelete other popular posts so that his would get picked up by the Reddit front page, and then undelete the popular posts before anyone noticed). But the fact that a Reddit admin (I.e. a paid employee) thought that the evilbuildings mod always having the top post in his own forum for 6 months straight was just a coincidence, and/or because that mod was just apparently an amazing content submitter, spoke hugely about how uncreative the Reddit admins might be in detecting fraud.

Edit: if you are interested in subreddit drama details, here's a thread that combines the evilbuildings drama and Gallowboob: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/6d3syc/evil...

If this is the kind of effort users put toward imaginary points (though arguably raising karma is part of Gallowboob's professional work), I'm nervous to think about the schemes that PR firms will construct when they realize the easy return on investment offered by Reddit popularity.
The News Business Sinks Ever Closer to Rock Bottom
Your comment seems very well thought out. Can you expand a bit on why you think Snap would actually be worse at building a random new product than any other startup or big company?
Combine the two: rooftop gardens. Chicago has been pretty successful encouraging the development of green roofs with grants and the like: https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/dcd/supp_info/su...
Google Translate is magical. I've used it to speak with vendors and negotiate prices in China. Not optimal, but amazing. Works on text too....
>“In this context, anonymity will become more a hindrance than an asset for virtual currencies” and their potential future popularity.

The EU parliament report is wrong. Without privacy, money's utility is extremely limited. Accounts that leak private financial information are also a major security liability, that empower criminals who engage in violent crimes like kidnapping for ransom, not to mention run of the mill scams like phishing.

Former Bitcoin lead developer Gavin Andresen notes how resistance to past government efforts to stifle privacy has had huge economic benefits. [1]:

>In the '90s, there was a group of people called the cypherpunks who were pushing to get encryption technology declassified. It used to be you couldn't create encryption products and ship them overseas because they were classified as a munition and the U.S. government didn't want you shipping munitions overseas. The notion of software being a munition seemed ridiculous to these people, so they began to change the way that technology was seen and used. It's thanks to them that we have good encryption that lets things like e-commerce work on the Web.
There was also a lot of talk back then about digital cash and whether there was a way to pay for things that doesn't require you to trust a government or central authority.

There is now an effort by some government bodies to eliminate cash [2], and prevent the emergence of electronic cash, because of the financial privacy it gives people. I believe it's extremely important for the future that these efforts be resisted.

[1] http://fortune.com/2015/01/22/qa-gavin-andresen-bitcoin-foun...

[2] https://aeon.co/essays/if-plastic-replaces-cash-much-that-is...
I doubt changing the registra would change anything, as this seems more likely a problem on the TLD backend side than a problem on the registra itself, since it affect not only Gandi but also Route 53 Domain Registration. I'm under a serious consideration to switch from .ch to something else.
RescueTime is a phenomenal piece of technology, one that helps makers with the hardest problem in art — spending time with your ass in the chair.

If growth necessitates measurement, RescueTime is a hugely important tool in the belt of anyone who hopes to make their contribution to the human race.

This review is maybe slightly tinged by my having just read Pressfield's "War of Art", but I've been using RescueTime for years, and it has helped me celebrate countless victories against Resistance and that has guaranteed them all the more.

Thanks, Joe & co.
Thank you for bringing attention to this. Experiencing this on our W10 workstations.

I hope MS does something about this immediately. It's maddening.
Bought the dev kit, they never full developed the linux dev kit, then they killed it. My dev kit is sitting collecting dust.
How to Cast MKV Files to Chromecast?
It's why virtually any /r/all'd subreddit is a shitbed and has been for years. And to be honest, there's absolutely no chance it's just Reddit. People are cheating everywhere. Anyone with weak morals and either excess money or enough desperation is buying fake social engagement in hopes to find more real social engagement. And by doing this, it's ensuring that the playing field is not level for naturally going viral.

Not that any of this isn't obvious, but blaming Hack-PR for one of the older internet tricks is a bit unfair. They're just one of the few shameless enough to simply say it with zero guilt.
Ah, so that's why they split it off from facebook! Nice +25% to valuation.
I disagree, have had great luck with Amazon, sometimes even get free 1 day shipping
Unrelated, but I've always had this question about bloom filters...

If testing for membership in the set is unreliable, but testing for non-membership in the set works every time, then why can't you simply invert the boolean for the non-membership test and call that a membership test?

E.g., if it's not not in the group, then it's in the group...
Actually they are contractually obligated to spend billions of dollars with Google's hosted server (... "cloud" ...) business arm.

https://www.recode.net/2017/3/1/14661126/snap-snapchat-ipo-s...