skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yet, the logic of conspicuous consumption may as well work the other way round: Where being fat was seen as a sign on high social status once today it's a sign of low social status. One can signal status be consuming less rather than more.

The things on which the middle- and lower-classes spend conspicuously, usually intending to signal higher class, have long been markers of their less-than-upper-class standing. See: Fussell's early 1980s Class. His Middle class especially could be summed up in one sentence as, "those who spend to signal higher class, while entirely missing the point with every purchasing decision they make and instead signaling how very middle they are".
This whole data binding looks lie what angular pulled years ago.
Exploiting pseudo-RNGs in slot machines (2017)
Good point. I'd wager that US listed companies' share of profit and/or income growth outside of the US has increased since the 70s/80s. I'd at least have a global crosscheck of some kind.
Do tax incentives really work over the long term? Some quick searching via Google seem to bring up some negative answers but my search term could be biased ("do tax incentives really work?") and only lead me to answers that backup my question. I'm just curious to know if Tax Incentives actually do work for any city or state. Weren't tax breaks (or the removal of) part of the problem that got P.R. into their current situation?
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I think the snark is unnecessary.

This is surprising because

1) The time - it's a full 2 hours and change - is not nothing.

2) It's not immediately obvious to many active computer users.

I know it's cool to pretend like nothing is surprising these days, but this is something that's legitimately surprising to many people.
Most mercenaries are usually formally trained by an elite government military.
Exactly. I would be disappointed if this wasn't the result.
Do the Dysons suck more?
Git v2.14.0 released
I wouldn't worry about student loan debt being a problem. It's very likely that they're going to get a bailout before a bubble bursts. Where on earth did I come up with this, you ask? Easy - I just paid my student loans off last week. It's only natural that everyone else will now get bailed out!

Seriously, though, this is a real problem and we need to do something. Even if it doesn't have a direct effect any time soon, it's going to have an indirect effect as our generation (I'm some kind of X-ennial, apparently, but let's just say everyone 20-40) continues to replace retiring boomers in the economy. If we're all saddled with non-dischargable debt, it's going to hurt the housing and consumer spending segments.
There's a level of navel gazing in large swathes of the startup community that assumes that no one else works as hard or needs as much knowledge.
That's pretty neat.

The thing that stands out to me like a sore thumb though is the 'load' numbers. You only get 1 hour of battery life.

I know modern chips can be a hog but that terrible, especially compared to the 11 hours of light surfing on wifi.

This is the problem with optimizing power sipping all over the place. As soon as you push things none of that matters and your battery time PLUMMETS.

I don't know what they could do though outside of doubling the battery capacity.
Well that depends, doesn't it?
Anything that attempts to ascribe intention to code is going to run into a lot of corner cases; see the long history of "copying" programs vs copyright law.

"Knowingly" is similarly vague: are you knowingly running every line of code executing on your machine right now? How would you be sure?
That's what I've been thinking...
> He shouldn't blame a community of volunteers for not fixing his personal problems for free.

Please allow me to highlight this statement. I encountered it so frequently when I created and maintained several popular open source projects. I honestly think a lot of people assume that if you're working on a project, you must be getting paid for it. Then again, many of them were totally unfazed when I pointed out that I did all the work unpaid, and that it was a hobby project.
A mouse?
What about keras? Keras was originally billed as the torch API in python, so same API design inspiration. I've used both but generally still use keras because I don't see enough of a difference in pytorch to switch.
Student loan debt factors into "Household Debt".
That doesn't make sense. That's like calling my neighborhood pizzeria a car company because they use cars to deliver pizzas. They are a phone company too, because that's how people place orders.
It fizzled because nuclear doesn't have the PR and lobbying clout of the fossil and renewable energy industries.

People mistakenly think that climate change/renewable energy group took money/power from the fossil fuel industry. They didn't. Fossil fuel is just as strong as ever. The climate change/renewable energy group beat nuclear industry.

You'll see the renewable energy group take credit for the decline of coal. Wind/solar did nothing to hurt coal. It was fracking and the natural gas boom that hurt coal. What renewable has done is lead to the decline of nuclear industry in europe/germany and in the US.

There is only a limited amount of funding and mind-space. The rise of renewable energy industry crowded out nuclear. Of course the fukushima accident didn't help and the media/PR/lobbying war waged by renewable and fossil fuel industries.
Or severely limiting automation a la the Dune universe.
Would the proposed ban really affect researchers proving that anonymization schemes don't work, or would it just apply to attempts to reidentify real people in real user data?

There's not a clear line between the two. If a company publishes a list of "anonymized" email addresses, should I be arrested for putting one of the strings into Google to see if it's just an MD5 hash?

The ease of doing it is rather irrelevant. I'm kind of tired of this tech culture meme, that something should be allowed because it is easy.

The full argument is of the form "X is easy to do and hard to detect, so it would require police state tactics to have any hope of enforcing a law against it". The war on drugs is the classic example for this. Murder isn't; killing someone may be relatively easy, but it's usually obvious when it happens and it's hard to avoid leaving evidence of your involvement.
Violent revolution is manifested throughout human history, before there was even a concept of Socialism. They were called "slave rebellions."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_rebellion
And what of the examples in the article about reidentifying Netflix users from public data, or reidentifying people from Australian census data? These two incidents could no longer, legally, be publically written about. We'd be left discussing only theoretical applications (ie "this is why MD5 is weak" vs "this is how you can deanonymize this real-world complete example"), which simply never has the same impact.

Do we have to start posting these on Pastebin instead of Medium now? Can 3rd parties report them during a security audit?

Even if this has all the good intentions of preventing scummy marketers from scraping data, the execution, if history is any indicator, will likely result in a law can be used to throw people in jail for reversing an MD5 hash.
A high VIX would indicate that the market is crash-ing.
A site like this seems dangerous at best. Nobody can predict the stock market. Nobody can predict when a stock market is more likely to crash. This site tries to indicate otherwise. Whatever causes the crash it probably won't be one of the indicators listed here.
> Seriously, though, this is a real problem and we need to do something

the thing we have to do is not borrow money we can't repay. capitalism is a distributed system. borrowing money you can't repay is a broken local protocol. don't try to fix that with anything but fixing it locally.
Ha, "I don't want to sound elitist or anything, but I'm going to say a bunch of things that are purely elitist."

Thinking that people are beneath you (or not intellectually curious) because they don't value the same things you do is pretty much the definition of elitism.

It's true that a large percentage of Americans live beyond their means, but it's also true that it's been that way for at least the last century and it's a necessary evil to have a prosperous economy. Easy credit has been the sole driver of the American economy for the past 50 years and its fueled the boom and bust cycles that we continue to see. You have to have people spending money in order to create jobs and expansion. You also need people saving money. Without either the economy won't grow for long.
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Asus ux330 has basically the same characteristics but it is available for half the price
A bit of both.

A counterexample to "lean startup" is one of the products that you see on TV informercials: the garden hose that expands when you turn on the water.

If you talked to gardeners, homeowners, etc. you might get some grousing about how their garden hose is awkward but probably no one would tell you they need a garden hose that expands.

Some guy got the idea for that, developed it, got a patent, and started selling it. Other people saw it was a hit product and found ways to make expanding garden hoses that don't infringe the original patent.
Well, yes, it is really is surprising that you can go from 8.5 hours of battery life to almost 11.5 hours just by going from a windowed video to full screen.

Apparently only you and Apple know the secret to this because similar battery improvements weren't seen when trying this trick in Windows on the same machine. Microsoft should hire you.
As they note at the end, this only applies to OS X with QuickTime, but not to Windows 10 on the same hardware.

So while it may be an obvious optimization to some people it doesn't seem to be implemented everywhere it could be. Or the DWM is more efficient than OS X's window composition stuff and there's no difference between windowed and fullscreen modes. Either option probably will annoy some fanboys one way or the other.

One thing that they may have done is to simply change the refresh rate of the display to match the played video's (akin to GSync/Freesync) in fullscreen mode. You can't do so in windowed mode since it will affect other applications, but when a fullscreen video is shown you can safely do so and it may save a bit of power.
I love the design and phrasing. This is just a well-done website.

It would be really interesting to see your collapse pyramid over time. How did it look in 2000? 2008?
I strongly recommend, at least once in your life, having a discussion or listening to gun enthusiasts. One on one. Not electronically.

As far as an anthropological opportunity there are none better.

Rarely does a subject rise to faith and rarely are discussions anything but binary. A rare opportunity i always enjoy with my gun friends.
Distribution of household debt is to significant to look at the health of the economy in this way, especially so when you look at how the GDP is generated and who is generating it.
just keep biggin up potential sales, even make them up, it works treats for the company i work for
For the public source of this information, rewind to 2013:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligenc...

https://cryptome.org/2014/01/nsa-prism-dk.pdf

You have to put together what we know about PRISM with recent testimony.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_v._NSA is extremely important here. The NSA argues it can collect virtually every scrap of data flowing across US communications systems and that it does not violate your rights because as long as no one is looking at it your 4th amendment rights aren't violated. So to "look" at the data they get a secret FISA warrant. Jewel was defeated in court with the same tired argument of Clapper et. al -- "Your facts are inaccurate, but we won't tell you how because it is a state secret. Case dismissed. You let us worry about protecting your privacy within our walled garden."

NSA directors have a long history dating back to 2002 with Hayden of misleading congress and then saying "oops, sorry about that." It is a naked power game between congress and the executive branch and a bit of political chicken because the intelligence committees can only go so far before the president/white house can say the legislative branch is undermining your freedom and aren't tough on terror.... which will not go well for anyone at reelection time if it sticks.

The back and forth goes on. The picture painted, and I can't dig everything up is that, essentially, the NSA collects almost everything that happens on US soil. It has a legal fiction via executive orders (see Snowden emails) that let it do this. And then if searches of this data turn up anything interesting (since automated computer searches don't require a warrant under this legal fiction) they then apply for a secret FISA warrant and then humans can "look" at the collected data. And since no humans were collecting or looking at your data your 4A rights are fine and safe.

edit: I guess I meant to add this legal construction is why the "how" of their collection matters so much. Until we have accurate details of the "how" we can't even begin to argue against them in open court. And since the executive branch tries its very best to keep the "how" secret (for many not obvious reasons!) these things are important. I have seen people dismiss the importance of the technical details as just bits and bytes and what matters is the politics at play, but the "how" is very important as shown by the failure of Jewel to win in court due to specious "state secrets" arguments.
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Oh dang ! That household debt sure is scary. Where's the real time data sourced from?

> U.S economic risk as of ...

With the click of a button, may be also allow a view of where it was at a point in history...? i.e. U.S economic risk as of [insert point in history]

Great work so far. Simple and usable.
Stop optimizing for pretty and add more battery. My laptop is a tool, not a piece of art.
There are clearly people on this thread who think that it's possible to believe in the supremacy of white people over black people without all the ugly baggage of "white supremacy".

I. Don't. Care. I don't care if a white supremacist believes that Asians might be superior to whites. I don't care if a white supremacist thinks anyone who would wear a hood and burn a cross belongs in jail. These things simply don't matter to me.

Like I said: you are free to believe in the "good kind" of white supremacist. I don't differentiate.
> free software devs can handle being told off once in a while

That's bullshit. I mean, that's one of the main reasons I never bothered submitting a patch for Linux. Many of us really don't like being told off for what we're doing as a volunteer. I reluctantly can accept a limited amount of abuse for a paid project, but my tolerance for abuse for what I do as a volunteer is zero.
Ah yes, a competent police force is a death squad for the poor.

If you're going to advocate for murdering the poor why not go whole hog and just herd them into camps for eradication? That would presumably be a lot more efficient since you're centralizing everything
I wouldn't be surprised if there's a "fast path" for this in the hardware - "decode H264 video to the entire screen" seems like a logical target for optimization.
Good book on this and other collecting aspects - Art Collecting Today

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Market Volatility section:

Current risk:

NaN / 10

"Calm waters"

(I'm using Edge)
Interesting response, thanks.
To parent's comment:

If >it's not OK to force everyone else to provide for them.

Along the same lines of thinking:

it's not OK to force everyone else to defend your assets/property/lifestyle

Or at least it's unlikely you will succeed in that effort
You'll have to buy something other than Apple if you want that.
The information problem is exactly what I'm referring to. We have a lot of means of gathering and analzying information that we didn't have before, and those could be used to accomplish this. I'm also not advocating for a fully planned economy either, that has a lot of problems including the ones you mentioned.
This is a great idea. Might implement some kind of timeline that you can scroll through.
Possible lesson: if you have a chance to go with standards-based software, choose it every time.

Example: I chose nw.js over Qt for a cross-platform frontend. It's interesting to compare the author's starting research to my own.

Author: needs feature X, reads Qt docs, emails the sole person responsible for feature X. Gets the impression that X either works or will work with a quick bug-fix turnaround time. Is wrong. Is frustrated.

Me: needs feature X, reads Mozilla docs, Microsoft docs, 5 blog entries, and a virtual grocery isle of framework demos that deliver X in various ways, emails a blog author about one of 3 different ways to implement X. Gets told that my way of implementing X isn't one of the two ways everyone else is using. Still, it seems to work ok, so I don't end up falling back to one of the other two possible ways of solving X.

Also-- I try out a few demos by viewing a web page in any browser. I change the demos to suit my own use case by clicking a few keys and perusing the code in any browser.

Aside: I think my final app works by default with JAWS-- at least the text content of the relevant divs should get read properly.

To drive it home a bit more: the most trouble I've had in the front end is from the nw.js window menubar API. It is well-documented. It is easy to understand. The author has been responsive in fixing bugs. But guess what-- it isn't an HTML5 standard API, so it hasn't been tested, documented, revised, and argued about by at least three large companies with a vested interest in it working well. The result is my dev time (e.g., how does it interact with DOM bubbling, does it interact with DOM bubbling the same way on each platform, how does my implementation work with OSX's app menu, how does my placement of "Preferences" work with Apple's HIG, how does it affect window dimension measurements, how does its rendering relate to the various events that tell me when the page has loaded/painted, on and on...)

Edit: protect against pedantry
Hotels tend to use space more efficiently. Most hotels are purpose built and maximise the number of rooms per building. If you convert residential buildings into hotels you'll end up with a less efficient use of this space.
The page strives solely on it's nice graphics, and sensationalist wording. There is little to no content of substance.

For example the page calculates "Market Overvaluation" as the US stock market value divided by the yearly US GDP. Hilarious.
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What "culture"? What "gangs"? I'm talking about the mobs that form when enough people lose basic necessities like food and shelter. When enough people have to choose between starving to death or joining the mob that's taking food by any means necessary, most choose the latter. Given the options, that's a rational choice. Nobody wants to be part of a mob starting a food riot, but that's what human s do when you they are out of options.

> they form because the culture is broken

Have you ever actually met many poor people? "Culture" isn't the problem, and they are some of the hardest working people in the country. They are also some of the nicest people I've ever met and by far the most generous.

If you want to actually fix the problem so welfare isn't necessary, fix the things that are currently denying them the opportunity to improving their situation such as the prison-industrial complex, racist crap like "redlining", various predatory business practices, and regressive taxes. Find ways to increase labor's power such as unions or guilds, with the goal of increasing both available jobs and job stability.

> Arguably it's the welfare money that significantly led to the culture breakdown

That is pure nonsense. Seriously, try actually living[1] below the poverty line for a while, or talk to people that have had to live through a lifetime of denied opportunities.

[1] Due to an unfortunate medical situation, I currently live on less than $1500/month.
> Exciting: the MacBook Pro's video playback runs 135 minutes longer in full screen mode - the length of an entire feature film.

A feature film is anything longer than 40 minutes. This idea that movies need to be 90 or 120+ minutes long is absurd.
Do they really believe that our memories are that short? One of the main reasons for the most recent financial crisis in PR was due to section 936 of the US Tax code.

Take a read of the most recent crisis: https://taxfoundation.org/tax-policy-helped-create-puerto-ri...

United States General Accounting Office Report to the Chairman, Committee on Finance, TAX POLICY Puerto Rico and the Section 936 Tax Credit http://www.gao.gov/assets/220/218131.pdf
What is your definition of "really work"? Georgia started its tax incentives for Film/Television in 2005 and now it's the third largest film/tv industry in the nation behind California and NY. It's also propped up tourist economies as a secondary effect where people want to go to places where things were filmed. Georgia legislators would probably argue that the incentives there work.

[] http://www.adweek.com/tv-video/how-atlanta-became-the-worlds...
I've certainly noticed that recently there seems to have been an increase in the number of 'less relevant than I'd expect' Atlas Obscura articles regularly making the front page.

A quick look at the submission details though doesn't reveal any sort of sustained pattern - either of posters or timings between submissions.
Money is not as important as living a full life. Sometimes trade offs must be made
It takes a toll, but not a 2 hour difference kind of toll. The OS has to be equipped to take advantage of the state for it to be that effective.

Does the same test run on W10 or any linux distro do the same? I highly doubt it.
T460 is a fantastic machine. I have one with 32gb of ram and an i7 processor. It runs Debian like a champ and the keyboard is excellent.
I'm using Linux on Toshiba Radius 12 4k with either 1 or 2 4K displays (i.e. laptop itself or laptop and external display). I got it nearly 2 years ago for $700 on sale.

The screen is Amazing though I only realistically use browsers, sublime and a pile of xterms.
This could actually be super useful for me since I am visually impaired. I’ll try it out.
I'm wondering whether this live blur effect might have played a big part here. Since its full screen, macOS doesnt need to render all these fancy effects. I'd like to see similar tests with live blur turned off.