skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paper describing the instrument:

"The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: A Wideband Data Recorder System for the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope"

https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06024
Using this storm as an opportunity to promote your pet belief is in amazingly bad taste.

The least the author could have done is waited until all the bodies were identified.
What? Being a Delaware corporation doesn't let you avoid any state taxes. This is legally illiterate.
"This is what climate scientists have been telling us would happen," he said. "Absolutely, it's a game changer."

I have my doubts this will be a game changer in any meaningful way.
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Right, but if I modify your client to be malicious, I can spoof those two id's, right?
And ActiveX worked fine with Internet Explorer on Windows. We look back and consider that a bad thing for the web, how is this different?
A long time ago, in a ......
Companies are supposed to pay taxes so we can have schools, healthcare, basic income etc. When they bid countries or states against each other to get tax breaks and governments play the game, citizens lose.

Yes, it happens in other cases too, and citizens should also protest against those other cases.
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I grew up in Houston, all my family is there still, and I agree with this article as well as the OP. Argue the man on his points, not your feelings.
This is the definition of a chilling effect. You would be implicated merely by visiting the site - even if your visit is simply do research for educational purposes.
Python's JSON serializer treats NamedTuples as lists. Not wrong once you understand NamedTuples are tuples, but completely unintuitive.

In [13]: from collections import namedtuple

In [14]: import json

In [15]: nt = namedtuple("Test", ["field1", "field2"])

In [16]: sample = nt(field1="foo", field2="bar")

In [17]: json.dumps(sample)
Out[17]: '["foo", "bar"]'
At how much cost in emergency aid from elsewhere?
I only ever recall finding one track where I could hear differences in bass soundstage / positioning on 256+ mp3, vs. uncompressed 44/16, back when I was using stereo subwoofers in a heavily acoustically damped room. Even then, I could only tell when abx'ing.
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85% of Harris county residents do not have flood insurance. Mortgage companies colluded with homeowners, land lords, and politicians to complain about big government regulations making people's homes too expensive by requiring it.

And now here are those mortgage companies and homeowners and landlords asking to be bailed out, to rebuild, to change no behavior.

This is worse than just paying people to sit on the sofa. That's cheap compared to this. At least they spend that money and it involves no asset destruction. Houston is basically asking the country to refund bad choices, transfer wealth back into physical assets located in coastal Texas, which will inevitably be destroyed again at some point in the future.

shrug

Fine. But I think flood insurance should be mandatory. And it should be at cost (no profit). But it should not be subsidized. And I think that's the same for any coastal area. And for people who live in fire prone forest areas.

But I will bet money that Ted Cruz and Texas politicians will be begging for more money than Katrina. And the next time there's a hurricane not in Texas they'll all bitch and moan about how most of that money is pork, and then vote against it just like they did with hurricane Sandy.
Remuneration of executive is up for approval at AGM in many countries. So you probably can vote. You can also check the vote results, the majority of shareholders vote to approve the remuneration packages.
The more I think about it, the more I feel that if you're a startup, thinking about this from the get-go won't hurt you and won't really cost you.

What I mean by that is, it's easier to build your db and backups to comply with these laws before you have anything set in stone, than after you have any meaningful amount of personal data. Like, if you organise your backups and db to happily be able to handle removal of requested data before you accrue too much technical debt/inertia then you're going to be ahead of anyone who has to retrofit, which in many ways actually puts you at an advantage.

Also, I for one won't be mourning the loss of the business model that parasitically lives of exploiting user data.
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This is a limitation of wechat's login system, which doesn't allow multiple clients are online at the same time.
So you use language X. Compile it and run it natively on server, compile it to wasm and run that in the browser.
>What does that even really mean?

My apologies, I should have specified.

By "fighting nature" I was referring to creating the worlds most powerful herbicide (that will become powerless in a few years because nature will force it to).

I was referring to spending hundreds of millions of dollars fighting the Asian Flying Carp species that literally are decimating our waterways in terms of enjoyment.

Stuff like that.

Everybody hates weeds, and nobody likes getting their neck broken when they are on a powerboat racing down the river because a fish flew up and hit them.

But we can't really stop the weeds from growing of the fish from spreading in the long run. So why bother?

It just seems like such a wasted effort.
Which would harm them... how?
But often they chose to build in a location specifically because of the deals you're talking about. This is big money; citizens lose most (in terms of tax dollars) if apple stays out entirely.
After coastal Texas gets $120+ billion courtesy of the Federal government.

If this was a free market state's rights kinda program, Texas should raise the cost of it's exports and fund this rebuild entirely on its own.
> Waukee will see a construction boom, higher employment, and more tax revenue.

The city will also now have a major corporation throwing its weight around to get its way; one with no loyalty to the residents or their concerns.
I'm just countering the idea that there is no cost to the state.
I'm talking about dumping gasoline in the ground, not the burning part.
Genuine question: is there a reason to use R over Python? R was actually my first programming language back in high school stats, but I never took to it the way I did with Python, Ruby, etc. Maybe because we never really learned the fundamentals and kind of bodged our code together?
Im guessing they would force the company to make tracking not on by default but rather opt-in (lol)? But what's confusing is - if you clearly state how the data will be used upfront, do you need to offer an opt-out? What if your service simply doesn't work unless the data is used in a particular way?
why is there a different tax for farmland and for datacenters? Because we want datacenters to pay more!

I understand making some deals, but this is slightly much. You wouldn't make a deal like "Oh if you open a bank here we'll exempt you from capital requirements".
He's condemning the author's work, not the author.
To be fair, Venezuela hasn't been able to feed its people properly even WITH these glaciers (not to mention the enormous oil wealth.) With a functioning economy, you can overcome a lot of natural obstacles (see Singapore).
>Where can I, as an individual, sign up for such an awesome deal?

Nowhere, because your tax dollars are a drop in the bucket. Don't pretend like you don't understand the difference between your few grand each year and Apple's tens of millions.
Looking up "organic peroxide explosion" on YouTube was enough to make me very glad I'm on the other side of the city from this place...
Right, and this form of forced "SEO" compliance by Google's hand is utterly fucked up.

There is little to no financial incentive for companies to swim against the current, and large financial incentive to come aboard and join the ranks of other AMP-supported sites.

The cracks in the system are beginning to show.
because the decision makers on this deal are not those who have to manage the costs down the row? Pretty classic principle-agent problem
> far more accurately than modern computing devices can

I feel like have no idea how complex computers actually are...
It's only a cost if the expenses are larger than the revenue...
Because they hope that the jobs created will provide enough of a boost to the economy to offset the cost of providing services for the land. Sometimes this is done in the hopes of encouraging other companies to set up shop in the area. Sometimes the Governor feels like he/she needs to reward a region for past votes or favors. Sometimes soft bribes are the reason.
Why would an alien civilization do this?

And I don't just mean, come up with something that maybe some really powerful but really stupid alien civilization might conceivably do in a silly science fiction book. Explain how this is the best use of their still-limited power.

Even the old standby "well maybe they're just incomprehensible and we can't understand them" doesn't really work here because when we're talking about "incomprehensible" aliens we don't usually mean that they're incomprehensible on account of being cosmically stupid and wasteful.

(I am speaking about what we actually have evidence for. If there's multiple exabytes of incredible data packed into this signal somehow we have no evidence for it. I like to distinguish very clearly between "things based on the evidence that we have" and "airy flights of fancy based on what might be hiding in the gaps", on the grounds that the latter is unbounded, so while they are fun in stories, in a way the very unlimited nature of the possible sets of speculations makes them uninteresting as an analysis of the real universe, all equally lost in the noise of all the other fantastic possibilities.)
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Definitely a relationship there. The trick is discovering those relationships and interpreting them.

Once when I was out at a remote Aboriginal community, one of the locals there was telling me that the women of the community know when it is time to go and harvest the mussels in the bay because a particular flower will be in bloom. Could be pure coincidence or particular weather patterns which stimulate both, but the idea that shellfish proliferation is linked to a land flower's blooming cycle is freaky.

Similarly, my mother in law had a particular orchid that only flowered once a month - always at the peak of the full moon. Was it a combination of night luminescence and gravitational pull that told the plant when to flower?

It would seem that so called 'primitive' people seem to sense, feel and interpret these things more so than city dwellers of today.
Iowa is "giving money". If there is a greater than 0% chance Apple would have built on that site anyways, then Iowa is directly losing that money. And it seems based on the local advantages of the Iowa location there was a non-zero (and potentially high) chance Apple would have picked the site anyways.

And even if Iowa isn't "giving money", somebody is. Maybe without the Iowa deal, Apple would have located in Kansas or Illinois and now those states are losing out on the money.

And fine, maybe you say the deal wouldn't happen at all unless some state gave this deal; the deal is a requirement for the datacenter to exist. OK then. So why would we make the deal? Aren't the point of these regulations to incentivize land use in a way that we as society want? If we as a society decide farmland is incentivized over datacenters (by having lower taxes for that land use), then so be it. Why is putting a datacenter on the land assumed to be "good" when our tax laws say the opposite?
Wikipedia on Jam Handy (olympic swimmer as well as educational film maker): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_Handy
Car buying “Disruptors” have done OK, yet no unicorns- Why
About 50 million vehicles are sold every year in the U.S. and start up "Disruptors" have taken a crack at getting a % of that in recent years. Some have done well and even a few, like YComb assisted CarWoo, shut their doors. Yet despite even the most successful attempt, collectively, these companies have barely cracked 5% of the total market.

Why?

Is it because automotive is the one industry that must be massaged rather than disrupted?
They are paying taxes still on it. Just the same as farmland. So the question is does the data center services cost more to the state?
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> That's a run to the bottom. Where's the limit? The USA is already lacking in education, health care, and infrastructure. This is only going to make the problem worse.

The U.S. spends more on education per student than any OECD country besides Switzerland. Even leaving out military spending, it spends more overall per capita than Canada and still doesn't manage to provide healthcare. NYC spends 2-8 times as much as European cities to build a mile of subway. Our problem isn't that we're not taxing Apple enough.
Hmm, I recall this being a much cleaner https://blog.google before. I wonder why they added www. after some time? Anyone happen to know the story?
Oh, that's easy; neither they nor the people donating to them want to think of them as pr firms. Think Tanks are so much more, you know, Think Tanky. I think such wonderful, glorious thoughts that people pay me just to think of these things, and write them down. That's way better than being in grubby PR. That's, like, a middle class job. This is a real job, that's, like, hard & shit, and I'm uniquely qualified on account of the rare and distinguished quality of my thoughts.
What's really annoying is that it only stifles those who care about licensing.
That's informative, thanks.

And I think you're point is on point: people would buy these and not be happy with them, because they want a real monitor. There's also a group of people who want them just to be able to ready articles and write articles (and code, etc) outside, and without charging a battery as often, and would be happy with lo-fi graphics.
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> Who cares?

The people in Iowa who have to subsidize this and don't have the billions sitting in the bank that Apple does?

I can't believe anyone really seriously takes this side of this argument.
> Nobody is giving anyone money,

Sure.

> it's not a horrible deal.

Less sure on this, I can see the argument that the sheer scale of the Foxconn credits could allow an end run around the normal plant operations and give them competitive advantages against other (tax paying) businesses. That would be bad and, as a precedent, it could be horrible.
can you recommend any other blogs like this?
use "NoRoot firewall" to give access to some application :)
Enough trees to call it a farm is expensive as hell.
Democracy is distributed power. Dissent has its voice in a democracy but should also respect that it is a not a majority opinion. It should work to peacefully persuade enough of its virtue to become the oppressive majority. Otherwise it's totalitarianism.
Vulkan & OpenGL are just really fast and complicated ways of putting pixels into the buffer you get from Wayland, DRM, etc... It's somewhat orthogonal.
20 hour battery life? One thing TIs still have going for them is that their battery life is measured in months.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/10/dont-bl...

>... it’s important to understand how the “Delaware loophole” works: A company sets up a subsidiary in Delaware, and transfers an intangible part of its business there—say, its trademark or naming rights. Then its other locations outside of Delaware pay money to the subsidiary in order to use that trademark. Since intangible assets are not taxed in Delaware, the company doesn’t have to pay taxes on the money that was transferred to the subsidiary. The company can deduct the cost of the royalties on its state returns in other states where it operates, and thus avoid a large share of the state income taxes it would have otherwise owed. It is the laws of states other than Delaware that allow this system to work.
I like it a lot, but do you deliver to the entire country? If not, then you should say somewhere to where do you deliver. I don't believe you deliver to my house, so I won't place an order, but maybe you do!
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7282
http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/24.pdf

"Rough consensus and running code"
> Thanks. I mean it.

What do you mean?
Their main failure wasn't just the fact that they didn't collaborate with Wayland (which wasn't a lot later by the way), but the fact that they didn't want to work on big problem that benefits Linux as a whole (replacing X11), but made something that benefits only them, and that created a huge and damaging rift. That they can be blamed for.

In contrast, Nokia didn't want to make such rift, and until it went bust, used common graphics stack (with SailfishOS becoming Meego descendant, using Wayland).
Apple will build it somewhere. The states would be better off banding together and pledging to put a stop to this nonsense.
I feel similarly about ClojureScript. It's a neat proof-of-concept, but I'm not really sure what it adds over regular JavaScript (or at least Babel + Webpack) these days.
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In many (most?) states only dealerships can sell new cars. These are the same laws the Tesla has been fighting.

That means that no matter what you do you still have to share the profit with the dealership and the sites are effectively lead generators.

When it comes to used cars you either have the mess of private sale or do you have to go to dealerships (including used car only dealerships) because realistically they're the only ones with any stock.
CS and Econ PhD programs both benefit from an extreme amount of cross-pollination between academia and industry. The ability to jump ship from the academy isn't nearly as large of an issue as it is in the sciences (with the exception of physics perhaps). The humanities are mostly screwed.

Source (for econ at least; CS is anecdotal): http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/if-you-get-phd-ge...
Does anyone have a copy of the signal, be interesting to play with and how many bits of information were there etc.
After every household in America ponies up $1000 to rebuild your infinite spreading plane of HEB parking lots. You're welcome in advance, mr. bootstraps.
I presume that Arkema carries insurance for accidents. I wonder if rates in flood-prone areas are increasing.
Sure, but that's exactly the argument this article is attempting to refute.

It says that tax incentives don't actually factor into company's decisions that much, nor do they correlate well with economic performance.
I personally love the idea of of transferable objects, this could work very well in an event driven architecture.
On second thought, you're right. The statment is wrong on my part. Systemd seems to have pleased the Arch developers and made their lives easier.

I was trying to say: Void seems easier to use and stable.

Thanks for pointing this out. Sorry for my carelessness.

(I still would never use a systemd-based distro. I've had fewer problems since leaving it. And I've read too many horror stories to go back. And I suspect it led to many if the problems I had installing and booting. Void has a smaller community than Arch and Ubuntu, yet installs and biots up faster on my junky machines than Arch and Ubuntu. Granted, I can't blame systemd for this.... but I'll include it anyway in the lineup of suspects.)
Probably the same conversations happening in “booming” industrial cities in China. Cheap land, low cost of living...eventually the race to zero gets you and the big players move on.
I guess it depends on the state. You can get 150 acres of pines planted for probably around $10K where I live. Regional universities will do it. I suspect it's cheaper in Iowa.

Also, depending on the state, the entire property doesn't need to be planted, just a portion that probably varies state to state.

Here's a Forbes article on it.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ashleaebeling/2012/06/06/farm-l...
> Facebook, Google and Microsoft have cited Iowa's large inventory of available land, low energy costs, high portfolio of renewable energy and low risk of natural disasters as reasons for locating here.

I'm interested to hear how other states stack up against this and if this factors in at all.
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People like having something special and permanent. All those pictures on your general-purpose computing device? They're gone as soon as you lose the device, get ransomware, and/or temporarily run out of money to renew the cloud storage subscription.

A polaroid picture that starts playing as soon as you attach it to a suitable power source (please make it something standard like an AA battery or USB cable), on the other hand, is something you can keep in a box in the attic for your grandchildren to find after you're gone. It's not just a display, it's a read-only snapshot and air-gapped backup of a moment of your life.
Dongle to dongle up.
It's odd to see so many comments defending Apple on the basis of their $100 million pledge. I guess you all just skimmed the article and didn't really read it? They pledged up to $100 million. In other words, they're not spending $100 million.
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We are talking past each other. I think that autonomous cars are a great idea and would like to invest in autonomous car companies more directly than is currently possible. I gather from reading about predatory pricing and your prior comment that you think Ubers' business model is a dud and that automating these jobs is bad.

This variance is the essence of capitalism though. In a well functioning capitalist society I am free to make a stupid investment in Uber and you are free to wisely not. Its about having a degree of private wealth ownership and freedom and choice in your investments. This is what I meant by well functioning: the choice of investing directly in Waymo, Uber, etc is not really there yet for average citizens.

> Capitalism is supposed to work this way? VCs investing billions of dollars in an unprofitable company which continues to be unprofitable for years after the fact.
[...] (1) achieving autonomous vehicles and ending the jobs of tens of thousands of people [...] A company which only exists in the first place because they trampled all over local laws.

Yes the freedom to make dumb investments...yes replacing error prone human labor with safe, tireless machines using greed and ambition as motivation...yes the freedom to open a business without bribing government officials. Yes, these are all basic tenets of capitalism.
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Exempting wealthy corporations while individuals are squeezed ever tighter... eventually there will be pitchforks and torches.
Meanwhile, there's been a trend of major corporations closing their R&D facilities because they aren't as sexy on the quarterly balance sheets, which clearly isn't making things better.
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Setting up a sham subsidiary in Delaware and doing a tricky tax inversion is completely different from "incorporating in Delaware to avoid taxes."

YC rightly recommends incorporating in Delaware because the state has a predictable structure of corporate law and courts that are expert in applying it.

Implying that incorporation in Delaware is inherently some kind of tax dodge is bordering on slanderous.