skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Depending on apartment, it may be possible to pay 1 to 2 months rent up front if you don't have a decent credit rating.

Right, but often not because landlords aren't just concerned about rent but recovering damages in excess of any deposit. (And both advance rent and damage deposit requirements are often regulated, as well.)
The problem that these people are experiencing is that they are in a very special privileged position (weather through their own work or through inheritance), yet they realize that most people they will interact with will never attain their status.

It is not about hard work, or "bootstrapping" yourself. Its all about the luck. And they have been lucky. They are reaping the benefits of their luck at a disproportionate rate then the these other people. And they aren't doing anything about it.

It is ridiculous that people who make $250K or more a year (and I don't care where you live) think that they are "middle class". Bullshit. You are wealthy. Most other people are not. The quicker you admit to it - the more the economic disparity becomes obvious and something has to be done about it.

In Inequality for All—a 2013 documentary with Robert Reich in which he argued that income inequality is the defining issue for the United States—Reich states that 95% of economic gains went to the top 1% net worth (HNWI) since 2009 when the recovery allegedly started. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inequality_for_All)

By continuing to state that they are 'normal' or 'middle class' or 'frugal' - they are really trying to convince themselves that they are not the on the "taking" part of society.
It goes to show that it's not construction costs that account for variances in home prices, but rather something location based: land values.

Policies that will work to drive down land values (and utilize land values to fund public infrastructure instead of private land speculation) would be very useful in many overheated land markets.
> I am arguing that no amount of investment is big enough to make data breaches go away.

Sure, nothing is totally secure against a dedicated, motivated attacker with unlimited resources. Thankfully those are few and far between.

Based on that Equifax has said that this doesn't seem to be the case.
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Harvey has dissipated more-or-less, the one near Mexico is Hurricane Kattia
He didn't say foolproof; he said better.
Why not let American states issue their own currencies and have 50 different flavors of dollar, then? I mean, everyone knew that already but considered the advantages of a common currency and common market for goods and services a better option overall. Adopting such exposes various problems (some more political than others) but that doesn't mean going back to a more familiar inefficient system is going to give you a better result.

The EU does need some sort of central budgeting/policy mechanism, but participation needs to be vastly easier and bureaucracies (national and federal) dismantled. Governance should be an activity not a specific job or class.
I thought all 3 were free to freeze but $10 to unfreeze
Comments like this are why I still read hacker news.
Berkshares appear to be a glorified version of Amazon vouchers, exchangeable at participating stores for a fixed dollar value. Except you can probably buy more with Amazon vouchers, and they probably look more like dollars.

On the other hand, the creator of Liberty Dollars campaigned for the abolition of the Fed whilst minting coins which were arguably similar to rarely-circulated commemorative dollar coins also called Liberty Dollars, and stamped a dollar value on them (which of course was in excess of the bullion value he was supposedly backing them with). Then when the US Mint issued warnings about "illegal coins" he took the suicidal decision to sue it to try to force it to withdraw them. Not a surprise that the government eventually found grounds to prosecute him under relatively obscure constitution-linked statutes covering exclusivity of coin mintage. (They also confiscated a lot of coins, most of which were eventually returned by courts. They're worth more now than when they were minted due to rarity value, looking pretty, and coin collectors and libertarians wanting them to show off)

There's a cautionary tale for the crypto-world there, probably.
The Victorian Debate Over Rabies
Could you please comment civilly and substantively, like the guidelines ask, or not at all?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's a unusual combo.
Lol, this article is complete crap. No restaurant wants you to not order something. What they want is you, coming in the door, having a good time and ordering a bit of everything.

Now if some restaurants have items they feel differentiates them from other, they want you to have some of that.

But there was never an instance where, when I designed a menu (worked as a cook/chef in some pretty high end places, including one ranked in the top 100 in the world), I ever wanted someone to not order something.

Edit - I love it, downvoted by a bunch of people who have likely never worked in a restaurant let alone designed a menu or ran a restaurant.
I wasn't suggesting that businesses were anxious to replace things that already work, I'm suggesting that as they acquire new software it's more likely to be web-based.

Devices are often replaced on a schedule anyway, especially if they're leased.
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I don't think they subconsciously believe they don't deserve their wealth. I think some may subconsciously feel guilty because they don't do more to help with their wealth.
I was able to freeze my credit through on-line forms using instructions here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/identity_theft

Fees vary by state. I think I paid ~$20 total and not all of them charged me.
This should be downvoted, because one can trivially disagree with your premise, without being misinformed nor with any conflict of interest.
I would also add React to this as well. Having built 2 react/redux/typescript apps, I can say that the TS ecosystem for react is quite excellent.
> Policies that will work to drive down land values (and utilize land values to fund public infrastructure instead of private land speculation) would be very useful in many overheated land markets

Supply and demand. Allowing builders to build higher, thereby increasing density, amortizes the land's value across more living space. Turning land into parks is nice, for people and property values, but does nothing to reducing housing prices nor rents. (If anything, by yanking land supply off the market such policies could actually exacerbate the problem if carried out in a vacuum.)
This.

I will add, the US military may not be the largest in the world by manpower, but it is the best equipped, best trained and has a world wide network of allies and military bases. Certain parts of the US military are the largest, for example, the US Air Force is the largest and best equipped air force in the world. The second largest is the US Navy.

The only thing China has going for it is that it is not only geographically large, but also has a huge population.
Menu hack for vegetarians/vegans at meat-focused restaurants: Scan the ingredients across all plates on the menu: these are items that the kitchen has made or has readily available. Ask to swap the meat in a dish with something from that list.

Very useful in areas where "I'm vegetarian, what do you recommend?" is answered with "we have this lettuce salad". And yes, that's still a lot of places once you're away from the east and west coasts.
Fair enough, I see how providing the medium for another person's actions is different than putting yourself in a position of authority over them.

That said, there is an argument to be made that a host should not worry that they are partly to blame for, or that their non-intervention suggests tacit approval of, a user's detestable messages - simply because the host just isn't accountable for the user's actions. The solution to not supporting it, imo, is to be explicit about the host's scope of permissions and banned content right up front, before problems occur, because then the responsibility for the user to not do so is recorded. [If the agreement clause is really vague and allows nearly anything, it doesn't change that the user can expect it to be used.]

Freedom to not listen to speech is in my opinion just as valid as the freedom to speak; maybe I'd call it the freedom to silence :P

[An extreme example of Kant is that, if a murderer asks, you should tell them where the person they say they are going to kill is, instead of lying. The reason goes: right and wrong having nothing to do with morality (universal law) so you can't justify lying to the murderer if you see them as a person who is an end in themselves- rather the lie is a way to pursue a right and wrong based in single situation hypotheticals (whether you should manipulate the murderer to save lives), which means it can't derive its value to you from being universally applicable, from not originating from a categorical truth. The reason although people are worth more than a means, you still can't mislead the murderer so as to protect a valuable life, is that the potential murderer, also an undeniable end in themselves, is the one upon whom the responsibility for the murder should be placed - you are not responsible whether or not the murderer tells the truth that they will kill or if they lie. They are still totally free to choose not to murder the person after you give their location away anyway. Do I think I would act this way? I really don't think so. Another way to resolve it is to keep quiet lol]
Except that rotten tomatoes are not green..they are deeper red in color than a fresh one. Plus, why throw tomatoes at all if you like a performance. For me it's a completely broken analogy.
How North Korea Fuels Its Military Trucks with Trees
The point is that charter revocation requires both the executive and judicial branch to agree. Moreover, I think I can guarantee that any vague sounding statement like "abuse, misuse or nonuse of its corporate powers, privileges or franchises." has been translated into a series of relatively specific conditions by the courts. You can't just sue someone for being vaguely terrible.

Basically, however appalling the unaccountable power of credit bureaus is, it was legal yesterday and it's not the job of either the executive branch or the judicial to decide today that such power isn't legal today. The judicial system especially is oriented towards prevent that kind of thing. Rather, deciding that is the job of (even more dysfunctional) legislative branch.

This, of course, doesn't guarantee that executive or judicial branch couldn't "get religion" and try to get end this situation but it would have it own messiness.

And there you have it - an American legal/government system very much resembling a well built car driven far too long without an overhaul.
> The real damages here are going to be to the banks and credit card companies that will have to absorb the costs of all the fraud.

This is not true at all. They simply reverse the charges. Businesses who accepted the fraudulent transaction(s) are on the hook for it. Anyone who runs a business and handles credit card processing can confirm this.
Assuming the TN visa is still around in a year.
I got lucky and sold my business when I was just 49. However, I worked a minimum of 60 hours per week, for years.

Which gets me to my response:

Cherish that time. I don't care about longevity, I care about maximum value. I may be content to die today, but I'm not content wasting time on something that is forced on me.

I don't regret much, but I do regret my time that was wasted by others. As I look back, I see do many situations where I could have disallowed that while still getting the same eventual outcome.
In case you are wondering how it handles password encryption and storage, it appears to use a custom password hash based on SHA256 and scrypt: https://github.com/18F/identity-idp/blob/980c2aa26397f530673...

Passwords appear to be stored in the users table in the "encrypted_password" column, and it does not appear that any database-based security is used. This is one RCE/SQLI vulnerability away from exposing the password hashes for all users. To be fair, that's probably true of most sites that store password hashes, but I would have expected better from 18F.
Bill did not build a company alone. He built it off the backs of employees. His earnings are so substantial that it is fundamentally impossible for him to earn it off of his own two hands and intelligence alone. No one man has enough intelligence or physical ability to generate a billion dollars. Can one man create the windows operating system? Can one man construct a boeing 747? If no one man can construct a boeing 747 than how can their exist people who have wealth greater than the worth of a passenger airliner? There is only one explanation. This wealth was earned unfairly.

What Bill and all other billionaires do is utilize the labor of other people. Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple are all group efforts where humanity pools their collective power together to construct something greater than one man can produce. The issue here is that, the leaders of these groups get rewards that are disproportionate. There is no way one human can contribute labor worth 50 billion dollars to the world. It it physically impossible. The taxes that Bill paid is wealth generated by the employees, not Bill.
You guys may have this or that problem in the US, but the fact that you have people like this author who put so much effort into communicating the problems and who care this much, that makes me envious of you all. You'd be really hard pressed to find a good number of people in my country who cared as much about the welfare of the rest of the people.
A fun aspect of this site is that you can change the map projection used.
People evangelize what works well and Ember works well. Hell, Rails works well. The thing about Ember though is that there' aren't code camps teaching it afaik.

Ember has been an "island of stability" in the front end craziness of the last 5 years. They've navigated the trends pretty well and have a complete and competitive offering.
Why should the law evolve to be more just? If anything, wouldn't the laws that were most fair be the ones that due to their age in spite of history's blows indicates preferential selection, and that age of the law may correlate to the relatively simplicity of its authoring government and hence maybe fewer externalities. We now live in a period of perennial voter disenfranchisement, and it seems that the civil rights movement will not have the lasting stopping power it was perceived to wield to cement incremental progress in our society. I think that recent legislation, although almost never as surely heinous as chattel slavery or slaughter of Native Americans or racial quotas etc., that there is a difference between the 'what we think is worth keeping' and the 'what we can expect to be exasperatingly legislated in the near future'
That’s my new favorite.

It’s interesting how the wind appears to spiral into the eye near ground level, and out from the eye at 12k meters.

It’s like there is a toroidal shape where on the bottom, wind spirals in towards the eye, transitions to the top in the eyewall and spirals out at the top.
From Wikipedia: "Goobuntu is a Linux distribution, based on the 'long term support' versions of Ubuntu, that is internally used, as of 2010, by almost 10,000 of Google's employees. It adds a number of packages for in-house use, including security features and disables the installation of some applications, but is otherwise similar."
"Because of the passage of an upper-level trough to the north, with Irma starting to feel the steering effects of the westerly flow of the midlatitudes." Described in detail with figures here: http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2017/09/american-versus-europe...
The Romans probably had some kind of fried pasta called lagana (probably cognate of lasagna), the other things you mention are not quite staples, for example avocados are still pretty hard to come by in Italy.
That was a lot of javascript for almost zero content. Is it just that people love reading that houses are expensive?
This is, of course, probably a bad idea.

There is a preexisting efficient network of high quality marijuana distribution in Ontario (at least here in Toronto). Even if the province does as well with marijuana as they do with booze (the LCBO is at least a pleasant retailer, aside from the rules about minors touching merchandise during shopping), the black market will be far more attractive to the mid and low shelf market.

It is considerably easier to grow and cure marijuana than it is to ferment commercially viable quantities of an attractive alcoholic drink.

The ideal legal weed situation is a legitimate version of the black market arrangement, which hasn't been a considerable health problem in any way that could be attributed to poor quality product. Pretending otherwise is just a typical legal trick pulled by established agribusiness/venture firms. Frankly it's hilarious at a time when the province is finally reintroducing private alcohol retailers.
> Since the beginning of written history (the first written records are records of debts) there are stories and parables about the evil of debt and the need for debt jubilees. Also the idea that lending with interest is immoral is found through out time. Having such easy access to debt/credit from strangers seems not to work well over the long term for human societies.

I suppose shrimp and pork and beef are also unquestionably evil... Debt didn't historically work because property rights were poorly recorded. This meant enforcing one's debt involved mafia tactics. Modern debt is cleaner and subject to bankruptcy, a process that occurs on a case-by-case basis when it's needed, a far better solution than randomly cancelling debt every so many years.
High-cost cities get their high property values via network effects -- it's the proximity of other people that makes the land valuable. I wonder if a good way to circumvent high home prices is to create new cities deliberately in rural land.

For instance, get a few thousand people to agree to buy a large plot of land in a sparsely populated area. All the early-adopters get a cheap plot of land to build a house on, with most of the lots left unclaimed and managed by a non-profit. As people move in, the value of the land rises and the non-profit generates revenue and pays for infrastructure by selling the remaining lots. In the end, the citizens and town are better off financially because collectively they only paid rural-land prices for high value urban real estate.

This would be more practical if it's near an existing town (for basic necessity, schooling, proximity to hospitals, etc..), and could perhaps be helped along by partnering with a university or large employer wishing to establish a new campus.

There's a lot of ways this could fail, but it seems at least plausible that it could work. There's a lot of mostly-empty land, especially in those west-coast purple areas shown on the map on the linked page.
They did have dormice, which in a way we don't.

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/ancient-rome/roman-food...
How do you grow any crop without killing weeds and pests?
https://www.ted.com/talks/nick_hanauer_beware_fellow_plutocr...

Here's a guy that consciously believes he doesn't deserve his wealth.
As someone who lives in a state with state-run liquor, this is the exact opposite of how it actually plays out. Prices are anywhere from 30-100+% more than across the border in a state without a state-run liquor policy. Because the government has a monopoly there is no competition to drive prices lower and since the government monopoly gets to keep the profit there is no incentive for them to lower prices. Furthermore, a big part of the reason that liquor is state-run where it is, with few, scattered stores that close at 7:00 PM and on Sunday and holidays, is to encourage reduced alcohol consumption. Raising prices is an effective mechanism for that too.

I think if you set up these kind of government-run dispensaries, you have to mandate that their purpose is ensuring product and supply chain quality (not just making fat bags of cash), and that revenue above COGS has to be restricted to what it costs to run the program and maybe a small emergency/maintenance fund. Otherwise the natural incentive that apply to any monopoly encourage them to raise prices to the max the market will bear and rent-seek. It's civically conscientious to think that the government would be advocating for the people by working to proved the lowest possible prices, but that isn't how any government-run 'vices' dispensary program I've ever seen plays out IRL.
Folks just need to try and live below their means. This may not be practical for everyone, obviously.

I bought a town house condo right before I turned 25, worth roughly 2x my salary at the time. By age 31, I had paid it off entirely: a 15 year mortgage, done 8 years ahead of schedule.

Could I have done better if I invested that money? Probably. But I like being debt free. I also invested a ton anyway.
Must be "easy" to get in to Google these days if the hiring committee wouldn't even hire themselves.
I would run that in a virtualbox VM.
It was after the fall of the USSR; AKA How did a Canadian rocket paid for by NASA, launched by Norwegian scientists almost doomed the world: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/how-boris-saved-the-...
Awesome startup, never heard of it until I read the article. Good read
You cannot wait until your dependencies being all available before you doing anything.
China is already the #1 investor in renewable energy and nuclear. Fully replacing coal is the final goal but it's a lengthy process (decades).
There is no such agencies in lots of countries (e.g. France) and still people get loans.
When I came to US, I had to purposely take extra credits/loans to boost my inexistent credit history. Now I am credit worthy thanks to my artificial debt.
A 51% attack can kill people's confidence in a cryptocurrency, and finally wake traders up to the unsteady ground they're on. It's been a few years so I don't remember the specifics, but I remember seeing mentions of small cryptocurrencies that got 51% attacked, demand for it completely disappeared, most miners move off because it was no longer profitable, and no one at all kept mining because the difficulty value was left too high and had no time to adjust down to let individual miners mine easily.

If Bitcoin or a top-10 cryptocurrency got 51% attacked, I'm sure the price would take a hit but people would find a way to limit the damage. I'm mainly talking about tiny pump-and-dump-tier cryptocurrencies whose creators don't even love them any more but that inexplicably still have some trading volume.
The evolutionary growth of the PC platform provided for some powerful things. But we've lost a bit of the "engineered system" principle in the process.

Like the Apple II I suspect such an integrated system was a pain to expand. There were later Amiga OSs so perhaps this was possible, but I don't know how well they maintained compatibility with original programs.
Did the flight attendants beat him up and drag him off the plane?
Maybe, but in the US it ended up being quicker to get 95% of cars with catalytic converters then to get scrubbers on 95% of the coal plants. It seems power plant owners have more power to push against regulation than car owners.
Ah good point! I forgot that sometimes they don't allow some breeds of dogs as I have cats..
Not sure why this is downovtef but Russia not China will allow US troops to occupy NK nor would they allow it to turn into a nuclear wasteland regardless if they strike first or not.
A NK first strike might actually cause China to invade NK and seek a regime change before allowing the US to do the same.
Yea, that's the idea, and why I never touched it when I was living there.