skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Libertarian ideals do not fit in communist societies. Regulation was always coming, as even liberal societies regulate.

I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make here; that regulation is a Communist idea? Either way, China is not a Communist society, it's a very capitalist society, with private property, wage labour etc. Also, libertarian (used in the original way libertarian was used) is Communist society. The modern "libertarian" (propertytarian) ideals do not fit in Communist society. Great lovers of freedom from democratic socialists Oscar Wilde to George Orwell to the social anarchists knew this.
Not unless they switch to http/1.0. in 1.1 you need one of: content length, connection close, chunked encoding.
"I've seen studies that say pot lowers IQ, especially in kids"

There are so many variables that could be associated with IQ it's really easy to assume that conclusion for any of them, especially if that was the intent of the study. There is a financial incentive for some to fund and promote such conclusions.

Because of that we've endured over a century of "Refer Madness" and are just now beginning to look at this issue in a less biased way.

Newer studies worth noting:

http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/2/e012989

https://www.inc.com/cynthia-than/the-surprising-way-to-be-be...
at what point do we stop blaming facebook and start blaming ourselves?
> as much as I agree with the policy position

So do I. But that is irrelevant.

> I detest the "scientific consensus" speak

Same here, specially when implying that health researchers talking not about their actual results but about the _opinions_ they have of what should be the law and what shouldn't, are in some way scientific.

Research and policies are not the same things.

.

Otherwise next you'll see things like "Researchers find most animals kill each other mercilessly, so we should decriminalize murder."
That's a right section[1] (i.e., a partial application in the second argument). There's no such thing as a right curry.

[1] https://wiki.haskell.org/Section_of_an_infix_operator
As sboselli points out below (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15285900), money doesn't even need to leave the country. Just the fact alone that a Chinese citizen is buying foreign currency or Bitcoin in a black market constitutes a form of capital flight.
It's only one of the definitions. If anything, it's the common one instead of being the scientific one.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/introvert says:

"introvert

noun

1.
a shy person.

2.
Psychology. a person characterized by concern primarily with his or her own thoughts and feelings (opposed to extrovert ).
"
How far did you read? The author is starting from a basic state and working up from that with simple examples. Approximately halfway down the article starts considering "The Impact of Net Fund Flows".
It astonishes me how much bikeshedding there is about the superficial UI of HN and how little talk there is about the low relevance of content on HN.
Some of China's growth looks bubble-ish, even to wealthy Chinese. If you think that, you might want to get your wealth out before the bubble bursts.
It's a legitimate concern rooted in past precedent. I also think this is partly why you are seeing large expenditures aimed at green-tech, etc. If you can turn around some of the social ills (namely pollution), you can stem the flow a bit.
When you announce an improvement of 18-24% over the state of the art, what you think is the state of the art makes a lot of difference.
The government control in China is a driving force to spread your capital outside. Remember, average citizen can only transfer out $60k per annum. Not much.
> So the government gave Coke the permits, Coke used under 80% of the agreed amount, and now it's a crisis? It has the markings of some severe utilities planning blunder.

The government being at fault doesn't change the problem. It's a small city in rural Mexico- you can't expect much. Calling it a "severe utilities planning blunder" implies absolute agency by the local government, which just isn't always true. The government sold a local resource with the expectation that it would be safe and that may have been foolish but we can't tell from the outside in this case. Take examples of Polynesian islands being strip-converted into farmland as the inhabitants sell to corporations. The natives were one step above tribal, and had no idea that would collapse the local ecosystem, and they're now forced to import all their food. It destroyed their health and economy- that wasn't a "severe utilities planning blunder", they were directly taken advantage of.

It's pretty clear that Coca-Cola is deeply entwined with Mexican governance at all levels, so it probably doesn't even make sense to blame the government. Coke may very well be making all the choices, when former presidents of coke become presidents of the country.

> There are a lot of questions. Would things would actually get better if Coke were to shut down operations? How many people would stop drawing salaries? How much tax revenue loss does the government face with halted operations?

Those are mostly strawmen- the choice isn't binary. A Pigovian tax maximizes value to everyone. A good question is whether that would be sufficient, but I get the impression from the article that most people think it would. Since that region is the biggest water source in Mexico you'd think they have at least a little extra water.
You can use json as well, but it is pretty unfriendly for the human users and you lose some of the interpolation.
Hacker News teaches me new things daily, see I thought Bitcoin was a decentralized payment network, that is a solution to a class of distributed network communication problems known as Byzantine generals problem.

I did not realize Bitcoin was actually a Plant or more specifically a flowers bulb. I have been using computers my whole life, I had no clue I could run flowers on my machine, also flowers would allow me to create value using electricity, and send value over TCP/IP without a trusted third party.

Go ahead and sell your bitcoin or whatever the fuck you want to do because your clearly too dumb to understand a protocol, or the abilities a protocol can provide.

Wait a minute Bitcoin can't be a flower, I mean it doesn't die during the winter, also my cat has never tried to eat it.
They're roughly the same size although the X does have a much larger screen. However they're removing the reachability feature which means that a good chunk of that larger screen will be difficult to use one handed, which won't be true of the 8.
To be fair, there are vast swaths of America, larger than some European nations, where credit card transactions are necessarily done on carbon paper with the old imprinting machines. I was at a hotel that did it just last week.

Updating your POS system to chip-and-PIN doesn't help if there's no infrastructure (or reliable infrastructure) to plug it in to.
Yep, but that's absolutely what's going to happen. People love to put square pegs in round holes. I'd be surprised if most things weren't DRMed within 5 years.
You can already stop at your two cons. Those are pretty insurmountable themselves.

Number 1 in particular creates a huge intervention in the details of an economy. Any government would want to fine tune this, and not create a tax aimed mostly on revenue collection. In particular, you do not want to go out of your way to bankrupt people when they make productive investments.
You can turn on airplane mode to turn off all radios, then turn on the radios you want on if you really want to micromanage.
A lot of Exxon/Mobil stations do now.
Except if you have the SE there is no force-touch and you are still forced into the main settings menu. I turn off the WiFi when driving or doing outdoors stuff because I don't want the battery to drain searching for a network for 6 hours...
http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/01/investing/apple-cash-oversea...

Your supreme leader will find it difficult forcibly seizing the hundreds of billions of dollars from the current biggest drivers of the economy to get them out of "his" economy.
I appreciate some good snark, but that's more or less exactly what SpaceX is doing, although their handles are slightly more complicated.

By using off-the-shelf hardware, and reusing the first stage, they're on a good trajectory to undercut previews launch system by almost an order of magnitude. And NASA trusts them enough to outsource even manned flight to them.
GitHub Desktop 1.0
Software devs are just like the rest of the population. There is a wide spectrum of views. It's a mistake to think developing software binds us all together in values.

A better approach is to be specific issue based and attract devs that may have the same interests.
Your elevator pitch told me nothing about your product or the problem it solves and is accompanied by a 1T personal growth potential.

I feel that may need to be rectified
Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app
I got fed up with the news reader apps out there so I decided to make my own. Its a simple concept where it tracks all your favorite news sources for new posts and the social shares it received. Then it ranks it HN/Reddit style using social shares as upvotes. It's not meant to be alternative to HN, just a focused way to track your favorite sources. Please try it out and let me know what do you think,

http://telescope.surf/

Note: you can do 'Add to Homescreen' on mobile to make it as an app.

Please leave a feedback or any feature wishlist you may have.

Thanks!
Same with the American History Dictionary of the English Language. The app costs about $30 and they release a new version every year or two and kill the old version. After the second time this happened I stopped playing that game, which is a shame since this is my favorite dictionary.
Plasma Mobile in Randa
>neurons that went all the way to the fingers.

nitpick: there are no such motor neurons. The fingers are controlled by muscles in the palm and forearm. But you probably knew this :)
Yourself. And maybe some helpers.

People often underestimate how much work it is to connect with people.
It really depends on how sticky the patrons are, which I would guess is very sticky. A dollar in advertising revenue that Snapchat books isn't as valuable as a dollar that Patreon books for a lot of reasons, but primarily because they have a direct-to-customer relationship and because they generate predictable subscription income.

I would think about the Patreon opportunity as such -

1/ Patreon has built a platform that has proven to be the best way for artisans and creatives to create a direct connection to their fans

2/ Since the inception of the company, they have seen very strong improvements in artist growth, patron growth, and retention in both.

3/ The total addressable market is huge. Every creative is a potential user. Their platform may even be growing the market by allowing people to quit their normal jobs to pursue creative ideas.

4/ They want to raise the money to build new functionality to continue to drive growth by addressing new segments of creatives and improving the product to drive retention.

In summary, I think Patreon has a compelling story for raising money. They need to spend money to grow but not like Snapchat because the consistency of their cash flow is a major reason to continue to invest in retention.
Ask HN: How to keep the information on your Macbook safe
Last year, my backpack with my Macbook was stolen in some pub. Yep, my fault for bringing it there. I got good travel insurance, so I had a new one the day after.

I'm good with backups, so no stuff was lost, but the person that stole my Macbook did of course have access to the source code of dozens of projects I was working on at that moment. What kind of precautions do you take to keep the data on your laptop safe?
Are you concerned that your company is about to be bought out?
For planning, risk assessment and strategy.
Tab completion is often a small subset of code completion. When I think of tab completion I think of it being able to complete something you start typing based on what it knows to exist, but rarely does it understand much context.

Code completion meanwhile knows context much better.
I think the comment about China was a way to highlight that a country with no Christian back ground (and thus no history of a Protestant Work Ethic) bans drugs. It is a round about way of point out that the PWE is not the only reason drugs are illegal.
It does sound fun, but apparently I'm still in the wrong country for Robinhood. And to be honest, in this case I would trade some fun for something with a GUI. :)
When you use a coin tumbler, the image invoked is that of laundering like clothes tumbling in a washer machine. How can willingly jumping into an optional laundering service not raise a red flag? Is it possible that another cryptocurrency like Monero will have privacy as a default that makes it so you don't look like Al Capone when you [maybe] want to just preserve some privacy?
MAC randomization seems to be broken security-wise on iOS: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/researchers-b...
The 5 supported tags thing in their form leads me to believe I am undervalued.

Cuz uh, I checked 13 things conseratively that I'd feel comfortable talking about in an interview.
I'm in the UK, but I've always thought of moving to NYC one day (despite the man in government at the mo).

Is it really only a 30 minute commute into Manhattan?! I live in Bristol, and at times I've had an hour commute by bus. I always assumed that Americans spent longer on commute in the larger cities.
It's not just quality of life. A lot of wealthy people have at least some exposure to criminal behaviour, and are not keen on being swept up in white collar prosecutions.
Why does SO seem to completely omit "backend engineers". I don't work on web stuff, I write network applications/cloud services.

There are a lot of folks similar doing that at amazom, google, etc.

Does this seem like a huge oversight to anyone else?
fallingfrog: I'm downvoting you because you clearly read only the very beginning of the OP, which goes on to address all these points head-on later on in the text. Please refrain from criticizing OP's without fully reading them!
Beautiful. Thank you, Apple. Let's hope this toxic industry ends in a miserable death soon.
Agreed. On a sort-of-but-not-really-related note, I assume Android specifically because I can run an emulator (SNES, OSX, etc.) on it. If I could do that on iOS I'd jump back over.
Couldn't find the SV9 Competizione mostly I think because search ignores terms less than 4 characters.

Friend of mine worked on it and it was featured briefly in True Blood - http://thethrottle.com/2010/08/06/what-does-true-bloods-lafa...

Will try to add it if it really doesn't exist.
I started with an assertion that money, in practice, is synonymous to power. I wasn't thinking about just economic rules.

But to pick something in big part economical, I'd say the war on drugs can be an example of a rule that's widely considered stupid, needlessly oppressive, and bad both economically and morally.
Google Play Billing Library 1.0 Released
Haskell "sections" seem to be very specific to infix operators, so they don't apply.

>There's no such thing as a right curry.

Haha, well there is now!
I didn't say the state doesn't have other forms of power, only that they don't (and shouldn't) have a monopoly on it.

Anyways, Bitcoin doesn't seem like much of a threat to the kind of power developed countries have over their currencies. The USD isn't going anywhere and nobody is using cryptos for day to day purchases or servicing debt so the fed will remain firmly in control of the money supply and interest rates.

It is much more of a threat as a method of capital flight to undeveloped countries (eg. China) who like robbing their citizens through inflation, currency manipulation, and capital controls.

I think that's a great thing.
On its face, it seems like it cannot be true.

The main ingredient in Coca-Cola is filtered water. If Coke is cheaper than water in these communities, then why isn't the company selling bottled water for the same price? Their bottling and distribution costs would be the same, while the cost of ingredients would decrease.

It makes no economic sense for Coca-Cola to not sell bottled water in this context. Lacking an economic motive, what's left? Is the assertion that Coca-Cola is actively malevolent and is using their economic power to harm people on purpose at their own expense?
So regulations against pollution are only there to keep the established order?
It seems like they're (wisely) not including anything but base slaary in this?

I definitely know
young devs at Uber who were in the 90-110 range on base salary and then a ton of stock. It's the height of stupid but they're young so...
>Drugs are a health problem, not a criminal problem.

I fully support legalizing drugs. That being said, if today you buy drugs that are being smuggled by the cartel, then your are contributing to the wrong they do. Buying cartel tainted drugs is a criminal matter because it finances massive violence.

I draw a comparison to other material that is illegal to posses because it supports harmful production and distribution. Today, there are laws that prevent making such material legally (for example, drawings or computer generated images). But the laws, while I think more harmful than good, does not excuse a person from acquiring material that was produced or distributed harmfully. In the same way, I think drug laws are more harmful, but their existence does not justify someone who pays money to the cartel. Now, if you are growing your own pot or buying it from someone who grew it themselves, I don't see a problem.
Click on my user link and send me an email and I can help you out.
For those wondering why Patreon went for more funding even though they should make about $7.5 million this year from the 5% fee they charge: They are growing faster than their current cash flow can handle and need to increase their staff beyond the 70+ they already employ. They are still a "young startup" where they can get this sort of funding where a standard growing business would get a loan.
That's interesting. You do that a lot?

What's this about a quick access to settings? That's something I've wanted forever, but I don't see a way to add it?
So if I invest in Facebook now, I'm helping them by making it easier for them to raise money several years ago? In some kind of weird acausal way, because people then anticipated my actions now?
Wouldn't that provide an incentive for ultra-wealthy shareholders to move to low-tax jurisdictions like Monaco?
Secure Your Apache Struts with Selinux
In those cases I usually create a new function depending on the type.

So for example I have a "main" function that does something with a date and expects a date object:

doSomething(date)

And then if I want to pass a string I do something like:

doSomethingString(date) {
doSomething(new Date(date))
}
Something I have to continually fight is my own perceptions. Because, I agree with you, I think Patreon is well known, they should be crazy profitable, etc.

But if you look at the larger scheme of things: How many Podcasts have a Patreon? How many YouTube channels? Is it even on their radar? And the answer is of course -> fractions of a single digit percentage.

Even compared to some other "competitors" they are quite small - consider that there are individual Kickstarters that have raised more than Patreon's profits over the past year.

They need to massively ramp up user/influencer acquisition: sponsoring conferences, booths at tradeshows, paying people to use them, a big "success team", etc. etc.
AR surfing on sine wave
China is only communist in name. It's a non-liberal capitalist country, with something of a non-universal social safety net.
No (2) doesn't sound right. It makes it sound synonymous to 'self centered', which I am sure most introverts are not.
True, their server should be returning HTTP/1.0. It's a shame that you can't get away with replacing the initial HTTP/1.0 with HTTP/1 and shave off another couple of bytes :)

Edit: I wonder if you could go full retro and just return a HTTP/0.9 response (no HTTP headers at all, just the page contents). If they then put back the DEFLATE/GZIP header bits, perhaps a browser would spot that the contents are compressed and do the decompression...
Nice to see an economics textbook get money creation more or less right for once. On the other hand they haven't been able to shake off the classical view of the consumer as a utility-maximising robot (where utility is conveniently unobservable). So a step in the right direction but a lot further to go.
>China will nationalize the domestic miners and treat Bitcoin as a commodity asset that the state controls

Sounds like a good reason for a fork.
I'm sorry, but I think this is much better for not including funny money from startups that give private equity grants, at least I in the lower bands of the range.

I know people for whom half their pay is equity and they can't even afford to take the options. And for many places I've been, the stock was never sellable outside of shady private stock trading groups that your board may or may not let you sell to.
Rolling Stone is stuck between a rock and a hard place
I'd think investing all your money in playing the lottery opens up a much bigger upside. Sure, it's more risky, but you've just got 1 life!
An inside look at using energy storage to integrate renewable resources
China is already clamping down on BTC. Wait till the US intelligence agencies find that it's being used by ISIS (or some other villain du jour) to fund/support domestic terrorism. When Coinbase and other exchanges are regulated out of existence and no US-based corporation can legally transact in BTC, the price of BTC against major currencies will collapse.

Ignoring the price of BTC, I would bet against Bitcoin purely on technical grounds. If the transaction fee history is correct [1], then it would suggest that the economic feasibility of Bitcoin as a payment service diminishes as it scales, and, with a peak mean transaction fee of nearly $9 USD last month, the blockchain cannot even support its own current popularity.

[1] https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactionfees-btc-eth...
Prices of Intel’s Coffee Lake-S CPUs Published: $400 for Core I7-8700K?
If you want to see how creators on Patreon are doing: https://graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators
Sure, but I can imagine that wealthy western investors also want exposure to growth in China (capital inflows).
Deflationary does not imply an ever-increasing value. At some point, deflationary commodities will be so rare as to be useless. Lack of supply leads to a lack of velocity, which leads to a lack of liquidity. Once that happens, people will move to a competing product.

Imagine if soy beans gradually went extinct. In the short-term, the prices would spike as companies reliant on soy beans compete for the shrinking supply. But as prices go up, these companies either go bankrupt, or find alternative inputs to replace soy beans. Either way, the prices eventually hit zero before extinction occurs.

The once plentiful and valuable becomes rare and worthless.
What do you mean by that? Of course a developer doesn't have to support version X forever, but the damn thing no longer runs at all? This was paid software. I guess OP was renting it for some undisclosed period of time, and you think that's acceptable?
National Venture Capital Association sues Trump for delaying immigration program
Don't rely on Wikipedia to tell you what the true explanation is. From the linked section:

> If the price rose above 100 guilders, the speculator would pocket the difference as profit. If the price remained low, the speculator could void the contract for only 3½ guilders.

The Dutch government enabled risk-free speculation in tulip options contracts (formerly futures contracts). How could the price of such a contract not rise under these circumstances?
My bad, I was under impression that wagyu cows were supposed to be grass-feed most of the time.