skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I upvoted you and I think you made your point well, I just feel the opposite way to you. Thanks btw :)

I would prefer shitty nonfunctioning systems which still allow me to use cash and buy a bowl of noodles to the alternative where I need to be more or less authorised to make that transaction. But thats just
me.
Where did you get that from? There wasn't any market crash when he stopped working, therefore his passive income would have been far in excess of his spending.

Where did you hear he had to work?
I think "the only acceptable" in the GP should be read as "the only thing we should accept", as the rest of the comment is really pointing out how Youtube's system is gamed by the large media companies.

There are penalties for false DMCA claims, so allowing companies to bypass a real DMCA claim lets them shirk a lot of work (and responsibility) for making sure those claims are correct, lest they incur legal or financial penalties.
So what's he shorting? Everything?
Now, I feel foolish - I thought both those consoles ran on RISC chips. (I know that Xbox used to be an x86, but thought that had changed). Admittedly not a gamer or HW gamer buff, my kids are.
Electrification was far more significant and far-reaching, occurred on a similarly quick timescale, and led to a massive boom in productivity across the board. If you want to predict how software and the computerization of everything will pan out then electrification is a better example to consider.
I've yet to see (which I acknowledge doesn't mean that it doesn't exist) any compelling argument that this is actually harmful to the users or anything of that line. All I see is tech people talking about hypothetical competition or the EU effectively trying to create protectionist policies in the name of anti-trust.

Personally, I have no issue with Google's licensing. Why shouldn't they be able to ship their software how they want? At the end of the day most users don't care. I love FOSS when it comes to my own development and I couldn't imagine being a developer without access to so many FOSS libraries. However, I don't give a crap if my phone is fully open source and neither do vast majority of the other billion+ Android users
Yeah, nothing wrong with those cars. Toyotas are stupid easy to find & find parts for, and have great reliability: hence my specific suggestion for "what ~$1k non-rustbucket cars could I buy?"
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Eventually, in the stopped-clock sense, if he lives long enough he might be right.
Your replies telegraphed not curiosity or interest but just standard internet "source?" flame posts. It's not hard to google any element of what I'm saying to read countless articles in Poynter, NYT, CRJ etc to find stuff to back this up. Why should I waste my time when your mind is already made up?

I will just in case someone actually reads into your reply some genuine curiosity: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/business/media/the-return-...

Also, I worked in journalism for years and have met with and worked with most of the major media entities, specifically around editorial and business model, so I guess technically I'm a source too.
I don't know. "Financially independent" strikes me more along the lines of being able to walk out the door tomorrow and only doing a job because I want to. Not because I need the money.

I think "retired" is OK. A lot (most?) retired people who are healthy do something whether it's just some DIY around the house or volunteering. Of course, these days there are opportunities to pick up some dollars through various gig economy things though I would definitely have to need the money.

The lines are more blurred than they used to be though. I've known quite a few consultants who basically wound things down over time--not actively pursuing work as much but happy to spend some time and cash some checks with existing clients.
I think you're missing the point. If camera manufacturers just molded an Arca Swiss dovetail into the bottom edge of their cameras, then you could have both solid, easy QR compability and the 1/4 socket--simultaneously.

The way it works now, you have to use the 1/4 socket to get QR compatibility.
To be fair, the messaging about open source/free software/GPL/Linux being cancerous was Steve Ballmer's. Steve Ballmer is no longer member of Microsoft's board of directors and his past comments don't really speak to Microsoft's current leadership.

With respect to additional OSI funding, I can't really hypothesize a bad outcome.
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> Do people claim that forex is not investing?

Yes, all the time. It's clearly speculation (in the technical sense)
Exactly - and not just whether they've played with Legos, but whether you've played with (or at least been curious about) the new modern (and incredibly expensive) robotic kind (or robot kits generally).

Which inevitably leads to outcomes like:

"Oh I see you're from Kazakhstan, and got top grades at one of the top schools there. And your GitHub account just blew our team away, the minute we saw it. And we can tell, from talking to you for 5 minutes, that you obviously know FP and SQL/NoSQL and database internals and caching and consensus protocols inside and out."

"But wait -- what's that look in your face when we ask you about solving this little Lego problem? Do you not like puzzles? Or wait - you mean you've never heard of Legos, for chrissake? We'll, what can I say. Sorry to break this to you, but we're looking for engineers here, not mere 'coders'. And how do you tell if someone has the soul of an engineer? It's because they dig shit like Legos and robot kits and stuff. They totally geek out and go to town on problems like this, in fact!"

"But then again, that kind of person obviously isn't you. Feel free to apply again in 6 months (after you've passed another 3-hour HackerRank test and our mandatory Skype session on culture fit, of course)."
I'm so excited to see this launch! It pairs great with Apollo Launchpad and the sharing feature is top notch!
But can it run smooth full-screen YouTube?
This seems repeating Ibn Khaldun's theories from XIV century.

In subsistence economies surplus is used primarily for fostering social relations and creating social obligations which one can call upon when times get though. And in subsistence economy sooner or later they will.

As more added value is created socioeconomic relations get more complicated and they become based on money.
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Given 3 numbers (a, b, c), determine whether c is in the range that spans from a to b.
I understand what you are saying (i.e., don't assume to know what a mechanic wants) and you are right. I think his point was that most people don't actually have the freedom to make that choice (live frugally to retire early).
no adjustment to css? you savage!
>then you have to untangle a pile of complex and opaque interactions, often with poor and outdated documentation, to make something work.

As if windows doesn't do this but worse? At least on linux I can see the source code of whatever is breaking and fix it. MS's official documentation is crap compared to gnu/linux documentation, not to mention linux has a very helpful community on places like irc. Have you ever taken a visit over to MS's "help" website? Worst outsourced-scripted-answerfest I've ever seen. I've been supporting Windows for many years as a senior sysadmin, years of licensing issues and bugs and ms shadyness, and windows 10 was the straw that broke the camels back for me. I switched to gnu+linux only and haven't looked back.

All I can say is this. If you put off linux a few years ago, you owe it to yourself to at least spin up a new just works distro like manjaro at least in a vm. I think you might be surprised just how far gnu+linux has come, and personally, I think that as vulkan solidifies and suddenly we have more AAA gaming titles on Linux, the cards show Linux poised to make a surge in the desktop market. Also, as much as I have vocally had issues with systemd, it has allowed many of the past init bugs to be done away with so the focus in dev has turned much more to the userspace and it's showing.

GNU+Linux is the computing choice of the future imho, and it's not dying or dead, it's thriving. It already runs most of our key infrastructure, supercomputers, etc. It just needs some tweaks for lay-user-compatability.

This is why MS is pushing the OSS angle so much. They recognize that gnu+linux and foss (as opposed to oss) in general is a real and credible threat!

It's also worth remember the nut-to-butt relationship MS has with NSA.
You needn't be all that specific, but how do you securely search the encrypted data?
I bet everything thing I have that Jim Rogers will be right--one day. He doesn't know it either when
Kudos to the product team that wrote the various "Shelf vs. X" posts. These are well done and very useful for quickly understanding the Shelf product value.

IMHO more companies should do these kinds of posts because they emphasize fast product-market matching, using decently-informed decisions.
Google Play Services is the 'worst' battery offender because it provides services to many other apps. If there was no such central service then other apps would be polling location independently etc and battery drain would be even worse. Am I missing something?
A lot of people don't understand the benefits or recognition of money velocity, but are also not privileged enough to care.
The real problem is that we don't have a free market. Businesses strategies are too often to lobby for favorable legislation to sink their competition rather than make a better product and let the market decide.
Peace of mind before I start working. If there's something bothering me, I just can't up and get going on work that needs to be done. A peaceful mind, good night's sleep, and some good breakfast all put together gives me a full day's worth of high productivity.

I used to think it was about the tools btw. Then realized the constant experimenting with what tools to use was just my mind playing tricks with me and making me believe I was getting work done.
Well, the shiller CAPE 10 year averge is at 30 right now, which is as high as it was in 1929 right before the great depression.

But, If you look at the CAPE graph for the last 30 years, the average seems a bit higher than normal. I wonder if we're heading for a new normal where the CAPE averages higher due long term changes in allocation of capital, and long term reduced productivity gains.

all the technical analysis says the next 10 years won't be pretty but that doesn't mean it's going to be a steep drop, we could just be going sideways for a long time.
I was bitten by Counterpath too. Another company with similar practices: Parallels. Forcing me to upgrade continuity, without offering valuable features. Has been going on for years now.
You can safely draw down 4% per year according to fairly conservative calculations of MMM.

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/05/29/how-much-do-i-need...

It sounds like you're making 1.2% in dividends, but you can (by this calculation) also sell 2.8% of your investments
whilst keeping your total pot above inflation.
McAfee also said he would chop off his penis and eat it if it didn't hit $500k.

I'm bullish on crypto but McAfee is... well something else.
I found Filloux article thought provoking.

The argument reminds me of Polaroid film. There were two primary use cases. Ordinary snapshooters could at one point buy a new Polaroid camera for about $10. High end photographic systems accommodated Polaroid backs. A third use case was addressed by a few specialized camera models with robust high quality construction and dedicated Polaroid film paths. But for most people, 126 or 135 or 120 or sheet film was the a happy path.

The situation is similar today. Cameras running Android are ubiquitous and popular and widely used and the happy path for many many people. High end camera systems should probably be seen as including a laptop/desktop computer as part of the pixel pipeline. And there is an increasing middle ground of dedicated quality instant publishing camera equipment with a variety of engineering priorities (drones, gopros, point and shoots, and APS-C and fullframe DSLR/mirrorless).

The most useful feature of a cellphone camera is that it is always with people.
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Pretty much any political discourse has to start with definitions because these terms have become so encumbered with propaganda and double meanings as to be almost meaningless otherwise.
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Your product simply isn't valuable if the world wouldn't miss it if it disappeared over night. Outside of keeping money away from legislation what value does crypto currencies have that would be missed?
My take was that he followed his own advice and did successfully "retire" without any of the blogging or brand income. Then his blog took off, and he started pulling a lot more money and getting quite famous.

He definitely has enough money to retire forever, but chooses to keep running the blog and doing interviews because he enjoys it, and it's something to do.
I don't agree with you, but an interested in your view. What in your opinion is the best implementation of a blockchain?
TLDR:

"Currently, the energy market works in such a way that energy suppliers receive data from a (smart) meter, a bill is issued to the customer, and then the bill is paid via a monetary transaction from one bank to another. With the Jouliette token, the De Ceuvel community members are able to make secure (peer- to- peer) transactions directly between their own virtual currency ‘wallets’. Blockchain, the technology behind Bitcoin, ensures that these transactions are secure and decentralized, with the history of all transactions being shared with all the community members, so they can be (automatically) verified without needing the intervention of a “trusted” bank.

What makes this unique ecosystem possible at De Ceuvel is the fact that the site features a private (renewable energy-based) smart-grid. This enables the community to exchange renewable energy (independent of the national electricity grid) produced by their photovoltaic (PV) panels, without any restrictions, and therefore avoid existing market barriers. With the Jouliette platform, the De Ceuvel community can manage their own micro-economy, and unlike purely speculative currencies, the Jouliette tokens are backed up by physical energy production. Beyond just enabling energy exchange, the community will be exploring further applications for the Jouliette, such as using it to trade for goods at the De Ceuvel Cafe, to facilitate a local time-banking system, and to integrate other intra-community services, such as a car-sharing program."
It can actually end up unwinding your tax (or regulation) --

If the people rushing to buy up the supply to simply store them off-line happen to cut off people who need them for what are sensible and essential reasons, you end up with a litany of cases of the tax causing problems paraded about as it comes into effect, and it ends up repealed or undercut because of political pressure.

(Usually 1-year window extended because "we need more time to phase it in" and by the time the second window would close, it's gutted.)

It's not just that it can end up counter productive in the short term, it's that it can undercut itself as a law as well by destabilizing a market that usually has low, but important volume.
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No worries, those numbers don't really work in the US either.
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Some critiques or thoughts occur to people near-universally upon exposure to an idea. For example, the HN comments section on scientific studies showing an association between X and Y are packed with people spitballing explanatory theories after a few minutes' thought. Given a certain level of legitimacy of the idea source, it is basically insulting to assume you've thought of a meaningful critique within minutes. Most of the time, these critiques are (to reuse my term) appallingly mundane, obviously considered by the idea source (to assume otherwise is to assume they're idiots, hence insulting) and easily addressed. Beyond this, since many, many people have the exact same mundane thought, it becomes useful to have a shorthand dismissal - here, retirement police.
Man, this is a crazy, crazy world we live in...
Even Google bought HTC instead.
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Cool!

I definitely can hear the noise gate flap on and off and also the man's voice gets distorted by the filter noticeably, less so the woman.
The technical “changing-140-to-280” is only one aspect of the work. Other very important aspects include QA (e.g does increasing the limit break the layout when 280 characters are used?) and data science (e.g does having longer tweets actually keep people on Twitter longer and increase engagement)?

Both of those are reasons why companies do staged rollouts of features incase the company makes a mistake.
Whether or not folks from India are happy about this, it's a fact: a whole generation of developers have had terrible experiences with folks from India. Shoddy work that was overpromised and underdelivered, Indian developers who talk a good game and then can't in fact code their way out of a paper box. Indians had one chance to make a first impression--and they blew it. For better or worse, every single place I have worked for in the past decade has had shitty Indian developers who had to be coded around.
What do you define as "meaningful and interesting scale"?

I happen to work directly in this space and I want to know if you think my traffic numbers are meaningful.
From an accounting perspective, there's also no (or very limited) liability associated with accrued vacation time. (There may be some associated with required sick days.) If someone leaves the company, there's no accrued time to pay off.
Given that the current practice for anyone with money in China is to get that money out of China and converted to foreign currency as quickly as possible... I'd counsel against it.
Great idea and hopefully it will help connect a lot of students to some great material! I noticed it wasn't indexing https://www.kadenze.com. Is there any chance you could add these to the listings? We are focused on arts education primarily but also offer highly technical courses, such as ones in Deep Learning, but with a practice-based mentality towards teaching. Let me know if I can help at all!
Distributed renewable energy sharing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15349405
Ask HN: Xray cost – USA $200 (13000 INR), India 1000 INR – what causes 10x diff?
https://www.medifee.com/treatment/dental-xray-cost/

http://health.costhelper.com/dental-x-ray.html

Why would a full mouth xray cost be this different, there may be some difference in few aspects but what adds up to more than 1000% difference?
I think the CEO of cloudflare is a pretty decent authoritative source for such a statement.
Terribly interested in this as well, and commenting to follow the conversation.
"The term ‘Identity Theft’ implies, and its usage accepts, that the person whose identity is being stolen is the victim. They’re almost always not."

Flat out wrong. They nearly always are. They frequently have their credit impacted as a result of non-payments for credit, mortgages, etc. Also, I see "identity theft" as a subset of theft by conversion:
https://definitions.uslegal.com/t/theft-by-conversion/
"Theft by conversion occurs when someone wrongfully uses property or funds of another for their own purposes."
A person's name, SSN, address, financial history, credit rating, etc. are all their property. And it is being used without their consent and in blatant violation of other laws that already exist. They clearly are a victim (but not the only victim) of these illegal acts.

Also, let's not forget that it typically takes an enormous amount of time and effort to fully undo the damage. That time alone has a cost - and it has been forcefully taken from the person whose identity has been stolen by the perpetrator(s) of these crimes.
I have essentially created a private facebook that has no friends, yet the same person continues to show up as the first person in the pymk, javascript in the HTTPWATCH that I downloaded.. why is that? I already removed them from the suggested friends when it was pulled up - but every single time they have pulled up as the very first after my ID in the code. If I were to send you the code privately could you explain it to me??
Sales of prosumer and up SLRs are going down primarily because newer models don't add enough useful features to justify the price. The new Nikon D850 looks like a great camera, but if you have a D810 that's working just fine the minor improvements that the D850 bring could be hard to justify for the price tag ($3.3k US).

People who buy that level of camera understand, moreso than the general public, that, for example, an increase from a 36 to a 45 megapixel sensor may be nice, but in the end the photos both cameras produce are still great and whoever sees them in print or exported for the internet would never be able to tell the difference.
You can't claim to be financially independent and come back two years later with this gem:

"The secret is that my wife is no longer really retired, and in fact she started a business that is now big enough to FUND OUR ENTIRE FAMILY'S LIFESTYLE."

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2017/03/06/etsy-shop/

If not outright dishonest, it certainly gives the off appearance that you can't put any weight in the numbers he is throwing out.

I guess I'm one of those "retirement police" who hates seeing a huckster give bad advice while eschewing talking about the real increase in realized risk you take by retiring early and not considering it in your plan. As one of the previous comments stated: your budget is not static, investment returns are not guaranteed, life events and medical situations change drastically.

So when I see, "I made it so can you", I want to respond, "Come back to me when you are 90 and on your death bed and talk with me again." I've seen the cancer treatment bills and what they do to someone with 10x your "financial independent" worth.
>long term reduced productivity gains

the robots aren't taking over then?
If you have trouble with that on your current phone, try https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=is.xyz.mpv which is the Android port of mpv, successor to mplayer/mplayer2 and what I use on every one of my machines to play smooth full-screen video from youtube and everywhere else.
Yes. Also, I would add that MMM and his wife certainly did retire -- in the sense of quitting their conventional jobs and intending to live off the income, having no need to work. It just happened that in retirement they found themselves wanting to do some things, and those things have produced an income of their own. I'm pretty sure, the moment MMM isn't having fun with what he's currently doing, he'll stop and do something else, which choice will not be driven by how much income it produces. How is that not retirement? (The idea that in retirement you sit around all day and do essentially nothing is, I suppose, true for some people, but surely not a healthy or happy way of living your life.)
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