skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought a flat yesterday. The final stages involved going to a bank and signing about 50 pieces of paper, then signing more with the realtor who also had to arrive at the same time.

I couldn't help noticing that my signatures were very very different on the first few papers I signed compared to the last few.

I think I was suffering from signature fatigue, but despite everybody exchanging passports and IDs, I wonder if I could come back later and "prove" the signatures on some of the papers were not my own - after all they look so different..
Do you have a source for the Soros/ProPublica claim? The only thing I can find that actually has numbers and isn't an obvious fake news site is Wikipedia saying he donated a measly $250k in 2010.

This smells like a propaganda talking point that doesn't hold much water.
Adding lanes doesn't reduce traffic. It's called induced demand. In 1 year new capacity (supply) creates 50% in demand and in 5 years it is 100%. You want less traffic? Stop giving roads away for free.
This is great! I will go ahead and write a similar export function for vixl44.
Not all types of static files will slow down the loading of a site. JS scripts will block loading of the page. Web fonts will block text rendering (and they are usually heavy). CSS files sometimes can block rendering and sometimes will not. But images do not affect loading time. Even without images the page is readable and usable.
Interesting to see how much was expensive energy costs.

Australia has tonnes of gas but unlike USA has not transformed that to cheap energy and the industries that come with it.
I don't get why Google cops so much flack. Other companies which are considerably less useful (facebook), more intrusive (facebook), actively manipulate user psychology (facebook), sell highly addictive harmful products (Snap inc, big tobacco) or are destroying the planet (the frackers, Schlumberger), seem to escape much criticism.
It's hit after leader. `t` on its own is still `to`.
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Even a 4/3 multiplication of the diameter would have ~doubled the cross-section surface.
In meters:

Boeing 767-316 - Alt: 10058 m

Balloon - Alt: 18867 m
Asynchronous JS scripts are a great choice. But you better makes this choice on early stage, because changing scripts from sync to async on a large legacy website can require a lot of time, there will be many bugs etc. You cannot just add "async" attribute.
Building for density would mean you didn't have acres of single family housing within a block of the light rail stations.
I started this because I wanted a single place for me to deal with both high-volume and low-volume sites/blogs and give me control in both scenarios.

Regarding the subscription model: I wanted to validate the idea and see if it could sustain itself. I didn't add a free version (until now, at least) because the whole recommendation engine part requires a little bit more computing power, hence it costs me to keep it up-and-running.
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> I'm not advocating what you are suggesting. I agree that workers should be paid extra for working additional hours.

Ah I'm sorry if I was unclear with that one. I'm not suggesting that you think people should all be paid standard regular rates irrespective of time. I meant that if you use a lump sum "average per employee pay slip" number you're not taking in to account those details.

With full-time equivalent, if George works 60 hours for example he counts as 1.5FTE. After-hours work is harder to quantify, but usually employment agreements similarly put extra value on those hours that can be translated back to FTE.

This seems the sanest and most accurate way to figure it out. The number actual people earn per week is a misleading figure.

I think you might agree with me here, because you said "Then if that amount can be justified by unsociable hours, extra hours, or whatever, then that's fine" and FTE is exactly the way to do that!

I just came across this four corners episode from 2016 which has the quote

"According to Holden management 90% of the workers earn between 43k and 55k per year" (https://youtu.be/CIRuU8qot3s?t=33m08s)

Straight from the horses mouth, as it were. Though of course .5FTE @ $43k is $86k FTE (for example) so we're back at the problem of standardization...
That's actually already done to some extent. See New Journal of Physics for example.
Will the last person to leave Seattle please turn out the lights?

Seattle has been dying before, particularly when it was more dependent on Boeing who would go bust every 10 or so years. Seattle will probably die and be reborn again.
They could have voted for transit in the 70s. They could have not reduced allowable density across the city. And then when they realized people were moving in they could have increased density, a couple decades ago. And the increased density would make transit, even buses, more of an option, with both more riders and a larger tax base.
You might better be working on caching so that the resources are loaded only the first time. Otherwise you need some way to know whether the user has the resources cached or not (a cookie maybe?).
> Tunnels digging costs are roughly proportional to the square of their diameter

Given a constant length and homogeneous ground composition (conditions that apply to the current discussion)... It makes a lot of sense that the cost is proportional to the volume being removed.
And when compared to the 4+ billion the government forks out for the coal, oil and gas companies every year, it is nearly nothing:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-11/coal-oil-and-gas-compa...

http://reneweconomy.com.au/australian-fossil-fuel-subsidies-...

By comparison the car industry only received about 5 Billion over 10 years:

https://theconversation.com/factcheck-do-other-countries-sub...
Pretty sure that honor goes to Wenatchee. Heck, people forget the huge slide Spokane has taken since its heyday.
The problem is not the leader itself, but instead the bindings you're setting using leader: Use nmap instead of imap so that the mappings aren't even checked during insert mode.
You also need to hide JS controls before the scripts are loaded or you will get "dead" buttons that are visible but don't react to clicks.
Ah yes, the age old dream of a house for every community college student.
That's what I thought, I'll probably need another step somewhere that triggers the syncing and then pushes to git. After that Netlify CD would do the rest. Thanks.
In most states, when a corporation is dissolved, there's a period of time for creditors to submit claims, and then those claims are paid out, and then any remaining assets are distributed to company owners (shareholders).

I don't think there's a good legal framework for forcing a company into dissolution, because the normal path is for assets to be distributed to the shareholders, and if the shareholders didn't want do dissolve the company, they could presumably take those assets and continue the company's operations.

I love the idea of a "corporate death penalty", but I am not sure how it would work under extant law. Maybe some sort of special "bankruptcy with prejudice", where a company would be prevented from reorganizing or restructuring such that it would be forced to sell itself for scrap in order to pay off a class action judgement? That might do the job.

It's really a shitty hack, though. The real solution is to make the undesirable conduct illegal, and ramp up both penalties and enforcement. Mostly enforcement, because the most effective way to deter criminality is to increase the chances that someone will get caught; increasing the penalty while still leaving the odds of getting caught low isn't nearly as compelling a disincentive (due to human cognitive biases around probability, from what I can tell).

The "corporate death penalty" is satisfying in the same way that the actual death penalty is -- it's not really about deterrence, it's social catharsis through ritualized violence. Which is fine, at least in the abstract; it's something that all societies do if you look hard enough, and I tend to think it's better to do it in the open. But it's a mistake to say that it's about deterrence.

We know how to do deterrence; in the context of business misbehavior, there are all sorts of profitable but illegal things that businesses just don't do, because there are regulatory and enforcement structures that make it a Bad Idea. That's how you do deterrence, but it requires a political consensus that the action really needs to stop.

Right now, I am not sure there is a political consensus that what Equifax did was wrong and that a new enforcement structure is needed to prevent a re-occurrence. There's perhaps an emerging popular consensus, but I am not sure that our government is in tune with that popular consensus on an actionable level yet. How to get Congress there is really the challenge.
> sell all the assets

that would be worse - the database of information isn't gone, but sold, to who knows where?!

I think instead of dissolving the corp, they have to be made responsible for the information they leaked out. Fines, or jail time for the executives, or something like that (as i don't believe there's a technical remedy for the lost information - it's already leaked).
> Forward declarations are the only way not to explicitly reveal the representation of types, but you have to pay an indirection tax for it, whether you actually need indirection or don't.

How would you solve this while still allowing object files to compile like they do ?

e.g. if I have a .c file with a function

void f(some_type t) { ... }

the compiler has to know at that point what is the size of t so that it can allocate the correct space on the stack at the beginning of the function when compiling it. You could fix this with some kind of module system but this would mean that you'd always need the whole module which may be multiple megabytes vs a .hpp which is generally small (or a forward-declaration which is negligible).

Regarding 3, C11 has some generics nowadays: http://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/generic so for simple stuff it can be done (and for more complex stuff you'd be much better served by c++ templates)
I know some of them. They moved here in the early 90s to work at Microsoft, or they made a ton of money when their parents and grandparents all died and left them a couple houses in places like Queen Anne and Ballard. I don't think they have any good advice on how to replicate it.
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One thing I have lately wondered about, is whether humans were mostly patrilocal before the dawn of recorded history, or mostly matrilocal, or sometimes one and sometimes the other.

There are some matrilocal societies now extent which seem to date from the dawn of recorded history, like the Muso.
That would be a very different format. A big part of the format is that the lexical forms allow you to write things as you normally would, to another human. That does impose limits, but is part of the fundamental design.
The only thing that sucks hard is when you do :

int* s1, s2;

here s2 is an int, not an int* and you have to do

int* s1, *s2;

this is braindead imho
You will need to spend time to set up your site for Amazon or for cheap DO instance, I don't see what you can save here. You can have your own virtual server with root privileges and iptables and custom software and with Amazon you will have to pay for every new feature.
Reverse+Phone+Lookups+/+Easy+Phone+Number+Lookups
I agree. I was sad to see comment support removed from the JSON spec.
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You might serve an outdated file and lost a day worth of analytic records as a result.
Seattle went to hell after Boeing left it.

It was either a ghost town of a city that depended on one company Boeing or now as it currently is.
It's strange to me that tourists and the film industry find the landscape beautiful because of its lack of trees.
In my experience the most important is file size: HTML + CSS + JS + images (web fonts are not counted) so you can get the most by optimizing these files or tricking the tool.
Explicit is different, not better.
Eh, I thought that was more due to Chinese money? Seattle housing prices are driven by tech incomes, it is completely different from Vancouver.
Really quite cool to read about. Thanks for posting!
I'd argue that's getting tied up in details to a degree that loses the essence of the mechanism, and the distinction between wages and other economic goods, most especially rents, though also commodities.

The producer of commodities can, provided the opportunity to do so, seek other employment. So long as there is anything that may be produced and sold, they will cease producing some good X at a loss and start producing some good Y for profit. Or move elsewhere, or cease production at all.

If labour generally fails to command a sufficient wage to ensure its long-term survival (or, in extreme cases, short term), there is no alternative employment to living.

You live, or you die.

At best, at the individual level, you can die more slowly. But you'll die all the same.

The problem with living, as opposed to producing or exchanging merchandise, is that it has an irreducible cost, and you've got to meet that no matter what. If businesses take advantage of this, then what is being operated is not a profitable business, but quite literally a charity based on the transfer of wealth from the life-force of the workers (and perhaps the State through various welfare programmes) to the business owners. As you describe.

The key difference between the formulation I prefer (though I don't claim origination, I just don't know its origin) and the more familiar versions associated with Ricardo, Malthus, Marx, etc., is that I see the concept of an accrued labour capital -- health, fitness, skills, etc. -- as well as personal capital of the worker (housing, clothing, vehicles, tools, etc.) which do not have to be be replenlished on an absolutely continuous basis, but which, if not tended will over time degrade.

Moving from the individual to the market level, if there is a constant source of fresh labour then it's possible to "burn out" individuals and simply replace them with fresh young blood. As has been and is practiced throughout history and presently, around the world.

Again, the key is distinguishing various types of economic goods, and their behaviour in the face of market prices, and who it is that does (or doesn't) bear the full costs. I'm not saying this in defence of markets (I believe they allocate prices exceedingly inaccurately much of the time), but in acknowledgement of the observable behaviour. This isn't seeing the behaviour as desireable but as extant.

Again: labour at best returns its costs and those alone. Rents return profit in excess of costs. That is a fundamental inequality of any market economic system.

(The issues of other types of goods and the prices they experience extends the set of problems yet further.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_wages
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Sale of data might well be embargoed.
Yes this applies to all laptops using nvidia optimus, PC, Mac etc, the issue is the hardware, it's physically wired to the igpu to enable minimal power usage scenarios.

Agreed eGPUs are the near term future, although cloud gpus are also a possibility ..
Woz had a Department of Defiance ID that he used to get into all kinds of places. Apparently it's not illegal because it doesn't actually say 'Department of Defense' so it's not a counterfeit ID card.
Hmm nice article,i have a thought , dont know how many will agree., Even today i feel more comfortable in reading in print rather than on any electronic device
I rented an apartment just last month and, at least for downtown Bellevue, the rental market is surprisingly weak because of all the new supply that has been coming online. Not enough to drive prices lower, but enough that rents weren't rising and many properties were even doing incentives. Not sure if this generalizes to Seattle, and it is downtown Bellevue, which isn't a very happening place.
I have not watched it but my understanding is that it doesn't even look at Laos or Cambodia which for 18 hours I really don't understand?
1999, maybe 2000, with 6.4GB and 8.4GB drives (I suspect they were WDs, based on disk utility floppies I've got around from that era). It looks like the affected Deskstars were 15-75GB, and probably at least a year later, right?
Almost zero tech jobs.

Boeing and GTE Mobilenet seem like obvious examples.
It might be worth using the none standard but we'll supported true colour ANSI escape sequences. You'll get much better output that way (I've done lots of experimenting with images in the terminal and I found that gave me the best output and more reliably then the other ANSI hacks that are limited to only supporting one specific terminal emulator)
Have you ever been to West Seattle? It's mostly natives and you get a much more open neighborly vibe. However, it isn't very techie and much more blue collar/other professional.
I guess it should be "sexual abuse of two children under three years old" now?
Believe me, I've tried.
"Chinese money" has had a significant effect on the $5M+ market. And it adds a lot of liquidity to the condo market, by buying presale condos and then selling them when buildings near completion. But the amount of mid-market housing which is owned by offshore owners is too small to explain more than a small part of the housing bubble.
I wonder how it was flown such a long distance without GPS? Also for consumer DJI drones the signal range in the tunnel would not be sufficient I think.
> I think due to how the plans have to be approved directly by voters.

Virtually no major road projects are put to the voters around here. (Highway 99 is the exception because it was so controversial.) You're thinking of transit projects in Puget Sound which usually have to go through two or three rounds of voting to get fully funded...

To wit, the bill that authorized Sound Transit to hold its most recent vote included several billion in not-subject-to-a-popular-vote road projects. I actually prefer that our representatives control the budget; that's what we elect them to do. But this double standard of "roads are fine but transit...pfft, well, that must be ratified" is obnoxious.
Use of English and Chinese in Alibaba’s Alipay Advertisements
I always find it amusing when people compare pork barrelling amounts as "only" or "mere". "It was only 5 billion". I wonder how many companies, schools, hospitals etc would like an extra 500 million dollars per year just for doing the job they should be already doing in a democratic capitalist society.
How many people cried for IT workers in Australia when the 457s were imported en masse or Telstra, IBM etc out-sourced their IT to India? How much subsidy or compensation did the IT workers of Australia get for that?
Australians complain about all the scams they get from Indian callers and conveniently forget that they only happen because Telstra gave overseas scammers a free trove of Australian consumer data and very little was done to stop it.
Globalisation and cheaper prices come with huge hidden costs.
> This resulted in heavy demand for Australian dollars, and at its peak in 2013 1 AUD was worth about 1.05 USD.

One of the main reasons the AUD remained at such high levels was because of the carry trade.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-05-09/carrying-the-australia...

From the link below you can see the Reserve Bank of Australia kept interest rates very high during that period:

http://www.rba.gov.au/statistics/cash-rate/

That allowed big multinational banks to borrow massive amounts of money in one country at a near zero interest rate and park that cash in Australia to get a guaranteed 4% return on those billions. That create the high demand for the AUD which drove up it's price.

The RBA was asleep at the wheel as it should have driven down that cash rate much faster and far sooner than it did.

Only after they finally moved and started cutting the interest rate did the dollar fall to the levels we see today.

Unfortunately, they now find themselves in a bit of a mess, since the economy really needs another rate cut to help repair the damage caused by that high dollar.

However they can't do that because it would add fuel to an already over heated property market, which is starting to look a lot like a bubble.

If they had moved earlier, the local manufacturing/export/tourist industries would be much stronger today and the RBA would in fact now be in a position to raise rates, something that is desperately need to take heat out of the property bubble.
While I'm not sure that this is a great example for it there's always the matter of deciding if any job is really better than no job - sure, you could stay competitive with other places/countries by matching ever worse conditions, but is that really a good idea? Is a job which doesn't pay someone a living wage really a job that should exist?
Urm, most drones are controlled by a person holding a remote. Said person could've just ... walked along?

There were quite a few cuts as well, so I don't see any challenge there
I think a few went to NZ?
It is the $1M+ market from what I heard, and it mostly ate up the mid market. Vancouver real estate crashed for a decade when the Japanese asset bubble popped (remember you could buy a condo for $100k in the late 90s?), this is just history repeating itself.
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It's almost certainly being piloted manually. It's moving slowly and there's a lot of cuts, so the controller probably just walked along with it.
Oh, the magic of editing.

True story: I loved the movie Cocktail with Tom Cruise. I set out to learn all his bar tricks from the film, including lighting a match with one hand. Took me two months and many burned fingers before I mastered it. Then, I re-watched the movie to make sure I was doing it right, only to realize it was an editing trick and he never really did it. Oh well. I learned a skill for life.
I'm not sure you could break Google up in a meaningful way without destroying it. Considering the majority of their revenue is search how could you divide up search?
Interesting. Scary to see how believable this assertion has become by now: Google is deploying military-tested techniques and methodologies against American citizens