skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is in the interest of the richest areas to help the poorest.

Yes, however one still needs to decide to which extent. Italy helps the poorest areas much more than Germany or the US do. Would a federal model like Germany work better?

That's why I said that redistribution is OK in principle, but many feel that in Italy there's just too much of it.

> On the historical side it has been confirmed that 2/3 of the gold resources in Italy came from Regno delle due Sicilie

Many wrongs were commited in that age, many of which targeted the North, as well.

However, if you sum all the subsidies the South has been granted through the years (one among many: Cassa per il Mezzogiorno) that would easily offset those gold resources.

Edit: actually is more, Cassa per il Mezzogiorno was given about 140 billions, while 2/3 of Italy's gold resources are worth about 100 billions. One should also keep in mind that Cassa per il Mezzogiorno was active only between 1950 and 1984, and many other subsidies for the South were present before, during and after.
Fascinating and counter-intuitive that so much information is 'leaked' in light patterns that can't be discerned by the eye. There's a color-amplified visualization in the first embedded video of TFA (starts at 1:40) that shows this really well.
More go for a run in the rainforest, walk down the street and see people in the latest virtual fashion, sit in your empty room and see it as opulent luxury, etc. Im inclined to think we are over a decade or two away from that (at least to the extent that the lines of reality would be truly blurred), but I understand thats what Magic Leap is hyped to deliver.
Reading the article, the author takes a lot of stabs at "hipsters" and makes "men just want to do drugs and watch TV" comment. So what?

If we truly are moving to a society where labor as we have it today becomes unnecessary, leisure has to replace a portion of that. Note that 18-19 century landowning classes produced a lot of what we today would call negative behaviors (drugs, drinking, gambling, parties, etc), but the same classes also produced a lot of scientific and philosophical advances we take for granted today. A lot of these advances are possible because people could sit for hours musing on various topics without the need to produce something marketable immediately.

If we can finance one more Newton or Einstein at the cost of hundreds of thousands spending their time watching TV, I'd say that's a worthy trade.

Another issue here is that UBI can bring about a lot more investment of human capital into causes that do not produce marketable outputs, such as care for environment or fellow human being on a voluntary basis. This needs a culture/norm shift, but it is possible.
Nice try, Mr. Damore ;)
Idk, I think this characterization is a little on the naive-idealist side.

Access to people in positions of power has always been an important part of the game. Those gatekeeping peddlers of access and influence can be financiers, politicians or corporate bosses. Often, it's all mixed together.

In the west, it's sometimes been considered faux pax to emphasize the political component publicly. That generally doesn't apply to certain endevours, where the idea of doing anything big without such support is absurd. Banking, large scale construction and military industry comes to mind. If you can't get in a room with the big boys, you're not a big part of those.

I'm not against idealisation. Like power in the hands of the people, building your fortune by the sweat of thy brow is admirable and attractive morally. As ideals, they can and do shape society and history. But societies and economies are not really built like that, never have been. Power matters.
What a waste of time, effort and money. Seems like they are just ever so slightly better off than they were two years ago.
Grab the en-GB Firefox release? You get dd/mm/yyyy then.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/all/#en-GB
The first one is a fee for TV and I haven't heard of anyone who needed an accountant for this. The second and third are health insurance which you should have in every country. The German system of paying for that is not more complicated than some single payer systems such as the UK (NI contributions).

Church tax is automatically deducted with the other taxes. It's collected alongside other taxes and you don't have to file separately for this.

The corporate tax code is certainly not the easiest but common for most countries of the world.

I'd totally agree that German taxes are complicated but the number of taxes to pay says nothing about the complexity. Neither does it say anything about digitisation.
Many english speakers use en_US by default since it's the thing that breaks the least, so using the native format of the system is not useful. It should use ISO-8601 (yyyy-mm-dd) unless someone explicitly sets it in about:preferences.
Out of interest: what backend are you using with ember? And also do you actually use ember data and if so in which adapter-mode (json-api, rest)?
UBI and the former dictatorships in the east have absolutely nothing in common.

In Poland pre-1990, you didn't just get money "no matter what". You got a salary for working , just like in the west.

The difference, and cause for demotivation, was that you had only very limited say in what and where you'd work. So you're really good with numbers and have asthma? Road construction it is!

UBI is nothing like that. It doesn't change the system free enterprise. In fact it's designed to do the opposite: remove the remaining threat of starvation, and see if it doesn't, once again, lead to an explosion of creativity and productivity.
I think many people mistake "going to work" with "adding something of value to society". From my observations not all jobs equally or directly benefit us all and some have a marked negative impact on society.
The simple answer is that sugar is a flavor enhancer, as is salt, which is why the level of both is generally very high in processed foods and pre-packaged meals.

Take chicken, for instance. A lot of chicken you buy is pumped full of sugar/salt-heavy brine, because water is cheaper than chicken. The salt helps the chicken bind the water, and the sugar balances out the taste. The end result is overpriced and compromised taste-wise.

Personally, I try to avoid added sugar wherever I can, and I have started thinking of sugar as a spice to be used very sparingly, if at all. The only exception is when I bake a cake, because cakes that aren't made full-butter, full-sugar full-everything are just sad. Make good cakes, just eat smaller portions of them, less often.
There's no reliable indicator to define success. GDP per capita is skewed heavily by some industries and doesn't represent how well people are doing.

Germany is certainly not the richest country in Europe but it has been one of the most successful when measured vs. 15 years ago. But that was achieved mainly by keeping wages low so that Germans, while usually living comfortably and not threatened by unemployment, have much less wealth than people in the UK or US.
I’ve implemented finite state machines multiple times (network protocols, format parsing, CNC controls, videogame AI, etc.) in different languages.

Found it surprisingly difficult to code well, regardless on the language, esp. when there're many states.
Absolutely.

It grinds my gears to hear that legend over and over -- "new language is very risky and slow to adopt!", even though a lot of us know that the language itself is the lowest barrier of all.

On top of framework and codebase I'd also add organizational or team coding style. It becomes a bloody mess pretty damn quickly. I've personally spent 6 months being onboarded in a very finely tuned and hacked to oblivion Rails project -- a technology I knew pretty damn well at the the time -- and then it took me 3 weekends to get my own Elixir / Phoenix project off the ground... and for it be useful in business terms as well.

So these "new language risks" are vastly overstated and are simply an excuse for dogmatic people to not act in the project's best interest.
Reminds me of my Mech eng BTEC thermofluids course the college had a load of ww2 surplus lathes to.

Though on my course we only had 1 person who worked at a traditional engineering firm the rest of us worked in RnD at the RAE ARA or on campus at CIT.
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Ask HN: Is anyone else waking up to the lie of “recycling”
The numbers don't stack up. There is no possible way that the tidal wave of garbage being manufactured by the "packaging industry" could possibly ever be "recycled" into some other useful thing.

It's a lie. Who else is waking up to this?
Are We on the Verge of a New Golden Age?
Or Luton Airport which has a lot of private jets
I'm surprised that no one has asked this yet even tho I noticed mentions of stdweb: any idea how this is different from cargo-web(https://github.com/koute/cargo-web)?
first one is more helpful to hackers who want to figure out which accounts are registered on your site, and then later proceed with a brute force / social attack.
Just leave this here http://m.imdb.com/title/tt5497778
The most convincing use case that I've seen was the 'Find stuff in Home Depot' example that was maybe shown at Google I/O 2017.

Pretty much everything else about AR seems like hot air.
When I wash my cars I intentionally spray a little fresh water on the pads and rotors mostly because caked on brake dust can wear rotors unevenly or cause grinding/slipping of breaks. I've never lived where they salted the roads, but I imagine rinsing them off periodically would help, too.
I can see how customizable locale/formatting would be important, but would it really matter if a US visitor to the Norwegian website saw a mm/dd/yyyy date instead of the yyyy-mm-dd that would be shown to those with norwegian locale? The important thing seems to be that the user understands the format. This is client side rendering after all.
Not sure. I've heard from a lot of start ups recently moving from London to Berlin. I doubt many start ups have the complexity of the tax system high up on their list. It's about finding talent (where Berlin improved a lot over recent years) and to some degree costs (where parts of London have become extremely expensive).

But it's probably mostly network effects. The US has an extremely complex tax code and SV is one of the most expensive places to live. It still remains a favourite among founders.
no surly it should be "!"
I previously posted a link to a guy's blog post where he did an examination of the patent filings and what the technology was likely to be able to do:

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13653537

Blog Post: http://www.kguttag.com/2016/12/06/magic-leap-when-reality-hi...
Swipe from the left. Long press on keyboard -> you get a toolbar for special keys.
Thanks for mentioning Carlotta Perez. I found a fairly recent (Aug 2017) article by her and cohorts that discusses these "installation" and "deployment" phases. It's a more optimistic article, so I created a separate post:

Are We on the Verge of a New Golden Age?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15531574
I'd be more interested in your response to my fundamental premise that the unending, infinite flow of packaging needs to stop.

Everybody doing "some reducing" isn't going to stop an entire industry dedicated solely to creating garbage.

All the graphics designers who design it, all the printers who print it, all the plastic manufacturers who make it, all the software developers who write software to support all these industries, and the brands who buy the garbage/packaging to put their products in. They're all filling every nook and cranny of this earth with garbage.

It's not about "using less". It's about a war that we need to have with every element of the packaging/garbage creation/recycling industry.

And it has to be a war, because the packaging/garbage creation industry isn't going to go without a fight. WE pay them to create garbage by buying products that are delivered in garbage.

We have to hold the brands to account who ship their products wrapped in garbage headed for the ocean.

But all those garbage creation jobs must go. All that garbage creation money must go.

And the smoke screen that we all use to feel OK about packaging... the smoke screen/lie that we call "recycling", it has to go too, because that's what it legitimizing the packaging industries ruin of our earth.
I don't have to pay Gewerbesteuer, Kirchensteuer or Kapitalertragsteuer.

Also, Rundfunkbeitrag, Krankenversicherung and Pflegeveraicherung aren't taxes.
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For the SSN it was ignored. In other European countries that law works as well. I've never been identified with an ID number anywhere in Europe. You always have to provide the corresponding document. Where IDs are used for identification they're not shared with private companies.
I've heard that it's the same with Volvo. Volvo Cars is a Chinese owned company with manufacturing in China, but upper middle class Chinese happily pay a hefty premium for an imported Volvo made in Sweden.
Sunk cost fallacy
I build interfaces for Norwegian web applications pretty often. Why must the date format be Norwegian? Obviously this is just the form field, you shouldn't actually store the data as displayed. I typically store UTC/ISO strings for all dates, but in this case I would store it in whatever format I needed (such as the Norwegian format), regardless of what the format was on the form. Never trust client-side, right?
Why is this read off the firefox locale when my system has perfectly decent localization capabilities set up just the way I like it? (US English, 24h, YMD) This seems like another case of the browser becoming an OS within an OS.
I theorize that city subreddits are always terrible because in these we talk about issues due to our proximity to them rather than our expertise in them. Everyone in the /r/flying subreddit is interested enough in airplanes to read about them independently and then have intelligent discussions about them. That's not the case if a single-engine plane crashes in your city and we talk about it in the city subreddit.
In every other sentence, the author proffers an unsubstantiated claim, and the article is premised on these.
Although this might not be a direct comparison, based on how things go in the Ruby community, personally I feel dry-types & dry-struct (https://speakerdeck.com/flashgordon/typed-ruby) might be a better solution for typing. Yes it doesn't solve every problem, but for the business logic side of problem, this can be a decent solution.
I agree with your sentiment - they have the potential to truly contribute to "making the world a better place", yet seem to be blinded by their narrow focus, or lack of vision..
I have "intl.accept_languages" set to "en-GB,en". "general.useragent.local" is "en-GB". My system preferences are UK English. Yet this new firefox feature gives me the US date format.
For the same reason sites end up implementing language switchers despite your browser having a way to set your preference and send it in an HTTP header.
People who travel there report empty buildings ( cause : loans not paid back and the mortgage are the buildings )+ multiple articles about bank failure ( eg. Google China shadow banking)

I always thought China's motto was: Fake it, untill you make it ( their annual growth of 8% is based on a big part on empty buildings and not repaying loans. It is controlled by the governement and they try to eliminate the crisis by expanding influence in the world. Eg. Too big to fail)

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In short, the growth of China is artifically inflated to 8% per year, since many years --> huge internal debt. Now they are doing the same on a global scale. We are all doomed :)

https://amp.ft.com/content/a6086a9a-5059-11e7-bfb8-997009366...

https://theconversation.com/is-china-on-the-verge-of-a-banki...

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/211...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/china-financial-crisis_...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/08/15/chinas-debt-b...
> optimized for low-speeds, not high ones. And for short bursts, not continuous vigorous exercise.

This is the issue I have with electric cars. Range is much poorer than ICE cars when not cruising at 70mph.

Someone took their Model S on the Nurburgring last summer. Other than overheating and going into limp mode just 5 miles into the 14 mile circuit, the car used over 30% of its charge. That’s about 45 miles on a full charge. Even the thirstiest twin Turbo V8s will do somewhere between 100 and 150 miles to a tank on this track. When I was there in the BMW M2, we used 1/4 of a tank doing four fast laps.

I can’t believe we’re not able to make electric cars more versatile in this respect?
When an aircraft is fast in the air it doesn't mean it has to be fast at the runway.

For example the takeoff and landing speed of a F16 is almost the same as any other commercial plane (~270 km/h).
I thought everyone used Sleep as Android, but I guess I haven't been following the news.

And that's just me, who tries to stay somewhat up to date with the ecosystem and generally understands tech. How my mother is going to discover which alarm clock app is useful, performant, and doesn't mine bitcoin or exfiltrate her photos to the cloud? I have no idea.
Hi guys, I wanted to deliver something very simple and useful for e-commerce. Middle is for lead capturing or if you want to sell at the same time you had idea about selling your staff. We wanted to create sign up boarding as simple as possible.

By default, we connect your shop with Stripe (card processing) and PayPal. You can accept card payments and PayPal payments instantly after signing up.
Happy Tasker user here. Well worth the little money I paid for it.
Chrome has had this for what feels like years. Is there something new in there or did Firefox just catch up?

Good news in any case! The back office tool I work on is Chrome only and it's been great to just use type="date"!
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The form is submitted with ISO 8601 dates, it’s just the UI that localises.
The best reason for using native form fields (in my experience) is for the mobile devices. Using some old school Jquery custom JS select input means its a very poor experience for mobile. At least on iOS by using native, I get the Safari mobile dates/select inputs that work much better+smoother than js/css alternatives. Of course this doesn't matter if you don't target mobile with your website/webapp.
0. Howzit! I have family in Cape Town etc.

1. There has to be some of this: no market is totally free, and free-riders are always a problem to some degree.

2. Actually this is exactly the flavour of product/service that I am working on. Have the more efficient solution be better and easier, not a hair shirt. The area we are working on could knock 5% off Europe's entire carbon footprint and save most families hundreds of USD per year also.
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When gatekeepers are corporate bosses or financiers it's fine, the most they can do is to say no. In case of state and authority, there's much more power imbalance. If something goes wrong, or entrepreneur falls out of favour of authority, it becomes a no-rules game. Prosecution, seize of assets, state sponsored media witch hunting.
It puzzles me why Intel Chinese fabs are located in such middle of nowhere where their logistics costs will be sky high
I'm not sure I understand why you think this is anti Chinese? All China is doing is recapitulating colonialism. I expect there are good social and economic reasons to stop polluting Chinese provinces with imported wastes, but Chinese businesses will want to retain profit and trade.

Therefore relocating recycling businesses overseas makes sense. China has now deep roots in Africa primarily aimed at extraction of raw materials but also for sale of goods and services (Huawei for instance supply African mobile operators with turnkey solutions) so inviting African economies with low barriers to pollution and lax labour laws to bid for contracts to reprocess waste is surely normal?

Isn't that why the UK and Europe export the waste to China?

Britain used to make ships. Then ship making moved to Portugal and then Poland, and then Korea. Trade moves to low labour cost economies. As China tightens pollution and labour law the cost of processing waste will rise until it's more economic to do it somewhere else. I just expect Chinese business to defiantly retain a role in that.

The votes in the UN yes, that was perhaps unfortunately said. I apologize. If I said China was merely redressing systemically acquired imbalances by investing in Africa and the Pacific islands,and the quid pro quo was mutuality, would that be better?

I love China. I visit it frequently, lots of Chinese companies invest in Australia, our economic future is closely tied. I am tired of dissembling in this space. What China is doing is not immoral: it's amoral, no different to what the west did, does.
somebody already did image that..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lotus_Caves
A lot of the parts in every car, produced anywhere in the world, are shared with other models from other manufacturers. That's perfectly normal. Like e.g. "german", "french" or "american" cars, many "chinese" cars are made up mostly of german, french etc. parts. Well, german-engineered, french-engineered etc., beccause the parts are often produced relatively closely to the manufacturer's assembly plant. (Which is why BMW and it's american suppliers are biggest exporter of the fruits of automotive labor in the US.)

Chinese manufacturers are just more blatant in their copying of western designs. Western manufacturers tend to be way subtle about taking and reworking design cues. Though undeniably everyone will assimilate any popular design into their own design language.
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Weird, given that ´new Intl.DateTimeFormat('fi-FI').format(new Date)´ in console properly outputs dd.mm.yyyy, so the locale data for Finnish should be there.
Yes. Because what you described is the reason that literally everyone buys / sells most securities, or even starts a business. They're typically not in it for the warm fuzzy feeling, but to make a profit.
36172 unpatched #XSS in .com zone. Internet is almost broken
Speaking from experience: there’s almost no measurable perf benefit from disabling ondemand governor on Pi3 or other low end boards. I use Pi3 as a cortex a53 benchmark baseline, and I no longer bother controlling the clock.

This does not hold on higher end boards though. E.g. NVIDIA TX1 or 2 is considerably faster if you force max clock.
> The main problem with PCs is antiquated, insecure, bloated operating systems. Fix that and I think you'd see even more innovation.

In a way, it's a feature, not a bug. The security of mobile devices is created by the very same thing that limits their usefulness - by OS being vendor-controlled, fully sandboxed and locked down, so that users (via programs acting on their behalf) can't break it. I'm not sure if it is even possible to have a secure system that allows you to do anything interesting on it.
To protect their local EV industry, no doubt, which they apparently want to protect because:
"China is encouraging and supporting the development of alternative energy options, especially in terms of electric-vehicle development, because they anticipate the rise of new fuel technologies and greater fuel efficiency will give them greater energy independence." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_vehicle_industry_in_C...
> very, very hard to get rid of

Previous generations used taxes to manage business models that harmed many for the benefit of a few.

But since these companies can buy and hack democracy, will we ever see the much needed advertising tax?
How much money is that one convincing use case worth?
Or IE11: http://caniuse.com/#feat=input-datetime