skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are comparing two different Romes. The punic wars were for Rome's survival. The gallic wars were for Caesar's political survival, for significant gain in capital (human slaves) and to establish a buffer zone against the Germans (that were already more feared than the Celts). Back then, Rome was essentially unstoppable, you feel kinda bad for their enemies. 100 years later, Rome was well
established and cozy for the elite - why risk your neck against the now battle proven Germans? Eventually this cozyness would be Rome's downfall.
This is going to be interesting. Drug wholesaling is a tough business with razor thin margins. Wholesalers don't make much off of branded drugs because the big drug companies have most of the negotiating power. It's not unusual for their cut to be in the tens of basis points.

They make the most money off of generic drugs and often use arbitrage as a revenue source when price increases happen. Price increases for generic drugs have been weak lately and it's hurting them.[1]

[1]http://www.drugchannels.net/2017/09/drug-wholesalers-struggl...
Apathy isn't worse than malice.
The Wikipedia article for this object: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/2017_U1
National origin is not the same as nationality. There are countless rights that citizens have that non-citizens do not.
Speaking as an Australian as well. I'd say 1 house per person and no negative gearing in addition to stopping overseas investment in residential property would be a better policy.

I lament that lack of business in Australia because everyone is fighting over the scraps of our property market.
Toronto homes in certain neighborhoods lost nearly 25% compared their peak value in April. There were no restrictions on foreign investors.
It was stipulated that the kids won’t join the unions.
Let's try something.

Do you believe that the Internet should be a basic human right, that affordable access should be made reasonably available for everyone on the planet?
On the strong form, certainly and provably not. Studies have been funded to find any correlation between the will of the populace and policy that is enacted. There is zero correlation.

On the semi-weak form, obviously not. Voter suppression is constant and ubiquitous in most states. Gerrymandering has caused international organizations to classify states in the US as non-democracies, and explicitly suppresses the will of the voting population as its stated goal. It is extremely effective. The majority of the population of states vote for one policy position, and the polar opposite party will receive a two-thirds unbeatable veto-proof majority in the legislature. There is incontrovertible evidence that even presidential elections were explicitly and intentionally stolen (Gore) -- we know this happened. There is strong evidence to suggest the subsequent election was stolen as well, with the election in Ohio raising every red flag election monitors know to look for and some they hadn't yet invented because they were so blatant as to be unthinkable (the owner of the company that distributed all voting machines in the state explicitly, publicly promised to deliver the election to the candidate who won). While the system is in principle distributed, in reality it is anything but: a tiny number of very easily hacked, bought, corrupted, and infiltrated swing state electoral systems decide the fate of the entire nation, safe from the scrutiny and security requirements that an actual federal election system would have to undergo.

On the weak form, are you kidding? Nearly every electoral system in any modern democratic state is far superior. Your statements about peaceful change of the guard, separation of powers, and the judiciary (its independence is laughable; judges are explicitly selected partisans who dictate partisan policy positions from the bench instead of voting for it in congress) are all totally irrelevant to the question as it should be formulated in it's weak form: does the American electoral system work better than others? Nothing was asked or stated about the system of governance. You only even answer the question you asked by taking an extreme ideologically charged definition of "work better". The question you implicitly asked (that you answered) is: is the American system of governance effective at preserving a tradition of peaceful transfer of power from oligarch to oligarch? Has the obvious answer, yes. As does the system in North Korea.

>We just don't have a multi century, multigenerational society that has generated as much wealth for as many people while confronting the number of difficult questions the American system has.

We don't have such a society that has generated much wealth for the many; rather, for the few.

The only thing that keeps Americans from publicly admitting these obvious truths about the voting system is a need to believe that the system works; we accept that obviously undemocratic results are democratic because to accept the alternative (which happens to be true) is unthinkable and would cause chaos. It is a group lie we tell ourselves to make society function.
I don't know where you're getting the idea it's not a conference. Here's a link to a photo set from Foo Camp 2010, where the incident occurred:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/deanputney/sets/72157624362235...

Burning Man it ain't.
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Eh.. I saw it more as a symptom of humans breeding. Human population has always been bound by some constraint, and now it seems that shelter is more of a limiting factor than food supply, in western countries at least.

That, and a cultural shift toward wanting to live in cities, even though many of these financially struggling millennials would do just fine financially in more distant suburbs.
Also applies to landing pages. Just explain briefly what the project is about.
> They are now grown as saplings at greenhouses in Iceland, because importing live trees is prohibited.

I wonder why they can't import live trees and if they could accelerate the process if they could.
I think this is a social responsibility regardless, although some people prefer to do good work either anonymously or behind the camera. Either way is fine.
That is a generic end-of-work question. Ideally, everyone would have jobs they liked, and all the dull stuff would be automated (Star Trek outcome). Pessimistically, the machines will become better than humans at everything and we will just become obsolete (Terminator outcome). If automation picks up, we will have to deal with these questions sooner rather than later, but it will happen eventually.
I work in tech here and I suspect it's becuase our early heavy hitters feel from grace: Motorola, Groupon, etc.

Imagine if Motorola was first to have a major smart phone get popular like the razr instead of Apple.

Seatlle has amazon and microsoft.....chicago has nothing comparable I think.
You can download Xcode (and many versions past) here, directly: https://developer.apple.com/download/more/

Thus, you can have multiple versions installed simply by having Xcode.app in a different directory or renamed. Just remember to set the active Xcode for command line usage via `xcode-select` (can verify via `xcodebuild -version`).

This is precisely for jumping between various GM and beta versions in case of issues and such. Downloading from the Mac App Store does not give you this control.

Finally, Xcode 9.0.1 has worked smoothly for us so far FWIW.
Might include Jet
One problem is that Xcode is written using AppKit, which was a state of the art technology 25 years ago and hasn't changed much since. Apple stopped caring about Mac development a long time ago and Xcode is the highest profile casualty.

Contrast with VSCode which is built with modern technologies. It has a much faster release pace, and is more stable and more responsive (despite being an Electron app!)
What's worse is that a lot of Walmart employees don't speak English. They can barely understand what you are saying, much less, conjure up a response. Usually they have to go and fetch a much smarter or knowledgeable person to help out.

Terribly inefficient.

So Walmart Employees, if this is you:

I'm sorry but if you want to keep working at Walmart, time to step up your game, learn some English and be more responsive. Otherwise, I'll happily accept a response from the robot over your indifference if it helps me get to the product I need to find quicker.
That's true.

Yet I've heard from one realtor that in some suburbs of Great Vancouver 15% of properties stay empty - pure investment.

Vancouver is not the city to live in anymore. Problem is that it is not the city to work in too. Too long commutes - 2 hours to spend on road. That means work day is not 8 hours but effectively 10. That means people asking and company offering higher salaries.

That housing situation hurts all other businesses except of real estate quite a lot.
wasn't this same story at the top of HN yesterday?
I wasn't around for this fiasco, what exactly was it?
To clarify for those not versed in Canadian tax policy, April is when the foreign investor tax was announced in Toronto: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/20/toronto-foreig...
CouchDB/PouchDB : I'm pretty happy with how these tools work together.
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This would be great if it happened.

A large part of why Saudi Arabia went extermist, from what I read, is due to the militant extremist seizure of the Grand Mosque, the holiest site in Islam, in 1979

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Mosque_seizure

The Saudi Arabia responded to the seizure by making the country much more extreme. They also supported thousands of extremist madrassas in many Muslim nations, and this did a great deal to help groups like Al Queda and ISIS recruit members.
Yale Law grad, law partner, First Lady, Senator, Secretary of State. Most Admire Woman in America 21 times. Yep that there is a pretty bad candidate.

But hey, email.
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> "Apple stopped caring about Mac development a long time ago and Xcode is the highest profile casualty."

Xcode is also required for iOS development. I haven't used Xcode in a while. Are there aspects of Xcode that are only used in iOS that are better or more modern than those that are used only for MacOS?
I'm happy to start a conversation as long as you don't resort to ad hominem which "if you are willing to come out of your idealogical(sic)/cultural bubble" certainly seems like.

Exactly why do you think I'm in an ideological or cultural bubble?

What personal experiences in China's new venture scene can you share with everyone on HN that does not involve guanxi at all?

Lastly I disagree with your assertion that guanxi is simply "connections" or "networks". Granted I am a westerner but I dealt with Chinese manufacturers and business partners for several years and my personal experience is that guanxi is much more than what you are implying.
We have a lot of excess housing stock from the rust belt days and can build a lot more towers(not sitting on fault lines).
> "I want afforable housing for my children that doesn't make my property prices drop!"

There is actually a very simple solution to this problem: build up.
Julia Evans is inspiring. I really, really like her humility and tenacity. The write up of her displaying these characteristics is also just superbly executed.

Attitudes are contagious and I badly want to catch hers!
Do you know Amazons order page lets you see how many orders you place each year?

It is quite telling: 2007, 2008, 2009 were <10 orders. Then 2010, after my son had been born: 41. 2011: 98. 2012: 138.

2016: 270...

It's all about establishing the habits.
In space, the gravity well we more likely create big orbits. Since there's no air slowing objects down, they won't all fall down to the sun.

For example, it's very energy intensive to go visit Mercury.
Nope. It is too late. It is finally going to be the era of the Linux Desktop :).
I am wondering that, or suggesting it is rare.
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There is lots of anecdata that Chinese real estate speculation that is obviously rampant in china is spilling out into international markets, like it did with Japan 30 years ago. When I was living in china, I knew people who were looking abroad for real estate investments. But anyways, vested interests in those target markets don't want it to go beyond anecdata, so they operate under a "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

New Zealand is a classic case where housing prices have far exceeded normal incomes. When asked to consider NZ for a job, I ask is the pay better (no); is the cost of living cheaper (also no....). It definitely isn't tech salaries driving the housing bubble there!
It was more an example of the fact that it's been in Canadian health groups' consideration for at least the past 7 years, as one of the posters above asserted that Canadian food groups still favoured carbohydrates and didn't have updated information on fats consumption.

More recent sources: http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/canadian-researchers-fat-carbo...

To wit: there is a dramatic difference between the types of fats that should increase in our diets, versus the types of fats that should decrease.

It certainly isn't about reducing the proportion of whole grains, nuts, and seeds to the proportion of other sources of carbohydrates. If anything, when talking about fats, nuts and seeds are included in that argument. I spend more on my breads these days precisely because of this -- as part of my diet I require the increased iron and fats contents of whole-grain breads that include nuts and seeds. I've also taken to eating less of that bread, and spend more time snacking on nuts -- especially at work.

I can't however speak from the perspective of somebody with insulin issues or diabetes. I'm closer to anemic in my dietary needs.
166m diameter. Not exactly dinaur-extinction sized.
One problem with Solar I hadn't really thought about is how robust they are (not) in storms. The picture at the top of this article shows how a grid on Peurto Rico was destroyed.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/the-smarter-grid...
links to: http://www.theweatherjunkies.com/single-post/2017/09/28/Puer... which shows some that are built more robustly.

Looking around there are lots of panels with hail damage and catching fire etc, its not as simple as I thought!
Pretty sure they are only free for at risk people/ health care workers. At least that is true in BC. http://immunizebc.ca/diseases-vaccinations/influenza

Healthcare is a provincial responsibility in Canada
Cool. Will wait for a news outlet (i.e. someone else) to go through the documents and write up a summary, though ;)
Sway 1.0 is not going to support the Nvidia proprietary driver
Happy to give you a general review (typically I charge 200 RMB for it). Only "simplegeek" for free please, I have a business to run.

I run a professional services firm in Shanghai, China and do resume editing on near daily basis. Trained in the US through National Resume Writers' Association in best practices, native speaker, previously 24 years on Wall Street in the US.

Give me a few days due to packed client schedule.

Regards,

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There's not going to be any change in money coming in to buy property from foreign buyers.

What you're actually going to see is a cottage industry of lawyers setting up citizen-owned shell corporations to funnel this money through -- minus their fees of course.
We should call it Russian Linux: just like how you would like to play a Russian Roulette.
As a (partial) GIS engineer who has worked extensively with ESRI and the like, I can assure you that this is pretty silly. Maps are deceptively complex and require tons of data and cpu cycles. And of course they depend on a back-end server of some kind, internal or external. Now, maybe Chrome could support this natively to use Google Maps, but to make it part of the HTML spec is bordering on the absurd.
I doubt that. After the second sequential cache miss the hardware will be prefetching for you.

Worth trying like all these things, but I'm not convinced you'd see a different, go ahead and prove me wrong!
I'm under the impression that New York City does this. Effective property tax rates in the 5 boroughs are strikingly low contrasted with surrounding counties, but only for a certain number of units. After a certain number, your property tax notches up to a rate I believe is comparable to surrounding areas.

Not saying this particular policy ameliorates the issues you're talking about, just that a precedent for it exists in taxation policy in the US.
Depends on the sizing I believe. One problem I see in Java-based DB like Cassandra and Elasticsearch is JVM busy doing garbage collection. The major collection kicks in all the time. Probably because of bad config and bad data usage pattern, but it is still a common problem for me. I am all ears for advice.
What Walmart do you go to? The one in my town, everyone seems to speak English fluently
Ya, try buying a house as a foreigner in china (first tier city). It isn't impossible, but they put up a lot of obstacles to do it (lots of residency requirements, which seem fair enough).
I just ran it, the earth is fine :(
Look at your computer equipment...
As per another comment in this thread, I really want/like links to original sources for figures, not second hand reporting.

But let's accept some of those reports on face value. In Australia, you have to take into account both that we have laws that limit foreign purchasing of established properties, and that those figures are commonly for newly established properties.

Firstly, that's exactly what the policies were supposed to cause.

Secondly, new sales need to be measured relative to turnover and funding within the local established market. This gives you an idea as to the relative scales. Under the observation that many of these investments will be in high rise inner city apartments, again, it's not necessarily such an alarming figure, and arguably, might even be what policy was set out to achieve.

The most feasible take away I think is your link no 6:pointing out that the price set in a market is a complex play of expectations and marginal prices.

But, as with most of these articles and points, this all had to be taken in context of the behavior of locals and he size of their operations.

I don't say that foreign investment plays no part. While no rain drop considers itself responsible for the flood, I think it's a curious analysis and interpretation that focuses on the 10% and blames them, when there is enough explanation to be found in the behavior of the local 90%, given that obviously market outcomes are in truth an interplay of both.
The immediate take away i get from this is that it really isn't about taking over human jobs. humans don't do this job nearly as frequently as the robots would do it, because in a standard retail environment like wal-mart, it doesn't really matter all that much if the reported in-stock quantity is slightly off for an item. that is to say, it matters, but not so much that the big-box retail environments i've worked in would dedicate more than one full-time staff to do this. if the robot is working 24hrs, it's doing the hours of three full-time staff and probably the work of six. That's a huge jump in the amount of stock checking that's happening at a store.

So i wonder why wal-mart is investing in robots to fill this role, when there are so many other important jobs that they could automate instead. and the answer i land on is that the quantity-on-hand is critically important if you're using the store as a warehouse for a local delivery operation. If you've advertised something as in-stock for same-day delivery on your website, and then you let customers in to browse around your warehouse and move things around, having roaming scanners checking for mis-homed items is suddenly a lot more important.
A TechCrunch article on the same topic received 52 points, 18 comments from 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15546186
I believe the Guide just says "Harmless", maybe they'll add more info in the next revision.
> since Identity Politics has not been kind toward white people & the majority of white people think they are discriminated against

That's true... before Identity Politics, white people had most of the money and power and authority in this country. But now thanks to Identity Politics, white people have only... well, most of the money and power and authority in this country.

Huh.
A good read about recovering a system that had rm -rf * run on it:

http://www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/hack/recovery.html
Ask HN: What has your experience been with job duration?
I've been a software engineer for 4 years. I've worked for 4 different startups within that time. It hasn't always been my choice to leave but I'm finding that I enjoy the change of technology, people, setting, and experiences. I feel like it's made me a better developer. What has your experience been with job duration and what have been the pros and cons of your duration preference?
Not sure I understand what you said.

Example: I want to hire 10 developers. There are no places to live with price tags less than 1.5 mln in 1 hour commute radii from here. What would be my options? To pay them enough salary so they can afford mortgages?
Cheaper to move the whole business to Eastern Europe / Russia then.
Tesla's image of the project's solar array, in a parking lot next to the hospital, has been liked more than 84,000 times since it was posted to Instagram Tuesday.

Tesla should be paying the hospital.
Unless you’re aware of a lot more incidents in the past few years, I don’t think twice in 2 years makes for a new norm. The IRS found a backup of that hard drive, according to this article.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/feb/3/irs-promises-...

In any case these events are making news because they are not normal.
> existing property owners have more rights, incentives, and skin in the game then potential residents.

To be fair though "existing property owners" would also include people who own land in low-density-zoned areas and would like to build high-density housing on their property, but are prevented from doing so by neighboring property owners. It seems like their rights are also being infringed upon, no?
I didn’t say where I am, I said where I live. I didn’t make the distinction clear enough, but I did mean it. The user agent may know more things that are able to make the map more useful for me.
Even if we accept that the white people "own" NZ, the foreigners are buying it from the willing seller citizens. So the government does not get to decide on behalf of all citizens.
I hope I'm not being naive about this (as corporations often have a way of making you regret your words), but this is the way - find a need, make it happen, get it done. I am really glad Tesla et al are doing this. They are having a direct impact and they may even reap some nice rewards themselves down the line, even if that wasn't the biggest driver.

I wonder if they could look into outcome-based contracting [1] for these projects, should the discussion of paying ever arise. Seems like it might be a good fit.

[1] http://www.enme.umd.edu/ESCML/Papers/Sandborn%20Contract%20E...
A lot of them are not buying to rent out, especially if they are Chinese where in china renting out doesn't make sense. They sit on the properties empty as pure speculative plays.
Note that this is not the entire collection of documents (some number of pages, perhaps 300, have been withheld - reports so far vary on this).
Same problem here and it does not seem to be zone specific. I wonder how others worked around this ...
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