skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a lot easier to use Google search without creating an account. It might be interesting to see how many people use it but don't have accounts?
Lol.. who gives a crap.

The first batch did nothing. You are all state slaves.
Out of pure curiosity, how so? I deal with Protobuf regularly, and as long as a decent library exists to dump to JSON that is domain specific to your use case it is trivial. Is that the only thing missing here?
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On one end of the scale the benefit of transparency and on the other the inevitable subversion of these types of info dumps in the future, as a way to manipulate public opinion...
Good for him, but I really wish for a better class of business journalism. He's been doing this 4 years, and never made more than $150k/year. So he definitely isn't somebody who "makes millions".
> Things like folder separators, a pack of staples, etc.. You can get these things for $1 or $2 at Walmart, but on Amazon, maybe $4, $5.

In germany buying stuff in bulk sometimes requires to travel like 50km, I've seen people plenty of times make bulk buys over amazon, because it is more convenient.
Nice to know that 28 is still considered a noteworthy age for things like this. It must be getting pretty close to the cutoff though. You don't often hear titles like "32 year old creates successful business"
Typically, mathematicians will just say it doesn't matter, because by context it makes it clear to humans. I disagree. I think it introduces lots of mis-understanding and garbage into our minds, especially those who have not studied symbolic logic and proof systems (which, is actually majority of mathematicians). The wishy-washy, ill-defined, subconscious, notions and formulas make logical analysis of math subjects difficult. Of course, mathematicians simply grew up with this, got used to it, so don't perceive any problem. They'd rather attribute the problem to the inherent difficulty of math concepts.

You could substitute quite a lot of other things for 'mathematicians/math' and this would ring equally true. I've noticed that people often defend the system they learned within even (or perhaps because?) when its limitations are creating a barrier for potential new entrants.
Very hard to believe, you'd have to be very naive to reveal your arbitrage like this.
To me, senior engineer is that point when you have hit your stride, you are very good at what you do, and the next level is where you start to mentor younger engineers and let them take credit for your ideas/insight.

That's what Steve Kleiman (Sun/Sparc/vnodes/threads) did for me and he was definitely well past what we called senior staff engineers.
Yeah, I came to about the same conclusion not long ago when reviewing the latest crop of frameworks at TodoMVC.com while looking for the "best" way to build new apps.

I ended up not being able to conclude what was "best" so I decided to look for the "easiest" way instead. That was a lot easier because it's a fluid approach.

While I appreciate the goals of a single page app I would never make that a requirement when designing one. I'll use it where it easily works and not when it doesn't.

There are countless ways to make an app but in the end productivity is what gets it shipped and pays the bills and the easiest way is almost always the most productive.

Right now jQuery and Bootstrap are probably the easiest way to build a front end and unless you really need something more it's hard to argue against not using them if productivity is accounted for.

That, of course, will vary with one's own experience. If you've spent the time learning how to use React or Angular you might be more productive with that, but I'm thinking probably not, or not much, in most cases. What you really may be doing is addressing efficiency issues and other problems you don't have, and possibly adding unnecessary complexity.

If your app ever gets to where it doesn't work for you because you have so many users it needs to be more efficient, then good for you, you've hit the big time and should invest in efficiencies appropriate to scale, but you may find that's not a problem, or not where the problem resides.

Software is no different than anything else when it comes to applying the "KISS" approach and the more complex the project the more important that becomes.
Java and Python, rapidly shifting to C++, iirc.
The NIC Asia Bank is the last victim of the #SWIFT hackers
Why's that, might I ask? I've seen statistics that I haven't verified that indicate that while somewhere between 25 and 40% of CS undergrads aren't able to find work as programmers, around 40% of professional programmers don't have a CS degree. And I'm really not sure what to make of this.
That was one of the developments I had in mind, along with lots of revitalization on the northeast side. That's on the far other side of town compared to where my parents live, but we still head out to the NewBo market a couple times per year.
Its not clear what "secrets" they have revealed. Appleby seems to be an "advising company", so presumably no Trust data have been exposed. We might as well be looking at something we knew to be public all along. Is this really serious?
Very curious on his profit margins here.

Considering an even 10% markup, you could easily do $5M+ and only clear 500k profit. Curious what the numbers that matter are like.
Thanks for sharing. Geocode and RevGeo are generally considered a Hard Problem (TM) in GIS so it is nice to see great projects such as this.
I had disk utility telling me that my unlock password both did and did not work, and I didn't want to move forward like that. Disk utility's password prompt would do the 'ya done fucked up' wiggle at the same time the main window below it loaded partition information.
7. was easily avoidable--just don't use an OLED panel. OLED is a flawed technology and it is really disappointing to see Apple switch to it.
Title should read: 28 year old used to make millions buying from Walmart, selling on Amazon; because he certainly will have to live with competition and reduced margins from now on.
There is nothing hypocritical about opposing a tax 'reform' plan that adds $1.5 TRILLION to the deficit, doubly so if this bill raises my taxes. If my tax burden goes up to pay for government programs, than I am generally (but not unconditionally) okay with that. But if my tax burden goes up so that billionaires and corporations can get a tax cut while also negatively impacting the financial health of our country, than it would be absurd not to strongly oppose the reform bill.

Instead of supporting this irresponsible piece of legislation, how about getting in touch with your local representatives and let them know that you believe that the tax burden on small businesses needs to be addressed, but that this particular piece of legislation is not the way to do it.
We have always been at war with Eurasia^WEastasia.
Maybe the older ones keep their ideas to themselves?
Honestly the Democrats aren't much better. I can point the finger in many directions here:

1. The Clinton stranglehold (first Bill then Hilary) on the DNC was absolute to the point with Hilary off the stage there's a vacuum and no real leadership contenders. That I think was largely by design. Hilary didn't want a repeat of the 2008 nomination;

2. Obama seemed to either not care of was ineffective in shaping the party. After eight years in office it was still Clinton's party;

3. The Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is really the Democratic senator from Wall Street and is one of the biggest defenders of the carried interest tax credit for hedge fund managers.

4. The Democrats have an ageing and increasingly out-of-touch ruling class. As just one example, Diane Feinstein has announced plans to seek reelection... at age 85. This means she'd be 91 at the end of her term.

5. I'm still ot sure the Democrats fully appreciate the anti-establishment wave that swept Trump into office and almost swept Sanders into the Democratic nomination.
What exactly did land of opportunity mean to you?

Some people are playing by a more effective set of rules. You were sold a moral paradigm to stuff government coffers and bought it without even questioning how public services could be funded. Others see the moral relativity and aspire to adapt and do.
I did the numbers on some items, ikea on Amazon has a 50-75% margin increase on home/kitchen items.
Pity it is the new Java 1.0, instead of being the new Java 9.
It's still Sunday in Europe too. Compared to being the main (breaking) news on many (most?) major news sites in Europe, I'm genuinely curious why this difference?

The main focus seems to be on 'remarkable' (for lack of a better word) ties between prominent people. I can't imagine there's less interest about this in the US? Or is there some fatigue?
Exactly. Next thing you know people will be claiming that it's possible to generate ambiguities in any formal system.
Next question: do you think the Saudis got early access to the Paradise Papers too? Any chance the Saudi arrests are linked to all this?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/04/world/middleeast/saudi-ar...
I have a similar feeling when I look at houses to buy online.

If I see the house was bought for 40%+ less just a few years ago, I refuse to give an offer. Even if the price seemed reasonable and it interests me. I refuse to reward people who bought low and want to flip it for much higher (if it increased reasonably, fine)
How do Bing (Microsoft) and Apple invest in OSM respectively? Also I am guessing you are not including Facebook? Or do they contribute as well?
Definitely not the case in the Bay Area -- Palo Alto, Piedmont, Orinda are wealthy and have some of the best schools.
The article mentions him buying clearance items.
Bonfire night in the UK is a very communal event with thousands of people gathering together in public parks to watch the spectacle of the bonfire and fireworks.

It feels quite harmonious, even though it is a celebration of murdeous treachery with loud explosions and hot burning fire.
> this stuff exists because people optimise their playing strategy.

There any a great many reasons why it’s important to know what the latest strategies are. Few of the people concerned here are passive capitalists looking for ROI.

Even if they were, politics is ultimately a contest over resources. Information is power.
Let's not act like tax avoidance is some Big Deal. Taxation is theft to begin with, so there's no reason to begrudge people who are protecting their assets.

The real question we should be applying our intellects to is "how do we fund the things that are currently funded by taxation, which are actually necessary / desirable, without using violence or the threat of violence?"
You're confusing the salary he pays himself with the success of the business.
TL;DR according to image caption:

> The plane was dismantled on the roof and lowered down by crane
Money that you spend on buying software, hiring etc isn’t generally taxable anyway. A business is generally taxed on income, not revenue.

You also have to ask, where is the money coming from? In this case, it would appear to be through radically increasing the deficit. There will ultimately be consequences to that (for instance, in a few years, as the US’s credit rating comes under pressure, increased repayments may have to be met with increases on income tax, which you will pay).
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Look at cars trends of cars parked on streets.
> Believing that governmental subsidies should be focused on individuals and families in need and not on housing, UN-Habitat has been working with the city of Bogotá to refocus priorities.

The socialist meddlers from the UN are clueless and looking to repeat the same mistakes but who cares as long as they get to be in charge
I don't think it's acceptable in any situation to express your frustration this way in a public forum, especially for OSS. Thoughtful critical pieces are fine and necessary, but I don't think blatant vitriolic "cathartic" outlets should be encouraged at all -- in this case, it is being encouraged by the maintainer, but I don't think that helps anything.

I get the frustration...I've said "Fuck XYZ" a thousand times for a thousand different software XYZs but to take that to a public forum is suitable behavior for a toddler, and does harm.

How many nights & weekends were spent building Webpack? How many nights & weekends coming up with "fuck webpack"? Show some respect and at least spend a few hours in thoughtful critique. Civility must still have a place, even online.

Tangentially, Rich Hickey recently responded (I think appropriately) to a similar outlet re Clojure [1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/73yznc/on_whose_au...
“by the end of World War II, the military's share rose to 29 percent.”
Human rights abuses have NEVER been a red line for US cooperation with a foreign government.

Ask yourself who benefits from perpetuating this unique goal post for Russia to maintain McCarthy era paranoia?
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I'm not up on the Magnitsky act, but does it make a difference if it's illegal for you to take the $300m from Gazprom?
The title is misleading, the doctor lost her license due to a combination of complaints from patients plus no computer skills. She's had decades to get minimal computer skills. If she can't do that then you have to question whether she's kept up her medical skills in general.

But I get it age is no excuse to not keep up to date with vital career skills.
Oh, but you weren't sold a moral paradigm to stuff corporate coffers? Your argument rests on the premise that you're a free thinker and everyone else is brainwashed. This conceit seems to be very common among libertarians.
How would you rename it? YCombinator money is from Putin (via oligarchs)?

Also, why are you wanting to remember happier times?
Or https://github.com/python-attrs/attrs
I had a pretty terrible experience with AirBnB the last time I went to California. Place was nothing like the pictures, dirty, and I rented the entire apartment but was told that their roommate may stop by unexpectedly for his things. To top it all off I had to go lie to their housing office to get a key to the apartment and leave behind collateral.

Thankfully AirBnB was able to refund me 100% and I went and found a hotel for the week. I guess it was easier for them because the renter in this case already agreed to refund me when I discussed it with them though. I can't imagine how hard it'd be for Airbnb to figure out who was right/wrong otherwise.
Aka "don't hate the player, hate the game"
Salgari?! I thought he was unknown outside of Italy.

Anyone else read it?
There's a pure software arbitrage play as well, take for example, simple green which you can't buy from amazon direct but you can from a 3rd party reseller which ends up being a direct arbitrage from walmart.com.
Just out of curiosity, I went to their website at http://www.thrustaircraft.com/. There's this quote that caught my attention: Talk To Yourself Once In A Day.. Otherwise You May Miss Meeting An Excellent Person in this World - Swami Vivekananda
How to Win Friends and Influence People. It could have just as easily been named "How to be a Good Person". Carnegie's advice is practical, yet powerful. I return to it every few months to make sure I'm staying on track.

Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography. Franklin led one of the most interesting lives in human history, and this book is a window into his mind. There's a lot of great advice sprinkled in with subtle, timely humor. Another book I return to often.
With minimal impact on commute times

That works up to a point, but eventually as more people move out of downtown to less expensive suburbs, roads start to clog and the community can't afford the billions of dollars it would take to build more freeways or public transit.
Wait, are you suggesting that Trump is conning the good citizens of Oklahoma, Texas, Alabama, and other red states into subsidizing Russian oligarchs? Say it ain't so...
A lot of people reading the paper miss this. I guess it's not emphasized enough.

In the first paper, the selfplay trained policy is about 1500 in elo rating, while darkforest2 a supervised trained policy from Facebook is around the same, if not better. So selfplay wasn't of much use the first time around. While in the AlphaZero paper the selfplay trained policy has about 3000 elo rating.
Postmodernism revealed what happens when you look (intently) at ALL possibilities before you properly define YOUR identity and set of values.

Surprisingly, even Macron articulated that maybe Western world needs "great story arcs", which is code word for SHARED IDEALS.

War is always an attribute of survival and the problem is that US population is pretty insulated from acute strife on the survival front. But the risks are there and can only be appreciated once you train in geopolitics.
Past experience makes me wary to risk spending that much and be disappointed two trips later. Lifetime doesn't mean they give money back if unsatisfied, except one or two companies. Also, upping my budget didn't magically reveal viable options either. So I could have skipped the price tag mention and conclude that it's just hard to find the perfect bag.

I've seen the Go Ruck GR2 and it doesn't fit my requirements.
Can we just bury this facile argument? Corporations spend a fortune on lobbying and enjoy huge asymmetrical advances. These facts are hardly obscure, and to wax pious without acknowledging their existence borders on bad faith.
It seems he is already moving on by entering the self help/motivational speaker industry.

> As his business is increasingly run by his team, Grant has reduced his salary down to $60,000 a year and now dedicates much of his time to getting that message out. He consults and teaches e-commerce classes through the same blog he has been using to track his performance.
Only if you're an American. Afaik it doesn't apply to Europeans and others based outside of the US. Now, that said, if there are sanctions that cannot be avoided then obviously that would be a clear no. Assume companies without sanctions in this example.
Rockwell has a split of commercial and government. No idea on the distribution of levels of confidentiality on the government work, but I definitely agree that a lack of access to online reference materials would a hard pass for many engineers.

I know they do lots with GPS and flight displays.

Beyond Rockwell, much of the city is employed by grain processing. Cargill, Penford (it has a new name now, don't know it), general mills, quaker oats, and Conagra all have large factories in the city.
No form of Leninism was anything but a brutal dictatorship. It really wasn't even socialist considering the government didn't represent the workers.
OK, then rent is also theft.
Some causes are better than others
Interestingly enough it seems that public mentions of this don't destroy business. Here is a Planet Money podcast from 2015 http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/07/26/539552579/episo.... I thought at this time the days for arbitrage like this would be counted. Apparently not.
In the US there is a category called "light sport aircraft" where there are some examples under $100k and many under $150k.

https://generalaviationnews.com/2015/10/12/four-lsa-under-96...
Not really. The company I work for has a similar setup; we bid on wholesale lots from the same places that Big Lots and other wholesale-to-retail outfits buy from. We flip those items both in our storefront and on eBay and Amazon. We don't do FBA but that's because we have a huge warehouse and competent shipping staff at our disposal. We clear enough for 10 competitive salaries and a comfortable income for the owners, and the rest is reinvested into the company.

The company has been around for nearly 20 years (I've been with them off and on for seven of those years), and was one of the earliest online closeouts retailers back in the 90s. This is nothing new.
Well that’s when you set up a subsidiary in a third country which is not following US led sanctions.

Aaaaaand we’ve come full circle.

The root here is that money is fungible. The government has developed legislative tools to ATTEMPT to deter behavior it doesn’t like. Over the past 50 years it has attempted to leverage financial institutions to block the flow of payments based on a miscalculation of how much leverage the USA has over international finance. It requires widespread support over its claims to morality to maintain public support for these fictions and you are merely being exposed to the futility of that particular effort.
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I feel it really depends on the type of project. In my case the code is rather niche and would only really be licensed by a small number of companies doing embedded robotics or AR. However, this type of stuff is also fun for hobbyists, so I wanted to make it available. I don't foresee a huge developer community springing up around this, and since I'm the only person who will realistically be making major contributions and I'm working on it more or less full time, I need a way to fund it.

The real problem for me isn't major contributions, if these started coming in I may reevaluate my position. The problem is minor bug fixes where the complexities of acquiring another copyright holder outweigh the benefits of accepting the contribution.

As above, I don't have a good solution.
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Airbnb doesn't really provide customer support in relation to off-site issues - even if as in my case it involves the host asking for extra payment in cash in direct violation of AirBNB's terms. When you pay hundreds of dollars in fees, you assume they would help, but they are nothing more than a classified site with a payment processing system built-in.

It works well once you have adjusted your expectations. Unfortunately, for many of us, this happens through an incident like yours.
It's to keep people's minds off a spectre that's haunting the world.
Ever tried to get an SS7 connection?

Sure, you can rent access from Twilio, in the same way that you can rent access from Facebook. It’s extremely unlikely that you could ever become a full participant in either network.
So the corporation is still the symptom.

What we should be doing is insulating the government from outside influence.
Certainly those increases in price are because the person put significant time and money into improving the property. It's not any more of a "reward" than your salary is "reward".
"wrong angle"? :) sure, maybe we should focus on why only 0.001% of the population can play this pay-less-taxes-with-a-shell-corporation-in-a-tax-haven game...
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Wonderful read. Thanks.

Few thoughts,
In my opinion, leaders communicate the mission, vision and values, but never clearly communicate the strategy.
The strategy for each department and team and it’s sub-teams with-in an org will be different. This has to be communicated at all levels to have the entire workforce work towards the single mission.

Many Startups are successful due to this.
Radiation shielding is either heavy, or difficult. Heavy is too expensive, and the quietly cold calculus of many seems to have been, “well these early explorers won’t live as long as us.” This however injects the possibility of mission failure, not just a bad end for early Mars colonists on slow boats from Earth.
Haha yes, that could also be true. It doesn't seem like a great idea to share your formula and encourage lots of other people to start doing it.
I agree. The article is intentionally vague. Millions of dollars in revenue is relatively easy vs. millions in net profit.

That said, presumably the value of the entity could be a multiple of the revenue. Either way the article fails to shed enough light on it.
There's this: "Grant says the business is on track to top $8 million in total sales by the end of this year"

But, the actual net margin is unclear. At least $150k, since he paid himself that. But it's not clear that it's millions.