skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mobile hotspot. Once I accidentally executed a yarn install, would not recommend.
Most likely it is fake news or at least misinterpreted by stupid reporter. I bet it is paperwork trick so AWS can work around local laws. Alipay did the same a few years ago. There is no way AWS can sold it’s cloud service. Let alone AWS is announcing second China region soon.
HTC cancels plans to release wireless VR headset with Google in the U.S
I fail to see how cryptocurrencies help here at all. The only thing they do is take stuff that could be done by trusted accountants and lawyers and move it to computers. This is useful in the case where you're in a lawless wild west jurisdictionless hacker internet, or if you can't pay lawyer or accountant fees. But these startups can afford accountants and lawyers to set up contracts, and they are in the US jurisdiction so they can sue if the contracts aren't followed.

So what real change do cryptocurrencies bring here?
> Don't believe everything you read on the Internet when you can just try the product

I read about it on their own website:

https://www.brave.com/about-ad-replacement/

"Brave’s goal is to speed up the web, stop bad ads and pay publishers. One of the ways we plan to accomplish this is with ad replacements."

"Step Two: Brave Replaces Ads"
Anheuser-Busch already has the slogans they can rehash for weed if they decide to enter the market. Grab some buds, this buds for you, waz-up.
Or perhaps below the ice, from their perspective.

http://compellingsciencefiction.com/stories/downandout.html
I do, that's why I don't bother making any compliments. I just keep it polite and formal.
> Love the HN crowd here explaining that staying still on old tech full of security holes is a-ok. :)

It’s disheartening when a forum full of supposed tech enthusiasts starts to morph into a bunch of paranoid tech Luddites. That is what, imho, killed slashdot. Every post was full of comments slamming anything new. Eventually it just got toxic and boring. Who wants to hear a bunch of paranoid outliers brag about their 8 year old phone on a forum like this?

The tech industry is constantly changing. If you can’t handle it, you should go into something else...
Why fight over chewed-up turf? If you're able, focus on a greenfield hard tech idea well ahead of anyone else.
What’s “new” of today is the legacy codebases of tomorrow!
What would it cost them to attach a friendly dog head and a wagging tail on this headless monster? It would make it more appealing to the public and improve PR. Imagine thousands of these things walking up and down the sidewalks of NYC. They would scare the crap out of everybody.
Your link is about an entirely different format of debate (“policy debate”) from the one under discussion in this thread (“parliamentary debate”). The two are unrecognizably different. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_debate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_debate
I currently still use Omnifocus for part of my system because it is still pretty great, and has excellent cross-device support, but my gripes are:

- The context support is weak. It ideally would be replaced by a tagging system, but I doubt that's coming at this point.

- No support for making sequentially dependent tasks -- I can't mark task A to be doable as soon as task B completes. (I guess I could, if I do a lot of sub-projects with sequential dependency)

- In addition to this, subprojects are janky. They're just kinda awful to use, from the awkward indentation to the fact that the side-bar projects view is not actually a full tree, and just works with folders. This would need to be changed to also expand/be usable for sub-projects, not just for folders and top-level projects.

- The system maintenance tools are lacking. One of the core tenets of GTD is to make sure that every project always has a next step, and OmniFocus has no support for this whatsoever, aside from manual review. I realise that paper also doesn't do this, but it seems like something a digital solution should have.

- No sharing information, as you said, aside from exporting things as TaskPaper.

- Support for deferments, but not for Tickler files, which are one of the handiest things about a paper-based system.

- Reference and storage, per nature of OmniFocus, has to be completely separated, which adds jank. I realise this is massive scope-bloat, so it's probably not fair to complain about.

Things I really like and will probably keep even after I drop OmniFocus:

- The dedicated mail drop. I think even after I move away from OF, this is going to be something I keep.

- The "due" list view. OmniFocus pushes you towards using this a lot, even if it's not completely in the spirit.

- The good integration between my laptop and phone is going to be hard to live without again.

I hope this shed some light on my gripes and issues with OmniFocus. :)
Thanks...any idea how much this would be worth... :)
14" notebook with mate display, works great. Local dev web server. Good IDE with good language support. Keep as much as possible offline.

A problem is the unreliable 3G/4G connection and the onboard WiFi isn't that reliable as well.
In other words: Unless you kill all competition forever, you aren't killing competition at all?

Should we apply the same to homicides? Unless you kill everyone with no survivors left, you didn't kill anyone?
There are also tons of studies and books that say it's not, and Piketty is hotly contested by many scholars.
I wonder if this could be solved by a contract saying a private investor will immediately buy back from you whatever percent shares are needed to cover your taxes.
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yes they increase the price...

they read cookies... to see if you have been to a particular site.. and usually mark their price close to the price you have seen at the said competitor's site..

I could recommend using incognito mode, or Firefox focus on a mobile device.. but sometimes even that fails..

because of late they travel site keeps track of IP addresses [or something equivalent] enough to identify that you had visited the site before... and hence you would be shown the same elevated prices..

I can confirm to the above..
set up android + firefox + carrier internet
Vs
fresh incognito browsing session on Linux and Firefox on a think-pad laptop...

the laptop session showed lower prices...
I guess the reason was: there was some browsing history in firefox + android + carrier setup

then there is the issue of jacking up the prices for the same seat [even though you may not have had any browsing history].. as you head closer to the final payment page..
I guess its like..
"the customer had done their research and arrived to the said site for the purpose of booking.. and had reached the final stages of the flight booking funnel.. a 5% markup [or any other %age figure] will not be a deterrent to the customer.. the customer will surely go through at with the booking at this stage.. and cannot afford to back down... " or so goes the thinking.. of who ever designed this scheme..

would be nice to have some insider account of how these practices come up..

the above includes only prices shown for ticket.. and then there are other additional surprises such as 'convenience fees' random taxes and what not.. that inflate the final bill further

I got fed up with these tricks that i had decided to stick with Indian railways...fares are fixed.. seats are scarce... though honestly.. they are beginning to experiment and adopt some of the practices from the airlines industry
Ehhhh, so, like. GitHub is big on open source stuff, supposedly. Love that they went with lithium stuff instead of some of the more open source solutions that could've used the manpower from GitHub.
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Sexist: relating to, involving, or fostering sexism, or attitudes and behavior toward someone based on the person's gender. [0]

The quote under discussion (bracketed comments added):

>Incidentally I regularly break some of these rules with male employees, such as remarking on haircuts ("looking good", etc.), but it's different.

This quote admits to blatently treating his female employees differently than his male employees. That seems to be a clear example of sexism. We can disagree on what the consequences of this sexism is; and even if this is good sexism or not; but I do not see how there can be disagreement that this is sexism.

[0] http://www.dictionary.com/browse/sexist?s=t
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Yeah, how did it work out that the EU forced Microsoft to unbundle its browser?
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The math involved would say its impossible, the placebo effect is a very real thing though.
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If you have a Mac, there is the very good soft "Dash" to work offline: https://kapeli.com/dash
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Mobile internet has gotten a lot better. I use an unlimited data plan as my home/anywhere connection (wifi tether). Yarn installs, video chats, the whole nine yards work fine. I try to keep it under 75GB/month to stay under the radar. It is very reliable and I love not worrying about brownouts or any of that. It can easily get 1MB/s down which is good enough for me.
As posted previously we need help from ReactJS developers to contribute and improve the project. Thanks in advance.
Try going south of Colfax once in a while.
> The bridge example is economically equivalent to not buying out the bridge but giving everyone the amount necessary to pay daily tolls. Why wouldn’t rents go up (in either scenario)?

They would go up; but, absent a perfect monopoly (which real property available for rent is usually not subject to in even the short term), it would be unlikely to go up the exact amount of the subsidy (considering only the effect of the subsidy).

> Or, which supply/demand curves do you think differ here from the UBI case?

The difference is that its a lot more plausible for residential rental property in a particular locality to be effectively monopolized than for that to be the national norm. And, to the extent the effect is under consideration is real, it is explicitly a monopoly effect.
Also freeOTP is 400k in size. I love tiny apps
To borrow another quip -- the "U" in IoT stands for updates.
Inviting co-workers with whom you are not already on very good terms to a sauna or strip club is very weird and anti-social.

(Why? Because you force those who would be uncomfortable attending to either self-exclude from the work social group, or give in to peer pressure. Or you don't invite them in the first place, which ensures they feel excluded.)

And if you are on very good terms with them, well, they're not going to complain to HR because they're your friends.
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I think you mean this one... Handle Robot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP_NCB3KkiY

It is impressive, especially the jumps, lifts, and spins.
What a misleading title.Beijing Sinnet is just a shell company of amazon china(The same as Guxiang which is
a shell company of google in china).
Does anyone know more details or thoughts on how you can cryptographically prove an item was at a given location at a given time? Is it a tamper proof IC with some GPS ability?
As an amusing factoid, Germany is the country where my spouse would be addressed as "Frau Doktor Doktor."
Hi craigsmansion.
A lot of the answers to your questions start by looking at the Target2 imbalances, I think.
Also the widening gaps between yields on sovereign bonds from EU countries.
Germany is refusing Euro-Bonds, profitting from the end of the competitive-devaluationS era of european economics, so far the EU seems to have been just a mercantile bait-and-switch.
Hey, your comment and link are really good. Those tweets were good too. Best commentary I've seen on this subject by a lot.
Harsh tone but 100% warranted imo. It’s fascinating to see so many otherwise smart people completely fail to understand the changes around them.
I really dislike"crypto" referring to "crytocurrencies" and not "cryptography".
Does this bill define who's wealthy or not?

The bill gets rid of AMT, which many HN readers have been hit by, thus helping them. It also increases the standard deduction, which helps lower income people much more than higher income people.
There are racial differences with pretty much everything in the US. Are benefits for poor people racist because they disproportionally help black people? Is having a required entrance average for universities racist because black people have statistically lower grades/graduation rates? Sure, if you are choosing to filter applicants based on criteria where the only effect of the filtering is changing the racial distribution, it may be racist, but that certainly isn't the case when you are filtering based on whether or not a person has a degree.
https://wccftech.com/destiny-2-ahead-predecessor-activision/

Self confessed D1 junkie, currently one of the legion of "meh" induced D2 players that gave it up quickly. Put a bit of time into Warframe too.

From a business point of view, Bungie/Activision is absolutely on another level though, with D2.
Thank you for this very interesting link.
Someone knows books that deal with the concept of beauty in mathematics?
OTPs suffer from being phished. If you accidentally log in to a phishing site, you would still type in an OTP when prompted, which the phishing site can pass along. While this does only give one time access, that can still do a huge amount of damage.

Solutions like U2F create credentials that are specific to the site you are currently on, enforced by the software. So the credential sent to www.goeglo.com isn't valid for www.google.com, and so foils phishing much more completely.
Not exactly code but planning the control flow and reading the library documentation which I am using. Easily done on a small notebook and mobile.
Autonomous delivery in cities? Amazon prime now deliveries via cute dog robot.
http://devdocs.io has a offline mode using modern browser features.
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> iPhones shove updates down your throat as a user.

And we have the monster that was Windows XP because of users thinking "updates" are "forced" down throats.

iOS is correctly celebrated for having such a high adoption of the "latest and greatest", and certainly hasn't become the demon that is the unpatched Android landscape.

So thankfully, from NetSec to the end user, it's a fantastic thing that iOS keeps devices more up to date than android.
Honestly, no. Do you take your car in for service the moment your car dash light signals for an oil change? If you aren't in tech, you aren't going to see a pressing need.

I won't let my wife log in to our brokerage because she insists on using dictionary words as passwords. My parents tape their passwords to their laptops. Heartbleed is way down the list for them.

The biggest security threat is still phishing, to which we all remain mostly vulnerable.
This looks great except for the fact that it runs through cloudflare, that's a big negative for me and will restrict a little my ability to deploy this. However, I can still see some great applications of this that I can't wait to try out.
One of the interesting effects of the backlash against IPA hegemony and over-saturation is the comeback of the pilsner. Probably better in summer. I'm thinking craft pilsners like Scrimshaw.
Relevant TL;DR summary:

> Note: Working papers have not been peer-reviewed or been subject to review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications.
Those are the apps that I remove from my phone. Holding my security hostage to get at more data? Deleted.
With the incentive structure of updates with certain popular software not supported by other revenue, you're always going to get a worse version (more ads, less features), to such an extent that I turn off all updates and only whitelist a few. Permissions are the ways to lock down phones, and security patches, not the permanent beta that is updates.
Don't forget season passes to the rodeo and stock car races.
> "There are too many four-year colleges serving too many students,

The Screwing of the Average Man [0] said that college used to be something the upper-class sent their children to so they'd have a leg up on the "uneducated" masses. Then the congress provided the GI Bill to subsidize college for WWII veterans. This kept disgruntled veterans occupied while the economy retooled to peacetime production. Thus began the college price spiral.

My great-grandmother played prohibition well, and sent all 4 of her children to teh college during the great depression. After WWII, the one grandfather didn't need any more college degrees and used the GI Bill to learn to fly small planes. My other grandfather had no interest in any college, so he didn't utilize his tuition credits... He certainly would've done better financially if he had...

[0] https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0553129139

The only class I enjoyed in my public school experience was my 8th grade "technology" class. This semester was broken up into woodshop, welding/metal working, "computers", photography, and (don't remember). 45 minutes of appreciated learnings, 5 days a week, for one semester. Everything else was busy work. I learned a few things, here and there, but not enough to justify the countless hours of boredom.

College was kind of a scam. I have an expensive diploma that doesn't mean anything. I learned a few things, here and there, but not enough to justify the $100k+ spent on my behalf.

John Gatto [1] says it's better to skip as much of the early years of schooling as possible: some children learn to read when they're 2, some when they're 8, and by the time they're 12 you can't tell the difference. I met a man a few months ago that was traumatized by not being able to "read" on the teacher's schedule when he was in 1st grade. He learned to read eventually, in spite of his school's efforts to force him to read before he was ready.

Allowing young children to have experiences in the real world instead of more classroom time would be much more valuable than giving young adults a choice of a trade school vs. more academics at age 18.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14425760

edit: clarification
Well, Firefox has existed since before tabs were a thing in browsers, so can't have been always, but yeah, wouldn't surprise me, if this was relatively quickly added after the introduction of tabs.

These kind of hidden features don't require a whole lot of designing and forethought, so it's something that usually only really needs one dev thinking that it'd be nifty to have them implement it.
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The problem with outdated versions is not app compatibility, but security updates. If a zero-day were released, most of these devices would never receive an update fix the issue.

Worst case scenario: An Android zero day that can be spread via WiFi or Bluetooth that infects devices in a cryptolocker style. The more versions it can affect, the better.

Shoot. Probably shouldn’t give people ideas, especially when I have an Android device. At least it runs LineageOS and can be updated easily...

Edit: To clarify my idea, imagine the Windows XP crypolocker viruses, but for Android instead, spreading not through cell towers or WiFi routers, but instead spreading via the cellular/WiFi/Bluetooth chips in the devices.

I’m starting to wonder if I should buy a portable Faraday cage for my devices...
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What percentage of self-made billionaires started out as millionaires?

what percentage of poor people become self-made billionaires?

What percentage of poor people who become self-made billionaires do so by going to trade school?
It's entirely possible for any household earning 2x median income. That means you can have the lifestyle of the median household (with 0% savings rate) and save 50% of your income.

Of course 2x median is quite high for most people; that's sort of baked into the definition of "median". I'd expect HN readers to be close to that because of higher tech salaries but acknowledge it's hard for everyone else.

Even with a salary 1.5x of median, you could live the lifestyle of someone making ~0.8x of median income i.e. a lower-income, but not poverty, lifestyle and save 50% (I think my math is right here). You can still lead a happy and fulfilling life at this spending level. There'll be no eating at nice restaurants, drinks at pubs with friends or annual foreign vacations. But plenty of weekend hiking, DVDs from the library, home-cooked meals, and boardgames with friends.

In a nutshell, it's possible but you'll have to change your entire way of living.
I'm one of the co-founders of Cardiogram and involved in this study -- happy to answer questions if folks have them!

(EDIT: heading to bed, but will answer questions in the morning!)
Professor of mine advocated pencil and paper. I don’t have the fortitude to do that daily.

However, rolling in and typing something up is amazing.

I can’t advocate doing that every day, but try once a week or once a month. It’s kind of awesome.
Basic income for donkeys!
Say you have an employee who is being considered for management. They allegedly said some pretty nasty things to another employee. When you interview their colleagues no one will corroborate the story. Do you think they will still seriously be considered for management? Nope.
In my view, this idea runs the danger of creating a planned economy, with characteristic boom-bust cycles and scams.

The choice of which degrees to fund has to be made on either past data or some sort of current fad. The list of preferred degrees will of course create competition to get into those programs, but it may also encourage colleges to create watered-down or even fake disciplines that can absorb more students.

Hypothetical example: Assuming that computer science is on the "hot list," a low-tier college creates a fluff degree in Computer Technology Studies, that gains access to loan money but leads to marginal employment prospects.

Closer to home, the K-12 schools in my locale have a new program that creates career tracks at the high school level. The first track that has become available is health care. Granted, it sounds like a good idea, what can possibly go wrong?
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In my view, demand for trained craftsmen goes up and down with economic cycles, and is at risk of job loss due to automation.
I use my notebook and put it on my lap, which allows me to write code quite comfortably. I listen to music in order not to be distracted by other passengers. Tethering via my phone, having a reliable connection and an unlimited data plan means I can do pretty much anything. If I'm on a train for a longer period of time, we also have power plugs to recharge.

However more recently, I have switched to reading books. My nearly two-hour commute every day is the time where I can read w/o anything else going on.
I wouldn't always believe those "the update made my phone slow" stories you see whenever there is a new OS. Many seem to be pre-written by the haters and always posted regardless of what the truth is.
and in the real world, medication compliance is a serious problem that leads to real life death and suffering. internet trolls and tinfoil hatters can fuck right off.
Anecdotally, vendor released Android 7 for my phone some time spring 2017 - not the worst case. Although, OTA update fails. The only path to upgrade my phone is manually flash OS image and lose all data. I'm still running 6 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't write it there. I utilize 'ambient thought'.

What I rather do is look at difficult code before the commute. My brain will subconsciously work it out. However in this period, you can't think about other things - no looking at your phone or checking out people on the train.
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