skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> useful when [the US is] asking people to pay taxes at 2X the rates of the most efficient countries

This is uninformed to the point that it must be intentional. No one with even a passing knowledge of Western Europe could believe this.

"US taxes are low relative to those in other developed countries. In 2015, US taxes at all levels of government represented 26 percent of GDP, compared with an average of 34 percent of GDP for the 34 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)."

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-do-us-taxes...
Some style guides enforce your proposal, but I prefer less noise where possible, especially for currying.

const plugin = store => next => action => foo(store, next, action)

vs.

const plugin = (store) => (next) => (action) => foo(store, next, action)
>He's made some very strong anti-gay statements, which is usually a sign of a repressed homosexual.

Or, you know, someone that is just anti-gay (e.g. for religious reasons, conservative tendencies, or whatever).

For one, lumping people who make anti-gay statements as "repressed homosexuals" makes it like there's something wrong with their lives/mental state (as opposed to just with their ideas). There might be, but not for that reason. It deprives them of real agency.

Second, it makes it like it's specifically gay people who are fascists when they are repressed. Why would repressing their desires (something that straight people do as well) make them have a specific trait such as that?

Some people who repressed their desires (sexual straight or gay, career ambitions, love interests, etc) did good (became missionaries helping people, sacrificed themselves to save others, etc), and actual fascists (like, real Nazis, in actual 1933-1945) repressed few of their desires. If anything, they over-indulged in them.
> How is peer-to-peer misinformation any worse than centralized misinformation?

“So by Facebook suggesting all these accounts, they were essentially creating this vortex in which conspiratorial ideas can just breed and multiply,” Ms. DiResta said.

> I've seen a lot of hand wringing from the Legacy media over every other source's misinformation but I've yet to see a story from the NY Times calling bullshit on their own bullshit.

Of all the media outlets you could target for blatantly misleading the public and breeding FUD, do you really want to call out the New York Times? "Everyone is doing it" is just not true, and it's a viewpoint that lacks nuance. There's a huge difference between the NYT and Fox News, a huge difference between Fox News and Infowars, and a huge difference between Infowars and RT. If you don't believe that, then, well, not much else to be said here.
I've made my own molds for vacuum formed plastic parts, and you can make an homemade machine to do simple parts that way. This is a pretty inexpensive route to go but it's also limited in what you can make. If you're creative you can build a decent prototype with vacuum form plastic and machined plastic parts. This can be a good route to go during the proof of design phase of a product.

Nowadays, for a demo product you can also look into 3-D printers for prototypes and small runs of your designs and this is probably what you should do before going into production.

For production volumes you need to find a "injection mold company". Google the term and you'll get a list.

I'd talk to matt_the_bass first if I were you though. He's in the biz and took the time to respond.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15619541

Again, simple summaries of complex things removes nuance.
Price of horses highly variable? War. Oxen are better for cartage and ploughing, less likely to be taken by the lord to waste in france. Oxen every time for me.

Add a column normalizing the price through a CGI to current?
Eh for a time that was most definitely true.
I'm a bit slow today but I'm not sure I got what the GIF was about. It is well known that the mean (1st moment) and stdev/variance (2nd moment) are insufficient to uniquely describe an arbitrary probability distribution except in the case of the normal distribution.

Therefore it shouldn't be surprising that that you can find probability distributions that share the first two moments, but differ wildly in the higher moments (skewness, kurtosis) or even the number of modes (bimodal, trimodal, etc.).

Not everything in the world is Gaussian, but we knew that.
> On the other hand, in the update, he seems to suggest that voting doesn't matter.

He suggests that voting doesn't matter for the issues that concern him.

Do you actually believe that every single problem can be solved by voting? I feel sure that you don't. So what's the issue here?
Isn't this... obvious?

Experimenting with offline prices and measuring its impact on sales is hard. Doing it online is very easy. You can even show different prices to different users and gather information about their shopping throughput.

Thinking that a company's ultimate goal is to increase profits, it's easy to see why they would want to do this.
I agree it's not really free... but neither is driving to the store.
What if it actually was a high speed rail? Maybe more people would use it, or even expand towns around a highly available rapid transit resource.
(Slightly off-topic)
It's really sad to me that as of yet there is nothing to compete with paper and a pencil for math. I've used probably 10 different programs/websites, lots of stand-alone software, LaTeX, drawing programs on tablets, etc. for this during my time as a student. All of it feels poorly put together because none of it solves any new problems. Drawing on a tablet is a worse imitation of drawing on paper. TeX is just unwieldy for anything other than writing down a final answer. Even the tools that are supposed to help automate stuff almost always fail to do so. To be clear, I think there is a lot of room for improvement within the next few years, especially when it comes to touch-screen interaction and similar ideas. I'm just hoping someone comes along and invents a decent product that feels just as intuitive as drawing diagrams and writing equations that utilizes the power of the computer strapped to it effectively (i.e. not just attempting to translate and simplify my drawings to text).
And you, are why the parent poster giggled.
Sure, but why should the MBTA care about the Providence Line in particular, as opposed to say, Worcester or other parts of Massachusetts?
Wow, nice video.
It's pretty bizarre about Pournelle, too. I recall a hit piece that came out after his death equating his beliefs with the CoDominium government in some of his books, blithely ignoring the fact that the CoDominium were not the good guys in those books (far from it).
Wal-Mart is a corporation right? They can set prices as they see fit. The market set's the prices of everybody's startup here on HN, why would it be any different for them?
I don't really know, that's what the article claimed. It seems odd to me, but I guess they have their sources? But yeah, over here we usually call them "neo-Nazis", as there's a lot of overlap.
I haven't read this, thanks for bringing it to my attention.
BIG ENDER'S GAME SPOILERS AHEAD.

EG as anti-fascist text: Buggers represent a perceived existential threat. Humanity gets together and forms a single government which lives on past the threat. The first criticism of the new world order is in the very beginning, in which you learn that Ender is the son of parents of a persecuted religious minority sect that wants to have more than the allotted number of children (I read this as a libertarian viewpoint). The biggest anti-fascist gut punch comes when you see things from the Queen's perspective: "'The humans did not forgive us,' she thought. 'We will surely die.'" It turns out that the entire coordinated militaristic response was premised on misunderstanding and inability to communicate. Had only the humans had empathetic, loving leaders like Ender, they would have understood the Buggers, and vice versa, and no war; I read the book as being about tragic misunderstanding, and how reasonable responses to those misunderstandings can lead to Xenocide. But I do not think this functions as an argument for a stronger state.

I also don't want to defend Card's out-of-book positions or much of the Shadow series. I just think Ender's Game itself holds up really well as a stand-alone piece of fiction.

My 2 cents, the books are symbolically rich and I appreciate that there are pieces of evidence I've ignored or forgotten about that would put it in a very different light.
Sounds like you're in no rush to upgrade, which I can respect. Just to give you some idea of one laptop range to check out when you're looking to upgrade, the Dell XPS range is worth a look. Here's a review of the Dell XPS 13 DE (N.B. there is a version with a 15 inch screen):

https://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2017/01/dell-xps-13-ubuntu...
Reading Zero to One as I write this. I find that reading it each year provides a nice jolt of focus.
>As soon as Japanese produced the same quality as Europe and America, they also got the same prices.

That's not the point though.

It's that if they have the same quality AND high wages, then they would be like a 1.6 billion strong USA.

It's not just about market competition -- and even if it was, their huge domestic market (further developed to Japan levels as you expect it to) would be a huge advantage in itself.

>And Chinese products first have to show care for craftsmanship to command these prices, which is something I haven't seen so much until now.

Craftmanship? The kind of stuff they can make, few if any factories in the US can. There's a reason almost all high end stuff is made in China as well (from Apple and Armani, to BMW parts). If they make and sell cheap stuff too is not because they can't make the good stuff, it's because that sells.

(And of course in the level of high artistry and craftmanship China as a culture, has had extreme global masters for millennia, in painting, sculpture, woodwork, and tons of other arts. Of course they don't compete with that -- which are very low yield -- but with mass products for the industrial age).
"In fact "service to the collective" is also part of the first, and the most complete [1] democracy, the ancient Athenian one."

I'm reminded of the current vogue for claiming that (e.g.) public roads are "socialism", and that if you support public roads you must support socialism.

Yeah, sure. Genghis Khan and Ivan the Terrible were "socialists". You betcha.
It was such a stupid decision for them to combine their opinion and editorial section with Comment Is Free. The latter being pretty trashy most of the time.
I've had them price-match their own website. Your mileage may vary.
Recently saw chalktalk[1] which is designed for a different goal (and very rudimentary from what I've tried), but seems to be a step in that direction.

[1]: https://github.com/kenperlin/chalktalk
That looks like the start of an educational video game from 1984. Always load up on weapons, and we'll loot and pillage our way through the Crusades or whatever the heck the adventure is.
IIRC they plan to deploy the Quantum enhancements on Android but it may lag a few versions behind their availability on Desktop since they don't want to have to include both the Quantum and non-Quantum codepaths (so the Quantum changes could be disabled in case bugs turn up) which would bloat their APK size (they try to keep it as small as possible since many Android devices have very little on-board storage).
Because it's a lot more extreme and hidden.

If sunlight is the best disinfectant then these highly targeted campaigns are impossible to stop, because only the vulnerable people ever see them.
Because their slogan is "Always Lower Prices. Always." So when it's obvious they are lying, it's nice to point it out to others who may not have noticed.
#3. Yes, never cook something for the first time at a large dinner party.
> “The standard Seattle Nazi is a white male under 30 who either works in the tech industry or is going to school to work in the tech industry...”

The tech occupation may as well describe an average inhabitant of Seattle.

What is the point of the article? Some techies are fascist / alt-right? And...?
Uber board finally agrees to terms of $10b deal with SoftBank
True, probability theory is merely a tool among many and shouldn't be used to attempt to solve every problem there is.

However, the article is misleading about the initial gif being any sort of argument against Bayesian probabilistic approaches, as it's precisely an argument for them. It's an argument against using point estimates and summary stats, as they obviously loose a lot of information and can be misleading (you can get the intuition from a CS perspective as well: compressing a 2D image into 4 numbers is necessarily an extremely lossy compression). Fully Bayesian approaches would maintain the distributions all the way through the calculations, rather than collapse them at some point to one or a few numbers summarizing the distribution.
Is the share auction first come first serve? Or how is that done?
So it sounds like the deal was to get Travis Kalanick back onboard/Benchmark an exit?
Multiple async vehicles can and will coexist in JS. IMO there’s way too much FUD about “one async story to rule them all”.
Agreed. I used to think small talk was superficial, but it does serve a social purpose in mixed-company. It greases the wheel and initiates people into deeper conversation.

Without it, the atmosphere gets really intense really quickly, which can be weird unless you're among old friends or people who have high emotional intelligence to start with (can't always count on that).
I guess that qualifies and makes a good example of an unpatriotic soldier blindly obeying orders.
Looking at the top posts of all time for that sub, "I will jump over any household item you want for $1.00. I can jump really high!".

Probably billions of hours of cumulative work to make the internet what it is today, and we use it to charge people to watch us jump over toasters. I think I'm impressed?
Seems obvious to me that it's because of language. China cares more about rankings so they'll force people to push in english journals (to their own detriment) where they get cited. Most of the world doesn't speak Japanese so japanese papers don't get cited.
Does anyone know what the broken link in the essay used to link to?

http://www.paulgraham.com/piraha.html
Linux's native audio API is ALSA; consult the kernel sources if you don't believe me. Pulse is a common userspace audio system, but is not the native Linux audio API.
Has anyone used Shoutem and Appery? I am on a grandfathered plan of the latter but Shoutem looks quite interesting.
Do you, as a user, want web pages to spawn multiple threads on your machine?
Maybe I'm missing something? To me, that gif illustrates sets of samples that are on the surface compatible with the the same Gaussian distribution, even if a Gaussian distribution is "obviously" lacking.
I think the problem is once you get into coding it yourself, docs/tutorials/stackoverflow make you aware of all sorts of things like dev tools (IDEs, editors, package managers, VCS, VMs, containers, the list is goes on...) or security concepts (csrf tokens, ssl, secrets management, again the list goes on...) and as a non-tehnical person you start to get really uncomfortable and overwhelmed because you don't know what all this stuff is and you don't know which things are necessary to learn and which are "nice to haves" to build something simple. So you either give up or you try to learn as much as you can about these things. But learning about these things is a slippery slope because before you know it months (or even years) have gone by and you're no closer to shipping that simple idea you had. Sure, you've learned a ton! You may have even learned enough to get a junior dev role somewhere which is great! But you never finished that original thing you were working on which IMO we need more of. We need less people getting burnt out in dev roles after 5 years because that's not really where their heart lied in the first place and we need more people finishing the projects that got them into coding. Not saying Bubble or any of the other visual programming tools are perfect but I think saying people should just learn Python and Django and code it themselves ignores how complicated that path actually is and how few people actually go down that path and get their ideas out into the world. Anvil.works was on here recently and I think that strikes a nice balance. It's not perfect either but I guess I'm just saying I think it's great people are working on stuff like this. And, as mentioned in another comment, this thing has a $1.2M run rate. Clearly it's useful to someone.
It's an internally sponsored secondary which means that the buyer has already been determined which in this case is Softbank and Uber will put together some requirements around which share holders can sell and what amount of their stake.

Something typical is if you have been at the company for X number of years, you can sell X% of your vested equity.

They will have a large bank or some other third party as the underwriter for the deal to figure out the correct pricing and then offer it to the employees that are eligible to sell shares until they reach the buyer's total requested amount, which in this case is $9B.
Have you run your own business idea through your validation process? That could be a good example to show in the landing page.

I personally think it is a good idea to use AI for that. Really good idea. I just can't know if it works and if your process is good enough, so I'm not paying (but I don't have any money either, so I'm not your target potential customer).
I thought it was a lesbian love trip gone wrong ..
I always found that weird. They had a sale on IPads online and went to store to grab one and they wouldn't honor the online price though you can order online and pick up at the store.
The point you’re missing is why would something be more expensive online than in store? It makes sense that an item in store to be more expensive than an item online because of the costs involved in running a store and hiring employees, but the other way around doesn’t make much sense.
But walmart doesn't try to trick you into thinking that driving to the store is free.
Being from the London, where EMUs are pretty much the norm, this the improvements seem like a no-brainer.
It's rolled out to Firefox beta (so yes, version 58) on Android now. (FWIW I've used beta for years and very rarely had any issues.)
I never got the feeling that Card wanted a strong military government, just that he believed it would be inevitable if the world faced a violent alien invasion.

There was a time that "fighting a war" meant that nearly everybody was involved. The US government rationed food during WWII to make sure there was enough for the troops. They rationed other things as well, such as cloth and metals that were needed for uniforms and supplies.

If the world were facing destruction on a larger scale, I have no doubt the military would get whatever people and materials it wanted as quickly as possible, regardless of any official legal limitations. But that doesn't mean I want to live in that world. And, if course, nearly every civilian in "Ender's Game" does seem to resent the military in some way.
The NYT issues corrections
Probably because it earns the most revenue, given its usage and distance.
There's a lot of pushback on these kind of findings from those in the tech industry.

One common argument is "oh, old media is just trying to undermine new players", and sometimes there is some truth to this.

But that misses the point. New media is winning is because it is effective, and misinformation campaigns on social media platforms are much more effective than traditional media.

It's easy to see this, by looking at where advertising spending has moved. If it works for selling contact lenses, it sure works for selling "Don't mess with TX Border Patrol"[1] or "Get ready to secede" or "Being Liberal/Bernie Sanders: Clinton Foundation is a Problem"

[1] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a377ej/facebook-i...
Why does a refrigerated, 20oz coke cost 2x a 2 liter bottle of warm coke 50 feet away?

Convenience. If you are willing to pay an extra $1 on toothpaste to avoid walking 50 ft, it’s worth another $1.
Oh, what a coincidence, these are the same institutions I had these problems with!

> Somehow NOBODY was able to help me. I was so fed up with this situation that I moved countries half way around the world.

It's funny how much I can relate to this. I did eventually figure it out but it very much made me want to move somewhere else.
The author seems to be complaining that this society isn't sufficiently depicted as morally abhorrent. The "alt-right", according to the article's author, is complaining that it's too much depicted as such.

In reality the author is trying to defend the absurd point that Nazis put existing corporate leadership in charge of the economy. This seems to be a veiled attempt to depict both the current administration, full of business leaders, and proposals of libertarians to put Silicon Valley business leadership in charge of the government as Nazis.

This is absurd. Like all socialist totalitarians, Nazis put government bureaucrats in charge of corporations entirely, rather than the other way around. Both left "middle management" in place for a while, but of course soon those bureaucrats realize that positions are the new currency and start trading them, so managers get replaced and it becomes a true government company, like the railways. There are many huge differences between, say, Russia's communism and the Third Reich, but this is not one of them.

Nazis, like all totalitarian socialists, believe that their ideology should totally determine all actions by everyone, everywhere, about everything. As a simple banal illustration: both Nazism and Communism (and other forms of real socialism) required jokes to be approved. Jokes, just used in a conversation between 2 people. You cannot imagine how normal this was: both had government bureaucrats whose job it was to compile acceptable things to say to neighbors and publish this information. They both had government rules about what kinds of hats were acceptable, and you could get arrested for even just getting it wrong.

Scientific efforts by the Nazis were exceptional in many ways, but not how they were funded. The thing people forget about Nazis is that they were incredibly popular, especially amongst the young crowd. People in high schools, people going to universities, people creating new and exiting "startups". That was their base. Conservatives were their big (real) enemy.
i was once talking to a friend that i should get a new laptop bag for my mac, i never searched on anything. but after 2 days i’m abale to see the laptop bag ad from amazon on Facebook
A lot of people in the US today call socialism anything that is not "cutthroat corporatism" for the elites.

JFK's "ask what you can do for your country" would also sound socialist to these people.
Shouldn’t this be ok? Sometimes they want loss leaders for you to come in person. Also, they may not have 100% accuracy on your location until you check out. This is no different than having prices change by geography. You wouldn’t expect to pay the same in Mountain View as you would in Albequerque.
I've yet to see a story from the NY Times calling bullshit on their own bullshit.

https://www.nytimes.com/section/corrections

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-the...
I've only heard that term used to refer to groups in Western Europe. Those groups, incidentally, are very different from what is called the "alt-right" online.
I wonder if you could use dry rice to soak up salt
Was it back-to-school shopping time?

Stores always price one or two common items super cheap to get you in and figure you'll buy everything else once you're there.