skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Isn't that how everything works"...?

No, that isn't how everything works. Sometimes we forego the financial means of individuals and create things that would not otherwise emerge. Both the US telephony and US electrical systems were built out to include the vast bulk of residences in the US regardless of the means of individuals to fund that small part of the system they privately benefited from. Many of the "capitalists" of the time understood that the net value of this enterprise was strongly positive despite the subsidy gifted to those who had not paid all of their part.

Universality has value. It is difficult to calculate that value; simple ledgers and simple views of economics do not suffice. It is looong past time that we set aside the simple, failed model we have endured and solve this problem. That is what these municipalities, in their disparate, halting and often flawed ways, are trying to do.
Some envision success as improving society so that it is better, more fair, and offers more opportunities to more people.

Some apparently can only envision success as achievement for oneself despite society being what it is.

Clamor for change is inevitably part of societal change.

And anyways, you're right: the nature of fairness or lack thereof is not always about money--but that cuts both ways.
I guess I know what side you put faith in.

"Free market" is just an illusionary goal--there's no such thing in practice. Every aspect of reality creates some bias to one party or another. Governments try to encourage competitive entreprises, innovative ideas and good mechanisms of check and balances by eliminating monopolies, reducing dynasties/incumbencies and other barriers of entry, in addition to other things like maintaining a fair legal system.
> a sort of forced obsolescence,

That's a good point I hadn't considered. I was referring more specifically to really temporary storage. For instance, those baby spinach containers are usually made of bioplastics because the contents expire rapidly no matter your intentions. There are often other vegetable or grocery-shelf products that might not have long shelf-lives or delayed uses that could utilize the plastics.

Surely we could divide the products into long-life and short-life? I'm speaking mainly to food products here. I don't see the immediate need to eradicate all plastics from use! I regularly keep my grocery plastic bags and reuse them time and time again. I should have been more specific!

That said, it looks like the costs required to manufacture bioplastics are reducing[0]. The problem with non-bioplastics being that many of the refuse that people don't properly recycle will be here maybe long after you and me, or we can just punt it on down the generational-line, but as we've been witness to more recently that doesn't seem to be a great strategy.

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[0] https://phys.org/news/2015-07-biodegradable-plastic-cheaper-...
I think one issue with restaurants is they aren't usually conducive to an MVP and iterate model. But that isn't always true. Velo Burrito started as delivery only two days a week,then turned into a restaurant.* I wonder if a template for how to do this more successfully could be developed.

* http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2014/07/this-tiny-bu...
No problem, I can see where I fuzzed my own points!
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What are some Silly Valley entrepreneurs who hit the big time and came from complete and utter poverty?

Also your rich parent social networks (other rich people) are going to fund your startup. A personal example my uncle through marriage... his brother was a CEO of a huge well known company and he had TONS of money but would never give me the time of day...my startup was even pursued by Google for potential buy out. Yet his friends invested in Elizabeth Holmes/Theranos and so did he(lol).
> We never have designed or even considered a system that would attempt to profit off not found items

But now that you’ve been told, it’s too good of an idea to let it pass innit?
In France, the institutions emitting the proofs of residence add a 2D-Doc, a flashcode printed on the document that includes the key information, signed with the institution's private key.

https://ants.gouv.fr/Les-solutions/2D-Doc

Translated: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
Sure, but honestly I don't plan for the worst case scenario. I could wear a giant airbag around my body when I drive but I don't.
I do think auto-layout could be fixed with better a) design tools and b) visualization, test and debug tools.
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Unpacking this for others who scratched their heads like I did:

There are 1 billion possible social security numbers. There are roughly 300 million people in the USA. So roughly 1/3 possible SSN’s is currently in use.
We have @ https://tipe.io. you can use rest and GraphQL. Basically, given a REST url, you dynamically create on graphql query on your server, and the execute that query against your schema. It's all meta
Yeah, what's fascinating is that some non-trivial percentage of your customers are going to be unhappy. Pretending it won't happen is silly. You're just insuring you don't have a strategy for when they are displeased. Some complain to your face, and in a perfect world you can do something to remedy that. Others behind your back, which is worse and unsolvable. Porridge should be not "too warm" nor "too cold" but "just right" Great, where have we heard that before.
It's very interesting actually to see how perceptions lag reality in this respect. People are still largely holding on to the idea that we're headed towards massive overpopulation thanks to exponential growth.

But current projections is a population in the region of 10bn first by the end of the century, with some projections suggesting population decline from as early as 2040 (though that's an outlier). More scenarios predict a peak in the 2070-2100 timeframe; some predict continued, but much reduced growth beyond 2100. As far as I'm aware, though, all reasonable scenarios suggest that the rate of growth will at the very least continue to slow for a long time.
It was a React codebase, which is why we were swayed towards Flow initially.
The article is talking about cumulative of those poorer 50%, heck I, living in a third world country am richer than 60% of Americans too.
Or, we find out that DNA has a common base among the galaxy thanks to panspermia, and that the equation for life is somewhat common, and those galactic viruses work just fine among the flora or fauna of Earth.
Nice analogy and a valid point.

Being the creator of many surveys myself, what I would suggest to workaround this problem is, survey creators have to put themselves on the shoes of survey takers and create the survey. Survey takers are giving the feedback for free, spending their valuable time. Survey should be very precise and directly into the point.
I guess it is hard for the survey platform to solve this problem. This problem should be addressed by the one who creates the survey.

TL; DR
I will stop answering the survey if it takes more of my time. Keep on asking questions. It should be short.
Is there a reason why ssn numbers can't become national id numbers? It's the easiest path, all you need is to make new cards with biometric information (probably a photo).

The number can remain. Even if you add a validation digit, it can be computed algorithmically so you don't need to change tje database.
Pliny the Elder, “The Natural History”, Book I (79)
> So if you move to a new town, you can't get a loan because the bank doesn't know you?

If you are using a different bank in this new town, then yes, you're kind of SOL. However, it's not too wild to think of a way for credit history and verified identity from one bank branch to be stored in some kind of software system, which could share data between branches. The initial work in establishing trust is annoying, but verifying identity once you have some system in place is easy enough. A short phone or video call with someone who _did_ know you and works within the same institution would be a pretty sufficient way to go about it. Hell, universities have an even more archaic way of doing this: if you need proof of enrollment or a transcript then the university will send sealed snail mail to whatever institution needs the information. You can even request and deliver these yourself personally, if you want to.

Perhaps "personal" is the wrong word for the kind of relationship you want to describe though. Your relationship with the bank as an institution is independent of any SSN, they just track any credit or debt to your identity using it. There's no reason why a single number needs to track that kind of information, when the banks could just be required to verify their own knowledge of you themselves. At some point we have to admit that someone at the bank must know you, or be able to vouch that who you are is who you say you are. Even just a second check of a photo of you compared to a face scan would be more than what's verified now.
But on desktop it looks rather nice
Yep, I definitely feel better already, its only $248.5bn more money to reach > 50%! /s
Jan Koum of WhatsApp. He brought Soviet-issued notebooks to the US cause the family was too poor to buy US ones.
My point was that over prescription is a problem. Just a couple days ago this study showed the power of apap/ibuprofen equal to opiate in extremity pain: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/26615... Yeah apap is dangerous in really high doses but it isn't super fatal w NAC intervention.

But more people die from opiates than apap nih: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16294364
Https://www.tesla.com is a different url than https://www.tesla.com/ They point to different resources. Of course most people treat these two URLs as the same, but they don't have to be.
To be fair, people didn't withdraw funds, someone was able to set up a recurring transfer (direct debit) from his account to a charity. Which makes it useless for theft, since the thief would leave definite proof of their identity (receiving account number).

The best part, I think, is Clarkson's response:

Clarkson now says of the case: "Contrary to what I said at the time, we must go after the idiots who lost the [personal information] and stick cocktail sticks in their eyes until they beg for mercy."
I enjoy reading Wikipedia. Naturalis Historia is the world's earliest known encyclopaedia, and I think it's worth reading "lest we forget" the lessons from classical antiquity.
You can save the cost of Kickstarter by removing the value Kick-start adds. You get a smart contract that can't be executed because no one decides if the project delivered properly. How is that an improvement?
Zuckerberg went to Harvard and his father is a dentist. He was and is a rich kid.

Larry Page's parents were renown computer scientists in the 70s and 80s. Thus no doubt they were more then middle class. Now Segrey Im not sure, but if you have one founder that is rich then well...

Elon Musk's father was also a computer scientist back in the day.

None of the people you mention grew up middle class ... rather the next level above .. either between middle class or flat out rich.
Ha, "insurance". This is how online bookies work today.
> The Inner Life of a Cell is badly misleading.

This bit was bugging me, since the video undoubtedly was, and is, still useful.

One resulting (late night) thought, is that educational content might be viewed a complexes. A subunit which is toxic and/or dysfunctional in isolation, might be powerfully useful if other subunits or chaperones or cofactors are present. One might add content which prevents the misconception formation which would otherwise occur.

So Inner Life, if used in isolation, is badly misleading. Raising an interesting question of what it should be paired with, and how.

There may be ordering and timing constraints. Asking an eye witness a memory distorting question, isn't reversible - the damage is done. "How fast was the car moving?" "Did he have a beard?" So when seeing misconception-forming content, it may be better to inoculate first, than to treat afterwards.

And longer-term issues. If one subunit is more memorable than another, or otherwise gets more spaced repetition, it might end up isolated later. "The only thing I remember about C is X", where X by itself, is a toxic summary C.
straw man. I was responding to the statement that the computation is doing nothing, and not arguing one way or another that the energy used is reasonable for the benefits gained.
So there is a while REST/JASON/XML API client embedded in the contract code, that your wallet uses to read the public data needed?
SEPA Direct Debit, yes, is used like that.

But abuse is very low, as it requires that whoever does it identifies themselves first at another bank, and opens a merchant account (which has other verifications). And then reversing it is easy, too.

And you can't even shop with stolen IBANs at Amazon, because every major retailer will first send you a 1ct transaction with transaction info set to a OTP you use to verify that you own the account.
Would you review others for a fee?
I think this analogy has legs; for example, what of the town surrounding the carnival? Does the carnival hold lotteries enthralling the adult villagers who otherwise turn their nose at throwing darts?

If nothing else, bread-and-circuses-made-literal is useful for storytelling.
My assumption was it would take a very sizable amount of venture capital to do it properly, with a lot of red ink early on. There are an immense number of restaurants, bakeries, etc founded in the US every year, so I suspect there's potentially some kind of big market for this - especially as the order-to-go business gets drastically bigger over the next decade.

I considered that the large unit space / building could have a dining area, where customers could sit down and could then select from numerous kitchens that are local to that space. That pushes it even closer to the mall food court. My reservation on that, is that some percentage of the restaurants will be producing subpar experiences in terms of quality. So a successful restaurant in the space, wants its customers to eat in a successful atmosphere, where customers as a whole are happy; if half the customers in the dining area are unhappy, the enjoyment by the other happier half will suffer as well (people pick up on such things, it rubs off). Then I considered sub-divided dining areas, so each rented kitchen gets its own limited sit-down space, it just might be a stretch though and adds to the overall cost burden in the system with minimum gain (ie, it's probably just easier to focus more narrowly on food delivery).

To deal with the vacancies issue, you'd only build these in higher population urban areas, to maximize the potential number of restaurants etc. that you can rent to (maximize the potential start-ups due to population). You'd also seek to under-build versus demand, preferring to always have a waiting list (recession times might even trash that best effort). I don't know if it would work, but, I'd seek to get a modest upfront payment allocation from the waiting list, that covers the risk on vacancy turn-over. By keeping the demand above the space availability, you can probably get the start-ups to front the first month of rent to get on the list (with some terms of refund). It wouldn't be something you could start with zero capital, the idea would be to get it into the $5k (solo bakery) to $25k range to go from moving into the space to the time it takes to get the first customer.
> they seem to be a way for the manufacturers to keep making things which don't last as long, a sort of forced obolescence

If the product is explicitly marketed not to last I see no problem with it. I prefer buying food without excess preservatives, for example.
That is not cessation of drug use but a program to sustain drug addiction safely. Clearly that’s great at reducing harm from dirty needles, but not great at cessation of addiction.

I’m suspect of your claim that the majority of addicts seek treatment, since I’ve not seen any data on seeking cessation. Maybe you know of some other data showing that most addicts seek treatment that includes cessation. However, according to surveys by CDC and national survey on drug use and health 23 million Americans have a substance addiction and 3 million seek treatment. Approx 1 in 6 adults has some form of substance abuse problem. There is nowhere near that number seeking treatment.
Influence of a West Antarctic mantle plume on ice sheet basal conditions
Would 127.3.1 become 127.0.3.1 or 127.3.0.1?
The woman who can't forget
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Chilean solar cost down 26%, as important as Saudi Arabia at 1.79¢/kWh
I'd love to know this as well.
Never heard of using CGRect.divide(), thanks!
Here are some links to press coverage of this discovery:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/hot-news-from-the-antarctic...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/science/2017/11/08/hot-s...

http://www.businessinsider.com/antarctic-ice-melt-sea-level-...
Went into reading this article expecting it to be a one-off, rental boyfriend type deal (that kind of trope is used very frequently in movies/tv shows/manga there), but this way way deeper than I expected. I'm pretty mind blown at how far they are taking this fake/real replacements. Pretty close to some dystopian scifi actually.

>If the client never reveals the truth, I must continue the role indefinitely. If the daughter gets married, I have to act as a father in that wedding, and then I have to be the grandfather. So, I always ask every client, “Are you prepared to sustain this lie?” It’s the most significant problem our company has.

>Morin: You’re offering a more perfect form of reality?

>Yuichi: More ideal. More clean.

This is so Truman Show esque.
This. I wonder if the proponents of digitization realize this at all. Do the government policy makers/central banks realize that in their drive to digitize transactions to make them traceable, they are ceding some power to these payment processors.
There are also various visual feedback options, such as a CPU load indicator, or a debug renderer for screen touches which allows you to see if your touchscreen is misbehaving and how (happens to me when I plug my charger, for example).
> Where "little" is relative to the ratio of BTC's wealth vs the world's wealth, vs BTC's power usage to the world's power usage.

If that's your metric then bitcoin gets an F- right now. Its world power usage fraction is much much higher than its world wealth fraction.
"The value of a product is equivalent to the amount of labour exerceted in its production"

This is one of the most problematic statements ever made in Econ.

The 'value' of a product is different for everyone, and it's what you (or anyone else) will pay for it.

The idea that 'work = value' is one of the most distortionary ideas in business, even today.

Just had a discussion today about pricing a product, and it was derived from component prices. Trying to convince a room of people that 'price is not a function of cost' ... in 2017.

Yes - when things are commodities, often, price is a function of cost, because competitive pricing means just a small margin above cost, which will roughly be the same for most.
Thanks for the really concise example.
There is 0 reason to believe that evolution is in any way whatsoever unique to Earth based species. And if it's not then it's an extremely safe assumption that every other species that's developed, or will develop, is going to have a similar background.

Things that overcome and eat other things stay alive to reproduce and propagate. Those that can't, cease to exist. This very fundamental aspect of nature implies that there will always exist some selection bias towards aggressive predatory behavior among the most successful products of evolution. It's interesting to consider that the 'morality' of herbivore vs carnivore is an entirely human conception. Go back far enough and humans and grass share a common ancestor. We just evolved in different directions.

In any case the development of higher intelligence enables us to overcome and suppress or evolutionary instincts. But I imagine these instincts will always be a part of us. I see no reasonable way a highly advanced species could have ever evolved without them. And while the media and other players sensationalize violence, the reality is we live in what is likely the single most peaceful era of civilization - ever.

Try to imagine that in WW2 around 70 million people died from a world population of 2.3 billion. That's more than 3% of the entire world's population killed. Scaled up to present day population that would be more than 231,000,000 killed. Since we suck at understanding such huge numbers. Let's convert that in 9/11s. That would be more than 77,000 9/11 scale events. In other words imagine we had a 9/11 scale event every single day for 211 years. That's how many people died in WW2. Today we in the developed western world freak out about 60 people dying, and a single 9/11 is a world shaking event. And go back to things like the Mongol invasions - they were on the order of 300% more deadly the world's population than WW2 was. One can only imagine the actions within prehistory among isolated populations. Perspective.
It is typical to include cost of goods a company onsells at a markup in their revenue figures. It's just worth noting in this case as they are effectively just a delivery service so it might be unclear.
> surely there is a market for you to exploit

Yes I do believe it's up for grabs.
I know this is not reddit, but this video drives OP's point home.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA
Wasn't able to find a library or a Github or anything like that from a quick glance. I'm assuming this is a closed platform. What I was inquiring about was something that I can use in my own software.
What is collective good? Is it denying handicapped people a livelihood? Is it ostracizing the mentally ill?

Personally I believe that our striving for advancement is something that's deeper than our daily brain-oriented struggle. Our evolution is being driven at the cellular level, so we don't need to translate that into attempting to personify an egotistical concept of progress.
One might make a general claim that as any coin stabilizes, the money spent on generating it will always approach the amount of money received.

So for bitcoin, if miners get X on average to mine it, they will spend X-ε in electricity (in bitcoins case), where ε is a tiny profit margin (or perhaps paying back investment).

This will remain true for any other coin and its proof scheme. The amount spent on generating it will asymptotically approach the amount received. The difference is that it might be possible for the byproducts to be useful.
> they would often want to return the item after playing around

Then don't have a return policy.

> The hobbyists were also a drain on support time

Make them pay for support at a premium.
You know the story of the FedEx guy right? He could afford to pay the staff or put fuel in the planes; riveting speech; gambled the money in vegas and kept the company going.

This guy is praised, but he was a fucking pyscho (literally). He didn't give a damn about his own staff and risked everything. He got lucky, made it big.

If this guy had made it, we'd see him as a "The Hundred Foot Journey" style success story.

Maybe the only lesson is that he wasn't ruthless enough?
F u comcast.

Sorry had to let it out.
Diversification by Smallholder Farmers: Viet Nam Robusta Coffee (2007) [pdf]
You are thinking of 3.5" floppies. They are speaking of 5.25" floppies. They are the opposite.
Ideally >99% of the power used by bitcoin would be in sharing and storing the blockchain and pending transactions. The security mechanism would use as few resources as possible.

Be careful when you compare to existing infrastructure, because bitcoin has to do all that too, plus mining costs on top.