skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish the city had an online inventory. Often I want to buy something specific and I am willing to go to the city for that. However, I don't know which of the hundreds of stores carry that item and which ones are available. Sometimes I give my best guess a call, but it's a stretch. I wish there was an interface so I could search what they're offering.

(For example: Who sells empty glass bottles, a braided belt, fridge magnets, facepaint? There are probably about 10 stores that have it, but which ones? I can easily walk one or two kilometers just checking them out. FYI, this is a European town.)
http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/facebook.com.html

Looks like it may just be you.
Possibly yes for the problem as I described it. But really what I want is to mark pages that I thought were interesting and _might_ want to see again at some point in my life. Maybe that will be in two years. My approach of leaving a load of tabs open for a few weeks catches many of the cases of pages I want to re-read, but is obviously not feasible for years.

And really I want to be able to search my history with queries like (contains foo, not bar, was marked sometime in 2014 or 2015). And see my history in chronological order. The problem with my browser's history is that it is polluted with the pages I never want to see again, like last week's weather forecast.

I'm sure that there's something that does this already, maybe it is Evernote. But PageDash's guarantee of preserving the historical state seems novel and worthwhile.
Stop saying child porn. You are talking about documented abuse of children. Not porn.
but once people know their size and brand they don't need to keep trying it on
So... this should probably mean a deep dive for btc price then, right?
Wow. Children as a retirement plan. And you are calling people who don't do that selfish?
I disagree. This woman needs to be realistic. It says she spent her social security on things like prime rib at the diner and a $100 guided tour of some building. I am decidedly low on sympathy for such a person.
I understand that there are legitimate reasons that someone may need assistance.

My problem is with this nonsensical mentality that, without any actual statistics, people automatically assume that anyone struggling is a victim of circumstance. Or worse, that they have somehow been abused or stolen from by those with money. Which, by the way, I believe I'd a relatively new outlook in the history of the U.S.

The danger is that it encourages people to live haphazardly and in the long run is not sustainable. And, quite frankly, I have no desire to pay for people who lived selfishly in their own time.
You could say the same thing about a mortgage contract.

There are very few situations where continuous consent is important, and I don't think "releasing documents" is one of them.
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The health care people in my family call bills like that "the wipe". After death, all of the billing agencies have a go at the estate hoping that in the chaos of the loss, they can soak up what's left of the estate while everyone is distracted.

It's absolutely despicable. More than walking away, very choice words and a lawyer on your side are in order.
This 'controversy' could be settled if Naomi would just say whether the assertion is right that the 'timaz' user is either her boyfriend or someone she is in contact with.
Yeah I was going to say i thought quants pretty much topped out in the mid 8 figures. Although to be fair, I can't even fathom making ten figures annually. Having a compensation package that compares to the GDP of a small nation is beyond my comprehension.
I read 'communist' as factual, not derogatory. Comment criticised previous poster for using biased source when unbiased is available.
On the one hand, the "organic" fetish is crazy -- you can eat pretty well at 300 cal/$, but not if you're buying premium vegetables. On the other hand, $300 for 8 over in a 35 is probably the evil result of her city not being able to raise taxes, and being forced to get revenue from more politically-appealing sources that usually shaft poor people. Parking fines, court fees, civil asset forfeiture, tickets for minor traffic violations, etc.
Finally someone is pointing at the elephant in the room. When I look at my student billing account, I see $60,000 waived under my grad "tuition waiver" every year. Should I feel thankful, or completely dumbfounded by the fact that they'd consider charging me that much to be a grad student in the first place?
The UAE is similar in that malls are very organized and controlled.

A typical mall would have a food court, a large arcade for kids, a daycare (or two), pharmacies, coffee shops, a book store, a furniture store, and so on. Also, unlike from what I've seen here in the US, any decent mall must contain a large supermarket (usually Carrefour). Malls in the UAE are therefore a "one stop shop" that people go to every week to buy groceries and household supplies.

Given how hot it can get over there, it makes absolute sense to have everything in one, air conditioned building.
I was assuming "IBM type" was typefaces from IBM typewriters/printers back in the day.
Even though this story is horrible, it reminds me of a silicon valley episode

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/1/15504692/hbo-silicon-valle...

Are they prescient or does things never change?
You are confusing college students and graduate students - their demographics are very different. This article is about graduate students for whom it is not uncommon to have done their college years in less expensive and less renowned universities. Grad students have fairly low salaries for their level of expertise (but there are other benefits to grad school).

Most liberals will be happy with a reasonable tax hike that is used to help the country. This one is used to cut taxes for the rich - this is why people are unhappy.
not really. All that is happening is that online retail is subsuming offline retail, while total retail sales keep growing. The bull market has further to go . long Amazon
What do you imagine the public transportation options truly are in Darien Lake, New York?

She appears to have to park her camper at camp sites, bicycle use might or might not be practical (I suspect bringing groceries back from the store is functionally impossible on a bicycle).
Maybe not all of it, but the default should probably be switched. There's no need to keep eyeball data private.
also

https://twitter.com/ErikVoorhees/status/928316364585963520

https://twitter.com/wences/status/928311976173948928
I'd say that "thriving" needs to be redefined. We think of "thriving" as being, say, 2007. It wasn't. That was an overheated, unsustainable bubble. "Thriving" means there's jobs, and growth, but it's not providing all the junk that everyone ever wants. Maybe "healthy" is a better word.
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I think this issue is hard to fix without a United Human Government. This is an incentive and coordination problem and global companies take advantage of it.

To really fix you'd have to have all countries coordinate on tax law which makes this a really hard problem to solve in our current world especially when a lot of companies with a lot of money are able to push for legislation that's in their best short-term interest, but not necessarily the best interest of the group.

Outside of that you get what we have currently which is a stable equilibrium of governments trying to write laws to create the incentives they want and companies hiring armies of accountants to avoid paying taxes (as well as pushing for legislation changes that benefit themselves).

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
53% of Berkeley students have under $30k a year of income and receive an average of $14000 in aid.
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There are certain protected classes which are not allowed to be questioned, unless you want to be a social pariah, because of patriarchy or something.
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Never? I certainly prefer a mall over a nice outdoor space (which I have available to me) when it’s freezing outside with a sheen of ice covering everything.
I'll admit it, I was one of those people. On one hand, no "free money" for me, but on the other hand, I'm willing to accept this because it will hopefully lead to a stronger Bitcoin in the long run.
Tldr: the claim is that when male managers are faced with stack ranking employees, they will often choose male reports over female reports due to sexist bias.
The rich already pay the lions share of income tax. How much more of their money needs to be taken from them to make it fair?

Also the argument that the government is bad at spending money is exactly the point. I would possibly be supportive of higher taxes if I thought the money would be used to pay for useful things.
Not really. What if the top 55% made over $1,000,000 (or $100,000) per year and the bottom 45% made less than $20,000 per year? The median would look pretty nice.
Housing within bike distance of many jobs is also costly.
It seems like it uses Docker instead of custom cluster-building logic. I'm not sure if there are differences between how it slows down the network and creates partitions.
Just a nitpick but they are not "evading" taxes, which would be illegal.

The correct term would be "tax avoidance", which is legal (albeit ethically questionable).
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It'd be difficult to engineer that feature in a reasonable way, I think.

Potential for abuse by hostile forks and ill-wishers would be a big problem and I can't think of any real mitigations.

As is often hotly debated in HN comments, measures of repo inactivity/health are not universally accepted. I can see thresholds in any of these metrics potentially problematic if applied universally.

I do sympathise with the pain-point you're outlining, however!
Is there anyone who wants to actually be bombarded by this crap? It's so obnoxious. If I wanted to watch TV I'd turn the damn thing on.
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As someone who's run community sites for a while, there are a couple of ways these sites get the initial user content. Here's a brief list:

* They post all the content themselves under their own name, until other people start joining. It's not elegant and may not look great at first, but it's worked before.

* Fake accounts are used, with the founder(s) pretending to be a number of individuals. Said fake accounts usually get retired as the site gets more popular (for real).

* Previous friends or contacts are involved. Perhaps they run a company and everyone employed is told to post, maybe they're a celebrity with a fanbase, you know the drill.

* Influencer marketing is used. In other words, they try and incentivise celebrities and popular figures to use the site, assuming their fanbase will follow.

* Promotion sites or services are another option, with a few admins doing 'exchanges' for a bit of extra activity. So you go up to someone else running a similar site, and say that if they post on your site, you'll post on theirs for a while.

* They could also just pay people to post. You can hire random freelancers to post content if you're desperate, or use a paid service where people earn money for signing up and posting X amount of content on so many sites.

* If they're really interested in morally dubious tactics, they can also use tools that imports content from third party sites en masse. Seen a few do this with Yahoo Answers, and I wouldn't be surprised if this stuff existed for other services too.

* They could also buy another site (or twenty) and merge them in to get the appearance of a large community. Seen that happen a lot with tech and gaming sites.

* Finally, they could always just directly incentivise people to join by say, offering money to whoever posts X amount of content or refers lots of new users.

Really, it depends on the site in question. Reddit was initially built on fake accounts, but that's only one of about a million ways such sites could take off.
For me it's just the fact that if I'm grocery shopping at Target, I can go look at the menswear department for a few minutes because I also like buying new clothes. It's much much harder to buy good fitting and good looking clothes online because you don't get true colors and fit without trying it on. This is a main reason that many box stores target women more than men, since statistically women are more interested in clothing than men.
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At our local mall, there's a sign warning that under 18 aren't allowed without adults.

They also removed much of what would attract teens and that age group. And many of the "older person stores" are ridiculously priced. Amazon, Walmart online, Aliexpress, and others are cheaper.

Malls are full of expensive stuff, not very good stuff, and caters to nobody in particular.

I know for us, it's because "Payless Shoes" that has cheap size 15's is the only reason why. So we beeline in, and out.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15654411
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I concur. High foot traffic does not result in steady state retail om the local streets. I've lived in the far east and despite heavy mom and pop representation, the turnover is insane _and_ due to lack of aircon in the mom and pops, people flock to malls due to free aircon.
Even Beverly Hills has great parking. The major bottleneck downtown is parking right now and has been for a while. SM moved fast to build multiple parking structures... and that's where all the foot traffic comes from. Not sure why DTLA is so nonchalant about this. Don't see any construction whatsoever.
I checked coinbase expected exactly that, thinking "oh man, I'm glad I didn't sell my eth a month ago to buy into bc trying to capture free altcoins like others did and like I considered doing, it'll be down like 10% at least" but it... shot up about 10% instead. I don't get it.
"They aren't, for the most part, doing anything illegal though. They are using the existing laws to their best advantage."

They and their cronies write the laws.

Where governments aren't amazingly corrupt and can just bribed outright, corporations spend millions of dollars on lobbyists to get favorable legislation, and corporate exec and government official positions are revolving doors where the one goes to work for the other all the time and the one serves the interests of the other.

When government officials retire they regularly get cushy, high paying jobs at the very companies they favored while in office. They also regularly invest in the very companies their laws and policies favor.

Not to mention that high government positions and corporate executive positions are both staffed by the wealthy who look after the interests of the wealthy: to stay wealthy and become even wealthier.

As Alan Moore observed recently, "while in the West after many years of arduous struggle we are now allowed to elect women, non-white people and even, surely at least in theory, people of openly alternative sexualities, I am relatively certain that we will never be allowed to elect a man or woman of any race or persuasion who is poor."[1]

[1] - https://slovobooks.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/last-alan-moore-...
Are you suggesting someone her age should bike dozens of miles per day to and from her job? And it's not like spending an extra hour a day on a bus is a great solution, either, possibly 2 hours on days someone needs to go somewhere other than work.
I'd say raising children to be your caretakers when you're old is far more selfish than simply not having children.
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My solution was to follow the law. My mother died in poverty with no assets or estate, therefore her debts die with her.
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markets are going up.
None of that is difficult nor is it related to time-series data specifically, they are just modern data warehouse features.

SQL already has window/analytical functions. Relational databases with columnstores also have their traditional rowstores which support all the OLTP features you need, along with easy joins across both table types. Many also now pair a rowstore or in-memory segment with each columnstore for background merges to handle rapid ingest and easy updates.

If you want a polished system, use MemSQL or SQL Server Columnstore Indexes, or more manual work with clickhouse and others. We have 28 billion rows of classic "time series" monitoring data in memsql compressed to less than 50gb and complex aggregations return in milliseconds.
Big macs provide about ~600 calories and 25g of protein for $4. The whole meal is over 1000 calories for $6. It's hard to beat in terms of speed or price. Nutrition? Yeah, pretty low (though it's a good source of iron and Vitamin A).

Sure, I could make a meal with more calories for a little cheaper... but at a high up-front cost in money, and an prep/cook cost in time.
It is my understanding that signed messages are generally frowned upon in the Bitcoin community, Satoshi never signed his messages.

This is because it is more important what is in the message than who wrote it.
According to the article her friend died, leaving her a $20,000 windfall to buy a car.
No one is "supposed" to do anything. If we were "supposed" to have children we wouldn't have a choice in the matter. I can't tell if you're serious or not.
Sure, it's convenient when the weather is bad. That still doesn't make malls a staple of social activity, which was the point I was arguing against.
If I take that at face value doesn't that mean any performance evaluation system would be flawed so long as a man is in charge of it? (Assuming that women don't also rate women higher)

>“This pay-for-performance system is fundamentally flawed,” Tavis said in an interview. “The performance element is very subjective.”

What is the alternative?
For my kids it'll probably be some combination of the lessons:

1. Trying to guard against the problem:
assume anything on the internet will stay there forever, and will be public

2. Assuming the inevitable and mitigating possible damage:
recognise that everyone does and can look stupid when they're naked - ie teaching kids to have a healthy body image and self-respect.
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LOL: "please understand , the left project is for sneakers shop , intended to be bold and stick out , now it looks like it was designed for lingerie shop , sexy and thin."
Thanks for pointing that out to people who might not know. I’ve already sent certified letters to all providers that there are no assets, no estate, and no payment will be forthcoming.
The basic answer is that the progressive European countries primarily funded through VAT are indeed using a regressive taxation system, but countering it with progressive spending.

The US system is a moderately progressive tax system but less progressive spending (not no progressive spending, but not nearly as much).

The argument is that you "buy off" the wealthy interests (both wealthy individuals and corporations) by using a regressive tax system, so they are happier to let you spend the money progressively, while in the US they are constantly fighting any progressive spending, because any tax cut will benefit them greatly.
A Core 2 Duo desktop is not what I would consider "perfectly good" anymore, for the exact same reason I threw my PowerEdge 1950 in the trash - these older chips will use more power to get the same job done, DDR2's significantly higher voltage than DDR3 plays a huge role here as well. They may perform acceptably, but you're paying more in the long run via your power bill.
This is all true, but the degree to which I get to control how much other long-time channel denizens know about me is much more under my control. I can even mask my IP pretty easily.

A real-name, photo-required, rich-media equivalent (i.e, twitter) tips the balance of mandatory disclosure away from my favor.
What are the 47% who make more than 30k a year doing, and going to school at the same time?
If you don't know where the bias is coming then how can you judge it objectively ? I will not take fox news or British tabloids seriously just like these guys.

It is not name calling when the editors have a history with the ideology. Its a common knowledge. If you ask them they will say the same (In india, its not a derogatory term) !.
At the time the article was written, she was in the last few years of her life.

If they're spent doing nothing but hustling to pay bills, and there is no enjoyment to be afforded outside of that, why bother finishing the last few? Being old sucks enough as it is, with all your faculties failing and everybody abandoning you.

She's dead now. She got to enjoy the museum and a steak while she still had a chance. I don't begrudge her that.
Piwik is a drop-in replacement for Google Analytics.

But the problem with all of them is that they rely on Javascript beacons to track visits. With more and more people using ad- and privacy-blockers, more and more visitors just disappear from your stats.

I still keep Awstats on some sites for this reason, and the difference between the Awstats numbers and the Google Analytics or Piwik ones is growing and picking up speed.
Compared to bitbucket, definitely not. I've become increasingly frustrated by the lack of pace of development and feature improvements on bitbucket.
While you're on the waiting list: https://notebooks.azure.com/

Supports more than Python 2.7: https://notebooks.azure.com/help/jupyter-notebooks/available...

(disclaimer: work for Microsoft (though not Azure)).
Not necessarily just as fast. I remember reading about Facebook's "cold storage" mechanism a few years ago, where for rarely accessed media they would move it to a slower but cheaper data storage. The media is still available when someone tries to access it, but there might be additional latency compared to a non-cold stored item.
Isn't this true of almost all ecosystems and isn't it aptly explained by the Pareto principle?

1% of individuals hold 90% of the worlds wealth

1% of actors get lead roles in 90% of holywood movies

10% of sales people earn 90% of company's profits

0.1% of product designers influenced how 90% of todays products look

And so on...
So thinks a bit offtopic,but I'm working on running Alpine Linux on the N900. What did you do about those damn powervr SGX blobs? What GUI do you run on your N900 (xfce or ??)
I can't speak for the user thefalcon you replied to, but most opposition as I understand it comes from the fact that segregated witness makes things more likely to rely on centralized infrastructure, departing from the original vision of bitcoin as a decentralized system that can't be controlled by entities like governments and banks.
What's your best (actual) productivity hack?
Well, that's because everyone is undertaxed but me.
Having too many forks makes it confusing for newcomers (and even hedge funds). So naturally avoiding a fork and keeping the community together is good for Bitcoin, which made the price go up.
Hmm, I hadn't thought of it that way. I had figured that having it delivered was less efficient. But once you factor in me having to drive to the store just for my purchase, whereas the delivery truck is going to make N deliveries, I think you're right that delivery is actually more efficient.
I never wrote retirement plan.