skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[ Live Tv ]//.. American Music Awards 2017 Live Online
Bitcoin cash deserves the moniker "Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash." Core's roadmap ceded that claim.

Sadly, being "digital gold" is a huge mistake because a store of value that is also a currency is a dominating strategy in this game.

Lightning is "18 months away" which is exactly the sort of estimate I hear at work when something will take 4-6 years, or be shelved without getting released.
Water sampling happens frequently at various points near the reactor, all of which showed levels at expected bounds to date.

Most of the scary charts were fake: https://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/fukushima.asp
It seems ... unlikely that physicians switch to become pharmacists, optometrists, or physicians assistants.

https://imgur.com/a/AKEus
Is that bad? The real problem is when you're stuck only paying the interest, and the debt increases. If you were to buy something on your credit card, you're spending most of your money to pay down the debt - but that's not particularly a problem unless you're living above your means.

The alternative - to wait until you've accumulated enough cash to build a bus depot - seems kind of a bad idea.
Same here it's either $12 for a total commute of 2+ hrs via metro, or $3 to drive for a total of just over an hour.
It depends what interest rate the debt is. Borrowing at the scale of NYC probably gets rates lower than inflation.
NYC has one of the highest combined state/city tax rates.. what the heck are we paying for, if not convenient, reliable subways. and they dare increase the fares.. ok that is fine IF you decrease the tax rates. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
i don't. i sit on a round cushion on the floor. [1]

i struggled with lower back pain all my life. doctors suggested shoving metal in my spine. since removing all the chairs from my home and office and only sitting on the floor, i have better resting posture than my peers (since i am unreliant on back supports), and the pain is gone.

hilariously, the East has had this solved for thousands of years, while we continue to creep toward death in debilitating pain.

you may replicate this setup in your own office by going to Ikea, purchasing the cheapest, lowest bench available, and sitting in Burmese posture [2]. if your knees are in pain, forego the round cushion for a higher square cushion [3] or adjustable sitting bench [4]

[1] https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00G9FMY9K/ref=twister_B00G9FMYC...

[2] http://d2r5da613aq50s.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/0-76...

[3] https://smile.amazon.com/Pure-Life-Meditation-Cushion-Tibeta...

[4] https://www.kindseat.com/meditation_seats/kindseatplus.html
Hence, Bitcoin Cash -- maybe instead of "Bitcoin clone", the article should say "Digital cash".
Which would - if applied fairly - call into question the credentials of the 20+ thousand or so Bay Area engineers who go to Burningman every year... "I saw a photo of you with a girl wearing only body paint and a guy behind her smoking weed. You can't possibly be a credible Rust developer..."
Metal Earbuds Headphone
Roll hard left and die
That's almost entirely just to pay the interest on the debt, they're not actually trying to reduce the debt itself.

See the first NYT article:

> Every second of every day, the M.T.A. pays $83 in interest. That’s $7.1 million in 24 hours; for the year, a total of $2.603 billion. Those costs consume 16 percent of the transit agency’s budget, nearly three times as much as in 2002, according to the state comptroller, Thomas P. DiNapoli.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/nyregion/subway-new-yo...
The Kudos Project: a disruptive new way to humiliate employees and cut their wages
I'm really disappointed at how Buzzfeed-esque this piece is and (even more so) how it could reach the front page of HN. I'd like to think that easily-digestible, low-effort articles don't have a place in this community, but here's one on HN. I guess even HN-types are susceptible to the wrapping of a hot topic in the "For Dummies" style.
So Intel are going to get a better GPU than they can currently design in their integrated parts, while at the same time selling more CPUs and be given time to restart their GPU design team? I just don’t get how this doesn’t lead to huge litigation when in two years Intel has a competitive GPU and tells AMD to do one. AMD will then complain about their GPU technology being stolen but I’d bet a judge would possibly be convinced it’s their own fault.

Instead a better scenario; AMD embedded parts that are millions of miles ahead in gfx and close in CPU performance for most task leads to loads of design wins for Ryzen + AMD GPU.

So yes I do think this is a terrible idea. Why you think Intel aren’t busting a gut to compete (this deal or not) you are wrong; they’ve already lowered prices and will move away from AMD pretty fast in IPC over the next two years.
Thanks, we've updated it from ”China orders foreign universities to give broad powers to party officials”.
ESPP is guaranteed to make money for employees. Everyone should sell ESPP shares immediately, of course, and most don’t, so functionally you’re right, they’re dangerous, but if you can be mildly disciplined, I don’t think there’s a better investment in the world than taking your employer up on discount ESPP shares then selling the moment they’re in your account.
Zenni refunds 50% of the price for returns.

Eyebuydirect (14 days) and 39dollarglasses (30 days) offer full refund for returns.
Yeah - 2 weeks which I strongly suspect Dale spent arguing "What? I didn't do anything wrong!" while legal and PR tried desperately to convince him to publish an apology...

He gets no credit from me for a 2 week late apology that's helpfully published with an accompanying Chinese translation. There's no sense of personal acknowledgement of wrongdoing here, just a corporate response to a paying-customer backlash.
Every year the chemical industry kills and contaminates far more.
You’re paying for guys who tear up the same street all day, every day, for years, and then leave it looking like a patchwork of sloppy, half-finished jobs. I lived on that street for ten years.
What might cause the bubble to burst, in your opinion?
This Nordic Tech Company’s Onboarding Secret? Cinnamon Buns
billions debt service on MTA bonds, a Cuomo directed bail out of Ski resorts. These are the things our taxes and subway fares go towards...
I address some of your specific concerns below, but here's a tip: be loud and be involved. At a lot of districts, especially in Texas, sports facilities receive a ton of resources because the sports-obsessed parents are loud and make it clear that they vote.

But this requires civic-mindedness. You have to care a decade before your kid is in school, and continue caring a decade after, if anything's going to change. That's why sports get so many resources at some districts -- the sports -obsessed parents stay involved long before and long after their kids are out of school.

I'm not sure what to say except "welcome to democracy". (e: you might expect things would be better if education were privatized, but in reality the private schools seem even more obsessed with sports, and have their own high school version of the university amenities wars. So I'm skeptical that market mechanisms wouldn't end up behaving similarly to democratic mechanisms.)

> They spent over 2 million dollars on my sons high school this summer to replace the grass on the football field with artificial turf.

Artificial turf can be cheaper in the long run for primary use athletic fields, which get a lot of abuse and therefore require a lot of ongoing maintenance. You're trading a ~30+ year amortized cost for a single fixed cost, so the number can get pretty high while still working out in the black.

$2 million is high for a single field, though. Did it include e.g. upgrades to the stadium seating?

And I don't see why a middle school would need turf.

I tend to think the sports component of American high schools is stupid. But if it's going to exist, turf can be a cost-efficient choice. WRT the other stuff, again, see "get involved" and "be loud".

> The ignorant fools in my district just passed a Bond Election for like 300 million dollars for God only knows what

This is generally public information. 300 million sounds like district-wide significant building upgrades. These things usually mix "invisible but important" stuff (routers, HVAC upgrades, etc.) with "visible, high impact" stuff. I'd be surprised if those science and computer labs aren't included?

> It now almost costs the same amount to send one kid to High School as it does to send the other kid to UoT (Dallas).

Frankly, if you step back for a second, you'd expect K12 education to be more expensive than college. In one case you're lecturing to huge rooms of adults, in the other you're teaching small classes. But that's a whole different conversation...
Thank you.

Non-Luxopoly choices FTW:

https://madeeyewear.com

https://www.warbyparker.com

Also, VSP is the major vision insurance co. in the US (80M insured).

Perhaps the source of standard retail costs of prescriptions is the negotiation powers of insurance co.'s coupled with insured apathy ("it's not my money").
Twitter's a fucking trashfire these days. Be an openly public Nazi? Oh no, we'll remove your blue verified tick! Use Twotter to send rape and death-threats? "No contravention of Twitter community guidelines..." Tell a nazi who threatens to kill you to fuck off? Get your account suspended... I feel Dale and Jack are from the same cult...
good question; I think the answer is yes, they will now. China used to have the bargaining power to entice companies to come to China, to give up their technology, and then eventually, those companies would lose the Chinese market to a local copycat, and eventually the global market. Because of its growth.

Now, China doesn't have that anymore. Anyone can guess that the government reported 7% growth rate isn't consistent with the capital outflow, restriction of money moving out, factory shutdowns, banning of bitcoins, etc. For example, recently, China had to relax the foreign ownership of its financial companies. And Tesla might be able to wholly own its operations in China.
>>But school has been transformed from an important social institution into a jobs project.

This is backwards. The school is a jobs project because people have to work to earn money. If that wasn't the case we could let them get busy with creative work full time.

The other part would be ridiculous, do you really want to be spending your entire childhood and teenage doing thing that has 0 return on investment at the end.
It was also deep-rooted in my conviction that the disparity between the rich and everyone else is larger than ever in the United States and the rest of the world.

It's a nice sentiment, but the most proven way of dealing with this is to get actual cash into their pockets without adding to the income disparity, which in this case would be giving e.g. LinkedIn or Robert Half or whoever (exploitative rent-seekers) a big slice of any money they make through a particular gateway (you).
Found this response to the piece on Twitter: "Sure, they're Finnish, but I think starting a new job with a cinnamon bun could really take off in the States. Or maybe with a hot soft pretzel."

What do you think would be the American equivalent of a cinnamon bun?
This article provides little context or analysis. This article from the NYTimes provides a better jumping off point on this same topic (colleges and universities mentioned in the paradise papers) and is better at making clear what the potential ethical problems are.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/world/universities-offsho...
how would that be accomplished?

I don't know, but I'm sure money helps to accomplish it.
> I'd like to think that easily-digestible, low-effort articles don't have a place in this community

I'd be inclined to disagree with your opinion here - You can have an easily-digestible piece of writing that still holds good value and insight. Not everything needs to be a peer-reviewed journal article, I'd start pulling my hair out if literally every submission here was an effort to read since I usually browse HN on my short breaks at work.

However it's still worth vetting low-quality content, I agree.
If you think London is good, wait til you try the subway in big Asian cities like Taipei, Tokyo, or Seoul.
Interestingly, I believe this is a part of Eugene Fama's original argument for the value premium (workers buying stocks in industries outside their own).
Excellent! Is this something e.g. part of Facebook's values and hiring standards?
In some cases that is already not true. For example Medicine and law.

Your academic training ends late in life. And therefore you have to charge higher and higher to make up for your investments. And of course, for the student loans too.
All ships over a certain gross tonnage or in commercial service must use AIS to announce themselves. Seems straightforward to subtract the satellite image objects that correlate to ships announcing themselves, leaving only icebergs (making it cheap to submit follow up satellite image tasking requests at high resolution to confirm).

Cool crowdsourced challenge!

Edit: Removed US Coast Guard reference, see peeters link below.

https://www.marinetraffic.com/
Ya, I do also. But it isn’t weird, it hasn’t been for a long time. Likewise for Americans speaking great 大山 quality Chinese, not weird or unusual anymore.
The reason tipping keeps popping up in new markets (like Uber/Lyft/Instacart/Doordash) is largely the same reason it's so hard to get rid of in existing industries: it allows businesses to advertise lower prices and lets customers actually pay those lower prices if they're willing to take the relatively minimal and sometimes even completely negligible social cost of not tipping.

Just look at how it went with Uber. Uber didn't want tipping to be part of the experience, but they kept lowering driver wages until drivers needed tips to survive and started rating down passengers who didn't offer cash tips. When the problem started becoming severe, they could have solved it by just upping driver wages. Instead, they kept fares impossibly low but added tipping into the app.
https://archive.is/BGDb2
"Hardware" tends to imply just electronics. It sounds like you want tutorials in robotics.
I was a researcher, so it wasn important for the team to submit papers with good English in them. Doubly so for double blind submissions, where you want to mask that the paper is coming from china to avoid reviewer bias against chinese papers.
Letter of Recommendation: Cold Showers
I assume the diversity audit was in response to the backstory where Naomi criticised Make for not having even token local or female representation at Makerfaire Shenzhen, criticism which immediately preceded Dales dummy spit retaliation.

Which, as I wrote that, I realised is probably also what the "western white male CEO" bit is probably about - you can't criticise them - they'll retaliate just like they used to in 4chan and junior school... Kalanik will hire PIs to gather dirt on you if you criticise him, Dougherty will destroy your maker reputation and career.
What else would you write it in at the time? When you have a TeleType you can't exactly use a visual text editor, can you?
> The real problem is when you're stuck only paying the interest, and the debt increases.

That is what is happening at the MTA.
The only writer they have left worth reading is Matt Taibbi.
Wonder if Stanford will stand its ground and divest their Beijing campus?
this was his second "apology"

his first one was just a generic, "i'm sorry if i offended anyone" after he publicized a conspiracy theory about naomi.

then it was revealed that andrew huang (who worked a lot on reverse engineering the original xbox), was asked in private by dale if naomi was real, and andrew vouched for her. yet he chose to go with the conspiracy theory story instead.

this is a, "i better do this or my ass will be fired" deal. the original story was never posted on hackernews (that i recall) but if she didn't continue to fight for her reputation this dale would have just let this blow over.
Ah, was he just promoting it and arguing for its points? I must not have noticed when I read it. Thanks for pointing that out.
You can also marvel at it from satellite photos:

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3896400,30.0936300,707m/data...
I have one project[1] with 0% CTR.

I have another project[2] with 3% CTR.

[1]: https://github.com/styfle/copee

[2]: https://github.com/styfle/magnemite

Both have less than 200 impressions total.
So are religious leaders and mothers and Soviet social planners. But they are perpetually disappointed.

Because what is humanity without it's biology?

Instinct doesn't belong to the individual, it belongs to the species. And life doesn't care atoll about abstract moral principal. That's just syntactic sugar to help us manage and grow the hive given biological impulse. When we overcome a natural impulse guess what? It's a natural impulse doing that too. If we overcome all natural impulse (how?) this species is finished and are something else, certainly not "humanity" at that point.

Right now what really drives us around is 10's of thousands of years older than the beginning of writing and cities. At least.
Really? I wouldn't dream of showing that page to my boss or coworkers.

Honestly, doing so could plausibly and understandably make many women and some men uncomfortable.
In the long run, as an investment vehicle...where do more returns on time lie ?
Beware: forwarding link to different site
Expanding Swift  Through  Protocols and Extension
Everyone in Toronto loves to complain about the TTC, but the few lines we have here are pretty reliable.

We just need to expand the system further. The Eglinton line and the Finch LRT will help.
The first force to break the rule will prevail.

Pacifism is an unstable configuration; non-aggression is.
I saw this book on HN several years ago, and thought it was pretty interesting, and maybe worth reading.

Unluckily, it didn't help me very much in learning more about this field, nor did I think it was very helpful for solving other problems. Basically, it's more of an encyclopedia than a textbook, and not a good starting point.

Every post is basically separated into "biological inspiration", a brief description of the algorithm itself, and then a listing of the pseudocode and Ruby code.

The primary thing I was left wanting was 1. Either an intuitive explanation of why the algorithm worked well or a more rigorous mathematical explanation. 2. A comparison with the other algorithms.

TL;DR: A good book for what it is. However, if you're somebody looking for an introduction to these algorithms, look elsewhere.
This is such a rich dataset and I'm sure there are some very interesting insights. But I was very disappointed with most of the data visualization; the primary question of the article is addressed in a set of bar charts for a single occupation. There's no way at all to gain any complex understanding of the systems at play here with such a keyhole view of the world.

I'd like to see the career switching dataset in different forms to see what insights we could derive: network diagrams, heatmaps, and so forth -- visualizations that show the complex interconnectedness of this rich data.
The book you mentioned is available at http://www.utstat.toronto.edu/mikevans/jeffrosenthal/
Even native english speakers get their articles proofread. It's a standard part of a any semi/professional publishing process.
http://www.zennioptical.com
GOP Tax Bill Is the End of All Economic Sanity in Washington
A Programmer's Poem
There are, but at the same time there are restaurants that have had a lot of trouble with this approach because it raises the perceived price of the restaurant. It really seems damned-if-you-do.
The MTA is a government mandated monopoly. What they need is free enterprise.
I don’t understand why American governments are so bad at providing public services. Money often isn’t it. The NY subway has an operating budget of $8 billion for about 1.7 billion riders per year ($4.7 per rider per year). The London Tube has an operating budget of (2.2 billion pounds—$3.5 billion pre-Brexit) for 1.4 billion riders ($2.5 per rider). The systems are in extremely similar cities, are almost exactly the same route miles, and are similarly old. Yet NYC’s system costs almost twice as much to run.
What are those reasons? Genuinely curious what you disagree with.
But they can opt out of any order they don't want to fulfill, right? Who would choose to fulfill that crazy order for the price on offer?
Indeed, taxes (or tax differences > 0) could be payable on income from overseas subsidiaries.
Sample code in Ruby? why?
One reason it's bad that MTA is only paying interest is that the transportation world is changing. Autonomy, Uber/Lyft, and other technologies may mean that subways systems like the MTA is in a death spiral where fewer riders means less fare revenue and less ability to even meet interest payments. In places like Washington, DC it looks like the death spiral is well underway.
Most likely several reasons:

1. Audience product mismatch
2. People are just curious but don't actually care for your product because it's not relevant to them. Perhaps you are just trying to solve he wrong problem.

Note: as a freelancer I would never use your service. I have enough overhead as it is and would not pay 29 no for what you offer. My 2c
IMHO the real source of a lot of these problems is that the subway system is a city resource that is primarily payed for by city taxes (and fares of course) but it's actually administered by the state government (which the MTA reports into).

If it was a city controlled thing it would be a huge huge issue in every single mayoral election. But it gets somewhat drowned out in governor elections.
"Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail" is probably the best thing HST ever wrote. Find it, read it, don't take it all completely seriously, and you may learn something.
> Facebook needs to be regulated more tightly, or broken up so that no single entity controls all of its data.

What would a break-up of Facebook look like? The most famous modern example is the breakup of Bell, but the infrastructure lent itself to a natural geographical split. It's not entirely obvious if a geographic split would work for FB, and it's not entirely obvious along what planes one could split up the company.
While not directly related, Bryan Caplan of George Mason University argues that pushing everyone to college doesn't make sense and most of what's learned in school is a waste of time from the job market perspective. The degree is about signaling how competent someone is instead of the useful skills and knowledge obtained via education.

The link to the podcast from 2014 better represents this nuanced argument.

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/04/bryan_caplan_on.htm...

His book on the topic will be released in January 2018 https://www.amazon.com/Case-against-Education-System-Waste/d...
BYOD in a nutshell. The bane of any sane sysadmin.
This seems to be a rare case of a woman turning a stumbling block into a career stepping stone. Given the amendments being made, I hope future press for Ms. Wu on HN is for her work, not her gender, wardrobe or being slandered.
I don't see Europe. Where are they hiding their money?
Warbyparker is a ripoff just like all the other middlemen claiming to disrupt an overpriced market. Zenni optical will get you a pair of frames with lenses for under $10. Everything else is paying for personal style preference.