skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which moral argument are you subscribed to here again?

Did you read the article? The ICIJ notices that these are registered as charities in the states which means they are tax exempt except when the come across things that trigger UBIT. UBIT is an automatic 40% tax. University endowments are able to invest everywhere tax free, except when some debt financed transactions trigger UBIT for all tax exempt shareholders.

UBIT wasn't created to ensnare university endowments in scenarios where founders and board members of independent companies happened to get an exit through debt financing.

This is a circumstance where you adapt. Avoid that misapplication of tax by registering a business in another country and investing in the same thing through it.
I have a really unique email..

Neozeed .AT. gmail.com

When Gmail went public I thought we were all doing aliases, meanwhile everyone went with real names for some reason. And some Australian football player with the same name and his rabid fans grabbed all the variations of mine... Oh well.
So damn true. You nailed it. And hooking up the way you do pisses women off because they can't get their hooks in you then if you are otherwise satisfied.
U.S. politicians aren't punished or rewarded for their choices in funding infrastructure. In large part, it's because one party supports, as one of their defining policies, almost any reduction in government spending, revenue, and services. I'm not sure the other party faces significant opposition to cutting infrastructure.

You can see it right now in the current tax bill. There is plenty of discussion about what will happen to whose tax rates, but almost none about what services, including infrastructure, will be cut if revenue is reduced. For one party, revenue reduction is, ipso facto, a good thing.

And to even more strongly contrast the current mindset with reality, there is almost no discussion about what government can do to help its citizens except for security.
> I know this isn’t the primary reason the subway is falling into disrepair

Isn't it a primary cause? Not having labour to perform maintenance means that maintenance isn't being done.
I think this is a bad analogy.. The NYT is a left leaning paper, but people who have some intellectual honesty already know this..

Even if the Times went completely far far far left, they aren't the only game in town. I can choose to read any of a number of other papers, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Economist etc..

What alternative is there fire FB?? Mastodon.. Hubzilla..? They're great, if someone has the capability to run the service. I'd argue that most users can't be bothered to learn more than a chromebook let alone understand how to run their own server.

When you have a monopoly like this, it either needs government regulation, ( which is generally bad because it tends to hurt other similar companies), or break them up, i think this is the ideal option, but i don't know in this case.. Break it up by forcing all their code to open source, of perhaps force them to run it more federated or diaspora like and mandating interoperability with these other services..

I'm not sure what the answer is. Of course the real answer is nobody has to use Facebook.. But for a lot of people, that's not an option they're interested in, and since fb literally have all the data, it likely needs regulation which i find very distasteful and terrifying.
It's not technically hard to build a dating site/app. If you have an idea for a better tool then go ahead and build it. Numerous entrepreneurs have already succeeded in this space. IAC is happy to buy up any dating site that establishes a large user base.
That's interesting
The TFL budget and the mayor's budget don't seem to match precisely, although roughly the same.

I wonder why?
I guess they're not trying to hire an R&D company or a contractor, then.
By what regulations? They are allowed to publish pretty much anything other than libel.
I wonder if it is any different in other countries with better health coverage and more family friendly policies.
Yeah I think ICIJ's outrage-bait here is a swing and a miss.

UBIT 40% tax on charities was not created to hit university endowments. This is a reason to use an offshore entity.
What's most obscene is that no effort is made to compensate for lost trains on partially shutdown express/local lines. The mayor could fix that immediately by just demanding more service on the sections that run rather than forcing everyone into sardine cans. It's pretty clear that MTA is using repairs as an excuse to cut spending on service and are unlikely to ever run it at full capacity.

The system carried more passengers in the 40's. They did it by running trains more often. It's not rocket science.
The NYC subway system started as 3 organizations; only one of which was city owned. I am normally not for privatization but it is probably the only thing that can save the MTA. The NYT points out a lack of funding but really their funding has not dropped tremendously. Politicians do not have the right mindset to run this. Sure Democrats tend to spend more on infrastructure, but then support obscene union contracts. MTA police make 130k + The LIRR has conductors that clip tickets getting paid 80k base with tons of overtime and benefits. The maintenance workers are (un)lucky if they work more than 3 hrs a day. There is nothing that is going to change with this unless someone goes in and rips it apart as the union is politically powerful and politicians have other interests than running the subway properly.
The obvious 'fair' thing for instacart would be something along the lines of paying per item with weight taken in to account.

Every packaged item has a barcode that you can look up to see the weight.

...but of course, that would make the commercial delivery services viable competitors to instacart on big orders right? Can't have that.
Awesome, good on them! Another studio who dipped their toe in the F2P model then ran away screaming (in their case, to great success) is Butterscotch Shenanigans--three brothers in Saint Louis who released the game Crashlands for mobile and Steam which I've probably sunk 300 hours into (but I'm weird like that). I really hope this works well for the Clicker Heroes 2 developers. I've enjoyed Clicker Heroes and I'm really looking forward to everything they've layed out for CH2.

Of course dropping $30 for what had been a free game is a bit of a shock on first hearing the price (price anchoring can be a major hurdle), but after reading this (and reflecting for a moment: most games that I spend any real time playing are easily worth $100 or more to me even if it's rare that I end up having to spend that much on them) I'll definitely be pre-ordering.
Sure it did. People still use it.
Ask HN: How to deal with inexperienced interviewers?
Some interviewers are great - they are patient, let you talk, are genuinely curious about your previous work, and ask questions such that the interview is meaningful for both parties.

On the other hand, I frequently come across some inexperienced interviewers (often young, or early in their career). They interrupt you before you finish, ask obscure questions, and try to assert that your professional experience and knowledge is somehow inferior to theirs (or at least make you feel that way).

I feel excited about challenging questions/interviews but sessions with such folks (over the phone, or in person) are always disappointing, and negatively impact the interview outcome. I was wondering if there are any tips on how to handle such interviewers.
Deep Learning Microscopy
Dealing with production problems, which may be functionality, performance, and reliability related.
"Maker" refers to an entire tinkering movement. The projects are often electronics-related, but not always. And in any case, a "maker" generally isn't performing "engineering" in anything but the loosest sense (kind of like the criticism of most "software engineers" not performing "engineering").

> Would it be a proper use of language if a programmer called himself a "writer"?

No, because that would be confusing; no one uses "writer" in that way without extra explanation. In contrast, "maker" is used to describe a tinkerer who builds designs and/or builds projects, often reusing ideas from other makers. It's "proper use of language" not because it makes sense, but because that's how people use it.
Lead Generation: What’s Trending in 2017?
It is very presumptuous to say offender.

Which moral argument do you think they are undermining, and what proof do you have of that?

A registered entity in a Caribbean nation is just as benign as a registered entity in a United State.
On Google Analytics: “do you [BrendanEich] think it is the founder's fault?”
You misunderstand. I’m not criticizing Google not following PEP8. They’re welcome to make whatever modifications they want. I do the same. For example, I don’t like having two blank lines between methods and I don’t limit my line widths to 80 characters. This personal or project level alteration is fine. However, when your target audience is the Python community at large, you are better off following the PEP8 standard, which everyone knows and is comfortable with, rather that a project specific format, just because you personally find it more convenient. Standards are pretty important in the publishing industry, so I’m not sure why this is so controversial here today.
This announcement has gotten my hopes up about it. My thinking is, there must be enough to it that it's not just a clicker game (which is why I stopped playing the first one; I got bored of it).
I've taken a default stance with these kinds of applications that whatever extra detail we get is being "hallucinated" by the network. With something like microscopy, there could be serious consequences to such hallucinations. Wondering whether techniques exist to limit such effects.
Splitting Facebook into Face and Book will change nothing. Face will sell you out or Book will sell you out. Your choice. Instead, Facebook needs to be forced by regulators to become SafeBook. Zuckerberg will whine like a stuck pig. So be it.
What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.
Eh... your example is pretty far from reality, especially considering California was never part of the CSA. Ukraine was part of the USSR, and was part of the USSR when the meltdown happened.

If you want a better analogy, it's like referring to Massachusetts as England when discussing colonial America. Semi-accurate at the time, main difference being Massachusetts was part of the British Empire along with England, but was not actually owned by England itself. The fact that there was a long and bloody war that followed between the two doesn't change that mostly-accurate history.

Yes, Ukraine wasn't part of Russia. But it was part of the USSR, which split into several countries, the most powerful and influential of them being Russia. It's a colloquialism just as much as it is an inaccurate statement.
I use Vegeta https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta whenever I need to quickly test out limits of API endpoints.

Besides that, artillery also looks promising https://github.com/shoreditch-ops/artillery
Yes I do work on the project at Morgan Stanley. Our group email is hobbes-dev@morganstanley.com and we're pretty responsive on that list (as well as on the github page).
All patriotism comes out of propaganda to some extent or the other. I don't mean to say that everyone is the same.

But there is little to be gained in a discussion, where one feels that one country's patriotism is "true" and the other's is "fake" because of pure propaganda.

In China's case, sure the government is actively covering their misdeeds. But that isn't the point I was referring to. All I'm observing is the CCP has been pretty successful in convincing (or indoctrinating) their people, to the extent that a one-off event like disabling the firewall would have practically negligible effect in disrupting the society.
It's almost like people from different countries have different names for other nations. Language is weird like that.
Steelcase Leap v2. Best chair I've ever had at home or at work.
Huh? It's very common to tip delivery people in cash. I remember not that long ago when there wasn't even another option -- you'd order the phone and then pay in cash (including tip) when the delivery driver arrived.
I suspect that state actors won’t allow such a system to reach critical mass.
They didn't make Radeon into its own company, in fact there are rumors Raja Koduri was butting heads with leadership over a desire to do just that. They split it into a separate group within the company just that's just playing with the org chart to change who you report to.
There is absolutely no way any of this will replace the subway ever. All you need to do to see this is come to NYC when transit is on strike. The city is immobilized. There is nowhere in the USA that even approaches the density and mass transit usage as NY metro area. 8.8 million people plus the literal millions that commute to the city cannot possibly get around via surface transit alone.
Control of information fails, not because the organisation controlling gets worse at it, but because it gets better at it.

This may sound counterintuitive, but it's not.

The issue is that organisations that can control information want that power for a reason. That reason is always the same: it's economic. Even in the west, where control is much less pervasive. They want it, frankly, so they can steal from "the people" without them noticing.

Currently China is lying about economic things. And people don't care. The government says things are going well, and it appears things are going well. Until that changes there won't be large scale changes. But there's kinks: How many people got fired in the massive mine cuts last year (everything growing at 7% per year, then "boom!", massive protests followed by executions in a dozen cities. Protests that were big enough that suppression didn't work. Everybody knew someone who was aware of the protests). How badly the metals industry is doing. And the macro Chinese economy. How many loans, and where. People are currently largely trusting the official stats despite them being somewhat obviously falsified. There's a few high profile somewhat-loony exceptions (e.g. Kyle Bass). This can't end well ...

And once it hasn't ended well, needless to say, people notice once the cheese is actually gone. No amount of information control is going to change that. That's when information control fails. That's when people start trusting the word of a drunk sailor more than the official newspaper. That's when every organisation that matters switches to it's own internal information gathering.

That will happen. It's a matter of time. There's lots of variables in it, but how good the CCP is at controlling information is not actually one of the variables.
Facebook has sufficient accumulation of capital to make this impossible. Build something good enough to challenge them and you will get purchased.
Sure, if only some restaurants in an area do this. But what if they all did it?
What you said was lpfsa cannot be used without capping hsa, or something along those lines.
Hacker News is just as ideological as the NYT.
Progressive lenses can be really tricky to get used to from what I’ve been told, you may want to give cheaper bifocal lenses a try first or just buy a pair of reading glasses you take on and off. If you feel they aren’t your thing you would feel less shelving the cheaper option first.
Public services are for the working poor, and politicians don't represent the poorer classes. The wealthy and middle class are larger, more dependable blocs, and politicians support policies that favor these two groups. Few in either of these groups use (or want to use) public services like mass transit. So the problem is pretty basic at its core: poor citizens are one of the largest non-voting blocks[1], and so underserved by politicians. This unequal representation leads to further income inequality[2] and partisanship, which leads to even more gerrymandering, more inadequate representation, and further income inequality...

Meanwhile every individual (politician or voter or working poor) acts in an individually rational way, furthering the problem.

[1]: https://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/voting/SB91-23.pdf

[2]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2649215
Welcome to modern web application development, where we're constantly making everything harder for the developer while providing absolutely no noticeable positive change for the end user and still breaking web conventions at every opportunity.
I see what you mean. To some companies, ML Engine's cost as a managed service may be worth it. To others, spinning up a VM with TensorFlow Serving on it is worth the cost savings. If you've taken other approaches to serving TensorFlow models to get around ML Engine's per-prediction cost, I'm curious to hear about them.
The board Intel shows for their example of space savings is from a MacBook Pro so... yeah, this is for Apple.
That's nice, why should I care what you think about how some random person in the 7 billion people in the world should dress.
If

https://m.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/best-spartan...
After reading that article, it’s hard not to have the angry reaction of “wow, those idiots!” Right!?

But, really, we should look inward. For example, where was the New York Times when all of these bad leadership decisions were made? Were they publishing op-eds with clearheaded prognostications of gloom, and alternative solutions?

And, what about the voters who elected these politicians?

Most importantly, where do we go from here?
Clicker Heroes 1 was very good before they went with Rubies.

I threw some money in the form of Rubies into the game, when it became pay-to-win (to some degree). But really, I was way better than my clicker-guild-mates because I personally had optimized a better strategy than them. So even when others spent Rubies, I personally was able to keep up with them through simply better tactics.

Still, it left a bad taste in my mouth to pay for some in-game benefit. And I knew that if I dumped $100+ more dollars in, my superior tactics + money injection would lead me to higher clicks.

At that point, I just became disgusted with the F2P model and quit Clicker Heroes.

It was a very well programmed game, and I think getting rid of the F2P format will help this game a LOT.
If you do use Instacart, you should definitely opt-out of the "service fee" at checkout and put that money towards the tip directly for your shopper.
An interesting bit of translation:

English original: I specifically apologize for the tactless use of quotes around “her” in a tweet of mine that was offensive to Naomi and all women.

Chinese translation: 我还要特别为我那句不得体的在“her”加双引号的暗示她是变性人言论抱歉，这不仅冒犯到Naomi而且对其他女性来说也是不公平的。

Chinese translated back to English: I am especially sorry for my tactless use of quotes around "her", alluding to that she is transsexual, which is not only offensive to Naomi but also unfair to other women.
I was curious about the Veterinarians and their dominant switch to Actuaries. From what I understand, both of these are "licensed" trades (at least in the US). Can someone please explain the logic behind this.

https://www.evernote.com/l/ASl5vTakJT1BrqerojTCghdg-NYssxXOo...
I could get a much better plan individually on the insurance market with just what my employer pays per month to our insurance trust. On the other hand, I’m also young - a lot of the employees in my company are middle aged or higher, so that contributes a lot to our costs, if I were older it would change a lot of things.

And this ultimately brings us to the reason why universal healthcare would be cheaper. Having our population of 300MM+ spread into so many different risk pools screws with financials of premiums a ton. Even with our aging population we’d be paying significantly less if the entire country was in a single risk pool.
Life generally: To create new life and follow rules that nature and society have created until a threshold reach.

Human life: Do whatever role/job you like. Be happy and die at last.
each chronically homeless individual uses about $30,000 to $50,000 in taxpayer funds per year by cycling in and out of emergency rooms, hospital beds, detox programs, jails, and psychiatric institutions.

Damn, that is a huge amount of money. This can't be unique to the U.S. How do they address this problem in other countries?
That's nice. What makes you think I care to hear about your open contempt and dismissiveness of my opinion?
Front-end microservices with Web Components
Can you tell which ones? ("100 programming books in drive ")
They also have many competitors.
That is appalling. A pox on the businesspersons at DoorDash.
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offshore leaks database: https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/
Old Thing has issues with X, Y and Z.

New Thing solves X and Y but not Z.

Therefore, criticize New Thing for not solving Z.
An example Cherow plugin can be found here: https://github.com/cherow/cherow-dummy-plugin
Give people free 1 month trial.

Don't try to handcuff visitors into 1 yr worth of subscription right off the bat.

If your service worth value - people will stay.
If they wont - learn why not?

I just bought a car yesterday and the dealer gave
3 days/250 miles unconditional money back.
That moved a needle to my decision (even though a little less pricey car was available in the area).
> (which he used, for example, with that shady story when his son was kidnapped).

Read the first-person account by Igor Ashmanov who witnessed the whole incident. [1] Kaspersky's son was found not by FSB, he was found by the unit of Moscow police that was specifically created to deal with kidnappings, with cases like that one. If the story with the kidnapping proves anything, it proves the opposite, that he actually had NO any serious FSB connection.

[1] https://roem.ru/18-10-2017/261503/kaspersky-poprosil-dokazat... and following comments
The success of privatization is dependent on companies operating within a cultural baseline of decency and accountability.

No such culture exists in the US.
Authorities serve Apple a warrant for Texas shooter’s iPhone
What causes a robots electronics to go bad in radioactive environments?
Disclaimer please? :)