skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the farm in my family indirectly exports some crops to China (as in crops go to a port which takes them to China): the import/export relationship is not one-way. it (China) is a large country by population, and while that's got to be one of the factors driving economic growth --- steel industry and various forms of tech and manufacturing (rise of ODMs, etc.) --- now that the government is increasingly (indirectly) opting into the IMF, there are also a lot of people to feed.

debt can be viewed as another word for "relationship."

and it's cool in some ways, yet in other ways kind of a shame: debt from the United States is, to some degree, buying into the military-industrial complex. valuing China's money is, in part, condescending to a rather selective perspective on human rights. hopefully the guanxi flows to the best in each rather than the worst.

i don't pretend to understand the international economy. however, with the sort of logistics enabled by modern communications technology, i suspect that it's a lot more feasible to completely pack one large barge with a variety of goods than it used to be, making for lower-cost shipping than one might expect.
I see what you mean. I was thinking of smaller granularity, less than an entire HTTP request. You have a good point.
I want to throw some anecdata on this.

Someone I know could be considered a high profile target. A few months back I helped him migrate from Internet Explorer, to Chrome.

I was onsite for most of an afternoon helping the process. For the next few weeks I received phone calls because he was lost and needed help.

I've seen Reddit comments on people in similar positions with statements like "they should be on Qubes OS, period" or "they should use Tails only" or "anyone in that position should be using deblobbed Thinkpad".

I can only tell those commentators they have tried to help such a person. Thank you for a much more realistic view on the situation.
Just more anecdata; most of the Scala positions I've seen are data engineering roles with Spark. I need to look harder for Scala roles without Spark.
So in a way driving Uber is like taking a loan from your future self. You have a car and need money. Uber gives you good gross pay. 5 years down the road when you have to sell or repair your car, that's when you have to pay up for all the wear and tear.

It's really a shame to see who gets rich off this. As a rider, these services are incredibly convenient. But I wish I wasn't basically relying on unpaid labor.
Something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKUE62hOvHM
The link to the meetup group is here:

https://www.meetup.com/Hacker-News-NYC
I was nominally in charge of making Diablo 2 localizeable from the USA side but all I did was make all the text into resources loaded at run time that had some scrolling speed information embedded into so that scrolling text could match different spoken language speeds/text length for text that was more than one over head speech bubble in length. I handed off text data file to a parent company team in Ireland that translated it to all the European languages we supported. We could check the Spanish in house but had to trust them for every other language. I think we had contractors in the Far East do the Japanese/Chinese/Korean translations. The team in Ireland early on provided a function/sprintf format for possessive/of the/gender specific/other idioms that didn't translate well with just substitution so I merged that back into the source code/text data and didn't have to touch the source code after that for localization text resources and we released the game worldwide mostly simultaneously (I think we had a slight delay for Far East for some reason) in 2000. We just used Excel for most of the data driven parts of the game like Vagrant Story and the game could read a text csv file in debug mode and a binary excel file in production. I imagine most games that are something like this now.
The cynical answer, which is absolutely valid, is that a lot of people don't accurately estimate the marginal costs of operating their vehicles.

That said. You need to compare to not minimum wage but minimum wage that takes into account commuting and random scheduling BS. As a somewhat counterexample, I was talking to a recent grad at a Meetup a couple weeks ago who was looking to get into CS things who was going out to drive for a few hours after the Meetup. Not something you can do with a McD's job.

I'm no fan of the gig economy in general but there are some advantages to on-demand work so long as every agrees that there isn't a lot of money to be made. As a full-time job I fully agree with MMM.
Piggy-backing on this thread:
Any interest in a Philly meetup?
They don't live there, they just come there to drive. http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/When-Their-Shifts-End...
$0.50 of vehicle costs per mile does not compute. If you're spending $30 a day on gas and driving 250 miles, you can just rent a car for the week at a daily rate of $30 or less, and come out with $60/day in costs rather than his stated $125, which makes the whole thing quite a bit more profitable. Probably profitable enough that my poor as shit unskilled and unemployed college self would have been better off doing that than tutoring during the summers.

Am I missing something?
Well it's before tax as far as I could tell, unless Uber withholds. Granted you can probably deduct the IRS standard per-mile expense allowance.
This is how I imagine Flowtype works for Javascript (more or less). What's interesting to me, is that this could be the foundation for AIs taking over programming from developers.
It's good to see Mozilla's ramped up PR, but given how deeply entrenched Chrome is, I doubt it will be enough. That is why we developers, if we support Firefox's/Mozilla's mission, must make it our goal to spread the word. I'm setting a personal goal to let 5 (non-tech) people (mostly in my family) know about this.

I've only seen tech articles/blog posts for Mozilla's PR, so while that is great, they may need to expand their efforts to include the general public. Chrome did speed-test television ads [0] like, Is Chrome faster than a potato cannon? that were appealing to a general audience. Not suggesting Mozilla do this. Perhaps reaching out to universities and school districts to adopt Firefox as their default browser? At my university if you went on a public computer all it had on the desktop was Chrome, so guess what people are going to use, not only on school computers but on their personal devices? The same is true for my high school.

I commend Mozilla for their giant task at hand, taking on such a technological behemoth that has uncountable benefits when it comes to advertising their browser.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCgQDjiotG0
It does give them enviable control, but the security is a valid point. A browser engine has a wide surface area for attack vectors as it features multiple parsers and a JS engine.
I wonder how many people are struggling financially with btc sitting in accounts that they will never remember to retrieve.
I think IPv6 privacy extensions are a bit overrated in their usefulness. What I mean, at least for most residential deployments, is that the first 64 bits (the prefix) is the same no matter what you do with the last 64. Even if the exact IPv6 suffix is randomized your address can still be linked to an account by its suffix. Unless you are a part of a large network suffix randomization won't do much good. And large networks are probably better with DHCPv6 anyway. If only Google implemented DHCPv6 for Android...
I think he's actually wrong.

It's definitely higher than marginal $5/hour, it's just not $5 net profit per hour. You take into account the fixed costs of owning and maintenance on the vehicle (which don't entirely vary directly with mileage driven) and it becomes a smart economic choice to drive Uber even if you're "losing money" each hour - because your marginal gross profit is higher than if you were sitting on the couch.
I use ` as the prefix. For when I install tmux on a remote server and use a nested tmux session: ¡ (alt + 1) is my prefix.

My bindings (very happy with them): https://github.com/skilbjo/dotfiles/blob/master/tmux/keybind...
It would be fascinating to know if Mozilla's financing model makes advertising a no-brainer, i.e. the cost of switching 1,000 users is more/less than the search bar revenue from 1,000 users.
Chickenfries attacks YSFEJ4SWJUVU6 based on chosen handle. Perfect.
Sorry, my comment was meant to be informative and is in no way an attack. I don't have anything more to say, if you want to know more, take a class.
C-\ is an interesting choice.

I use C-_, which can be "triggered" with C-7 and often with C-/.
I have a policy of drinking alternate years. I tried alternate months first. Didn't work for me. I spent most of my off months longing for them to end so I could enjoy another on month. It was too much effort. So I switched to year on, year off. This works. The drinking horizon is so far away that there's no pressing anticipation. I know I'll get to drink again some day and enjoy great IPAs and wine. But for now, I'm off. I'm going to miss wine with my meals and lubricated socializing, and that's ok. I've put my drinking in check. I own it. It doesn't own me.

I felt I had to do this because when I drink, I drink too much. I consider "too much" to be any amount that impairs my sleep, which for me is often as little 2 or 3 drinks. During my on years, like the current one, I'm pestered by a mental dialog about whether I should drink now, am I drinking too much, why did I drink so much last night, should I just have one, well maybe two... This undermines the harmony of my life. But I live with it so I can enjoy drinking. It's a sort of evil pact to preserve a pleasure.

The upside to alternate years is that I can really observe clearly the difference in my behavior and quality of life. Life really does change for the better in my off years. I do different things, spend time with different friends. It's a different approach to life. But I would never plan to go a month trip through Italy on an off year. On and off years have their own special uses.

Like you, I'm also a runner. I rarely miss a day. And there is no doubt that my running suffers when I drink. The upside to being a daily runner, at least for me, is that running takes priority over almost everything, including drinking. So even in on years, my running helps keep the drinking in check.

I wonder if anyone has found a drug, legal or illegal, that mimics the positive affects of alcohol but has little or no downside, like hangover and addiction?
IQ tests are not culturally biased. This is a decades out of date canard. Some tests, like Raven's Progressive Matrices, don't even require the test giver and taker to share a language. IQ, as a statistic, washes out almost every other psychometric in predictive validity -- there are a staggering number of psychology papers which pointedly do not include IQ because whatever predictive power their metric purports to have is totally overridden by IQ. There are many subfields of intelligence and two major categories (fluid and crystal) so it's true that intelligence can't be defined as a single number, but this is a strawman since intelligence researchers have never said this.
The US and Russia are fighting over the extradition of Yevgeniy Nikulin
Bitwarden is open-source and has been working well for me as a LastPass replacement so far.
Still the same :)
> I feel deranged pointing this out, but hiring triple the headcount you need to run your business is not a progressive social value. I don't know what it is.

Now I am curious. What's so wrongheaded about it?
Ctrl-_, which is sent by Ctrl + 7 and/or Ctrl + / in most terminals.
This paper is what started a lot of things now still in used today, the tribe model:

http://www.pingz.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/tr...
The DOM "proper" (created by markup or user agent) and the global JavaScript scope.
Facial recognition is tracking customers as they shop in stores
That is entirely redefining what net neutrality actually is, then arguing that because it's not 100% effective at solving the redefined problem, we shouldn't do it at all.

Net neutrality is mostly about last mile.

If your town has five restaurants but one has signed contracts so it's the only one that serves your favorite type of beer, you can argue that it's unfair and beer regulation is necessary, but that's an entirely different problem than if a cop stands at the end of your driveway and physically prevents you from leaving if you are even thinking of going to one of the other restaurants. Or maybe worse, only allows you to go to one of the other restaurants. It's not a stretch to say once the cop is there, they can also regulate what other stores you go to, what products you bring into your house, what delivery companies are allowed, or what type of car you can drive.

Net neutrality mainly prevents that cop from standing there. It doesn't attempt to solve all possible ways your freedoms can be restricted, but it does try to tackle a pretty damn invasive and wide reaching one you otherwise can't do much about.
Commercial use is almost certainly prohibited in your rental car contract. Also, Uber requires a vehicle inspection before driving.
> Carp compiles to C...It also likely doesn’t matter much, because chances are your machine has a C compiler.

Whether or not I can compile the code is only one of the many concerns to consider when picking between C and LLVM.
As far as the Obama appointment, let me be a bit more specific. It has been customary for a looong time for the majority party to allow the minority party to appoint two members of the FCC. In fact, legally the majority party can only have three of the five seats. So even if Obama/Congress had gone against tons of precedent and not accepted Pai as the nominee, McConnell would have just sent another similar nominee in his place. There was nothing to be gained by being obstructionist other than slowing down the appointment.

I’ll look into the sources you provided and reply to that portion after I’ve had a chance to watch them.

As far as Google Fiber, I think there are several reasons it hasn’t gone well. It was far more difficult and expensive than expected for them to roll it out. This had to do with many problems getting permits, digging and laying fiber, and getting sued by existing ISPs. Then the existing ISPs (who are far better at marketing their services and already have a huge user base that rarely switches providers) immediately increased bandwidth or decreased prices as soon as Google moved into new areas. Thus the consumers greatly benefited when Google Fiber arrived in their town but they had little incentive to actually switch to Google. For example, Time Warner announced in North Carolina that it was boosting its customers from 50 mbps to 300 mbps (for no additional charge) as soon as Google announced they would start rolling out fiber. See http://www.zdnet.com/article/i-wish-google-fiber-was-in-my-n...

Let’s also not forget most ISPs are also large TV and phone companies so they can offer bundles or loss leaders that a new entrant like Google cannot.

This is a great rundown of the many reasons why Google Fiber hasn’t gone well: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-google-fiber-failed...

I really don’t think it was regulations that caused their biggest issues. In fact, if there had been additional regulations requiring shared access to utility poles and other infrastructure then they could have actually tried to compete on a level playing field. Instead you see things like in Louisville and Nashville where “Google faced lawsuits from incumbents over the use of existing infrastructure like utility poles to hang its fiber cables.” I’d love to hear from Pai how undoing net neutrality will suddenly get Google and much smaller players access to utility poles and other basic requirements for launching service.
You don't need marginalism to explain that making some money doing Uber given fixed costs for your car is better than making no money at all and incurring same or similar costs.
It’s probably against the terms of the rental agreement to do any commercial driving.
~$.50 a mile isn't a made up number, it's what the federal government has calculated as the cost of driving for business purposes. Actual value is 53.5 cents a mile.

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/2017-standard-mileage-rates-for...

Students are usually under 25 thus largely are unallowed to rent cars.

I doubt using a rental car for this type of business is allowed under the terms of a rental contract or under Uber's rules.

Insurance isn't free.
The $.50 per mile is egregiously high, and he doesn’t mention where it comes from. If you make it $.25 or $.30/mile the numbers work out much better. Still not super high pay, but livable. Not to mention the fact that he’s measuring the most efficient part of a job that an Uber driver could calculate - a suburb in the middle of the day.
True, though for some reason I thought it was assuming a spherical frictionless chicken....

Probably just as well that I didn't remember to add using a subscription-based UTM firewall at each location.
Anyone with a heavy accent have these 'coincidences'? I imagine that a thick accent (Scots,etc) would be much harder to have this happen to.
Clojure + Rust => Carp?
I’m currently on month 5 of TSM, and almost never drink. Highly recommend it for anyone struggling. This TEDx talk was what convinced me to try it:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6EghiY_s2ts

Prior to TSM, I was in pretty bad shape — so grateful I discovered it

Using a throwaway account here. Wish I didn’t feel like I had to :(
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/2017-standard-mileage-rates-for...
Personally, I prefer no autofill. I always turn it off.
It's their to decision to drive Uber. It's not a shame, it's an economic decision people are making. The drivers are not victimized by Uber
It's taken from the same playbook as their refusal to support open video codecs in WebRTC. Apple is the new IBM, using money and market share to keep out challengers. If Steve Jobs were getting started today we'd have a picture of him standing in front of the Apple logo giving it the finger.
No, but I am sure that there're people who do.
Browser integration is poor at best. I've given it multiple goes and walked away disappointed every time.
But the question "is simulation possible, and if yes what it can look like" is new, and can have useful answers.

That is pretty interesting, but now how most people formulate the issue. After all, what we could simulate, or what could be simulated in a universe like ours, in principle is pretty interesting. The question of what another reality simulating us would be like isn't, because it could be absolutely anything at all. Questions without the hope of answers are, to me at least, not interesting.
Coin money and regulate its value, yes. Print money, no. The distinction is crucial, and the choice of words deliberate. There's a reason why the Fed is a pseudo-private institution, not just another government agency.
Autofill with shortcuts would be my vote.
Some people here don't like to be reminded that their "disruptive concepts" are copy-and-pastes of what someone has already done, their websites are file-by-file rip-offs, and their only marketing idea is to harvest emails from better companies' customers.
To start with, you're going to be violating your rental car contract. Also, irrelevant at that point, but you're probably not going to be able to get a rental car for $30--after all taxes etc.--if you don't carry your own insurance and there are going to be various costs if you do get into an accident.
What a stupid article. Like many words, the term "proof" has more than one meaning, and it has a different meaning in science than mathematics.
1. Chances are 1 in a 100 by default.

2. Chances are significantly lower considering that this collaboration started only recently on the new installs from the website. Judging by his comment, I don't think he's a new Firefox user.

Of course, the chance is still there, but I would argue that it's low enough to be negligible, at least for him.
Google patents a laptop with a self-opening lid
2017 ? :/
> I believe Coq uses a variant of a bidirectional type inference engine, which is quite usable in practice.

Edit (too late to edit the original comment): After thinking about the kinds of type errors I've seen in my proofs, I think Coq's inference algorithm is based on unification (not bidirectional?). Whatever it is, it's quite nice to work with in any case.
Ask HN: Would you pay for one-to-one Vim coaching?
Color Phenomenon Created by Halo Bacteria
Social constructionism is lunacy why?
I am also curious as Chrome could be collecting some ads tracking data safari wouldn't be. Is it that easy to break into Safari still?
> There were many developers quite interested in larger block size for many years

Yet, they weren't around when it came time to make it happen.

> Segwit2x had over 90% of the hashpower of the bitcoin world voting for it

Yet, it had a deeply flawed software development process.

> it is still the best measure of consensus and support the network has

Yet the miners stated that they would only mine the fork for 12 hours, do you know why? Because they would have been mining at a (relative) loss. Really undermines this measure of consensus. Maybe the best measure is the market price of the coin.

> I think that the survival and modest success of Bitcoin Cash eroded the initial overwhelming support for Segwit2X.

Basically, Bitcoin Cash is what Segwit2x should've been: an honest, replay-protected coin for people who think a money's value comes from its base layer payment system's transactions per second.
Ah, fair enough - I was just wondering because I've known Uber drivers that do exactly this, and have given me advice on where to find cheaper rental cars.
The point is when you don't know what you are looking for exactly. The Abobe products are a good example of this. I don't use Photoshop often so I forget where stuff is. Having a lot of menus and each menu having a large number of options makes it difficult for a novice user (like me) to find the resize image dialog, for example. To be fair, Photoshop is designed for experts and expert users will learn an interface no matter how crappy it is so it isn't a big deal in this case. But the endless options and menus do make it harder for novice users.

If the menus and options were grouped in way that is in line with human psychology, it would be easier for novice users to find that one option. I know the Office ribbon gets flack on HN but Miller's Law is one of the big reasons for the Office ribbon and how it is designed which makes it a lot easier for novice and intermediate users to find that one option in Office.