skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate that a perfectly valid term like "virtue signalling" is co-opted by a certain side of politics and people from the other side are complicit in that appropriation.

The same thing happened with the term "dog whistle". Which I am sure you would have deployed at some point.

A "virtue signal" is when someone says something for no other reason than to represent something about themselves.

And negative karma doesn't mean anything. All it means is that you had wrong-think in an echo chamber post. One set of negative scores was for pointing out the (inevitable) inefficiency of public services, another was for criticising a guy who complained about an OS dev doing his own project instead of contributing to another one, another was for being critical of new Tech-Allah Elon Musk, and the final one was for calling someone out for being close-minded and spreading FUD about an article they didnt even try to understand.
That’s not really much nicer, is it? That’s 2 weeks, which is an extra cost to the company of 4%. Hardly explains the huge salary discrepancy.
(former Basho engineer and committer on Riak and Antidote)

No, it's not Riak.

[Full disclosure: work was started in 2013/2014, with Basho, as an alternative to Riak and shares Riak Core as a base. At the time, Basho was a member of SyncFree.]

It's built on Riak Core, but it's a lot different from Riak in many ways: no replication in the DC, transactions, more data-types, operation-based CRDTs and not state-based CRDTs, log vs. in-place replacement in the storage backend.

I mean, the analogy is poor: it's even less close than saying that Riak is Cassandra and vice-versa.
Think long-term but build short-term
Oh. The answer here is actually straightforward.

It's because the tax bill needed to pass through reconciliation (which has special rules related to the deficit). Generating artificial savings on paper allowed the GOP to increase the size of the tax cut on paper.
I forget which theater chain it was, but I had one of these subscriptions when I was in London alone, semi-broke and super bored for an entire summer back in 2007.

I must have seen every damned movie that came out over a three month period. It was awesome.
Another way to look at it, especially for someone who got into bitcoin early because of their politics, is that the difference between 20 and 100m is the difference between being able to make enough donations to influence a politician, and buying the New Republic and influencing the conversation (though such plans don't always go so well [1]). At billions, you can think about buying the Washington Post.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/01/...
Thoughts on Qutebrowser
Nice work. You should consider making the state field optional. There is a large expat community who still need to file US taxes (but not state taxes).
> You don't have to go that far back to find a time where most politicians were generally concerned with the welfare of citizens, above all other things.

It's really hard to establish what people in either the present or the past value above all other things, but certainly the idea that political science might be primarily self-interested actors and that those devoted above all to the public interest were notable exceptions is ancient rather than novel.
What data is MoviePass able to collect that Fandango doesn't have access to?
How specifically did it signal to you that they're underpriced?

Because the poster is surprised by this requirement and doesn't have standardized answers to it yet.

In poker, there is this thing called "assigning a range" to someone based on their actions. You can't see their cards, but their actions might give you signal where you could say "Hmm, playing like they have a middle pocket pair and not totally air nor a monster." If sophistication with regards to enterprise sales is a spectrum like poker hands, surprise about certain parts of the process causes me to adjust my range accordingly, and that plus experience working with software people colors my estimate of pricing sophistication.
Hey, I built this in my spare time over the past few days to calculate some of the basic implications of the new House and Senate Tax Bills on personal income taxes.

This is open source and available on GitHub here:
https://github.com/brockwhittaker/House-Senate-Tax-Bills/

If you have any questions or issues, you can open them on GitHub or contact me at: whittakerbrock@gmail.com
Costco sells Regal tickets for $9. But I also live in a small town and can get them for $8.50
CHVote is a fun read. The formal document is here: https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/325.pdf

There's a higher level concept document here: https://github.com/republique-et-canton-de-geneve/chvote-pro...
ditto, it would be nice to show the intermediate calculations in MathML or something. Let us see the flow of money, that is more interesting than anything else.
The claim is that (1) if the value of a currency is unstable, it won't be useful as a medium of exchange, and that (2) whether it's unstable because it's rising or because it's falling does not affect the validity of (1).

The reason for (2) is that an exchange has two parties. If the value of your currency is cratering, it won't work as a medium of exchange because vendors won't accept it, which prevents trade from happening.

If, on the other hand, the value of your currency is rocketing, it still won't work as a medium of exchange because customers won't spend it. That prevents trade just as effectively.
I'm from the Netherlands, in my fifties, but haven't heard of anything like this here. A quick Google of the Dutch internet also turned up nothing.
As a matter of curiosity, is anyone out there using dedicated hosts in a big way for ML? The price/performance is pretty good based on these stats.

(I've used Hetzner in the past--in my experience their hosts are not very reliable but are super cheap.)
Holy history, Batman!

I dragged the sliders around for a minute, and my browser history was completely decimated by identically-named entries.

Maybe replace the existing state rather than pushing the new one?
Tractors are not cars. While they do loose value by not being "new", the ratio is MUCH smaller than for cars.

They have an hour meter for a reason. This is really what people use to tell if it is new.
$62M Gone? Cryptocurrency Mining Market NiceHash Hacked
>I can pay someone to collect debt without selling them the debt.

True. Legislation designed to reduce collections abuse could make contracting illegal or strictly limit outsourcing to companies with operational records that are free of abuse.
Did you hear the recording? That's entirely the range of sounds that good hearing protection dampens.
Most dividends (meaning all "qualified dividends") are taxed the same as long-term capital gains.
"We are working to verify the precise number of BTC taken."

How is this not a simple task?
Who is this most people? Most people on HN, being white collar professional types might benefit in the short term from this bill, but most people across the country are in that under-$30K category that is going to get screwed. I'd be interested in hearing the personal accounts of grad students about to get taxed on their tuition breaks as well. This bill is bad news all the way around.
By this logic the said designer should also get Photoshop source code from Adobe.
Have you scaled the size of the server or added more servers? Would be interesting to know some stats as I'm thinking between DO vs Vultr
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Final: Closing all accounts – portfolio wind-down
>Have we conditioned ourselves to acknowledge pain? It seems to me that we evolved the ability to have pain, which is, by definition, a sensation that grabs your attention right away.

I don't know if I understand what you mean. I agree that we evolved to have pain for a very important reason and that it's extremely useful to react to it differently than other sensations. But does a relatively light, non-life-threatening pain need to take so much of your attention once you realize you're not in danger?

>Am I understanding your phrasing correctly? That, if you're not afraid of death, then physical pain won't bother you at all? I don't think that's right.

I'm not saying submit to it willingly, or not to escape if it's possible, but otherwise yes. To me it's the struggling against the pain that causes suffering.

>Another q: What kind of benefit/enlightenment do you achieve by leaning into the pain of a stubbed toe? Why lean in to it and pretend that you
This is useless if the quality of movies coming out remains the same. I usually only make it out to see a movie every 3-4 months. It's hard to find something worth a 2-3 hours of my time.
If you don’t categorise it as one I guess we’re good. :)
They all have better food than Cinemark, and they all show better films than Cinemark. Most of them have better seats.
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On the other hand:

With hosted Postgres, when a failure does happen, isn't it much harder to get at the log files? They seem extremely useful to diagnose the problem and make sure it doesn't happen again, as the article shows. What's your experiene here, can you get at logs easily with hosted Posgres offerings?

And it seems the only way to get reliable Postgres HA for everyone, and to weed out the bugs, is if more people run Posgres HA themselves. For example, I find Stolon and Patroni great, but I would be more relaxed about them if they had 100x more users.
>>We are a platform to digitally handle real estate titles (to start!) leveraging the blockchain, offering an API for companies so that they can provide their services to homeowners.

The idea looks cool. However, it will be even cooler if you can acquire some paid customers who pay you some money every month.

The reason is, the paid customers can indicate you are attacking a real problem, not a problem that does not exist.

As a note, nowadays blockchain is everything so the chance for blockchain to solve a wrong problem is not low.
"I find that with regular exercise, I am much less prone to depression and anger." Agreed. I think meditation touches upon a different aspect of our everyday lives: it makes us more self-aware and makes us want to think clearly in any given situation. And we learn to calm ourselves even in the most unnerving situations.
Yeah once a month for an hour and a half.
Adsense? I don't remember seeing internal advertisements powered by Adsense. :P
If a university is charging tens of thousands of dollars to some students and waiving those charges for other students because of the work they are doing for the university then that's a value being provided in trade for work. Why shouldn't it be taxed?

Contrariwise if no one is really paying these tens of thousands of dollars in tuition, with the university just eating the "tuition bill" in the case of e.g. an English grad student, then why should a grantor have to pay that tuition bill for a microbiologist grad student on top of her stipend?

I get that this sucks for people caught up in it but I don't see a lot of stepping back and thinking about what makes sense.
> they don't see just 'hey this can work, lets try to make it work elsewhere.' They see 'hey, this is what gamers actually want.'

I'm pretty sure that the executives at EA are in touch enough to know that gamers aren't happy about it.

That said, one of the first things about being an executive in a business is understanding that your customers are your customers as long as they like the product more than they dislike it. The gaming community has a bad case of being extremely vocally critical (which may just be a very loud minority) yet still paying for the game, so there's a big disconnect between how much people complain vs. how much people actually still buy the game.

$800 million in loot boxes from FIFA says "yes, we can get away with it and keep our customers." And then EA steps over the line on a game and learns "ok, now we know there's a line here somewhere, we're going to get as close to it as we can."
Farmers often take 100% depreciation on a new purchase. So for tax purposes they lost 150k and do not have an asset worth 150k sitting around.

Now if they sell the tractor they have to pay taxes on the full sale price as profit since it was previously worth zero.
Industrial scale farming and monocultures don't need GMOs to happen already.

Not sure what food authenticity means... that it's not a cheap Chinese copy?
I'm guessing you didn't grow up on a farm.

There will always be some farmland effectively for sale; but there will also be other farmland which will never be for sale, no matter what the cost. The latter are generally "homeplaces", which have been in the family for generations. Heritage, blood, sweat, and years of hard work bind you to the soil, the land. It's more than an emotional attachment--it's almost spiritual, almost core identity.

It's an essential part of you and who you are.
From my perspective and how I judge it, yes.

If I was investigating some password solution in Go and gloss over a gopass project with 1k stars I would certainly investigate it.

If another project only has two stars it would get investigated later in case gopass doesn't meet my requirements.

That is not the only metric I use but it is a first pass. I don't think anyone has time to analyze every project out there to see if they're good or not.

It's a little like how people filter out some CVs based on X attribute.

Which is unfair and it isn't the perfect metric but when the volume is too big you gotta have a first filter.

Obviously if someone in my network highly recommend a CV, or, in this case, a Golang pass tool, I would investigate it first
Cheers. Whilst entirely off topic, as a Norwegian expat in an English speaking country I do appreciate the correction. :) I found https://writingexplained.org/me-vs-myself-difference which was a nice explanation.
Visualizing Newton's method with WebGL
Not if it really is responsible for keeping billions of dollars flowing.
Phantom Auto plans remote-control centers for robot cars
I don't know what planet you're living on where Uber is somehow out of the game and not completely destroying the demand for taxis.
There's some discussion going on a reddit thread, and people there seem to think this is an inside job

https://www.reddit.com/r/NiceHash/comments/7i0s6o/official_p...
ha! new member to the club? Wish me luck, mate!
Not everyone has self-service butter.
So for $8.99/mo I can go to one movie a month (which is a little higher than matinee pricing around here), but only at Cinemark. Option 2 is spend $1/mo more with MoviePass but I can go to a movie every day, and I can use it at my local independent theater. Kind of a no-brainer here...
I don't know that I'd say "overwhelmingly". I certainly wouldn't have been able to go to grad school under this system.
Phantom Auto uses humans to remotely control self-driving cars in a pickle
I've had zero issues and found the team to be very responsive on Github. I worked with the team to help spec. out the XKCD password generating feature and it was done literally a week later. I've become a bit of an evangelist for the tool!
Wish I had more than one upvote for you, you perfectly summarize the situation for many of us.
I think dclowd9901 was getting at a different question, which I'll present by analogy:

I incorporate with 1,000,000,000 shares of stock. I sell 20 shares of stock to my good friend for $50. Is my company now worth 2.5 billion dollars?

The answer to this worry is that the value of the good (bitcoins or stock shares, or anything else) is reliable in proportion to the total trading volume, not in proportion to the amount one person typically buys in a single transaction, or even the amount that one eccentric rich guy bought that one time when he was drunk.
In Australia, US$5.75 would only get you the popcorn. Until a recent price war, movie tickets for adults have been approaching AU$20.
for the prices paid, it should be done for us. if not by machine, then by hand.
In the winter season, the hue sunrise mode is a great help to waking up well. (when it's still dark outside)
Increasing Perseverance in Math: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Norway
Yes! Semantic UI is used but not fully, only a few but imortant css components like grid, container, input and separator. There's also some old jQuery dependency but is about to be removed since only the Ajax methods are used so it's irrelevant to use jQuery just for that.
Seems like it was about $65 million from various comments on reddit. Address - https://blockchain.info/address/1EnJHhq8Jq8vDuZA5ahVh6H4t6jh...
In some places, 2D tickets cost more than that. You also get 20% off concessions.
Can only really speak for Alamo Drafthouse, but yes to all. Reserve seating ahead of time, order food/drinks off a menu at your seat + sometimes movie-specific menu items.

They do a lot of classic movie showings on various days, there are Signature Series events https://drafthouse.com/austin/series that fit more to a theme, Terror Tuesdays, Afternoon Tea, etc. Master Pancake is also incredibly popular which is a live comedy showing of a movie.
Richest 1% now owns more of US wealth than at any time in past 50 years
> But the more 'real' the test is, the less of your own test it covers relative to all of the other external dependencies.

But the more 'real' the test is, the more of your own assumptions get about how your dependencies work get tested. Assumptions are where most bugs are born and hide.

PS: Sorry for the multiple replies. HN is being glitchy and my previous comment kept getting truncated.
I guess maybe everyone just assumes they already know?

That was really more for people who have never been poor, and can't quite fathom what it's like.
>>Think of it as, in principle, a Twilio for real estate.

Twilio is famous for its simplicity - With one line of code or two, you can send a message or make a call.

In this case, may you show me some pseudocode to call your APIs for the most popular use cases? From that, I can know if it is a Twilio for real estate. Thanks.
1992 because it's the first report.

Here's a decent summary:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_hiatus

'climate is classically averaged over 30-year periods.[5]'

'Publicity has surrounded claims of a global warming hiatus during the period 1998–2013. The exceptionally warm El Niño year of 1998 was an outlier from the continuing temperature trend, and so subsequent annual temperatures gave the appearance of a hiatus: by January 2006, it appeared to some that global warming had stopped or paused.[2] A 2009 study showed that decades without warming were not exceptional,[6] and in 2011 a study showed that if allowances were made for known variability, the rising temperature trend continued unabated.'

Essentially in 5 years we'll have enough data to confirm / deny the 1992 predictions, currently it's an unproven theory because of a lack of forward data. We're essentially using consensus as a proxy for a falsification of the null hypo
Not everyone has a Nexus or Pixel. It's BYOD except for Corp phones.
I'm confused too.

I would like to see that data Brock Whittaker used to make this tool.

It's funny how I just assume a well done app is correct.

I don't have any reason to question Brock, but we need the parameters. I looked him up, and didn't see any reason to question him.

And yes, it looks like those making 1-3 million will pay more.

If this is the case; I'm for the bill. The only Rebublican I trust is Mccain. If he's going for it--it might be ok.

(I would like to see this app with projected tax saving on corporate income. Actually, I get it now. The wealthy will set up more corporations overnight, and pay themselfs a nominal wage. All their income will be taxed at a lower rate than than the rest of us. Warren Buffet's secretary will still pay more taxes than Warren--percentage wise. CPA's will be busier than ever.)
It's not a binary decision, the royalty structure is set in stone by movie studios and distributors. Theaters have no choice right now on how to license the movies and that's the part that is unsustainable (because theaters have almost no control over the price of a ticket). That's the truth of why the theater model is unsustainable and is more and more hard pressed to get traffic.

Giving theaters more lee-way on how to pay for the movies they are licensing will allow for much more competitive opportunities and differentiation between theaters.
Running Mesos Application Frameworks on Kubernetes W Universal Resource Broker
On my desktop, it seems to work pretty well in Virtualbox -at least until I tried to install Office 2010 on it.

It doesn't seem to deal well with the audio and network drivers, though.

I had no luck installing visual studio 6 in my vm. My old copy of borland 5 seems to be installing just fine, though.

Edit: I may have spoken too soon; I had to run bcw.exe manually, and got a message about 16 bit WoW not being supported.
Wow it must have just went up. I looked and saw nothing.
> If your code depends on an external service, should your integration test actually make a (test) request to the real live service endpoints?

That's a terrible idea. You've now coupled your tests to someone else's code.

Test the endpoints separately. Wrap the endpoints to allow you convenient dependency injection. Test the wrapper. This wrapper is ideally a very thin layer of boilerplate, that you won't ever touch very much, and shouldn't take much time to write or test.

But this is the key, however: use the data specifying the expected outputs of your third party API as input parameters to the test of the wrapper, and expected outputs from the wrapper as parameters for your integration tests. Keep each set of data in one place, so that changing it for one test, changes it for the others.

By using shared test datasets in this way, you prevent modules from getting out of synch with each other, and can still replace/update parts in separation.
To add on Kendall's comment.

Amazon owns the BLAZEGRAPH trademark:
https://www.trademarkia.com/blazegraph-86498414.html

Blazegraph's CEO is currently at Amazon as Principal Product Manager:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradley-bebee-a15764b/
They probably need to contact lawyers first
Had to look up their page (getfinal.com). Had I known about this product, I probably would have embraced it. Wish the team the best of luck, and hope it gets revived!
Did you even read the article you linked? There is a reason all the bay area tech companies have offices in Dublin Ireland... 12.5% corporate rate.

> The long answer: The U.S. has the highest top corporate tax rate at least among advanced economies. Compared with nations in the OECD — the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group of highly developed countries — the U.S. has the highest top corporate tax rate in the world.
Are you implying that college/university should be cheaper?