skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> advisers to the super-rich are warning them of a “strike back” from the squeezed majority

That's an understatement. When revolutions come, the rich are always the first at the guillotine.

Of course, that's rather unlikely, but these people have so much money that they can afford to make that consideration.
Pure speculation dressed up as news.
The situation is more complex than candidates' election spending. For example, many of the groups in [1] influence various radio and television programs, and through those, elections.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_activities_of_the_Ko...
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Haven't you ever caught yourself checking Hacker News, Facebook, any other social media site once too often?
The question isn't about vetting one person - it is about laying out a general rule that we won't accept people from countries where terror cells are common and the rule of law and record keeping is weak.
I assume you meant retention is super high :)
Then create a better company then those people and give away your wealth.
Ten Silver Linings in 2017
I rather suspect if it was possible to arbitrage the crypto´s, then we wouldn´t be seeing these kinds of fluctuations.
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iCloud Keychain doesn't work with all apps or even all browsers, when it doesn't there's no trivial way of copying in a password, it isn't cross-platform, and you cannot import or export existing passwords.

I consider the other products listed as actual competitors of Lastpass, I don't even rank iCloud Keychain that high, it lacks even basic features.
2017: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics
1st row, 3rh d column, there's your sun symbol.
Swastikas came much later, sun does not look like a swastika and has nothing to do with "Nordic Runes", whatever that might mean.

Nothing to do with German laws either, considering they don't cover research. Please help stop this nonsense.
That is because range extenders just rebroadcast so you cut your bandwidth in half with every hop
> It's a political stance against Israel's violations of international law by creating settlements and trying to annex them into Israel (among other things).

This is the BDS viewpoint. The Israeli viewpoint is that BDS's singular focus on Israel to the exclusion of other human rights violation is a form of anti-Semitism. Though I am weary of endless Israeli claims of anti-Semitism, looking at the founders of BDS, this viewpoint is not without a kernel of truth. Without endorsing either view, it's important to recognize that for the Israelis, this is "banning hate speech" not "banning certain political views." Many many countries (including the US and UK) ban foreigners with a record of hate speech from entering their country.

> Banning people because they don't agree with your politics is exactly what Saudi is doing.

No. Saudi Arabia bars all Jews and Atheists from entering the country, regardless of their political ideas. Disbelief in God is not a political viewpoint by any normal standard.
Would be great to be able to filter some exchanges. Personnally I would not trade on CEX.IO
Those all got written permission to use the name.

See a similar discussion from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15991785
This is the theory that I'd heard behind the strategy. Having not experienced it myself, I'm curious how it plays out in practice. It seems they have a high true positive rate and low false negative (i.e., properly suspecting people who should be suspected), but perhaps also a somewhat high false positive rate? This still would be favorable in my eyes to the security in America.
Because with large amounts of money comes enormous power -- especially in a mostly unregulated free market system. Power to influence the political conversation through media. Power to directly influence law makers through lobbyists and donations. Power to buy your way out of punishment ($100 speeding ticket or parking ticket is nothing to someone with millions or billions of dollars. It provides zero disincentive.)

When inequality gets high enough and power concentrated enough, Democracy decays towards oligarchy, social mobility grinds to a halt, what was a free and relatively classless system becomes an ossified aristocracy and freedom slowly devolves to a dystopian tyranny.

We're already seeing the beginning of this process in American society. Already, we have substantial evidence supporting the idea that Democracy has decayed into Oligarchy -- and it did so several decades ago. [1]

This matters if you value a free and just society. It matters a lot.

[1] https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
People who do not contribute to society are what we call parasites. Just because your father or grand-grand-father did something useful to the world doesn't justify that you have to live like a king. Modern society destroyed the old feudal order exactly to avoid this kind of social injustice.
Yes. Thanks. :)
This is true for worldwide poverty. This is not true for US poverty.
Did Bill Gates exploit you? Please explain how.
Reads far more about an advertisement that barely has details than an actual review or comparison article as the headline suggests.
That’s Boom’s business plan explicitly. Cut down the flight time to a couple of hours and you don’t need to offer a bed, making the per seat cost comparable.
I saw some blogs theorize that nefarious bots are also increasing apparent spread—e.g. painting the tape on gdax to skim from coinbase cash whales—and so little of the everyday trading activity is human, that if you try to arb it, all of a sudden the spread disappears. It even makes sense that the entity responsible for this website is trying to combat effects like this by driving the spread down. What reasons can you think of for someone to make this website?
This article is a mess.

- Shows Pixel 2 XL image at the top

- Refers to the phone as the Pixel 2 (non-XL) all throughout the article

- Uses the dimensions of the Pixel 2 (non-XL)

- Uses the resolution of the Pixel 2 XL

- Uses the price of the non-XL

Unless he's implying both phones are the phone of the year, this is nothing but confusing.
Not OC, sorry to disappoint: https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/7lvrm9/elon_musk...
I would presume that in large corporations where AMT isn't actively used for configuration management, corporate IT will almost always have disabled AMT in the BIOS. Am I wrong about this?
I salute those that stand up for human rights for others, even when the oppression doesn't affect them. But then again, there is also nothing wrong with refusing to do something based on direct oppression to the person. You are right that people should stand up for rights of others too but this is a different discussion.

Here we have a woman that is expected to go to a country where she has to be escorted around by males, and is told how to dress. So this is directly affecting her, and her dignity. Maybe some will take the higher cash payments and not care if they have to become a second tier human for a bit, which is also fine. But this woman doesn't want to regardless of what the Saudis are paying.

I don't think she is trying to be a human rights champion, she is standing up for her dignity. I am glad the Saudis are making some progress on women's rights, but I also salute this woman for not wanting to take part while there is still blatant discrimination towards women/
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Because they don't trust the Iranian government to provide accurate and complete information about her.

Previous administrations may have extended that trust, but that doesn't prove they were correct to do so.
> The Israeli viewpoint is that BDS's singular focus on Israel to the exclusion of other human rights violation is a form of anti-Semitism.

This is called "whataboutism" btw and is a recognized logical fallacy. It can be used against any group who tried to raise awareness of a specific injustice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
As opposed to explained mysteries? /s
Did you read the article, which is explicitly making this point (only, with actual argument instead of assertion)? Or do you just troll HN responding to headlines?
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Some guy from IIRC Texas got arrested in connection with some letter bomb terrorist stuff. IIRC the only connection was the fingerprint. His lawyers basically assumed he did it until some other law enforcement agency finger printed some guy in North Aftrica who fit all the other evidence (i.e. he was known to them as the kind of guy who would be involved in that stuff) and his prints matched as well. I saw it mentioned as a small anecdote in a paper/article/blog about the "rigor" of the forensic "sciences".

Google couldn't help me find the original source.
Ask HN: Tourist Things to Do in Bay Area?
I have some friends visiting soon and wondering what are some good touristy things to do in the Bay Area.
Multiplying a matrix by a matrix is a lot more expensive than a vector by a matrix.
Yes indeed! It seems the people down voting my comment don’t agree.
As one of the suckers that preordered the 4gb version, I'd strongly caution against getting one.

I've tried every OS released for it, and they're all rife with bugs producing kernel panics aplenty. This makes running the unit as headless unfeasible. I drawer'd it and replaced it with a tried-and-true Odroid c-2. Btw if you're looking at SMBs, check out dietpi.com, its well maintained and brings a world of functionality to SMBs
Why would overall production drop when there is more capital in the market?

Maybe read up a bit on fiscal multipliers. Government spending (redistribution) is one of the better ones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_multiplier
Negative prices in the short term are good for consumers if they are a realistic price signal. Not letting the prices go below zero would have a similar effect as not letting the prices go below 5 or 10, you would be hiding information from the system for abitrary reasons. It's really only human psychology that makes the 0 seem more momentous, just as the odomoter ticking over 10000 seems more momentous than the mile before that.

Usually when I've read about negative prices "caused by renewables" it's been the case that there is actually still some non renewable running. The negative price is sending them a signal, namely, that inflexible sources will be penalized more than flexible sources. Someone planning to build a new coal, nuclear or gas plant will take these negative prices into consideration and influence them to prefer more flexible solutions, even if it costs more, because the flexibility will be rewarded (or, equivalently, lack of flexibility will be penalized).
Telegram to Launch Its Own Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
I use 1Password at work. It's not very good and doesn't seem to work on linux, which I need for work. Add to that really clunky user management...it's just not that great usability wise. I've never been able to get it to autofill either. Lastpass on the other hand just works on all my devices. We were using Keepass before but syncing was such a massive PITA that my wife wouldn't use it. Now she at least uses Lastpass with a better password than what she was using before, but I suspect until we're robbed she's not going to see the value in security. Don't get me started on her and the 2FA grievances.
Top 500 YouTubers see their subscribers_count increase by 100 million this year. Meanwhile, I got 0 increase in subscribers. It's not fair!

Just imagine how much influence these popular YouTubers have compared to regular folks, the impact they have on cultural and political life. Should we allow a tiny group of YouTubers to have such a massive subscribers_count and influence?

I say NO! Behind every popular YouTube channel lies a great crime.
That’s where we are now. We integrated sponsored content so much, that we don’t even get angry when some bloggers, writing under his own personal name, seems to have been paid to write a piece of ad, in what is supposed to be a personnal opinion.

This whole culture needs to go down the sh_tter. We tolerate youtubers lying about things they like, bloggers lying about their own opinions, companies hidding abusive conditions in their terms of usage, reselling private data, and we consider it all fine because it’s made for the purpose of gaining money.

Man, capitalism isn’t about moral, but even capitalistic societies need some kind of ethic...
Actually, he ships around giant blocks of random numbers in a k of n format to be reassembled as a one-time pad.
Beware cheaping out on wifi kit I have bitter experiance of trying to use POS dlink kit to provide wifi in our new office.

But for home use multiple AP's with powerline to connect them is actualy a simpler solution than mesh as using wifi for the DS (distribution system ) is always going to be slower than a wired.
> This is an incredibly fanboy-y article even by Gruber standards.

Agreed... this was the most Gruber-y he's ever Grubered: "Is the higher price of the iPhone X over the iPhones 8 justified? [...] But you also get something you can’t compare in a checkmark comparison — a sort of joie de vivre."

> I'm not sure he's physically capable of criticizing Apple, even if he wanted to.

That's definitely not true. While he generally likes their products, he's definitely critical of them when he thinks they mess up. If all you read of his are these posts shared on HN, you'll probably only read his glowing reviews. And if you don't like his writing, then sure, there's no point in seeking him out. But don't assume that because you don't read his criticisms, that he doesn't—can't!—write them, because he most assuredly does.
I think there's a few things you're missing. I'm a bleeding-heart liberal, but I think that with UBI in place, I'd be willing to let go of minimum wage. Of forcing companies with enough full time employees to provide benefit X. Of laws forcing employees to join a union. Etc.

Also, worker productivity is through the roof. Perhaps we can talk about giving back some of those production gains, if it funds things we like.
Stack Overflow Gives Back 2017
it's a great question to ask. Lots of great takeaways to be had from their culture, and many would do well to try and adopt some of them.

But what i've observed is there is a tendency to rationalize away much of what basecamp advocates. Sure, it SOUNDS smart and good, but who needs frameworks really? "Rails is overkill" Or work/life balance? "it's about the hustle" or job satisfaction? "we're changing the world of ___".

Basecamp is championed because at every decision, a reflection is made on the impact it has on the workers. That's why they created ruby on rails and why it is the most productive and enjoyable to use. That's why they hire remote and build a tool that helps remote workers. That's why they have sane project schedules, sane work schedules, and give back where they can. They are a creator focused organization, and optimize for creativity and focus.

Most companies do not make such optimizations for their workforce. They have their own specific vision, their own timetable, and their own checkboxes to hit: staffing numbers, tech stack choices, retention numbers, sales goals, etc. To them, workers are more cog-like and treated as such. There's also often venture funding involved - which creates specific pressures that basecamp is specifically free from.

TLDR: It takes a degree of humility, stubbornness, charity, empathy and perspective to do the things basecamp does for the reasons basecamp does it; that most do not posses or have interest in. But we would do well to raise these as standards and expectations; the demand for real leadership of a company.
> but overall production would drop

Citation/explanation needed. I don't see it working out this way – that seems like a dramatic simplification of the economics at play.
Are you still at risk from it? If a policeman (or powerful person able to tell the police what to do) decided he was sick of you, could he simply run you out of town (back to where you came from)?
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How does this affect SGX?
If there's no relevant term from the domain, that's an indication (at least for me) that the class hierarchy is wrong. I've been programming for 15 years and I've never found myself without a proper domain-oriented name for a class...
Also worth noting that they are highly popular among marketers and community managers. It does not say anything about "what they do", but I guess it says something about how well they do it :)
I really wanted to like tup, but I feel like it's just missing to many 'basic' things, along with being a bit annoying to setup and use. The big thing for me is that there is no `tup clean`, and also no way to create phony targets or multiple targets like with `make` - and they're not excluded because of complexity reasons, but because they just don't think it should be the job of the build system [0]. Which, they might be right, but if I can't actually replace my full Makefile's with Tupfiles, but instead have to replace it with Tupfiles + Makefile/shellscripts/installscripts/etc. then Tup is a lot less appealing to me. This is especially an issue since the scripts have no way of accessing the Tup information.

With that said, I was curious how this project got around the 'install' problem, but it seems like they were largely able to just side-step the issue. They build an `initrd` from tup, and the `initrd` Tupfile copies all of the compiled executables into their proper folders before generating the `initrd`. So the projects themselves can't install themselves directly onto a system.

[0] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tup-users/Kxw1nnXK12o/my4IYt...
I think 4W that is for professional ptp use only.
Maybe. But that would mean people with lower standards replace people with higher standards. I don't think it's the right direction.
The elevated chance of an exchange going down in the middle of a crisis is actually a major source of the risk that one needs to take into account when evaluating the expected profitability of arbitrage strategies.
Do you mind defending your argument with some actual sources?

There's too many bullshitters on this forum (and pretty much everywhere on the web) that like to drop conspiracy theories into legitimate conversations and then never stick around to defend them or provide any credibility.

It's an incredibly useless and frustrating distraction when people do this.
I didn't use the word invention, I used the word development. There was no connotation about naturalness in what I said. Neither did I make a moral judgment on the development of private property. So, why are you imposing on my words an argument that I wasn't making?

> e.g. When an ancient king had land, and let poor people work the land in exchange for a part of their production, what would you call that? Sure sounds like, "the extraction of surplus value via property relations and wage labor" to me.

Ok, if you want me to be more precise, private property relations, which are very different from feudal property relations. In fact, since property is a legal construct, this aspect of the development of capitalism could be called an invention, and the idea that capitalist forms of property are particularly ""natural and organic"" compared to other forms is quite suspect-- at least without any argument provided for it. As a foot note, one of the processes that developed private property was Enclosure [0] which was by no means nonviolent.

But I'm not going to try to be as precise and rigorous as a history textbook in Internet comments I compose in between compiles. Feel free to believe that capitalism is natural and organic, or read a history book. Idk.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure
Google Maps does that.
Tup is a file-based build system
It's strangely quiet compared to everything except B787 and A350. Are you really sure it was an A380 you flew?
Sounds like filling the A380 is the problem, without flooding the various markets with availability. Curious- I've always read the A380 is more expensive per seat mile than 787. Source?
> biannual time again

So... twice a year? Are you fucking serious...

Here I am enjoying my M8s, I have 2 of them because they never fail :D

Cost per month is astronomically low for the 2 phones (1 main job, 2nd side business) and getting lower every day...
> In decades past the richest and the poorest people don't remain in that part of the income distribution very long; this is especially true in the US.

I would say this is especially not true in the US where social mobility is notoriously bad.

"Several large studies of mobility in developed countries in recent years have found the US among the lowest in mobility." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socioeconomic_mobility_in_the_...
Nice story! Thank you for sharing. A few thoughts:

1) when is the last time you sat down with new and existing customers to see their reaction to getting their physical boxes? You might get a lot of good insights of how exciting (or not) the existing experience is of receiving the candy. How does that change between the 1st and 10th box a customer receives?

2) why are people churning? Do you have a prioritized list of reasons? Not what they said (most users don’t actually want to offend you or your business) but what their real reasons were for canceling?

3) keep in mind that the real product is the box with candies. The website is just for sales. Yes, SEO is definitely important to get new subscribers, but to improve your product you have to improve the box or the offerings around it.

4) pricing. I noticed that the lowest offering of $29/month is rather expensive for a novelty purchase. How much experimentation have you done around testing lower price points with less frequent shipments? This could help with acquisition and retention.

I’ll be happy to help you understand how to look at retention, basic AARR analysis, interview customers, etc. just let me know.
You really think that your beliefs are so obviously superior to every other belief system ever - even millennia-old self-reinforcing super-memetic religious ideologies - that everyone will just automatically start thinking like you if given the chance? Really?

This strikes me very much as a classical cognitive failure: An inability to understand that other people actually, truly think differently than you do. E.g. Other people actually believe that God is real. Actually, truly, like he's really there. And they'll act like it.
No headphone jack, no removable battery, no expandable storage, has an always-listening "feature" under the guise of music detection. And this is "the year's best smartphone".

When did smartphones start regressing?
While I mostly agree with your take, there is always that joke that reminds me it's not true:

Two economists walk down the road.

E1: look, a 100$ bill over there!

E2: if it were one, somebody would have picked it up already!

E1: nods
It appears my comment was not clear. Any Muslim cleric can issue a fatwa on any topic just as any pastor in America can burn a Koran or picket a store with signs saying “god hates fags”. The existence of such statements does not make either country hypocritical, which was the claim I was responding to. There are plenty of examples of “competing fatwas” just as there are plenty of examples of competing claims from the pulpit.

And though I consider the KSA tyrannical I don’t think they, any more than anyone else, should be condemned on incorrect grounds.
You don't even need to get all this righteous anger involved; the rich benefit more from the stable functioning of society than the poor precisely because they are rich. If the structures that support that wealth were to collapse they'd have a lot more to lose than the guy drowning in debt. It's not only reasonable to expect them to invest more proportionally in the continued functioning of society: it's in their best interest if they're smart enough to look past their balance sheet at the end of the year.