skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that if you did have a way of killing a commuter to save your own live, you would be justified in doing so, just as a cop is. The fact that you don't is a consequence of how driving works, not of power that society is stripping you of.

You do have this right on the street, for instance. Just as a cop does.
Plenty of advances in logic and category theory have enabled dependently typed languages to be both theorem prover and practical implementation language.

See Lean.
The "blind" focus on quarterly reports is real.

It had me wonder what the opposite would be...

Imagine we forged a formula for 1000+ year projects. They would require more money periodically and the availability of new funds would have a strong influance on the value of previous cash injections. One could buy the "failing" project cheap then simply do the new cash injection yourself OR in case of success one could obtain the shares for less than their value.

We have so many papper driven games like this already. I see no reason why this one wouldnt work.

The fun questuon to ask...

What could we build that would take 1000 years?
Great comment, from explanation to potential solutions. Thanks a ton
I must admit that I am one of those confused people.

And this (from Wikipedia) is not helping:

"Heisenberg utilized such an observer effect at the quantum level (see below) as a physical "explanation" of quantum uncertainty. It has since become clearer, however, that the uncertainty principle is inherent in the properties of all wave-like systems,[8] and that it arises in quantum mechanics simply due to the matter wave nature of all quantum objects."

So... yeah, lay people (ie me) get really confused. Heisenberg said, that that was because of this, but then, it became "clearer" that it was not because of this, but because of that. So yeah if it was because of "that", how about we remove that Heisenberg interpretation from Wikipedia (except as a historical footnote) because it is not considered appropriate or clear enough anymore.
The "original Curta Type I engineering diagrams" can be found here: http://www.vcalc.net/curta_1_engineering_drawings.zip (warning: large file)

Everything produced as part of this project is being released into the public domain. Everyone should be able to inspect, visualize, or even build their own Curta calculator; it shouldn't be fated to forever be an expensive relic on eBay.

Interesting. I wonder if the Chinese might take off with the plans and start making clones, the same way you can now find surprisingly good mechanical watches on AliExpress.
> This is a popular opinion, but I find it difficult to believe. It relies on the notion that stockholders are fools and unable to recognize when a company destroys its long term prospects for short term gain.

Not necessarily "fools". "Not experts" and "easy to influence" would be like it. Very much the trouble with the modern democracy: incompetents elect those who scream the loudest and say what they want to hear.

Like many others here, I experienced the short-term thinking firsthand. Reckless and pointless acquisitions and hiring spree to prop up the KPIs and scream to the entire world, "look how great we're doing!!!" is just one example.

> The trouble is, once the short term gain is there, who are the short termers going to sell to? A bunch of suckers?

Absolutely. The greater fool, sadly, is the foundation of much of the modern global economy.

Look at any bubble over the last 50 years.
What’s stopping long term investing being based on bonds? Ie the company sells bonds today for a $x pay out 10 years from now. Maybe it’s secured by a t-bill. Maybe the investor pays the cost for a 10 year tbill plus some. The company agrees to pay out some operational profit from the 10 th year or the return on the tbill. (Back of envelop logic here, ymwv) Maybe make it more of a pool/fractional banking type arrangement. A clearing house company sells bonds of a company backed by some portion of tbills (10 year bonds for 10 year tbills, etc). At the end of the period either people are paid out the tbills (only if the company went belly up) or a percent of their operating profit from that period.
Ah, I misread. My mistake.
Perhaps if the rider is really heavy or untrained. :p I have a 500w motor and almost never have to use more than about 4/5 of the maximum throttle.
Engine air and cabin air are two separate intake paths.

The cabin air in modern cars is highly filtered.

"
Most dust filters will stop 100 percent of all particles that are 3 microns or larger in size, and 95 to 99 percent of particles 1 to 3 microns in size. The combination dust and odor filters have a layer of activated charcoal or baking soda to absorb odors and air pollutants. Some of these filters may even be lightly scented to enhance the driving experience."

https://www.knowyourparts.com/technical-resources/filtration...

So yes. Being in a car with AC on is much better.
I liked the idea of increasing the amount of time a spammer expends over their email.

I didn't like the idea of having to manually forward the email, manually remove personal information from the body of the email, and sucking the recipient into watching the conversation unfold live. Because it increases the amount of time a recipient expends over a spam email.
Uh, I don't think 'corporations are very much against' neutering the IME. I don't even think that Intel has said anything publicly about it.

Are you fearmongering completely without any substance to back up your claims?
It's a black box, but I don't think anyone has reported what you describe? Purism has been shipping laptops for a few weeks with the IME disabled, and their touted battery life seems reasonable.
Awesome. Which book would you recommend?
For most commutes the car would still win even if the air inside was the same as the air outside, because the car would be faster so you would have less total exposure.

As far as car interior air goes, I've noticed that when I walk to a nearby market during times when there is a fair amount of traffic I can really notice the smell from the cars, but when I myself am driving on that same road in similar traffic I cannot smell it.

My guess is that the rate of exchange of air between the car and outside is low enough that at least for short trips (a few miles, say) it mostly remains air that was from my neighborhood, which is half a mile away from any heavy traffic road.

Note: this is without using the AC.
Totally fine. I sometimes do read things that aren't there (even though I try hard not to), so it's never bad to double check
To be fair, you have it exactly right. He had hypothesis which turned out to be incorrect, or at the very least not the whole story, and the story is weird and hard to believe. The truth is it’s taken a long time and a lot of testing Tom produce the current admittedly imperfect understanding of quantum mechanics.

It is the wave-like nature (part of a dual nature) of everything (although for atoms and larger things they need to be very energetic to display that wavelength) which leads to the weird behavior our species has spent the last century coming to grips with.
I've done well investing on the presumption that companies are long term focused. I.e. I'm a buy and hold and hold and hold investor. The longest I've held a stock (Boeing) is 37 years. You can check how well it's done for yourself over that time period, and Boeing was constantly charged with destroying the long term in favor of short term results.

It's inconceivable that Boeing was not long term focused with those results.
I mean, it's Mental Floss...
Racing drivers don't get kudos for racing without a helmet or a seat belt - nobody would let them race and they'd be seen as moronic for even suggesting the idea.

Nepal have every right to ban people from doing pointless, stupid things on their mountain. Jornet's good friend Ueli Steck died earlier this year. He was solo climbing Nuptse without fixed protection, supplemental oxygen or even ice axes. If Jornet has not learned from this senseless tragedy, then Nepal has no obligation to entertain him.

If you want to kill yourself, do it at sea level.
An incredibly important initiative, although I'm wondering how it will catch up.

The current public trading framework has so many issues, it defeats the original purpose.

* amazing number of parasite intermediaries that create absolutely no value. Someone sells a day after they bought, how did it contribute to the economy or the company that tries to create the value?

* opacity required to keep the system "fair", and used to avoid responsibility

* populist decisions harmful in long-term because the management will be long gone after the effects emerge

and much more.
If you have normal blood pressure (normotensive population), then a high-salt diet has no association with cardiovascular events and death:

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...
/"Compared with moderate sodium intake, high sodium intake is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events and death in hypertensive populations (no association in normotensive population), while the association of low sodium intake with increased risk of cardiovascular events and death is observed in those with or without hypertension. These data suggest that lowering sodium intake is best targeted at populations with hypertension who consume high sodium diets."/

Eating too little salt can result in increased risk of cardiovascular events and death:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3558770/
/"we cannot extrapolate that lowering sodium consumption would reduce cardiovascular risk or premature death. In fact, randomized controlled trial evidence suggests just the opposite: that lower sodium intake may lead to worsened cardiovascular disease and earlier death."/

Low salt == higher risk of a heart attack resulting in death:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21540421
/"Among 3681 participants followed up for a median 7.9 years, CVD deaths decreased across increasing tertiles of 24-hour sodium excretion... Lower sodium excretion was associated with higher CVD mortality."/

Salt intake is not associated with blood pressure, although body mass index and age are:
https://academic.oup.com/ajh/article/28/3/362/2743418/Relati...
/"Considering their squared partial correlation coefficient, age and BMI were the most important parameters relating to SBP [systolic blood pressure] level. Salt intake was not associated with SBP in either sex after multiple adjustments."

If you do have high blood pressure, supplement with potassium:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26039623
/"Potassium supplementation is associated with reduction of blood pressure"//

Salt intake is not linked to heart problems for adults 71 to 80 years old:
http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullart...
/"we observed that sodium intake estimated by FFQ [food frequency questionnaire] was not associated with mortality or risk for CVD [cardiovascular disease] and HF [heart failure] in a cohort of adults 71 to 80 years old. These findings extended to sex-based and race-based subgroups and in participants with and without hypertension at baseline."/
We hate creatve people who want to take our nice things and change them into sonething weird. We make an effort to kill that behaviour in people.

There probably is some good excuse for the instinct, some experience long long ago.

I'm coining the graffiti fish phenomenon to illustrate the concept. Tell me you didnt like it.
In Houston. In a small study.
I'm not sure I agree with respect to things like helmetless riding - I've not quite made my mind up. But I'd suggest that one thing that ought to be done with all law is that the law ought to specify "acceptance criteria" that specify what the law is setting out to fix, and courts ought to be able to set aside laws if they can be proven to not meet the stated goal, and interpret them more narrowly if they can be shown to not be the least restrictive means of achieving the goal.

I think that would be a giant step towards more focused laws, and certainly towards more honestly worded laws, and in many cases it may well be that this would lead a court to direct the legislative to find a different solution or risk having the law struck down.

A large problem with overly broad laws today is simply that legislatives can get away with passing poorly thought out laws and misleading laws because there is no real consequence to it: the judicial system is forced to try to make the best of it if the laws are ridiculous or over-broad, and can't even go "hold on, this law is saying something completely different than what you pretended it was for when you convinced people to vote for it".
Here's a book relating the story of painkillers being removed before a reorg: https://books.google.com/books?id=4pqCrMzKZxYC&pg=PA181&lpg=...
When vacationing with our family last year we stayed in a eight different AirBnBs. We talked extensively about this and came to the same conclusion - there is no upside in leaving a negative review! There is a downside so I just don’t do it. If I have a bad experience, I just don’t leave a review.

If AirBnB would allow you to see the “review rate” of a property that would be telling. “14% of the guests of this property left a review” would mean a lot compared to “72% of the guests of this property left a review”.
Is it really that bad if you could use it as your car?
As a data point, my Samsung Galaxy J7 came with the Facebook app and I was able to uninstall it without issue. So it looks like this doesn't apply to all Samsung phones.
Also the reason various semiconductor devices work (and sometimes don’t work).
There's actually a proposal for a ballot measure next year to end Prop 13 for commercial properties -- definitely a start. It would bring $11 billion in revenue every year.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essentia...
> What could we build that would take 1000 years?

A great what-if. While not exactly the same, I think you could look at the publicly funded projects like the Euro-projects, NASA, or the Soviet space program that still yield results.

Now imagine the big public companies doing the same.
I tried this when it was new, and saw two issues with it. Firstly, it uses western names as the responder, which may not be the best case everywhere — ideally the person submitting the email should be able to specify a name to use. Secondly, the mnesty name and Mnesty LLC wouldn't seem believable to many (human) spammers either, depending on the region. I didn't get responses for many emails I submitted — my guess is that the spammers thought it's a waste of time (which is also good, but not frustrating them enough).
> This is not popular opinion, it's exactly the truth.

Then which stocks are you sure are doing this, and are you shorting them?

> There had been a decade when no one was interested in Amazon stock

This is simply not true. AMZN has been a solid performer since its IPO. I should know, I'm a happy AMZN long term investor.

> that will result in stock pop so they can cash out

That implies they must find a lot of suckers to sell to. Stock prices are usually driven by analysts who spend their days analyzing companies to predict future performance. Good luck fooling them all.
Such as being subject to the whims of random administrator/moderators and whatever random set of principles they wished to apply to their users.

The most striking example I can remember was with Rick and Morty creator/writer Dan Harmon using mod powers to edit a forum user's posts to publicly humiliate the user until he/she left the forum. This was a forum for the monthly short-film festival Channel101-- a forum that is no longer alive, but it appears someone kept some of Dan's insults from that thread[1].

But that pales in comparison to more technically-oriented forums and mailing lists where insidious forms of passive-aggression flourished. These include:

* making the new user feel stupid for failing to comprehend the poor documentation or poorly considered forum guidelines

* making the new user feel stupid for asking a question and failing to read a relevant footnote from a message posted three years ago with an unrelated message topic

* endlessly blathering on about top-posting, asking-about-asking, proper quoting, on-topic vs off-topic, reading-the-stickies, formats for uploading images/attachments, instead of making the software better so that humans don't have to deal with that bs. (The same way git makes it so that humans don't have to bicker about who gets repository permissions)

* telling a user they will be ignored, then mentioning in a meta-discussion about the forum who is ignoring whom

* other users rationalizing the behavior of trolls because those trolls were veteran members

* general lack of mentors to help new users (if the purpose of the forum was to be a sort of community)

There are of course exceptions. But I still remember the feeling of just crossing my fingers in the hopes that my query about a technical topic wouldn't trigger Socratic bombs from a forum's resident jerk.

Stack Overflow proves there's a way to at least a way to discover and read relevant responses without that pain. I have no idea what the antidote to Facebook/Google is. But pining for single-point-of-failure, buggy backends serving up poor UIs with content that cannot easily bubble up to a wider audience isn't going to help.

And forget the anti-social part-- you can't even technically achieve the spirit of such forums today because sock puppets and Sybil have become so sophisticated. Unless we confine ourselves to topics so ineffectual that nobody on the internet would ever decide to hate us.

[1] http://channel101.wikia.com/wiki/Dan_Harmon/Quotes
The Pixelbook is being used to test Google's Fuchsia OS
Are there fines in India for driving while using a phone? If so, is it policed?
I also bought a top of the line pre-built (https://www.stromerbike.com/en_US/e-bikes/st2.html) almost 2 years and 7500 miles later, I have zero regrets. My goal is to break even for car cost for the price ($0.55 cents per mile). It hasn't happened yet, but I would already call it worth it due to the peace of mind of not having to sit in traffic every day.
Revealing the review rate for properties sounds like a very good idea. I wonder if there are any downsides.

On a related note, I was talking with an airbnb host yesterday who had just hosted some fairly messy guests that may or may not have broken something. He decided that not leaving a review was the best course of action. It seems that revealing the review rate could work both ways (for hosts and guests).
From a policy standpoint, a major issue is that meatpacking and the use of immigrant labor, can be compared to the rise of prisons, especially private prisons. These become entrenched in small town America, making huge profits for the local governments, and providing employment to a lot of people, especially union. Anything that might jeopardize that is going to face a lot of pressure from the congressional representatives for that area.
I would show up to a group ride with cyclists. For the commute though, most single riders appreciate drafting at 25mph.
Changing self-education with Alcamy
That's not their policy. The policy is to replace a battery under warranty if the capacity is less than 80%
> I experienced the short-term thinking firsthand

I have too. The company stock tanked and the company disappeared. There's a word for short term companies -
"bankrupt". Investors as group are simply not that stupid.
Spamming the network with low value transactions?
So you say that I accuse people of having "agenda" (and, presumably, such accusations are bad), then you accuse me of having agenda.

That's funny. I hope you can see how it is funny.
Amazing to me that the most basic biological system for survival - stress - is no where mentioned. And we've known for 40 years that relaxation techniques are as effective at treating hypertension as prescription medications.
Didn't intent to kill someone, maybe. Didn't care if his actions caused deaths? Definitely.
Retaliate for Commodore 64 (Open Source Project)
Is there any way a browser user can protect themselves from this now?

More details here: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/12/27/no-boundaries-for-u...
Homemade GPS Receiver [2013]
Gait and personal spaces are strange cultural artefacts. I can even tell if someone is from a large city like Delhi in India or a small town based on how fast they walk and how tolerant they are of others encroaching their personal space
You might be interested in the wonderful book series "The Three-Body Problem" by Liu Cixin. It explores (among countless other things) how huge expensive projects that last multiple generations could be implemented.
My point is that any living human in your presence can be interpreted as a 'threat to your life ' and the law is too loose and allows cowards and nervous people with badges to get away with preventable murder.
Ohh, I really like this game! Another good one, in which you design ever more complex logic (ending with a CPU) is MHRD: http://store.steampowered.com/app/576030/MHRD
How did you manage to turn a discussion about atrocities and demagogues into a complaint about your pet peeve of tax collectors being highly compensated?

Your argument is completely incoherent. Are you suggesting that raising taxes on the rich through closing loopholes, raising capital gains tax, removing 529 and housing subsidies, and yes, increasing income tax, would actually end up with Gini inequality getting even more skewed?

Absurd.
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Not sure why this is getting downvoted when TFA says that e-bikes here typically cost 6-10 times what they do in China.
TLDR;

Currently, an investor who owns one share for a month, or even a day, has the same voting power as someone who has owned a share for years. Mr. Ries wants what he calls “tourists” — short-term shareholders — to have less voting power than long-term shareholders, whom he calls “citizens of the republic.” Over time, shareholders of companies on the LTSE would gain more votes based on their length of ownership.

Mr. Ries also takes aim at compensation plans. He wants companies that list on his exchange to have stock vesting programs of at least five years and recommends 10 years, even for executives who leave the company.

This is from: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/business/dealbook/ipo-cha...
You could have been less snarky about it.
Sorry for OT, are there docs for what karma requirements are for what actions?
> My point is that any living human in your presence can be interpreted as a 'threat to your life '

Not reasonably, no, which is why all people, including cops, must continue to be allowed to defend their own lives when their is a reasonable threat.

Can you really not imagine a situation where a cop would reasonably fear for their life? Really?
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So it's our responsibility to make sure they can stay put in a highly desirable place? I'm more then happy to contribute to make sure people have a roof over their head, are well fed and educated. I'm not willing to support people staying put where they are. That's regardless of the case being like her someone blocking potential prime real estate or like elsewhere people staying in dying communities where there are no opportunities.
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Note about HN down voting: when replying to a post, the parent poster cannot down vote you. The down vote you were awarded came from another commenter.

At this time, this comment has positive karma. At any rate, complaining about down voting distracts from your very good point.