skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It works on amazon UK. I think their magic algorithms only support English.
This is not popular opinion, it's exactly the truth. There is enormous pressure on CEOs to meet analyst expectations of growth each quater and not meeting them would immediately mean punishment in terms of sell out. This usually translates to continuously cutting costs and eliminating investments on long term bets. Most boards are heavily populated with representatives of investors and fund managers. They make sure that CEO gets enormously rewarded if growth expectations are met or otherwise gets booted out. They also direct hiring of top execs like COOs, CFOs and prefer the ones who are huge cost cutters - specifically the ones who will go with a stick and shutdown any project which didn't had direct impact on business in near term. They are not fools, they are greedy. None of these "activist" investors are long term people. They specialize in forcing buybacks, unnecessary acquisitions, massive layoffs and other "cost cutting" that will result in stock pop so they can cash out and move on to next vulnerable cow. There is reason lots of companies are sitting on massive cash hoards and unable to utilize it because that would translate to increased capex and tank their quarters. Amazon and Oracle are two companies which have battled through this and have huge scars to prove it. There had been a decade when no one was interested in Amazon stock because it used to take deep dives almost every other quarters. Bezo didn't cared much about his massively fluctuating net worth and kept majority votes but other CEOs are not that gutsy.
and it's not necessarily just about "stay calm". if surrounded, any movement at all could be interpreted by someone (who can only see one side of things) as potentially threatening.
Maybe someone was upset at the use of "human being" because of a perceived connotation that people who behave irrationally thereby lose some of their humanity? (I'm sure you only meant "congratulations on being willing to change your opinion".)
Precisely why the "feared for my life" defense of police execution has to be ended. I fear for my life on the freeway when an idiot driver cuts me off. And I didnt make a conscious decision to risk my life by being on the same road with said driver. And yet, cops are given that power to end a life for a situation they consciously chose to put themselves into by career. US law is bullshit.
How does that work out for cost centers?
After reading the above and an article by Glenn Greenwald [1] on ag-gag laws and the mistreatment of industrial animals, I've stopped eating meat unless I've met the farmer and (ideally) seen the farm.

I'm vegetarian outside the house, and our family ordered a half a cow from a farmer who lives ~30 minutes away. It was butchered by a small shop. I received something like 200+lbs of meat from a single animal, raised well, grass fed at a cost of around $8/lb.

The lifestyle change has been far easier than I expected, and it feels like a decision that actually has a local impact. (As opposed to, say, tweeting outrage.)

There's a whole bunch of support for making this change that I wasn't aware of. If you are in the NW, Seattle Tilth puts out a guide to all the regional farms [2], and most of them have websites and email contact info.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2017/10/05/factory-farms-fbi-missin...

[2] http://www.pugetsoundfresh.org/
I grew up on a cattle ranch. We butchered our own cattle.

Please don't assume all meat comes from conditions described in this article.

Slaughterhouse / factory systems are disgusting. I don't eat meat that I know was sourced this way.

You can, fairly easily in most places, support your local farmers and ranchers and buy direct.

And if you want to know why it's not easier to get locally sourced meat from family farms / small producers, you can look to the government. They've done all they can over the last 30 years to make it next to impossible for the "little guys" in the business.

* Small Meat Producers Take Their Slaughterhouse Gripes To Congress : The Salt : NPR || https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/10/15/448942740/sm...
Every single person can claim there is someone richer than them, up until you get to the richest 10 people. If you have 100k in your bank account, the difference between you and someone living on 2 dollars a day is a vast enough inequality.
Because it's clear that if the system we've built is so fragile that one idiot can cause this kind of outcome, there must be something wrong with the system?
This sounds more like a story about management trying to keep their jobs rather than about the stock market.
You can; it's called "pedal assist", and usually, the motor controllers can be set to do it at different levels of pedaling intensity. It's usually implemented by spacing magnets around the crankset and then calculating how fast they're passing by a sensor.
It's still epic bullshit. Here's the Menlo Park station: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4548376,-122.1829295,3a,75y,....

Here's the Metro North station in New Rochelle, NY: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.911459,-73.785247,3a,75y,93..... Lot's of parking, but also several 30-40 story high-rises within walking distance.

This is Mamaroneck, a fancy NY suburb: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.9537644,-73.7359993,3a,75y,3....

This is Portchester: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.0002183,-73.6633792,3a,75y,2.... New York is the only place I'm familiar with where a Costco out in the suburbs is accessible to people taking public transit.
My Taiwanese relatives and wife see the US healthcare system as a big PITA, and from what I have seen of both sides, I agree. Insurance in the US is no guarantee you will get healthcare, will not go broke because of it, or die waiting for it.
I would agree, TFA says much more about USA industrial organization than it does about butchering animals. After all, humans have butchered animals for many millennia. We recently had a cow slaughtered by local Mennonites. I can report that none of these awful things were going on there. There might be some "child labor", if one's definition of "child" is more expansive than that of the Mennonites. Still, they have none of these nightmare machines and anyway not even a Mennonite would make his own kids try to clean one while it was still running.
I personally think his punishment should be long enough to be some kind of deterrent to this, perhaps 10 years in jail?

Apparently there is something like 400 of these swatting incidents in a year. So while it sucks that the person died, most of the blame does actually belong to the swatting culture, not the police officer.

Think about it, 400 incidents in a year * 5 years this has been going on = 2000 high stress events involving 5 - 10 police officers = 10000 to 20000 police officers with weapons cocked and ready to fire at people.

So 1 out of 20000 police officers makes a mistake - yes its the culture that caused this, and when this number hits 40000 or 100000 what will the body count be?
Yet the greatest evils in society did not arise from the behavior of the rich but from those that claim they will help the poor.
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> I fear for my life on the freeway when an idiot driver cuts me off.

Bad analogy. You have no option to kill them to save your life.
I just bought from a small farmer, the process was remarkably painless. I bought from them, they delivered the animal to the butcher, and I picked it up after it was processed and packaged. Maybe Washington/Seattle makes it easier, but it really wasn't a whole lot more effort than getting the meat from a grocery store.
A nice video explaining how they work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loI1Kwed8Pk
Depends of the definition. If every piece of food in the world were burnt, there would be no relative poverty, but there would be famine and death immediately.

Both relative and absolute poverty matter and have different causes and solutions.
>> Most of the European welfare systems are teetering on the brink.

Thanks. I love getting some hot macroeconomic advice from a random person on an internet forum. Especially if it does not provide any sort of backing analysis, that is just the best way to do it.
While I agree, your argument doesn’t hold water with affordable housing advocates. There are currently people living in the Tenderloin and SOMA who couldn’t afford it if we let developers simply build only at-market buildings. Now what?
Yep. If cops break into your house and point guns at you, you need to suppress your natural tendency toward modesty.

Add it to the lawsuit, later.
The problem with this line of argument is the moral base it stands on: pure utilitarianism.

It stands on the idea that the tax is more effective to leevy and that it will produce less suffering (to the rich that pay it). But unfortunately, reality shows you the actual utilitarian application: the rich spend lots of resources to avoid, lobby and protect themselves from taxation, making it hard to grab and cause lot of apparent pain.
But a sales tax on food, and a tax on income hits the poor, which can't defend themselves as well, and don't perceive the pain attributable to the tax.

If your stance is that taxes should be utilitarian, you already have an application.
Despite living close to the Sagarmatha (equivalent of Everest in Nepali) region, I myself haven't even dared thinking about giving it a try(not that I can't afford it). The mere suggestion of “conquering Everest” sounds ridiculous. Having conversed with few of them I've realized that many climbers do in fact posses this mentality, and while that may be fine for them, I personally believe that the true beauty in climbing is the experience – both in appreciating nature’s wonder while challenging yourself physically in new ways and to your personal limits. While reaching the top of mountains can be an exhilarating experience, irrational obsession with summiting (also called Summit Fever) can be deadly. So what is my point? It is my opinion that for most people attempting to climb to the summit of Mt. Everest is simply dumb.
What were the biggest tech stories of 2017?
If they offer English speaking “tour guides” I bet it’d take off.
Part of the issue is that people seek out risk. If something is made safer, people will not go "great, no we're not taking any risks" - they will seek out something riskier.

Peoples individual risk tolerance varies, but we all tend to have a tendency to see a reduced risk as a reason to push things further.

This gives rise to the situation where if we make changes that are perceived as adding more safety than it actually does, we even risk actually causing more injury than we prevent
Is 1 really all that different from driving in a car with the AC on? If I understand correctly, car filters typically only filter very large particles that would damage the engine.
I have encounted free general practice doctor places in Australia that operate on seeing as many patients as possible. Basically useless if you have a difficult to diagnose problem, but very useful for getting a referal, a script for a pill, or antibiotics.
Two minute papers channel: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCbfYPyITQ-7l4upoX8nvctg
I'd start looking from "event sourcing".
The video below shows how the British police handled a high-risk incident - a report of a mentally ill man wandering the streets in his pyjamas, brandishing a handgun. The suspect is believed to have returned to his flat by the time they arrive on scene, so the officers literally knock on his door and politely ask if he has a gun.

With the right training, American officers can behave in exactly the same manner.

https://youtu.be/LKVyu1sodOU?t=3m35s
...too jargony for business people.

Is that a thing that actually exists?
GP said nothing about wealth distribution, which is what you're describing.
... said the guard at Auschwitz and other places, as well.
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At this point Im fairly convinced that LVT is the way to go.

There is a tremendous confusion in separating wealth from producers to non-producers.

Taxes very frequently end up going from the poor to the rich, because of how benefits are given away (ex. prop 13, mortgage interest deductions, rent control). Not only that, taxing the rich for producing would make less production, which is fundamental for economic growth.

Why should a developer build a 40 apt building and pay 100x the taxes a month single family home next to it pays? Didnt he just make everyone a lot richer by his planning and exhertion?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUZaR3op1qw
the amount of revisionism that Israel and USA engaged in is absurd. they even hire students to brigade social media https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/08/14/israel-...
You could cut more people's hair by getting it done faster, or do a better job cutting each person's hair. The point is that jobs where productivity improvement is possible are very common. Economically, productivity and technology are equivalent, and are the basis for prosperity. Productivity is not, in general, zero-sum.
I used to cycle to work, 3 miles long. Half of it was a straight line along the road and the overground.

Doing 50 km/h in good shape and on flat ground. Keeping up with the overground and the cars.
Perhaps not type declarations, but I think GP is onto something when it comes to Rust and how it handles types in a way that often lacks explicitness. There's a lot of Rust code where you have to have familiarity with an API to understand what's going on with the types.

As a for instance, let's say you have a function:

fn connect(addr: std::net::IpAddr) -> ... {
...
}

And it gets called:

connect("192.168.0.1".parse());

Unless you have a pretty good level of familiarity with the APIs involved, it's pretty difficult to reason about the types when looking at just the invocation of connect. You'd have to know that str::parse() will figure out what type it's supposed to be and, if it implements FromStr, it will call the from_str() function defined for that type to handle the coercion. That's a frustrating level of indirection for a beginner. And, since all of this is defined in the std library, it's also possible for library authors to similarly declare APIs that have this kind of indirect invocation where you only really understand what's going on if you've studied/memorized that API. I've often thought that a maze of From/Into and Deref coercions would be an excellent approach to the underhanded Rust competition because it's often so difficult to realize when that code is getting executed and it would be pretty easy to hide malicious code in functions that are executed implicitly.

It also doesn't help that a sizable portion of the Rust community believes console-based editors like vi and emacs are preferred and more advanced Rust IDEs are still early days and aren't able to help out much with situations like these.

It's not that I disagree with these types of language design decisions. I just feel this kind of lack of explicitness makes the language optimized for experienced users rather than beginners and helps give Rust it's deserved reputation for having a high learning curve.
> But all of this was only part of the Amazon recipe for customer experience. The other half was lower prices, which, for a long time, Amazon mostly maintained through ruthless willpower. (An example: the “no-more-free-Ibuprofen” story.)

What is this ibuprofen story?
Search results are just links to the article and product listings.
Again we see that people will cycle if you give them cycling infrastructure.
That statement is downright silly; on the whole atrocities have been essentially ideal-neutral. Some dictator uses a popular sentiment to seize power and then uses that power in horrible ways. It's as often due to racial animosity or religious fervor as it is the well-being of the poor; it just has to be something that sells well to the population at large.
Exactly my point. Why should a so called trained officer of the law have more fear and less ability to preserve life in at a level of risk the average commuter or health care professional has? Nurse aides are confronted with more violent situations statistically and don't kill anywhere near the rates of cops.
Yeah, pros and cons. GP visits are subsidised a set amount by the govt down here, and while for some doctors that means squeezing in as many visits as possible to get volume, for others it just means they get $X from the government and charge the patient an extra $Y for each visit. Many are happy to pay a premium.
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>>>> If the ride is so great and economics so favorable, why haven’t I seen more adoption here in US and Canada?
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> I don't think it's the bike.

Indeed. The issue is the infrastructure.
> Nurse aides are confronted with more violent situations statistically

source?
> And in fact, in this case, the officer who fired a weapon is, to my way of thinking, the only person at fault for this murder.

You seem to be completely disagreeing with this statement when you later agree that "The caller is certainly an asshole and is even culpable for homicidal intent" and "when the state murders someone, it's the state's fault"

Who hired the police officer? Who makes the standards for police training?

Who is the "CoD swatting community"? Who is the ACTUAL person that called in this specific swatting?

Also...
We need a society where incorrect information given to open, authless APIs never leads to anyone's death.

What the heck? Imagine this scenario:
911 What's your emergency?

Caller) I'm wearing blue jacket & red hat in Terminal 2B at the airport and will detonate a bomb killing everyone at the airport in 10 minutes.

Can you suggest to me how this ends well?
Is it real? Is it fake? You have 10 minutes to make a decision here. Are you going to have your officers walk in without guns to make sure no one accidentally gets killed?
Your also not exerting yourself and breathing as much though, I would think.
I'm planning on visiting to get some dental work done in the coming months. I have a lot of issues and have never been able to afford proper work here in the US. To get the work done I need here would be in excess of $50,000 but my friend in Taiwan said it would cost at most $1,000 there.

Every time in the past I suggested something like that to my current dentist they had the same reaction, basically:
"Oh I would never do that! You're going to get an infection and/or they are going to do such bad work that no dentist here in the US will want to touch you afterwards."

Doctors in the US are so arrogant, thinking they are the best in the world because they are the most expensive. I would love to move to Taiwan, but I suffer miserably in the jungle weather (hence why I am going in winter).

Edit: As someone with chronic health issues in the US, I have a laundry list of horror stories about doctors here. They are far, far from the best in the world.
I agree with you 100%. Also because this is the first death, we have pretty much narrowed in on what the probability of someone dying is. I'm surprised it went this far. Sadly, because of how awful human beings are, I suspect the number of swatting incidents will only go up and be harder (much harder) to trace.
I suppose one can still solo with a support that's just here in case of emergency, with the added bonus of being able to document the climb.
Because Amazon needs to tread carefully. Lot of people depend on Amazon for their bussiness.

This site has a very low bar for showing false positives. It can mark majority reviews as fake without consequences. If Amazon does something similar it will be like YouTube de-monetizing videos all over again.
doubt this one will be much better tbh: http://kansas.com/news/local/crime/article192244734.html :(
> and that makes me see all police as complicit.

It took me about 5 seconds of Googling to prove you wrong:

http://time.com/4503030/ohio-police-chief-tulsa-cops/

https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/black-female-police-officer...

http://www.cleveland19.com/story/36401439/retired-african-am...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkJUVrNrV5Q

If I was mugged by a person of a particular race, and some people of that same race didn't speak out, would I be justified in seeing all members of that race as complicit?
The post uses accounting, which, well, maybe it's a different story if we're talking about complicated tax schemes that can save a lot of money, but in general I think we can say that if the workers are more productive fewer rather than more are needed.
Computer Organization & Design : The Hardware Software Interface by Hennessy and Patterson is a great book for any coder that is interested in how CPUs actually tick.

However I don’t think knowing the gorey details of transistors is necessary. What they need to be aware of is cache hierarchies and pipelined superscalar processor architecture.

These sophisticated architectural features can be flouted by code that causes them to behave poorly. Such as code that does random accesses in a large buffer causing the probability of the desired data being stored in cache to be low.

The ways in which real computers differ from idealized ones is what CS students need to know.

Also CS students ought to have to learn to read others’ code.
> That statement is downright silly; on the whole atrocities have been essentially ideal-neutral

I disagree with the premise, but for the sake of argument, even if taken as assumption the point still stands. "Taxing the rich" is a proposition that will help the people that collect the tax far more than the general population.

A simple example of this can be Seattle and San Francisco Governments, that have had explosive tax income booms, most of their staff collection 6 figure salaries, and yet both cities enjoy very large homeless populations.

Increasing tax income does not mean inequality will decrease. It might even make it worse.
>96 percent of Palestinians said their primary use of Facebook was for following news

This is astounding to me given the likelihood of Facebook's unspoken allegiances and their history with respect to censorship.
Seems more secure there. Everyone has a physical smart card with which they can sign documents. Much more difficult to fake than a hand drawn signature.
I'd love to see it as an app with a blacklist for spam numbers or telemarketers. Use a better text generation engine like a modern deep learning based generative model, and deep voice or crowd-sourced recordings.
Get a job, hands down. Why pay to learn when you can get paid?
He never said all sit idly by. It's dangerous to assume a universal generalization that wasn't levied.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/263709.php
Because the balance between capitalism and the state is out of whack. Capitalism has far too much power and influence. It needs to swing back a few degrees so that the common man can get a bigger cut of pie (or a slice at all)
If the battery is removable, it will be stolen.
Facebook is in the business of eyeball monopolization. Any company at any chance of getting hold of a serious number of eyeballs is a threat if not purchased.
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Garbage workers and fishers have it worse than cops: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-dangerous-jobs/
He did (I edited my response to clarify):

> and that makes me see all police as complicit.
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