skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This decline of rural lending is causing a huge macroeconomic distortion, like a balance-of-payments issue. A dollar is a dollar, but it is quite apparent that the value of a dollar is different between rural Mississippi and urban Manhattan. There has to be a way of gaining from that difference. I feel like we are staring at the largest arbitrage opportunity in history and doing nothing.

But when I try to find good ideas to arbitrage it, I'm stuck. Of course, you can work remotely in San Jose and live in Wyoming, but this doesn't scale. I suppose opening a rural-oriented bank, to fill the gap, would do the job. Maybe it would be better to make a Bank-in-a-box kit (Sarbanes-Oxley-compliant, of course) and sell shovels to the gold miners? Does anyone have any ideas, good bad or crazy, that they are willing to share or discuss?
As I said in another post in this thread, I'm hoping Postcss and the autoprefixer plugin will work with at least IE11.

Is IE 10 even relevant these days? It seems that except for very outdated systems, everybody should have been autoupdated to IE 11 by now
I think you hit the nail in the head. Furthermore, instead of trying to limit movement to the cities, I think we ought to cut bait and stop subsidizing these dying areas and instead fund moving the people who live there to areas with sustainable economies. Small town rural America is never coming back, so instead of continuing to put good money after bad, we should look to innovative solutions that will help the people there, but might leave the actual locations abandoned or close to it.
Also, direct link to intro video: https://vimeo.com/234014335
Here's an excerpt from a case in Kansas specifically mentioning depraved-heart murder. Important part in italics.

> "Depraved heart second-degree murder requires a conscious disregard of the risk, sufficient under the circumstances, to manifest extreme indifference to the value of human life. Recklessness that can be assimilated to purpose or knowledge is treated as depraved heart second-degree murder, and less extreme recklessness is punished as manslaughter. Conviction of depraved heart second-degree murder requires PROOF that the defendant acted recklessly under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life. This language describes a kind of culpability that differs in degree but not in kind from the ordinary recklessness required for manslaughter."

So yes, you still need to show proof beyond a reasonable doubt that this was a prank gone wrong. Unless the accused called assassins, it's going to be hard to argue intent.
I filed a DMCA to remove pirate images; Google delisted our website
>In reality Uber is just like Visa. They are a transaction processor.

No. Sorry. They are also processing the transaction and keeping the whole amount of transaction which is not what Visa does.
Please be aware that intermittent fasting is not for everyone. It can worsen gallbladder issues (gallstones) in some people. YMMV.
" because the crash is in the underlying storage the MultiAZ setting makes no difference."

@OP - I don't understand this line... can you explain more?
Full Reddit title is: "Stolen artwork/photography on Pinterest showing up all over Google when you search my business, filed a DMCA with Google to remove the offending images. Google instead removed our official business website links from their search results!"
I didn't quote him. My comment was just a summary of the podcast synthesized with this post (since it coined a more compact term for the concept).
You can use a small VeraCrypt[0] or LUKS[1] (if on Linux) container with a password or a key file and write a short manual explaining how to mount the container.

[0] https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/

[1] https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/wikis/DMCrypt
You're making the mistake of confusing collecting data with doing useful things with that data (whether it is useful to the company pr the customer). Apple collects the data. It is simply incapable (for now) of doing anything useful with the data. To the end user, the privacy implications are the same, perhaps worse because a company that isn't able to make use of data is probably less able to secure the data as well.
I don't know...I see a silver line here. There are many situations where putting everything on the table might make the situation worse. Something like a negative placebo effect can occur here and, for patients that may still have a battle in them, the depression and fear resulted from knowing too many things might worsen things.

My father died 8 years ago and I remember that we all knew he had just a few weeks left in him. We didn't tell him and no doctor did either. He was still talking about how he can't wait to go fishing once he gets out of there. I think it was something nice to keep him from diving down in panic attacks and depression as I imagine I would knowing that my situation is that bad.

I'm not so brave and I don't know if I would like someone to tell if I'm about to die soon...maybe I would; this is hard to discuss from outside.
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Well, mostly, because capitalist systems work. Look at Sweden, or Germany, or Japan, or the United States (largely) or Canada. These are all capitalist economies. Communism for a technological society doesn’t work in any capacity because of the basic tenants of communism. Some forms of capitalism work better than others (maybe look at Norway vs idk Brazil or something) but they largely work.
> I don't know why the president of our volunteer fire department decided 3 of us needed to learn about Vehicle Extrication

Maybe because when you need it, you need it instantly, so he wanted to always have somebody with that knowledge on the current turn?
Anyone else having problems with the audio?
Wordplay jokes are very low on the comedy sophistication scale, just above puns, bodily functions, and inherently funny words.

HN is just a tough room. You really have to step it up a notch or two, just to not get downvoted. For example, this is probably not quite good enough:

Electron emancipation is fine and good, but electrons will never truly be free until they have the vote.
ACrypto: how a bootstrapped cryptocurrency tool makes $3,500/mo
Records nowadays have an mp3 download code with them. The physical media of the record is almost just a placeholder, now, but people still like that even if they don't have a record player (!).

Same thing could apply to some other object. I've seen it done with USB sticks and business cards. Some sort of physical media is still useful for that purpose.
OK, I'm glad we agree that native apps ought to be sandboxed too. Unfortunately no major desktop OS does a good job of this yet, which is why, realistically, today, choosing web apps over native apps actually makes your system more secure. Maybe that wouldn't be true in an ideal world where desktop apps were sandboxed as heavily as web apps.

But you're still in denial about the fact that web app delivery is hugely valuable to a lot of people (yes, to users). This isn't even remotely debatable. SaaS is now a $100B/yr industry and growing rapidly. People wouldn't be rapidly replacing locally-installed apps with SaaS if they didn't really want it.

You really can't just proclaim that everyone should give all that up based on your ideology about how software "should" be delivered.
Used to peruse this every now and again, been a few years, https://builditwith.me

A hn user also launched
http://www.weekendhacker.net
which got a bit of traction at the time.

You have also reminded me of the Startup or Shutup thread someone started in 2012.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3394844

Some of the discussion is here...

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/startup-or-shut-up

I recall the live document linked in the hn thread having activity at the time too but its not working anymore.
But the whole point of an "economy" modded minecraft server IS for the economic simulation. Thats why people play it! For the markets, and trading, and everything else.
America’s Worst Graveyard Shift Is Grinding Up Workers
The vast majority of officers never fire their weapon in the line of duty.

US cops do study close combat techniques. Talking about the training generally is impossible, since the quality, type, and upkeep of that training varies a lot by department. Usually it depends on what is needed in their area and what funds are available.

That said, all departments put office safety first. They will not generally take unnecessary risks, so a charging behemoth who has specified his intent to kill will probably be shot, regardless of close combat training.
Off topic: If anyone is interested in SP and is looking for a side gig doing just that with an evolving technology, please pm me.
FYI - They use the same metaphor in Mythical Man Month and it's very apt.
Don't they pay drivers 70%? That's somewhere in between paying your service contractor and passing along the 97% that VISA does.
This reminds me of a particular article[1] I read on HN on how doctors themselves prefer to approach end-of-life care and the disconnect between the treatment patients and their families usually opt for.

[1] http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2011/11/30/how-doctors-die...
So, having begun your argument with the claim that only "involuntary manslaughter" would be available to prosecutors, because (not that I follow this logic) they'd be missing "malice aforethought", you've now become an expert on how Kansas evaluates gross recklessness?
UPS and Fedex should be very nervous. Amazon will take their most profitable business while at the same time Amazon will reduce their overall shipping costs. It does not have to be profitable in shipping it just has to use the shipping service to reduce costs.
So newspaper adds have been brought in that way for decades based on the readership and also on the quality of the paper the Washington Post or any other broadsheet can charge more because its read by ABC1's ie Middle and Upper class readers
It is autobiographical, but also fictionalized.

Bear in mind that Laura Ingalls Wilder had help from her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, who is one of the founders of the American libertarian movement. Quoting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Wilder_Lane :

> In late 1930, Lane's mother approached her with a rough, first-person narrative manuscript outlining her hardscrabble pioneer childhood, Pioneer Girl. Lane, using her sense of what was marketable, took notice. She recognized that an American public weary of the Depression would respond warmly to the story of the loving, self-sufficient and determined Ingalls family overcoming obstacles while maintaining their sense of independence, as told through the eyes of the spunky "Laura".

What you read was therefore likely selected to appeal to that vision of independent landholding peasants.

That said, the Wilders did depend on markets to live. They depended on a rifle, and on metal tools (including sewing needles), and tin pots. Nor do they make their own cloth. I'll quote some lines from "Little House in the Big Woods":

> The nearest town was far away. Laura and Mary had never seen a town. They had never seen a store. They had never seen even two houses standing together. But they knew that in a town there were many houses, and a store full of candy and calico and other wonderful things--powder, and shot, and salt, and store sugar.

The calico, powder, and shot were essentials. Likely salt too, though it may simply be much easier to get from the store than naturally, rather like store sugar vs. maple sugar/snow sugar.

You can also see some of the "compelled competition, where they must extract constantly increasing productivity from their laborers in order to maintain their status" in Chapter 12: "The Wonderful MACHINE", when the threshers come with machinery which in one day with four men and eight horses can harvest as much wheat as four men could in two weeks. This is seen as progress, but once everyone does it, the prices will drop, and future farmers must then seek out ever more productivity.

It is the Osage, in "Little House on the Prairie", who best fit efficax's description of a people who were not dependent on market dependence.
It’s pretty clear Russia will never accept subjugation to the US, so I doubth it’ll ever be labeled free and democratic again.
Call of Duty argument may have led to fatal swatting incident
Maintenance is likely to be cheaper per mile for an autonomous car than a human driven one, though a combination of actually being on a regular cycle, dedicated fleet facilities, and better driving practices.

As far as autonomous vs traditional public transit, it's a false dichotomy. Municipalities will use both when it comes to moving people around, because they're good for different use cases. You choose one particular metric where trains do win out, but that's an irrelevancy, because it's not even close to feasible to build a system of trains that do everything that cars currently are able to do.
The German nuclear phase-out and funding of renewable energy development through electricity taxes was started in 2000, a decade before the Fukushima event and as a direct result of a (by then) two decade old environmental movement.

The German government decided to extend the lifetime of some reactors shortly before the event but that plan was immediately scrapped again. Risk of tsunamis itself were not the reason but rather that the public overwhelmingly did not trust the operators to follow safe procedures given that the Japenese operator didn't. But again, nuclear power was really unpopular even before that.
"random mediocre universities" like Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, Vanderbilt, UVA, U of Michigan, UC Berkeley, Notre Dame...
Yeah and most of them wouldn't exist without those APIs. These complaints often feel like they're trying to square a circle.
It depends on the industry.

When I was shopping for lawyers, not that it was a consideration in my evaluations but I found that lawyers I recognized from subway or daytime TV ads were considerably more expensive than random selections from the phonebook. Their ads project images where you've been victimized, and you need a legal gladiator, willing to fight the evil empire to get all that settlement money that rightfully belongs to you. I found that the service was better with the random selects-- free consultations, quicker responses to inquiries, more services rendered, better aftercare, etc.

Dentistry is the same. I've noticed a lot of billboards for dental services around my area. Most of them evoke Fisher-Price colors and softness, playing up to peoples' fears in how the experience doesn't have to be scary or painful. But when I did the legwork for quotes on significant dental work, I found that those that offices which advertised were much more expensive than random Yelp selections. The quotes varied by thousands of dollars for the same work.

Auto repair does things slightly differently. I live in a small town and don't have much choice in this space, but for lack of time I recently took a vehicle to a shop that bought ad placements simply because aside from that their reputation in town was better. Their quote was fair and accurate given the job and they did the work without playing any games or breaking anything else. But then they tried to upsell me on additional services (fluid changes, etc.) at absolutely obscene prices. Since auto ownership is a cargo cult where nobody knows even the basics of what goes into making them work, I'm sure this tactic works on plenty of other rubes.

Similar story-- I had a car break down on the side of the road on a long road trip. AAA towed it to the nearest repair shop, which happened to be a dealership (dealerships generally spend mad money on ads, and already have reputations for being overpriced). I know the failed part cost less than $300 and would take less than an hour to put in. They must have seen the out-of-state plates and the after-hours dropoff and banked on my presumed desperation and ignorance because their quote was $6000. I said no, had it towed to another garage and got it done for $450.

The presumption is that consumers don't (or in some cases, literally can't) shop around, are generally unintelligent and are easily swayed by appeals to emotion, so you play to these factors and charge as much as you can get away with-- not some paltry "(cost of goods + cost of labor + cost of advertising) + 10% markup" silliness.

My rule of thumb is that anything you see advertised is a sign of a hustle. If you don't know how the hustle works, you'll get got. This applies doubly so for anything marketed to the poor or minorities.
Shocking: https://youtu.be/wuxOKhlLfRU?t=13m21s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Caruana_Galizia
Regarding keeping secrets, if that's one's perspective and belief. I think the whole thing would be too big to hide. So, you give it a legitimate purpose, and keep its subversion to yourself.

In reality, Intel was able to market it legitimately for its features. May well have needed to, in the face of competition.

But what may have been discussed in back rooms, with other interests -- ones that can't be ignored, and that also represent a big chunk of business? (Both purchases, and influence on trade, surveillance, and any number of other factors that affect one's business.)

Anyway, I think a whole processing subsystem would be too big and obvious to hide. Hiding functionality within it? Quite plausible.

And we have precedents, in this regard. (Fiber trunk and other splitting/tapping, e.g. the "ATT room"; the Clipper Chip agenda; weakening of NIST encryption standards; the scope of "inadvertant" domestic data collection;...)
If it works compatibly just with prefixes, that'll be fine. Heck, I don't mind writing the prefixes myself.

If it implements an incompatible old version or proprietary standard with too many edge and not-so-edge case differences, that's another story. Anyone have experience?

I also did not know that most IE10 users should be auto-updated to IE11, def gonna look into that more thanks.
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If you can do competent work and add value to the company, you're already ahead of many developers, I've interviewed. Heck, you're already better than some "architects" I've worked with.
> For all of its faults at least capital aggregation doesn’t have a moral prerogative behind it.

Are you sure? For example, colonialism was a project of capitalist development and it very much involved a moral prerogative to '''civilize''' the inferior races of the world... by plundering them of their resources and subjugating them.
Holy guacamole those weed prices are off the scales!

$7.50 a gram? Weed should cost about the same amount as catnip.

I can buy 4 oz of catnip for $8 on eBay. That's over 100g, about 8 cents a gram.
Developing a Twitter botnet based on Markov chains in Go
The First Digital Free Trade Area in Africa Will Roll Out in 2018
It could cause short-term shocks, but I feel like over the long run things would recover.

If the advertisers thought they were paying $500 for 10000 clicks resulting in $1000 worth of visible revenue, the fact that they really only got 5000 "real" clicks resulting in the same $1000 worth of visible revenue doesn't really change the equation much.

Over the long run companies spending money on advertising are going to hone in on how much they can spend compared to how much revenue they get can trace back to that advertising spend.

The pay-per-click model and the current cost-per-click pricing is just an implementation detail of the current state of web advertising. Advertising still works when those stats aren't available, like in Podcasts.
I got the same sense as you, but without the "overseas" bit. We have sweatshop software shops in the US (look in just about any AAA game company, for example).
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With sufficient time and resources, death can be prevented.

https://nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html
Ask HN: How much ad revenue is from predicting demand versus creating it?
How do Google and other ad publishers prove to major brands that their advertising is effective and that the publishing of ads is creating demand versus predicting it? If an ad publisher had sufficient information to guess what a user was likely to do, they could cherry pick opportunities to show that user an advertisement even though they were already likely to be a customer and have a plausible story for legitimate impressions.
> If you're not being challenged in your job (i.e. doing grunt work), you either need to find a harder job within the company (it might be automating away grunt work), or failing that, a different company.

Honestly, the only serious challenge I have in my job is getting people to do stuff in a maintainable, reliable way despite the fact it costs a little more in QA of the automation (or manual change control processes that IT frequently resists). Automation is not the right solution when human QA and manual intervention is an order of magnitude less expensive than the potential problems created by a non-technical user.

You have to realize the only person who _really_ understands most heavily integrated systems are technical folks and automating abstractions to allow non-technical users to make sweeping system-wide changes is a bad idea (even if it is easier on IT).

> Top performers have usually crept towards the high end of the salary available to them, and they're aware that grunt work isn't necessarily a good cost / value tradeoff for the company they're working for, nor a good tradeoff for their human capital vs income earned.

The problem is, you can't always automate grunt work. For instance, matrix rate shipping is something that is (effectively) a business rule that is maintained manually across multiple systems. Someone, somewhere is going to have manually determine that business rule and apply it.

Now, lets say you are crafty and you automate the f out of this process so they just have to type some values into a spreadsheet and upload it. Or a form. Or whatever.

What happens if your validation is not 100% correct and you are relying on non-IT people to QA this update that impacts multiple systems?

You lose $50k before the defect is fixed because instead of having someone who understood the impact from end to end dealing with it, you gave it to a business person who found a novel way to work around your validation to "make it work". The cost of annual, manual updates by a 6 figure salaried programmer would have been less than $5k a year.

So the wise, automation oriented programmer fixes the defects in validation, writes some more unit tests, and so forth. Then, lo and behold, it happens a second time on Black Friday and you end up giving out 6 figures in $$ due to a "software error" that was due to a business person setting everything to $0.01 because they misunderstood something.).

Now, you might blame the business person but given this has happened for the Nth time before this person automated it...they should have known better and required some sort of manual validation step by QA/IT/whatever.

Some things you really, really must have a manual sanity check on because of how critical they are and the business risk involved and automating it to the point you hand it off to someone else for minimal manual work is not the right decision.

I've seen this with controlled substances, regulated products moving across borders, shipping, and a dozen other things. Non-technical people being handed powerful automated tools they don't 100% understand is not always the correct solution.
Regarding "Any tip to share?": Start with a reason, not a data source. That is, what question(s) are you hoping to answer, or what hypothesis do you want to test?

Let the questions lead back to what few things are useful to track and how to track them.
I see a ton of moral prerogative behind ideas like "hard work" and "private property", "they worked hard and deserve it" and "just get a job" myself.
Panic attacks and depression are what we often imagine being told we'll die will do to us, but I've heard anecdotes that suggest the opposite: a sense of peaceful resignation and acceptance.