skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's true that "people suffer from lack of work, not lack of money."

I do think it's true that "people suffer from lack of work AND lack of money." That is, if you just give people enough money to survive, and nothing to do, they still suffer.

It's not really valid to compare the experiences of old retired people and working age people (or younger). Age is a major complicating factor. And, at least in the U.S., we already give money to old people; it's called Social Security and Medicare.

The question is, what do we do with 22 year olds who can't find work? What will the rest of their life be like if they go on the equivalent of Social Security and Medicare at 22? Anecdotally I think we all have a sense of the potential for problems when young people are too idle.
Seconded, grew up in far northern Minnesota and no-one uses snowchains there, though there is a preference for cars with high clearance (and some sand/skidboards in the trunk, usually). I guess I can see this if you're doing deep backwoods skiing, but that's an awfully niche pastime no? I've never heard of a ski resort that's inaccessible without snowchains.
Ok, I've opened it for editing.
Tether performs public service of "quantitative easing" :)
Perhaps by having 5 times the population of the US, they can accomplish quite a lot even if the authoritarianism hinders innovation.

More brains, more dreams, more ideas.
> I expect the same employee in Hawaii fumbled the UI on their "time off request" for psychiatric counseling too.

That requires a paper form. The payroll system in the state has failed to be upgraded for some 20 years or so of promises. Staff are paid via checks which are sent direct to their banks because they can't even pay over the wire.

Here's a good article about it: http://khon2.com/2015/05/11/costly-consequences-of-outdated-...
likewise Lonely Woman by Coleman, at least to my ears, fits in alongside more “normal” jazz, except maybe for the plastic sax tone
Disney could tell you about all the competitors whose works have all languished in the public domain and have been forgotten where they survived. I don't see people making new Tom Swift movies, falling in love with The Shadow, or a massive Woody Woodpecker revival, for example.

People focus on the biggest of the big as if that solves anything.
The same people would probably be recklessly borrowing money to gamble and waste on other worthless crap if bitcoin wasn't around so I don't think bitcoin is really an exceptional thing here.

Just a run-of-the-mill scam and run-of-the-mill stupid people.

However, those people will be demanding government intervention when their money is gone, so get ready for the regulatory party!

Pretty safe to predict that bitcoin will the the Bernie Madoff of this business cycle.
I found this interesting: "Coming Soon: Per-Second Billing"

Spinning up instances for short tasks could be beneficial.
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
That's exactly what it says. USD must be accepted for debts only.
Please rethink your position. There are many people who genuinely care about freedom and privacy working at Mozilla, while at Facebook, Google, and Apple, developers are selling us out every day.
That's true, I've been there! I've never had them be unreasonable about the situation but maybe I've just been lucky.

The real scary one was servicing a relay site on top of a bank late at night and the cops showing up guns blazing thinking the place was being robbed ;)
Sure, it won't go to literally zero (unlike stocks; companies can go bankrupt). But the difference between falling three orders of magnitude vs. six, say, is not a very big difference to anyone who bought in at current prices.
it was for a bit but has since been removed
Note it's a cost not a loss. There's a difference.

I hope there's a good return on investment in a reasonable amount of time.
I'd like to see a study about how much exactly Facebook influenced the election.

From my perspective that election was Hillary's to lose. And she did (predictably, to this Bernie supporter). Fake news, the Russian Boogeyman, whatever. It was her complete neglect of key states that did her campaign in.
An MVP is not a business so you should be focusing on finding customers/users first.

Affiliate revenue can be run under a sole trader account - getting an ABN is free.

For Sydney specific stuff, get yourself down to Fishburners for their Friday networking events. But again, don't focus on the business side of things until you have a proven product/service that people want.

https://fishburners.org/
>anything else would be illegal

The US does not mandate snow tires at a national level, and in many places (even northern states where snow and ice are common) tire chains are illegal because they can damage the roads.

If you're going up steep hills covered in ice, winter tires or even studded tires are not going to work. You need chains. Then again, the best rally drivers are Scandinavian, so maybe you guys are just better drivers than we are :)
Holy Shit, are they just trying to print out tethers out of thin air right now to pump Bitcoin? And it seems to be working, at least for now. This can't end up well.
Yeah, yeah, we'll write all that stuff in the fine print.
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I know you can chain multiple channels. I've read the paper. Anyone with a relatively basic math background can see the problems the lightning network will not work as a "decentralized" network.

So you'll end up with many hubs, and you'll have to open a channel from your wallet to a hub (or multiple hubs) if you want to be able to pay or receive payments from (insert random wallet here). These hubs will take a cut to process payments. The more hops you have between two wallets, the more fees you'll have to pay (as you'll have to pay a fee for each hop). We just turned into VISA and Mastercard.

That's without mentioning the high capital reserve requirements that hubs will be forced to have, and how easy it would be to DDOS a specific hub by abusing the nLoc timer, especially since the transaction can only be forced to close if the only pending acknowledgement is from the originating wallet. Every other hop can essentially hold off for 1 day.
I work in a similar space, although more focussed on the backend. I agree with everything you say as is applies to banking/trading.

BUT ... it's not clear to me that the majority of enterprise software development falls into this category. I think the vast majority is quite likely old VB apps that work perfectly well as web apps.

Most information workers don't have the density or latency constraints that the finance space does.

And where they do, I think in most cases their needs are satisfied by a small-ish set of applications: Excel, AutoCAD/ProE/Solidworks/etc, Photoshop/Illustrator/etc, VisualStudio, and so on.

I do think Microsoft (and Windows) needs a story for the development of "professional" apps like these. And UWP doesn't work for them. I'm not sure C# and WPF does either: how many of even Microsoft's own professional apps are written (or being rewritten) in C#?

Perhaps banking/trading is just too small a market to make it worth Microsoft's while to care about? Perhaps it's a market best served by a third-party stack/tools?
Western US. I can't comment on whether they should be required or not but they commonly are required in Utah, passes in the Sierras such as going up to Tahoe, and in the Cascades.
$12-36K for 12 months fiber.
~$36k in software/equipment costs is probably a safe floor.
Lease is toooooooo variable to ballpark.

I wouldn't do it with less than $100k on the assumption you are burning money for the first year and any income is reinvested into marketing.

You probably need a minimum of 500 people for this to be viable.
Hi, I've been doing this for ...um 15 years or so. Generally tried to exit the business because in our area it turns out to be a money pit. However, I notice you don't mention anything about interference : we found that even in a deep rural area this is a major headache. It can be hard to find even 40MHz of clean adjacent channels so delivering tens of megabits via P2MP is not so easy and that's before you look at the issues with air access control and half-duplex. The interference picture is always changing too so just because your network works today, doesn't mean it will tomorrow. You're made of stronger stuff than me to try it in an urban area!
So then who exactly is the OP arguing against? Who here is arguing people living in suburbs with no public transit should give up their cars?

The OP argues not owning a car is a "virtuous shtick" and then: "You have no social life with no car" and "People here [hacker news] don't get how limited your life is without a car."

Such ridiculous claims deserve to be challenged since the OP seems to be speaking about car ownership in general, not just people living in suburbs.
The trick to reducing insurance on a beater car is to not insure the car for damage. Just get insurance for passengers, yourself, damage you do to other people, cars and property.

Never insure for a risk you can cover yourself. If you have a car that is worth < $10k, you probably should pay for damage to it out of pocket.
It was pinned at the top of /r/bitcoin for a brief time during the crash in January 2014. I was there. I saw it, although I realize that wouldn't necessarily be convincing evidence to someone else. While it's easy to make fun of the suicide prevention hotline being posted (and many did make fun of it in 2014), at least one regular poster in /r/BitcoinMarkets did commit suicide during that crash.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=luna&sort=byDate&prefix=false&...
As a side note, depending on the municipality/county, there are GIS databases that show who owns the land and some basic information on them.

A Google search for "<muni> GIS map" usually has some pretty promising leads.
I started turning off my phone during work hours. I’m getting a bunch more stuff done.
https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-examples-of-things-that-...
We moved cross-country and didn't have our car for a few weeks. For the few uber trips we took during that time, we just YOLO'd: had the kids (5 and 3) wear normal seatbelts, but with the chest strap going under their arms rather than over their neck. They also travelled to/from airport without car seats.

In my experience, drivers are generally a _lot_ more careful when there are kids in the car, compared to, say, a pool driver at rush hour.
I hope it's better than giving $100,000 in credits to 30,000 small businesses in the greater Milwaukee area.
Facebook's drill button would be hidden in a huge list of other buttons, the order of which changes randomly every time the page is loaded, and the button would only show up 30% of the time based on an algorithm. Some users would never see the button based on what the algorithm decides, despite specifically adding the button to their list.
> I find the whole situation very unsatisfying. It is clear - when you actually use it heavily for a big project for a longer period - that a type system on top of Javascript is very difficult to maintain. LOTS of unsolved cases and issues. You definitely have to adapt and use only the subset of Javascript and the type system that works

This is spot on. I prefer type-driven development. But maintaining these typings is costly. Maintaining the definitions upstream is also difficult. GOing back to my redux / router example. There was one class they were going over again and again. Because it had a number of permutations and didn't meld well with a type system.
A better idea would be to make PHP a thing of the past.
Good luck!

One more vote in the senate and they can pass a bill to do this.

It seems the major providers are holding off on any large changes until they feel it is safe from political blowback. I find this interesting.
honest question: do you believe there's a price point where it's /not/ stupid to go into debt to invest in cryptocurrencies?
I reached exactly the same conclusion (I have no kids etc.). I commute to work via Uber/Lyft Pool for ~$450/month. Owning a car in Boston would mean:
- Parking $315/month
- Gas $75/month
- Insurance $1,500/year
- Car Lease $200/month
- Maintenance $1,000/year
- Miscellaneous Boston registraction fees etc. $500/year
- TOTAL $840/month
For me, owning a car makes no sense.
I mean, nobody expects the engineers to manually read through everything, but if the quality of the input text is significant for the quality of the autocorrect (or whatever other application you're using machine learning with), you kind of have to make sure the input is pretty good... You could for example choose datasets which is expected to contain mostly correct grammar and spelling (such as Wikipedia, books, etc.) rather than datasets which is expected to contain mostly incorrect grammar and spelling.

Or don't use a machine learning model. I honestly don't care, just don't automatically turn a correct "its" into an incorrect "it's".
What is the P/E ratio of Bitcoin? There is none. So there is no rational basis for any price. $1 is as valid as $1 million. There is no traditional way to analyze this investment and figure out its real worth.

To the limited extent that Bitcoin helps Chinese citizens out-maneuver the capital controls that the Chinese government has tried to enforce, then it could be analyzed as a shadow of the Chinese currency, but since the action is illegal, the data is dark. Thus Bitcoin, and other crypto currencies, are the world's most opaque investment.
> the internet is not a physical space so tell me how do you measure distance between nodes?

You’re the one that claimed connection to TSP, you tell me.
> I'm under the impression that if the USA doesn't maintain a significant level of military superiority, it will quickly find itself under duress from myriad sources.

Is England under duress? Is France under duress? Are the Dutch under duress? Is Spain under duress?

Most importantly, at what point do we ask ourselves what it is that we are even defending? 50% of the population making less than 5 richest people?
>have spent most of their professional lives as men and who have often contributed to exactly the kind of working environment that makes womens' lives difficult as tech workers

This is certainly not the case for all trans women. You may not feel like you need to join a community like this, but I don't think it's fair to then speak for/to the trans community saying that none of us should.

I've heard things similar to what you're saying in the past, but I don't think it holds water. Trans women typically aren't welcome in male-only spaces, because we aren't. Often we aren't welcome in women-only spaces because of opinions like these. Usually there aren't trans-only spaces. It ends up with us being excluded _everywhere_ because of some dubious concept of "socialisation", as if every trans woman has the same experiences such that you can discriminate based on it.

>Just think of all the times you had a civilised and polite debate with other trans women about trans stuff, or about anything.

Often! I've also had civilised and polite debates with men, and been shouted down by cis women. People are people, not just their gender, and while there are trends that's all they are.
Nobody is questioning the positive or negative effects of metallurgy.
Doesn't seem all that subtle to me
I agree. I consider not having to buy $89 (after tax) chargers from apple a huge win, being able to charge from either side of the laptop is yet another bonus.

I did like the magnetic connector though.
This is great! Though I wonder if there’s anything more we can do than call our representative like the article suggests.
Is that why my parent comment has been subsequently flagged? Though my second comment was not substantive, I don't see what is outrageous or controversial about what I had said prior to that. It does not violate any part of the guidelines.
Why is the EFF not doing this instead of Mozilla ?

Also I hope people still pursue municipal broadband, even with NN relying on faceless corporations seems like a bad idea.
Any performance numbers?
Generally not, but in this case I do. The proposed redesign[1] is essentially the same layout, but with a fancy theming. It's good practice not to break the familiar interface, but there's a lot to improve in terms of UI/UX in Thunderbird. For example:

a) presented vertical layout is the same as it is today—you need to have a really high resolution (1080p+) widescreen to fit the entire window. Messages section could have rows with multi-line inlined metadata, thus be significantly narrowed[2];

b) threaded messages feed (or so called conversations) on the same screenshot is presented too vaguely for such an important feature, I bet I'll still have to jump between Sent/Inbox folders in 2018+...;

c) replying to/composing a message is impossible to do in tabs[3] (10 years old), you have to manage separate windows. And there's nothing on this matter in current redesign proposal;

d) not a single word/screenshot on calendar/todo-lists management; etc.

Simply put, this is not the way to redesign such an important large application. Has there been any work done on analyzing user/task scenarios [4]? Any research was conducted on modern best practices? Instead of presenting a list with UI/UX features breakdown and several well-thought solutions, we're supposed to vote on "does it look exciting/professional?" beneath a single 800×500px screenshot. Answering the question: no, it doesn't. It's the very same application, hence stagnant. Do not take offense at the words about "stagnating product", this is what it is.

[1] https://twitter.com/omgubuntu/status/855035593289609216

[2] https://errorfixer.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/slow-mail-a...

[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449299

[4] https://www.usability.gov/how-to-and-tools/methods/scenarios...
> So don't republish them, as it encourages copycats.

I understand your point, but I think that remembering the past can serve as a warning.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

I was trading in 1999 and remember very well this story and many other similar that happened on the 00's and it's been guideline ever-since for me, to always evaluate your limits and check your sanity.
Yes initial margin on a stock purchase for reg-t will be 50% and then reduce later to around 25%. The broker will be on the hook to their counter party, but you are now required to pay your broker. So a worse case situation is normally 4 to 1 leverage.

That is for stocks, with options the margin call can grow to a value quickly where a retail investor cannot afford it ever.

Edit: Looking at td margin schedule shows they'll require 20% in a reg-t account, so only 5 to 1 leverage at least. Still can risk $5k and owe 20k to your broker.
I’m sure there are many people working at Facebook, Google and Apple who also genuinely care about freedom and privacy, while there are developers working at Mozilla who are just as willing to sell out users as anyone.

It is true that Mozilla’s a nonprofit, but that doesn’t mean a lot to me when I try to guess what they’ll do in the future.
Golang community, please take the history of the PHP community as a series of models for 1) what to do and 2) what not to do! Also do this for Java, Ruby, Javascript, LISP, C++, and Smalltalk!

And if you think the history of PHP isn't applicable, then go and find the Golang library authors who are advocating filtering as a defense against SQL injection!
My rep sent a canned, formal-language-adorned "get stuffed" in response.
I think that's an unfair accusation, ultimately the price is determined by supply and demand for the product, your question should really be what are the fundamental reasons behind people buying at X price and I think those are many and varied.
But what makes you think BCH is the one? You might like my soon to be released coin Bitcoin Cash Cash. Fees will be 0!
There is plenty of reason to think "systematically underrepresented" is untrue, especially because the yardstick being applied, a 50/50 target, is likely unobtainable.

Given that a "bro" was denigrated, persecuted and fired for trying to bring light to some of the causes, there is plenty of reason to think the imbalance being perpetuated is not the one you're thinking of.
I have been trying to figure out eventual equilibrium price of BitCoin and here is one approach:

Due to wealth inequality, we assume that majority of the crypto investment would be from ultra-rich. It might become quite normal for them to invest 1% of their wealth in crypto for uncorrelated diversification. In a way this is very similar to buying art which probably doesn't have much utility except among other wealthy people as socially agreed upon store of value. These folks have estimated wealth of $10T so that puts market cap contribution from them to $1T. Let's assume same amount comes from non-ultra-rich investors. So we can estimate btc market cap to $2T. This puts reasonable eventual upper bound value of 1 btc to $95,000. This eventual value might never be reached however because all 21M coins never be mined, not all wealthy people might do this, and also other coins will fragment the market. May be 3/4 discount is reasonable at this point to accommodate these factors which might put the value to $25K at this point. This is obviously assuming no black swan events like countries making it illegal or some other virtual currency tech doesn't become popular.
Yes interference and channel planning can be a big headache. I do have planned a section that will cover this but haven't finished it yet. I've typically gotten around interference problems by 1) using licensed (or at least not 5ghz, preferably full duplex) backhauls and 2) using AP antennas with narrow beamwidths (higher gain, less area covered.) I'm sure you're doing the same things if you've been doing it that long.
>I've never heard of a ski resort that's inaccessible without snowchains.

Lots of them in the West. Little Cottonwood Canyon (at a minimum) in Utah. Tahoe from the Bay area (Donner Pass) under certain conditions http://www.dot.ca.gov/trafficops/trucks/chains.html. In a number of cases you can get exceptions for approved winter tires but it varies.
Yes. Also the comparison with somebody not Bitcoin, with experience of irrational exuberence, investment behaviour, risk and markets: same questions.
100 EUR per year for a train pass? Wow. I pay $100 USD per month for a CTA pass in Chicago...and that's about the best transit situation you'll find in the US.
I've been in crypto since 2011. It was indeed there at the time.
Have you ever had success in life or online with that tone? Really?
The second argument follows the first. If the first isn't true, then the second also isn't true and it seems you've been fortunate in that regard. But if the first is true (that spam lists block addresses from shared hosting providers), then you can email but not to Gmail. Sort of like hosting Facebook without communicating to Facebook users.
how much capacity to service the debt? If you meant "...go into debt you cannot afford" then the answer is always no. If you have sufficient assets and liquidity you can service the debt, then isn't this just normal leverage? The risk equation on any speculative investment includes the risk to go into debt to achieve it.
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> For the first couple of years other manufacturers just couldn't compete with that much hardware for that price.

Exactly. But today the world is full of cheap MacBook Air knockoffs.

The challenge now, as it was then, is how does Apple leverage its manufacturing strengths to produce a laptop that no one else can at the same price?

The answer is the new MacBook and MacBook Pros. A success in the sense that no one else can produce such laptops. A failure in that few would want to. The MacBook knockoffs look like better machines.
Would make more sense to just hand the money to the people that would get those 'jobs' and be done with it?
You are right, I retract what I said.