skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I'm sad to see this lowered as I think it set up good incentives.

High taxation in general, plus high car taxation, means that taxes will be allocated towards alternative transportation options. In Denmark this has meant bicycle infrastructure and culture which has been shown to make humans both happier and healthier. Not to mention that older cars means a lighter touch on the earth (heavy metals, fuel, etc).

Taxation is a good way to apply pressure, and I think we often overlook the power that high taxation has for good policy. Instead we get lower taxation and 'let the market decide' which often results in a more wealth inequality and worse pollution among other things.
if you intentionally provided false information to an otherwise legitimate user, and that user is harmed by your false information, isn't that a breach of contract that would make you liable for damages based on the harm your bad data caused?

What contract?
"The invisible hand was invoked not to draw attention to the problem of state intervention, but of state capture"

It's not so easy to separate the two. Intervention tends to have winners and losers, which make the decision makers a big target for all kinds of influence.

Especially in a large country like the US, where a single representative (on average) controls maybe $5B in yearly spending, plus all of the indirect ways they can pick winners and losers.

That doesn't mean it's impossible to have intervention without capture, but it's something to be wary of.

Aside: I don't like the word "capture" as though the poor politicians are somehow kidnapped by evil corporations. I suspect the idea of corruption usually starts with a politician looking for opportunities to exercise their power. Then, it quickly becomes a symbiotic relationship.
Direct employment numbers are direct revenues are easily, concretely associated with the deal, indirect infrastructure impacts are less in peoples minds, harder to concretely attribute and easier to cloud, and take a longer time to be palpable. Politicians overweight the former kind of measured (because they have more effect on political careers) and devalue the latter (for the opposite reason.)

Cities aren't actors, they are just abstractions; politicians are the actors pursuing Amazon.
random objects that enter the street unexpectedly. The self driving car will be able to see, predict

How does a self-driving car predict the unexpected? Braking distance of a 30mph car is 45 ft (ignoring reaction time) so anything that happens less than 45 feet in front of a self-driving car is going to need evasive action. On a busy street with cars in all lanes, the self-driving car is going to need to decide whether to hit the object (which could be a person darting across the street), or swerve into the car next to it.
I agree, but isn't the point of borrowing against collateral that you have some utility from the collateral (e.g. a car you drive, a house you live in, part of a business you own) while you carry the loan?

If these crypto "assets" like Kitties are rather unfungible for crypto "coins", then I suppose it would make sense, but then I'd be confused why the lender would accept the collateral.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2009/07/09/eve-online-bank-scand...

This is a classic example in which a user ran an in-game bank for some time, before making away with all of his clients assets.
Oh yeah. I guess I assumed the thing being borrowed was off-chain (dollars, e.g.). My mistake.
For the last Defcon CTF, they designed an architecture specifically to be annoying, featuring 9 bit bytes and middle endianness.
Url changed from https://www.wired.com/story/why-an-old-theory-of-everything-..., which points to this.
Two ways to use ChromeOS. You can use GNUroot and XSDL and run these Android apps which use a fake Chroot.

But my preference is use Crouton and I use docker containers and how I set up my CS sons at University.

The down side is you have to leave the CB in developer mode. You also have to use rkt but works fine with docker images.
This is precisely what I'm talking about. It shows the President limiting the number of temporary work visas for low-skill workers.

The original comment said that the President was revoking citizenship for legal citizens based on race. That's what I challenged as false. And your link confirms this.
Hey, sorry for late reply. How are you managing your condition ?
Precisely my thinking (based on supposition). Adobe provides similar activation for offline computers (a sort of challenge/response where you take a number off the offline computer, enter it on their website on a different computer, bring a number back to the offline computer to finish activation).

I assume they just have decided to make this functionality a special case for enterprises of a certain size. I emphasized to them this could be bought through a business channel if needed but I assume I have not the right scale.
#2 and #3 seem reasonable, but are largely out of the local government's control and both are chicken-egg situations. If it was the most profitable use of the space to do mixed retail then developers would, but its not, so they don't. But the city wants mixed use retail because its better for the citizens, and they have the legal authority to force developers to make slightly less money in exchange to improve the city for its citizens, just as they do with any other taxes, so I don't see why they shouldn't. #2 and #3 (and probably #1) should then follow?

#1 is a cop-out. We can't require mixed use retail because none of our developers (who are experts at residential leasing) will admit to having the expertise to do mixed use retail leasing. Its not that different nor is it rocket science.
My understanding of economic history, including the 1870s (but many other busts, too), is quite different. Can you cite a source?

I happen to be reading "A History of The World Economy", by James Foreman-Pack. It contradicts you at every turn (Chapter 6 esp) and notes there was a time when the U.S. was the odd man out, lacking a national bank and suffered more severe downturns than other nations, amongst other things.
A relatively reasonable government like that of Argentina or Brazil can indeed implement a monetary policy and play with deficit and the rate for good but if it consistently fails to it ought to at least provide the people with a usable trading token so they can take care of themselves. It's hard to say what it actually is but given the news we get outside the Venezuelan government is little but useless (not completely perhaps, maybe it keeps drug cartels away or something), they should just issue a reasonably limited amount of relatively valuable currency, halt all but some essential regulations and leave the people alone. Budget deficit cuttig is not popular? I believe the result Venezuelans are getting now are even less popular.
I can certainly relate. It's definitely awesome having Los Angeles as your home base, somewhere you can come home to and know what to expect and how it will feel. That excitement of coming home to a sunny and beautiful Los Angeles from a bloody cold climate after traveling is what makes this place have the best weather in the world.

But don't get me wrong, it does get old. Whenever rain is in the forecast, it gets me and many others pretty damn excited. That's why often times I'll go up to Seattle for a week just to work in the rain.
You're looking at a screenshot of some pseudocode and somehow asserting that this is what "Windows code" looks like, as if Windows code is stored in PNG format instead of a text format that allows you to use your own preferred editor, font, and coloring. That's not even what Visual Studio looks like. It's pseudocode generated by IDA. It's literally not even "Windows code".

You're somehow even critical of the "individual pixels". The individual pixels are in your screen and if you can't bear to look at them, get a better monitor.

What you're doing here isn't demonstrating taste. Your criticism is shallow and uninformed. This is at best snobbery.

Disclosure: Microsoft employee and generally annoyed by superficial snobbishness.
Well, thankfully an uninflated raft will have a rather low surface area, meaning you can drop it with reasonable accuracy even in strong winds. I'd also hope the teams deploying these rafts are practicing in real conditions, and have backup teams on ski-dos ready to roll.
Why 2018 Will Be a Breakthrough Year for Artificial Intelligence
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Just because he didn't expect to win doesn't mean that his victory was a fluke. You can't accidentally get yourself elected as President.
100% on the money.
"Not to mention that older cars means a lighter touch on the earth (heavy metals, fuel, etc)."

??? older cars doesn't mean a lighter touch on earth in relation to fuel, they can generally drive a shorter distance on the same amount of fuel and likely also have worse filters
has advanced adtech

This is one SV critique I've not seen before: inferior or insufficient adtech.
It may help to understand that conversations for most people, about most things, are a way to express and exchange emotions, not information.

There's information in there, but that's purely optional.

You have built-up resentment towards others because you'd like to relate to them, but it hasn't worked out so far. That's not because they 'can't even manage whole sentences' - it's because you're weird :) That's not a bad thing, or a good thing, it's just the way it is.

You can continue existing in your bubble of negativity and resentment, or work towards finding ways to enjoy people's company, because frankly, if you didn't want it, you'd not feel any resentment in the first place. You'd happily sit alone in a room and do whatever 'smart' things that you do, and that wouldn't include posting on here.
I am aware of what you are saying. However living in a place that is 'moving and grooving' because there is economic activity has benefits that simply can't be measured. For example you can live in a nowhere ghost town with little restaurants and nobody around and think you have it great. But just the same people with any ambition will move out of that area and leave it even more isolated. Empty main street.

If you try to quantify you will often come up short. And w/o knowing the exact numbers who knows. But much of it is for tax (credits) which they wouldn't get anyway. The places in many areas that are being offered have been vacant for years. So we are not talking about Manhattan when you look at Navy Yard in Philly. It has land because nobody wants that land. And it could take forever to get it occupied.

Economic activity where there is little currently and no prospects is all around good. In the case of where I live (within 20 miles of one of the sites) I am thinking 'wow if they locate there people will end up buying used houses where I am and property values will increase and then people will spend money and they will build more restaurants and things will all around be good. So maybe I will stay in this area and not move in that case'.

By the way Amazon has not invented this process. It's currently being done where counties compete against other counties for lesser known prizes. Very common you just never hear about it. In many cases the company moving has no intention of moving either. Welcome to the world of business and how it works.
I'm sorry you had a bad experience, but please don't deface Hacker News by posting rage rants, and certainly please don't post the personal attacks you're alluding to here. Those things break the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't hold any particular view to post here and relevant personal experience is always welcome, as long as discussion remains thoughtful. Your more factual comments in this thread have been fine.
Nope. Read the article[0], the temporary work visas on the chopping block apply only to low-skill workers without higher education.

[0]: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-admin-moves-bar-hai...
This is true for FETs but not for BJTs
ok, using corruption as a premise, lets see who that eliminates.
New York
Chicago
Newark
Philadelphia
Washington DC for sure
Miami
LA?
Ask HN: Can a React Native app be integrated with CarPlay/Android Auto?
Hi there,

We're currently weighing up the pros and cons of switching over our iOS and Android apps to React Native, but would like to know whether we can integrate a React Native build with Apple's CarPlay and Android Auto?

Any others pros and cons are welcome.

Many thanks
IANAL but the Microsoft License Terms for OEM Windows 10 [1] says yes:

2. Installation and Use Rights.

b. Device. In this agreement, “device” means a hardware system (whether physical or virtual) with an internal storage device capable of running the software. A hardware partition or blade is considered to be a device.

d. Multi use scenarios.

(iv) Use in a virtualized environment. This license allows you to install only one instance of the software for use on one device, whether that device is physical or virtual. If you want to use the software on more than one virtual device, you must obtain a separate license for each instance.

[1]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Useterms/OEM/Windows/10/Uset...
European accounting and/or invoicing software can automatically read in your bank statements, detect paid invoices and mark them as paid, no manual work!
Unless Amazon buys Target. Then they've got a whole corporate infrastructure already in place.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/02/amazon-will-buy-target-in-20...
Choose a bank with API. My bank has it and it is easy to automate this process.
No, but it is interesting that the layoffs are concentrated in the "content" division. Maybe a sign of where the company wants to head (or not head) next.
And TX lacks a state income tax, meaning disposable income will actually be higher in Austin than the numbers above imply.
Disagree. Use CB for development and with Crouton and so mostly use docker containers. Also set my son's up at University in this manner.

CB are Linux just without GNU or userland. So the driver's already been optimized for the hardware. Plus secure and gets updated.

The only negative is having to leave in developer. Now if Google would finish the work they are doing on the KVM to fix this it will be ideal.

What is nice you are dev on the same as runs the cloud.
Any thoughts on germanium (not GeSi, but Ge without or with little Si) or carbon based chips?
pci passthrough makes that statement untrue nowadays.
Eh, as a Pitt graduate I can't really vouch for our CS degree. Most people I've talked to about it think it's actually getting worse recently, as we've hired more teaching professors who aren't good at teaching and not had too many upper-level electives. The program is also stuck in the Arts & Sciences school which puts a bit of a limit on how many CS classes you get to take. Where we really shine is biotechnology/medical devices.

Sports have been good, but the Pirates won't be anything to watch now that McCutchen's gone.

I love Pittsburgh and now is really a great time to invest in real estate here. Lots of places just outside downtown are really sprucing up like uptown, the North side, and Lawrenceville/Bloomfield.
You're saying two entirely conflicting things here. You're saying "cities in the U.S., with respect to each other, are in a race to the bottom" (not that being well-run and having low taxes is a bad thing in my opinion...), and then you said New York and San Francisco don't have to play along, presumably since they're competing on value rather than price. I think it's obvious that Amazon's not looking solely for the cheapest possible city to locate in. I suspect they were never going to choose Gary, Indiana no matter how sweet the tax incentives were.
What went so right with Volkswagen's restructuring?
Why South SF is not on this like white on rice, I have no idea.

Because it's not trendy. There's no substitute for trendy.
To readers wondering if they should click the link: you should!
How do you protect keys and/or certificates stored on the device from being exfiltrated or replaced by an adversary?
well I know that you need to also have a capable runway.. but as already said the airport I posted meet these requirements, that's why they also tried to get a license to do test flight & manufacturing of the A380, but failed in favor of other locations.

also the airport actually is expandable and his runway is actually trimmed down since the local governement put streets at both ends of the runway.

it's a 100FDWT PCN airport which means that it is more than capable for an a380 to land. to say it differently, it has better conditions than frankfurt. (the only official airport in germany that can handle a A380.)
well but the only license the airport could get was a for dreamliner which came exlusivly for the 'europa park' (now defunct i guess). the local governement didn't supported any airline that wanted to fly there (basically FKB/Stuttgart was more important since they are subsidized).

I doubt that there will be any passenger flights not even A340/737-XXX since this airport will probably never get a passenger license, except for "special airport for passenger non-scheduled flights to the Europe Park Rust and return".
but it's mostly used by a local company for some freight stuff.
AI algorithm used to separate human and background can recognize a single hair
I don't know about European cities, but it's generally easier to walk around the San Diego Gaslamp Quarter than it is to drive.
Elon Musk will make driverless cars a reality sooner than you think – WIRED UK
Owning an Electric Car Is Twice as Cheap as Owning a Gas Vehicle
I guess it's not an option that gets widely offered.

Most people would like a leader who is a) really smart and that's proven by "peer review", b) cares for their needs and not some other agenda, c) doesn't hesitate to display all that.

But that's just not who gets offered in e.g. modern democracy setting.
I wonder how will a Git based client-side agent fit in. Why not use an already proven tech for the rollout, and then use custom installation scripts (also within the git repo) for doing software setup? The "server" here will just be normal git server, with commit ID serving as version number.
Torvalds doesn't represent the Linux community to current or prospective users. He doesn't even represent the Linux community to devs who aren't on LKML. So pleading his style doesn't help your case here. As for

> I never claimed to be a member, let alone some sort of representative

Earlier, you said:

> We are not your tech support

Whom, then, did you mean by "we"?

And as far as the technical side, well, who knows? You're very quick to assume you understand exactly what's going on, but I don't see why that means I should be likewise.
Wine is performing dynamic translation of D3D calls into OpenGL (or into Vulkan for D3D12). So it doesn't need any proprietary code to do that. However Wine developers might need to reverse engineer the logic of MS libraries, to correctly implement same behavior through open APIs.

It surely helps to remove the lock-in that DirectX API is causing. Run Windows only games on Linux? For MS lock-in proponents it must be a nightmare.
Are the googlers using Pixelbooks most often?
For startups using Stripe, they can send receipts, and many companies like Quaderno exist to fill the gap as well.
Well, to extract welfare funding from rich people you already have income taxes (maybe even progressive), why exactly does one want to encourage a low-quality lifestyle?
Thank you very much for the overview! I'll check out the QA IRC this weekend, and look through the links you've shared. Hope to see you around too. :-)
Enterprise editions exist with 100% offline installation, but unfortunately, home and business licenses have an "offline install" that requires online activation...[0]

This has been a huge PITA for me since I often need Word and Excel on a computer that's restricted from accessing the internet.

[0]: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Use-the-Office-2016...
I like cars and make quite a decent salary, and I still drive a 17 year old Peugeot with 330k miles simply because I am not willing to pay the tax on the kind of car I actually want.
Narrowed range of potential warming from 3°C to 1.2°C
Meh, LP is nice to have but you can live fairly happily without.

My real beef with electron apps is that they invariably lack support for all sorts of goodies (accented-character menus, OS-specific shortcuts, text auto-expansion, etc etc...) that regular desktop apps just get as standard.
I wonder if he had some kind of political connections that could have helped?
"Two dozen" gives a sense that it's not a precise number, corroborated by the use of the word "roughly" in the lede.
> Do you think you could become president of the US if you just wanted to? Probably not. Trump is smart.

I think you mean rich—from below market returns on inherited wealth—and well-connected (as a result of the former) and a celebrity (largely also a result of the first item, combined with America’s idolization of wealth, both recently and more particularly in the 1980s when he established his celebrity status.)
Britain’s $55B Brexit Bill Looks Like a ‘Bargain’ Deal
Yale for the privileged was a way to connect and have a good time.

Both of them continued studying. Kerry received J.D, passed bar exam and worked as a prosecutor. GWB received MBA from HBS.
The original research paper is paywalled (hence link to article) here: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25450
We tend to speak of abstractions in only positive terms. Some negative ones could include opaque, obtuse, disjointed, etc.
Yes, but that doesn't change anything.
AndroWish – Tcl/Tk on Android
At the risk of explaining the joke, obviously if I can't compute a number I won't need to represent it...
Or just recompile Chromium with a few changes ;)
Having lived in several cities in South America, Europe and now in San Francisco, wooden buildings are great for sustaining the dynamic load of an earthquake without falling down, but are terrible at noise insulation. It feels sometimes that half the housing stock has papier-mâché walls. I never truly understood the american desire for single family houses surrounded by park until I experienced the result of local building practices.
Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and raise your standards by a few orders of magnitude.
In Israel they do this without any good reason.
One could argue that Fuze - a commercial programming language - is a bunch of extra gunk versus the free, open source and widely available alternative of almost any other language.

But you're right, a fairer comparison would be against a Python learning environment that sweeps some of the cruft and gotchas under the rug, and complexity is very tough for beginners.

Speaking from experience running and helping in workshops, I found a lot of Python learners would name their code "somemodule.py" after the module they're learning about, and this would subsequently break "import somemodule". So there's a lot of merit in "safer" environments.
> "It's challenging to fix as one needs to tunnel certain data through 20 layers of abstraction, but hey, that's improved UX for you!"

It it's truly 20 layers of abstraction, I'd love to read a blog that spelunks into all those layers and elucidates what they do.
I have lived in a few 'plattenbau' and other Eastern European buildings through the years. Some of them, mostly from the 50's, are high quality by any standards. Anything newer is lacking at least in some respect (sound isolation being a very acute problem mostly, but also other issues). In the more affluent EE countries, owners invest into upgrades, but some things cannot be improved easily or at all.
I have also lived in London and building quality of older/cheaper housing stock there was shockingly low compared to EE estates. Germany is much better.