skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was an op-ed in the WaPo yesterday[1] that was as fascinating as it was terrifying:

Rule No. 1 of surviving hyperinflation is simple: Get rid of your money. Given the speed with which money is shedding its value, holding on to it means you’re losing out. The second you’re paid you run out as fast as you can to buy something – anything – while you can still afford it. It’s better to hold almost any asset than money, because assets hold their value and money doesn’t.

Find a can of tuna? Buy it. Even if you hate tuna. Even if you have no intention of eating tuna. You can always trade it for something else later. Tuna holds its value. Money doesn’t.

I think this is what’s so hard to wrap your mind around if you’ve never experienced hyperinflation. It sounds like it’s about prices rising fast, but it really isn’t. It’s about money breaking down. Under hyperinflation, money no longer works. It doesn’t store value. It just stops doing the basic things people expect money to do. It stops being something you want to have and turns into something you’ll do anything to avoid having: something so worthless you won’t even bend down and scoop it up off the floor while you’re looting.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2018/0...
> Even if separate Lego pieces are really good by themselves, it's no good if you can't stack them together effortlessly.

I think that's unnecessarily splitting hairs. Compatibility factors into being a good choice. You can cherry-pick counter-examples, and no one's denying that those exist. My experience (almost 20 years) with FOSS has been overwhelmingly positive.
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That is definitely the motivation where I live.

People seem to be willing to spend a lot of money to live closer to others with similar economic status. Where I live, you can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars more for an almost identical house in the 'wealthy' parts of town.
Disclaimer: I work at Uber.

Wow tell me what company you're recruiting for. I'll make sure to never apply there. This is really priveleged thinking, I've worked for Google, Amazon, and Uber, and two start ups. Let me tell you the engineering culture aren't all that different across all orgs I've worked at. It's really simplistic and naive of you to take what you hear on the media as truth. It's only "widely regarded" because Uber is under heavy scrutiny, because of the industry we operate in. Tell me what company do you work for? If all of media put a magnifying glass over you and all your coworkers, I'll gauarntee, you'll soon be widely regarded as toxic. If your company is even remotely successful, I'll gauarntee that the media will find or spin up a business malpractice of some kind.
Yes, the comment is premised on the future representation of assets in the blockchain.

If the tickets were on the blockchain, they could be exchanged in the way that you describe.
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A cross-CA transparency log for certificates.
For anybody else wondering "Aadhaar (English: Foundation) is a 12 digit unique-identity number issued to all Indian residents based on their biometric and demographic data." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadhaar
"The first" was probably a town incorporated in the middle ages.

Many towns in Europe that have public squares and donkey sized streets ban private cars in their historic cores (or limit them to special permits).
They do if you file them at radar.apple.com. I've had back and forths with them on some video card performance issues after sleep after filing a report there.
>Where do you draw the line between political pressure and the management's political beliefs?

So far, Cloudflare's most notorious content on the other side of the line has been Daily Stormer back in August of 2017.

>The tipping point for us making this decision was that the team behind Daily Stormer made the claim that we were secretly supporters of their ideology

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15029852

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15034304
I'm not sure who is repeatedly downvoting my comment above. If you want to see what kind of (supernatural) evidence Treffert uses for his claims, you should read the linked article very carefully and also read his book, Extraordinary People, pages xxv - xxvi, 96, and 121 (1989 edition).

A simpler explanation: people get hit on their heads, they develop new interests (sometimes due to cognitive changes), they practice their new interests a lot, and then they become skilled at them.
What is the positive effect on turnout of moving election day from Tuesday to Sunday if early voting [on days including Sunday] already exists?

It really seems like semantics that don't actually solve the problem. Weekend voting increase turnout, despite me traveling weekends (and now early voting) : different than Tuesdays increasing traveler's turnout and non travelers early voting on the weekend
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The public defender had nothing to do with it. This was a lawyer his parents hired. A lawyer that was trying to save him from death row, and who saw that the client's desired strategy was coocoo crazy pants.

Does the attorney have more of an obligation to pursue the desired strategy, or to try and save the client's life?
Homes that are cheap because there’s an airport nearby probably wouldn’t be so cheap if there weren’t an airport nearby.
I’m a fan of both approaches. As we can never it say too soon in life: tradeoffs.
It is the right thing when you know that mathematics isn't patentable.
is the joke that one day you'll be profitable? or the food?
Doesn't it make total sense to mothball the desal when you don't need it?

Pity about water consumption though.
By some measures China has already passed the United States:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-18/who-has-t...

China, and eventually India, matching the United States will hopefully help increase R&D.

For example:

- Solar energy prices have dropped significantly because of China's investment.

- Nuclear energy is dead in the US but lives in China.

- AI - China will match the US, accelerating development

- Mass Transportation - High-speed rail, maglevs

- Electric vehicles - China has large EV quotas and they're the largest car market.
I'm fairly certain that given Target already has a hold of Minneapolis, there's no way they'd allow Amazon to move in on their turf.
Since it means getting less bits to store numbers in while also having to buy new hardware it doesn't seem like a very good solution though... and this is the patent system at its best apparently.
There's nothing wrong with an appeal to authority in response to an appeal to authority.
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I like how you wrote all that in the past tense.
It's a plain C library with an API very similar to GMP, so an option would be to wrap it from Rust, which should not be too difficult.
Unfortunately, Miami's tech scene is really small, especially for it's size. Ft. Lauderdale has a bigger one, but still not very impressive. Amazon would be hard pressed to find enough qualified engineers here that I think it's not viable. I could see a smaller office opening for Latin America though, as we have communities from essentially every country in the region.
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3000 engineers seems like a ludicrous number for a taxi company. I'd expect the new CEO to start shrinking to focus on core business.
The fantasy world is thinking that plucky little inventors creating something is the status quo. You think big companies like Intel don't have hundreds of people working on research full-time? That they freely lease all fruits of their research out to their competition rather than keeping a 20-year monopoly?

Patents, like any monopoly-granting device, benefit market incumbents much more than encourage new entrants
"you want a clone for eBay/Facebook/Amazon? You realize they have teams of many thousands of people working on code bases over 15 years old right? And you think a single person, me, is going to be able to replicate that in 3 months?"

"You can use Lisp if you want to."

"...I'll have the POC on your desk by next week."
Not sure if there are PM's in HN?
PatientPolly@forward.cat otherwise.
"Silicon Valley innovation now is directly aimed at oppressing the underclass, and everybody knows it and can see it. They hate Uber. People hate Uber. It means the death of the era of good feelings that came with this constant Moore's Law style innovation.

And that was an unforced error, by Silicon Valley. It was in their DNA. They didn't have to give Travis Kalanick, a guy they despised and never trusted, for good reason—They didn't have to give him all that venture capital.

But they saw him as an expendable probe, so they cynically gave him money, to see how much law-breaking he could get away with in the name of their disruption activities.

That was hubris—and nemesis is well on the way."

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But in the context of Chinese National policy, there is really only one “great leap” that comes to mind.
What is that site? I have a working Apple ID and it won't even let me sign in.
I read your 2016 as 2017; guess that what being sick for a few days does to the brain. And it doesn't require you pass those options: https://imgur.com/a/Hymj9 (clang-900.0.39.2)
Come to think of it, I believe I've heard of multiple "making the device render this text causes a crash" bugs for Apple devices, but never on any other platforms. Is this type of bug just that much more common on Apple devices, or are there plenty of other cases out there that I just don't know about?
Not yet, RSS isn't in big demand these days but I might add one. Was going to see if several people asked for it.
Seriously? That sounds like quite an exaggeration. Do you believe, in earnest, that all 15,000 people that work at Uber are not worth hiring?
Is there a good way to experiment with exposing native calls from Firefox/Quantum to WASM?

I'm looking into building an extension to build Quantum Display Lists from a WASM vdom.
> At AirHelp we're not selling your data to any third party companies. We simply do not do this.

Yet.

And what happens when you get hacked. Email is the root of trust for at least 90% of my accounts online.
I love wide pavements as a pedestrian, alas London is in the grip of a cycle paths fetish and in many instances, they eat up pavements with some cases reducing pedestrian access and seen some which have reduced the pedestrian area to one foot due to the oversight of sheltered bus stops consuming the other side of the pavement. I'm not against cycle paths and indeed for them, but not when they erode away pedestrian access.

That said, been case of many roads paved over for pedestrian only access and they have been fantastic on many levels for shops.
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Up to “and the process” yes, this is what Piaget taught. And that learning is a process of comtinuous rewriting of what you think you know, based on your experiences.

Separately: some people, like Spencer, who believe that “progress” has a direction, that “more advanced” societies have more universal knowledge that accumulates like stacking paper on a table, (and this was the challenge of Darwin) that humans are closest to god and all other creatures are inferior (you can see how this extends to a belief that there are different races (=breeds) of humans, both in genetics/god’s engineering and in culture).

Then tying the two together: you can look at the development of an individual human as an iterative, never ending and somewhat meandering process or you can say that you just have to transfer those stacks of paper, bottom to top, and then you’re done.

The connection between the two may sound absurdly tenuous but sad to say it is highly politicized and to this very day affects how schools are organized and funded, culture, politics, beliefs about right and wrong and how people should behave.
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Don't be grumpy, the "it is technically allowed, therefore morally good"-argument is exceedingly weak, you shoudn't rely on it.
There is a sermon I love, that talks about dealing with ambiguity, and in it is defined 3 levels of dealing with ambiguity, the second mirrors the claims made in the article. I'm just going to leave a big quote because it explains it so well:

The English writer G. K. Chesterton once addressed questions similar to those I have raised today. He distinguished among “optimists,” “pessimists,” and “improvers,” as he called them, which roughly correspond to my three levels of dealing with ambiguity. He concluded that both the optimists and the pessimists looked too much at only one side of things, and observed that neither of them can be of much help in improving the human condition, because people cannot solve problems unless they are willing both to acknowledge that a problem exists and yet retain enough genuine loyalty to do something about it.

More specifically, Chesterton wrote that the evil of the excessive optimist (level one) is that he will:

"defend the indefensible. He is the jingo of the universe; he will say, “My cosmos, right or wrong.” He will be less inclined to the reform of things; more inclined to a sort of front-bench official answer to all attacks, soothing everyone with assurances. He will not wash the world, but whitewash the world."

On the other hand, the evil of the pessimist (level two), wrote Chesterton, is:

"not that he chastises gods and men, but that he does not love what he chastises ... [In being the so-called ‘candid friend,’ the pessimist is not really candid.] He is keeping something back—in his own gloomy pleasure in saying unpleasant things. He has a secret desire to hurt, not merely to help. . . . He is using the ugly knowledge which was allowed him [in order] to strengthen the army, to discourage people from joining it."

(The reference to the army, I think, is talking about "God's army" (informally, e.g. the "believers"), as this is in a religious context)
Based on the number of stores that are open on Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and states of emergency, I don't expect businesses that don't want people to vote to add a company holiday instead of 2 hours of flexibility.

[I doubt it's banks, government services, and companies that love to add extra holidays that people don't travel on holidays]
And direct exposure to hurricanes for the parts that are not underwater!
Can confirm, just crashed my friends iPhone X. Required a hard reboot, was locked up completely.
Lol America. Where walkable streets are justified by economics and not humanities.
The current airport authority will sadly fight rail at the airport tooth and nail. I believe they make more money off parking fees than the flight ops.

Moreover, the strongest / largest municipality in the region (Wake/Raleigh) seems to be the least interested in serious non-road public transport projects, as they just withdrew from their chunk of the light rail connection with Durham / CH.
I would expect most of not all development would be done on desktops for that reason (and also for improved ergonomics and faster computers are always better) and there is no requirement for ide's to store any code locally.
this describes the current "capitalist" system we have today, where powerful individuals can lobby the state to create laws favouring them directly.
the problem is, of course, the existence of the state.
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Can confirm - am the owner of the mirror
You have to have a (free) developer account.
Likely the cardboardiness is to encourage people to copy it - the software is where they make money surely?
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No no no you see the way this works is let's say the car you are in gets a chip in the windshield from a rock... It will immediately dial home for a solution which will most likely be to drive itself off a bridge to get a total replacement, and forge the records by generating a video of a non-driverless car swerving into it, with a database of license plates of known driver based cars..
I for one got the reference. but HN comment style strongly discourages low-effort jokes. It doesn't add information. I'm not surprised that it was downvoted, whether people "got it" or not. This is fine, HN is not reddit.
Radar is Apple’s internal bug tracking system. Outsiders have limited access to it. I believe bugreport.apple.com is the path for submitting bugs as an external developer.
Specifically was considering Well's because they are less than a 5 minute walk from my house in NC - which is kind of rare in NC - most places are drivable.

However their account opening practices from years ago, and this is a good reminder they are unscrupulous.

I am being somewhat selective as I have a private client account with Chase which has been really nice, and Well's is one of the banks that offers such concierge services.

I'll admit though I only really like the low fee stuff, like free ACH/Wire Transfers, Free Bank Checks, and ATM-fee reimbursement - no limit. Not to mention they waive tons of fees for having credit cards with them.

Some of the higher value fees like using their investment manager, I don't take part in. I manage most of my retirement and savings in TDAmeritrade, Betterment and Robinhood accounts. I still maintain a rather high cash balance at my bank but I make sure to keep it below the FDIC insured amounts.

Anyways, I asked Well's to call me about their services a week ago through their website - I guess they don't want my business - oh well.

I have a state credit union account from my days as a TA in school - but they don't provide many loan services for home purchase / car purchase however I tend to use products that generate 0% interest loans on cars and home use I used Better.com because those guys are killin it - they gave me a low rate and just promised to transfer to the bank of my choice (Chase).

The only reason I really want to switch off chase is that I have to do a lot in person because of new federal compliance rules. I was setting up a Last Will etc for my wife and I and we wanted a complex beneficiary rule on cash accounts and Chase was going to make me drive 3 hours to a branch to set it up. Just seems like if something happens to me and my wife (car crash or something) it would be tough to get the cash to the right place and my attorney is telling me it'll all end up in probate.

Super morbid, but that's what made me start shopping.
If the shoe fits... :-(
So a crashing bug in the text rendering framework is now worth an article in major publications?

I stumbled over two or three of them in the last couple of years while debugging crash reports sent in by customers.

Seems that text rendering is hard. Maybe fuzzing CoreText would be a worthwhile target to discover vulnerabilities?
Also from the end of 2016 the company encouraged not wearing Uber swag. We had few employees, in I think the middle East, attacked by taxi drivers. They were wearing Uber swag.
For all the uber employees on here reading and defending their stake in the company, the company culture is absolute garbage, it's truly crap. I was interviewed in 2017 and treated like shit, and by that I mean the worst professional experience in my life. I work at a reputable tech company with very reputable people, and I have never experienced the kind of devious, malicious behavior EVER. I can't wait to out the names of the two uber atg employees responsible. Time's up, dickheads.
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Surely Gaza ran out of water a long time ago ...
I also used the famous long welsh place name to test addresses with :-)
"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch"
Unless you are planning to infringe (which is knowing in itself), this is very bizarre advice.

Reading a patent is more likely to make you not infringe upon it than to make you knowingly infringe upon it.
For what it's worth, Dullahan, my headless SDK on top of Chromium Embedded Framework appears exactly the same as desktop Chrome:

Overview: https://bitbucket.org/lindenlab/dullahan/overview

Examples: https://bitbucket.org/lindenlab/dullahan/src/default/example...

Not suggesting it's better or worse - just an alternative if you need something that appears to be like a desktop browser.
Yeah - I wanted a bank with equal or better web / mobile offerings to Chase. I've been very happy with theirs.

Wonder if anyone has tried PNC or TD bank.
They teach you how to efficiently use (two kinds of) hammers and what nails to knock

1. ConvNet (for images and structured data)

2. RNN (for text and sequence data).

They don't teach you far advanced stuff, like how to creatively misuse the hammers to knock different nails (example: using ConvNet, tweak as causal convolution to handle sequence data)
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> In the case of mathematics and computing, the invention can be copied easily by development costs are minimal as well. These is no compelling reason why someone should reap disproportionate rewards from a government-supported artificial monopoly. Progress suffers and the economy as well.

Yes there is: because of the effort of invention. The effort required to copy is irrelevant. Also, by arguing against patents, you're basically arguing that Intel and the like should get a huge payday at the expense of this guy's efforts.

Patents only last for 20 years [1], and it's not like progress stops when they're in force. Have some patience.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term_of_patent
I think the OP might have been misunderstanding a thing that actually happens. Because officials are graded on whether they hit targets or not but they don't get extra points for exceeding them they have an incentive to under-report growth in good years so that a return to accurate reporting in bad years lets them still report growth. So there will be a combination of over and under-reporting of growth at different times, as was show in the graphs in the article. How China Escaped the Poverty Trap goes into more detail for those interested.
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a drone covered in micro SD cards hurtling across the city."

Relevant:
https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
Unfortunately auto manufacturers are turning into software-as-a-service company in order to recoup Revenue and to attract consumers to their product.

The latest example is BMW buying parkmobile.

(https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/16/bmw-acquires-parkmobile-pa...)
The optimist in me wants to say "Good, rising tides raise all ships."

Having multiple loci of major innovation can help alleviate some of the problems of Silicon Valley's monoculture.
Just a reminder that this is a demonstration of how government-issued fiat currencies are also "not based on physical reality" as many point out for cryptocurrencies.
Seeing it at the larger end of the spectrum with Bill Gates [0], will be interesting to see whether all of the smart city tools people are developing will lead to the rise of really dense, human-centred cities..

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/14/16648290/bill-gates-smar...
Many states already have weekend (and weekday) early voting. So, I ask, what is the change?

Why will changing 1 of 3 weeks + 1 day of days significantly change voter turnout?
Is anybody even using bolivars in Venezuela anymore? I've been assuming people are using dollars and euros as much as possible.