skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You definitely make good points and I agree the cut corners are a big issue. However I'm under the impression that there are ledgers that are meticulously kept which track all balances, debt, and cash issuance which need to balance out at every level (from the Gov/Fed to small banks); otherwise the institution would fall.

Why do I trust it? Because it continues to work, can it fail? Sure, but there is little incentive for those in power to mess around as it would jeopardize the system.

> The money that never exists in any form other than on some computers

I'm not going to get into how money works - but your statement could be said about crypto, it only exists on some computer right? Just because it never existed before doesn't mean it won't have utility.

I think the legal system is the real place to fix things - there are certain mechanisms which influence how wealth works its way through the system. At the moment its misbalanced. It has little to do with the USD (well I benefit from USD, perhaps little countries elsewhere have a gripe with it).
Is this based on some internal information or can you provide citation? It'd be really interesting if what you're saying was on the roadmap officially.
> But "destroying the taxi cartels" wasn't a good thing, because it replaced an imaginary taxi mafia (that supposedly spanned cities) with a single taxi mafioso that's a global corporation.

This is simply bullshit, through and through. Uber, at best, is just a middleman that provides billing services. Those performing the service are local corporations that are free to pick whichever billing service they want. In fact, after Uber started to cover my region the local cab companies were quick to setup a competing service. With them, other multinational ridesharing services started covering my region as well. In two occasions I took a ride whose driver stated he also worked through two Uber competitors.

This is a huge improvement over the old cartel system.
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If you think that attracting high numbers of highly educated and wealthy people into a moribound city is not going to increase property taxes and the existing tax base, I don't know what to say, especially since you (or anybody outside of Philly or Amazon) know what the concessions are, I don't know what to say.

If the concession was only to take 1% off the tax bill for Amazon, it'd definitely be a good idea. If it was to rescind taxes in all perpetuity and give massive development credits, it would probably be a bad idea. Now it's all down to negotiation.
Except that what used to require a much larger and heavier machine can now be done with a phone, if not a watch.

Cars don't really do much more than they did a century ago. This doesn't mean there haven't been HUGE improvements to make them do their function better.
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> and certainly there is nothing in the iPhone ecosystem where they want you to contribute reviews or human analysis to help them with gathering data

... but as a result, they are, perhaps, unable to deliver the product Google can. Consider [https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat; previously discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15965653]

... which is fine; Apple doesn't need to be in the business of providing the best mapping software available on a smartphone. But Google appears to be in that business.
Many real programming languages support arbitrary precision decimal and/or rational numbers.

Sure, there are times when space or speed concerns favor inexact representation over correctness, but that's an optimization that ought to be properly evaluated; the fact that lots of languages are designed in a way which makes it the default everyone reaches for contributes to lots of errors.
> Uh, there's nothing out in the eastern part of Colorado that qualifies as a city. Sterling, is like 10k people, if that.

You realize that both Ft. Morgan and Sterling call themselves cities? But I get your point. They are small in population compared to Front Range municipalities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Co...
I used to work on wine full-time during my summers. The company I was working for was in cloud gaming, and linux was a better server environment. We used WINE to emulate the games. There are quite a few companies with a strong enough interest in WINE that they hire developers to work on it.
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Congrats on shipping the new version!

While I don't use it currently, Bootstrap helped me go from 0 design skills to build non-awful user interfaces. It's hard to overstate the impact they have had on making the web a better place.
In many cases, it's because they don't want to have to commute in from Westchester every day although certainly some like to live in the city for the cultural opportunities and other aspects of a major urban lifestyle. Of course, no small number of the wealthiest also have a weekend place out in the Hamptons or wherever so they can escape the city. (Which I can certainly empathize with based on the summer I lived in Manhattan.)
A sautéed onion is going to be more mellow than a raw one. The juice will be more intense per weight and volume than the minced or diced raw root. It's really a matter of a few drops for a pot of soup. In my chili I often use both yellow and white fresh onions with the meat, plus onion powder as part of my homemade chili powder, plus a few drops of onion juice in the sauce to simmer down before combining the meat and sauce.

If you're really curious, there's no description I can give that would match trying it. Just don't go crazy and add the juice of a couple whole onions to a vegetable broth. Drops really will do the trick.
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I've noticed this kind of response before - recall that when Dropbox was first shown to HN, one of the responses was something along the lines of "This is trivial to set up with a linux box and (esoteric techno-babble follows)."

Not wrong, per se, but a super-technical HN reader was not the target of Dropbox, and I feel like it's the same situation here.

While you could, I guess, plug your HDMI cable from your computer running your first hello world python program onto a screen, I think there's something much more tangible and incredible to a child to run their own code on the device they usually play video games on. As a 10 year old, I would flux around with the debugger cheat in my Star Wars n64 game and think "well obviously these numbers change the color of fog, but how on earth did they code the actual game? The characters? The lasers?" What's being demonstrated here is "look kids, it IS possible for YOU to write code and run it on a video game console! YOU can become a game developer, if you learn about this stuff!"

Another anecdote - my uncle gave me his old computer to pull to pieces, I wanted to know how it went from circuits to showing Windows on the screen. I finally get to what he kept calling the "motherboard" and "processor," which he said is where most of the work is happening. So I pulled off the processor, disappointed at just seeing more circuits. He said there was even more circuitry inside it, so I cracked it open to find a black blob of I guess silicon. Nothing revealing how it worked! "What'd you expect to find," he asked, "a brain?" Imagine if the gap had someone been bridged by the existence of arduinos back then, or even just redstone in minecraft - a direct link between logic gates and, say, a calculator working.
Mailinator does the same thing -- http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-to-get-gmailcom-b...

I don't see anything wrong with it.
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a subpoena can of course from a private entity as part of a lawsuit.
They worked fine in my experience. The isolation is a nice concept, although it pollutes /etc/mtab (each app will appear as a mounted volume). It definitely helps developers not having to worry about .deb and .rpm, you configure a snap and then Ubuntu has automated services that will do all heavy lifting for you.
please let me know how can I improve my phrasing, what mistakes I made, I am not a native speaker so I am aware I can build my phrases in a weird way.
I like a lot of these but personally bootstrap has inertia going for it.

I have a dozen projects that use Bootstrap and it just feels like a lot of work to change that paradigm now for one solitary project.

22 year old me: "Man you sound old."
London has loads of dodgy landlords cramming people into sheds in their gardens. It's not a solution, it's a terrible symptom of the problem.
Foreign Investment is driving this.

The money got sucked out of the US economy (foreign manufacturing, high oil prices back in the '00's) - and now that wealth is consolidated, and they're investing in property all over the place; especially in US suburbs (and Canada), and it's jacking up demand so bad, that even very high-paying white-collar jobs can't realistically finance a house anymore. Oh- people can BUY the homes. They will have to stretch to pay for maintenance, save for kids' college, and their own retirement.

Only people who bought before the last bubble are really able to afford these homes. Or Doctors and Lawyers and executives.

The only way to beat this game, seems to be; if you're a rock-star, and can work out a remote gig, you can live in a cheap area, and still make "expensive area" money.

(and if you go for a company that's expanding to an area of low housing demand: they'll pay you less. AND. In 5-10 years when the economy hits a low spot, they'll shut your site down and lay you off. In any case, the GOOD projects, the kind that will boost your career, are not going to come to your backwater site. You would need to relocate to their main headquarters. Territorial battles are a real thing)
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Well, we can debate the definition of a free market forever. We (in the US) tend to define "free market" as whatever benefits the corporations that buy the lobbyists. They sometimes like to slip in silly protectionist laws.

Read up on the chicken tax and the incident with Kerrygold butter in Wisconsin.

More recent examples are how the telcos got net neutrality repealed, the media companies strengthening copyright, and Trump loosening EPA restrictions. Those aren't really "free market" moves, but called free market by the parties who benefit from them.
Things are different now, though. The release of iPhone X has finally made such UI gestures mainstream.
I'd have to see this on YouTube by several independent sources. Sounds pretty wild, when living standards rise so high the definition of "poverty" becomes more and more absurd.
"Frameworks and tools" is a very broad category. Check out React, Angular and Vue if you're looking beyond design/CSS.
I think that the uniqueness is not defined by being unlike others but by being on your on, when yourself process the sintuation and decide to follow it.

And for your second argument, it’s just to easy to follow the computers “orders”, a lot of people would just go for the order because it’s already justified, something along the lines of “I would do different, but the machine told me that everyone that on in that way get something wrong”.

I agree that this type of software would be good when one needs advices, but it would have to be complete trustworthy, giving wrong advices to a suicidal person by example can be devastating (and in this case not even thinking about the manipulation that would be possible by the corporation).
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I have difficulty finding bars where you can sit and talk; many of them have obnoxious top 40 playing loudly on the speakers. Had this problem yesterday when attending a tech meetup and the jukebox in the main room was overpowering the speakers.
Incanter as a R replacement
I've been using a Slack flatpak for months, from flathub.org
You don't need it for WSL, wWine can already run on Windows natively: http://www.kegel.com/wine/wow.html
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This. There's a reason that everything looks new in Chinese megacities: it is new. Let's see how shiny everything is in 30 years.

Also, of course, there's a strong argument to be made that the California bungalow aesthetic of Silicon Valley is a big part of what made it what it is today: an entire generation of bright people saw California as a vision of life that was entirely distinct from the eastern industrial cities that came before it. Visions of surfing and orchards and intellectual freedom were attractive to the kind of liberal thinkers who invented personal computers.
Is there a resource to get an overview of the difference(s) between v4 and Bootstrap 3? Speaking as someone who has not been following v4 development.
The middle class in America is disappearing I think. Chinese is probably the best language to have as the secondary.
The simple fact is the tracking tool knows nothing that the site doesn't already know. Because the user performed it on the site. If the user wasn't comfortable with the site knowing information X, and associating that information with that account, then the user shouldn't have done it on the site.

The sole additional information this tracking tool gathers is things like internal state of the application. There is zero additional personal information disclosure.
South Koreans are especially wary of that, due to FAAAN death.
I like your idea about using blockchains to represent assets. I have been thinking about something along those lines. But a whole set of interesting problem arises. That being the legal issues surrounding transferring ownership of assets globally. Not to mention issues of fraud and recourse when an agreement falls apart. I'd be curious to to have a chat with you about it. Send me an email.
Also, the employee is getting it at about a 40% discount against what they'd have to earn to buy it out of pocket (it's not treated as income and the business can expense it).
I find just pinning the tab (right-click on tab, select Pin Tab) on Firefox does what I need it to do. I mention this because I suspect many people are unaware the feature exists.

Pinning a tab gives it permanent priority on the left-hand side of the tab list, and elides the title from the tab, so it is just the favicon. It also blocks CTRL-w from closing the tab; you have to actually right-click and either unpin or close the tab. That may sound trivial, but was the biggest problem I had running it in the browser before, it got caught in my periodic tab cleanups accidentally. Now I never accidentally close it.
> Its a common misconception.

No. It's a particular American hang-up where everything related to "socialism" must be portrayed as "communist" and bad.
I don’t think this is fully explanatory. I have lived in the Bay Area for almost 30 years, and, to borrow a term from our illustrious President, San Francisco is more of a shithole now than it has ever been. This has little if nothing to do with the ages of buildings (except of course that if we would build a lot more buildings anywhere nearby, things would be a lot more affordable. Why South SF is not on this like white on rice, I have no idea.)
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New York City is the archetypal example of this kind of policy.
The biggest change I’m aware of is using flexbox.
Almost every old wizard-level programmer I've talked to started off by being massively inspired by the ability to program games when they were kids.

A teaching technique as old as teaching - find something the kid is actively interested in and excited about, and sneakily teach them stuff using that.
/clarification

AutoML vision is actually built on Google Brain’s proprietary image recognition technology, and Vizier is one of the components of their broader solution. You can see their earlier research announcement here[1]. Sorry to leave off the additional teams that helped in building this!

[1] https://research.googleblog.com/2017/05/using-machine-learni...
I've tried MiniCSS[1] (which styles your default HTML without adding too many classes and has themes) and MUI[2] (Material UI styles). Both are decent, but I keep falling back to Bootstrap v4 because Bootstrap just gets a lot of sizing and padding right.

With other frameworks I'm constantly adding new rules just to add a bit of padding and margin here and there, but Bootstrap 4 gets a lot of it right by default. Plus it now has a lot of useful utility classes for small padding increments (e.g. `.mb-3` for `margin-bottom: 1.5rem` and `.px-2` for horizontal padding of 1rem). With Bootstrap 4, a previous project required only 10-ish lines of global CSS[3]. Sure, it looks and feels like a Bootstrap project, but that was fine for the purpose of the app, and Bootstrap 4 looks fresh enough that I don't feel like the design is outdated.

FWIW, I've also had a lot of luck recently with Material-UI[4], a set of React components that implement the Material UI aesthetic. My current project feels like it could fit in with any Google app from G Suite.

[1]: https://minicss.org/

[2]: https://www.muicss.com/

[3]: https://github.com/statico/aspen/blob/master/pages/index.js#...

[4]: https://material-ui-next.com/
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Here's the thing: I never give my real name to captive portals. I don't even give a real email address.

Who can tell me with a straight face that this is criminal behaviour
http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2017/08/10/bootstrap-4-beta/
The new improved version of a "trap street". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
I'd be curious to hear why you say that. What makes Boston more walkable than Chicago?

I lived there for about six months, that was the first time I realized it was possible—even preferable—to live in a city without a car.
I believe that it's completely reasonable for governments to invest massively into public infrastructure to facilitate the success of Amazon HQ. Things like new transit lines, complete streets, public parks etc. It should be a catalyst to invest into parts of the city that have seen substantial urban decay.

It irks me however when huge tax credits are handed out to already profitable companies to move in. It's just giving free services at the expense of everyone else.
There's lots of old, walkable downtowns in the midwest that have a feeling of appropriate density.

Most of them are part of old cities that are past their prime in economic vitality, so those areas don't have the same liveliness as what you might get in downtown Boston. (I used to work for a company based there, and would spend hours walking around at night.)

I'd recommend Pittsburgh for walkability, too. It's one of the most delightful cities I've wandered around recently.

Unfortunately, even Boston, Pittsburgh, NYC, and the lesser-known but walkable/dense areas are pretty unappealing when compared to some cities in south/central america and Europe, that were built before cars took over everything.

I suspect once a few large cities go bankrupt and cannot enforce their zoning regulations, new construction will move in the direction of rational density again.
I think solving there problem of easy distribution is faaaaaaar more important than the small overhead involed.
(in Azure) Are VMs still tied to a specific machine and thus if the machine goes down the VMs need be restarted?
Would you rather live in Singapore or El Salvador? Especially if you have a family that depends on you.
Have you tried figma.com? It’s web based and in many ways even better than Sketch app. I personally stopped using photoshop for graphic design long time ago and never look back
Have you never traveled on low-cost airlines, in any country? There's nothing quite like a transoceanic flight with extra-thin seats and no water, let alone snacks, provided.

(Of course, this is made clear to the customer, but my point is that United and Delta are better than many airlines in most countries.)
Parking, traffic, and speed to destination depend on where you live and your specific situation, but for a lot of people, speed to destination is always faster in a car, including parking. My commute is only 5 minutes by car and it would take a lot longer on transit.

Subjectively, I prefer being in my own space with personal temperature controls and music, and a bit of traffic would be worth it. Compared to transit, where it's often crowded, you have to look out for your stop coming up, the seats aren't generally as good, the ambient temperature is liable to be uncomfortable, etc. I've also found that I just like driving lately.
Salesforce is a software company. Uber is a taxi company. I understand why they have thousands of taxi drivers.
The number of flights a well designed airport can handle is insane, and since most airports in China are new, they'll likely avoid this problem for a long time.

The problem for awhile was that airports like Heathrow and JFK simply did not have the capability to handle being the major hubs that they were. New hubs, like Atlanta or Dallas Fort Worth, can more than handle their role as a major hub. The answer isn't building bigger planes, but building better airports.
Your take: China's retail is underdeveloped, China lacks a well-developed credit card system. Implication: credit cards are a foregone conclusion in a developed society.

My take: China's retail is fine, and from some perspectives the most developed in the world. Credit cards in particular but arguably bank cards in general are a broken system that needs to die.
Not to mention "FUZE is widely accepted as an ideal resource for teaching coding", and I'm pretty sure 99% of us never heard of the language before...
> it serves the common good

No, it serves Google.
And, honestly, I'm not even sure they've miscalculated. It's bothered this one developer enough to write a blog post about it, and several other people on HN agree with that sentiment, but I think more data is needed before we reject a null hypothesis that the dominant user response is "Don't really care one way or the other."
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So it's basically evernote but with everything public-facing? I'm not sure I see the advantage of something like this over a simple shared filesystem.
I thought the retpoline basically defeated speculation for certain longjmp/function calls. Why do you need a firmware update for that to work?
Previous employer had an office in St. Pete's. Hurricane shutdowns are a non-zero cost.
Slack's UI makes me insane. As a snap, or otherwise the lack of customizability, lack of minimalism and inability to size the UI to my liking makes me hate using it. I'm stuck with it and it feels like chat prison.
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Chicago was built densely, and it's flat Illinois land as far as the eye can see for 180 degrees. Zoning codes force people to build more densely than they otherwise would. The average lot size in my neighborhood (laid out before zoning codes) is 2,800 square feet. The minimum lot size in the county today is 15,000 square feet (five times less dense).
Depends on what you mean by 'should be'. Are you talking about what it morally should be, or what it should be based on historical patterns?

I am guessing that data has shown people who utilize less of their available credit are more likely to not default. Whether that is morally better or not is up to you.

As for the reason this is the case, I am guessing it has to do with resisting temptation and not living right at the edge of your means. Having credit but not using it shows that you have a buffer between where you are and destitution.
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