skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no expertise in this area, but my understanding is that global trade in general is carried out largely in dollars, not just oil.
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Bitcoin and pot help fuel 'frenetic activity' in retail investing: TD Ameritrade
It was fine for me. Same mbp retina 8gb system incrementally updated since 10.9.5. Took a while but munki installed the update without issue. If you have FV2 enabled it won't reboot automatically (ie. shutdown) despite munki 3's fdesetup authrestart ability? Unless I misread that update which is totally possible.
I am not sure what you are suggesting. My point is that there is not really that much money to redistribute. To make it concrete, let's say you have a company with 10,000 employees making an annual profit of $1B before labor costs. In that case you could pay everyone $100,000 annually. Or you could take away 1% from everyone paying them only $99,000 and give yourself a nice $10,000,000 pay check every year. You are now 100 times better off than your employees but they individually just lost 1% each. So while being 1% better off might have some compounding effects in the long run this hopefully illustrates that there is often not really that much wealth at the very top if you see it in relation to the large number of people you want to redistribute it to.
Interesting question. I do think you are trying to take Kent State out of context though - it wasn't a single event. It was the culmination of anti-war protests in the US, and caused massive and very quick social change once it happened.

These what-ifs of history are certainly interesting though!
Ah. Okay.

I agree that most psychosocial stuff is on not very solid ground. To put it nicely, it is more art than science.

Where I basically disagree is that this makes it not worthwhile to pursue and inherently inferior to religion.
Guinness doesn’t accept new record attempts because it’s too dangerous.

Also, anyone who does this under anything but lab conditions can’t be trusted. They’ll ignore/be unaware of many periods of microsleep which would invalidate any record attempt.
NYC has a massive homeless population as well.
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As someone who has a bit of a distributist streak, it's really nice to see this.

There's a craft brewery near me, and I patronize it not because it's the best beer, but because it's pretty good, and I want to support the local business.

Craft breweries seem to be pretty good candidates for distributing the means of production. I'm speaking a bit out of ignorance, but it's not a lot of ingredients and it's not a huge deal to ship and store those ingredients, correct? There are more pieces to a cheeseburger with lettuce and tomato than a beer - and meat, cheese, and produce can be harder to consistently source and keep. And because craft is a pure luxury good, price isn't as big of an issue here is as it usually is when you talk about these things.
No. Darknet markets also sell things that are unambiguously legal to buy everywhere, as well as products that are legal in some countries but not others. The products on sale are far from only the stereotypical drugs porn warez and fraud (and no you cannot buy assassination on darknet markets; any such offers are a mix of law enforcement stings and scams which take place without any marketplace providing escrow).

If nowhere but darknet markets let you buy a car with Bitcoin or Monero, then only darknet markets are what someone who has cryptocurrency and wants to buy a car with it will use. That being said, you can exchange cryptocurrency for a car safely and legally, without touching a DNM or doing anything shady.
Ridiculous. Why does it become so slow though?
I know they earn a lot more from ads on google properties than on third party sites, you can see it in their financial docs. It's something like 80% of their revenue.

So we know embedded ads all around the internet aren't challenging it in any way.

That said I don't know what percentage of their "google property" ad revenue is youtube, gmail, etc. Maybe they're cash cows?

I'm inclined to think it's still mostly search though simply because it's the most valuable source of lead. One where the consumer has buying intent.

Searching for a new car Vs trying to watch a show and having a car shown to you before it.
Anatomy of a Landing page that converts over 60% of traffic
There are now ads in Messenger
Right. There are a lot of elements of ecommerce success. Building a compelling online storefront, for instance, is a big one (thus Shopify, Bigcommerce, Magento, Demandware, WooCommerce, etc).

We're not here to solve everything around online commerce, at least not yet, But, the payments stack (checkout, fraud, internationalization, etc) is really difficult and results in substantial lost revenue. By helping convert 10%-50% more orders, we help businesses grow faster. That's our very simple goal.
Chinese workers build railway for a new train station in just NINE HOURS
I think not. It made sense as a unit of exchange. Stripe dropping it this week is telling: "Bitcoin has evolved to become better-suited to being an asset than being a means of exchange."

What type of "asset" is Bitcoin? Does its value just reflect the cost of the electricity that went into creating the coins? If so, then we'd have a very different price dynamic. I'm calling it an irrational bubble.
Will removing a cashier significantly change this?
I don't think we have to be that cynical about it. This is an interesting feature because Github chose to feature it on their blog today, which suggests that the previous system for reporting was not well-known or well-understood.
The SAP servers were considered a bit more core to the company's security, I think.

It's fair to say if there was an exception to that exec's claimed rule, it would be Germans.
Oh lord, this is so true it hurts.

Living in Seattle, you’re never more than maybe 300 yards from a microbrewery— and don’t get me wrong, I love it— but they are all exactly like this.
Having a sudden reason to push shadow software patches to nearly every device and server in the world...I wonder who would benefit from that...
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If you were going to spend the enormous amount of money required to send something to the moon, you'd probably use space-rated electronics. I'm guessing the electronics make up a minuscule fraction of the cost, so why risk a super expensive mission to save a relatively small amount of money?
> I’m surprised this story isn’t bigger news.

It was on Wall Street, the stock has taken a beating since rumors of this leaked out.
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It's important to note that that is theoretical capacity. We've no idea what it's actual performance would be.
I bet it'd be like using shipping containers, but more expensive. And the shipping containers aren't inexpensive to begin with, once you add the doors, windows, insulation, heating, cooling, plumbing, electrical, etc.
Imagine this: you're on your way home, it's a cold and wet winter night, you're dashing from the bus stop to your home and you want a hot cup when you get home. Just trigger the kettle to fill and boil enough for you with the app on your phone, and you'll be warm that much faster when you get in the door.

Maybe there's an autocoffee model, which makes your coffee to your preferences, and you get it to pre-boil while you're heading for home. Using the GPS on your phone with your average walking speed, it calculates when you'll be home so your coffee (or tea or hot chocolate) are just cooling to the perfect temperature when you walk in the door.

You may think it won't happen, but how many would use an autokettle? I wouldn't, as I don't often drink hot drinks, but my mother might because she won't have to hobble around. A blind person might, too, for a similar reason. People who prefer consistent drinks would - I have one particular friend who hates Starbucks but drinks there anyway, because it's always exactly the same.
Demolition of derelict robotic parking garages reveals vehicles trapped 15yrs
I would rather see a redesigned Mavic Pro with a larger camera sensor. There is a blank space between the portability of the Mavic Pro and the video quality available in the Phantom 4 form factor.
I don't know what you're responding to, I assume it's this part:

> Of course it's one more thing that stops working when they shut down the servers in 5 years.

Game servers are usually run by the game's publisher. They are not run indefinitely. When they turn off, this game will no longer have large destruction physics. I'm not saying that Epic will 'turn off' Cloudgine in typical aquihire fashion.
I gather that he dropped the lawsuits, after public outcry. But notwithstanding his change of heart, he did file them. And arguably, he only dropped them because of the bad PR.
how would it make sense to boost more mass all the way to the moon to save on electronics cost? you can get rad hardened FPGAs, custom ICs aren't necessary.
For even the nastiest of obfuscators there are often attempts at deobfuscators...

https://github.com/kirschju/demovfuscator
I shop at a neighbourhood grocery store, and I regularly chat with the checkout staff. One of them brought her daughter to our house on Halloween. I know many of them by name. Sure its not a deep connection, but it is a friendly "Hi, how are you doing".
The matter was widely reported in January 2017.
There was an interesting article in GQ on this topic a couple months ago: https://www.gq.com/story/the-great-pot-monopoly-mystery
The exception that confirms the rule.

One person in millenia counts as "didn't talk much" in my book.
Because it's not the only valuable theory in the field?

Rank Theory tethers itself to depressive experiences in situations where social pecking order is the trigger. Basically, to help aide success and survival in a group setting.

Psychic pain hypothesis, for example, comes to a similar conclusion about the evolutionary value of depression, but does so without considering social pecking order.

We know depression can also be triggered just from screwed up biology. So "lack of success" really may not be the issue in a lot of cases.
Which have already ended, and what came out of them?
Very nice! Bought one immediately (not even for an AirBnB listing, btw).
Turns out no-one has $200 million to spend on winning $20 million. Weird.
Ask them to sign NDAs.
It's still a factor for me when shopping, because I know they'll have my info already, I know the process, I'm not re-entering a bunch of stuff, etc.
Because chargebacks aren't fraud. They can be fraudulent but then I assume it would be part of the 'not covered' portion of the sentence you left out.
Okay, again I'm not disagreeing with you, but those questions are about as leading as you can get. Ask a portion of the population "Did you know that meiosis is the process through which cells divide?" and you'll get a lot of yes's.
Not with what he said in the interview, I wasn't clear about that, it's more about some of the concepts that he goes about in his biblical series and in some interviews, can't find a link right now.

For example, the concept that truth can be anectodal instead of empirical (as derived from grand narratives and the reason why religious stories hold so much weight in western civilization) is still something that twists my brain. I believe there is a greater truth behind these stories, and what we tell each other are abstractions and pieces of those underlying truths. To understand and explain these narratives is to mine for what actually valuable for us, and telling them is a way of "triggering" our minds into going through the process in which those truths manifest themselves... but maybe that's the only way we can achieve a protocol of sharing primitive truths with our communication.

I think that's a part of it. Funny enough I found Jordan Peterson through HN a while back when someone linked his Maps of Meaning lectures in a thread about what books or articles changed their lives. Now we're here talking about his philosophies.
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Yeah, that's a useful breakdown, thank you!

Does this help to explain the fixed correspondence between steer and direction of turn? (For example, to someone who doesn't believe counter-steering is a thing.) The physics of the lean seems easier to decompose than the physics of counter-steering.

I am interested in finding a way to describe counter-steering so that it's obvious, similar to the way you described the horizontal force vs coefficient of friction.
Kind of a tangent, but does anyone know why glibc’s allocator loses to jemalloc on common workloads? I would expect that would be something worth rectifying unless other requirements tie their hands.
> Who cares if there's a 30$ fee on a 1000+$ transfer?

Because Bitcoin wasn't originally designed for speculating on cryptocurrencies.
They had some problems with the Delorean.
I agree with the public transport, but I live in SV and get 23 days of paid vacation plus 13 stat holidays.
I almost always skip the intro of books like this. I didn't skip this one. The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness are two of my favorite books of all time.
I honestly cant tell what Pono does from their website?
Homelessness is more a problem due to a lack of land, than due to a lack of housing materials.
"Prizes are useful in bringing credibility to an industry, inspiring entrepreneurs and investors, and attracting new customers to an industry. Both the aviation and space benefited from the Orteig and Ansari X prizes.

But, by challenging people to perform what are essentially stunts, they do not always address the fundamental technologies required to truly move a sector forward. And that can have deadly consequences.

Lindbergh’s flight greatly boosted an accident-prone commercial aviation industry at a time when efforts to improve its safety had barely begun. The accident and death rates increased.

Winning the Ansari X Prize left Rutan and his team over confident in themselves and their technology based on an incomplete flight test program. The result has been four deaths and more than a decade of frustration and broken promises."

http://www.parabolicarc.com/2016/05/20/tale-prizes/
In your opinion, what's the best way of privately applying for jobs?
You don't want your current employer to think you're about to leave. What should you do?
Of course that wouldn't bother me. In fact, that's what I would expect.

If you're "depressed" but you don't workout, adding a solid workout plan to your life can be a bigger positive effect in your mood than therapy or medication.

But... if you're managing your life well, including exercising, and still feel depressed then that's what I am qualifying as "clinically depressed".

Of course we all get "depressed" when we eat like shit, don't have meaningful relationships, don't have a meaningful career, and never workout. That's to be expected.
What's interesting to me is having an 'authority' in this space that people might trust. I can't tell you how much pain it was to work on some one-off ecommerce projects and have clients want to customize every stupid damn little thing. Arguing about font size, form fields, making stupid stuff required, etc. In all cases I kept saying "let's do the basic stuff now, then we'll have a baseline. If we want to start requiring those 2 extra fields instead of them being optional, we can see what effect it has on the checkout/abandon process". No one wanted to believe me that this was a valid approach; having a full service that costs $ might motivate people to listen to the authority a bit more.

This is a space I'd considered diving in to more, and am interested to see someone's going whole hog here. I'd looked at some 'fraud protection' services, but it didn't seem you'd be able to do much with them without having more data around the transaction (which was a lot of custom work and then some guesswork/testing around the process).

Good luck rbres!
That's a great observation. I was struggling to put my view into words. That captures it perfectly.

Edit: Yes, against the guidelines to talk about downvotes, but really? This is more than a "me too". Parent was unusually on point for me, and felt compelled to offer thanks for the succinct summary
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what does that mean? haven't both tesla and spaceX historically struggled with operations under his leadership? don't you think he'd have learned by now if he could?
The article specifically calls out a web developer example and suggests that "within a decade, contractors and freelancers could make up half of the American workforce." Nowhere except the parents' comment is the "gig economy" being discussed. The vast vast majority of employment/contract opportunities out there involve face-to-face negotiations.
well reasoned reply, thanks for that.
Summary: benevolent regulation caused the craft beer boom. I call bullshit. Look at this graph [1] and tell me again how great the three-tier system was for market diversity. America went from 700 post-Prohibition breweries to less than 100 in 1978. That was the year homebrewing was legalized, and it's a pretty steady climb back up from there. Brewpubs -- which circumvent the three-tier system and its all-too-easily-locked-up distribution channels -- were legalized in the early 80s and exploding by the late 90s.

I must however agree that this is a happy development. "Beer Wars" is a great little documentary about the phenomenon. [2]

[1] https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-total-number-of-breweries-in-the...

[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1326194/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Love this but saw a small typo.

When you select free, the modal that appears to enter in an email says "Get yout hospitality poster".

It should be "Get your hospitality poster"
You just sent me down a 3 minute rabbit hole / day dream about Wall-E, the last robot in the universe connected to the blockchain quietly and very easily mining coins from every type of crytocurrency created over the centuries since the early 2000's. Thanks!
Ongoing discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16215092
It's such a fine last paragraph it's worth quoting in full:

At times one of the adolescent girls or boys who go to see the child does not go home to weep or rage, does not, in fact, go home at all. Sometimes also a man or woman much older falls silent for a day or two, and then leaves home. These people go out into the street, and walk down the street alone. They keep walking, and walk straight out of the city of Omelas, through the beautiful gates. They keep walking across the farmlands of Omelas. Each one goes alone, youth or girl man or woman. Night falls; the traveler must pass down village streets, between the houses with yellow-lit windows, and on out into the darkness of the fields. Each alone, they go west or north, towards the mountains. They go on. They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
“WHAT THE F*CK IS GOING ON?” – Linus Torvalds
You betcha they have: http://www.cnn.com/travel/article/bangkok-plane-graveyard/in...
Coordinating activities is different from happening to act the same way.

the act of uniting is literally antithetical to being independent. I can't even understand why you would ask that question. Why can't red be blue, makes about as much sense as asking why independent people couldn't unite and still be independent
It would be amazing if you could go there like pick-a-part for car parts and pick your own aircraft parts.

Some of those propellers and other parts would make amazing decor. The huge amounts of sheet metal could be put to good use too, I'm sure.
Uber & other app gigs are not about to make up the half of the American workforce that the article discusses. Most jobs, contract or otherwise, still require face-to-face negotiation.
> Heads up that you can only contribute 20% of your earnings up (up to the limit) to a SEP-IRA.

I don't think this is correct. We are talking about employER contribution to the employee SEP-IRA account, which is 25% of the compensation, not exceeding the annual limit (https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/retirement-plans-faqs-r...).
I think the value of a product like this would only be for first-time buyers since repeat purchasing is straightforward.

I wonder how this would compare with just adding a PayPal payment button in terms of drop off. I always zoom for the PayPal button when buying on a new site that I'd rather not share info with.
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"...as opposed to good old fashioned incremental engineering"

There was no opportunity cost. You can have both.
These are all variants of NSF players. When looking for them, my requirement was that they generate audio with an actual NES CPU.

This one I think is especially cool. Instructions to build a cartridge to run on an unmodified NES:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170319202533/www.nullsleep.com...

And these two both use an NES (or Famiclone) CPU, along with some other hardware:

http://kevtris.org/Projects/hardnes/

http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?t=5957&view=next

NSF is a cool format, itself. It's basically a specialized ROM format for encoding game music and sound effects for playback, usually in an emulator. And since it relies on actual CPU code rather than recorded register writes, it can include loops and such programmatically.
> But any small effort, ever, to join the society-wide effort to right historical wrongs will forever taint even the most benign actions with the collective accusation of politically-motivated censorship.

Efforts to change society, particularly "righting" perceived historical wrongs is politics. That's not a value judgement as "politics" normally is, that's just what the word means. If you're removing or editing content based on this then it's politically motivated censorship, again that's not a value judgement, although censorship certainly has a negative connotation, it's just what these words mean in common parlance.

It's fine to feel that people should be politically censored, hopefully we can at least agree on the meanings of these words though.
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