skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they pay more in the US as well? I thought the aspect of ACA limits how much more they have to pay (and the Republican drafts had similar rules, but allowed a greater differential).

The reasoning being, over your lifetime you pay a bit more when young, which acts as a virtual savings account for when your older and need more care.

If you relied on people saving, they wouldn't and you'd have old people dying in the streets. Similar logic applies to enforcing pension savings.
The only issue I have with this glorious build is the totally inadequate Apple keyboard. It doesn't have so many keys I need to be productive. Not to mention it's simply too small to use. Also it fits in with the rest of his setup like an apple in a bucket of oranges.

Also, OP should take a look at VS code. It integrates very well with GNU/Windows.
Considering many pros are properly pissed off with Adobe and its approach to Lightroom forcing it to be only cloud-enabled (CC) and generally not giving a f*ck about what customers actually want, it might be a strange approach to invest so much in hardware for this specific use case. As you can see it is poorly implemented, not using many CPU cores (I read somewhere that > 6 are not used, and even those only for few specific operations). GPU usage is a joke too.

Concept of perpetual fees just to have the option to edit your own photos just feels wrong. Competition is catching up fast, and Adobe will lose some customers. Actually with their greedy decision they created good opportunity for competition.

Horrible performance of Lightroom is not necessity of working with RAW, but pure lame engineering, other tools are easily 2-3x faster (especially if you work with panoramas). Use for example latest Autopano giga 2, and it creates panoramas blazingly fast from RAWs. On top of that, it has much better algorithms for stitching images together, where Lightroom simply fails or messes up image beyond recognition, Autopano performs very well. It never happens the other way around.

Let the market work its way and hopefully we customers will get superior products at the end, without bleeding cash continuously like Adobe would want.
I agree, shared automated small shuttle buses that travel on ad-hoc generated/adapted routes are probably going to be a thing. BTW thanks for this thought-provocing discussion.
And if people are writing 150 character plus lines, those are really, no joke, a lot harder to read. If the line is going to break anyway, why not just break it yourself at a spot that makes sense?
I think self-driving cars can be combined with public transport to serve a lot of these more arbitrary patterns effectively.

In the future I imagine, every train or bus station would have a small fleet of self-driving cars that people travelling nearby could use on-demand. I think this arrangement has a lot of advantages over using cars point-to-point.

The cars themselves can have a lower maximum speed, and lower range because they don't need to go very far, and lightweight, because they're consequently unlikely to get into high speed crashes. This also means your access road network can take up less space, and be more pedestrianised.

Additionally, because people use these cars for last mile transport, the effective catchment area of a station is much higher allowing them to be more viable even at lower densities, and also allowing less frequent stops to cover an area effectively.

Also, once people are used to using transport-as-a-service interfaces, it's much easier to make them aware of new transport options, and convince them to switch. If someone is opening an app anyway to order a ride to the shops, you can offer them a slightly cheaper journey involving a bus interchange. This in turn allows the networks to be more flexible, as you don't need to worry as much about providing a consistent service pattern for people to learn. So if you notice a lot of people go to the shops on Saturday afternoon, you can add a few buses at that time and people will start using it immediately.
Glued spines can't be used if your block is thinner than a few millimeters or so. Below that you'd just tack or ring bind them.
So you've only used json, or html, or (insert recursive data structure here) 4 times in your career? Seriously, recursion is everywhere.
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I'm just curious, since it wasn't touched upon in the README or the landing page: what's wrong with Disqus? Alternatively: what problem are these Disqus alternatives trying to solve that Disqus doesn't?

As someone who has added Disqus to many projects, I'm genuinely not sure what added value I'd see by using an alternative.
Definitely up there with Tolkien and much better than RR Martin.

“When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
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Where in Thailand were you? In Phuket and Bangkok drivers frequently tried to scam me or negoiate very high fixed prices for rides. Grab was perfect for avoiding that. Even when I couldn't get a ride through Grab, it told me what this ride should cost. Basically a cheat code for haggling. :)
Should Apple also be fined for accepting the bribe? (Curious about legal standing as well as what people here feel)
Got me very curious on what part of our brain evolved into spatial protection.
I realise that mine is only an opinion, and that others may legitimately reach different conclusions, that’s why I was very particular about using terms such as “like the author, I consider…” and “am prejudiced against”. I don’t think it’s fair to you that I am wrong in reporting my opinion, because that’s the upshot of what you have just written; after all, I’d be ‘wrong’ only if I had a high opinion of these digital vocal assistants and reported my opinion of it to be falsely poor.
Why?

I’m not being coy; I don’t understand. Isn’t “we will take less money from you if you don’t work with our competitors” one of the cornerstones of a competitive market? I’d understand if the payment went to a corporate officer to act at odds with the interests of his employer, but I guess I don’t see how this is distinct from any other contract to be a sole distributor, sole provider, etc. Certainly their competition could kill such a deal by just beating the price cut?
And the rest of the story....

After the contract was over, I was able to negotiate a higher pay to convert to perm than the job I declined offered even with the signing bonus.
Yes, absolutely, you've got the right idea! I agree with you so much that I can't even find anything to quibble with, which is... unusual. Is this a subject that you're professionally engaged with?
I can second this. If I get a support email from a hotmail user the first thing I do is to refund them their upgrade payment, because most of the time it is completely hopeless. Another pita with hotmail users is when they click the "Report spam" button on email address confirmation emails ...
Jewelry and artwork are used for adornment and to signal status.

Artwork is also used to decorate or define your living space or working space. It can manipulate your emotional state, serve as a conversation piece at parties, or signal some other trait about you. Artwork is also used to express ideas. Is really high-end collectable artwork from famous dead artists priced far higher than its utility should warrant? Most likely this is because they're used as a store of value. The reasons why artwork became a convenient store of value are probably interesting and might be worth comparing on a detailed level with bitcoin-- but the simple fact that fine art exists as a store of value does not mean that just any arbitrary exchangeable item is likely to fill a similar role.

Kim Kardashian's story is a lot more nuanced than you give it credit for. Many famous socialites quickly fade back into relative obscurity. Kardashian (in full club get-up, anyway) was strikingly beautiful, had a bold but impeccable sense of style, and a willingness to repeatedly expose her personal life to the public. She proved to have a better-than-average ability to entertain audiences on her reality TV show, even if that ability wouldn't fit into any traditional definition of an entertainer.

Fiat currency has no value beyond its utility as a medium of exchange (or store of value). But then, my whole point is to distinguish currency from other types of assets.
Likewise! :-)
Shouldn't the fine be based on the gains they wrongly made rather than how much they made in totality?
I usually think of the managerial responsibilities to be in this order:

- Company, because without it there's no employees
- The team you're managing, because teams are more than just a single person
- The individuals in the team, since they're the one's that can make a team better

It seriously sucks to have to think of things in that order sometimes. I've never been involved in firing a person I didn't like.

Though, when it comes down to it it's not fair for the team to suffer because of an individual, no matter how much they are liked, and it's not fair for all of the teams to suffer because one of them can't cut it.

That's not to say there's no wiggle room though. I'll fight tooth and nail for an employee or team if I think it's a management fault that they've not performed (especially if I'm the manager screwing up) and will try to take a long term view of their value, not just the next quarter.

Of course, all of this could be making me a bad manager. I've been put into managing people by virtue of being technically strong, not being a great people herder. I really do wish companies would spend as much time mentoring and helping managers get better at hands on managing as they do other tasks.
Fellow European here. I think she's doing an amazing job.
Because they can charge that much, and people are willing to pay the amounts they pay. Wouldn't be very exclusive now would it, unless you're charging $100k a year?
Was that cash or a discount? Where do you draw the line?
Plenty of communists are far closer to anarchists than to the Stalinists, and historically plenty of people have applied both labels to themselves.

E.g. the founder of (left)-libertarianism was an anarcho-communist (Joseph Déjacque) [1], and among early libertarian socialists, you for example would fine some the earliest leading figures in the Socialist League, which counted Eleanor Marx and Friedrich Engels among their members.

> I missed that in the article, thanks! Indeed the anarchism on display in the Dispossessed was very collectivist, I hadn’t realized how directly it was based on Kropotkin.

I find that a very curious statement. Kropotkin explicitly criticized the collectivist nature of the anarchism of Proudhon and Bakunin as simply being a different type of wage system that he believed would eventually lead to centralization again, and promoted local self-sufficiency etc. as means to explicitly counter collectivism. Here's an interesting overview of the history of anarchist communism (or communist anarchism) [2] that covers both Kroptkin and Dejacques.

Anarchist-communism is specifically in opposition to collectivist tendencies in many anarchist ideologies, and explicitly rejecting anarchist systems that are based on exchange of value or other ways of letting some party assert authority over another's access to goods, just like Marx (e.g. based on Marx mentions in Critique of the Gotha Programme, for example, that set out "higher" forms of socialism as doing away with means of exchange).

[1] This is the first use of the term libertarian in a political sense: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/joseph-dejacque-on-t...

[2] http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alain-pengam-anarchis...
My gut reaction was disabling it is rather silly but then again I can't remember ever clicking No for security reasons.
maybe he has a forward to a usable email account.
This is hilarious to me sitting here in Southeast Asia. I see Grab make a mess of their technology every single day. Grab drivers almost always have to call before they make their way over. Software they use to detect fraudulent accounts is laughable. Several people I know have gotten kicked off the app because they traveled for holiday and were forced to start a new account. Sure whatever. Then Grab turns around kicks them off the app for being "fraudulent".
gosh. no, having a hotmail account correlation it doesn't imply anything at all. is not causation, that's worth repeating 1000 times.

> Hotmail, like [not] smoking, [not] exercising, [not] drinking alcohol, is a choice.

lol.
Exactly. Mistreating others is only punished when that individual does not hold a large enough power/status gap between the others being mistreated.
> I really enjoy the fact that young people pay for car "insurance" more because of their increased risk at driving, but old people don't pay for health "insurance" more (if they pay at all) because of their increased risk at getting ill

My health plan, purchased through my state's ACA exchange in the US, costs me as a 57 year old 2.71x what it would have cost a 23 year old purchasing the exact same plan.

I would happily take a 23 year old's car insurance premiums if I could get a 23 year old's health insurance premiums in exchange.
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Haha, no.
> hotmail pretty much lets most spam through to the inbox

At the same time they are one of the most difficult email providers to deliver transactional emails (eg. email address confirmation) to.
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It isn't a type error:

% python
Python 3.6.0 ...
>>> answer = "yes"
>>> if answer == "y" or "yes":
... print("Thanks")
...
Thanks

The expression is the same as: (answer == "y") or "yes"

If answer is 'y' then the if-expression evaluates to True; for any other string it evaluates to "yes":

>>> "y" == "y" or "yes"
True
>>> "yes" == "y" or "yes"
'yes'
>>> "no" == "y" or "yes"
'yes'

Both True and 'yes' are considered True for an if-expression.
9$ a month to turn off ads. Various other things like (supposedly accidentally) injecting affiliate links (http://www.wpbeginner.com/opinion/switching-away-from-disqus...). Control about your comment data in case they pull yet another one of these things and you want out. Not wanting to expose your users to yet another tracking company.
Most of classical Star Trek (TOS, TNG, Voyager, and large parts of DS9) consists mostly of self-contained morality plays where the sci-fi just provides a setting. Some of those morality plays are related to the science part - notably a lot of the issues around the morality of treatment of Data and holograms. But most of it could be set in any time period. The Sci-Fi setting just made it easier to juxtapose things without running into "but that's not how it was then/there" objections and allowing more extreme contrasts.

Enterprise, parts of DS9, Discovery and the new movies have largely done away with that format. It's a very sharp relief.
It's not only not clear, it's deliberately deceptive. 'StavrosK would have you believe Jeong is poking fun at nerds in general, and making comments about their personal hygiene.
Even if Apple is dominant, there's no law on this planet that says "you can't make your products from parts you make".
1. The fine seems to be based on their revenue. 1.23 billion are a little over 5% of 22.291 billion. (I don't know where the 4.9% come from.)

2. It seems logical but it isn't. In you're a rich kid that starts selling drugs your fine is going to be based on all the money you have, not just the money you made selling drugs. That makes all the sense in the world given that the fine is supposed to hurt you financially in order to change your behavior.
Then it would become a compensation, not a fine; they'd just lose a bit of the profits they (wrongfully) made, but it wouldn't discourage them from doing it again - I'm sure that for every instance of things like this being found out and fined, there's ten or a hundred instances where companies get away with it.
> I’d rather read ten lines of verbose-but-understandable code than someone’s ninja-tastic one-liner that involves four nested ternaries.

One of my pet peeves is the inability to solve a K-Map for 6 variables and do stuff based on the resulting boolean expression. Just because it is utterly unreadable. I've tried this with many reviewers but nope.
I'm trying to figure out if I feel Apple was in the wrong also. On the one hand they seem complicit in keeping other LTE vendors down. But on the other hand, why would you not take the deal? Someone is supplying you all the LTE chips you need and a bucket of cash. That's good for business.
Customer support is hard
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No need to take a night out. You could also figure this out behind a desk, by just thinking how evolution would work for this particular trait.
Ask HN: Lightweight Full Text Search for Desktop
Which lightweight FTS engines have you used? Preferably BSD/*Nix.

I’m familiar with Sphinx, Solr, Elastic, and Lucene. The use case is desktop docs/text files/email. Preferably faster than grepping...
> Isn’t “we will take less money from you if you don’t work with our competitors” one of the cornerstones of a competitive market?

No. "We take less money for our products than our competitor" is a competitive market.
Good point. It could've been labeled "local BBQ joint starter-pack", "local tapas bar starter-pack", "local taco joint starter-pack" and I still would've had a laugh.
The problem is more the "to shun our rivals" bit.
Ask HN: Which self-hosted, enterprise-ready Slack alternative do you use?
There’s HipChat Server. However, since Atlassian launched Stride, I fear HipChat will fall behind.

My company does not want to use yet another free Slack alternative on GitHub. We’d love to pay and have a phone number to call if things go south.

End-to-end-encryption (as in: DB admin cannot read anything) would be a plus, of course.
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http://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/2/

You can also find copies of an email Satoshi wrote to Mike Hearn where he said essentially the same thing.
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Ask HN: How to make fewer mistakes?
I'm a developer for almost three years, i (like) to think that i'm good, i have deep knowledge of my stack and i can design and implement almost any feature that the seniors at my team can implement, but i have i problem with the final quality of my code.

My code is clean and follow the guide-lines, but i feel that i make to much mistakes, there is always a corner case that i don't think about or some test that is trivial to the QA team but i didn't do, and my code end up being broke.

This 'behavior' also happen with maths, i know the theorems and the content that i need to know to solve questions but i always miss calculate something and end up with the wrong result, one clear example of this was my last "calculus 2" exam, all the steps were right, but all the results were wrong;

TL, DR: I know my stack and the tools but i make silly mistakes that end up breaking my code; how can one get better at this?
This seems like a jump. Two, actually. First, that academics, who work in a charged political environment and with college students, are sheltered. Second that the majority of humans prefer jerks. I don't know that we can substantiate either of those claims.

It's true that jerks can be in positions of power, but it's hard to say that people prefer them. Indeed, it appears that many people strongly dislike them, but that they are protected by their power and other people with power (a distinct minority).
Slack toppled email (kinda). With A.I., can it fend off competitors?
I installed DuckDuckGo on my android in order to have a DuckDuckGo search widget and now it's replaced with a laggy browser.

smh
Calm before the storm?
> Maybe you didn't mean it that way

I did, although Vestager is not as bad as the majority of the parties—I very much hate populistic politics, which politics usually are, except, luckily, for some outliers.

> If there are too many black sheep, it's not the fault of "the politicians", it's the fault of the public for not voting for the alternative or being the alternative.

Well, it is also the fault of the politician themselves for being a so called black sheep. They don't get an out just because they were elected in.

Furthermore, I put my vote where my mouth is, but democracy is not really a suited type of governance when the majority of the population are not qualified to decide on a large majority of the decisions made. People vote with their feelings, as we've seen in the US. Sadly, it's the best we've got still, or I can at least not come up with anything better.
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>Abstract

>The Two Sigma Conjecture explains the cause of difficulties in communication a party faces when that party encounters another party with vastly different mental capacities

This isn't an abstract.

Stopped reading later on when the nth claim was made without a citation.
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Not everyone is in a position to make the world a better place through their work, but it would be nice if they didn't actively make it worse.
> If you being late to your job causes others to start doing the same

You're missing the point entirely: Who cares if they're also late?

Short of them being late to something important like a meeting, it seriously couldn't matter less than any of the thousand other things you should focus on as a manager.

Unless you work in something with external time pressures (e.g. I used to work in equities and US market hours dictated our need to be available) there's no reason it should matter whether someone shows up at 9 or 9:45. If you're really worried about people missing each other, set core hours (11-3 say) where everyone's expected to be available.
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I know rockets have been built out of these salvaged parts. A lot of money has gone into developing some of them.
or will it turn our world "upside-down"? ;)
Right, but if I give a hefty discount to one of my buyers, presumably they'll shun my rivals in exchange for the hefty discount. If that's ok, what's preventing me from locking in the quid pro quo with a 5 year deal?
Nice job made!
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