skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Economic rents benefit owners of entrenched corporations, but they don't make them more efficient. They also don't explain why US corporate practices make foreign companies more efficient when they are exported. And you haven't addressed the difference in public service efficiency since 10% in scale is not nearly large enough to explain order-unity inefficiencies in the US public sector. (And in absolute terms the US is larger, anyways.)
The most readily available state historical summary of small claims limits I could find is from CT, where the 1981 limit was $1,000 (approx. $2,623 in 2017 dollars) and is now $5,000.

https://www.cga.ct.gov/2017/rpt/pdf/2017-R-0166.pdf

In California, the small claims limit was set at $7,500 in 2005 (approx. $9,695 in 2017 dollars) and is now $10,000.

http://www.personalinjury-attorney.com/california-small-clai...

Is there a jurisdiction you have in mind where the small claims limits increases have been outstripped by inflation?
America rich 3rd world country. I'm Zimbabwean, but the levels of corruption are comparable. Why would a 'top' tier city have shitty public transportation and centuries old signaling systems ?
So far, the most effective way for a CB customer to obtain satisfaction has been calling out a CB employee on Reddit by name (who also happen to be active Reddit users) with a case number, at which point said employee personally looks at the issue and provides an update.
This is pretty terrible support management. In our company, if a case is opened for more than 5 days, the entire team is notified.

If then nobody does anything, the entire department is notified. That never had to happen.
I wired in a large amount of money to coinbase on the 12th of January and have yet to see my account credited. I have opened several support requests and call twice only to get the runaround. Anyone else have a similar issue? Did you eventually get credited? Everything was done correctly , confirmed with my bank as well as coinbase's bank
"If you have a particular observation or set of data which contradicts what I'm saying maybe I can be more helpful."

I remember hearing once that 1948 was the first year in the United States without a lynching.

http://www.duhaime.org/LawMuseum/LawArticle-120/Crime-Punish...

https://carolashby.com/crime-and-punishment-in-the-roman-emp...
Legit entities are generally very concerned about spam scores and deliverability, so will faithfully unsub you if you can fight your way through to the unsub interface. That won't get rid of everything, but it helps.
Because your arguments are probably correct. I never claimed otherwise. I took issue with your language. You're contributing to the polarization by using unnecessary, inflammatory, and inaccurate language. That's the problem.
I think the claim in the title is a little overstated. Every few months, there is a claim that it has been solved, only to conclude that more work needs to be done. The remember the last time it was solved:

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/voynich-manuscript...
I have witnessed other people do it at multiple companies and even been guilty of it myself once or twice.

I sat at the end of a long board room table full of senior engineers and directors and was the only one who didn't bring a laundry list of techs he was waiting to introduce.

I have seen older developers treat design patterns the same way that younger developers treat JS frameworks. Everybody wants to believe they have a toolbox full of solutions to problems. Maybe for the last generation it was Gang of Four, and for this one it's the HN front page and blogs.
I've had a couple of serious offenders like this: way too many repeated emails, clearly automated but also obviously trying to deceive in that regard. In a couple of fun cases, they have used the names of actual, important people at the company as the sender - I guess to seal the deal and make me feel like this is an important email and I'm an important user.

Here's what I do to feel slightly empowered (although it has no effect other than finally stopping emails from that particular company): I call the company, and I tell them the name of the person I need to speak to urgently. Since it's the name of a VP or something often attached to these emails, that person is usually busy. But I tell the person on the other end that I've received 3 emails from them, and that they have insisted on speaking with me, and it's obviously very important. They will eventually get pulled out of a meeting to speak with me on the phone, at which point they realize that I'm responding to one of these emails. And they tell me it's fake and they didn't actually want to personally speak with me, and then I tell them the email is a lie and I hope they learned their lesson.

It's childish and stupid, but man does it make me feel good to call them on their crap.
This doesn't really have anything to do with Windows, recent Linux and FreeBSD release prefer to use UEFI and Secure Boot if available.

While UEFI is platform/OS-agnostic, it's too early to tell if this LinuxBoot will be as open (even if better designed). Additionally, there are benefits that Secure Boot brings to the table (notable with regards to security and integrity verification) that you should not be so hasty to throw out along with the bathwater. If LinuxBoot does not support Secure Boot, I can guarantee you it will be a project dead in the water, no one (in the corporate world) will want to go back to untrusted boot.
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I know a few people who put a huge stash into crypto because they don’t want their spouses to know about their money when they get married.
Faraday Future Claims CFO Stole Trade Secrets, Lawsuit Emerges
Yeah this is reasonable.
No, that is not correct to my understanding of governmental power in the United States. The lawsuit argues that the government overstepped its bounds and exercised power that it does not possess.

From the link, emphasis mine:

"Our lawsuit, filed in September 2017 on behalf of 11 Americans whose devices were searched, takes direct aim at the illegal policies enforced by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and its component agencies, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In our brief we explain that warrantless searches of electronic devices at the border violate the First and Fourth Amendments, and that our 11 clients have every right to bring this case."

The EFF is filing suit because they believe the government has broken the law. If the government had not broken the law but the EFF desired to change the governments power then they would lobby congress.
It's difficult to get people out of that mentality even after making changes. Here in NZ we changed to MMP many years ago but many people still vote along party lines. It is slowly changing, but there's still a long way to go.
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TurboTax has been relentless with these kind of tactics this year. Their subject lines include words like “1 New Message” and “IRS” in varying combinations that when skimmed probably make a lot of less adept consumers think they are receiving some kind of urgent official communication.
Radio waves will penetrate into a Faraday cage. How much they penetrate is a function of the cage's conductivity, holes size, waves frequency and the phase of the Moon. It also changes if you ground the cage, and if you are smiling or frowning at the moment.
According to wikipedia, the compression algorithm was originally called MUSICAM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Development
If you by large assets with FOOCOIN, the same rules apply for asset seller as if you paid in cash, i.e. they must report the transaction to authorities if it's above a certain amount (wasn't it $10k in USA?).

So either you're limited to small amounts, or you have to buy the assets under the table with the usual laundering problems.
Sad how that's what it takes. I had a similar experience getting Aetna to pay for my wife's home birth... they gave a gap exception and promised to pay for it months in advance. Afterwards, when I actually tried getting them to, they ignored me for weeks and stonewalled me on the phone.

Eventually someone suggested to write an angry tweet about them... it seemed stupid but I was out of ideas. I did it and they immediately reached out and paid for it in full. I often wonder how many people never think to complain in public and get screwed.
The violence in question is war, not crime.
How Job Listing Language Could Be Adding to Silicon Valley’s Gender Divide
It makes me angry to think about how true this is. My hope however, is that sophistication spreads over time. Humans right now generally stink at seeing through the most blatant manipulation and grotesque blandishments, but more can see through it than ever before. Maybe we’re going to manage to overcome our worse tendencies with practice, as a group. I think it’s our best hope.

Remember that critical thinking can be taught!
"The company would have $11 billion in annual revenue, the companies said. It also would have about $16.6 billion in debt. Wells Fargo analyst Bonnie Herzog estimates the combined company would be valued at about $33 billion."

Could someone please explain how on earth that adds up. I'll accept that when corp. valuations involve 10^9, then the usual rules of value might get a bit weird. Perhaps assets include a state or a slack handful of counties.
Social media shaming, unfortunately, seems to be the fast lane to escalated customer support. Good to know for other Coinbase customers.
I'm not saying pdf.js is fast. I'm saying that it's fast enough to be a useful tool to read most PDFs securely (which in fact millions of Firefox users do!), and it has the large advantage of actually existing, unlike complex schemes involving vaporware compilers and Ada in the kernel. (If you care about fast secure PDF viewing, write a new PDF renderer in Rust or Java or Go or whatever. This doesn't have to be a complex problem.)

By the way, SaferCPlusPlus is not memory safe, and porting a PDF rendering code base to use it would be about as much work as rewriting the renderer in a safe language.
Assuming you're in a different state/country than their nexus(es), the Interstate Commerce Commission might also be interested in a large number of defrauded [0] customers.

[0] PayPal also seems to freeze (for long periods) and in some cases confiscate customer's funds for no reason. I'm purposely using the word fraud because that's not the reasonable expectation of those originally transmitting or depositing funds with the service.
> 1. Don't give disagreeable or impulsive people reasons to hate you. So don't be too aggressive of a driver. Don't be too rude to an asshole at the bar or grocery store.

> 2. Avoid very dangerous areas at night

> 3. If you're ever suicidal don't own a gun.

The first comment is simple and insightful. 3 particularly struck a note with me.
My initial comment wasn't clear. My point was - there are tens of thousands of open, unanswered cases there. But it's only a handful of distinct categories. Meaning cases can be programmatically categorized, and handled by Support employees in batches. I've done tech support before, and you can make a small team very effective with some organization and good automation.

Also, don't underestimate an importance of a ticket update (any update). If you observe a few open cases on Reddit or Twitter, you will see that the worst thing you can do is say nothing - no ETA, not even an acknowledgement... it's the complete silence that makes people freak out and open multiple cases, spam multiple channels, only aggravating the problem.
There's a difference between shaking a sign and breaking a sign. The wind shakes them all the time. If someone was ever arrested for shaking a sign, I would seriously question (even more so) whether our society's good intentions paved our road to hell.
Evolving self-learning for the 21st century
Education is a two sided problem split between imparting knowledge and consuming it. The teacher v.s. the student. Traditionally, without the advent of the internet we were limited to relying on educators to impart knowledge to learner. As a result the ‘one teacher, many student’ model of education has become ever so engraved in society. It’s not wrong in anyway, but simply because of the way we frame this problem we inhibit our creativity when trying to solve self-education for the 21st century.

So, let’s reframe this problem by ignoring the teachers, that’s key for several reasons: The global distribution of knowledge is sparse, you have good teachers, bad teacher, elite universities and sub-par ones. Secondly, by thinking of students as groups we ignore the needs of the individual student; everyone has unique and optimal learning styles.

Now, if we were to imaging an ideal education system, it would be something along the lines of this:

A personalized learning experience tailored to the individual student with the best available knowledge that maximizes for a well-rounded perspective of the subject.

Thoughts?

- Piece of writing as a part of my work at alcamy.org. Go check it out, we're trying to build something that does this there...
Simplicity is measurable along one dimension, by how easy software is to maintain, I believe. This can be measured started early on a project if one cares to spend a little money to test for this from time to time (hiring or assigning someone outside the project), so maybe we should be doing more of this.
Well, eventually people will want to either turn them back into fiat or buy assets with it - otherwise, what's the point of having it?

At that point, the anonymity starts to matter; it's just as with other kinds of money laundering - IRS doesn't really catch the source and storage of dirty cash, they get the people when they inevitably want to spend it.
I've worked on more than one SPA and it's always slower than a traditional site except in very narrowly defined ways. YMMV, and some people love it.
Thanks for sharing. I’ll have to remember to curb my dark sense of humor next time I find myself having to use their app.
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This has been tried, to no avail.

I ended up speaking with one of their board members.
They're speculating. That's about all you can say.
This might be a case where classical econ ("social choice") can give some helpful perspective. Arrow's impossibility theorem is the most famous impossibility result in this area; it says that no algorithm can take in a set of rankings (e.g. match outcomes) and produce an aggregate ranking in a way that satisfies a small set of fairness criteria. This is classically interpreted as saying that any aggregation method must be "unfair" in one way or another.
UI: User Interface - the layout & visual look & feel of the page/components. UX: User Experience - the interactions of these pages/components by the user (incl. expected behaviour etc.)

But UI has always been about more than mere aesthetics. A UI is literally how the user interacts with the system, the interface between them. That subject has always encompassed usability and accessibility issues, information architecture, planning sequences of interactions, and so on. What you've described is exactly the illusory distinction I was talking about.

I'm not sure there's much to be gained from pursuing this line of discussion any further. Obviously you can redefine terms to suit your argument and thus make your argument true in that context, but then it doesn't really address the original point of debate, which was whether developers should be overriding designers and domain experts in matters of design. If you relegate your designers and domain experts to the equivalents of those code monkeys you mentioned while elevating your developers to developers who are also designers and domain experts, obviously the latter are going to make better calls on most UI issues as well, but then you have to ask why you had separate designers and domain experts involved at all. I don't think that's a normal distribution of skills and responsibilities within a product team, though.
Influence of Suboptimally and Optimally Presented Pictures and Words on Behavior
I’ve on 2 different occasions called the TSA complaint number due to unprofessional behavior by the agents.

No idea what consequences there were for this to the agents but in both cases it was easy to do and I got follow up calls a few weeks later asking for more details.
Yes, I know - you're missing the point I'm making. Adults brains are less likely to go shake the sign, as it might break and that would have major consequences. The kid doesn't know this, and it's also less likely for major issues to arise, so the situation is different and we generally don't get upset at kids for shaking the sign.

The OP said that the sign in their story was shaking "uncontrollably". That word means something here - it means the sign was really shaking. Adults don't normally do that because it carries a real, physical risk both in damaging the property but also harming another person. It's not just innocent play for an adult to go shaking stop signs on the street - it's downright dangerous.

My point is that it is a good thing that adults don't go around shaking signs. We shouldn't be concerned about not being kids anymore just because we have the maturity to know about risk and health. It's not a bad thing that we know it's not acceptable to go around shaking signs uncontrollably.
Lol...they parsed your first name as "Cunt"? That's worth teasing here...you'll get more interest in clicking through to your blog post.
Didn't see this comment before posting much the same thing further up.

I haven't used the TomTom app in years although I've had it since the Treo 650 and then iPhone. Fired it up again. Subscription fee is now $20/yr but they gave all owners of the old app 3 years free. That means I've got 11 years of updates for my original $80 purchase. Not too shabby.
Can you run it with the LeelaZero weights?
Except it's not cash, even if it seems to be used like cash. It's an online transaction, which eventually becomes a bank transaction if you ever want to cash out, so not surprising the same rules apply.
Wow. After five months of brush-off, two hours on HN resolved the issue. That's insane. I guess that Coinbase folk must read HN.
Na just try doing it again. Your system of reasoning will object and huff and puff, but the child in you will send a smile to your face immediately
3-5d is about the strength of LeelaZero (which I presume you already knew about). Can you disclose how long have Minigo been training, how many games were generated and which hardwares were used?
Looks like a comparable revenue multiple to Mondelez (MDLZ), the demerged snacks business which emerged from Kraft post Cadbury Schweppes takeover. So this looks completely unremarkable. Interest rates are very very low, so the debt doesn't seem like an enormous deal.
Nope, totally ignorant here :)
Yes. My first Mac in 1992 was a Mac LCII with a //e card. Before that, I had an Apple //e. But the card only worked on a few Macs, was discontinued a few years later, and never supported the //gs.

Just like Apple made a software emulator for the 68K. They could have done the same for the Apple //e. There was a third party software Apple emulator that worked fine on my 16Mhz LCII called Stop The Madness.

I had a 6100/60 - that was my 2nd Mac. It ran 68K software at about the speed of a 25Mhz 68030 Mac and slightly slower than my by then LCII with a 68030/40Mhz accelerator.

All that being said, I left the Mac around 1998 and didn't come back until the G4 Mac Mini in 2004 and the Intel Core Duo Mac Mini in 2006 and left again around 2008.

The Mac outside of the iMacs are in sad shape now. I probably will get another Mac this year just because I want a real Unix environment with more polish and It's the only computer that I can do iOS development. I think the 5K iMac is a decent buy.
Well yes, that's kind of the point - replicating this part of the experience of paying someone directly in cash is illegal. No matter what Venmo wants it can't replace that (part of the) experience and, more importantly, neither can any of their competitors. So you either keep using cash or (no matter if you pick Venmo or someone else) get a different experience.

Also, don't forget that above certain amounts cash between friends also needs to obey a bunch of reporting rules and can not be entirely private. Simply taking a briefcase of cash from your buddy and leaving it at that is illegal.
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Are you perhaps thinking of the term GUI? UI is not generally narrowed to refer to only visual appearance and layout. The mouse is a UI tool, as is the keyboard.
I always end up going back to Rump's example (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1015569431383):

> Rump’s example is to compute the expression

> ƒ = 333.75 * b^6 + a^2 * (11 * a^2 * b^2 − b^6 − 121 * b^4 − 2) + 5.5 * b^8 + a/(2b)

> with a = 77617 and b = 33096. On an IBM S/370 main frame he computed ƒ in (1.1) using single, double, and extended-precision arithmetic, to produce the results:

> Single precision: ƒ = 1.172603...

> Double precision: ƒ = 1.1726039400531...

> Extended precision: ƒ = 1.172603940053178...

> This suggests a reliable result of approximately 1.172603 or even
1.1726039400532. In fact, however, the correct result (within one unit of the last digit) is

> ƒ = −0. 827396059946821368141165095479816... (1.2)

> Even the sign was wrong.

It's worth remembering that computers are very fast, but also very, very stupid. They do exactly what you tell them (or teach them, if we're talking about MCL), which isn't always what you want. Just because you've got a very scientific looking algorithm doesn't mean it's correct. Just because you're aggregating all your data doesn't mean the results are truly meaningful.
You need reflection if the type of object you're comparing doesn't have that attribute, and only half the subclasses do. You then have to inspect the actual class to see if the attribute exists before you can access it, and the code to do that is so ugly it would take less time to go edit the base class and constructors to give them all the attribute. This is the hassle that perl is avoiding, in the same way that JavaScript would avoid it. Every object is just a collection of attributes and you can access them by name. It's not as efficient as structs or interfaces, but it's very convenient for prototyping.
Naively thought that by absorbing heat energy and transforming it into electric current, there was some cooling effect when compared to heating the surface of the planet.
Presumably debt shrinks while revenue grows so as long as debt is within an order of magnitude or so of revenue it isn't really held against it.
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Well, that’s the effective exchange rate for converting Slashdot Funny scores into HN votes.
My real name is Clinton, so they sorta got it....

Still trying to figure out if its an OCR process, or some human did it. Thought for a while I might have an enemy working there ;)

And its really rather hilarious. All of this ID verification stuff is needed for DHS regulations to prevent money laundering and terrorism.
You are misreading it. MUSICAM is an older codec technically very similar to MP2, as used in digital radio in Europe.