skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Value is dependent on the person; Vivo shoes are worth a lot to me.

I do not know another shoe that fits my extra wide feet (see my other comments in this thread).I've had foot pain from narrow shoes (before I realised my feet were so wide) that keep me from enjoying life for weeks.

I have Vivo shoes that are still perfectly fine and at least 6 years old. They last better than my expensive laptop does.

I can move in these shoes (I like "alternate" sports like parkour). I used to wear shoes that were too long, to get the width that would fit. I'd always have an empty inch in the front of the shoe getting the way whenever is tried to do tricky movements. I also really dislike stiff soled shoes now that I'm used to Vivos.

If you don't care for what Vivo offers, don't get 'em.
This is the biggest takeaway for me:

The couple didn't know what Presidio Terrace was when they bought it
Exactly. Wouldn't say, Monsanto or BP be considered far more evil and manipulative? What about those opioids pharmas that have literally destroyed small-town America through outright fraud/malfeasance?

Yeah, tech companies aint goody two-shoes, but there are bigger fish that need frying.
Typo: 'The first is thing that goes wrong'
The companies are regulated. Roughly speaking what happens is that the regulator guarantees the company a 5% return on investment. Each year the regulator sets the electric rates in order for that return to happen.

Consequently it is the company interest to build as much stuff as possible (aka "investments"). People making their own "investments" like panels on their roofs detract from that.

The people most wanting to do solar are those who pay the most for electricity. Once they have solar they reduce the amount of revenue available, which means that 5% return has to come out of the remaining customers, which would need to push their rates up. That is why the regulators even entertain the bans.

Grid tying is more complicated. There are two components to electrical supply - the wiring and maintenance to the property (infrastructure), and then the electricity that is actually supplied. Electrical bills charge very little for the former and almost all for the latter. Say for example the infrastructure really costs $10 per month and the electricity costs $40. You get a $50 bill but it says $3 is for infrastructure and $47 is for electricity. If you use solar for all electricity your bill will now be for $3, but the infrastructure cost is really $10. That really means other customers are now paying for your infrastructure costs. This is where minimum monthly charge proposals come from. In our example $10 per month would be appropriate. Changing the underlying pricing to be more realistic will hit the poorest the most since their effective infrastructure costs will go up.

Some places are banning putting solar back into the grid because there is no use for the electricity at the time it is put back in.
Up/down = north/south in my experience near DC as well, although they sometimes are follow the highway directions rather than geographic ones. People say they go "up" to NYC even though NYC is slightly more east of DC than north -- the point is that you take 95N to get there. This was even more extreme in Santa Barbara, CA, where the coastline turns east-west, and people talked about taking 101S "down" to Ventura or LA, even though those were 90% east.
Heroku and Parse were big examples of this before they got acquired.
No. There's no real consensus on that on the forums either.

My current pair of hikers are "RedHead Caliber" from Bass Pro and they cost about $50.

They're pretty close to the Merrill's I used to get as far as fit and comfort right out of the box and I was impressed with that. I didn't need to get aftermarket insoles or break them in. The soles are soft, similar to the Merrill's I liked and they grip good, and so far the waterproofing has held up after getting them wet about a dozen times (not soaked, just splashed wet) but I've only had them for about 6-7 weeks.

I don't expect they'll hold up as good as the Merrill's I used to buy but I can buy two pair and a good lunch for the same cost so it might work out just as good. So far I like them a lot.
Fixing ‘expect’ assertions in Nightwatch.js
I'm coming from Python.
I believe it does, but the commenter said size should be the determining factor. I disagreed with that area, but harm to consumer should absolutely be regulated by anti-trust
That sounds terrible. If someone is socializing or doing business, they don't want to wade through graphic death and rape threats at the same time. Even if it were possible to make themselves desensitized, why would they want to? That sounds like a recipe for not letting anything affect them, even messages they want.
> if you're going to regulate, should these companies be at the top of your list

Yes. Two of them (Google and Facebook) basically control a huge fraction of the information people are exposed to on a daily basis, either directly on indirectly. They're so dominant and aloof, that they can make or break businesses without even realizing it or caring. Their control over information flow also has important civil society implications.

Amazon could conceivably control most American retail activity in the future, though it has a few retail titans that could conceivably stand up to it if they get their acts together [1]. At best, we seem to be headed towards a retail oligopoly.

Personally, I'm much less worried about Apple, its control is much less pervasive. Though I wish there were more alternatives to it other than Android.

[1] https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/01/01/amazon-is-...
It's called taxes, but it's blasphemy to even consider it. I mean, the high-priests at Wall Street still aren't making enough!
Yes but cities and suburbs aren't degrading in the ways that rural areas are. I agree that most americans probably sense a divide between their own values and those of the 'political class' but if there's still job opportunity and people are still moving in and home values are still appreciating then they just deal with it. In rural areas though, the jobs are disappearing and people are moving away, entire towns just fading out of existence. They need a politician to step in
I hope the couple win this case. It's totally a question of privilege. The notice being sent to the deceased bookkeeper is the adult equivalent of the dog ate your homework.

People who are out of work or live on a fixed income (i.e. more legitimate excuses for not paying your property taxes) lose their homes to tax auctions all the time.
The transaction was fully legal and similar to hundreds of others in the area where investors buy properties with delinquent taxes. I would have more sympathy for SF and the families on the street if they were actually working to change the screwed-up bureaucracy that allowed this sale to happen. However, this seems to be a case where money talks. There's nothing to prevent it from happening again or to protect San Franciscans who don't have an in with the board of supes.

(Disclaimer: I work with Tina and can vouch for her character. The character assassination and racist comments leveled against her and her husband in other forums are dismaying.)
Base[1] is a good candidate for an OCaml standard library. It's got tons of functionality, results in binaries with small footprints, is cross-platform, and has a fairly stable API. It's also code that has been and continues to be battle tested every day in production systems at Jane Street. I'm biased, as I'm one of the maintainers, but trust me it's good, it's good.

[1]: https://github.com/janestreet/base
India used to have such conditions.

Look up Hero Honda, Maruti Suzuki etc. What happened was that the MNCs weren't interested at all. India followed with liberalization and removal of such "license raj" in 1991. Economy has done much better since.
> Twitter made it accessible.

Which is the real problem.

Usenet was better because it was before the Internet was interesting to the general population. Twitter sucks for the same reason YouTube comments and /r/all suck - regular people.
If you wanted to specifically design social media platforms to optimize for meanness and radicalization, I don't know if you could do any better than Twitter and, to a slightly lesser extent, Tumblr. In fact, I think a better term would be "antisocial media".

Start by making everything anonymous and easy to bot. Then add a length limit, thus eliminating all chance for nuance and optimizing for cheap slogans. Then make sure reposts and low-context replies are cheap, but high-context threaded discussions are expensive or impossible.

Twitter without replies or retweets would be considerably better. It would cover virtually all of the good use-cases of Twitter while eliminating the bad.
It of course is always difficult to separate cause from effect. It can be difficult to know if perfectionism is driving poor performance or if perfectionism is an emotional crutch to cover for poor performance, but based on my personal experience the crutch hypothesis is the most parsimonious.
It's not clear to me what they get out of owning the street (or is it just sidewalks?), and what the homeowners lose by not owning it.
I'm reading him now (Dynamics, statistics and projective geometry of Galois fields) and find the ideas
likable. He talks about dynamic systems whose state spaces are finite fields, for instance the geometric progression of the primitive element (the powers of a multiplicative group generator). "The resulting theory is some number-theoretic finite version of the ergodic theory of toric automorphisms where the chaoticity and the mixing properties of the progressions A^k have been studied for volume-preserving automorphisms A of the continuous torus T^n" He used the nice fact that finite state space discrete dynamics are described by unions of affluent rivers in an attraction basin leading to limiting cycles.
He would have loved messing with python Jupiter notebooks having been guided by paper-and-pencil explorations himself.
They are, as the article explains, real-estate investors who do not always examine properties before purchasing them. The couple knew that Presidio Terrace was in a nice neighborhood and seemed to be very well-priced, and they also were bidding in many auctions, so that they probably would not have cared about precisely which properties they acquired.
I don't have much personal sympathy for anyone involved in this story.

From a principled standpoint however, this appears to be a violation of property rights. It is highly unlikely that 'normal' people would've been able to reverse the transaction the way these residents did which makes me root for the clearly predatory real estate schemers.

There's no moral party here it's just a question of what type of society you want to live in. I'd rather have the laws apply uniformly regardless of wealth and political influence which led me to my decision.
Every time I see an article about this, I look for something to explain why Apple is lumped in with Facebook and Google - something beyond 'they make the piece of glass you look at facebook or google on', and I can't really find it.

This time around, the author points to an incorrect profit margin (he claims a profit margin of over 250% for an iPhone, which is nearly an order of magnitude too high), and one time that a Spotify update was rejected. Not exactly compelling...
> Well yea, if you include the governments contribution they spent over 1 million per EV1 produced.

You're not actually reading the paragraph. It says that the government contributed an unspecified amount from a $1.25 Billion budget to GM. And that the contribution defrayed the stated costs by GM which means a portion of the $500 million they spend was grant money.
No need to get angry just because you don't have anything coherent to say.
One thing about open collective is that some packages are starting to include a post-install script that says "please donate via open collective".

For example, installing my react boilerplate package would install the bundlesize package as a dependency which would then show a prompt to donate via opencollective but not to my project, but rather the bundlesize project.

It has since been removed[0] but it is kind of misleading.

[0]: https://github.com/siddharthkp/bundlesize/issues/167
New Bill Forces Americans to Carry Biometric ID or Face Arrest
It is power. The more money you have, the further your influence.
I don't understand this perspective.

There was a process and the city followed it. Just because a group with wealth and power don't like that outcome doesn't mean it should be changed. They bought it fair and square and, to believe them because I have no reason not to, they didn't do ti with any sort of malice.

The suit against them by the homeowners seems entirely punitive and particularly harassing. Their issue is whether the city followed the process. If they are that concerned with fixing what is very obviously the screw up of an organization they fully own and run then they can pay to do so.
Highly unlikely that a renter (guest) would be charged with anything. A little less unlikely for an "ordinary" host, but still far-fetched. A little more likely for some kind of AirBnB mogul, especially if he is acquiring (renting or buying) apartments with false documentation or under false pretenses.

My hope would be that the company itself and/or its officials would be charged by some ambitious prosecutor for running a business that pretty openly encourages people to commit wire fraud. I have no idea how likely that is, but probably not very likely. American prosecutors don't have the appetite anymore to take on big companies.
In North Ontario, Canada, and in some parts of the East coast, many speakers use the words "up" and "down" to refer to elevation rather than direction. So you would say "I'm going up to the store" only if the store was higher in elevation than where you were currently standing, even slightly.

I grew up in North Ontario, but my parents were not native English speakers, and it was only in my late teens that most of my friends (who had native English speaker parents) were using the terms this way. I used "up" and "down" interchangeably.

What amazed me is that this implied an intrinsic awareness of elevation, which I didn't have; everybody else always knew if your house was higher than their house.

In some cases, the up/down distinction was used in place of left and right. In fact, I learned about this distinction sitting in a car at an intersection and getting the directions "just go up the road", as if that was totally unambiguous.
> Mother Jones is the most extreme left-wing publication I can think of.

Eh, Mother Jones editorial position is somewhere between the center of the neoliberal faction and the center of the social democratic faction of the Democratic Party, somewhere in the center-left. If they are the most left-wing publication you can think of, you either have a very narrow or right-leaning exposure.

Here's a far more left-wing publication: http://revcom.us/revolution/current-en.html?1
I might have the answer..

What do you want

Equates to

Wat wilt u hebben (formal).

Wat wil je hebben (informal)

The subtle difference lies in "u" instead of "je".

Both are equally translated to "you" in english and saying 'you' to both friends and say business partners bares no difference in either meaning or etiquette. You simply deal with it in a different form.

In the Netherlands however it's considered bad etiquette to freely interchange these forms.

If a child says 'je' to an adult/elder instead of 'u' almost every parent will correct their child and ask to rephrase it with the proper form.
As predicted. This isn't much of a surprise, really - there is too much money on the side of the homeowners to allow someone outside to own a piece of their area.
Southern German here and up and down are related to elevation where I live. We drive up to Garmisch (700 m) but down to Munich (500 m) for example. Garmisch is south of Munich.

In dialect we also have different words depending on the the location of the speaker. "I drive up to Garmisch" vs "I drive up from Munich" would be different words for "up".
Yes, definitely!

The difference here is that you are supposed to do a ketogenic diet for a relatively short amount of time whereas this "Bitcoin-carnivore" thing is supposed to be more of a "lifestyle" as in "you're doing keto for the rest of your life".
There are a few well documented methods to counter that penalty: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en. The easiest method is probably to configure your webserver to start sending 'rel=canonical' in a Link HTTP header, but it can also be done with a meta-tag.
A northern English town offers a glimpse of life when migrants leave
> Part of this is gravity (needing to move up the gravity well) but more important are speed (you need to go really fast to stay in orbit)

Technically speaking, the speed requirement is due to gravity as well.
I've got a pair of Meindl walking boots still going strong after about 10 years. Not sure what their quality is like now though as I haven't had to buy another pair.
This is verbatim from 'Explorations in Quantum Computing' by Colin P. Williams:
"The utility of the Hadamard gate derives from that fact that by applying, in parallel, a separate Hadamard gate to each of n qubits, each initially in the state |0⟩,
1 H|0⟩⊗H|0⟩⊗···⊗H|0⟩= √
|j⟩ (2.20)

we can create an n-qubit superposition containing 2n component eigenstates. These eigenstates represent all the possible bit strings one can write using n bits. The importance of this capability is often overlooked. But, in reality, it is one of the most important tricks of quantum computing as it gives is the ability to load exponentially many indices into a quantum computer using only polynomially many operations. Had Nature been unkind, and had we had to enter the different bit-strings individually, as we do in classical computing, then quantum computing would have had far less potential for breakthroughs in computational complexity."

I'm just talking about loading a quantum register, there are other issues with gate times and decoherence.
Yeah, flies breed so quickly that knockouts are really easy to test. The fact that it's the same set of genes conserved in mammals is nuts. If you find this fascinating, you may also wish to look a bit deeper into the genetics of morphogenesis and embryogenesis
Regardless of whether or not tech companies should be regulated, I think the nature of tech might make it way, way easier said than done and far more difficult than breaking up Ma Bell or Standard Oil. You mentioned opening API's or breaking up data. I think 1) that is also easier said than done and 2) regulating bodies/congress/public not knowing what an API is speaks to a problem of tech companies potentially being a touch too far removed (in terms of understanding of how they work) for effective regulation
No, I really meant what I said, gauge symmetries are non-physical redundancies in gauge theories. Gauge fixing is the act of choosing one of the equivalent alternatives for carrying out calculations, gauge transformations allow switching between those alternatives. The first paragraph of the Wikipedia article on gauge fixing [1] actually says pretty much exactly this, unfortunately I just looked at it seconds ago.

In the physics of gauge theories, gauge fixing (also called choosing a gauge) denotes a mathematical procedure for coping with redundant degrees of freedom in field variables. By definition, a gauge theory represents each physically distinct configuration of the system as an equivalence class of detailed local field configurations. Any two detailed configurations in the same equivalence class are related by a gauge transformation, equivalent to a shear along unphysical axes in configuration space. Most of the quantitative physical predictions of a gauge theory can only be obtained under a coherent prescription for suppressing or ignoring these unphysical degrees of freedom.

And because you mentioned the Aharonov–Bohm effect in your other comment, further down at the end of the gauge freedom section you can find a statement that the Aharonov-Bohm effect does not enable experimentally distinguishing different gauges either.

Not until the advent of quantum field theory could it be said that the potentials themselves are part of the physical configuration of a system. The earliest consequence to be accurately predicted and experimentally verified was the Aharonov–Bohm effect, which has no classical counterpart. Nevertheless, gauge freedom is still true in these theories. For example, the Aharonov–Bohm effect depends on a line integral of A around a closed loop, and this integral is not changed by A → A + ∇ψ.

I also think you are wrong when you state in your other comment that charge conservation is not exact. I am pretty sure it is exact and you are mixing up CPT-symmetry and the violations of its components with the gauge symmetry of QED.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_fixing
> he claims a profit margin of over 250% for an iPhone

Maybe it takes into account the revenue generated from that user over the life of the phone?
Why can’t self-driving cars see cyclists?
Might be tricky at first but embrace the type system, it’s a good tool for larger projects.

You’ll have to bite the bullet eventually and Kotlin is a nice inroad.
Earth’s atmosphere is raining viruses and bacteria down on the entire planet
Can't really agree with most of that. I've found that the more experience I get, the more time I spend waiting for my brain to pattern match is way through problems; which might take several days. The trick is to be observant enough to notice when it gets stuck and take that as a cue that more empirical data is needed to get unstuck. As well as to stop pushing and wait for more pattern matching if the code starts drifting into la la land. Trusting the process, basically. I realize that might not work as well without 30 years of training. Which brings us to the problem with best practices in general; they are at best signs pointing in the right direction for someone at some point, but tend to be institutionalized as divine truth.
The laws (and data) vary by state, but it’s worth noting that voter registration data has precedent as public record. There are some states in which all of the records can be downloaded as a zip file from the state gov website.

As to why it’s considered a public record — I imagine it’s a question about transparency. Hard for non-government entities to independently investigate election fraud if voter rolls are completely hidden.
I see this like I see a bug bounty. The bug is the fact that they were able to buy the property at all under those circumstances. Their bounty "reward" should be that they can keep the property that they rightfully bought. And now the public is aware of this problem ("bug") and can move to prevent it from happening in the future.
Detroit is an interesting project in forest reclamation.
Play a video only if you are watching it :)
Bitching and doing something are not mutually exclusive activities.

Some successful people being from poor upbringings does not make it commonplace.

If your claims were true, by definition we would not have inequality.
I'm just pointing out that in many, many urban areas, "...the jobs are disappearing and people are moving away...". I mean, we can debate the point, but I'd argue that this is what happened to Detroit, Youngstown, Gary, etc etc etc. So it's something that has been happening for a long time, and continues to happen today. And it has happened to many, many different parts of the country. That was the only point I was making.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with slow, methodical and thorough work when the task calls for it. The problem is most self-described perfectionists are neither able to identify when it is needed, nor provide the corresponding quality when required.

Those that know do, those that don’t perfect.
You say you are yet you make a strong definitive claim above that seems at odds with it.