skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those not in poverty what you describe is -- indirectly -- a feature not a bug

Schools are disappearing because there is no tax base to support them, and the remaining residents tend to favor an austere government. There's also a degree of distrust of governmental organizations. There are a lot of small towns where, if the state government came in and said "We're going to build you a school for free and you won't have to pay for anything" there would be a lot of belly-aching about how the bus traffic would increase wear-and-tear on roads, causing more roadwork, raising taxes.

My father lives in rural Wisconsin. Every political season, there's a wave of people running for office trying to reduce the county's tax burden from the 2nd smallest to the 1st smallest in the state, by basically completely gutting what already meager community amenities are provided. Each year they get closer to sweeping the county elections.
...because you're going 20 miles, and can't take 2 hours to get to work?
Your cited numbers include the cities of Tacoma and Bellevue, which did not have the minimum wage hike. You cannot attribute them to Seattle.
Well, right, they could contract with them to mutually agree to stop by incentivizing them as you suggest, but I was talking more from a unilateral standpoint.
I'm pretty livid that Google Voice followed in the same web UX design. I loved the old Google Voice web UI. The new one? It's significantly slower and uses more resources. I don't see where it improved anything whatsoever.
>The cryptocurrency adoption has steadily increased so far.

For speculation and investment, not for anything currency-like, though.
I learned about this from the recent popular article, “How not to replace email”:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16404452
I've been called a racist for suggesting everyone be treated equally regardless of race. You know, because that indirectly supports a racist society because it doesn't result in equal outcomes.

If you really think that "being PC" just means not being a jerk to other people, you should consider talking to people with differing views more often.
What’s good about Filecoin? It’s not like it would benefit humanity somehow. You make it sound like I’m criticizing Doctors Without Borders here, rather than a clunky S3 alternative.
How Do Tech Companies Make Money? Visualizing Tech Giants Business Models
Sad I'm downvoted, but maybe folks thought I was being flip. I'm not a crypto utopian. I just think theoretical CS, cryptography, game theory, economics -- those are the building blocks.
While the Apache Foundation hosts a lot of great projects, it also looks to me like a place where big projects go to die.

I'm thinking of the whole Apache Open-Office fiasco, among other things. Looking at their list of projects sorted by number of committers[0], event at the top I don't get the idea that most of those have a lot of momentum.

Do I just have a completely wrong impression? I'm curious if there's something to learn from this.

[0]: https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?number
At least a few years ago, de Toqueville's 'On the Old Regime and the Revolution' was on the Communist Party's reading list [1].

The Chinese Civil War of '49 and then the Cultural Revolution (where most of the then-current Party leadership suffered) is still within living memory of the ruling class. Of course they understand that there is an implicit contract between themselves and the rest of society, even if it the terms of the deal are not arrived at in a democratic fashion.

The question is not whether China will eventually devolve more political power to the populace——that is almost a given, considering the growing economic and cultural power of the middle class; it's whether this will happen suddenly and violently via another revolution, or gradually by the Party bringing dissenting voices into the fold widening the circle of acceptable, public political discourse.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/china/2013/01/15/chinese-societ...
Certain topics are predictsbly for/against on HN. Nuclear power is one such topic where for example arguments against Thorium reactors gets HN voters up in arms and prompt downvotes.
Exactly.

You wouldn't have to use this as a replacement for the more traditional subscription because that would still offer much better value (just as subscribing to printed newspapers does).
Most public schools have a commuter option that lets you get out of that requirement if you can prove residency somewhere nearby.
Make it a deal it can't refuse.
The government? Or the creator? If it were the creator I'm sure that the creator would have the common sense to pregenerate and store the private keys somewhere safe.
If I remember correctly, the B330 is too big in terms of width to launch with the current fairing on a Falcon Heavy; although I think that Elon indicated at some point that they could do bigger fairings at customer request.

It'd definitely be awesome to see essentially an entire space station go up on top of one FH though.
You could attach something like the ISS Cupola module to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupola_(ISS_module)
Living expenses trump cost of college, IMO, especially if you are a needy person. Needy people can get great assistance, even if they don't know where to get it.
There is no reason the governance needs to change, they could still create a distribed mined coin and maintain goverance over the issue and destruction of tokens to maintain stable trading values.
Give me a few minutes, and I'll see if I can come up with a rough number.

Edit: got something, commented above.
Of course it doesn't. But it's better than nothing. We do it all the time.
I have no clue about the legality of what these guys are doing but they are interesting - https://www.aggdata.com

Might give you some ideas about markets, pricing etc
But be careful to read through their list of prohibited businesses. I know a fair number of people who got the boot for doing IT support because tech support scams have made Stripe classify that as high risk.
Seems like an odd incentive structure: You have to pay to be able to post free links, but then you get paid if you do it a lot?
I think your argument works better as s comparison between mediums, such as telephone vs. letters/meetings and telephone vs. internet. Despite what they would like, FB is not the medium.
It it considered best practice or advisable to run production deployments in a virtualenv? I have always considered it to be a tool for managing multiple development efforts on the same machine, not as production environment management.
* Any agreements, understanding, instruments, contracts or proposed transactions to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound which involve obligations of, or payments to, the Company in excess of $25,000.

* Any licenses or agreements of any kind with respect to the Company’s or others’ patent, copyright, trade secret or other proprietary rights, proprietary information or technology, including employee confidentiality and proprietary information agreements.

* Any standard forms of agreements used by the Company.

* Any confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements.

* Any consulting contracts.

Consultants: this is one reason why it's often easier to get in the habit of working off your client's paper than trying to get them to accept your own. A lot of startups might not care, and will accept your MSA. But for some of them, accepting a new MSA creates a huge amount of hassle down the road.
What is the place you found acceptable to move to? There's not a lot of cities in America that have done well on a lot of these issues where applicable.
I'm guessing the dollar amounts involved for the sorts of things you mention would be less than I could be bothered with. I pretty much decided that less than $50-$100 was about my floor where I would consider eBay.
There has never been internet shutdown in Kenya. TV stations were switched off but never internet.

If China establishes autocratic regimes in the global South it will seize those governments and leverage that to gain power over the West. It's myopic to think their goal is anything less than absolute domination of the world.
Strange coming out of Brown, although this is from 1994, because it is now consistently ranked in the top 10 furthest left among universities...which is saying something considering that American universities have an average distribution of 12:1 in left:right representation among educators.
I was referring to the fact that some microbes can actually metabolize certain plastics. But yeah, just breaking down into tiny pieces is definitely not great.
>So, what you're saying is that, apart from buying goods and services from rural areas, that the rest of the countryside should somehow assist, with tax money, the rural citizens?

Yes.

>Strange that you'd say that, from a population historical of voting for anti-tax candidates.

They're stuck in a two-party system where one side looks down their nose at rural voters and their values and the other sides looks just down their nose at rural voters.

>In other words, you'd like to socialize the downsides of living in remote areas of the country?

The wording here makes it seem like what's happening in rural areas is just a consequence of nature but it's not, it's tied in with all sorts of policy decisions we've made over decades, making new policy decisions to fix that seems reasonable to me. Here's a really great article on the issue: https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novdec-2015/bloom-and...
Show HN: Hacker News Classics
Occasionally you see articles on HN with a date in the title, like “(1998)” — and over the years I’ve noticed that these tend to be some of the best posts.

It makes sense: on a site devoted to news, an article posted so long after it was published has to be especially good.

So I hacked together this page, which links to every HN post with a date in its title earning more than 40 votes. It’s sorted in chronological order to encourage wandering.
Schools are funded largely by local property taxes in most parts of the US, which is why rural areas have less funding for schools. Schools of equivalent sizes rural vs urban absolutely do not have the same property tax revenue.
At least on Android you can disable most animation in the Developer Settings app. I'm guessing how much that affects individual apps varies wildly, however.
I wonder if Wave and Reader are hanging out in heaven somewhere.
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> I assume the worst in most situations.

If that was really true you would never ride a motorcycle.

Eyeballing the other guy is no guarantee of anything, but it provides quite a lot of information about the risk you face in the interaction. I think we would miss it when dealing with fully autonomous vehicles, and that the vehicles might add something to tell you they see you. I've done some work on this idea in the lab with mobile robots.
Yeah, no, your impression is correct. Apache is and always has been a bit of an open source graveyard.

There's counter-examples but even they have me worried. Airflow, originating from AirBNB, is now Apache Airflow: https://github.com/apache/incubator-airflow -- And I've been super hesitant to throw weight at it because of that, even though it looks actively maintained.
Another thing to consider, HughesNet is up at 22,500mi but also at the equator whereas StarLink is basically going to be much closer to straight up.
I read your comment. And I stand my point.

Even being very very friendly and interpreting your comment in the way you clarified it, there is an assumption in your comment. The assumption is that Tesla will be able to bring their car to Level 5, full autonomy, while GM will not be able to that. And let me ask you why you say so? Just because Tesla, in a marketing move, tells you they will be able to do that, and GM is not doing that? Maybe GM has a legal department that warned them not to do that?

To paraphrase your point, no there's no difference between a car that, according to their marketing "will maybe be able to go to mars" and a car that "has the hardware that could be maybe able to go to mars, but we prefer to tell you now because we could be liable if we fail". I understand the value of aspirational statements, but still...
When he wrote it, he was at BU, for what it's worth.
I don't have a solid citation, apologies. But remember 4 of the top 10 cities are in the, landwise, mostly uninhabited Texas and Arizona. It's not a stretch to drive out of the city and lose access to broadband. I'm in a top 30 city and absolutely driving 30 minutes away takes broadband off the plate...depending on direction(south and west do, north and east dont).
> And to keep making money in these markets — already a ridiculous $27 in ARPU for the last three months of 2017 — they need us to give more time and attention to them.

And that there is the Achilles' heel of both Google and Facebook: disrupting the attention market.

I've been having a debate with someone on this subject, and it prompted me to run a consumer survey asking people: "Thinking about free services (e.g., print, radio, TV, websites), do you like it when they sell your attention to advertisers?" Yes, No, Undecided.

Of 511 responses, only 6% liked having their attention sold. 68% dislike it, and 26% were on the fence.

Personally, I think there is a huge opportunity to re-invent the attention market. Until then, companies like Google and Facebook will keep stealing our attention and selling it to the highest bidder.
Day to day transactions are actually the most likely to be disrupted by crypto when the UX & education hit the right point. The reason for this is crypto can trade with almost zero fees, which compared to card transaction fees make paying in crypto better for merchants, like taking cash.
The kind of diligence we're talking about here wouldn't catch that. We're talking about the nuts-and-bolts business documentation required for an investor to take a stake in your company, not founder background checks.
Wave was absolutely the best way to play play-by-post RPGs online.

It was really cool stuff.
Interesting tech that no one wanted
"Is the entity in question actually a trust/monopoly-holder" is certainly a distinction I would hope exists in law.
Checked it out. No vouch link. Thanks for mentioning it though.

EDIT: The post was dead at the time I checked, but it's possible it still shows as dead after it has been deleted, which I assume removes the vouch option.
You're not wrong, sometimes it feels like they're as aware and present as us, exactly as 'human', just with less ability to solve complex problems

It's surprising we haven't given them more rights yet, maybe this paper can pave the way toward legitimizing at least the larger animals as our sentient neighbours
Not sure where you live, but in the states I've lived, it's the county or municipality that uses property taxes and runs the K-12 schools. Public universities are are subsidized by the state, but those are available equally to all of the state's residents.
Why is that do you think?
I think it is because we are entitled. Anything we give we must get something in return. What is the ROI of respect in this dog-eat-dog zero sum game?
I've never participated in the DD for a series A but have been a party to the DD for an acquisition, and it looks daunting because it is daunting. During an acquisition, not only are you collecting this information (which, if you didn't spend a constant, tedious amount of energy over the life of your company to keep up with, is itself a monumental pain in the ass, for each each step might incur several weeks of lag), but legal then bills you to review each of them. It can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
My reason for not writing a negative review is because before staying at their place we exchanged phone numbers and other things, and now I don't feel comfortable writing a negative review and possibly having a confrontation. YMMV but I avoid writing negative reviews despite the 'double blind' review system.
Why are you calling this a "credential validating service" rather than a "password validating service"? Credentials don't have to be passwords, instead they could be tokens or signed data. Passwords are the worst credentials, and they should only be considered when nothing else would work. The form of validation you propose is not exhaustive either. "a" repeated 57 times might not be on any of the lists, but it's still a bad passphrase.
You don’t have to use the canvas one 200 times. It’s more like 130. And less if you use nylon or hemp or anything less energy costly than cotton. But yeah, if you want to reuse your throwaway bags, go ahead. It’s certainly a greener option than throwing them out.

It’s not “eco-theater” to want to reduce the ecological cost of bags, though. Not is it “eco-theater” to want to keep millions of plastic bags out of the oceans and rivers, or out of storm drains where they cause clogs, or out of bushes and trees where they are just ugly.
Luckily, none of this stuff applies to humans, who are all completely the same.
Or, to rephrase that slightly: why is it so hard for other people not to agree with my view of the world? That's the essence of being PC. Recognise that I know best.
You could say the same about Japan, and to a certain extent China.
You don't need political correctness to realize when you've been a jerk to someone.

Some people seem like they need it, or maybe even a carer to let them know. They’re not as bad as people who think that being abrasive and lacking social skills is some secret sauce on their “brilliance,” which you get too much in medicine, tech, and STEM in general.

It isn’t the secret sauce, it’s what some people are willing to tolerate during your productive years, sometimes.
On the plus side, there is no law against face coverings in the UK. You can legally walk along the street wearing a guy falkes mask, motorcycle helmet or niqab. Nor is there any requirement to carry ID.
He (Glenn Loury) is at Brown now. As for his political views, he hosts a podcast for Bloggingheads TV where he delves into a range of topics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Loury
This is the most bizarre argument against OSS that I've ever read.
This is a reasonable application, but AI-powered price discrimination definitely raises some ethical questions. What if we find that one ethnic group is being charged more for a product? That would certainly be illegal for a traditional store, but would be difficult to detect online.

Sadly it's already happening and is impossible to regulate for electronic products.
I think the real challenge would be getting it to the moon. A falcon heavy ought to be able to get it into orbit, but then you're still a lot of Delta-V away from a moon landing.
Machine learning–what language should I use?
the temporary nature is for better or worse
> if you live in a rural area in one of those than the change to SALT matters much less to you

Why? State income taxes apply to you no matter where in the state you live.
Discussions of "PC" fill me with existential dread, but here's my anecdata: I've seen a good share of rude and disrespectful people who chalk it to being "un-PC", and I've seen a good share of people who talk a great deal about empathy, inclusiveness and cultural sensitivity and are thorough jerks.

As the former pride themselves in being rude, the latter excuse (or justify) their behavior on the need to go against the status quo/not perpetuate inequalities, etc.

It's much like how the "feminism = equality" slogan is inaccurate; not being accurate does not mean it's the opposite, but that it's an oversimplifying definition for the masses that actually ignores all the theory, politics, history and movements of it.
> to simply hide any content that pertains to politics

That's so inaccurate a description that I wonder how anyone could arrive at it.
I'm not exactly sure how it works but people are able to take much more than $2000 on margin. If you saw on the Robinhood reddit after XIV crashed, there are people who owe over $30,000. Maybe someone else can chime in on how the "gold" currency works in Robinhood to allow that.
Well, yes, the Raspberry Pi has much better upstream support. The biggest obvious issue being the Mali.
Glad to see someone posted about COIR-OR!

I've been looking at open source solvers for a while now to solve an MIP, and this one seems to be the best.

There is this annoying thing about the whole ecosystem though, aside from the proprietary bits.

I started by looking at GLPK and wrote my MIP in GMPL. For some reason a lot of tools I looked at don't "just work". I have to export it to some other format. It works, but feels like a work-around.

I wish there were a lingua franca in this domain and sort of have support from all major solver implementations, but each one seems to have their own way, or just provide an API (ehem google/or-tools)

I am happy I can make it work, but it may not be as easy for others.
I moved here and I enjoy it. Its getting expensive very quickly though, and there are almost zero houses or condos on the market, so most likely I will never be able to buy, even on an engineers salary. All the new construction is luxury apartments, not condos.

All after is from a 20-30-somethings perspective: there's also very few areas within the city that are "city-like" in terms of having people around and things to do after work. Belltown, Cap Hill and Fremont are the hangouts - if you live far away from those its very much like living in the suburbs. South Lake Union (Amazon City) is a GHOST town after dark - Amazon has failed pretty hard at creating any sense of culture or livable space as the only thing to do is get gouged by restaurants that are paying far too much in rent.

SLU has:

* No cheap food

* No entertainment

* No "hangout" spots except inside of the expensive restaurants

Even a beer garden or some food stalls around one of their courts would be a huge improvement.
That makes sense. I think the article didn't make that clear enough.
It is worth pointing out that “ability” here is being measured by standardized tests, such as SAT and ACT. This could reflect underlying differences between sexes, or that by the time people are categorized as being in the top 5% social/cultural bias has already had an effect.
The little town in Texas that voted to put libertarians in charge is a decent cautionary tale. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-frees...
Great list!

I'm missing a chattel (I hope that's the right term in English) or asset list and in the IP section a list of licenses obtained as well as statements of non-retention by former employees and executives.

Furthermore a statement of compliance with the various applicable laws (retention, privacy and so on) would be very useful, as well as the disclosure of the results of any audits the company has undergone.
On the plus side, I just visited China last month and never felt safer. Before you would wear your backpack on the front of your chest when taking public transportation for fear of thieves. Now, with surveillance everywhere (and random ID checks at subways), you can freely wear your backpack on your back where it belongs without fear of theft.
Are you mounting your virtualenv into the container somehow? How does your editor see the code/docs for your pip dependencies?
> why is it so hard to not be a jerk to other people? That's really the essence of "being PC". Treat others with respect.

Other replies have already hit the main points of why this position doesn't really make sense. Mostly it comes down to "jerk" being a subjective term.

However, I'd take thing a step further even. Why is it a problem if someone is a jerk? As adults shouldn't we be trivially able to disregard the aspects of someones communication we deem "jerky"? Why do we consider it reasonable to escalate hostility when someone is being (what we perceive as) a jerk? "Sticks and stones my break my bones, but words will never hurt me", is an objectively true statement. Any harm done by words is self inflicted. If we use the basic, nearly automatic, capacity we have to filter communication, "jerks" aren't really a problem.