skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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That's odd. My daughter is still using hers.
Tax capital and evaluate regulations in terms of who they benefit rather than whether they are "good for business".
I'm not knowledgeable on visas and traveling abroad and all that stuff. How does that work for a situation like this ? I'm sure it varies from country to country. From where to where did you move?
There's a story Andrew Solomon tells that's not unlike the Southeast Asia anecdote. Andrew traveled the world trying to understand how other cultures experience depression as a way to deal with his own depression

In one African village, he asked the residents what they thought of western depression treatments. They said "why don't you bring people outside, so they can feel the sun on their skin? Why don't you dance with them, so they can feel energy of others? Why, instead, do you shut them in a dark room, alone with a stranger, to talk about things that make them sad?"

It's an interesting talk, and one that illustrates just how little we know about depression
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>The big problem with having only one CA is that if they get compromised or go down, that's the entire internet.

Compromising any CA affects the entire internet.
> Link to Directive please?

I-scoop[0] explains it well. Do some digging in the documents[1] and you'll get the idea where it's heading to.

"Respect for the privacy of one’s communications is an
essential dimension of this right, applying both to natural and legal persons.
Confidentiality of electronic communications ensures that information exchanged between
parties and the external elements of such communication, including when the information
has been sent, from where, to whom, is not to be revealed to anyone other than to the parties
involved in a communication. The principle of confidentiality should apply to current and
future means of communication, including calls, internet access, instant messaging
applications, e-mail, internet phone calls and personal messaging provided through social
media." [1](page 6, article 7)

> (The reason I ask is that news reporting on EU law in English is extremely unreliable, and it's best to go to primary sources)

Completely agreed, it's a complete jungle of information and the source documents are hard to digest.

[0] https://www.i-scoop.eu/gdpr/eu-eprivacy-regulation/#The_cons...
[1] http://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-15333-2017-I...
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> and the [US] national debt keeps increasing for years and there is no sign to stop

China is about to become the world's most indebted nation on a GDP to debt ratio. If they're not already. If you count a reasonable estimate for shadow debt, they already are.

Total debt vs GDP for China is up over 300% at this point.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/28/chinas-debt-surpasses-300-pe...

To grow their economy by ~$600 billion annually, they need to take on roughly $4 to $5 trillion in debt every year. Their return on debt is extremely bad at this point. No nation in world history has taken on as much debt, faster, than China has since 2007. The S&P projection is that China will expand its huge debt levels by another 77% by just 2021.

Even China's households are now hyper leveraging:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-02-15/chinese-c...
> Except that none of those companies bother verifying one's identity if you're not actually paying for their services.

I'm sure in this scenario, those companies will be delighted to step fully into the role of CA including accepting money for identity vouching.

> In that scenario, could I not just verify the bank's public key when I'm physically in one of their branch locations while opening an account? They could also verify my public key at the same time. That would allow for a direct line of trust. The same could apply to any company one deals with.

No. The same couldn't apply to any company. My primary bank is online only. And how many times have you actually walked into an Amazon office? Or Paypal? Are people in Ohio supposed to fly to San Jose to get Paypal's public key when they create an account? Or are we going to wait for the post office to deliver a physical copy of Paypal's public key (and we'll just trust that whole transaction couldn't be compromised). Physical key exchange is simply not practical in most cases.
Assuming all of that were true, all that does is raise questions how he could be so completely wrong in this article.
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It's not unrelated at all. The original comment posted a link that's actually unrelated to the current topic of discussion (it's not about China-South Korea relations, it's about Xi consolidating power). Then using that link, the commenter tried to make a larger point about how Chinese people need to "speak up".

I'm making a similar point and showing why "speaking up" is hard by showing how the Americans haven't done so in the same conflict, where they are actually to blame rather than the Chinese.
Dropbox and Google Cloud integrations
Sounds to me like you have a lot of baggage. What you've written is evidently of a highly personal nature.

Homo homini lupus est.
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I still have my original Apple ][+ from high school, purchased used in 1986, originally manufactured in 1982. It performs just as well as it did in 1986, even including the floppy drive, a mechanical device that by all rights should have died decades ago. (Then again, my Atari 2600 still works fine, too.)

Conversely, every Apple product I've owned since the late '90s has been buggy in one way or another, had hardware issues, and generally has not stood the test of time. As mandatory updates and cloud-based software have become the norm, things have gotten even worse. To be fair, machines are far more complex now. A lot of the rock-solid reliability of early Apple products came from their relative simplicity. But I would not say they've built robust products ever since. They certainly believe in planned obsolescence. The perennial changing of port standards, abandoning of backwards compatibility, and lack of support for older machines is an Apple hallmark. I'm not saying they're worse than their competitors, but they definitely adhere to planned obsolescence.
Whats wrong with that? Electronic Arts is a cancer on the gaming industry.
I don't understand why they'd need the Private Keys for revocation. Isn't one of the reasons to revoke because you've lost the private key?
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These "wage decoupling" studies generally make two methodological mistakes.

1) They do not include fringe benefits in their calculation of wages
2) They use one inflation measure to adjust for cost changes in productivity over time and a different inflation measure to adjust for cost changes in wages over time.

Doing a quick search over their methodology [1], to their credit, I believe EPI avoids mistake #1, but it appears they make mistake #2.

Studies which include the complete value of benefits in their calculation of wages and use the same method to deflate both wages and productivity show that there is no "wage decoupling" from productivity.

[1] http://www.epi.org/data/methodology/
Because buying a house is considered an investment, not a cost. Other housing related costs (e.g. renovations, maintenance, etc.) are included in CPI.
It's still taking me a while to dissociate Uber with Travis Kalanick and his army of bros, even though they seem to be trying a lot of new initiatives.

Anyone have a good article on Uber's attempts to de-bro itself?
The GitHub post says the amplification factor is 51000, while the Wired article says it's 50. So which is it?
"stable" always comes with conditions, even if implicit. there's no need to add any asteroids - if any of those planets has tectonic activity, that will already introduce perturbations into gravity fields and cause a collapse eventually.
I'm the tech director/CTO/whatever in a team of 3 devs (me plus 2). We don't do 'performance appraisals'.

We often do code reviews. I sometimes do pair programming. Once in a while I have a private chat about something specific that's not code related.

And this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Abolishing-Performance-Appraisals-B...
You didn't really describe the process. At Google the process of performance evaluation is really simple, if you're not wanting to be promoted: you write a short self-evaluation consisting of up to five projects. For non-promo candidates this is as little as five sentence fragments in a list. Then your manager and a group of other managers from various related and unrelated organizations sit through a meeting called "calibration" where they try to grade you as "meets", "exceeds", or "strongly exceeds expectations", or sometimes "superb" or "needs improvement" at opposite extremes. This happens twice a year, but the self-evaluation is only mandatory once per year. You can also solicit peer reviews if you wish but this is pointless if you don't want to be promoted.
Applied for a couple of jobs in StackOverflow developer job section. Got called for a couple of interviews within two weeks or so. Finally, got a job in a Software company in Germany. Next thing you know, I'm in freezing Munich (But the city and people are pretty nice though)

PS: I'm from Sri Lanka
The amount by which galaxies differ in their visible mass to their predicted mass varies on a per galaxy basis.
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Is there a difference between HARD and DANGEROUS when the outcome is similar?
Mostly they exist because of price discrimination.

Rich Uncle Bob hears he needs an "SSL Certificate" he's heard of "Thawte" brand SSL, he goes to the brand website and clicks "Buy $69.99 per year".

His savvy friend Tight Mike needs one too, he shops around, finds a reseller called "Discount SSL" that offers an Thawte certificate for $18.99

What's the difference? Nothing except that Tight Mike was looking for a cheaper price, and if "Discount SSL" didn't sell it to him for $18.99 he might have eventually kept looking enough to find that somewhere else has a GoDaddy cert for $12.99 or whatever. Bob didn't care, he just paid whatever they asked, so wring the maximum possible out of him.

In theory there's also some more traditional "sales and service" type role, where they educate customers, help manage local experience e.g. maybe the Reseller is in Egypt and your English isn't so good - and that sort of thing. But a LOT of the business is straight price discrimination, trying to ensure as much of the customer's money goes to you as possible without them switching to a competitor with lower prices.
So I am confused - are they going to introduce a new fleet or is it asking their existing drivers to do this? If they are going to introduce a new fleet - how is it different from a normal ambulance service?
> Few want to start anything, but many are willing to join in.

And yet, nobody votes. Everyone is apparently so willing to participate in violent revolution (which typically ends badly, if you read history), but nobody wants to head over to a church or school on a Tuesday in August. Nobody wants to go to city council meetings. Nobody wants to run for one of the many uncontested local elections in their area.

By the time you need your guns, you’ve already lost. It’s much easier, and much more likely, to change the system slowly and deliberately. That’s not to say you shouldn’t protest, or even strike, but there is so much unseized political power in America, and too much of it is simply because of apathy.
I think what you're describing, I'd describe as "organization," rather than "politics." When I refer to "politics" in this conversation I mean something along the lines of "performing actions that are not company-goal-optimized, or, potentially detrimental to other employees, in order to advance oneself."
Tidy and to the point.

Thanks for sharing! I'll be using this as inspiration in the future.
Because it was found out that they were doing the battery thing. If not, he and everyone else would have continued suffering a poor experience without knowing that it was a battery problem, or bought a new iPhone.

I know that’s what happened to me with my 6s at least.
> can provide a way for ordinary people to see the truth

For any truth that's pushed and reinforced enough.
>In that scenario, could I not just verify the bank's public key when I'm physically in one of their branch locations while opening an account? They could also verify my public key at the same time. That would allow for a direct line of trust. The same could apply to any company one deals with.

You could? Would your grandmother? Would you fly to Mountain View to get Google's? And then turn around and fly to Washington DC to get the IRS's? And then turn around and fly to who knows where to get HN's? And then tell them to keep customer staff ready to assist you to install their public keys?

And what about personal blogs that don't want to be MITM?
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/28/uber-were-moving-a...
> It's hard to prove a negative through evidence

No, it's not, in the usual scientific sense of proof rather than some absolutist one; you show the expected incidence of the inhibitory effect did not exist, and then show that the actual value (either by surveying the whole universe of concern or a random subset) is below that expected value to a degree that makes it improbable that it occurs by chance, while controling for other known sources of variability.

> but can you cite and exception?

Sure, if you use a definition of Democracy that isn't so narrow that the expected number of wars if democracies on both sides isn't far less than one, you will also find lots of actual wars between Democracies. Even if you ignore wars where the only pair of democracies are a separatist group and the unit they are separating from (e.g., the American Revolution), there are plenty (War of 1812, for instance, or more recently some parts of the Yugoslav Wars.)

Wikipedia has more discussion and examples:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_between_democra...

> have non-democracies ever achieved anything like the EU or NATO?

Yes, non-democracies have created both continent-spanning multi-national supergovernments like the EU and wide regional military alliances like NATO.

In fact, they did both long before democracies did.
360 (peer) reviews can be gamed so are pretty much useless or would be overly critical.

Inputs are company goals and a self assessment of how your current work aligns with them. Your manager then provides review.

Performance is a function of the business line. There is no carrot only stick. So I think promotions and good performance reviews are a function of how impactful your role is to some core business function. If you are not in a profit center then you have to justify how your work saves money overall.

They also encourage maladaptive behavior among and across teams. Stack ranking is particularly bad and I don't think companies have found ways to measure performance without inducing competitiveness. Exceptions might be multi-functional teams but these are more akin to a sports team where the best players get playing time and they completely ignore the farm system.
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I'm referring to the communication (ePrivacy) not data / consent (GDPR).
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It's an interesting perspective, but seems a bit out of place here. I would think it would have been more fitting as a reply to the thread from yesterday (which is still on page 2 ATM).
I agree taxes are not hidden charges, but it does sound a little deceitful to me that doordash bundles taxes with their service fee as one line item on their checkout page.

And, I don't share the same sympathy for the doordash drivers. I was already charged a delivery fee and a service fee separately, why is it still my responsibility to make sure the drivers get paid enough and not doordash's. Besides, the idea of tip for me is that I pay extra if I am happy with the service, and now I am expected to mindlessly pre-pay a tip before knowing if the service is going to be good or not. A reason why I prefer ubereatz, its a rating system but after the delivery.
Towards a Profitable Cryptocurrency Trading Bot
So what is the proper pronunciation for JSON?
Self-driving cars offer huge benefits – but have a dark side
> as a casual purveyor of recent neuroscience,

pur·vey
/pərˈvā/
v. provide or supply (food, drink, or other goods) as one's business