skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simple: in Australian we require proof of purchase. Typically the receipt from the store you bought it from, and the item must be returned to that store.

Australia’s largest home / hardware store also checks the items your taking against your receipt and stamps your receipt upon exiting the store, thereby reducing the incidence of thieves walking in empty handed and taking the item again while claiming they’ve already paid for it.

Why doesn’t Home Depot do something similar?
The studies mentioned here suggest nicotine, stress, and plastics may be to blame: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/health/male-sperm-count-p...

Estrogenic substances such as atrazine have been correlated with lower sperm count in agricultural workers (e.g. https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/04/0427_050427...) but I don't know of a study showing the effects through the food distribution chain, only ones on field workers.
I am referring to the state of the subway and buses under the NYC Board of Transportation, which was similarly a giant incompetent mess.

The distinction to make is that the counties and the City get to recommend the appointees for their slots to the Governor. It's a formality most of the time, but the Governor or State Legislature could tell the mayor or county executives to "try again".

As far as that last point, it's important to understand why the MTA was created in the first place; its primary mission is to dole out the goodies from the State and the tolled crossings to its subsidiaries. What they know about the system is at best, secondary to the job, since they are, by and large, not the people who run the system. That's why they appoint chairmen and agency presidents and all that.
If it's available as an option and it's cheaper, how are you going to stop the poor from living there?
I don't know why rectangular utility holes exist, I assume cost.
What if you claim to reveal the password once you're alive, but don't? Or can claim you don't know it even if you do? What will people do then - kill you off again?
How does one prevent data-driven design from becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy?
I went to a McDonald's yesterday. The cashier stepped away from the register as I was walking up. I turned around and walked a few feet to the touchscreen order system and entered my order. At the payment screen it said to take a number card to my table. No number cards were left and 4 people were now in line at the register. I turned around and left. Jack In The Box was down the street.
Sure, but mobility after the first 48 hours is a separate problem than being able to project force in the first 48 hours.
They're the ones that gave me the example. It's perfect.
McDonald’s said it employed 235,000 people, including corporate and restaurant workers

That count represents only the corporation and corporate-owned stores and excludes the employees of franchisees. 1.5 million work for franchisees[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s
Won't this just take the battleground about what is "fact" or not to Wikipedia?

If someone was trying to discredit say, Obama, and saw "Barrack Obama was born in the United States - according to Wikipedia" surely they'd rush there and try to sneak conspiracy theories past the moderators.

So what happens then, Wiki has to lock down more and more pages, or effectively only allow approved edits to topics people are trying to shill over.

That happens, and it's no longer the crowd-sourced/accepted truth, it's Wikipedia moderators truth.
It was great, but I did notice was the lack of diversity. Three female instructors (Kirsty Nathoo, Carolynn Levy, and Andrea Zurek) vs. 12 male investors.
If you interpret the history of regulation as originating from the needs of the overseen organisations, then you end up with securities governance that fits the operational style of the incumbents, rather than laws that apply generally and effectivly for all business that's effectively equivalent.

This is because the regulated organisations generally prefer to be governed by definitions that align with their procedures and operating functions.

Firstly it reduces much if compliance to merely perfunctory tests of verisimilitude to procedures that are accepted as being protective of disadvantaged interests. Second challenger organisations are forced to replicate very expensive structures. Third, because operational verisimilitude to going governance is rooted in operations, the advantage of interpretation of the rules falls to the same incumbent parties.

Regulatory agencies often seem oblivious to the fact that they are negotiating with back office support rather than outright principles.

I understand the human inclination to see what we do as being what we mean, but the securities industry perennially confounds the notion.
That’s OK. Google is about to send Wikipedia a bunch of newly informed editors.
> QM works at every scale

> either QM or GR (or both) as currently formulated will break down near the event horizons of black holes

These seem to be in conflict. Black holes is exactly what I was talking about.

From what I've understand there's no unified theory or anything close to a unified theory for certain objects in space, which means the landscape is very open for some weird, weird stuff. Physics is already extremely weird.

> there is no reason to believe that once we figure that out the result will be significantly different in character than all the other laws of physics that have been worked out up to now

I would consider both general relativity and quantum mechanics to be drastically different things compared to what came before, going from "this is reasonable" to "WTF", so I can't agree with this statement at all.
It seems to me they can image the synapses but I don’t see how they’re going to get the synaptic weights.

Take a look at the picture in the article. You’re really just getting the shape of the synapse at best.
Also, I don’t think “farmer”, in those times had the same meaning as now. Farming was still very labor intensive, and land owners could be farmers without doing much of the work or even without being much involved in daily operations (if a large farm needs dozens of people to run it, the farms’s “CEO” won’t have much to do with digging through dirt)
Why did your company block Repl.it? That's strange.
Advertising is dead? Come on "<x> is dead" gets said all the time about a wide range of subjects and is almost universally bullshit. If advertising is dead why are companies still shelling out millions for 30 second TV spots during the super bowl? How are some kids are paying off their student loans by making YouTube videos? I agree that a revenue model that's based on advertising needs to be thought long and hard about, but 'dead' -- nah. I doubt that advertising will ever truly die, unfortunately they've figured out how to hack human brains and emotions with it.
> "we know the oceanic greywacke rock was formed some 435 million years ago"

You do not have data from 435 million years ago. You have a series of data that _seem_ to fit a model that you believe to be true. The only "fact" is what can be observed, but you were not there nor do you have testimony from people who were there 435 million years ago. That's speculation in my book.

> "But it was another 65 million years before the sandstone was formed."

Again, no hard data. This is speculative.

> “Hutton realised that the formation and movement of these rocks to create the coastline we see at Siccar Point couldn’t happen in sudden cataclysms over years or decades,”

Why not? There are other formations that don't make sense but were formed in much more rapid timeframe? Why not this one?

> And let me ask you, what about belief in a particular religion, is that provable?

Beliefs/worldviews can be based on any number of things: unsubstantiated tradition (whether right or wrong), widely attested-to eye witness testimony, or lies. And yes, I do believe "science" falls into this category as well.
Hell, not that long ago lobotomies were accepted by the medical community. This is the problem with conditions that place a heavy burden on the parents, there is an incentive to act against the best interests of the children.
Is it any more dangerous or complicated than diesel fuel, generators, and keeping pumps and a fuel supply around?
You can cancel and start again to do a pickup. It's crazy that they don't have a button that says "There are no more number coasters, do pickup instead"
Great article. It never occured to me that someone might accidentally yank the fuel cutoff and die as a result.
I'm using Gatsby (ReactJS static site builder) with Netlify + Netlify CMS for my blog, going to start doing all client websites in this way as it's easy to set up and the interface is super simple for editing, best of all the whole thing is free.

Open source here: https://github.com/csi-lk/csi.lk

Blog link: https://csi.lk
> Won't this just take the battleground about what is "fact" or not to Wikipedia?

Wikipedia isn't ad-driven. That reduces its incentive to be addictive by any means necessary. It's also been arbitering truth fairly effectively for many years.
Went to your site. Clicked the link down-page. In iTunes, received: "The item you've requested is not currently available in the Australian Store."

(I'm in Adelaide.)
I think there are a few problems with this:

1. Definition of what is a conspiracy and what is not. There are some hot topics out there all the time (e.g. Trump and Russia collusion) - pointing out and not pointing out "conspiracies" is a statement within itself. You only have to think about Twitter and it's "verified accounts" hot water not so long ago [1].

2. Adding fuel to the fire - for some conspiracies the idea of covering them up makes them more real for many people. There are many posts on various social media platforms with the tag line "share this before <X> takes it down" (e.g. Facebook videos [2]).

3. Videos that debunk theories could also get thrown into this automated mess they'll undoubtedly make and will probably incur demonetization. The result of that may be less debunking videos, actually poisoning the well further.

4. Generally squashing freedom of speech means that needed discussion on a particular topic can't happen.

What I think they should do:

1. Have this as an opt-out feature which is mostly hidden, or an opt-in feature which is obvious.

2. Pick controversial topics of any kind and find for and against cases for them, allowing the user to investigate them both. Picking a side is dangerous.

3. Have smart humans go through and carefully select for and against cases - don't try to automate this as it will be gamed.

4. Don't use this information for classifying whether videos should be monetized.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com.au/twitter-clamps-down-on-ve...

[2] https://www.facebook.com/TaxationIsTheft2/videos/51317619238...
Can you be banned from being an accredited investor? AFAIK, the only requirement in the US is that you have a net worth of $1m or an income of $200k a year. It's not perfect, but it's the government's best way of determining whether you have the ability to suffer significant financial losses.
> business risk is much less

Minus the part where you're giving away your product for free with legally mandated nothing in return.
People think haskell's or lisp's syntax is bad, but they bring awesome power to solve problems. They are the best languages.
It seems that way on the surface. Both will wake up with the view that they are the true consciousness.

Another variant is the concept that every decision we make we actually split into two universes, one making one decision and the other making the other decision.

But, anyway the scenario is set up, the question is why does that particular brain have that particular consciousness?

It is easier to see in the splitting scenario. Why do I end up being the consciousness that chose A instead of B? A materialistic view does not have a satisfactory resolution of this issue, whereas the common sense view that I actually am choosing A and not B and there is only one me easily accounts for the perception of such. It is only within a strictly materialistic worldview that common sense accounts run into opposition, which would be a good reason to look beyond materialism.
I think part of it is the lack of voting and the presence of easily-identifiable avatars: participants have an incentive to post things that generate maximum engagement and discussion with other specific users as opposed to maximum instantaneous agreement. In this regard it mirrors real-world social interaction much more closely than reddit/fb/twitter.
Great! But you can understand that you’re in a tiny minority and why Spotify won’t/shouldn’t add this feature, right?
I've been using vimium for years now, the biggest problem I find is it only works 90% of the time. Will try this out for a bit to see if it bridges that gap
Guys like this will be running the self driving automobile infrastructure in 50 years.
Well, if you don't know me well enough to have my phone number, you certainly shouldn't have the privilege of making my computer beep at me, whenever the hell you feel like it. But, that's me. Maybe you like people interrupting you. (Or maybe you like interrupting people because you think you are too important to wait en queue.)
Nutjobs already constantly try to edit Wikipedia. Moderators revert those changes.
Ask HN: Which language is best?
Is it Haskell?
This is what wikipedia has always intended and promoted. They specifically license their data to allow this for exactly this reason.
One of my pet projects was 'emoticon select' where it would analyse the users face and play a song relating to how they feel. No playlists needed.
Don’t know why you are downvoted right now.

A major abstraction, absolutely huge, is “Digital.” It’s all analog, and outside of the sanitizing Digital abstraction, it’s not pretty.

But the digital abstraction allowed for astronomically complex designs to be implemented.
Hmmm. Well then any content is open to exploitation, regardeless if it's open source or not. I can basically copy and paste your comment on my own website and change its content...No fork would ever have as much authority as the original repo since that's the one linked and referenced everywhere.
This is exactly the problem that Google solved when they created the PageRank algorithm.
Disclosure: I work at Google.

As others said, there's no data on how many people Google or Alphabet are going to hire (postings are not 1:1 with individuals). Alphabet apparently hired 8,057 people in FY 2017 [1]. Note that while HTC had ~2000 people come over [2], that was not closed within FY 17.

[1] https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/2017Q4_alphabet_earnings_releas...

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/google-htc-employees-acquisit...
Farmers spent their days alone in the fields. And the “co-living” model of the early industrial city was soundly rejected, to the point of drastic overreaction - where do you think all these controls on zoning and density came from?
You are supposed to provide a valid email address when you register for a let's encrypt certificate. In theory they should be able to contact all v1 client users.
This argument works just as well (or badly) against the brain is just an antenna hypothesis..
looks like a laser beam aimed at the sea, but then, it's cooler than the sea?
Followup to free food that isn't free
Thank you! We had an old link connected to that button - should be fixed now.
A line cook in 1985 made about $4.50/hr

Not in fast food. Starting wage was usually minimum wage unless market conditions dictated otherwise.
I’ve submitted bug reports about proprietary products because I want them to get better. How is this different? Or is that exploitative too?
Forbes says "It is a numerical index that ranges from 0 to 100 and incorporates the win-ratio, or percentage of days that Bitcoin is up, and the upside less downside volatility."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/03/10/the-bitco...
Is the wake up on first request code open source by any chance? Would love to reuse for GitLab.
Why is it any different than documenting open-source code for free, or answering a stack overflow question?
Do take congestion into account; something that can run perfectly smoothly at 90% of capacity may severely struggle at 96% and basically grind to a halt by 99%. It’s not linear.

(I am not stating that congestion plays any part in it, but you can’t simply write it off.)
Sleep in heavenly peace (2017)
The secret beauty of junk bonds was they mimic equity and not debt for most of the issue life.

Or,

And the connection is maybe only easily appreciated by older hands on the trading floors..

Why could CME launch a bitcoin future?

Because a) the agriculture department, b) Leo Melamed?

It's all making square pegs fit round holes, for a regulatory gain.
As an adjective, it means slow.

As a noun, it generally refers to a detention room, or jail. (For example, on "NYPD Blue", the "poky room" was where they detained suspects for interviews, and within it was a lockable cage.)
I found this NYT article from a while back fascinating. Basically this guy has TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation) and he starts feeling more emotion. He discovers his wife is super controlling and ends up getting a divorce. He's not sure how much better his life actually gets from this "cure".
https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/an-experimental-au...
I know people think that happens, but economists haven't been able to see it.

What does happen is that both housing construction and gentrification increase when the economy is going well. It's easy to think that one is causing the other when in reality they're both caused by an underlying factor.
> If you can't be bothered with some minimal standard of care, you need to exit the IT market.

My goodness, you just nailed it.

The IT job market is so tight that complete incompetence is still rewarded. Incompetence and negligence that would get you fired immediately or even prosecuted in many if not most other professions.

If restaurant employees treated food safety the way most developers treat code safety, anyone who dined out would run about a 5-10% chance of a hospital visit per trip.

I was just arguing with a “senior developer” who left a wide open SQL injection in an app. “But it will only ever be behind the firewall, it’s not worth fixing.”

That’s like a chef saying “I know it’s old fish but we’ll only serve it to people with strong stomachs, I promise”.
"So the team is probably looking to you to drive the core tech decisions."

Remember that "core tech decisions" include hiring and managing a development team - hopefully your company will grow to the point where you'll need one, and it could be very soon, so you need to be prepared for it. Those kinds of decisions are much more important than what stack you build on or what cloud provider you pick, and with a much higher cost of fixing mistakes. Do any of the founders have experience with hiring and managing people?
Color me silly, but this only works assuming BC goes up in the long run. With this assumption, if it went down for some time, likelyhood going up increases.

Proving theorem by assuming thesis.

Flawed to say the least.
Looks like it's just another data-mined modification of Relative Strength Index (RSI) applied to bitcoin.

Here is the wikipedia on RSI:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_strength_index

Some variations of RSI factor in volatility which this guy's Bitcoin version appears to do.

Worth saying here, there is no empirical evidence for indexes indicators like these or the million other versions of it to have any basis in reality for predicting price movement reliably. Pretty obvious Bitcoin markets in 2011 were nothing like Bitcoin markets in 2017. Said another way "Sometimes I trade bitcoin but I only buy on Tuesdays, my best friend only buys bitcoins on Thursdays, and my performance trading Bitcoin is better than my friend's. So Tuesdays are the best time to buy Bitcoin, see previous sentence for evidence why". Also this article from investopedia appears to be another sponsored marketing content not a journalism article.
That list was a little surprising to me. Simplejson at the top, a library I’ve never used which seems to be obviated by the presence of json in the standard library (similarly argparse). Surprised to see pymongo above Flask. Also surprised to see Django having 10m more downloads than Flask.
I really don't like this idea as I think it threatens Wikipedia. Doing this provides an incentive for for-profit groups to damage Wikipedia to make it agree with them, or omit evidence that disproves their hypotheses. Think of Alex Jones and the Info Wars crew realizing that they can change the information that will be used to validate or debunk them. Worse, think of the millions of Info Wars fans (or enemies) who will come to the same conclusion.

Google has exploited Wikipedia in the past, for example, to provide answers to questions. I think this is a good thing, because it just spreads knowledge. But now, Google is putting Wikipedia at risk by involving it in the kind of for-profit Info Wars that go on at YouTube. This may damage Wikipedia directly, through vandalism, or indirectly by encouraging people to think of Wikipedia as untrustworthy because it disagrees with what their favorite YouTuber said.
I don't doubt that your strong feelings on this topic are sincere and justified. And yes, the word drama is a bit harsh—which I normally avoid. But you really did do some egregious things.
You posted 18 fulminating comments in a row, some of which would normally be bannable offenses (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16577259), sent us demanding and even threatening emails, and posted this off-topic meta-thread trying to gin up outrage about moderation, all because of a routine community action that happens every day on HN. That's what I meant by drama. I'm not going to ban you for posting things like "feck off ya mook" today. Everybody goes on tilt sometimes. But getting banned is the expected outcome for behavior like that, so please don't do it again.

You felt this story should be on HN. Other users felt it shouldn't be. That's normal. The flags won over the upvotes, indicating that the bulk of the community doesn't agree with you. I don't see why your preference should matter more than theirs, especially since the mandate of the site (intellectual curiosity yes, political flamewars no) at first blush points rather in their favor than yours.

We're always fine to hear counterarguments, but when the 'counterargument' consists of calling names like despicable, etc., merely because HN is behaving the way it always has, you actually create a persuasive reason not to give you what you want: you're showing what kind of discussion would result from doing so.

If you want to influence what discussion takes place on HN, you need to do two things. First, you need to really grok the mandate of the site and make your case based on that. Otherwise your argument will amount to demanding that HN be a different kind of site than it is, which doesn't hold water. And you also need to really grok the values of the site (civility and substance yes, snark and attack no) and demonstrate how the discussion you want can adhere to them by adhering to them yourself. Otherwise you'll have influence all right, but in the reverse direction.

I understand how strong these feelings can be and why. Torture is wrong. If we were to let that determine HN moderation, though, HN would soon become only about that and things like that, which would kill HN. We work to make sure that doesn't happen, but not because we don't care about more important matters.
Even worse, Israeli false flag bombings in Egypt. They attempted to frame the Muslim Brotherhood. This was just a couple years after Israel got statehood. They denied it until 2000. "Lavon Affair" if you want to look it up.

USS Liberty, Israel continues to deny they did it intentionally and that there was any pressure to cover up.