skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But I can’t choose among 100 questions to answer. It’s on the rare occasion that the question I can answer shows up that a do it. That’s the situation for a lot of us. We answer a few niche questions.

And when that question happens to be poorly written - I can’t pick another. I can ignore it or I can answer it.

Some times I’m almost inclined to commenting “give me your email and I’ll sort you out because your Q will be closed even though I see your problem and had the exact same problem”.

I think a great feature would be “protection”. If I adopt a question I can take responsibility for both my answer and fixing the question. If I’m say 5k rep and the asker is low rep I should be trusted to be able to be a “mentor”. The question can even be hidden until I and the asker have worked on both question and answer together.

So the context is

- asker: can’t write a good Q without help

- answerer: wants to help make better asker perhaps MORE than I want to make a better Q/A site, can’t use time to answer another Q instead

This is very common in my experience
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Both are in the EU/EEC. You could simply move to Portugal, change nothing about how you are remunerated, keep an irish Euro bank account and everything should work fine surely.
I don't think that SO has to sacrifice the ends of the bell curve in order to cater to the middle. My point is not that SO should be equally useful to people asking more esoteric questions, but that it currently effectively discourages them as a byproduct of the drive-by moderation that is suitable for most of the questions resting around the center of the bell curve.
This is slightly different as he is looking to apply for non-habitiual status. This is quite a bit more complex and I would not do it without good professional advice. The major accounting firms have set up a production line, and I really would talk to them. These are PWC, Deloitte, etc. I took some very bad advice when I moved to Portugal, and it took years to sort out. Be very careful in who you take advice from. If you file one bit of paper in the wrong order it can take years to solve.
I don't know what your professor's viewpoint was, but my sense is that the Chinese Room, as taught in undergrad classes, is mostly a punching bag. It's a very clever thought experiment, but you're not meant to believe it. My sense is that Searle is more famous in philosophy for his work in philosophy of language.

"subjective rather than objective reasoning." <-- I don't know what you mean by this.
"something that resonates" is a pretty weak condition.
In England, it's quite common to use informal affectionate terms. They vary regionally - love, pet, hinny, babs, duck, cock, hen, flower, petal, princess etc. Their use isn't uncontroversial, but they're widely accepted by a large proportion of the population and frequently used in many offices.

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/02/08/being-called-babe-offen...
Hackers Are So Fed Up with Twitter Bots They’re Hunting Them Down Themselves
It's the same in Hawaii with the word "haole" (same meaning: foreigner). Doesn't matter if you were born and raised on the islands, lived here your entire life, married a local, and had local kids. If you're white, you're a haole. Almost always, the word is a harmless descriptor. Sometimes even white kama'aina (those born in Hawaii) use the word to describe other white people. But it can be used as a racial slur and it's immediately obvious when it's being used as a racial slur.
I cannot imagine why you would get downvoted for what you said. Seems some politically motivated down-vote fest going on now. Did not expect things to be this ugly on HN. I am upvoting your's to compensate and flagging mine, with the hope of drawing Dang's attention.

Edit: Apparently I cannot flag mine.
This is how I have understood it. The real danger in using lead for soldering, is not the inhaling of the smoke/vapors, but that you are touching lead and will later touch your eyes and mouth.

Using lead for soldering is likely fine, but be extra judicious about washing your hands, avoid touching mucous membranes.
> I do think that developers who have previously only worked with web tech have a distorted idea about native platforms though. I spent my whole career working on the web, intimidated by the complexity of native apps.

As a native developer I have the exact opposite view. Web development is insanely complicated compared to native. It's a complete jungle of flavour-of-the-day frameworks all designed to make web-development somewhat workable (and all of them failing in some ways.

If you're building a website, you have little choice, but if you're actually building a desktop app it's totally insane to use web based UI.
Both my wife and I watch (well, read) plenty of news. Sometimes even German news. Neither of us particularly care how we'd look in Germany or the rest of Europe, though, since we have no intention of living there.

I'm reminded of something that I think I read here on Hacker News: if you want to see how you're being manipulated, read another country's newspapers. Not because they tell the truth, but because the propaganda in them is directed at the country's own inhabitants, and so it'll have no emotional importance for you. I look at the term "neoliberal" and view it neutrally, because the propaganda around it never really caught on in the U.S. out of certain very niche circles.

There are undoubtedly similar terms & issues in the U.S. where we get very much up in arms but an outsider would be "what's the big deal?" You could probably tell me what they are a lot better than I could (assuming you read U.S. news media), but I'd bet that things like "single payer", "gun control", and "social democracy" make the list, where half the U.S. population considers them a dirty word while most of the rest of the developed world is like "Duh, these are obviously good ideas. Why do you kill your own citizens?"
Use whatever is the native toolkit for the OS you're targeting.
Not mentioned besides the ecological footprint- there is with high density, a high chance for infectious disease to wipe out great parts of this humanity.

Another aspect is, that liberal society is only kept as "guest" for bribes- as long as capitalism delivers continously improvements and sedates the population with trinkets- it is accepted- the moment that wanes, anti-liberal sentiments come back with full force from all sides.

Thus interesting at the moment is not what great archievments the west accomplishes, but wether science, free debate and education can exist on in decaying societs like North Korea (extreme end) or Turkey/ Russia (at the start).

Can a scientist work in a country in the middle east or mexico. If that is the "default" state of humanity, that is where our interest should be.

There will be no city on mars, but there might be a secret society, doing fusion research in a slum filled with racists and relgious fanatic luddites - condemning us as the decadent golden past.
At least with Korean and Japanese, they are highly formal as they have different conjugations depending on the level of the person you're speaking to.

With Korean, spoken language among roughly same-age friends is informal, of course. But if someone is older, then there's a different ending, unless you know them well enough to speak in informal language.

If you're speaking to your boss there's a different level of formality, and people like your grandparents get honorifics which are also conjugated, but alongside with formality.

It also reinforces social pressures of obeying your boss/elders, which stem from Korea's roots in Confucianism/Neo-Confuncianism.

It's no wonder people like to use English sometimes.
Is Pixar hiring computational mathematicians at the moment?
I find the concept of short selling a bit confusing, even though I've Googled. Can someone explain this in an easy to understand way?
I'd suggest that if you've made up your mind that distributed teams are not going to work together effectively, you probably shouldn't have distributed teams. Not that best practices are always followed, but it's pretty standard practice that distributed teams should try to avoid things like offline decision-making by co-located workers as much as possible.
And what are the consequences of that? I would guess significantly milder than the predictions of mass starvation that we managed to avert.
Most of the stereotypical Japanese salaryman things exist in the US, they just exist a lot more strongly in Japan.

Are there companies with an overwork culture in the US? Oh yeah, definitely. But how many expect everyone to work, say, 9-7:30 at a minimum, plus some time most Saturdays, and to go out to the bar after work as a team multiple times a week? That would be extremely rare, maybe some finance companies and startups have that kind of culture, but not many.
I think is it more likely that Elon will use his equity from SpaceX to take it private.
I bought a new 2011 MacBook Pro, added an SSD, maxed out the RAM and picked up a 27" Apple Cinema Display. Someone broke in and stole it.

I replaced it with a used IBM ThinkPad T60 and the cheapest LCD monitor I could find at Best Buy on Black Friday. I got more done on that computer than I probably ever had, since. Learned Rails, completed tons of projects, and it lasted me through 3 jobs. Whenever I hit a rut these days with my current MBP I think about throwing it all out the Window and grabbing a T450 or X230 and starting all over...
Now we just need to avoid destroying the planet through unsustainably polluting/wasteful practices, and then we need to figure out how to avoid an Idiocracy scenario of... let’s call it selective growth
I think the difference is that math is cut and dry.

Stackoverflow has questions about some ridiculous configuration in languages and libraries where the asker couldn't even bother to pinpoint the issue but rather dumped all possible variables into the question.

Seems simple: math doesn't have to deal with that.
First financial statement for Dell
Also Oracle vs Google in their legal battle about the use of Java APIs in Android. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_America,_Inc._v._Google...

Google won out over Oracle in the end but it took a long time — from 2012 until 2016; four years of court cases — with some courts finding that API structures were copyrightable and others found that they were not, or that reimplementation was fair use. I guess we now have a precedent thanks to this but it could still be an issue? IANAL so I don’t know.
My bullish position on Tesla goes like this:

They had the same production problems on the roadster, the Model S, and the Model X. Each time, the new vehicle was a “make or break” for the company. Each time, there were reports of how these production problems would sink the company. The company never sank. Tesla is now apparently “good” at making the Model S and Model X. I always assumed they would have similar nightmarish production problems with the Model 3, so all of these reports are sort of expected for me. But I also know that Teslas are extremely popular in Silicon Valley, where I live. That to me indicates that those with the means really like the cars. So it stands to reason that once they are good at making an affordable car, they’ll sell like hot cakes.

Musk mentioned recently that two things really stress him out: Artifical Intelligence and what to do about the risks is poses for humanity, and the Model 3 launch. I still have a lot of faith that Elon can make it happen.

And personally I really want Tesla to succeed. I think a lot of other people do too.
Looks like it!

Software Engineer, Simulation: https://pixar.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Pixar_External_Car...

Research Scientist: https://pixar.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Pixar_External_Car...
> Here's the tired counter-argument: I'd rather have an app with a slightly awkward ui for my os, than no app at all.

I agree. However, I also think that this has an undesirable effect of discouraging a platform-specific app from being created, especially in niche markets.

Edit: clarity
Good point. I would expect the immutable version of scaling a side to return a new rectangle, thus allowing a scaled square to also return a rectangle. I hadn't thought about mechanisms that would allow a type to basically upcast itself in a mutable operation. Of course, for typing proposes, the signature looks the same: This operation yields a rectangle. It's really just a matter of where the return value lives.
You borrow stock from somebody. You say "I'll give these back to you next month".

You quickly sell these borrowed stock on the market for $100.

1 month passes. The stock goes down.

You buy the same amount of stock, but now for $50.

You return the stock to the person you borrowed it from.

You have profited $50 per stock.

You can now get a nice cold pint and wait for all this to blow over.
Probably best not to leave someone else's email address here, so we redacted that bit.
I do not know what the point of the European Single Market was. In fact, I'd be interested to hear someone with the know-how tell me. Was it to create a trading zone where the same rules applied to everyone? Or was it just supposed to ease trade across borders by creating some kind of customs framework and abolishing tariffs, etc.?

I'm kind of glad someone asked that because the answer is pretty interesting, and not surprising given history.

It started as the European Steel and Coal Community as a way for nations that had been at war with one another to pool together power and steel resources (those engines of war) to make it harder or impossible for war to recur. It was France and Germany who essentially created it, and it included the Benelux countries. I believe creating a common economic powerhouse against the, at that time, giant newly invincible United States was a factor too. This was all in the backdrop of WWII.

(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Coal_and_Steel_Comm...)
thanks bootz for this in-depth analysis. it helps me a lot to get into these nitty gritty anecdotes. its my last vice ( next to the occasional red wine or craft beer ).

im not a heavy drinker (by American standards ) just 1 cup in the morning and after lunch i love drinking argentine mate.

Ive been on this daily routine for years and im now worried this element alone has been the main culprit to my light sleeping habits + waking up with a lot of tension in my hands and fingers. Taking a .5mg of Xanax is my only respite but that too is just a bandaid/slippery slope. I guesd im long overdue for a full detox.

Of course the timing is never good is it? especially when you are on the cusp of launching a new startup. fun!
Bandit company living off taxpayer and state largesse ... Good riddance, leeches.
It's not that simple. There is actually an anti-trust suit against them right now over this, so I guess we'll see...

> An appeals court has ruled that Apple must face antitrust charges in a lawsuit that alleges that the company monopolized the market for iPhone apps.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3157551/mobile/apple-must-fa...

http://thehill.com/opinion/op-ed/272399-time-to-prosecute-ap...

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-monopoly-ubs-steven-mil...

https://www.google.com/search?q=apple+is+a+monopoly

I hope they lose and are forced to change their store rules so we can sell apps outside their store because whatever label you apply to their behavior, it's despicable IMO.
> Russians didn't try to hide very hard and used mostly Russian ip addresses.

This is incorrect. The indictment explains it. They routed their connections through US-based VPNs to appear as if they were American users.
If Elon had to chose between SpaceX and Tesla he’d choose SpaceX. He’s said as much many times.
And how many times has this happened before?

Musk plays the edge of these things. If it wasn't way too ambitious it doesn't seem like he'd do it.
I wonder if a large part of this social media psyops/fake news "crisis" is because the "bad guys" won. The bad guys here being Trump, Bannon, and the alt-right, who are disliked by both traditional democrats and republicans. Why did we not question Obama's original campaign and their use of social media? It is widely understood that Obama leveraged social media in novel and cutting edge ways to directly target voters predisposed to his message and to rally huge amounts of voters into action. Isn't this essentially what happened leading up to the election of Trump? Obviously there are some other factors at work like the involvement of a foreign entity and very questionably ethics in the gathering and compiling of these massive data sets. But do we really think that this is the first time Russia has meddled with US elections? And since when are we surprised when a politician (or their hired guns) exhibits unethical behavior?

I'm not trying to excuse Facebook or the other platforms here. I would think they would be the first ones trying to combat this behavior and expose people leveraging their ecosystem without permission for some personal agenda - if, for no other reason, than the sheer pride of not being taken advantage of. And now these companies certainly need to take action to avoid huge social and political backlash (or try to stem the backlash that has already occurred). But I do wonder how large this backlash would be had Hillary won the Whitehouse in 2016.

Edit: I hadn't seen ryanx435's comment and the corresponding replies before posting. While it's easy to dismiss his comment as purposely obtuse, I also think it's very easy to do so too quickly, thus avoiding actually thinking about this issue and perhaps falling into the same echo-chamber/bubble mentality that many accuse Trump supporters of.
When it comes to written language, there are formal and informal styles. I am a Mandarin speaker and can read texts and social media pretty well because it follows many spoken conventions. But I have great difficulty with the styles employed in most Chinese newspapers. It's not just the vocabulary, there are written conventions that I don't hear in conversational settings. One exception: The Apple Daily (蘋果日報) which uses a different written style for headlines, infographics, and body text. It's less formal, more colloquial, and easier to understand.
...if we can get through the next 20-30 years. Peak danger for societies isn't when there's a bulge in birth rates, or when the population starts to fall. It's when there's a bulge in the rates of young, unmarried men who don't have the wherewithal to marry and pass on their genes. That's when you tend to get an increase in crime, violence, warlike behavior, and other things that tend to rip a society apart.
>I’m not terribly confident about how bureaucracies process this kind of information.

My reaction to “let’s have politicians establish tax schemes to ‘solve’ global warming”. Apparently to the gloom and doomers there is no nuance in the topic at all, odd for the people who claim to be such ardent supporters of science.
To a large extent I agree with you. However, I remember that even with the Obama campaign I felt the same kind of unease that I feel now, a suspicion that we've maybe become a tad too effective at manipulating people, or rather large numbers of them through means that simply weren't available before the internet, marketing research, social media, and other 'modern day' things.

I suppose one could argue that this has been happening for a long time. I'm sure mass media and TV changed things, as did newspapers before that, etc. And while that does make the current 'narrative' a bit hysteric, I still think this general development through time is worth worrying about (and discussing).
Is that really so bad of a problem it requires sacrificing the utility of similar questions? It really feels like a few bad apples poisoned the lot. Maybe opinion based questions could have a TTJ (time to judgement) on them. If they result in useful info, keep them, if not, punt. IDK I'm just spit-balling now. I really don't see why SO has to take such strong ideological stances toward community moderation--which is a human issue not a mechanical one.
This is great; I also recently published an alternative designed for browser clients:
https://github.com/ericbets/danby

It's designed to be very simple to configure. It doesn't support streams yet, but it should soon.
That's a pretty terrible article title, the mods should consider changing it from "Tesla Is Facing a Crucible" to e.g. “Tesla’s Make-Or-Break Moment.” which was the much better title of the article this article is based around.

I cannot tell if it was titled this to add an air of mystery or trying to be too clever for its own good, but it is pretty shoddy either way.
The difference is in that, while CCTV cameras are usually visible and obvious (many areas even have signs indicating as such), most people are unaware they are being tracked in the manner described in the article.

CCTV and GPS "fencing" would be comparable if Google were to issue statements clarifying that your location is being tracked and recorded, and may be surrendered to the police without your knowledge.
The Portugese non-habituall-residence status has a reduced tax rate, or no tax rate if the tax on the income had been paid elsewhere in a non-tax haven.

You can apply for it if you have been non-resident in Portugal for more than 5 years, and lasts for 10 years.

It does not apply to Social Security which in Portugal is very high.

It is very critical to structure everything in the right way otherwise you may end paying more tax and Social security than you would in Ireland!

Getting the right advice is critical. I got the wrong advice and it took it years to solve.
Maybe.

A lot of the value in buying a company like Tesla is the patent portfolio. In 2014 Musk announced that these would be "open source", but I can't actually seem to find any legalese with the details.

As for the rest, I imagine the residual value is brand, a lot of which is deeply entangled with Musk himself. As a buyer I'd be asking for a hefty discount because I would expect Musk wouldn't stick around to spruik the goods.
Was hoping for an article about how dark matter affects genetics.
I don't know if the US is necessarily that rude in comparison to countries other than Japan. It also definitely depends on the situation. Checking out at a German supermarket makes self checkout in the US seem friendly.
> My biggest problem with the word is that it is used sloppily. It conflates race, culture, language and nationality and assumes a kind of all or nothing approach to them

Westerners are no better - the US does the same for everyone who is not "default" (i.e. white) where they are differentiated by a prefix, usually their heritage, which conflates "culture, language and nationality". Your black Japanese student would be considered "African American", which is beyond absurd.
> The company never sank.

The company refreshed its financing.

This is always possible, until it isn't.

> That to me indicates that those with the means really like the cars.

Cashflow is no respecter of brand power.