skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NewsBlur is excellent, and a great way to collate all my feeds across categories (quant finance, ML/data science, CS/tech, science, humanities). I have been a happy subscriber since 2013, and I use it on an approximately daily basis.
+1 also these tiny libraries are great for learning the basics. All of the code has actual meaning behind it and it's super easy to get it up and running.
> Normally, I pay for everything with American Express. Would you recommend I get a different card for London? I wonder if there's a US card that support chip and pin?

Amex isn't as widely accepted outside the US. If you have a Visa or Mastercard, bring that.

Almost all credit cards issued in the US now support EMV chips. They almost never support PINs, but that doesn't actually matter because all merchants are required to be able to accept all three.

I've traveled all over the world, and never once has this been an issue. Nobody's even batted an eyelid when I give them a US-issued card. Except, of course, for places which only accept cash, but that's a separate question.
"Foreign patients travelling to India to seek medical treatment in 2012, 2013 and 2014 numbered 171,021, 236,898, and 184,298 respectively" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_tourism_in_India)
That other website you need to be logged in to see the answers. Was it experts exchange? The design stinks.
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The essence of how much you get compensated is that it relates to supply and demand. The smaller the supply of people with certain skills and the higher the demand, the overall greater compensation.

There are two factors that influence the supply. The article discusses that a job that everybody loves is going to have a higher supply of people seeking that job. But it also matters how many people can actually perform the job. Programming is one of those examples where it takes a certain amount of skill and dedication that some people just don't have.
App downloads and revenue again broke records in the first quarter of 2018
There are many people that do, and they save thousands. It is especially good for common procedures, like LASIK, dental work, etc.
... And the people responsible for the last 30 years of (and ongoing) denial will never be held to account. Devastating that these people have sold the world.
If someone is wrongly accused of murder, and then he's found innocent, he was still a suspect during some time, so those articles are correct.
I agree with parent.

GDPR is a threat to freedom of speech while not changing much in term of privacy as worst actors is governements themselves. Edward Snowden revalations are 100x worse than whatever worse FB scenario you are picking.

GDPR sets a bad precedent with local laws impacting foreign businesses. In this logic, why Chinese speech laws shouldn’t apply to EU and US companies if GDPR applies globally?
This is a good point, but I don't think that means we should stick young people in schools while we wait for them to mature. It seems more useful to have them doing some sort of productive work, where they can start learning by experience.
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People in general hate programming. Most IRL friends I have are absolutely terrified of programming and don't dare to even try or found it very tedious, boring, and hard, then very quickly gave up. I have friends who can't program even when they think that's fun and want to learn it. I like it, but the programming like the kind I have to study for to take a tech interview definitely isn't so much fun to me.

If you like programming, you're among the lucky few. If you like the kind of problems on leetcode, you're among luckier few of the lucky few.
There's been so many articles about Facebook and the recent privacy catastrophe that I'm finding it hard to keep up. Does anybody actually know what their response will be to the GDPR? Are the privacy benefits from the GDPR going to be exclusive to EU citizens? This seems problematic.

Whatever happens, Facebook has irreparably damaged my trust in their handling of user data and I think many on here would agree. My wife and I have switched to Riot [0] for now for personal communication and are considering other decentralized alternatives.

[0] https://about.riot.im/
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Johnnie Cochran was a star lawyer, and you could make a case for Gloria Allred.
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Given the choice of either focusing on your career or your children, yes. If you'd want to focus on your career and maximize your income, would you take off a few years to take care of your children? Certainly not.
I'm also a US citizen, but didn't specify since it didn't seem relevant.
It's not just India. A law degree is a 3-year undergraduate degree in the U.K. as well. It works fine. In the U.S., in contrast, there has been a push towards extending the process that has a disparate impact on women. Now, it is typical for a lawyer to get a 4-year college degree, spend a year or two working, spend three years in law school, and graduate around 27 or 28, putting them into their mid to late 30s by the time they are established enough for many women to feel comfortable having kids. It's an enormously sexist feature of the profession, caused by the fetishization of schooling and academia.
While it wasn't actually called File Manager, surely it is more correct to call https://imgur.com/a/wDe7L the first Windows file manager?

Apparently it an still be made to run under Win10 if you still have the original executable.
>not something that, through the laws of human action, evolves spontaneously between free individuals.

Because it isn't. There is nothing "spontaneous" about private property. There have been a wide variety of conceptions of property throughout history, many involving notions of collective ownership. The system as it currently exists is enforced by state violence and was created historically by privatising collectively owned property.

e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure

>an alternative to capitalism ... necessitates the use of coercion to enforce

So does capitalism. The only way you can "own" capital is by using violence to prevent other people trying to use it.

>Let us assume that a collective has made a decision to produce pineapples and not bananas, what happens to the guy who likes bananas and funds the production of bananas and refuses to participate in the production of pineapples?

There are a lot of assumptions here. Why is this a mutually exclusive choice? Can we not grow both pineapples and bananas? Does the man believe the amount of bananas produced will not be enough to satisfy him? How many bananas does he expect to be able to eat?

In any case, the answer depends on the system. In some systems, the guy would be punished (as he would if he were employed by a pineapple farmer under capitalism) in others, the decision of what to grow would be his, and the collective just coordinates to inform him how many bananas are already being grown nearby, so he can make an informed decision about whether bananas are the right thing to grow.

>No, the subjective theory of value does not say that, in fact it says the opposite: it is impossible to determine the value of goods since they come from the subjective choices of free individuals. Prices come pretty damn close though.

The last part is what I'm criticising. An exchange system weights the demand input to market price determination based on the wealth of the individual. This means the market optimises for the subjective values of the rich over those of the poor.

And since the rich already have plenty, what they tend to demand is more capital. This leads to a system which is very effective at creating capital, but very bad at distributing its bounties. This is perhaps good when we have a scarcity of capital, but the argument made by the author here is that we have enough now, so we should redirect the economy to distribute wealth more effectively.
Doing NLP with neural networks for some time, specifically categorizing information and authorship attribution.

What I've seem so far is that neural networks, in this area, are being used as classifiers, and sometimes old classifiers (SVM, for example) also have a good performance.

How you do extract information (bag-of-words? TF-IDF? Doc2Vec? FastText?) is the thing that is making difference, in my tests... And some researches indicate that extracting information using semantics give stronger results.
Not OP but this guardian article mentions some figures supporting that from UK, compiled by Press Association based on on ONS data.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/aug/29/women-in-20s-e...
This is actually weirder than that. Most MS Office programs are still MDI, but emulate being SDI. If you open up two different Excel files there is still only one copy of Excel actually running. This can cause all sorts of headaches for some addins when weird things happen. Notoriously if an error happens in a VBA addin a COM addin will stop responding to hooks.
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I don't know about the UK but in France, big cities got 3 post deliveries per day at some point. I'm sure Paris got more at some point.
> We already know that the rate in which women will file for divorce is directly related to the income of the husband

Do we know that? I see a study suggesting that women who earn more relative to their male partners will be more likely to divorce (so called "independence effect"). I see a study that suggests that lower income families are more likely to divorce. These two bullet points alone make me think there is not a clear cut story about how the income of one partner effects marriage and divorce rates.
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> I haven't heard of a star lawyer, or star doctor, or star programmer that the general public know.

Ehh, I'm not sure I would agree with that. Sure, for the most part the really successful ones pivot to become something else (typically to become politicians, media personalities, and/or CEOs), but their original profession remains a core part of their identity.

Off the top of my head, most people (older than 25, say) know who Johnnie Cochran was. Ben Carson was pretty famous even before he entered politics.

And despite whatever he is now, Zuckerberg is still pretty much the poster boy for programmer-turned-CEO. Heh, there's an entire movie about what a star programmer he was.
IIRC, the last update on OSX specifically mentioned that they were requesting the emojis way too often, and that it's now just doing it once.
Not all genes are expressed in the phenotype.
That (and discipline) can make you follow that rule, but it can’t make the rest of the world follow it.

That makes it quite different, as what you think are your closest friends won’t be forced to choose between you and somebody else in their size-limited friend list.

Because of that, I doubt it would be very similar.
Oh? Do you have a source that's unambiguous about this? Thanks.
While I don't agree with some of Google/Facebook/et al. standards, I think that's not a fair comparison, since they are US based companies following US cultural norms, not EU based companies following US cultural norms.
> ...except card fraud lossed are recharged to the merchant so perhaps they don't care?

For a long time after EMV chips were introduced, the liability was actually shifted back to the customer. EMV chips were initially a huge step backwards for customer protection, and it took some years before this was fixed in law across Europe.

Nowadays, if you see a merchant who can't accept EMV chips, it's likely their POS vendor who's liable. The merchant is liable in theory, but some vendors still don't provide EMV-capable terminals, so they've agreed to assume the risk until they do.
Yes, it is called frontend development, regardless of native or web based stacks.

Care to learn about UI/UX and human psychology how regular users approach computers.

Learn how to design UIs and application workflows for people that care how to do their job, without having to understand the internals how computers work.

Requires to learn about design and soft skills as well.
Genuine question - What if the service is defined as the publisher letting you read content in exchange for being shown targeted advertising? That IS the business model of most publishers right?
No one is making it more dangerous. Backpage may or may not make it less dangerous.
I don’t think allowing the police to remove their errors from the Internet is a good thing.
I'm not the one who commented above, but I can see some problems with freedom of speech related to GDPR.

The main problem is that EU legislation is complex and subject to interpretation for which we have no precedents. Such legislation is easily exploited by authorities to silence opposition. As Napolen never said, "A Constitution should be short and obscure." GDPR is long and obscure. That leaves even more power to the executive.

This situation benefits large corporations - such as Facebook - who can afford an army of lawyers and can deploy resources to legal fights in any country. Small actors with dissenting views are hopelessly disadvantaged in this kind of a setup, and I forecast that we'll see authorities shutting down blogs and websites using GDPR as their tool.
EU residents, not citizens. It's an important distinction.
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I don't think it is a lack of funding from project from the ICO side. There are great funds out there which had success after an ICO (like C20, ICONOMI).

The quoted comment is addressing traditional investors who possible already manage funds with "real-world" assets and would like to invest at least partly in cryptocurrency as well. I am hoping that these smart contracts might make it easier for them to join and consequently increase adaption of cryptocurrency investments overall.
> Dunbar explained it informally as "the number of people you would not feel embarrassed about joining uninvited for a drink if you happened to bump into them in a bar"

My number is about 8 by that metric.
Is there any plan to support Android/Windows devices? From a quick glance over the website, it doesn't seem like they are currently supported. Hopefully I just missed it though, this device is beautifully made!
It would be absurd if they could be _forced_ to globally adopt an EU regulation, but I think not as much if they _do_ globally adopt this EU regulation, for two reasons:

1. There might be significant internal hassle involved in working with more than one standard of integrity within a single company dealing with integrity as its currency and user base as pillars. It may be easier for them to just use a common one even if it is more restrictive, at least if it is backed by a population of 500 million people.

2. Facebook are going through a PR crisis and need to dig out of that hole somehow. If they only adopt EU regulations in the EU, it could be seen as Facebook are only doing the least they can to protect the integrity of their users and that this is seen as a better move?

It's funny how GDPR coincides with the Facebook scandals as of late, though... Their lawyers and engineers have got to be buried with work. I can't even begin to imagine what a company of Facebook's scale and business model need to do to support GDPR globally.
> if everyone went through med school, doctors would have no more power than a sales clerk at Walmart. Power comes from scarcity.

This is only true if every doctor coming out of med school is exactly the same or if you can't tell the difference in skill among doctors.
Quick newsbeuter mention. Still going strong here as a fast CLI option.
> discussions are not welcome in SO anyway

Yes, so rather than deleting the question unanswered on a few people's subjective opinion that the question is a "discussion", move it to the forum?

(e.g. I ran into this problem https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49302369/gdpr-encrypted-... ; would you say that's a discussion? It got closed until I cheated by mentioning it on HN, resulting in helpful HN readers re-opening it)
> free market is the _only_ system that is capable of rationally allocating resources in a society

That's a mighty strong claim there. Rationally...

Except for food. Except for gas. Except for land. Except for scarcity. Except for...

And the biggest part here that speaks against what you say, is that information asymmetry is the biggest reason why this doesn't work the way you portray it. And right now, you have giants who provide "Free" services, that only want your social graph, your realtime positioning data, content of your chats, who you are, and your metadata about everything. And on the upside, you get free email and chat!

> The proposed solutions always boil down to some form of common ownership of the means of production.

Counterpoint: GPL.

And yes, that does work.

> Without prices there is no economic calculation, and the best pricing system is one that is based on private property.

Again, completely wrong. Current prices distill every possible dimension down to one, that being price. Organic? price. Company was union? Price. Company treated people with respect and dignity? Price. Company treated the rivers like their own personal trash transfer? Price. Company uses prison slave labor? Price.

It doesn't matter what metrics are being compared against. We have the almighty dollar. It doesn't matter if the environment is being trashed to save a nickel - hey, I saved a buck.

> Socialism _always_ fails because a central authority cannot, objectively, plan an economy better

False premise. Central authority was only an idea regarding socialism/communism. It is not the ground truth.
Humm, interesting, that looks more like a feature to me.
The article is comparing pay gap between married partners. Those who have children when they are younger are much less likely to be highly educated or be in high paying careers to begin with, and they're not likely to be in a relationship with someone who is either. Lower pay in general implies lower variance since they're not likely to be moving up the ranks into $100k, $150k, $200k+ careers.
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I was thinking about some kind of digital asset co-op.

Decision were distributed

you could dervive/fork from existing work as well.

No one person had complete access to all of the code, but enough people had access to keep things useful and competitive.

- needs some kind of demand , new feature function.

- needs some kind of way to determine contribution formula.

- minimize rework and redundancy across co-op.

- leave enough value on the table for continued investment(time and resources)

- contracts(privacy,TOS etc) changes need to be voted on by users to change or forked with maintenance costs distributed accordingly.

- some way to manage issues of resource abuse.
I think in the opposit we should urge US companies to fight against GDPR. Local foreign laws shouldn’t dictate how our companies should behave. Why not respecting speech laws in China or in Russia if we follow this precedent?
I kind of understand the need, but I would be more prone to actually use it if it was actually fully native. Now, I can simply just wait for Slack to update their client.

I don't really get why I should use this instead of slack unless I run really shitty hardware, which I don't. I had issued with Slack before, but they fixed most of them.

Also new features in slack will börk this app pretty quickly, as they have to be implemented for one to use them.

Cool project though, even if I personally don't get the value of it. Maybe if they added Gitter, Rocketchat etc support so you would have one client to rule them all.
What's wrong with the driver's own solutions, except put into the app and displayed to every customers and adjusted with descriptions are actually reasonable, eg. "exceptionally bad", "acceptable" and "exceptionally good", and follow up to make sure the median driver lands squarely on "acceptable"?
What makes a difference is whether you use fair business practices or not. For a very long time Microsoft was engaged in all kinds of shady actions that represent the epitome of corporate greed.
"[any big US tech companies] Urged to Adopt GDPR Globally as a Standard"

As an European living abroad, I still have no idea if I will be protected by the GDPR. I read at least 2 opposite answers on HN on the last days: "yes because you are a EU citizen", "no because it's where you are when the data are collected that matters".
No I'm not:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/researchers-may-found-fabled-suns...
Makes sense. Think Google is already there.
It is ok, we cannot be an expert on all areas.

My focus is on full stack, so I do care a lot about UI/UX, and improving my skills there.

However don't ask me to do anything related to NoSQL or Deep Learning, I would be a lousy contributor.
Reminds me of a TV commercial from a few years ago: "Do you accept a collect call from we-had-the-baby-its-a-boy? No."
At the extreme opposite of this, I started writing down all the people I knew something about, and I realized I knew something about at least 12,000 people, and probably many more than that:

http://www.smashcompany.com/philosophy/i-know-more-than-1200...

And you also know some facts about at least 12,000 people, and probably many more.

Just think of your favorite music bands. You can probably list 100 bands easily. And if they average 3 people per band, that's 300 people that you know something of.

Knowing the upper limit on how many people we know is crucial for understanding the complexity of human society.
Yes those articles are correct, but do you think that's what most people would think when they read it? Most likely the articles on suspicion for murder are ranked top in the search results while the articles about being cleared are hard to find. Many people tend to be judgemental, or at least err on the side of caution. In this case, potential employers could feel "where there is smoke, there is fire" and would rather close the "suspicion for murder" news article tab immediately and decide not hire this person, rather than searching further.

Let me give you a real world example. You know that meme about plastic surgery, "The only thing you’ll ever have to worry about is how to tell the kids"? The woman in that meme in fact did not have plastic surgery, but most people thought the meme was true and was about her, without researching the truth. It ruined her career. https://nextshark.com/heidi-yeh-chinese-family-plastic-surge...

You can't treat the Internet as an append only database where you can rectify things by publishing more stuff. The human mind is bounded rational and most people only look at the first Google search results page.
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What do you mean; the lack of padding in the blue column?

Overall, UI design is really not too bad here. On the other hand, it's almost 1:1 copied from the official Slack app.
Or the arbitrary transaction limit is set to less than the amount I owe.

At least domestically, I find credit cards almost always straightforward while Apple Pay is hit or miss having the line behind me giving me dirty looks because the entitled tech shit is holding up checkout playing with their gadget.
I know some terminals here in the UK lie about their capabilities, for example they'll tell the card they're offline only even if they do support online transactions.
> In the early days there was a concern that the courts would believe that chip and pin proved the customer was responsible (i.e. that the mere fact of a successful transaction with chip and pin technology necessarily proved the customer had told the fraudster their pin), but it seems fair to say the reality of chip and pin fraud has set in now.

This actually was true across Europe for the first few years when EMV chips were rolled out. It took some time before they passed a law which absolved customers of liability for fraud processed as EMV transactions.