skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agree with:
> If you want to buy a house to live in, I suggest you view it as a consumption good and not an investment. Your money will almost certainly do better in equities.

I bought a house in 2007 in Los Angeles. It dropped like a rock. Then it came back. It will never be a great investment. But guess what? We lived in it and it is cheaper than renting. That is the true benefit of a mortgage (particularly in CA where they limit how fast they can raise property taxes): you can lock in your housing cost for a long time. That is a great value for a family.
This is totally normal
> I also don't trust handing "identity token" over to that site any more than I trust Facebook. What happens if/when they get hacked? Will they then have my bank card details? Will the be able to use my identity token to access other sites? These points matter to me because I know nothing about the company and they are gearing themselves up for being an obvious target for attackers.

A RealPerson code is not an access token. It's a unique code generated for a particular website. It's more like a coupon code and RealPerson.io will tell a website if it's valid. The website still handles creating the account and authentication etc., like it has before and does it however it wants, using whatever authentication it wants. But now the website can make a backend call and ask RealPerson.io if the code given is valid, meaning someone (who knows who) generated a code for this site. That's it. Then the website can validate that no other user has used that code when signing up on their website. The website doesn't know what account on RealPerson.io has the code. The website doesn't know what other websites the user uses (the codes are unique to each website). So RealPerson.io just knows codes and websites, and websites just know if the codes are valid. Nothing else is shared.

Stripe processes the payment and credit card details are not stored in RealPerson.io. There are no identity tokens to steal. You have codes but you generate those on demand when you are signing up on websites. Once they are used, then there's nothing more you can do with them.

RealPerson.io doesn't have any personal details on you besides the payment token from Stripe. No bank details. No usernames or passwords for other sites. No usage on other sites.
It is really damn tasty, though. If you drink smaller amounts of quality stuff of course, instead of chugging shots like a college fratdouche.

I'm sure Jamon Iberico Bellota is also bad for me in various ways, but it's also possibly one of the most delicious foods in the world, so I'll take whatever minor detrimental effects it may have.
I don't think it is going to work. Maybe in HN but as some other commenter said the ship has sailed. Most people don't know crypto and know cryptocurrencies. They associated them with that word.
You can also compare apples to oranges.
Chinese Social Media Site Reverses Gay Content Ban After Uproar
The goal for this series os articles specifically is to provide yet another way for people to learn data science.

But what this series will offer when compared with other sources is my personal take on how I applied the techniques I learned in a real-world e-commerce business and how that drove innovation.

I also struggled when learning some of the lessons I'll share, because of how the information was spread, in this series of posts I'll try to put it together in a way that would have helped back them.
The promise of nuclear power in the 60s and 70s was "we don't know yet how to manage the waste, but in a few decades we'll have it sorted out". We didn't. Nobody knows how to safely decommission old nuclear facilities, how to manage nuclear waste for thousands of years.
They do. They don't care, because it helps the defense and not them.
> The USA will be more and more seen as an unreliably business partner where single individuals have too much influence over international commerce and globally significant arrangements.

As opposed to China and Xi Jinping?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-01/xi-set-to...
? I find this puzzling since China is very unreliable in this regard in terms of transparency of their courts and regulatory agencies.

I don’t think many people will buy the idea that China is more “open for business” or that the government there can’t act capriciously.
thanks! Bookmarked.
OpenZFS
Sadly the reverse lookup for 10 Downing Street is "Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury".

I told the cashier "That's me, don't you recognise me without the makeup?"
How Los Angeles will look 2013 (1988)
>>Is this a bug in the protocol or is it a fundamental issue with the approach?

A bug in the protocol.
Aren't you taxed on money you lost?
Sad to see this post downvoted when it seems obvious.

If you work for Amazon as a developer make this issue known. Few people have as much power to impact the company as a group of developers - we all know what a pain in the ass it is to hire.

I'd never work at Amazon knowing how it treats its workers. Given the market we're in I don't get why others would - if you work for Amazon you should be able to jump ship for another good company.
A lot of depressed people who have been able to pull themselves out of the hole can be pretty touchy about stuff like being told to exercise. OP was maybe a bit more aggressive than he needed to be, but it can be a pretty raw feeling, and mental illness has such a stigma.
New York (1911) – A video
Because there is value in being a decent human being?
Boycotts are, among other things, tactics to get media (and thereby public) attention. Saying a result.
wasn't produced by a boycott because it required media attention which was in significant part drawn by the boycott, which had drawing such attention as a goal, is, well, missing the point of active protest entirely.
Why is the assumption when articles like this are published that this is representative of what it's like working in an Amazon warehouse?
The pattern I've seen before is all-caps tags inserted in the code, making for easy grep, e.g. FIXME, BUG, TODO. Perhaps it becomes habit.
Ethereum never went offline. The NEO network actually went offline.
btw the idea is to share the code and the details bu into chunks instead. I found this more helpful and less overwhelming for newcomers
Not eating or drinking enough is a whole different ballgame than pissing in a bottle.
That is an interesting thought. How is this an action of an individual?
I was wondering about this. A co-worker's daughter was given ketamine during a spinal tap. After the procedure, she said that she no longer felt real.
I think nowadays you could make a laptop with a solar panel on it's back. That'd be pretty cool.
I got one on the buy one, give one initiative; and being cheap was only a plus, but it was great for it's purpose; as a kid's laptop.

I gave it away a few years ago to someone who could give it a better use (teacher), but now that I have a kid on my own, I'd like to give him something like this. Any recommendations?
Icons vs. Copy in UI
Why shouldn't we be upset about long-haul truckers peeing in bottles? That seems inhumane to me as well.
Battery breakthrough uses zinc, water, salt to make safer lithium ion alternativ
This is a case where a difference in degree makes a difference in kind.

Some of these haven't been sold for over 10 years and no one knows who still has one or where to get a compiler for them. Some of them are only a few years old, but have never run an upstream linux kernel (they always ran their original hacked-up/ported kernel), and again you can't find a C compiler from the last 5 years that supports them.

Linux does not drop support for architectures lightly, it was hanging on to most of these for years when they were clearly un-used un-tested zombies. And, FWIW, sound-blaster sound cards from the 90s are still supported ;)
> But very often they can't do the optimal prices

Are there any reasons why a centralized marketplace are worth in price discovery?

> eg stock not listed on nasdaq

I guess if a stock is not listed on Nasdaq it either listed somewhere else or there are some (probably reasonable) legal restrictions that prevent it from being listed.
> If someone is so ignorant or intent that they take an unlawful action due to spoken or written word, they had problems before.

See 'unlawful', which is difficult to unpack to "some laws" or worse "not all laws", agree?

Along these lines, my point was that racism, bigotry, homo/transphobia is a cultural byproduct of an accumulation of speech and text that may be politically violent.
Improving Unit Test Readability in .Net with Fluent Assertions
> I'm trying to understand what compels them to be so toxic in their work environment.

Their warehouse employees are extremely replaceable and amazon knows this.
Coinbase Buys Earn.com and Makes CEO Balaji Srinivasan Its First CTO
When Belgium left their colony Congo, a lot went to shit ( corruption)

I'm not saying it was ever good, but at a later stage, a lot improved. I believe mostly because of world wide media and things that leaked ( stealing resources,...), Which put a lot of pressure on the government
http://agiledata.org/

https://developers.redhat.com/promotions/migrating-to-micros...
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In the absence of strong incentives to start employee owned businesses, I don't see the problems that creates those jobs being assuaged...
Amazon offers a RSU vesting schedule of 5%, 15%, and 40% over 4 years. [0]

[0] https://www.quora.com/Amazon-offers-a-RSU-vesting-schedule-o...
Doctors and patients are claiming that the effects last much longer than a week between maintenance infusions. I'm not making any comparison with SSRI's. It's a costly treatment and the duration of effect as reported is probably bullshit. Buyer beware.
> Consider, for instance, that you pay different sales taxes in different parts of Disney World.

Whoa, what? This sounds interesting--do you have a link you could share?
Maybe those too. But there's a certain amount of intentional deference that comes with advocating for free(-er) trade, as you accept that the regulatory regime isn't the same everywhere. In other words, the advantages of cheap goods counteracts some of the guilt of being complicit in an exploitative scheme somewhere far away, forced upon people of a foreign country by bosses of a foreign country.

These are the sorts of abuses that are more upsetting when they happen to people that are more immediately relatable ("people like you and me", "your friends and neighbors"), and when they are directly perpetuated by a company that should be subject to a familiar regulatory regime.
Even modules that aren't distributed with the kernel are compiled via dkms, which apparently came out in 2003.

It means when I install a new kernel (as a deb), proprietary drivers like the blackmagic decklink ones are automatically recompiled.

It's very different now than in 2000.
Show HN: State of the Art Image Matching with Tensorflow Hub
If the value network of a market evolves different than the way it was "supposed to be", the problem is with your assumptions, not the technology.

You're not going to fix the problem by changing the technology.
Actually, long-haul truckers are required to keep logs showing that they are taking adequate rest: the public doesn't want people stoned on lack of sleep to be driving big rigs. Do a lot of long-haul truckers falsify their logs? So I understand. But I suspect they get more slack.
But I do already own some of the robots. I have Amazon stock in my 401k. That's what "the people owning the robots" looks like.

What you're getting at is that there are many people right now who are too poor (and are going to be too poor) to ever own any part of the robots.

This century's great debate is forming up to be whether or not we should give them some anyway even though they can't "earn" it for whatever moving value of earn society is currently accepting.
NT4 sucked because no video DMA.
Not trying to be combative! Just providing a counter argument. Although it doesn't directly and immediately benefit a company, doesn't having lots of buy interest keep the stock price high, which _is_ beneficial for the company in general?
Sounds interesting, but also like a lot of bureaucracy. What happens when the people want to change the way the robots are operating? What if the robots don't do exactly what they're told? Who manages manufacturing robots vs transportation robots vs communications robots? Would the people have to elect representatives to deal with the robots?
Legitimizing smartphone addiction is the main reason why Apple will never put a dark mode in iOS. Atleast I hope they don't. It has never been a personal problem (I am carrying my own bunch of bad habits) but I hate watching friends, partners constantly checking their phones in the night.
What stops ZTE from creating a proxy company through which to buy the components?

Or another one to also build their phones and products.
My dad was a long-haul trucker for 20+ years. I did some hauls with him. I can confirm that peeing in bottles is the norm.
Elementary Algebra (1971)
I was not considered to be someone with a severe mental illness but ended up developing an intense depersonalization + somatoform disorder during a 10 day retreat that I am still struggling to recover from 2 years later. The staff there refused to let me talk to a doctor who was also at the retreat or to call my parents without listening in on the conversation, which made me extremely uncomfortable and caused me to stay there longer than I should have. By the end of it they continued to insist that the Vipassana was the way to fix my problems instead of advocating that I see a doctor.

My experience was an outlier but I feel that for many people an experience like this can do more harm than good. Isolation and sensory deprivation for 10 days is generally not healthy, when we do that to people in prison it can be considered cruel and unusual punishment. I don't think they did a very good job of encouraging those who were having issues to leave and instead made me want to try and 'power' through what I was going through rather than recognizing it as a serious issue.

The way the class is structured is fundamentally depersonalizing- every night they have you watch video lectures that I found to get increasingly bizarre and cult-like, subjecting you over and over to the notion that the Vipassana method is the way to deal with all suffering and eventually talking about how you can manipulate quantum energy in your body and other crazy shit. It was doubly disorienting to be doing this while eating a low-protein vegetarian diet for the first time

There are many, many others who have had negative, damaging experiences like me and the issue is waved away saying "they were already mentally ill and shouldn't have gone" but the fact there are many other ways to get the benefits that meditation offers in a way that doesn't present the risk of manifesting latent mental illnesses.

I really do not believe a 10 day retreat should even be offered to beginners and if so it should be less dogmatic and more sensitive to the possibility that it can be dangerous to certain personalities
I'll note that I'm not part of your target audience, so feel free to take these comments with a grain of salt.

The transitions on the webpage are distracting to the point that they're disorienting. On a desktop screen the home page looks unnaturally bare to the point it feels like content is missing (though it looks much more natural with a mobile-like aspect ratio). In the explore section when going to a demo the demo email/password should be clearly specified on that page. The goal of the startup is relatively clear, but the 'what' of the startup doesn't feel like it's covered with enough detail to convince people that it will do what they're expecting. A short (silent) video walkthrough of the process along with subtitles about what the system is doing may help inspire some more confidence.
Keeping them as they are also has serious consequences that are rarely examined, or even raised for consideration.

The public interest is for medical treatments to have the following qualities: safe, effective, affordable. The business interest for healthcare providers is for medical treatments to have the following property: profitable. Those interests only partially overlap.

It is possible to imagine many different institutional architectures that cater to the public's interests, and a large number of them are theoretically better than the actual results yielded from the FDA and the rest of the modern American health care system.

Thus, one of the consequences of maintaining the status quo is the foregone advantage of moving to a different and wholly incompatible system. That's the kind of argument only an economist could love, because it ties your brain up in knots trying to figure it out, and you can plausibly justify any prejudicial opinion you might care to support.
>it isn't the centralisation of services that are the problem.

I strongly disagree. These giant monopolies on different corners of tech caused by centralization are the very reason we end up having to have these stupid discussions about how everything should work.

All of this crap tied up in walled gardens means we just have to cry on the outside with #DeleteFacebook hash tags and hope stuff changes.

You claim we need to change the business model. I claim the business model is irrelevant if we instead focus on open source and distributed platforms.
Experimenting with a Hackathon for Product Managers
> non-aggression pact is not an alliance

Jointly dividing Poland and having a military parade there is not an alliance?

Providing secret base for U-boats - just a pact, not an alliance?
The reasons for this were listed in the actual article.

Can't play next song if it is in background, etc. All the tech reasons were listed out.
There is not need to play the BSO of Thelma and Louise. The marks could be spaced enough to reduce the clicks to white noise and not being noticed from the point of a people standing in the street. Is easy to create a binary code with a latitude-longitude reference. You will have quickly: country, state, type of road, Km (and could easily calculate speed and direction also).

On the other hand GPS relies in some signal output that maybe could be discovered by a listening device. This could be just passively recorded by a hidden sort of quiescent black-box device (to be recovered later).
Neat! I didn't know you found a way to revenue share with users. "Make money off of your own browsing", that's a really cool hook.

Have you all considered an option to have Brave mine coins and split those proceeds?
That could be an even better form of the experiment Salon.com is running.

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/60862/salon-offers-users-cryp...
My dev team are all forced to use the same bottle to save time. The one who tops it off and has to go off to empty it is docked pay.
Death to typewriters
You're right: not eating and drinking enough is damaging to your long-term health and well-being, while pissing in a bottle damages your pride.
Not for this position.
Thank you for the link, that's interesting. In my case any dulling of the emotional state when in a depressed situation is probably helpful. A return toward an emotionally-colder systematizer's state of mind seems, again in my case, to be associated with healthier outcomes.
I think smartphone use has split into two paths: utility and "discovery." Utilities are the tools we use every day, the tools we want to be stable, fast, and (relatively) unchanging. E.g. sms, maps, browser, phone, camera, email. "Discovery" is all the new, unstable, changing stuff. I think there's an enormous market for a utility smartphone...and it doesn't even have to be a smartphone. Something between an old Nokia and an iPhone, but still a precision-crafted, luxury device.
As a software engineer who graduated college about a year ago -- with a degree in robotics engineering -- somehow the end has always seemed both near and far. Botnets and massive hacks aren't something I grew up with, but they feel commonplace ever since my introduction to the world of tech. I don't know if I'll even be surprised when the grey goo starts pouring out of my USB port, other than the surprise something else malicious didn't start pouring out first :)
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/tony-fadell-apple-iphone-addi...

The actual UK article TechCrunch is basing its summary on
That's true. But if ZTE puts MediaTek in all their phones, they will become known as a low-end phone manufacturer with poor performance, selective lte band support, and non-existent updates.
That and I bet the malpractice insurance for this kind of off-label use is going to be pretty high.
Lol, are jokes not allowed on HN? Geeeeez you guys.
The real reason why OLPC failed is that children in downtrodden countries don't need a laptop. They need food, a healthy environment, good old fashioned classroom education and plenty of pens and notebooks. A laptop is the worst tool you can use for studying.

I went through my entire school and undergraduate college without once bringing my laptop into the classroom. My mother and father learned to program in FORTRAN using nothing but pen, paper and the occasional slide rule.

Paper books, decent sized notebooks and ballpoint pens. Spend $100 on that. That will actually help. This whole project was solving a first world problem in the third world.
Like this?
https://www.amazon.com/Ferrecci-40-Mens-Black-DRAPPER/dp/B07...
In kingdoms and corporations, the more you keep from the masses, the more can go to the king. I think the fundamental reason we need democracy (at work and in civil society) is that humans have a hard time resisting riches for themselves even at the expense of others. Since these workers have no power at Amazon, they can’t effect the changes necessary to improve things. Incidentally a workers union could help here, though I think we’ve made it hard for those to thrive.
We know how, it’s just that nobody wants to pay for it or have it stored in their state. This is a failure of politics, not technology. Ironically the result is that of course we still store the stuff, but it’s on-site in pools all over the country, which is much less secure than known alternatives. Because no one is willing to spend political capital to centralize and modernize storage in their backyard, it’s in everyone’s backyard.
How old is your kid?

My dad gave me a broken Mac Plus and told me that if I could fix it, it's mine to keep. I swapped out the motherboard myself, at age 8.

Later on, my dad bought me an iBook G3. At age 15, I bought a class set of 20 iBooks and sold them to friends for $150 each.

http://peterburk.github.io/blog/#iBookRepair

Don't worry about their computer not being new/fast enough. They'll figure out what to do with it to push it to the limits. Please do give them root access.
What do you mean by 'dark mode'?

I turned my screen black and white, which supposedly lessens the addictiveness. You can also invert the colors for cool matrix like effect... if you are into 90's Winamp Themes.
Along with technical reasons in original article, likely submitting as an app adds a marketing channel, and a big one at that, that wouldn't exist for a pure web app. Would be interested to hear from author if this is indeed the case, and if it was, if he feels the effort is worth the benefits.
The future of work is shitty jobs like this, but a la Uber you "get your side-hustle on" AKA have no rights or security as an employee ever anywhere.

e: Which, speaking of Marxism, this situation will keep you permanently alienated from your coworkers and will forever prevent community bonds from forming with them.