skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you talking about pair trading? How do you do it, since you can't go short in crypto? (At least not if you are not using bitfinex)
I like your approach, which could also be stated as "either build more if you're going to charge 0, or else charge based on privacy/demand"

This would force employers to look at flexible hours, work from home, etc., to keep employees.

Ive often thought how strange it is that the marginal use of a road is free...which can cause waste, abuse of the commons, etc.

It's also strange to be on a high floor in SF, CHI, NYC, etc., And look down at the grid of streets that could be valuable real estate...yet something like 50% of all and (and the air space above) is dedicated to hundred-year-old technology!
The problem with using words like wealthy are that it is a moving target. Generally when someone says wealthy they mean anyone making more money than them. In a small town in south east U.S. 150k would make someone very well off. One might even say wealthy. In San Francisco someone making that amount of money might be homeless. So should the person living in California pay more?
I'd be curious to see the methodology behind the rankings you speak of.

EDIT: saw the sibling thread.
So then it wasn't unannounced...

Seems to me this is a non issue then.

I guess not everybody reads those, and I've already conceded that its something that ought to warrant a warning prompt or something.

But they didn't just change it for no reason.
We'll change the URL back to the original article (from https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/04/25/johnston-mbp-ke...). That seems fairer, as well as in keeping with the site guidelines' call for original sources (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
> I'm not talking about having a discussion on the finer points of Melville here.

No, seriously, the level of English in those countries is sometimes so low that you won’t even be able to obtain the most rudimentary things. In francophone Africa, even French is sometimes limited only to the upper classes. (In Madagascar, for instance, French disappears as soon as you leave the capital city and people generally speak solely Malagasy from then on.)

Only a person who hasn’t actually traveled on every continent will believe that English (or even other languages) is widely enough spoken now to always get by. There is a reason that that "point to the picture" phrase book is still published and loads of travelers swear by it.
> I must disagree that asynchronous programming increase the complexity of writing good code

Could you say more about why? It seems to me that purely synchronous code is much easier to reason about than async code, in that a) less is happening at once, and b) things happen linearly. That seems less complex almost by definition.

I'd certainly believe that things like goroutines are better than the threading that came before, with way less cognitive load. But I can't see how it's less complex than linear code.
I’d prefer my kids educated for life.
I had to have my keyboard replaced twice due to BB repeat issues. Same key both times even though they supposedly replaced the entire top of the keyboard.

I still prefer working on an external keyboard, but when it's working fine I don't mind it so much.
Upon advice of my betters, in replacing my mid-2012 macbook pro (whose internals seem to have swelled up), i chose a new 2015 macbook pro, which is retina but old style keyboard.

I'll wait until they get this keyboard thing straightened out to get a newer one.
What I don't understand is how Netflix ended up this way. They attributed the success of a show like House of Cards to their data science capabilities - why would they produce bad movies unless that's what the data points to. Then maybe no matter what, the truth is that the content that gets eyeballs, and why Hollywood makes shallow broad movies is the same: they make money.

If you want to watch some actual quality filmmaking, visit a film festival or watch some Criterion films. Everything else will be "trash". If you want to expand your cinematic palate, explore American noir (The Maltese Falcon), melodrama (Douglas Sirk), musical (Singin' in the Rain), Western (The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly), epic (Lawrence of Arabia). Italian neorealism with The Bicycle Thief, French New Wave with Jean Luc Godard (Breathless). Want to go modern international, City of God, Gomorra, Wong Kar Wai, Park Chan Wook's Oldboy (advisory warning), or my favorite Japanese auteur Yasujiro Ozu.

Any of the above films are considered cinematic gems. Recommendations brought to you by my degree in Cinema and Cultural Studies. The true beauty of filmmaking is conversation over time. Films and directors talk to each other like authors and artists, they write love letters. They become self-aware of their medium (Fellini), "postmodern".

Great film can not fall in the limited boundaries of popular filmmaking. That's why Hollywood films tend to be so broad and shallow, to be palatable by all, no alienation, unless when it comes to race or gender. On the other hand, that problem is not unique to Hollywood or filmmaking.
Oh I love inotify-wait. So many times I'll start trying to be clever, then delete the whole thing and replace it with inotify-wait
I read "anyone" in this context to mean Apple is not discriminating against people who purchased from 3rd parties.

This is in response to the GP's comment "They had the gall to tell me that since I didn't buy it directly from Apple, they wouldn't (not couldn't, wouldn't) repair it in store" - which isn't the case, this is the policy for the butterfly models.
When there are pedestrians, cyclists and cars sharing a space with only two different speed zones, cyclists driving on the sidewalk will have to limit themselves to walking speed, or cars driving on the same road as bicycles need to slow down to cyclist speed.

The same "children cycling on the road" argument (which is only dangerous if the cars on the road are going faster than the children) can be applied to children walking on the sidewalk where people cycle at full speed.
I believe all these languages, if they use some arrow in lambda syntax (so, except Rust), use the same kind of arrow for pattern matching. It's an obvious syntax choice when lambda arguments also use the same destructuring syntax: why would anyone want to remember which of those is `[x,y]->x+y` and which is `[x,y]=>x+y`?
Help me understand what point this headline is trying to make. Perhaps I am obtuse, but it isn't on purpose.

Is the median pay too high or too low? If we think pay is too high, have we considered that in, say, Lakeville, MN I can get 5 acres and a 4 bedroom house for 350-400k? I don't think I could afford that and childcare on 240k if I worked at Facebook, but I don't know that.

If too low, what should it be?

It feels like this article and similar are trying to make a point based on numbers that look high nationally but aren't locally.

Or is it just an interesting factoid?
The subtitle of the article is "Politicians cause traffic jams," and much of the last half of the article is about how trying to promote non-SOV transit is a massive failure, and therefore we need to spend more on road building.
I'm a British citizen but I live in the USA. I want to maintain an account in the UK - but this is becoming harder and harder. The mainstream banks want a balance of tens of thousands of pounds, often hundreds of thousands of pounds, before they'll allow it.

Currently I have an account with [large famous bank] who think I'm still living in the UK. If they ever find out I'm not, the terms of my account say they're allowed to close it.

So this is one thing I'd love to see from "new" banks - services for people who are UK citizens but do not reside in the UK.
The Magic Mouse 2 charging situation is entirely by design. I'm totally serious.

Apple stated they don't want people to leave the mouse plugged in forever, hence having an unnecessary wire, so the design ended up the way it is to force wireless use.

I don't really mind, can see that point I guess. I like the MM2 to be perfectly frank, but I recognise that I'm a minority.
Once 4% of the current value equals my expenditures for the year, it'll start selling enough capital each month so that I recuperate all my personal living expenses. I doubt the positions will ever be fully closed out until I'm dead.
Few realize the breadth of dishes, and there are regional differences and food originating in different historical social classes. I haven't found any good places in the US (though I'm sure a few exist). Perhaps you'll experience some of them if visiting a Polish family. Christmas eve might be a good start where there are traditionally twelve courses. Also, soup is one of the specialties of Polish cuisine.
Failed business and investment opportunities! ;)
It doesn't say that either.
https://www.google.com/search?q=human+devastation+syndrome
It was only one person writing at a time under the pen name. And they didn't make up a biography for the pen name. And they didn't have an undisclosed conflict of interest. And when journalists[1] inquired about the identity of the columnist they didn't try to hide it.

Maybe those are minor differences, but "Ann Landers" "Dear Abby" "Dear Prudence" and similar feel different than a corporate team of people working on behalf of a loan refinance company giving you advice about loans.

In a related vein, learning that Franklin W. Dixon and Carolyn Keene (famous for _The Hardy Boys_ and _Nancy Drew_ novels) were really whole teams of ghostwriters surprised me.[2] I had always thought they were similar to the advice columnists, with one person adopting the pen name for a long run.

[1](https://www.nytimes.com/1971/05/18/archives/a-rival-for-ann-...)

[2](https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/05/ha...)
If this is true, how is it not the top comment? Or at least higher up? Seems like it is one of the most relevant pieces of info for a HN reader.
You should check out OMetaJS http://www.tinlizzie.org/ometa/ It's an object oriented parser-compiler for building languages (DSLs?) inside a host language. JS is a supported host language.
It's a place for threads to run... a sweater? A sewing machine? A spool?
Right. "Free" triggers a host of bugs in the human cost estimation system. Put a price on something and we can start to approach it more rationally and make the necessary trade-offs. I suspect funding for transit would increase if the tolls needed to keep city streets at a free-flow traffic level were immediately apparent.
Alphabet sees a similar tilt. They got 47% of their revenue from the US in 2017. From what I've read I'd guess they have 200 million to 225m product users in the US market and probably 1.5 billion to 2b outside of it.
In our department we have made a concerted effort to eliminate "ah-ha" type questions. We focus instead on questions that start with a straightforward problem and lead to a series of deeper design-oriented questions.

We also, sadly, have found that a large portion of our interviewing time is devoted to "fraud detection" as many candidates simply cannot do the things that their resumes indicate they should be able to do.
It is implausible that Netflix, or piracy, brings people to theaters. If so, given that there is massively more piracy, and streaming, than there was 30 years ago, you’d expect an increase in theater attendance, not a massive decrease. Pretty clear that streaming and piracy are substitute goods for theater attendance.

If theater attendance disappeared, it would help Netflix as those ex theater goers sought replacement content. Therefore, it makes little sense for Netflix to try and save theaters. Also, saving theaters send money to competitors like Disney who are going to be competitive in the streaming space in the future.
>The submarine article is about helping journalists with stories
>I don’t think that’s the same at all.

The parallel I see is that in both cases, you're introducing things into the news cycle for your own benefit. In the Submarine article, PG even talks about how shaky statistics were made more credible by insertion into publications (like a PR-driven version of this xkcd[0]).

The difference between submarine tactics and what happened here was that the data was outright false instead of merely cherry-picked or optimistic. However, a journalist who is doing their job will catch both: they will not allow information to be presented as having a higher confidence than it actually does, whether that means promoting a number from "made up" to "reported somewhere," or promoting a number from "reported somewhere," to "credibly sourced."

So, the similarity that I see in both cases is the willingness of journalists to serve private interests by reporting error bars as less wide as they actually are; so long as they do not mis-report the mean values being focused on.

The same? No. Similar? Yes, they both involve exploiting the same bug in the system.

[0] https://xkcd.com/978/
Effort heuristic
That's not a requirement, what it describes is not dishonesty, nor does it use that word. Nor does the phrase you put in quotation marks appear in the essay. Who's being dishonest here?
I'm not seeing why race/gender/age are relevant. These are all superficially diverse things that don't actually say anything about diversity of perspectives, unless you believe that people who belong to the same group also have similar thoughts.
One can be a libertarian in the sense of believing that the optimal system would be privately owned roads with each road owner being able to set pricing appropriately for their road, while also believing that, since such a system is not going to magically come into existence in an instant, there is still potential value to be gained by trying to improve the current system.

Or, to put it somewhat differently: our current system is basically that governments own the roads. Well, if they own the roads, then they should take responsibility for properly managing them--which includes making sure the people who use the roads are aware of their real costs, and also making sure that those costs are reasonable. If I'm paying taxes to the owner of the roads in my area for years, while seeing no maintenance at all being done on those roads, I have a right to complain even if I don't think the government owning the roads is optimal to begin with.
Well its pretty regressive as far as taxes go. Plus, now even if gentrification doesn't price you out of your own neighborhood you might get priced out of your own road if you happen to be between residential and commercial zones.
It wasn't always printed at the bottom of the column, but it was always disclosed. If someone wanted to talk to the columnist, they didn't correspond at length with journalists under the fake name. Or claim that Abigail Van Buren was unavailable due to travel. Contemporaneous newspaper articles discussing the writers behind the columns are easy to find.[1]

[1](https://www.nytimes.com/1971/05/18/archives/a-rival-for-ann-...)
Well this is going to be a fun read.

For anyone that wants a physical copy. Not from Amazon, of course: https://shop.fsf.org/books-docs/free-software-free-society-s...
Why not use something like TeamViewer?
Yes. We have our Exchange system setup that if we have 'SECURE' in the title it will check if we TLS agreement with the receiving server. If we do, we'll send the email through with encryption. If not, the receiver is required to sign-up for our secure web service and then use a one-time code to download the file.

We do limit the file size of what we'll send in encryption. But does someone really need a 3 gig PDF?

We really only keep fax for government requirements and the few outliers that will not cut the phone cord. We were getting some many junk faxes we had to implement a white-list.
While I agree with your sentiment, technologically barring residential streets for non-local traffic would have a lot of downsides anytime your friends want to visit or you order a pizza.
How Artificial Intelligence Is Impacting the Automotive Industry
> but for every repeat customer of the courts there are 10 people who commit felonies once or twice and never do it again

No, there aren't. Actual recidivism rates for felons are much higher, > 50% reconconvicted within 5 years of release from prison. There simply aren't ten 1-2 time felons for every serial felon.
Presumably Facebook employees would work else where if they weren't paid.
As in dated technology that is still chugging along? Yes.

As in terms of usage? No.

I still have to fax things to the government, and I have no idea why. For example, I had to fax an old tax return to California Franchise Tax Board, but they would only accept mail or fax.

And I never scan something and email it. Even banks went straight past email check deposits to smart phone photo check deposit. I put pictures on the web. I text things way more. I use Google Docs, Drive, DropBox, or the cloud for about everything else.
That would've read a little easier as well.
>This would force employers to look at flexible hours, work from home, etc., to keep employees.

Costing employee commute time hasn't kindled such a change. Why would employee taxes do it?
I recall seeing a site that was doing an A/B test with their "authors." My friend sent me a link to a story that had the author's byline at the bottom. Not unusual, except on my screen the byline had a picture of a man with a short blurb about "him" and my friends screen the byline had a picture of a woman with a totally different name and different "backstory."

I always thought that some scammy websites use pictures of models in place of the actual author but I didn't expect a downright fabrication!
I am not repeating this to be pedantic - this is simply a common misunderstanding in the public:

> Never mind that Josef Mengele was a licensed physicians, or that the AMA was well established before the Tuskegee syphilis experiments

The AMA has no role in licensing physicians, a task which is left to the states.

> Heart surgeons refuse difficult surgeries to juke[sic] the stats.

This is far more complicated than it seems. For example, consider that the sickest/most difficult patients are the most likely to die, irrespective of an intervention. At a certain point, the harm inherent to surgery outweighs any potential for benefit that the surgery might yield.
Presumably those $18B are calculated over the entire lifetime of their leases, not an actual $18B in back rent.
Kalanick is still a very successful founder - not that I necessarily think he should be emulated.

Regardless of what you think of Uber, Travis Kalanick started a very large company, and Uber is as entrenched as ever.

So perhaps this actually is evidence in favor of the parent comment. Did Uber really suffer much at all? Or did they just reshuffle management, pay Kalanick billions to (kind of) leave, and continued business as usual?
Warning prompt is right at the command line tool:

$ mysql
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 32
Server version: 10.1.26-MariaDB-0+deb9u1 Debian 9.1

Copyright (c) 2000, 2017, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.

$ mysql --version
mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.1.26-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnu (i686) using readline 5.2

It is pretty clear to anybody ever run the tool that it is MariaDB.
Do Industrial Back Belts really work to reduce injury?
> It's not an accident that the higher the standard of living, the lower pollution is.

Citation? The richest countries in the world pollute (CO2e) far more per-capita than than anyone else. Even that's with much of their pollution outsourced to developing nations.
> The others were bad too; it seems modern cars have shrunk.

Modern American cars. To my untrained eyes, it looks like a common design language in American cars is to lower the roof and sometimes simultaneously raising the body (exemplified by the Chrysler 300). This leads to very limited fields of views - rear windows are almost vestigial at this point. After driving a Charger, being in a Prius feels like you're driving an all-glass car with panoramic views.
So is a gas tax if you assume the only way to move around is petroleum based. Likewise this assumption of yours is based on the fact that people can't get around except via vehicles.

However, it could be done such that residents are exempt and even strayers will only get charged after X trips.
I think all people have their own personalities, not necessarily a nurture thing. Some people don't have the chaos-loving mindset it takes to be an entrepreneur.

2-3 generations ago, the optimum was working class. This generation it seems to be entrepreneurship. With AI and tech impact in 20 years, it's really hard to see how it would be for the next generation.
It’s relatively easy for an English speaker to learn because we have a lot of French vocabulary, but the correspondence between pronunciation and spelling isn’t simple[1]—although granted it is somewhat simpler than English[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_orthography#Sound_to_sp...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_orthography#Spelling_p...
Drive slower around pedestrians. The burden is on you.
I believe I've read that when gas prices fall, US car sales almost immediately noticeably shift toward cars with lower gas mileage, and when gas prices rise, sales almost immediately shift to cars with better gas mileage.

I think that shows that gas price is a significant factor in car buying decisions.

(It also says some unflattering things about the rationality of buyers that they let short term price variations greatly influence buying an expensive item they will be using for years).
EPA rating is a joke. On Fuelly F150 Ecoboost drivers report 18 MPG which is rather less than the 27 MPG reported for my Crosstrek which can also tow, although not as much.
Cryptocurrency is the economic layer of a decentralized blockchain.
Thing is, this is actually dust. It's just a single speck of dust is enough to mess up these mechanisms because they're so delicate.

This would be less of an issue if you could pop the keys off, but again the mechanism is so delicate popping a key off is enough to irreparably destroy the mechanism in most cases.
we all know CO2 and H20 can be recombined to form fuels, its where the fossil fuels originally came from. Where do these bacteria get their energy from? Either from photosynthesis elsewhere, or by photosynthesis themselves. In either case, in order to offset the power plant at the rate is converting fuel to electricity, you need a huge area of plants or solar to recover _all_ CO2. But then you could just remove the fossil fuel burning power plant out of the equation.

It is still perpetuum mobile...
Been hearing from people IRL that have tried this and swear by it. Definitely time to give it a shot.
The EE/CE/WE labels have their uses, but I find that the way the EE label is used is more of an indicator of Western ignorance than anything else, kind of like the term "Dark Ages". In the Western mind, EE might as well be a country. England, France, Germany, Italy...Eastern Europe! It reinforces the Cold War era stereotypes that are still around, that it's just this huge, culturally homogeneous mass where everyone speaks some riff on Russian.
Scooters barreling down the sidewalk should use the far side, away from blind doorways, and, obviously, should barrel a lot slower when there are a lot of people out.