skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we just all die instantly

It's surprising (to me at least) that it's not always instant. For example on the space shuttle Columbia, the astronauts went unconscious after a few seconds as the spacecraft was tumbling and breaking apart [1] but it's plausible that they could have regained consciousness if they survived the violent episode inside the shuttle as it broke apart.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/science/space/31NASA.html
a utility to automatically turn my email threads into a todo list of emails I need to follow up on.
Sorry, here they are on Imgur - https://imgur.com/a/Gh7PYp0
I don't understand what you're saying, do you mean there are people who deny the problem yet still take steps to fix it?
Are you sure about that? Wouldn't it mean that all third party trackers could continue to track you while in incognito mode? How could it be called incognito mode if sites can still read your non-incognito cookies?
Operating margin is 22%, not bad (better than many, probably most, of the companies on that list) but not insane. Apple is better on both metrics.
Note that many US states have their own corporate income tax levies as well. California charges about 10% I believe.

Thus a corporation domiciled in California is still paying a corp tax rate about as high as any in the world.
Data Lake vs. Data Warehouse (2015)
Bike Share Oversupply in China
IKEA furniture and the limits of AI
Other posters report that it's due to an accounting change.
I'm reasonably happy with TTRSS running on Sandstorm.io, but it's web client sucks. To me, the reason TTRSS wins is because there are about a dozen different clients that work with it, and most of them are vastly better than the server's UI.
Can someone without bias ELI5 on why I pay ~30% in taxes, but Alphabet pays 11%?
Nobody Tells You How Long a Marriage Is
Unfortunately, it is not dropped completely, just reduced in the bacterial population. It would seem a simple idea to just rotate antibiotics (use for a few years then put on the shelf for a few years), but once a bacterial pathogen acquires resistance it never really loses it and once you start using the the antibiotic again the resistance roars back very quickly.
I am another long-time RSS user.

For me, it is the only sane way to keep up with my scientific journal reading.

That it's also a fine way to read webcomics and tech blogs is a nice bonus.
But with just as many loopholes and ways to get around being taxed. Not sure what the tax rate even means if no one pays it anyways.

Fixing our corrupt system is the real solution.
So... Literally their entire Net Income increase from $5.4b to $9.4b is due to revenue growth of 26%. Absolutely obscene.
Bunch of webheads that thinks JS is the end all be all of languages...
speed in mathematics always remind me of the Gauss legend for the Sum of 1 to N. If he had a computing machine, we may not know his formula :)
You can use one tool to optimize and base64 inline images and another to compile SCSS and inline it of course. But then you discover that you also want to optimize and inline images placed within css url() properties so you implement that feature in your build pipeline, then you discover... you get the point. Webpack gives you a flexible configurable and extensible way to handle any such case in any environment which is why everyone uses it for modern frontend development. I think questioning webpack is like questioning why people are using dependency injection frameworks in modern java.
Xbox One: Bad news for Microsoft isn’t the end of the world
> a full 360 degrees of pitch/roll

Can't this be somewhat alleviated with some sort of free 360 deg. rotating suspension of the passenger cabin? So that the G forces are at least pointing "down".
Because recenue per employee is dropping?
That may be true (I haven't checked), but my guess is that germany (and most other western nations) offer a lot more government services for that level of tax. Taxing the middle class here the same as say, norway doesn't make sense unless you offer the same services. My half-decent insurance plan is one of my biggest monthly expenses and I'm lucky that it doesn't impact me too much. Many other "middle-class" people are barely getting by as it is.
If you’re concerned about this, you should be a lot more worried about cats, tall buildings, cars, electric transmission lines, and farming, all of which kill orders of magnitude more birds.
Who is counted in the 85k number? Are low-wage positions (like janitorial services) considered employees, or are they employed through subcontractors?
Not property owners, people with a mortgage.
>TL;DR - We respect all cultures and viewpoints, except all those which we judge wrong and sexist.

You're constructing a strawman.

Promotion of multiculturalism does not and has not meant absolute, uncritical acceptance of anything anyone does. Human rights abuses are still denounced. Mistreatment of women or other minorities is still denounced.

> but it's interesting to read the entire op-ed and not find an attempt to actually ask Chinese people what they think about the issue (the author notwithstanding), just a string of accusations with the unspoken presumption that 'if it feels wrong to us right-minded people, then it must be wrong'

What's interesting is that to you the author, a Chinese writer who has written on this topic for years (and who, among other things, had to quit school and work in a factory for a decade where she taught herself English, lest you counter that she's some sheltered elite who doesn't know the "TRUE" China) apparently doesn't count as a valid Chinese person. Characterizing her point as 'if it feels wrong to us right-minded people, then it must be wrong' is deeply disingenuous to the point of dishonesty, not to mention that, as you yourself paradoxically note above, promotion of gender equality is an explicit commitment of the CCP (for example, full gender equality is specifically granted in the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China).

Mistreatment of women is a violation of both established international standards and agreements (agreements, as the video notes, that China has signed), and China's own supposed commitment as embodied in the slogan "women hold up half the sky". Yet this "it's just Westerners imposing their views!" nonsense is trotted out every time this comes up. That Western countries also fail to live up to their own commitments and ideals regarding gender equality is a testament to the reality that everyone has a ways to go when it comes to the treatment of women, not that the concept has no value. It's a goal to strive for, not one absolutely achieved.

It's telling that you even bring up the West, as nowhere in the OP-ED does the author make this comparison, or declare the superiority of the West in this area.

"But it's a different culture!" has long been used by tyrants and abusers to avoid having to address serious human rights violations.

>TL;DR - You're attacking a position no one actually has in defense of practices China itself has officially denounced
That just means their lower margin work is performed by vendors and contractors.
Ask HN: Why is Google pushing RCS?
I recently read about how RCS is Google's latest attempt to get messaging right on Android and it doesn't make any sense to me. Why would they back a standard that's missing encryption?

I wish they would just clone iMessages. It isn't perfect by any means, but it's stable and you can count on Apple supporting it for a while still.
It's worth remembering that once upon a time, at least, there was no such thing as index investing or even low cost investing. Trades & brokers were expensive, and shares were frequently literally pieces of paper. My father still has paper shares from that age. They live in a bank vault. Buying stock directly from your employer skipped the broker & Wall Street.

We all know picking stocks is perilous- but what do you if it's 1970, six years before VFINX was even created? You pick your own stocks, hire a broker, or buy expensive mutual funds. Don't feel like a good stock picker? The safe play, of course, is to buy big reputable companies with a long history of stable stock- see, GE.

Anyway, I just wanted to point out it was something of a different world back then. I think it wasn't even that long ago that you typically still had to buy whole shares of things. Which, as I'm sure you can imagine, is a big part of why DRIP is another recent phenomenon.
Twitch’s creators and developers gain a new revenue stream: Bits in Extensions
I'll repeat my plea for an RSS reader that enables the user (i.e., me) to efficiently process 1,000+ feed items in maybe 20 minutes. Also, it needs to automate aspects of managing feeds (detect when the fail, maybe find a replacement, give me an interface for resolving the problem).

By "process" I mean: Read the headline and sometimes the summary, decide whether to read the story, open the story (if I'm reading it), delete the feed item. Repeat 1,000x.

Deduplication is necessary but will only cut items process by maybe 5%, I would guess.

'Grouping' is much more valuable - grouping feed items by topic. For example, after the big event last night, instead of skimming dozens of headlines interspersed among 1,000 others, group together the feed items for that event under a single headers. Then I can quickly pick out the item I want to read and discard the remainder en masse. I'd guess that it would reduce the feed items I need to process by well over 50%.

Other tricks are needed too: 1,000 in 20 minutes is just under 1 feed item per second.
Nope, but probably going to be working towards a library similar to that/werkzeug. Request & Response objects, plus some standard middleware.
You're right that both of those things are illegal. However, neither one has anything to do with this discussion. It isn't my opinion that a tracking cookie is no way equivalent to peering into someone's window in their home. It's a fact based on knowledge about how each activity works.
Absolutely!

I wanted something to host my private and experimental stuff. A friend of mine who tracks used server auctions pointed me at some servers that were Dell systems clearly custom built for one of the large SV companies. I paid $450 for a box with 72GB of RAM and 16 cores. At that price, I just bought a second one for spares. Which I haven't needed to use in the 4 or 5 years I've been using it.

It has been great.
I don’t think MMM is “full of crap” intentionally or that the whole thing is a scam. But I do think it is a bit misleading to claim you only need 25x your annual expenses to retire because of a 4% SWR. He does recommend those Vanguard index funds like most early retirement people but he has a free and clear rental property that covers the whole family’s expenses. And a free and clear primary residence. So a huge chunk of his portfolio is in real estate. Same goes for Financial Samurai or Frugal Woods.

The frugal path works for some personalities though. Myself, for example - I’ve lived on $1000 a month for seven years in a decent paying job. Everything went towards buying rental properties. When I quit I moved out of the US to avoid high medical premiums and high costs of living. (City center in Paris or Tokyo still cheaper than NYC.) I don’t plan on having kids or getting hitched, and I’m practically a hippie. So my opinion is that you need a combination of (1) Good salary (2) sustainably low expenses (3) major flexibility in lifestyle (4) updated skillset and social capital. I’ve lived in my car for fun. I plan to spend this summer sleeping rough on a beach, gratis. If the economy goes to shit I am not opposed to dumpster diving. Or offering my services as a live-in tutor.

I hope many people realize that early “retirement” is not just numbers - you’re still going to want to do something “productive” and you have to constantly be leveling up skills and relationships.
You can't afford to lobby politicians. Alphabet can.
Facebook’s New Authorization Process for Political Ads Goes Live in U.S
For reference, here is a metafilter user describing the actual reality of surviving Sarajevo: https://www.metafilter.com/78669/What-if-things-just-keep-ge...

I used to be completely skeptical of preppers, but since earlier this year we got a foot of snow resulting in no fresh food in the supermarket I have been thinking a bit more about supply chains. I still think that bringing guns into the situation is going to make it worse, not better.
You can organize and vote all you want, but being one person out of 320 million, sometimes things aren't going to go your way. It is not a bad idea to have a backup plan, even for unlikely events. So then what? "Retire to the Bahamas"? Assuming you have enough money laying around to do that, and don't have elderly or less-mobile family/friends, is running away to a foreign country where you have no connections really so preferable to having the option to defend yourself and your family/friends?
JAWS didn't have any issues for me, which reader are you using?
An automated test causes the tested product to send an email to the user? So ... my docker local deployment has a DNS server with the proper MX records, an SMTP server to receive the emails, an IMAP server to expose and serve up the received emails, and the test running on my macOS can check the entire flow. No need to even have my laptop connected to any network for this test to run in its fullest.
> marksman, mysticism and sneak secondary

stealth archers best build confirmed empirically
https://imgur.com/gallery/4xAA7
> Apple's Swift book gives a few conditions where you might consider structs and then says you should use classes for everything else

This is an unfortunate edict that the core team is trying to get amended.
What does EU care about how much Google pays in US tax?
That's fair enough, and I was being a little flippant of a very difficult problem. I guess I was more curious about whether anyone has any insight into their possible upside (i.e. whether they can scale production if demand grows, how big a % of Nvidia's revenue is from scientific computing, etc.).
I don't know who "we" are. But the solution proposed with the blockchains and stuff - misguided as I may think it is - had the goal of allowing general interoperability / portability of data among any providers, potentially across the world.

That France has some software that works well for their small corner of the world with their specific centralized model of healthcare is great for them, but doesn't solve the same problem. And it certainly doesn't mean you could necessarily apply it to the US, even if there was political will to do so.
Another conspiracy theory that became true. Is there a list already?
I guess that means men only coworking spaces are OK, too.
Describing the comments here as "an echo chamber of hate" is inaccurate and serves to raise the temperature in itself.
This. I’ve seen colours in my dreams that I’ve never seen before. Senses are so much more vivid in lucid dreams.
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That's true and good advise. I second that for anyone reading. You're never guaranteed to be out just because you seem to wake up. Double true if lying on bed when "awake." ;)

Regarding my case, I rarely had them over many years of lucid dreaming. They were 2-3 layers deep if each wake-up is a layer. After the movie, I had more in next months than I had in years with 3+ layers common with some around 10. I also increased lucidity after a few layers with changes to the dream script that tricked me into thinking I was more awake. The reality checks even failed on some of them. The simulation was that realistic. Except No 1 because I always know when I'm finally awake. I just couldn't apply No 1 in those dreams for some reason. I just eventually got out after massive, prolonged effort with many false positives until I was truly awake where I could apply No 1.

Freaky stuff. I'm not necessarily blaming the movie itself so much as saying it gave my mind an idea that unconscious creativity ruthlessly exploited from there. I can't prove causality but it's quite a huge correlation to be accidental. Fortunately, I managed to reduce the problem a bit using the reverse of learning lucid dreaming. Hit and miss. I haven't had one of those mega-layered dreams in a while.
>Africa: Is an entire continent, and reducing its 1.2 billion inhabitants to "where to begin" is incredibly insulting to their individual histories and experiences.

This, and the related link to his article on "culture war" is a strong signal that indicates to me that this falls into the the Using Pseudoscience to Justify Jingoism bucket.
Except none of that happens because the people pushing for stupid things like anti-bullying were in the minority all along.

Also, my self hosted website has been doing fine for ~20 years now. And because I don't care about reach or other marketing and business terms even in your scarecrow scenario I'm just fine too.
Uni Student Shoots Film Recording of Him Greened Out on Cannabis
I disagree here pretty strongly, because although I hate tracking, there are perfectly fine technical solutions.

Tracking on websites works like this:

* the site sends your computer content and code

* your computer runs the code, which causes it to send data about you to a whole bunch of third parties

* meanwhile, your computer displays the content to you

All you have to do is decide not to do step 2. It's your computer, it's under your control.
That's a great point and thanks for making it. Totally forgot that index funds and electronic trading are very recent phenomena.
The fact that "lodash-webpack-plugin" and similar exists seems like a symptom of a larger problem. Why isn't tree shaking [1] good enough?

1. https://webpack.js.org/guides/tree-shaking/
>At worst they are constantly getting in your way with false positives

Actually, at worst, they can increase your attack surface and have, on more than one instance I can think of, introduced exploitable vulnerabilities that would not have existed without the antivirus.
It doesn't seem anything like webforms. This looks much more like most other server side templating systems. It just couples the standard HTTP verbs to the templates.

Webforms was this whole other beast that had UI controls connected to the backend which heavily relied on synching state between the backend (through page loads) and front end for user actions on those controls. It did mean you could write a lot of your UI code in your server side language ( C# / VB.NET ).
US tax system has very few loopholes. Double Irish / Dutch sandwich avoid EU taxes, not US. US tax on foreign income can be deferred - indefinitely - as it is only paid when the money is repatriated. But to truly avoid US corp tax is generally pretty limited (leasing IP from a foreign company etc).

For example: If US company X makes $100B in foreign income in 2017 and repatriates that income in 2019, they will book 0% tax paid in 2017.

Similarly, if X pays income tax to a foreign government they will receive credits for tax already paid - but due to accounting practices the US government will not count the credits when publishing the effective tax rate of X. That last point isn't germane to this particular article but it is something behind many of the 'Look at the low tax rate of X' articles you will see around.
I don’t get the whole issue with low coporate taxes. I get why people should be taxed so as to reduce consumption and increase production, but a coporation is not a person, so why hinder their ability to further productivity and economic output? It’s redirecting money earned that could be used to further economic activity and redirecting it to the hands of some highly corruptable bureaucrat in public office given the responsibility to handle way more money than their pay-grade should allow. I understand if the government is hurting for money, they may have to reach into coporations, but fundamentally corporations should not be the primary source of government income (or else government would be even more beholden to coporations instead of citizens). Maybe I’m missing something here (and I’m totally willing to admit that), so if someone can enlighten me behind the rationale please do so.
i might be grossly wrong, but canadian/british-derived legal system perspective: these properties probably pre-date modern legal systems for what we know as a strata-title property in british columbia, queensland or new south wales?

to the best of my knowledge the NYC cooperatives are corporations where the individual residents own shares, so it's functionally equivalent to a strata title condominium. the main difference being that people cannot just buy a unit in the coop, they need to be approved by a board vote. apparently even celebrities and senior business figures occasionally get turned down for coop memberships in nyc because other members of the board consider them undesirable for some reason. whereas in a fee-simple strata title system any person or corporation with sufficient money can buy a condominium (unless it's an age 55+ building).
True but statutory tax rate matters less than effective tax rate.

As a proportion of GDP the US was already lower than average.

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/07/541797699/fact-check-does-the...

I don't know enough to argue for one side or the other, but I think the provided link could be misleading (not necessarily intentionally)
Strong quarter again for Google. Pretty amazing to grow faster as the numbers get bigger.
Sure thing. Yeah Requests is definitely faster. If you really want to get as much speed out of this as possible you'd go asynchronous but that's another can of worms. This level of optimization may be overkill but if you want a speed boost (not sure how much of one though) while still making the requests synchronously you could use urllib instead of Requests (since you're only fetching the page and not actually using Requests' abstractions, you're wasting the additional overhead Requests incurs). You could also just use lxml directly instead of soup. As with Requests, you're incurring the overhead associated with calling soup even though most of what you're using soup for is the optional lxml parser. I don't know what soup uses for locating stuff in the tree but if it's not lxml, it's probably slower than lxml.
Wouldn't it be easy for e.g. Facebook to train a classifier on the behavior of your scrapers, and from there block you?
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EPS doubles (actually grows 72%) due to some one-time adjustments.

Revenue is up 26% year-over-year. Operating income is up 6.6% year-over-year.

The stock is up ~25% over the last 12 months, by the way.
> You can get guns for that purpose for 80% less money.

AR-15s are by far the least expensive they've ever been right now, and are substantially less expensive than any reasonable alternative.

You can get a complete AR-15 for <$500, easily. If you're willing to put the parts together yourself, you can do it for ~$350.

You're certainly not going to get a new hunting rifle of similar quality for $70-$100.

> AR-15s are like toy light sabers for adults.

Sure, they can be. It's a fairly common cliche that they're "Barbie dolls for grown men" - but I fail to see how that's relevant. The article was about preppers, not firearms enthusiasts.
> If we don’t want to be getting more in debt we should raise taxes on middle class people

Or... cut spending.
Ditching HTML for CommonMark (like MarkDown but without any daring fireballs) would be better IMO. Then again, the designers of HTML had no idea what it would become when they carved out a subset of SGML for their document markup. If we were starting over perhaps a mix of XAML for app-stuff and CommonMark for text would be a good mix... unless that totally screws up i18n. "It is what we have and it seems to work" explains HTML somewhat adequately.
While cheap knockoff analyzers often ship with pirated software (e.g. Saleae) many, if not most, work equally as well with the open source Sigrok software.