skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One shift in owning vs streaming media is that so much is accessible now.

In the past, you had what you purchased, what was in stock at the video rental place, and what you could VCR-program or catch live on maybe a couple dozen TV channels. Nowadays, bajillions of TV shows and movies are instantly available, such that people don't even have time to watch everything interesting that's available.

I would venture to say that more shows & movies are being created now than in the past, and a lot of them are quite good (probably more quality from series than movies, though).

The value of any individual piece of decent quality media has gone down, given the oversupply. However, there will always be individual pieces of media that are held in importance to a viewer, and those will want to be preserved in some form. Many with a naive assumption that their favorite piece will always be instantly streamable (legally) will certainly have a cold reckoning at some point.
Grenfell isn't the same, a considerable amount of money had been spent renovating the building.
>From what I read on Italian forums, Italian engineers say that the materials that were used to build the bridge weren't the same chosen by the designers.

Care to post a link?

The bridge (actually a long viaduct) has been subject to several overhaulings in the years, including the replacement of some structural parts, though these interventions were largely related to the deck, while - at least from the pictures I have seen - it seems more like a pier collapsed, which is "unusual".
I think you mean "Few people elect to do the thing they barely know exists."

The model being peddled on TV/radio/etc isn't "Rent a fridge." is it?

This is just another "language war". The airwaves and communications channels are monopolized by discourse that protects the known way of doing business. It's not a law of physics it be that way.
It's such a common pattern too. I can't believe people are still doing this and it's generally acceptable.
He should run an activitypub compatible Twitter clone (Mastodon/pleroma) at social.whitehouse.gov or something.
Trucks and busses often follow centrally planned routes without much deviation, they're too large to be sent down narrow lanes or poorly maintained roads, and the people who buy them are ready to spend a six-figure sum.

Some companies might have autonomous tech that's a good match for those constraints, despite the much smaller market.
The whole thing with ranking programming languages and gauging technology trends is warping the minds of budding programmers. It's like they are watching a market ticker to figure out what to learn, instead of just asking them selves what they like doing.
When I read the OA, I thought of how many possessions a typical farm worker would own in (say) 1890 and compare that to now.

UK: I'm just old enough to remember visiting a great-grandmother who lived in a cottage without electricity and who regarded the cold water tap and separate water heater as luxuries. And the great aunt who still cooked on a range. Their houses were dark and sparse. Both paid rent for their houses by the way.
Re: your last paragraph, I'd say fair enough :)

Re: the form of the argument as it applies to minimum wage, it works like this:

Argument: "Minimum wage isn't enough for a family to live on!"

Response: "It was never intended to be enough to live on. It's for teenagers, etc, etc."

Note that this path leads us away from all the interesting questions about the minimum wage and into an argument about what lived in the hearts of the people who wrote the original law. That's the inevitable result of this kind of argument and the thing I'm objecting to.
Well, yes. Ontic structural realism implies no intrinsic properties. So, they are saying, yes, there are.
Inside chat app Symphony's battle to break into a $28B Wall Street market
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No, according to TFA, but I don't see how that's relevant.
I wouldn't call it a conspiracy. But why would M$ optimise for NUMA, or AMD when 90% of their use cases and customer have no use of it?
It depends where you plan to leverage blockchains. They have well known limits around transaction rates and given basic functions such as private-messaging on social platforms, they have the potential to have a much higher txn rate than anything else currently using blockchain.
I remember that video. I thought it was hilarious because the question was so easy anybody that has done leetcode would be able to identify it and code it in like 5 minutes. I've gotten it at 4 different companies!
Those communities seem like a way to get around the feeling of guilt associated with sex through a Christian inspired cultural lens, not based on any actual harm.

There are cultures out there where men were nothing more than a stick around their penis. I would personally not be comfortable with that, but presumably the people born in those cultures are.
Cool. SFP is just the sort of thing I'd have missed out on. Thanks!
That site's broke. Just get message "Looks like you are offline"
I've never bothered to break them - why would you want tiny bits of spaghetti? Also wouldn't noodles be something completely different - like when I think "noodles" I think of an Asian dish, not a plate of spaghetti.
> Presumably illegal substances are illegal in part based on risk

The key word here is "presumably".
so what makes a product premium?
I own very few things. No house. No Car. But I own a lot of equities. As to why the author thinks I have no "stake in the system" because I don't own shit is beyond me.
From what I understand, some people have switched from smoking to vaping. Harm reduction and whatnot. Seems bit relevant no?
We have to go deeper: https://archive.is/mP6Ky
Don't think there's a print, you can get an EPUB here: https://leanpub.com/hpmor/
I know a lot of people at top companies. All of them have an innate ability to do these algorithm problems better than people like me - they can crank out solutions quickly and get offers almost everywhere they try.
Mostly volume & brightness. In some rare cases I use it for emoji, but it's typically faster to get them from iMessage and copy & paste. I tried with screenshots and lock screen, but I'm too used to the keyboard shortcut and I always use these.

I guess I'm not really using the touch bar a lot because I'm used to looking at the monitor vs the keyboard, which I think it's pretty common for many folks here. Maybe people used to looking at the keyboard have more uses?
I'd be careful in immediately dismissing a new user.

It's convenient to make a statement into a boolean true|false. However, as we have learned many statements, especially in the political arena, are truths mixed with false premises, out-of-context quotes, partial quotes, and much more. Snopes and Politifact try to provide accurate in-between answers.. But yet, the damage was done.

And whom plays "truthmaker", Someguywhatever asked? Facebook? Google? Apple? Or the lord of some other fiefdom? Do we trust them? Do we have any other choice?

Or what happens when LGBT supporters say that lifestyle is perfectly normal; and Christians and Moslems have significant issue with that. Is that a lie? Truth? Fake News? What should social media orgs do about this?

All I can suggest, is wait and see before making rash horrible laws that will harm us worse than this crisis. There may be a clearer law that can be applied later on, with more research. (I've found that rash laws are almost never amended - DMCA, CFAA, et cetera)
I'm not sure why the URL didn't get registered, but here is the article again: https://blog.grakn.ai/grakn-python-driver-how-to-roll-your-o...
In the Jewish Torah Jews cannot charge one another interest but they may charge non-Jews.

AFAIK Islam adopted the same interpretation, but perhaps it applies to everyone Islamic or not.

As wealth increased over time and people wanted to borrow a lot of money to for example, build factories, the Rabbis had to make constructs that enabled lenders to charge "rent" on money -- "the heter iska"
How is an issue tracker SaaS for startups different from an issue tracker for established small companies?
Well, if you just rent your apartment and use Uber or public transit to go anywhere, while owning a minimal amount of furniture, you can get up and go anywhere you want, whenever you want. That's freedom.

If you own a car and a house, you're pretty much stuck where you are.

I think in any situation, if you're living paycheck-to-paycheck you don't have freedom. A prerequisite to any kind of freedom is the ability to live well within your means and save a lot so that you're insulated from financial setbacks.
From my point of view, why on Earth would you bother to have music in MP3/Ogg form where you have to manage it and plan what you want to listen to? Spotify is a paradigm shift for music consumption and I would never want to go back to collecting manually.
If you are interested in constructive discussion, it really doesn't help to just change commonly understood terminology without calling it out explicitly. The selling of drugs is considered a non-violent crime, regardless of how you feel about it.

It is of course an eminently reasonable thing to contend that some non-violent crime can have as much or more on the lives on its victims than violent crime. That's a different conversation though, than "we should change the classification of this act".
Heat exposure, exercise, dehydration: Effects on cortisol, IL-6 and CRP levels
They support Ubuntu now. Setup was just as easy as windows for me.
I belong to a fair number of value investing forums and made money off of the strategy for a while. Here's why I think this no longer works in the traditional sense and what works now:

The rise of quants, ETFs, and instant information has largely arbitraged away value mispricings. So if it looks like a bargain, it's probably a value trap.

So where can you find value? Where the above things are not present. Quants work for big firms. Goldman Sachs can only make a dent if it does massive deals. As Buffett said, he could still do great things with $1mm AUM, but with billions, he can't make small plays anymore. So individuals can only find value where the big players (GC, ETFs) don't play. This means micro caps, foreign stocks (Japan comes to mind as a hot spot for value). The problem is two fold:

1. The above-mentioned pool is very small.

2. It's riskier.

So you have to do a ton of research to avoid the value trap mistake, often with way less information since these stocks aren't subject to the same 10K/10Q auditing that American stocks are.

Now you've researched something so much you're biased to believe it working since you've sunk so much time into it. And because you've sunk so much time you don't have the time to research the rest of the investment pool, so combined you see these value investors who are very concentrated in some highly-convicted bets. And thus, the ones that win, win big and can claim there is always value to be found even in a market dominated by momentum investing. The rest lose to value traps, and lose big.

So what's the takeaway? It still works. The low numbers in terms of P/E and P/B that are in books like The Intelligent Investor don't work. You have to relax those constraints quite a bit. And you can't be looking in the S&P 500.

I used to think I could do this as a hobby. And I did. But I think I got lucky based on the amount of time and research I did. To be demonstratively good at value investing time and time again requires robotic levels of dispassionate patience, and research that demands a full time job.
product of all elements except self. usually a follow up to this question is to dissalow the divide operator
They don't mention immune system cells specifically, but they do say vaping is still much less harmful

> However, Public Health England advises they are much less harmful than smoking and people should not hesitate to use them as an aid to giving up cigarettes.

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What annoys me, though, is that while cigarettes are banned on most public places here (in France), people tend to use e-cigarette anywhere from work (open space) to transports, restaurants, bars, etc.

If they can't stop smoking, it seems to be better for them to be "vaping", but they should stop forcing us to endure their chemicals (although I'm not sure if this can be toxic for people around - but that's more or less the point too: we don't really know what it does to our body, so it shouldn't be allowed everywhere).

We've already fought cigarettes (well, I'm an ex smoker so I shouldn't really say "we" here), we shouldn't have to start over again for another form of smoking.
Even if it didn't, that's really like an exception to most common use cases of those tools.

Which is precisely why testing candidates on such questions doesn't make much sense.

I understand every once in a while something like that needs to get written, but again that's like an exception.
We've asked you quite a lot to please stop posting flame-y ideological, political, or nationalistic comments. It's not happening, so we've banned the account. If you'd like to use the site as intended please email hn@ycombinator.com.
I agree, luckily I'm not a British citizen but as there is a tax agreement between the 2 countries I can move all my pension contributions outside of the UK without any tax.

The pension tax deduction is also pretty poor and for every pound you earn above 100K you are losing your allowance which also infuriates me.
>They just told you how to solve it. But I can't see how they approach to get the answer. I think that part is the most interesting and valuable part for non-talent like me.

I ran into this too when I was preparing for a loop, especially for more complicated DP and recursion problems.

I found a website called gorecursion [0] on Reddit and he is very good at describing these solutions from the naive case to the optimized case very well. This helped me quite a bit, but I still didn't get the offer.

[0]: http://www.gorecursion.com/
For the benefit of anyone else reading this, I'd like to point out the misconceptions and misinformation above.

> China can 'starve' any nation to the extent they are a lender to that nation. China's demand for Treasuries makes up part of the demand curve for Treasuries, along with all the the demand.

The Federal Reserve controls short term yields completely through its open market operations desk. It controls long term yields as well, because they are a function of expectations of short term yields. If China, or Russia, or anyone else stops buying treasuries, the Primary Dealers will pick up the slack, and they will always take that deal because no matter what the yields are they make money off it.

> If China was the only buyer of US Treasuries you can dam well be sure they can 'starve the Treasury' - because if nobody is buying Treasuries, then the government is printing money.

The Federal Reserve, not China, creates reserves every time the Treasury or a member bank asks it to, which is all the time. It's called an elastic money supply. Relatively few reserve notes are actually printed, because there isn't a lot of demand for Federal Reserve Notes compared to demand accounts.

>Every nation on Earth can do this. It's called 'printing money'. It's not a new idea, and it has dramatic consequences including hyperinflation.

Hyperinflation is a consequence of a collapse in productivity, not of money printing. Some governments turn to printing more money as their money becomes worthless, and there is a feedback loop, but that is a consequence not a cause. Hyperinflation can also occur when the money issuing sovereign effectively loses their sovereignty, fully or partially.

> China is the #1 lender to the US both in Treasuries (and by holding US dollars.)

The Federal Reserve is the USA's bank, not China. China is just another depositor at the Fed and whether they choose to store their capital account surplus with the USA in a interest free account (reserves) or an interest bearing account (treasuries) is irrelevant to the solvency of the US Treasury.

I hope this helped everyone else with an interest in understanding some of the widespread ideologically motivated ("money printing" is a shibboleth) misconceptions in this area.
>We're what's broken. Our prudish approach to adult entertainment.

Human beings are "broken" because whatever our presumed "natures" are are incompatible with the interests of the for-profit pornography industry?

>"Joe" would have a happier life if he and his wife were open about how much money they were each spending on porn. They might learn something about each other. Hiding it in layers of shell billing companies isn't just ridiculous at the technical level described here, it's unhealthy.

Perhaps "Joe" would have a happier life if his sexuality wasn't mediated by for-profit "porn" companies that, presumably, he pays money to to provide him with videos he compulsively masturbates to?

The idea that human sexuality isn't a need that can be mediated by capitalism is, surprisingly, really controversial - or least, really controversial for the producers and consumers in the "porn industry."

We're supposed to believe that for tens of thousands of years of human civilizations "Joe" and "Jane" were "broken" until the online pornography industry came along and "fixed" our "broken" sexuality?

Seems unlikely. Seems like nothing but marketing text for the once-profitable online pornography industry which has gone the way of buggy-whip manufacturers.

For those who enjoy exhibitionism and voyeurism it seems the internet and technology in general has "liberated" them from for-profit corporations.
Hardware Trojans: Lessons Learned After One Decade of Research (2016) [pdf]
(I hope I didn't mess up the original numbers).

The output for an index i was the product of the full input sequence excluding the element at i in the input.

The followup question was how do you do it in linear time.
Building a rate limiter for a distributed system
It's a good phenomenon, but it has nothing to do with the health effects of vaping. Bringing it up just muddles the waters. If a bunch of people switched from crack cocaine to cigarettes, would that warrant bringing it up every time a study came out about tobacco-related cancer?
Nah, few days later they served me with a subpoena while disembarking in JFK.

Had I been older, they’d probably have arrested me.

I ended up being arrested months later by local police.
I have to laugh a little bit here. Cowen is implying by his tone and his use of "Americans" that people are making this choice willingly.

If you don't have the capital to own, or it becomes too difficult to manage the things you own, it gets harder. I don't think ownership is a problem for people with plenty of capital, it's just a lot more scarce than it used to be for most of the population. Kindle books are cheaper and tinier, therefore I sacrifice a bit of rights for practicality - otherwise Amazon may not put out the books for fear of piracy, or the publisher wouldn't grant the rights. (mix of convenience plus moving / inventory costs / cheaper purchase cost)

Additionally, companies that provide these services have no incentive to give consumers additional rights to these devices and happily remove these rights - sometimes without a reason at the time - and fight them in court.

I totally agree with him that a consumer rights movement needs to gain steam ASAP to counter potentially misinformed abdication of consumer rights, and to establish solid baselines that is better for consumers. This needs to happen at a grass roots level and then wallets need to fix the behavior.

As for the lack of capital / buying things - much bigger question but I wish Mr. Cowen would at least acknowledge it.
In other words, monopoly.
They don't mention it in the article but do these big buses use regenerative braking? Seems like a no-brainer to add on considering all the starts and stops a bus does, but maybe it's not worth the extra cost for fixed route operation?
Here is a non-computational paywall (ie, you run untrusted code on your computer or you don't get to see) mirror of the article text: https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.bloomberg.com/view/artic...

And here's a mirror of just the article raw text: https://pastebin.com/bqBWgDPk
Because it's more expensive over a relatively short period, perhaps?
> no one wants to discuss exactly what bug supposedly spat out the IP address

I haven't really followed this case too closely, so what exactly are you hinting at here? That the government possibly used NSA / national-security-level exploits to figure out who DPR was? That there was some level of parallel construction / evidence laundering?
They make it into commercial products, for a recent example see nvidia using it in the gsync modules for 4k displays. Although a retail priced $2600 fpga doesn't make for a cheap end product, even when purchased in quantity.

https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/ASUS-ROG-Swift-...
What a strange case. It would seem that you can be prosecuted for your political beliefs, and this case sets the precedent for it.
Details and Mitigation Information for L1 Terminal Fault Vulnerability
I never cared much about that stuff. I trust big corporations, I always opt-in for telemetry and similar stuff, because I genuinely believe that it helps to make better software. And yes, I enjoy all fancy features and never had any problems with that. It's hard for me to understand people who don't want to use Windows 10 because of telemetry. It's awesome OS, who cares. It's not like Windows 98 was open source, you never really know what was collected back then, at least they are honest this time.
Yep, so I take it you've seen it. Did you feel it was a good/fair question? I thought the follow-up was but the original a little arbitrary.
> The sweet spot for FPGAs is when the data is streaming

Netezza does this with their hardware, I've been dreaming of the day I could DIY and put a OSS RDBMS on top.
The big win is that diesel is nasty and nobody enjoys breathing in diesel exhaust. Most Americans don't realize how awful diesel exhaust is because almost nobody drives them, so you aren't exposed to it as a pedestrian or person living near a well-used road.

It doesn't combat overall pollution, but it does improve the quality of life for people living in urban areas.
I'm extremely excited by this type of electric scooter. If you're interested in the options currently on the market in the USA, Electrek did a recent roundup here: https://electrek.co/2018/06/07/electric-mopeds-use-is-boomin...

You can get an imported Cirkit electric moped with a top speed of 35mph and 40 mile range for $1,200. It can't totally replace a car for most Americans, but it can probably replace 80% of car travel for most commuters. You can go right around traffic, maintenance and electricity costs are a penny or two a mile and these things are fun to drive!
Can you cite any credible economic expert who believes interest rates increase inflation or reduce the value of a currency?

Argentina’s currency jumped after that interest rate hike, btw, and the inflation rate for 2018 has been lower than that of 2017.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/316750/inflation-rate-in...
Intel Security Vulnerability L1TF
Making a Window Manager (DIY Hardware)
More oil for asphalt in infrastructure repair.
The equation wasn't "rent < hoa + mortgage payment", it was "rent < hoa + mortgage interest". There is zero equity involved in the latter equation.
I think your age might go into how relevant you think it is. I grew up with and around a lot of smokers. My teenaged kids are surrounded by people vaping. To me the relative harm seems relevant, to them it probably isn't.
"All our customers live in rented flats above the cold storage unit as a service, and pick up the things they need on demand."

Fixed :)
No worries! Thanks for sharing your perspective.
what happened to your site with the text extraction tool?