skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about America as a culture, economy or military is unexceptional. People all over the world wear blue jeans, trade on the NYSE, have iPhones and Androids and are protected by the United States. I don't think American Exceptionalism is not legitimate. Some countries may have more welfare but I don't think anyone in America is trying to claim otherwise
Wasn't this done already? I thought it was called bitcoin.
Is that even enforceable?
Whats wrong with that? It seems to have worked. Sure not ideal, but better than canceling flights and shutting down the airport.
You need massive popular support for it to ensure that successive governments keep the already-made plans on time and on budget, as opposed to getting in there and tweaking everything in order to make it their own (and thereby pushing it all out by 5-10 years).
TouchBarDock is a dock on your Touch Bar
You're joking, right? Something like 65% of healthcare outlays are socialized in the US.
Hi. I think you meant to reply to this comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17800066
Loose A4 Paper + Pen - new note always on a new paper; bundle similar papers with a paper clip; I also add sticknotes on the first page of a bundle to uniquely identify it.
I use Balabolka to read back what I write. With ebooks, I hate to suggest Apple products, but the screen reader on the ipad is great at reading epub files out loud (not so great at PDFs though).
Slightly off topic: Do cannabis have any significant advantage to health?
While their is less public subsidy for the Rams/Chargers stadium than many other stadiums, it doesn’t look like it is zero:

>..."There will be no public dollars, no taxpayer dollars used for this project," he said. "The entire project has been privately capitalized and is being privately funded."
The nuance between that statement — similar claims were made by Inglewood Mayor James Butts — and tax breaks that could reach $100 million lies in the fine print of a 185-page initiative plan filed by the developers earlier this month. It includes two paragraphs of how Inglewood would eventually reimburse the project for the costs of roadwork, utility work and public parks on the nearly 300-acre site. Meany estimated those costs at $60 million. The city would also reimburse costs of security, medical services and shuttles to off-site parking during stadium events, which Butts estimated at about $8 million a year.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-stadium-tax-break-201501...
Wartime. The interstate highway system got built because Eisenhower saw firsthand how effective having a national road network is for logistics in times of war, and so it became a national security concern. The transcontinental railroad was financed by the Department of War and greatly accelerated when the Southern states seceded - Congress had been denying funding for a decade before, but the first season after the war started, it was approved.

It'll likely be the same for high-speed rail, hyperloops, and under-city tunnels. Once we're at war again there will be a huge incentive to be able to move large quantities of people across the country within hours, and ideally do so out of the reach of aerial bombardment.

It would be nice if we could do this without blowing everything up, though.
How could it check that the command from bash history successfully ran? I often iterate about 10 times to get the right command, so that's 9 errors in the history.
According to predictions.global: $1,358,603.63
I can only speculate that the other choices probably pay less or involve other trade-offs that make them less appealing up-front. It's not as if anyone enters an Amazon warehouse job expecting to work long hours without bathroom breaks. Or at least, people enter while thinking "that won't be me." And when terrible working conditions do crop up, it's like boiling a frog- if you've already been at the job for a while, the effort it takes to switch is change is far more difficult.
I'm from sweden, we don't have Amazon here and also our laws would not allow them to treat people badly. :)
They do, that's part of the pay.

You could make a (good) argument that they are underpaying their contract drivers, but nontheless -- everytime they pay a contract driver to drop a package off at your house, Amazon is paying for that gas in their pay to the delivery driver.

The same is true when they use a commercial delivery service at all -- the cost of fuel tax is bundled into the delivery price.

Whether Amazon owns any trucks of their own is immaterial, if they are contracting with Amazom, Amazon is ultimately paying for the fuel (including taxes).
Because our country has a number of a systemic issues right now that are all contributing to this situation. Let's step back and take a broader view at some of them.

1. College is expensive. Outside of the trades and a few other exceptions, a college degree used to be the best way for young people or unskilled laborers to get into higher-paying, more stable jobs. That math doesn't work out so well anymore, and there are continuing efforts to further increase the individual cost of a college degree. The percentage of college graduates in the U.S. has risen only a few points since the late 70s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_...

2. Lack of affordable health care is preventing a lot of people from opting out of the job market. If you have any kind of illness that requires regular treatment, or even if you're worried about getting bankrupted by an injury, then you're forced to look for employers offering company health insurance, even if the pay is crap. Amazon offers health insurance for their full-time employees: http://www.amazondelivers.jobs/about/benefits/. As long as there isn't a sensible, publicly-supported health care system in the US, companies will be able to exploit this to get and retain workers at a net discount.

3. Rising housing costs in many urban areas are further squeezing a lot of people.

4. Upside-down tax structures and other financial incentives (like the ones described in this article) are further moving a lot of money from the poor to the rich. These factors together are creating a de facto peasant class, and massive companies like Amazon are doing their level best to ensure that it stays that way. It is a really good deal for Amazon when they can work this system well enough to get the public to subsidize their employees' food costs (https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/04/21/1634237/many-amazon-...). Remember when the Silicon Valley big-wigs colluded to create a non-competitive job market for tech employees (http://fortune.com/2015/09/03/koh-anti-poach-order/)? And out of that lawsuit, the tech workers got just $5k on average. That was a fantastic deal for the companies.

So if you're a low-skilled worker, that doesn't leave you a lot of options on the table. You hear Amazon advertising (via some staffing firm) for warehouse positions in your area, it sounds like they'll hire anybody, you've heard the work conditions are bad but you figure it'll be temporary, and hey, health insurance, if you're lucky enough to be considered a full-time employee by the company.

Fix health insurance, and more people would get into the trades. Fix education, and more people would get a degree. Fix housing, and people would be less desperate for crappy work. Fix regulation, and communities would get a lot wealthier.

Unfortunately, none of that appears to be happening anytime soon, because there's a long line of people willing to argue against any of those things for one ideological reason or another, because the situation hasn't gotten quite bad enough, quite fast enough, for them to see anything wrong with it.
A new foreign investment bill will impact venture capital and US startups
I have a flight i take somewhat regularly at Heathrow. I think I only once did not find it at A20 and then it was around the corner.
No wonder it never works.
Far from it, toll roads reduce congestion on non toll roads so non toll payers also benefit from them.

If you want an improvement then paying by weight and mileage would be more fair unlike our current system which discounts trucks which do far more damage than their fuel usage accounts for. But, tolls are on net an even worse system than we already have.
It's not really an issue these days. In this area, EZ-Pass is pushed hard, and makes toll plazas a non-issue for the most part. There is very little need to slow down as most can just capture your license plate number and charge you that way, making the entire experience easy. This ensures that the roads that actually get used get the money from people using them, something that doesn't happen with a gas tax.
The problem isn't listed because it viewed as self evident to some people. I'd list the problem of having high functional people who use marijuana everyday as:

A - MJ, while a mild drug, is still a drug, and it seems like people who use it everyday are addicts.

B - On the one hand I'm OK with people making their own decisions as to how they want to live their life, but on the other hand if we are talking about the type of society that we want to have, lots of people taking hallucinogens to get through the day doesn't exactly fit the image. Something seems wrong.

C - We don't really know the long term impacts of doing this. It is probably somewhat bad somehow, even if we don't know exactly how.
The main international terminal at Auckland airport still had a huge Solari board until just a few years ago (~2012).

Sadly, they had to go digital in the end due to spare parts becoming difficult to source.

According to Wikipedia, there are still some airports (eg Frankfurt) and many rail stations that still have them in active service.
> High rises can actually extend green areas, presuming the city planning isn't completely dumb or bought out. Unfortunately developers is live to fill every space in with small flats to sell more of them and with high rises likewise.

Agreed on both points. And IMO, the second part quickly negates the advantages. What I have seen is that once you start on high rises sooner or later (usually during property price peaks) we have most green areas built over and what is left is either far far away or feels like an overcrowded zoo between concrete walls.

On pedestrian hostile design -- the small city I live in has sidewalks practically everywhere and while I do drive to the store from my condo I can walk to my work. And if I drive, the short, non-congested, <2 mile trip is still a pretty efficient commute. And my kids can still play outside with other kids with no playdates arranged weeks in advance.

Urban life can be pleasant and good for society, too; but small towns and suburbs are not an evil it is often portrayed to be.
Right, but employer normally won't offer a number pre interview. So the dynamics are tricky to expect them to give you a number while not offering one yourself. The article doesn't touch on how to pull that off. Have you been successful getting this info without giving your details up?
I wish the App Store had a clear way for users to report apps.
Their solution for offline work is to view the page when you’re online so it’s cached, then any changes you make while offline will be synced once back online.
So, you're saying that cannabis is more addictive than both opiates and tobacco?
Well their huge valuation hinges upon them eventually going into self-driving cars. It'd otherwise be hard to justify a $120billion IPO without rapid growth targets. They've already reached saturation points in most of the important metros and cities.
Debian's package amd64-microcode contains the non-free AMD CPU firmware with its license. Extract from /usr/share/doc/amd64-microcode/copyright:

> If You redistribute this Software, You must reproduce the above
> copyright notice and this license with the Software.

> You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble this Software
> or any portion thereof.

Like Intel, they forbid, as much as possible, any reverse engineering. But unlike Intel, they allow redistribution and benchmarking.
Interesting, I thought kestrel was supposed to be way faster than IIS. Wonder why they stuck with IIS after going through all this.
The article says Augur's main advantages are 1) it's decentralised so anyone can create markets and 2) you don't have to trust a third party to distribute funds after a bet is over.

The only problem I could really see being solved by Augur is that maybe it can work around regulations that prohibit many forms of "bets". But the article also says that Augur is facing legal challenges already, and it will be determined in September whether they can continue.

Its decentralised, "illegal" nature reminds me of BitTorrent. Sure, there is money to be made. But the real change will come when companies akin to Netflix figure out how to do it centrally and legally.
Microsoft AI Idea Challenge Contest
I have been smoking marijuana for just over a decade straight (about 2/5 of my life), withholding various times of abstinence due to lack of access or finances, looking for a new job, or trying to lower my tolerance. I grew up in a very poor and dysfunctional household, and narrowly managed to a) get into college, b) successfully pursue a STEM degree, and c) find a job that's well above anything the rest of my family has done.

AMA, if you'd like.
What's toxic with caffeine?
I believe Microsoft does the same with SQL Server.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2mhpwp/postgre...
". NET is applying an update, please return to Bing after reboot"
That's a clever phrase but it's not entirely accurate.

Marijuana makes you feel good, without needing to do anything else. This can be great in some environments.. such as enjoying a serene natural scene. But if you've got deadlines to meet it can feel challenging to "get up off the couch".

Some people have no problem with that, but other people will sit around doing nothing all day.
It's strange that Intel hasn't fixed this yet.
Alternative headline: citizens of deeply broken society turn to least harmful drug available to them to dull the pain of their shitty lives.
national arboretum is around 400 acres. Rock Creek Park almost 2000 acres.
mov - though as the other comments mentioned, mp4 is a variant of mov anyway.
Simple, Fast and Free Online Website Downloader (ZIP)
The scenario that you described seems to me less intractable than the “woman in an electric wheelchair chasing a duck with a broom” that Waymo handled correctly.
> don't actually check who the person is

they would just pipeline in the GCP TensoFlow based automatic friendly/hostile classification. We need cloud version of KISS...
What I don't get is why Travis thought whomever developed self driving cars wouldn't sell them to all comers? And even if the first guy didn't, under the guise hoping to create a vertically integrated monopoly, the 2nd, 3rd, 4th ... vendor would.
I don't understand this. Me and everyone I know that smoke pot regularly don't sit around doing nothing. The people I know who do nothing don't smoke pot. They finish their days and sit around in front of the TV drinking booze until they passout. Or wake up when they don't work and start drinking.

The people I know who regularly smoke pot are motivated, usually have good jobs or run successful businesses, have hobbies and good social lives that don't revolve around smoking pot.

Don't get me wrong I've certainly met the 'lazy unmotivated stoner' types. But at least in my experience, those tend to be more rare than the 'smokes weed and does pretty well at life' people.

I smoke a lot of weed regularly and have no problem maintaining a job I work six days a week, several productive hobbies, a long term relationship, and friendships even with people that don't smoke weed or who are even opposed to it. Honestly, if you met me and you don't smoke weed there's a good chance you'd never know. I don't talk about it with people that aren't interested, I don't sit around smoking in public, I don't go around wearing or buying weed leaf clothes and paraphernalia and things like that. I've surprised more than one person when they find out I smoke weed after knowing me for a long time.
> When I use Linux as my main OS, I lose about a day or so every other month to dealing with upgrade/update fallout.

One of the big benefits of Linux is you have control over this by picking your distribution. If you used, for example, Debian you wouldn't have this problem as updates don't break things. If, on the other hand, you don't mind dealing with the occasional update issue and want bleeding edge packages then something like Arch might be better.
Google Keep + a small Moleskine notebook.
The National Conditions of Carriage actually permit breaking an outbound journey, provided the ticket remains valid for the continuation. Outbound tickets are usually only valid on the day, so in that case you can't continue the journey the next day. But a regular standard (or first-class) ticket on a train that's not the last train of the day can be broken on the outbound journey.

For most tickets.

Some tickets, such as Advance and some Super-Off-Peak, have additional conditions. However, I do have a letter from a train company saying that they were wrong to have charged for an extra ticket, and wrong to have tried to start proceedings.

So breaking an outbound journey can be legal, and in such cases buying an over-length ticket is possible. It's circumstances like these that led in part to some of the specifics of the recent shake-up of the fare structures.
Thank you for taking the time to respond in such detail. Also, your username checks out.
Interview with author of 'Git in Practice' about working remotely at GitHub
Amazon hires a star cardiologist to help its push into health
these are common bugs and not design errors. Bufer overflows are never design errors. Deadalnix for those who don't know is the coder of bitcoin cash, an altcoin.
That can be possible, and I have done it.

Part of the reason for all this is that the train system has been broken up into a collection of franchises. Some companies will then incentivise some journeys, and so the fare doesn't always reflect the time or distance of the journey being made. As a result you can find and exploit anomalies, but only if you're willing to spend the (sometimes considerable) time and effort.
"user fees" like gas taxes pay for less than half the cost of road maintenance. If you use the roads and the only taxes you're paying are gas taxes, you aren't paying your fair share.

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2015/05/debunking-the...
Bing is completely mess as a search engine. I tried it 3 or 4 times and every-time the context of results was long away from desired.

I heard Bing good for porn, it's probably the one strong side, LOL.
Obviously it’s better than shutting down the airport. But is it better than the alternatives Someone1234 proposed? That was the question.
I don't think gambling is an area where you can figure out how to do it legally the way Netflix was able to offer digital streaming. The whole business is illegal in many places, or a state monopoly.
Poverty, loneliness, helplessness, hopelessness, lack of other healthcare options, lack of community, overwork, hate by others (racism, sexism, etc.), lack of any say in government, getting fucked over by companies over and over again, etc. I bet all those are top reasons for self-medicating in America. When you're one accident away from being homeless, alone, and have no hope of changing anything about your life, it's likely you'll self-medicate. When you can't get treatment for your work injury and have to work in pain all the time to keep from being homeless, you're likely to self-medicate. Do I really need to keep going? I think the causes of self-medication in America are incredibly obvious but most people choose to put their heads in the sand and not see them.
I... think you made up everything in your post.

You made up the term computational paywall, made up that paywall articles are against the spirit of HN (the "web" button specifically helps with getting cached versions of articles or bypass some paywalls through Google redirect. It's available on each thread).

A quick Google search shows you're are the only person who has used the term computational paywall.
Norway and Singapore didn't just switch from large subsidies to large tax. The problem isn't that a country can't function without subsidizing gas. The problem is that people who are used to the status quo will be pissed off when you interfere with their god-given right to cheap gas.
All-to-real scenario: you pay $X in gas taxes and use Road XYZ every day. Unfortunately, Road XYZ is constantly jammed and full of pot holes because all the gas tax cash is funding an extremely under-used fancy new highway connecting Nowheresville, USA to SlightlyLessNowheresville, USA. Why? Because the general assemblymen from Nowheresville and SlightlyLessNowheresville are senior members of the transportation committee.

> I always wondered why public roads would opt for awful toll plaza back-ups over increasing the gas tax.

Open-road tolling with a combination of transceivers and a "pay online later" solves this problem. Toll plazas (and the people who work them) are entirely unnecessary.
Apparently using desert sand, which is abundant, isn’t feasible and beach / river sand has been the only solution.

A team has recently created a concrete alternative from desert sand, however, that has half the carbon footprint and is made from abundant materials.

https://www.dezeen.com/2018/03/24/desert-sand-could-offer-lo...
That sounds like a terrible job with a lot of potential for things to go wrong.
I'm sure they are using Kestrel behind IIS.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/se...
Seems like it's also offset (e.g. Y starts above zero).

>... the final precipitous drop (on June 2) is the deployment of .NET Core 2.1! That is a 34% improvement ...

If so, that graph seems to be deliberately misleading.
im not talking about niche ones - im talking about REALLY big names.

firefox, vscode, etc. there is also this - https://www.docker.com/docker-news-and-press/docker-and-cano...
Lessons I’ve learned from releasing on Product Hunt
Microsoft and Amazon Sync AI Voice Assistants Alexa, Cortana
In my experience, all the apps (airport, airline, travel apps, even Apple Wallet e-tickets) all have unreliable or heavily delayed gate information. Does anyone really rely on them?
There are bigger, better, faster colliders in the works (I think) or will be planned. Won't they be able to reproduce it independently?
Facebook and NYU want to speed up MRI scans tenfold with AI
The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver talks about this a lot. From predicting politics to economics to sports to climate change, group predictions are almost universally better than individual expert predictions.
In most cases, I'm firmly opposed to this. For example, I've known several people in psychology and social services careers where they essentially worked unpaid for years before qualifying for their licence. I think that's absurd because it forces you into creating value for others without receiving any of that value back.

However, I'd argue that unpaid contribution to open source software as a way to build reputation is not absurd, because the value you are creating is still available for you to use and benefit from. Additionally, you are free to work on anything you like - something you can't do at an organization which is compelling you to work for free.
Bank of England's Haldane: A.I. could threaten ‘large’ amount of jobs
I think I'm following, but I'm not sure I completely understand. From the GP:

> Without lifting, every time through the loop it has to check that a is an array and (i >= 0 && i < a.length).

It sounds like these checks are being performed once. Does that mean that instead of it checking in the loop, it's checked prior to and outside of the loop body? Otherwise, I'm not sure how the value of (i < a.length) wouldn't change as the loop is performed multiple times, as the increment expression is called after every loop.

Thanks for your help!