skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you please indicate which parts of this are quoting the article? I've seen these exact paragraphs elsewhere in the discussion.
Interesting. We have relatively high rural suicide rates in the UK too, and a similar "paid to not farm" situation via the EU's Common Agricultural Policy, but the causal waters are muddied here by farmers being among the very few people with access to firearms.
I just upgraded my website with a click and some minimal theme changes using Ghost Pro and I'm liking the new editing experience. It feels like a blend of the nice features from Medium and Caramella.
The Chinese courts have been exploring an _interesting_ and public method of debt collection.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2017-07/26/content_302507...
Name and shame. This is disgusting.
> would be means tested (if you are poorer you get more) but gradually phase out as income increases in order to incentivize working

What's "in order to incentivize working"? That feature is infamous for the fact that it disincentivizes working. Incentives not to work don't get any more direct than paying people not to work.
Hi Guys, trying to form a crowdsourced list of Startup School Founders - 2018 tagged by country here https://lystof.com/list/HyemlctL7. Feel free to add a founder for this batch or create your own list.
The AOL case wasn't merely about spam--you can't pretend that it was. Here's part of the opinion:

> By providing its members with access to the Internet
through its e-mail system so that its members can exchange
information with those members of the public who are also connected to the Internet, AOL is not exercising any of the municipal powers or public services traditionally exercised by the State as did the private company in Marsh. Although AOL has technically opened its e-mail system to the public by connecting with the Internet, AOL has not opened its property to the public by performing any municipal power or essential public service and, therefore, does not stand in the shoes of the State.
Wait, which count in the Backpage indictment comes from SESTA? The newest part of the online version of 18 USC 1952, which includes the specific (non-money-laundering) charge Backpagers were charged with, comes from 2002.
To be fair, a tesla car has little in common with an "item that has been mass produced by many different companies, from around the world, for about 100 years now". Almost all of the internals are as different as a computer is to a typewriter (please don't argue on the analogy, it's bad but gets the point)
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Forgive me. It’s been stuck at the back of my brain for 30 years now.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0087451/
There are a lot of cases where truth and falsehood are absolute. Those cases where something is provably false should be called out as such.

Think of something like Pizzagate - the fact that the restaurant in question didn't have a basement belied the assertions that bad things were happening in said basement. Any article or comment that passed on that provable lie should be flagged as a lie.

Sure, there are grey areas beyond that. Those are opinions, and should be separable from facts.
As someone who sat in interviews on the hiring side (or in the office with a colleague they hired) I must say that there homework was the best predictor for a candidates performance. CV, resume, does often not say much about a candidates programming skill and style.

I think for some candidates it really was a way to get hired when we wouldn't bothered to invite them for an interview (across the country).

I do think homework shouldn't be send out as a default by the recruiter. And the hiring party should make clear about the intention.

A homework should not be done on company product code, and it should be in some way standardized, i.e. we had a pool of 4 homework exercises that we send out depending on profile.

As a candidate I like these exercises if they are not too big. I have applied somewhere once and they asked me to read a 16 pages journal article within 4 days, to present. (It was not a job in academia but industry). In the end I think I was rejected because coming from a different field than the interviewer I emphasized the wrong aspects for him. They were not aware of some aspects I presented and would have expected from a candidate. So there is a danger in vetting candidates this way. Just because you have them time, they don't need to be a copy of you .
Here's the thing, while I think your argument has merit, I think it's not the topic that we're discussing here. I seriously doubt anyone is promoting the elimination of private property these days within the West or Europe. To play the pedantic game here may not be relevant, when even the dictionary has equated the two - rightly or wrongly. I know neither Sanders nor Occasio-Cortez, nor the Canadian NDP advocate the elimination of private property, and in Europe these people are just referred to as Socialists and lumped together.
Ghost is free and open-source itself. I find it more pleasant to use than most of the alternatives. Presumably it's financially supported by the official hosting service.
That would be awesome as an investor, but is that actually sustainable? I guess if the benchmark looses money, and they loose less they get to take a % of something? But they you are paying them for having lost money? Seems odd. I think I don't mind a minimum fixed %. Though as you say, 1% is pretty high still.
> "Memristor – The fictional circuit element" implies B does not exist. It's a lousy title.

No, it implies A does not exist, not B. Memristor = A. The term existed before HP's B came along.

Whether or not you believe A = B, somehow I think you're smart enough to realize that nobody is claiming B—which everyone can see with their own eyes—does not exist, and yet that's what you're still arguing.
The point of that wiki article (tu quoque fallacy) is that the critic's moral character is irrelevant. The whole point is that you don't need 'moral consistency' to critique bad behavior.

So then why do you feel the need to justify yourself by saying that you don't work in defense? :) You basically stepped into the same trap you warmed me against :) Maintaining moral high ground seems to be a vital need, something on the level of instinct it seems. 'Tu quoque' or no 'tu quoque' we like to feel morally justified.
And how old are his books?

Paradoxes are fun, but dangerous to organize your life around.
That isn't what they were saying at the time. Even level-headed forums like Hacker News had a lot of comments (gathering positive votes, although I suspect not all were organic) trying to describe with a wide-array of pseudo-science why Bitcoin was the king of a new world of inherently superior currencies.

Of course it was nonsense, as anyone who'd read about previous bubbles could tell you. But it was a mad time last December.
Think of it as gambling instead of investing, and you'll probably do better. Relatedly, if you work for a company where a meaningful fraction of your compensation is in the form of stock, that is also gambling.
It's also fixing a manual part, not an already automated part. Remember, Tesla has a much higher automation factor than everyone else, esp. to get the quality up and costs down in the end.

Fixing just this failing manual part is not the drama the competitors are declaring. Tesla also needed this artificial 5.000 number to reach their mandatory milestone.
> Really it's more "how likely is this person to accurately flag an article that matches Facebook's internal definition of fake news."

Couldn't say it better.
They had their own "languages" - Turbo Pascal (Delphi) and Borland C++, while not "new" languages, they were both very specific to Borland in their own ways. Their IDE's were much better than just about anything else available at the time. Then they made mistakes and competition came in big time (Visual Studio iirc). Anyway, it was a "long" time ago and I don't remember all of the details, but that's the gist of it.

I'm sure someone will be happy to correct anything I got wrong :)

edit: I don't think this will happen to JetBrains.
edit2: Forgot the "Delphi" name, but it was basically TP w/ libraries.
User claims to have intimate knowledge of what another user's been through.
I agree that DRM is a bad thing. But proprietary software is also a bad thing. And GOG sells a lot of proprietary software.
Portfolio of what? I'm not a graphic designer. I'd love to be able to save great code that I've written over the years. But it's all covered by license agreements, NDA's, security clearance, etc. So unless you're exclusively looking at amateur projects or open source developers, that's not a good business plan.
I'm going to guess it's a reference to a language that sells an IDE. Even though Delphi could feasibly be written in any text editor (It was really just Object Pascal) the VCL was the big selling point.

I've yet to write any Kotlin in anything other than Vim and Atom though... and Gradle built those apps just fine. So I'm not sure I see a real comparison here.
They are just a "Separately Managed Accout" as service.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separately_managed_account
The only time I heard anyone being sentenced to "hard labor" was in the military, so it seems like if you're given incarceration at your sentencing then that shouldn't automatically mean you're being sentenced to work while you're there?

The punishment is incarceration, not labor, right? I guess this is an area where I'm exceptionally under-educated, so if you've got any good suggestions for reading on the topic I'd appreciate it.
I scrolled down. I didn't see anything about war or defense, which is the primary USA screw-up of the last twenty years. There's nothing about The Drug War, which is the primary USA screw-up of the last 50 years. So yeah, they're the same.

There was something about "War on Terror". I think they're trying to imply something about civil liberties or something. There were some 2013 links about Guantanamo. Well I'm not going to take their word for it, so I googled "Guantanamo vote". The first sentence of the first link is, "Tuesday's Senate vote was 91-3."

Yeah, that's what I thought.
There are two numbers at play here: the frequency of production mistakes, and the percentage of mistakes that get caught and reworked.

The high rework rate could be because they catch a lot of mistakes. That would clearly be a good thing. But given what we actually observe from their cars it seems more likely that they catch mistakes with an average success rate but produce more mistakes than normal. That means both more rework, and lower quality because of all the uncaught mistakes.
Are you referring to Duncan's book?
Certainly, and I apologize if my brief wording wasn't clear.

> This may be the primary reason why health care in most civilized countries costs half of what it does here.

There is a common conception that simply adopting one of the many different systems used in these other countries would immediately solve the cost problems in US healthcare by way of single payer price negotiating, but the problem that addresses doesn't tell the whole story of high healthcare cost in the US.

It's not just US healthcare costs that are abnormally high but healthcare consumption - due in part somewhat to the defensive posture of medicine towards a tort heavy society, but also because healthcare consumers in the US simply demand more healthcare than consumers in other countries; (call it the Super Size Me effect?)

So it's not necessarily the case that any kind of single payer system is going to change that culture of consumption. The systems used in other countries are largely possible due to different levels and modes of consumption.

Mind you, I generally support some kind of single payer system for the US (preferably modeled after some combination of elements from Canada, France and Australia). But I'm bothered by these panacea arguments when it doesn't seem at all clear that such statements of causality can be convincingly made.
another example was a P3D version with mismatched interior door panels. how that ever got to a customer is mind boggling.

still I have a deposit on a M3 since 8/5, will take a large number of pictures when it ever arrives and hopefully by then it comes out fine
For an incredible read about just how bizarre fixing underground power distribution can become, check out this classic: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2002/11/engineering-pornography/

Here's the tl;dr version: https://hackaday.com/2015/07/27/find-and-repair-a-230kv-800a...
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I agree that it's not the answer, but I think one of the main lessons we should be learning is that monocultures are not the answer either.

Here in New Zealand, much of our agriculture has shifted from sheep to dairy cows. There's a growing fear (I don't know how justified it really is) that synthetic milk, or even meat, will become a reality and wreck the traditional dairy industry. So, in our situation, maybe more wool use would be a good thing.
There's an important part of the Tesla story about what they've gotten wrong. Musk has admitted, and perhaps downplayed, the mistakes made in attempting to overly automate the factory and becoming distracted by the "art" of the Model X.

I would be curious to know more about the impact producing so many of their own parts, to custom specs, has had on Tesla's successes or failures. This is another area where Tesla has diverged from the norms in automotive manufacturing.

Generally, it is unclear to me why Musk has taken Tesla on a course so different from how cars are typically produced and assembled, besides where it really count: electric power.
Similar story from 8 months ago. I liked the top comment about farmers creating financial stress just to avoid tax. I have seen this effect myself
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15861888
> It's immoral and unethical, but it's legal.

Do you think it is reasonable for people in prison to work to offset some of the cost of their room and board or do you think it should all be paid for by taxpayers?

(I have a problem with creating an economic incentive to keep people in prison, but less of a problem with giving people something to do that helps pay for their food.)
I can't read this. Pay-to-read links should not be on hacker news.
Any activity that simply involves spending money and not enough sweat equity is not an investment but rather speculation. Doesn't matter if you are buying stocks or real estate, and most definitely so with all cryptocurrencies especially when you are not mining.
It's not bad at all, because it is only needed once until the bug is fixed. It's only a wrong manual task, so fixing this task sounds even trivial.
> For some unknown reason cholesterol also went down

I tried a keto diet last year.

Unfortunately, my cholesterol went through the roof. Shot up from "concerningly high" to "holy shit that's high" in a single month.
How does mining set a floor?
I switched to Ghost because I found I spent a lot of time twiddling with my static site generator. My Jekyll setup had a habit of breaking every few months.
I do not believe anyone should be compelled to work against their will. If we want to lock them up, we pay for it.
This doesn't seem like it's really addressing the core problem which is that Facebook is wholly responsible for the ads on their platform but getting away with having little to no human involvement in vetting them. Somehow they've convinced legislators that if advertisers don't have the ability to target specific demographics and they have a ToS that asks advertisers to pretty please not discriminate then Facebook is not-in-theory-but-in-practice absolved of their liability and can remove discriminatory ads ex post facto.

Now look, I sympathize with Facebook here because above a certain scale it becomes impossible to police just about any community and advertisers are really no exception but I don't think the takeaway should be to change the rules just because some process doesn't scale, surely there has to be some middle ground.
jitX seems pretty neat though I have a feeling AI is used in more a marketing sense rather than a technical sense...Nevertheless the pricing is pretty competitive. I have a couple hardware ideas but always stopped because of the electrical part of things. Wiring and coding something that works for prototypes is pretty easy but drafting something that is producible gets pretty tough. I would love to see more customer use cases from this company.
For me it depends on whether the subject matter requires flipping back through pages a lot.
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I highly recommend checking out this recent article from a list apart: https://alistapart.com/article/flexible-typesetting

As well as this continually-updated website: https://betterwebtype.com/web-typography-resources

Both give good high-level overviews of readability in digital typesetting and help with choosing the right fonts for the job
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Uh, last I checked ghost was both free and open source if you're self hosting.
The Donglebook pro has already been named appropriately.
Unless Hacker news is free advertisement for pay-links. Don't take me wrong, I love the Washington Post, but this way of putting a link, is just bad for their image.
Which many argue as unconstitutional.

We've essentially given an unelected group of people a blank check.
Find images on chrome cache files (or any other file)
But it is a heck of a lot of money if you want to get a job in another sector for a period of time.
Nobody should be in prison longer than their rehabilitation takes and the focus of their stay should 100% be rehabilitation. The prison system should be structured around reducing costs by getting people out of the system, not reducing costs by getting those in the system to do work.
Separate. On my personal laptop(s) I can do whatever I want. On my work laptop, things are somewhat locked down. Even if it was not locked down, keeping things separate is just a good idea. It's cleaner.
Hi there, author here.

I really enjoy HN, and wish more communities like it existed for other niches. This has been attempted for many niches already, with very few successes. Nevertheless, here's my attempt! :)

This is my first "real" site with a back-end and everything. Would love feedback from people who're looking for a news/community site for social impact, social entrepreneurship.
Amazingly only one of the three replies you got so far understood the point of your comparison.
You seem to be using the term "hedging"(https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hedge.asp) but describing something more like "diversification (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/diversification.asp).

From the article it looks like Titan buys 20 stocks, and every Titan investor gets the same stocks in the same proportions, in an amount determined by how much they invested. The "hedging" part is that Titan also buys a product that makes money when the stock market goes down, and gives different amounts of that to each investor based on their risk tolerance. While it is possible to buy downside protection in small amounts, I assume that Titan essentially buys it wholesale and splits it up among its investors, rather than going to the market and buying small amounts with a separate transaction for each investor.
Well lambda+API gateway is somehow what AWS is pushing in the serverless, scalable and pay per use app model, so for me it seems quite logical to compare. Cloud functions can't really compete feature set and integration wise in my opinion.
The case might be made that these people were sentenced to prison, not slavery or involuntary servitude.
A relevant snippet:

“California inmates were sent off to fight what has become the largest wildfire in the state’s history for just $1 an hour. These firefighters, who volunteered for a vocational training program offered by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, are often disqualified from the work after release because a required credential is denied to anyone with a criminal record.

Hundreds of thousands of prisoners are also employed in jobs outside and inside the prisons, most commonly doing work to maintain the prisons. According to the Prison Policy Initiative, the average prison worker makes around 85 cents an hour. In 2017, inmates in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, and Texas were not paid for most of their work. Proponents of these low-paying jobs have argued that inmates benefit from the work experience and that prisons, which are already often cash-strapped, cannot afford to pay more; opponents have argued that prisoners do need real wages to be able to buy basic necessities other than food in the prisons.”

Arguing that it’s good for them is paternalistic bullshit. The same argument could justify slavery. If prisons are cash strapped, whose responsibility is that? I believe society put these people away and we should pay for it. Either it’s worth it to us or it’s not.
Haha a jwz link those are great.
Ah yes, their law did go into effect last month didn't it. Reading up on it, it sounds like Vermont has taken an approach like DC where commercial sales are not allowed, but personal possession, cultivation, and gifting are.

I wonder if we'll look back in 10 years and wish more places had taken these approaches, or if they well eventually also enact commercial legislation.
I'm pretty sure you still need to pay taxes on the dividends even if you're reinvesting them.
How good is ghost for seo vs other platforms?
Naomi wu the liar that harassed everyone
Naomi Wu few journalist and reputable human beings from well known companies. Yet, she still able to get away by using the sexism/gender related card? What the fuck human? This has got nothing to do with female tech anymore. This pathetic human is clearly a persona and using other's work and yet garderning sympathy from female particularly.
Please wake up people.
It's a double red flag:

1) If a potential hire is willing to violate their current employment contract they'll be willing to violate any contract you have with them.

2) If a company is happy to trounce into a legal gray area because it's "unenforceable" it may indicate some ethical questions about their leadership.
If the problems were limited to the drive train, then I might concede the point, but we'd still be talking about 15 years of experience. From what I understand, the batteries aren't blowing up, and electric motors work, so I guess the drive train is fine.

The damning part is that these not the problems that people are talking about. People are reporting not being able to put a piece of metal on straight. We're talking about gluing a rubber gasket on to a piece of glass. This is 100 years old, and this is what they're fucking up.
If measuring emotional response is a signal for trust, does non-participatory behavior yield the lowest trust "score"?
go to bed Elon
So you are saying US paid to everyone of tens of thousand people protesting against cancelling agreements with EU? So you think that protests only happen when US pays for them?

And whatever US did doesn't justify using political instability to annex a part of Ukraine. Russia did it because it could and there was an opportunity.
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The last time I interviewed someone who applied because they wanted to use Elm in production was an hour ago.

Elm continues to be our #1 source of applicants, and none of them mention an interest in Reason...but then again, it would make sense that Reason, being newer and endorsed by Facebook, would have more interest in the overall JS community!
> there are only 50 states

Many people refer to Australia as "the 52nd state".
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The idea is interesting but I'm not sure how economically feasible it is. It seems like something I can put together with some PVC pipes and 3D printed brackets. Though time may prove me wrong.