skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sun (not sunlight) isn't part of the global economy and isn't a tradeable good. You can't sell me the sun. As such it - the sun itself - exists outside the bounds of human economy and trade (for now). It's a neutral good in the form you're talking about, generically speaking we all possess it, and that cancels out accordingly. There are edge exceptions to the concept, such as for air that is polluted (in that case we don't all equally possess eg clean air). For the most part air and sunlight are neutral, canceling goods with how you're referring to it.

Further, how do you plan to continue consuming sunlight on your skin, without producing something to then get food and shelter to survive another day or week of absorbing sunlight? How did you buy that living time in the first place, without producing anything to get you food and shelter to be alive in the present? Someone had to produce first.

And if you want to go more elaborately into the concept economically (sunlight based energy generation), you need land and technology to turn that sunlight into consequential electricity. You must produce first to generate and consume the sun-based electricity.
One mental model which may help in visualizing "oxidative stress" in mitochondrial networks is to liken it to a "first-order phase transition" in solid-state physics. Gene expression regulates structure. And structure determines function.

But whereas a typical sample of inorganic material may possess a handful of stable states under room temperature conditions. Nuclear genomics in mammals express 1000s of proteins.

MIT's Broad Institute has begun compiling a reference atlas:

MitoCarta 2.0: An Inventory Of Mammalian Mitochodrial Genes

https://www.broadinstitute.org/scientific-community/science/...
In what way is a trust fund not like basic income? Aren’t both just money that gets deposited in your bank account every month or year? They seem identical as far as I can tell.
> Try consuming something before it's produced.

The process starts with government who can spend money without producing anything. Where do you think the actual currency units came from? Money doesn't grow on trees.
At this point I'm actually less worried about the NSA and their friends then the NRA and theirs.
I said typically. There are always going to be counterexamples to any position in finance, the market is extremely complicated. My point was that investors with long positions in a stock frequently don't care very much about the amount of short interest in that stock.

Ackman’s short of Herbalife wasn't a long term short so much as a long series of short term shorts (also this is not a very common occurrence or he wouldn't be so famous for doing it). The most common means of shorting a stock is to buy put option contracts. Those contracts have an expiration date by which you must cover the put. That date is seldom more than a few weeks in the future. Therefore, because of these short term contracts, most short interest is short term and assumes that a correction is imminent.

At the same time that someone is speculating that a stock will go down soon, other people are investing long based on a thesis that over a long time frame the stock will go up. These long interests are often regularly investing smaller amounts into a stock as opposed to one large investment all at once. This practice, called dollar cost averaging, is frequently undertaken to avoid trying to short term time the market (under the belief that short term price predictions are often wrong).

Taking these two strategies together, you can simultaneously have someone short a stock they expect to go down soon and someone else long a stock they expect to go up over 5-10+ years. Both can be right at the same time. You can then derive from this point that short interest is of limited to no concern to a long investor, which was my original point.
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“User-beneficial” — according to whom? How do all users benefit from alternative web browsers on iOS? I would argue that users benefit more from security. Is there really much a user can’t do on iOS? What exactly are they missing out on? And whatever that is, does it offset the value from being reasonably safe from malware or badly written apps?
Only if supply is artificially constrained.
Spyfone Supported devices:

- Android operating system must be Android 4.0 or higher.

- iOS operating system must be iOS 7 to iOS 8.4 or iOS 9.0 to 9.1 (Oct 2015)

Just make sure your target is not using iPhone :)

https://spyfone.com/compatibility-policy/
How do buybacks result in market concentration? If the alternative is dividends, it doesn’t change anything. Using the money to grow the business would increase concentration (in particular if the growth is through acquisitions).
We can solve this problem simply by taking out "with data", which is how quantifying tends to be done anyhow.
> Today I was looking through the error log for a website I work on and noticed a series of 404s, where someone at the same IP address in China was asking for files that didn’t exist.

Chinese origin is irrelevant; the behavior described in the article is baked into every commodity vulnerability scanner on the market these days.

Other target variants include permutations of (backup|sql|sqldump|dump)\.(sql|7z|tar|tar\.gz|gz|rar) expected to be found in the local directory, as well as *.pem, your raw /.git/ directory and lots more.
I don't think of rap as poetry. I love both, and to me the claim that rap is a form of poetry seems more like an unnecessary attempt to coopt the legitimacy of poetry than anything.
To avoid stock manipulation, there are strict limits on how much of its own stock a company can purchase in a given trading day.

So in practice, legally, companies have a ceiling on how much they can technically purchase in a given quarter.

But most companies aren’t in the lucky position of wanting to do buybacks larger than their normal daily stock flow.
Congrats Eventbrite team. You guys earned it!
How an International Hacker Network Turned Stolen Press Releases into $100M
It's called ecological succession[1], and yes there's no way around it. You can slow it, or you can follow the gradient to stay in the kind of environment you like, but you can't stop it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_succession
For private databases, sure, but I don't need that security if I am running an isolated server that only hosts public data.
The free market is not in-and-of-itself a goal to be pursued. Society has aims, and often, the clearest way to achieve them is through the free market with distortions strategically applied. This isn't SimCity, where it makes sense to zone your entire city center as industrial/commercial in order to grow the tax base: the city exists to serve the needs primarily of those who live there.

Otherwise, why not zone the entire city as a hotel?
No; you were right. The browser needs some AI to be smarter but this is all still possible.
Recommend reading TFA:

>Think of it as a large pingpong ball with computers and cameras pointing in different directions. The big advantage? The spherical shape, coupled with a "hollow" laser beam that's stronger toward its outside edge, could be naturally centered on the beam throughout the acceleration.

>"Imagine blowing a piece of paper straight up. It's going to fly off the beam unless it's perfectly aligned," says Zac Manchester, a Stanford professor and Starshot engineer who's researched the subject and already launched a 1.4-inch square spacecraft into Earth's orbit.
So Google and Facebook are deleting accounts with political content because it comes from across the pond?

Nice going land of the free.
>Surprised Airbnb doesn’t just do this themselves, though I suspect it might just be a matter of time?

Airbnb has gotten a lot of pushback for commoditizing spaces that would have likely been used as long-term rental properties. They very meticulously craft their brand and community relationships so as to avoid negative repercussions from operating in a city.

This is an attempt to directly capitalize on the prime, long-term rental stock drained by Airbnb's presence without damaging the Airbnb brand.
It's not the partying that people object to. It's partying whilst exclaiming "We're saving the world!"
You've probably tried these, but just in case...

- Internet Archive

- Googling the URL to see if anything's still in Google's cache

I wonder if you'd be up to sharing what the tumblr URL was, perhaps privately.
There are alternatives, like F-droid or Amazon's app store.

I agree that Google being allowed to bundle their app store (and no other alternatives) amounts to them being as anti-competitive as MS bundling IE.
Fertilizer run off from organic farms contains just as many nitrates as metal^h^h^h^h^h^h non-organic farms. Those are the pollutants that cause the biggest problems in water ways and generally encourage algal blooms that kill other plants and animals.

Switching to plant based agriculture would require even more fertilizer to be used as the land area needed limits super effective crop rotation.

Other problems are plants are much less tolerant of different environments than live stock, so you have to more aggressively farm the limited area. Many of the ideal areas for growing plants also lack nutrients or even water (CA is essentially a desert but grows most of the worlds cereals because the weather, soil are excellent for growing, even if you have to pump the water in from elsewhere...)

Of course this ignores harmful effects of livestock, and is just meant to illustrate “not livestock” does not mean “good”.
I was kind of shocked at that number, people getting 0 days of vacation?

But no, the figure in your reference is paid vacation. These people ostensibly take non-paid days off.

I expect most Burning Man attendees are not getting paid to attend, and that's a strange bar to set.
The government derives all of its monetary power from the production of the economy they preside over (and get to tax in most cases).

Just ask Venezuela how monetary production with collapsed supporting production works out.
"Comfortable beds, nice linens, soft towels, and well-chosen amenities and essentials."

Clean linens alone has me interested. That is by far the biggest headache for me when comparing an AirBnB to a hotel. Can I trust that the host actually cleaned the bed sheets?
It will be easy for single families to outbid a multi-million dollar corporation for these homes? What sort of buying power do you expect these families to have, relative to this enterprise?
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This is absurd. There is no scientific controversy regarding natural selection—there are only religious communities who willfully ignore the scientific method because it contradicts their foregone conclusions.
Building business that solely relies on constant mercy of someone else's platform is an extremely risky endeavor to begin with.
So you’re saying your think Netflix has a strong position due to you having a few android devices laying around for occasional Netflix use in addition to your iOS devices? To me, the argument that people will just buy cheap androids just for Netflix is like, ok maybe 5% will, so then Netflix only loses 95% of their iOS revenue by leaving the App Store. But it’s a completely moot point because it’s very unlikely that Netflix would do something to cause their app to be removed from the store. Like, its always going to be better to have 70% of iOS rev than 0%. It’s kind of like talking about what would happen if Russia nuked the US.

Its true that both companies have a strong position. Netflix just doesn’t have quite as much leverage in theirs.

They’ll be allowed to move the purchase off the App Store just like Amazon / Spotify have done, so long as they don’t link to it directly from the app. The question that remains is when will smaller apps start to follow suit, and will they be able to get away with what Netflix / Amazon / Spotify do, and what will be the effect of this pressure? It’s hard for an unknown developer to say “hey, actually, go to my website to do this and heh, sorry but, I can’t link you there!” But for behemoths, it’s almost trivial to do so. There will still be user drop off there even for behemoths, just likely not as bad.
Absolutely, nobody knows better how to take care of our mitochondria than Ray Peat.
I don't think that's true

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Seriously ? Sure pick out a few examples.

Now let's talk about taking the entire web back to 1996. No Javascript, Websockets/SSE, AJAX, CSS etc. You really think all of the innovations made in the last two decades is just throw-away ?
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Why pretend to be making a disinterested comment about how "kind and courteous" employees are (which is totally irrelevant) when you're actually motivated by sympathy to the company on the basis of their regressive, hate-fueled ideology? This kind of manipulation doesn't speak well of your fellow extremists.
I think that's a good guess.

I'd add to that, sometimes people could get going faster if they really tried, but they're just a bit lazy or burnt out and need a rest. So they say OK, I've finally got an hour of free time, but I'll just check Hacker News first, check my email, read this article... and now they only have 20 minutes of work time left.

Whereas a few people either don't need so much time to recharge, or they just push themselves into getting started anyway, and usually once you actually start working it's not so hard to continue.

Getting enough sleep helps a lot with motivation to work. Although then you have less time! So I'll just stay up late this one time and get this thing done...
+1 = I love iPhone for that + their privacy stance.

+1 = I will never build (or invest into) business that is built on a single platform controlled by someone else.
> everyone including the little guy wins

I suppose this is true in some parts of the country, but in the areas where real estate is tight, "the little guy" probably doesn't own his home.
Consumption taxes have substantially decreased economic growth in Eurozone in practice. The Neo-classical models of economic growth are inferior to classical models of economic growth, as the exclude Land and natural resources as an independent factor of production.

The primary impetus of the development of neo-classical theories economics excluded was United States government land grants to railroad companies during the westward expansion of the 19th century. The railroad barons took over the economics departments of private universities which were previously controlled by the clergy, began firing professors which held to classical economic theories, as there was no tenure for professors at the time. They instead began funding professors such as John Bates Clarke, who repckaged Marxist economist theory that capital was 'jelly' and land and natural resources no longer exist.

"Neo-Classical Economics as a Strategem against Henry George" documents how land and natural resources were removed from classical economic theories during the development of neo-classical economics in order to promote the interests of wealthy land owners in the United States during the 18th century:

http://www.masongaffney.org/publications/K1Neo-classical_Str...
Not that I recommend it, but if you read all my comments on this issue you'll see that people are accusing us of siding with "pro-China shills" much more than "anti-China bigotry" as you have. In reality, of course, it's neither: we're just trying to prevent HN from going up in nationalistic flames. What does it matter whether those flames are red or white or blue or some combo thereof? The point is not to burn to a crisp.

We need you to stop insinuating astroturfing in the threads ("highly coordinated"). People are simply divided on this issue and it's a gross violation of the HN guidelines to insinuate otherwise. All it does is escalate the toxicity and we don't allow people to do that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How many Googlers are drawing a second paycheck from a foreign or domestic spy agency? The root of that equation is assuredly greater than 1. How much greater?
I can't completely rule out the possibility that this is indeed Amazon's business plan.
I disagree. Even loosely factoring in parameters such as construction costs and timelines, permitting, current construction activity, and overall housing stock elasticity, you find a correlation with hotel/short-term housing and regional sale prices and availability.
So basically you need SSO with an identity provider that supports key-only logins. Perhaps SimpleSamlPHP with privacyIdea would fit the bill.
not a pro *nix guy here - what is the ab command and why does it make sense as part of an integration eval?
That's remarkably optimistic. But people also have guest bedrooms so that family members can stay with them, not away from them. And so that they can have part-time home offices. And simply to increase the overall value of their home investment.

I think expecting the presence of Sonder in the market to efficiently trade space with houses by obviating the need for guest rooms seems like a fundamental misunderstanding of how the housing market works, particularly why people buy houses larger than what they need or utilize.
It's oddly coauthored by an economist. To quote his (likely self authored) wikipedia page:

> Lazonick’s research has focused on the role of the innovative business enterprise in generating productivity and sharing these gains with employees as the foundation for stable and equitable economic growth.
Beer in Britain could keep fizz with carbon capture technology
That is not at all my experience with H1, and we manage (and have managed) a bunch of H1 programs for our clients. I wouldn't advise most startups to do bug bounty programs at all, but if I was, I'd recommend H1.
Just wanted to add some supplemental material.

A few write-ups with accompanying audio transcripts/podcasts from science writer Brian Dunning of Skeptoid.

- Organic vs. Conventional Agriculture: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4166

- Organic Food Myths: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4019

- Environmental Working Group and the Dirty Dozen: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4623

Bibliographic references and further reading at the end of each if interested.
I don't think Chinese money is stolen. Russian money it's a toss up?

I just don't like the fact that wealthy foreigners can buy our homes with a phone call, or email.

I just don't get it.

These are people whom are not citizens, and we let them buy our homes.

And of course, we can't buy buy in their countries, which such ease, or at all.
In a practical sense, I think this translates into fighting tooth and nail to avoid variants for a single customer. Listen to your customers/sales, but only incorporate their requests if they fit in with the product that you distribute to everyone. It's not to say that every customer must use every feature, but all the features must make a cohesive whole.
What happens when the last share is bought back? (yes I know, that share would be worth just more than the company can afford to pay, but what if?)

Stock buybacks are better than dividends (shareholders get to choose when they liquidate), and I can see no actual downside. They only goose the per share price because suddenly there are fewer shares to represent the same company.

More and more, politicians seem to focus on issues with little actual merit, instead of super important issues like healthcare costs, because no donors can get upset. For example, if buybacks are outlawed, it’s not really a big deal and there won’t be pushback. They can claim a victory without actually changing anything, for better or worse, for anyone.
suggestion - throw up a "isbufgoneyet" site that tracks % of original buf code no longer in master (according to git blame or whatever is the best way to do it). would be a fun afternoon project.
Big corps have more restrictions and legal risks that they are unwilling to take.

Smaller corps has more flexibility.
You forgot the part where that “political content” was disguised as domestic opinion. Reducing the amount of astroturfing on the internet is a good thing.
Those 13 companies are not special.

These "requirements" are generally a wish list (outside of some heavily regulated occupations) and I have started seeing "or equivalent experience" in recent years.
That's good, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here. Especially not on divisive topics, where the effect will be trollish.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ask HN: What are the best resources for learning go-to-market strategy?
Specifically a software offering in the B2C space, but something more general works too. What books/articles do you recommend for a product and technology background person to get their heads around to-to-market?
It seems that the only thing that downgrades is the quality of nyt reporting.

1/10 failing nyt downgraded itself to 朋友圈 level. I had much higher expectations of this reporting. Give me more stats covering more industries. Not some imaginative figure from 1st-tier whining about living in a big city is costy.
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Centralized regulatory control in a nation of 1.4 billion is a tricky problem. This sounds like a classic single point of failure choke point.
Agree. A personal computer could probably even risk it as long as they don't run untrusted javascript (which they shouldn't do anyways, or only under sandboxed/careful conditions).
Why does anyone think this is a viable first product? What plan is there to turn the discreet focus levels into a continuous variable field of focus? What plan is there to make objects appear opaque instead of clear? What do they say about increasing the fov to beyond a tiny patch? This is indeed vaporware. When conventional VR headsets mature, cameras can be mounted to them and they will achieve the exact same thing as the ML but be infinitely better.
On your first point, inclusiveness and diversity is great; the issue isn't that rich people are joining in the fun, the problem is when values get warped. What I found most striking was the paid servants and private cities described.

We can argue about what does and doesn't encompass the values of something like Burning Man, but I think that's clearly outside the spirit of the festival; and it's a festival where spirit and values are deemed important. If they wanted to get dirty, and rough it out, I don't think anyone would have a problem. It's the idea of fiefdoms forming with lords and servants, and the event turning into an expensive theme park for the rich that's so offensive.
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The code is open. You can modify the code. You can fork the code. You can do everything you'd normally do with the code.

You can not sell the code, or services that are directly based on the code.

Sounds pretty open and reasonable.

But we'll just have to disagree I think.
India has survived democracy completely due to its massive diversity; it's linguistic, religious, racial and social diversity make it almost impossible for any leader/concept to wow an entire nation. It maybe a surprise that its a single country but not really a surprise that it is still democratic
No...

These are prices in an award winning place in downtown Shenzhen https://imgur.com/a/XqTC9zE

For a snob, one can go to Michelin rated Putien where you can get few very satiating dishes under CNY40
The figure is 50% of US adults, my bad.