skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who complain about the GEZ/Rundfunkgebühr complain about the fact that it is compulsory, even though the content and media being offered is irrelevant for many people (who don't watch TV or listen to the radio). Also there's significant issues with the way the pricing model is designed, putting very unequal load on singles living alone vs. families or shared apartments.
remember how just one election ago building undecided voter profiles and serving them target propaganda helped influence the outcome massively?

people still believe it's just for monetization and advertisement like it's 2005, but tracking people getting information across multiple sources can build an extremely accurate profile to be targeted at an election cycle.

Those undecided voters profiles are worth a lot more per unit than facebooks' to the right group.

Why else would anyone target newspapers for profiling, people don't consume and don't exhibit targetable purchasing behavior on those sites. No, they are interested on what you think, not what they can sell you.
South Delhi is expensive. I pay $1000/month on rent. That's also because I have a larg'ish space (home office, guest room etc.)

Living in tier 2 Indian cities or suburban areas can cut down the expense in half. ~$1000/month for a comfortable lifestyle.
My frustration with locals() and globals() is the same with "from foo import *" It's really difficult to move that code around or clean up variables because their use is obscured. The worst is when your template variable is defined somewhere else.
Don't Try and Control the Network (1994)
doesn't rely on sensationalism or pandering to a particular audience to drive eyeballs.

In theory, it should. But anyone who follows the internal drama of the BBC, for example, knows this isn't the case.
The point of the audit isn't to get a seal of approval, it's to identify the security problems, which is 97% of the work of fixing them.

There will always be the company which is literally on fire because it's 0.0013% cheaper in the short term, but that's true no matter what you do because that company will be out of business in six months regardless. You can't change their behavior because they're already in the midst of self-destruction by the time you even become aware of their existence.

Any kind of normal company is going to be happy to have a free confidential security audit, and offering that would in practice significantly improve the security of this garbage.
Come on. There already is a $1 million bounty on P vs NP.
i despise ambient music
“Copyright Protected” Grass Cost Reykjavík ISK 757,000
Semicolons come from many countries using the decimal comma in lieu of the decimal period. Of course, locale-specific number formatting should be a big no-no in any kind of a portable format anyway. But...
> There's a cliché about "the internet killed newspapers." No, internet ad companies killed newspapers by falsely convincing them that an ad view on a screen is worth 1,000 times less than an ad view on printed paper, so they have to make up the difference by harvesting everyone's data.

I think it's a little bit of both. Internet commoditized newspapers and unbundled them, allowing us to peruse individual articles without the regard for whole. But you're right that instead of figuring out a proper way to deal with this, papers just got convinced by adtech companies and doubled-down on ads on-line.

(Then again, were they wrong? The model works. Much like for a factory that dumps all its toxic waste into the nearby river, the model works. Doesn't mean it deserves to, and that it will work forever.)
Flipkart does have a lot of expertise in last mile delivery and logistics. They manage to deliver in rural India where there are no proper addresses and infrastructure.

Plus, Flipkart likely has a lot of expertise in mobile as well, given how much of India's internet usage is now mobile-only.

I reckon that expertise is worth a lot for any company looking to expand in the developing world
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I do get one print newspaper at home. But I want to consume a wide variety of news sources, and a wide variety of news sources want me to consume their news, so I don't think there is anything wrong with demanding that I pay per article from any source.
If the cost is 1T, it's 0.05%.
SVG stroke animations are nothing new, but when using a more complex drawing
And they track all you read, thanks to being a private, centralized service.
Our relationship with Saudi Arabia is simple. They play lapdog for the petrodollar, and we not only turn a blind eye to everything they do, but even provide them weapons and other support in their endeavors. The only thing that would ever cause us to reevaluate our relationship with Saudi Arabia, in the fashion you imply, is if one of the never ending Rumors of Saudi Arabia transitioning to settle oil contracts in e.g. the yuan became true. At that point expect us to suddenly decide Saudi Arabia is a huge violator of human rights under the rule of a despotic monarchy and is in desperate need of 'democracy' and 'regime change.'

This whole relationship makes all the Rumors of the Sauds swapping to the yuan all the more intriguing. If that ever did happen our response could well trigger something like a worldwide Cold War. China and probably Russia would likely have an obligation of support for Saudi Arabia, America would pull in NATO and the world would likely split along one side or the other. For that matter Saudi Arabia is also not like Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, ... . Saudi Arabia itself is now world's third largest spender on defense in raw dollars - and #1 in the world by percent of GDP. 10% of their entire GDP goes to defense. By contrast, we spend about 3%. On top of that Mecca and Medina reside within Saudi Arabia. Propaganda would be strongly on the side of the Saudis who would portray an attack on them as an attack on Islam.
> India is one of the few markets where a tiny company is still head-to-head with Amazon

In what universe is Flipkart a tiny company? Sure, it's small compared to Amazon but that's because Amazon is a global behemoth.
We have evolved mechanisms that direct attention and make most efficient use of our energy. When the brain turns its attention away from a task don't fight it, go with it. Listen to your intuition and you'll find there's something else that needs attention. Once that's been addressed, the motivation to complete the task at hand will naturally renew. You might think you can simply do what you want when you want, but life's not like that: you can't have what you want when you want it.
Don't miss the #555 Episode of EEVBlog where Dave Jones solders this kit and talks a lot about how the 555 works its history:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6qZPx4uD0g
I see your point better now. I'm still not sure if a normal company is really to be going so happy about free audits (due to IP and extra administrative workload). Do we have an existing precedent of something like this working in other industries, or is this something that hasn't been tested before?
2 cycles for a 32-bit to 64-bit extension? I don't think that makes sense: for instance, on x86-64, there's no cast necessary, just use the %rax register instead of the %eax one (plus, memory addressing works fine with 32 bit registers directly). I believe the same is true of AArch64 (64-bit ARM) with the 32-bit register W0 being the bottom half of the 64-bit register X0.
The best thing we have today for "CSV evolved" is JSON array of arrays, IMO. It's much better specified, everything agrees on how things should be quoted, it's perfectly human-readable if you do one array per line, its semantics follows straightforwardly from that of JSON, and we already have parsers for it that produce a reasonable output.

Is it slightly more verbose? Sure, but why does it matter? Having to quote all strings is really not a big deal.
It doesn't make sense to me that in order to get the probability of 2/3, you implicitly consider "a boy and a girl" to be different from "a girl and a boy".

Somehow, you're saying that seeing the boy means you have ruled out the possibility of "a girl and a boy". But the ordering is in no way related to some arbitrary observation. It's just lexical.
FP-Style Pointfree Selenium Tests in JavaScript
Shameless plug, but this synchronous vs asynchronous communication is exactly what I wanted to solve with my Slack app (https://www.qdochat.com/). I was thinking of building a chat-like communication tool, but to be asynchronous by design. I settled with the Slack app for the time being.
How to dig your own grave, and not even noticing it.
They have ridiculous amounts of money, if they're not too stupid about it, their investments alone should guarantee them influence for the foreseeable future.
Does anyone know how long this puzzle had been up?
Yes, that’s my thinking as well (also — I already pay my ISP for access to the web, why can’t they all just work together and find a way to share?)

There is a tricky point though. “allocate the revenue to sites based on which content I read” implies mandatory, centralized tracking. I’m not at all sure I want that.
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But are those ordered pairs or sets of two items each?
On other note do you get money for posting links in hacker news? You posted 5 links in hacker news from this website in the last 23 hours!!

cc @dang
According to me, that's my point of view, you have very few schools which put enough practice to create good developers at the end.
Indonesia and Singapore Lower the Entry Barriers for Fintech in Their Region
Anybody tried PG-Strom in production?
> Apparently Inter-provider ports are all automated and there is nothing anyone could do to stop it.

"Phone number" is truly the most dysfunctional social network.
What Julia showed is that if you carefully design the language with JIT in mind, the task is MUCH easier.

Julia gets very good performance without the massive manpower that has gone into Javascript VM's.
Instabug Untold Stories – Building a startup in Egypt
One of the most successful sysops I knew at Amazon (he was director level last I checked, maybe higher now) refused to use any instant messaging app whatsoever on the grounds that the interrupts were a productivity killer.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18199132 .
I tend to think that the low takeup suggests that we already overprice some of these news services. Some also seem to be oddly priced for marketing reasons (for example, to make the print paper look like a good deal to potential online-only customers).

But on a network-of-services level, you also have a "value plateau" effect on both the supply and demand side though.

Each news source you add to a network typically provides a little less value than the one before. By the time you've got 100 newspapers in the network, number 101 is probably only contributing a few articles a year that weren't handled first or better by other papers, so nobody's going to pay much more to get it in their subscriptions.

And for readers, the number of interesting articles and the amount of time we have to read doesn't grow nearly as fast as the sheer number of available articles, so each additional provider doesn't produce that much more consumption.

So to be seen as a good value, we need a pricing model that tracks those "plateaus".
Decentralizing Technology, Society, and Thought
Perhaps contracts between businesses and individuals, or even just businesses and consumers, should follow different, simpler rules than contracts between businesses - especially mega-businesses?

Let businesses with hundreds of staff attorneys do whatever they want to each other. But keep them from beating up a guy who just wants to collect a paycheck or buy a simple service.
Are you sure Arc hasn’t caught on? After all, we’re submitting comments via Arc.

Some of the best work in history was done because the creator wanted it themselves. Even if no one else uses it, the work speaks for itself.

Arc also played a crucial role in bringing attention to pg’s essays, which YC’s success was a direct consequence of. No essays, no audience; no audience, no founders, and no YC.
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The site says since October 2nd
Toni Braxton
Toni Braxton is American singer-songwriters, record producer, pianist, actress, philanthropist, and a television personality. Braxton was born on October 7, 1967, and she rose to fame in the early 1990s. Her full name is Toni Michelle Braxton and was born in Severn Maryland. In her lifetime, Braxton has managed to win seven Grammy Awards, nine Billboard Awards, and seven American music awards. Braxton is best known for her hit Un-Break My Heart, Breathe Again, and You Mean the World to Me. In all of her career as a musician, Braxton has managed to sell more than 67 million records that include 41 million albums across the world. Despite her success in music, she has also become a television personality and executive producer and was involved in the seventh season of the show, Dancing with the Stars.
Life of Toni Braxton
Braxton has released six studio albums and has sold over 66 million records worldwide making her an R7B idol. Sometimes, she is considered as the queen of R&B since she is one of the best selling female artists of the 90s. Braxton was born to Michael and Evelyn Braxton, and her father was a minister, and that is why she was brought up in a vest strict religious family (Bibliography.com editors 2016).

Reference
Dawson, M (2007). How to get somewhere in the music business. Mary Dawson
Ebony, (1998). Why stars go broke. Ebony
Bibliography.com editors (2016). Toni Braxton Bibliography.
Encyclopedia.com (2016). Toni Braxton

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At the very bottom of the site it says:

> Puzzle start: October 2 2018
Does data balancing before training the system solve this kind of issues?
Why global markets are collapsing right now, and who you should blame for it
>though it does contradict the do-it-one-way mentality.

not really: use f-strings when you're passing in variables as-is (or nearly no work), and format() when you need to do work on them before stringifying them; f-strings are naturally (and obviously) more difficult to read when the variables are big, as it obscures the actual text they're being fit into, and where.

The only natural area for preference to apply is whether to do the work before the format() call, name the variables, and change it to an f-string.. or stick with a multi-line format()

I'm not sure theres any real situation where the choice isn't obvious. Maybe if you're doing something like f"list1: {sorted(a)}\nlist2{sorted(b)}", where the work is rather small, but even then f"list1:{}\nlist2:{}".format(sorted(a), sorted(b)) is just as nice, or rather unsatisfying, as the f-string.
While we're on this subject, check out Blendle. I find that they have the most interesting stuff from WaPo (and others) there anyway, but I pay per article (micropayments), and the reading experience is consistent across all outlets.
Regarding quotes, they're optional (e.g. when you need a comma, leading whitespace, or newline). With arguments by position possible I guess colons have to be quoted too.

It's not clear to me that it's possible to convert this to a standard CSV; it can't guess the header and guessing whether a column contains units (consistent units?) is asking for trouble.

More pragmatically I can't share these with other people because they're almost like a csv, but incompatible.

It's great to try to make CSV more readable (I like the leading whitespace, but it'd be finicky to maintain with simple text editors), but not worth the technical risk of format confusion.
> You have the most senior research professor of physics at caltech

What is the ranking of seniority of research professors at Caltech? Are you implying that a research professor is somehow better than a “regular” professor?
The list is far from exhaustive and far from perfect, but there's a reason Carnegie isn't on it.
Well, the top and bottom notifications are probably due to GDPR.

But the one on the left is horrible, yes.
Why can't it be both? Amazon seems to be doing pretty well with their "special offers" / "no special offers" arrangement.
> Then companies start covering up data breaches because disclosing them would cost millions in fines, resulting in people not even knowing when they've been compromised.

Couldn't you make this same argument about any law that punishes bad behavior? As an extreme example, if we make murder illegal, that incentivizes covering up the act, at the expense of closure for victims' families. It seems flawed to me.
I’m sorry, but when do you ever need to read a CSV file in an environment where you don’t have a spreadsheet editor anyway?

I work in the public sector, we use a lot of CVS, even to non tech savvy people.

I’ve never heard the use case for this project.

Now that might not matter, but you’re breaking CVS to fulfill a nonexistent use case.
Ditto.

It takes a few months to get used to, but going back to traditional media consumption methods (paper, television, radio) reduced my stress and anxiety/FOMO level considerably.

The reason this works is because the newspaper eventually ends. The magazine eventually ends. The CBS Evening News eventually ends. That finality means I'm not hooked on a dopamine-fueled scroll->reward hamster wheel of diminishing quality "news" articles.

I'll admit that I will occasionally slip and lose an hour of two plowing through the endless Apple News feed. But for the most part, I only use online news sites for breaking news, weather, and occasional research.

As a side benefit, I have a surprising amount of extra time in my life to actually live a life.
Yes!! I love this. My palms get so cold typing the winter. I always opened a bunch of tabs, but this waay better.
Survivor Taner Tolga has invited Arda Turan to the 'cage fight'
Publishing more data behind our reporting
Audio latency issues on PCs are largely alleviated thanks to better softwate (device drivers that shorten the path to/from the hardware - such as ASIO4ALL) combined with better hardware (soundcards interfacing over PCI-E/Firewire/Thunderbolt/USB) at affordable prices. Plenty of audio cards today will offload computation off the CPU via discrete DSPs.

On Android devices (and smartphones in general) - hardware would be the limiting factor.
Exactly what I thought when I read that. I wonder how much stopping slack meant they all just jumped on twitter
If money were neutral, prices would rise uniformly, but this is in fact not what happens.
Windows 10 so far
Interesting. But the Altera board it runs on costs	$2,995. Out of my league, unfortunately. At least privately. And professionally, I doubt that I can talk my boss into buying one.
We're watching the exact same thing going on with China and the Xi dictatorship. Before that, Silicon Valley enjoyed loading up on vast amounts of money from Russian gangsters.

They're torturing millions of Muslims in Xinjiang, directly or indirectly through terrifying police state actions that entirely revoke all human liberty.

There is no greater mass atrocity going on anywhere on earth than what's happening in Xinjiang.

How many people, companies, VC firms in Silicon Valley are working with China and living off of Chinese money?

Where's the mass outrage and suspension of relations with China? Nope, you won't see that. No chance in hell.

The millions of Muslims in China being tortured don't matter, and one journalist does? Not exactly: it's because China is a big fat platter of money and many want to feast on it. It's a willingness to disregard all ethics because the check is big enough. It's so much money, the people that claim to care about a single journalist, don't care about millions of people being actively repressed and tortured.

It goes to the line about a million deaths being a statistic, and one death being a tragedy. Same premise at work.
Cryptocurrencies are a joke in my opinion. Given all the hype around blockchain technology, people have chosen to champion crypto coins as its main use. But blockchain simply allows for a variable to be stored. That's all cryptocurrencies are; A variable that only you own and can only update based on some rules.

Blockchain provides a public data store. That is what I am using it for. Maybe memes are not the best use-case for something like this, but it's a start. Imagine if instead of memes you stored something else... For example: news articles. You could have a permanent uncensorable record of news articles. Would this be useful? Of course the argument can be made. Why don't you just rely on news organisations websites. Why don't you just rely on the information shown on your Facebook feed. Etc.

The main problem with such centralised systems, is that you have to ask if something like this is valid for an international audience. Would the memes you see in one country, be the same in another country? The same case stands for the news articles example.
Hey there.

I dropped out just over 6 years ago to join Pinterest (I still work there). It’s the second best decision of my life (besides asking my wife to marry me).

How much longer do you have left in college? Do you enjoy it?

Obviously this is a case by case basis, but my thought process was -

1. I went to a decent regional school (nowhere near Ivy) and had a below average GPA (2.7 IIRC).

2. The cause of that low GPA was due to me spending my free time hacking on things, not studying.

3. Worst-case, I try and interview at a bunch of places and don’t get any offers so the decision is made for me.

Fortunately for me, I didn’t have a ton of student loan debts due to scholarships, so financing the education was not a factor in my case.

I had 1.5 years left. I loved college and some parts of school. It was really hard to leave. Looking back, I’m glad I did it but it was a rough few years seeing all of my friends have the time of their lives while I was working (even though I’ve loved my job). Once everyone graduated all of that FoMo went away. That’s also when new grads who were my age also started working there, which was nice.

Graduating from the university I went to wouldn’t have put me in a better situation relative to other applicants (meaning, I would still be going up against Ivy grads for the jobs I was after).

I ended up dropping out after being offered a promising job opportunity and I’d recommend that route to you if it’s possible. It makes the transition a lot easier.

Hope that helps! Happy to chat more via email. c at cnnr dot me.
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There is so much information here. It is interesting to see how these suppliers look like something you'd find on Alibaba. Given how massive these companies must be (despite of how they appear to be), I doubt if they'd answer to low volume inquiries.

I found the guys that make Apple's USB cables:
Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (Foxlink)
http://www.foxlink.com/web/en/portfolio-item/usb-cable/#1474...

iPhone boxes!?
Brilliant International Group Ltd
http://www.brilliant-group.com/products_electronic/

Sim card trays:
Chengdu Homin Technology Co., Ltd.
http://www.cnhomin.com/

Watch/Camera glass:
Biel Crystal Manufactory Ltd
http://www.bielcrystal.com/

iPhone Haptics/Speakers module:
AAC Technologies Holdings Inc.
https://www.aactechnologies.com/index.php?m=content&c=index&...

Then you come across something truly extraordinary:
Catcher
http://www.catcher.com.tw/technology.aspx

Catcher has a market cap of 7 Billion USD. They own and operate 18,000 CNC machines, the largest fleet of CNC machines in the world. This is probably where iPhone case and Macbook Unibody is manufactured.

Edit: I found a video of Catcher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UknhWoL6GWQ
Edit: Tons of information on Catcher