skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about the trends in public budgets directly funding colleges, but...

Government backed student loans for anybody who wants them has inflated the cost of college in the United States.

Your plan I refer to, is when you said the government could entirely pay college costs for every willing student.

With all that free money, where is the motivation for schools to improve?

> we could fund university education for all in the margins of what we willingly spend on the military or several other programs
If you got that from Google's snippet, it's a bad snippet. Scrolljacking is short for "scroll hijacking" and can mean screwing with the browser's default (which we can assume to be user's preferred, or at least expected) scrolling behavior in any number of ways.
entr – run arbitrary commands when files change
How did Hurricane Michael get so strong so fast?
Perhaps they are banking on the fact that most homes now have multiple USB, 5V, 1A adapters readily available.
in my experience: without fail, a company will punish a department or office that tries to improve things by answering truthfully on an engagement survey.
That would be bad enough, but I expect the salience of Khashoggi's murder has more to do with identity than numbers. It's not as if a singular dead Yemeni child would have dismayed anyone in the West. What made Khashoggi stand out was that he was a WaPo journalist.
How to tell if your Facebook data was stolen in the recent hack attacks
The "double taxation" argument is nonsense. There are many taxes that apply to the same money multiple times. I have to pay income tax on the money when I get it, sales tax when I use it to buy something with it and then property tax on the thing that I bought. (Also, gifts and inheritances are taxed identically).
Has American democracy been contacted out to Facebook? FYI Google created search by scraping sites.
Wow... so does the source of this change also believe that all hosting companies shouldn't be allowed to operate? That any consultants that use said software or hosting companies not be able to operate.

It sounds to me like the author of Redis wants to be the only one allowed to use it for anything commercial. They should have never open sourced it in the first place. It's effectively closed-source now, or at least should be... since no software consultants are now allowed to suggest it even for internal development.
You can certainly use these neo-mccarthyist PR articles for beneficial purposes after a major security breach just happened. Facebook is the good guy again to the public.

Facebook makes this data easily accessible to literally anyone. Everyone is using it. Facebook is surely at fault for making it that public and easily accessible. It means anyone else could've, and everyone else isn't rainbows and gumdrops clean.
How likely is that Branson was not going to get the money to begin with, and this is a convenient PR move to say that it was all his choice.
So, did the team (formerly) at Bump give us Google Photos? If so, kudos to them, it's one of the best Google apps I've used recently :)
It's worse than that. I'm currently waiting for my former landlord to return the security deposit. The law insists that it be returned within a certain time with an accounting, otherwise there are punitive damages; the punitive damages serve to encourage the landlord to be honest in his dealings.

The clock has run out, but my lawyer advises against against asking for damages. Looking at the law, it should be a slam-dunk deal, but apparently the district judge is sufficiently corrupt not to be trusted.

It's not my job to school the landlord to be honest, and since there are no consequences for bad behaviour they will be dishonest and will continue to cheat students and other out-of-towners out of what is rightfully theirs. That, friends, is the reality in the US: groups of the population have good reason to believe that the legal system is not working for them.

Recently, a political TV program commented on the Brazilian election - on one side is a fascist, on the other a representative of party so corrupt that it's unelectable. The situation is approaching a civil war. In the US it's not quite as bad as in Brazil, but it's getting there.
Less friction to enter free-form text in Google Docs than in Contacts.

It takes more taps enter details in Contacts, not to mention the Last Name, First Name are fields with limited visible length, and scrolling left-to-right on a phone is tedious.

Also I don't want to pollute my contact list with the 10-11 Annas that have no last names, but have descriptors like "has dreadlocks" or "met at conference".
That's actually interesting, I wonder where you are, because I was in freakin' NYC last year and every store STILL didn't even take chip cards, much less tap. Don't even get me started on having to deal with pennies ;)
What does this mean for Softbank?
The person I am replying to is arguing based on supposed firsthand experience. Their supposed expertise based on firsthand experience sounds dubious on the face of it and is also being called into question by others:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18210799

Everything I have read indicates it can be a mild drug. That isn't straight up crazy talk.

It shouldn't be outright dismissed based on "I was in Colombia once and tried something I imagine is pure, never mind that I don't even speak the language."
I guess that's complicated by the fact that the insurgent government (Houthi movement) there have a slogan like "God is great, death to the US, death to Israel, curse the Jews, and victory for Islam" and the Saudis gave the defending government there $2 billion in food aid. War is bad, but is sometimes worse in tragedy then it is in morality. It is different from globally-orchestrated assassinations against political opponents in foreign countries, between peace-time nations. https://www.dw.com/en/saudi-arabia-gives-yemen-2-billion-to-...
So what about the American and Western companies whose accounts haven't been removed and are doing this too?

Social media monitoring is a big business worldwide, many of the largest have longstanding government contracts. Facial profiles for the people you are targeting is only an api call away.
Am I reading that site correctly, that the full book has not yet been released? Does anyone know of a timeline for it?
Not sure why the parent is being downvoted; it's just as mypopically black and white as the GP. Wealth accumulation is inarguably a two-way street, where a well-functioning society with dependable economic infrastructure enables people to accumulate wealth and contribute to the economy which further develops that infrastructure.
Widening the digital divide and discriminating against people.
Google never created search. According to Andreessen they were the 23rd company he saw. And by then there were established controls to stop Google from indexing your sites i.e. robots.txt.

These Russian companies are not following the rules Facebook has set so it's not really analogous to Google.
Cash also causes corruption. Part of the way India is trying to curb corruption is to move people off of cash. Not that it is working.
> while the security argument is true

The security argument is mostly orthogonal to the benefits of carrying cash. Obviously there is wisdom in having multiple options for moving money, which will inevitably have different strengths and weaknesses. Cash is important to have because the other methods occasionally fail in very problematic ways[1], while the security (and bookkeeping) advantages of electronic payments become more attractive when the transactions size is large.

[1] Cash works when the power/internet/banking-infrastructure isn't available. Cash also has inherently limited risk: you can only lose what you are carrying. Credit cards, debit, and any other method where someone else controls your access to the money carry a risk of losing access to the entire account if the controlling bank decides (possibly in error) to freeze your account.
IMHO this article demonstrates both the flexibility, and a significant issue with PostgreSQL... and that it doesn't offer a good high availability strategy in the box. Progress has been made, and it will likely get there, but it's hard to even suggest using it in many scenarios without an in the box, or at least relatively easy to implement failover solution, with clear, detailed and updated instructions and documentation. And not everyone hase >$100k/year as a baseline for using the listed consulting firms, or can even get a response from half of them.
Or dropping cluster bombs on towns to depopulate them with the bonus of UXO submunitions that don't explode until some kid picks them up. America is the greatest exporter of death, misery and genocide while pretending everything is fine.
Same question but for wages or purchases. Are you arguing against estate taxes or all taxes in general?
This is me right now. I'm on sabbatical while I work some stuff out, but I'll go back to that problem unless I leave the company. Most management is ~10 years younger than I am.
It's model-blind.
Tech CEOs Dorsey and Benioff face-off over San Francisco homeless tax
When I studied economics in the 1980s here in the UK I was dismayed to discover how much positivism implicitly dominated the economics curriculum. At A-level it was even more blatant with Lipsey's "Positive Economics" serving as a textbook for the whole course. Only the study of sociology enabled me to put this perspective in perspective. Lipsey's work presented the theories of supply and demand and Adam Smith's "invisible hand" as some kind of law of nature, the kind of gold sought by Comte and Durkheim. It was only the study of Marx's dialectical materialism which really opened my eyes about how positivism as taught in the economics curriculum was used to justify the capitalist system.
How come this is an "oh nose!" or even unexpected to anyone? Why is this even a news... I mean it's public data anyway, yeyeye FB policies blablabla

It's not like it's hacked or anything its data scraping. are you telling me the US(FBI/NSA/CIA), or foreign government China, for example, are respecting web privacy policies eh?
China has App store rating farms filled with manual labor giving people 5 stars all day, do you think creating accounts and harvesting pictures and metadata would be that hard if it was sponsored by the government?

the fact that FB linked the scrapping to a company, says it not really that much of a government operation
Chicago. Most of the time I get swipes now it’s on square or one of the other old style mobile apps.
Facebook is subverting American democracy by censoring news that's outside of the status quo. They're now censoring American media as well [1].

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/technology/fake-news-onli...
Samaritan is doing good work and making it easy to get digital credit or other credit to people rather than directly handle cash. Where things really shine though I think is with surfacing the stories of the people you are giving to.
Apostrophes are not used for namespaces.

Almost no syntax in rust is unique, even that syntax. It’s used by ocaml for something very similar to rust.
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Re rubberhose security: Face ID and Touch ID were both major security blunders by Apple because these enable security services and criminals to compel anyone to unlock their devices and incriminate/rob themselves. Only what someone knows, rather than what someone has, cannot be chopped off, presented or forcibly-applied to unlock a device... revealing information under duress is a choice, having a fingerprint taken to unlock a device is not a choice.
I always carry cash. I'm surprised when people don't. Came in handy when the hurricane hit, gas stations only took cash. Cash is also good for negotiation.
Cash is also a liability. It makes you a target for muggings if anyone notices you have a significant wad of cash on you. If you misplace your cash, you have no recourse like if you misplaced a credit card. With cash, it's difficult to track your own transactions and budget appropriately. I live by YNAB to monitor my spending and saving habits, and it wouldn't be possible to use as effectively with cash.
I think your lawyer is not good at their job. It's likely if you took your landlord to court, it'd take 12-18 months (during which you'd do nothing and incur minimal expenses waiting on the court calendar), and then, before you got to trial, your landlord would offer to settle for 50%.

The case itself, hit or miss, but 50% > 0%.

My big lesson from taking landlords to court is that the security deposit is a negotiation.
Avoiding tracking (which credit/debit networks, banks & credit unions actively leverage against you) is another reasonable use for cash.

I don't want Chase knowing I shop at Goodwill, if they choose to pass that along to one of the credit agencies (there are hundreds of small ones in the USA FYI), it would nreflect poorly. Same for using anything bbesides cash when buying liquor, cigarettes or other low class/socially questionable items.

Edit: Using credit cards at thrift stores may affect your credit report: http://www.wistv.com/story/10670982/warning-shopping-at-thri...
> what is wrong with being a toy?

There's nothing wrong with toys. There's everything wrong with a "Super smart alive and aware AI" hype fest when what they mean is it's a partially functional google assistant with a pareidolic face.

> what is possibly fun and cute about amazon echo and google home just sitting there doing nothing

https://www.reddit.com/r/eyebombing/comments/5nttde/google_h...

Boom, solved. Look at how adorable that is. You could even put a hat on it.
lol thanks for this! time to queue up some cheeze
Not true. It's illegal for something to cost more if you use cash.
> Still, it's a reward that's nice to have, and coupled with fraud protection, three weeks of delay in due dates, single-item usability, and a built-in credit line, credit cards are winning out among those who can obtain them.

Fraud is a cost of credit cards, not a benefit. Even with "protection" it's an ordeal when it happens -- or when it doesn't but the credit card company wrongly suspects it has and abruptly disables your card.

And putting off the payment for three weeks can also be problematic. If you're just spending money which is already in your checking account it makes little difference which day the transfer posts, but if you're spending money you don't have, what happens when you still don't have it by the due date?

Or even if you do have the money, wait until first time you forget to make a payment and all the supposed financial benefits of credit cards instantly evaporate into a nasty late fee and 15+% APR.

> Card surcharges are one way a merchant can pass on the cost of credit card acceptance to the customer, and are currently a state-by-state issue, but big retailers don't want to surcharge lest they create friction and lose shoppers to a competitor.

The alternative is a cash discount. The advertised price would be no higher than it would be by charging the same price for cash and credit, you just give two thirds of the credit card fee to the customer (instead of the one third the credit card company does) and pocket the other third. And take more customers from the competition once they realize you're offering the discount.
afaik apostrophes are used for lifetimes.
I think you're going to be most happy running your own show.. I've seen a lot of this anyway. Open plan because the boss wants to see everyone in one spot the 3 hours he is in per year. Focus unattainable due to noise/talking. Resistance to WFH arrangements. Train young people so we can have redundancy...Old guy quits and now you have 4 people doing what 1 used to, 3 of which are looking to quit because face it, they don't want to work hard ;) Good luck my friend.
At least something hit it...
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At least in Silicon Valley, Google Pay and Apple Pay came and went. Is Google even still serious about Google Pay, or is that on life support like Google Fiber and Google Phone?
feed these pics etc in to an AI facial recognition system, and the Russians have an alert system for any agent who happens to have had a picture taken at a family gathering and put online. They can get a list of images on hacked cams around the world, and see whos about.

The sooner we realize that facebook and other large Data Vacuums are a threat to our security, the better.
Or just rich. Notice 1 of the 2 main defendants in the case isn't white.

As has been pointed out the more complex the crime the more time and money it takes to prove. Generally wealthier people can commit financial crimes that the poor can not.
The managers are pursuing legibility.

There's a great book about this called Seeing Like a State. It's about the conflict between top-down planning and bottom-up development of complex systems - things like cities and forests.

One of the big points is that leaders tend to be obsessed with making the system legible to themselves, often at great cost to the effectiveness of the system itself. There's a sense that "if I can't easily model/perceive it in my head, it doesn't exist or it's worthless". Of course the reality is that the majority of what goes on in a complex system is invisible to any outsider; the system is more complex than the brain trying to model it. So management efforts that ignore or even try to reduce that illegible complexity end up destroying much of the system they're attempting to manage.

I think there's also a simpler explanation: It's unintentional gamification. People like dopamine hits they get from rising numbers, rectilinear grids, clean charts and projections. So they pursue these things as an end goal, imagining somehow that this is the same as pursuing success. Of course a really well-working complex system (like a company or city or forest) is too complex to model with such tools. But the manager isn't playing to make a good complex system, he's playing a little game of graphs on his computer screen. The chart went up and to the right - you win today!
Avoiding payment fees, negotiating a discount by having cash ready to fork over, etc. Its always good to have $100 or so in your pocket, quick way to smooth over small fender benders/paint nicks if you accidentally damage someone else's car in a minor way.

I say this as someone who lives in part of the US where shops and medical practices are starting to go card only. Having cash is still really handy, though many people here can get by without touching cash for months.
> most payment networks charge the merchant, and through the elaborate tendrils of corporate ownership kick a proportionally smaller amount back to the customer.

You can get cards with 2% cash back, and a typical merchant fee is 2.35%. The fee can be 15% to the credit card company and 85% to you.
I just about stopped laughing at your line after 5 mins..

>> the fact that FB linked the scrapping to a company, says it not really that much of a government operation <<

What are you smoking dude?
Not obeying robots.txt is at most a civil matter, such as Craigslist vs. 3Taps (largely unsettled btw, because internet is public by design). My question still stands.
Interesting move. Saudi denying the human right of half the population(women) was okay to him, but denying the human right of one person(journalist) is not.
Cash enables petty corruption perhaps, but not the big stuff.
It effectively costs more, since you pay the same but don't get cash back.

If I buy something for $100 cash it would have cost me $98 (after cash back) via credit card.
No, the law is not good at its job. This is in a small college town, it's a large property administration company that looks after ~ 100 investment properties. From what I hear, they habitually do not return the deposit. This shouldn't happen.

How much are you willing to bet? The demand letter is in the mail, if the money doesn't show up next Friday the matter will end up at the qadi's.
Actually, you won’t find offices at Oracle — they have or are moving to open space layouts for the most part.
I didn't, but I can't stop doing it now.
So what? If true, he's smart. If not, he's... what... decent? Correct? Still smart?

Someone's (imagined) motivations hardly matter if they are doing the right thing. Criticizing someone that has done the decent thing because of what you imagine their motivation might be is a pretty clear indicator of your own bias.
Although, as William Gibson once said, "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed". And this has always been the case. There is a difference between when something is available and when it is commonplace. While electricity was technically available in the late 19th century, even in 1930s America it wasn't available in most rural areas yet -- hence the Rural Electrification Act of 1936. And of course there are places, mainly in Africa which still don't have electricity.
Is Google Pay the contactless payment solution on my phone? I use that every day! It’s great. Not as good as a contactless card, but pretty good.
Venmo and Zelle already dominate this market vertical though, if Zelle could get their butt in gear for writing integrations with bank and credit union backends, they coukd easily take a similar place to mobile payments in China. Instant, free bank to bank transfers aare a powerful tool!
> Government backed student loads for anybody who wants them has inflated the cost of college in the United States.

I heard it the first time. Do you have anything new to add, any evidence, or any explanation of how your theory actually works, given that total public funding has declined?

Is it possible you’re assigning causation where there is only correllation? Tuition hikes certainly correllate with loan programs that were put in place to compensate for state budget cuts, I can see how easy it is to assign blame to loan programs, but isn’t tuition going up when state financing is cut the simpler explanation?

> With all that free money, where is the motivation for schools to improve?

Norway’s higher education system is ranked higher than the US, and is free for all citizens. So you tell me.

It’s your assumption that public funding leads to stagnation, an assumption that requires ignoring contradictory evidence in order to hang on to.
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The cards that offer 2% cash back aren't the same ones that charge a 2.35% merchant fee.
Would not Venmo & Zelle be reasonable for this use case?
Cali is a city in Colombia, not the largest and greatest state in the U.S
What did you think of their explanation of "memory parallelism" in section 4.3? I read it quickly, but thought it was pretty accurate. I liked that they made explicit the link between the number of instructions and the degree of parallelism. I was a little disappointed by the final statement that they "suspect" that the CPU is capable of only 8 parallel requests.
Don't call us 'Cali.' We're California, thank you
All landlords habitually don't return deposits. I have rented cheap apartments and expensive apartments and houses and vacation rentals, in college towns (Ann Arbor) and all over Chicago and San Francisco --- all places with good tenants unions. In SF, I paid up front my whole year's rent. I have never, ever had a landlord return a security deposit. Not once.

Landlords expect you to come at them for the deposit. If you don't, it's a 13th month rent. The serious renters just treat the deposit as their 12th month rent, but if you didn't do that, or care about your reference, you sue for it.

IANAL let alone your L, but at this point, in my 42nd year of life, if I don't get my security deposit back, I drop a buck fifty and put a suit in process, fully expecting the landlord to whine at me and then start the actual negotiation.
For one, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causeway_Bay_Books_disappearan...