skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s very simple to me: either we want direct communication to government to have weight, and we prosecute fraud like this rigorously, or we don’t think it is worth it (for whatever reason), and we have a government that must ignore the voice of the people outside elections.
I'm not in the U.S. so didn't realised this, but my point was that I'm afraid that most people will want to allocate tax to their pet issue without considering the greater good.

In my mind part of the job of elected politicians is to ensure that tax money is spent where their platform said it would.
My guess is that a lot of the 17 are just adding color or confirming individual parts that don't add up to the whole. For instance, they must have had at least one source who told them about the factory with chinese-speaking workers that orders chinese pastries instead of donuts and has separate meetings/announcements for people who don't speak English. Those details help sell the article - and help create an impression that innocuous immigrant workers who enjoy delicious bright yellow pastries are some kind of nefarious 5th column - but do absolutely nothing to establish the central claim. If they had 3 sources on the donuts-and-meetings thing and include those in the 17 that only leaves 14 for the important stuff, and so on. Dial in far enough and I bet there's only one or two dubious sources for the big picture, while everyone else is in their own little information silos not knowing anything but their own part.
I think this is a very American perspective. This isn't a major concern in many parts of the world.
In the Rolling Stone UVA rape story, they initially backed the reporter when doubts began to arise (not full double down) before backing away when the story began to collapse. It's a good example to consider here - earnest journalist, eager source stretching the truth to either make a point or please the journalist.

The story we published was one woman’s account of a sexual assault at a UVA fraternity in October 2012 – and the subsequent ordeal she experienced at the hands of University administrators in her attempts to work her way through the trauma of that evening. The indifference with which her complaint was met was, we discovered, sadly consistent with the experience of many other UVA women who have tried to report such assaults. Through our extensive reporting and fact–checking, we found Jackie to be entirely credible and courageous and we are proud to have given her disturbing story the attention it deserves.

Three days later they retracted the story.
Japan's is more than the US, but less than Japanese-Americans. It might play out similarly for the Dutch.
Serious question: were building permits required in Barcelona at the time construction began?

(Side comment not worth its own response to others' posts: the church is not technically a cathedral—ie the seat of the local bishop—but rather a basilica.)
You're right, using the PPP to GDP ratio says the pound has 1.11x the purchasing power of an equivalent amount of dollars. (equivalent meaning by foreign exchange rates)
> I count the middle east and south east Asia as part of the world, and no what we spread there was not freedom and peace, it was/is decades of war and destruction.

I didn't say all the world had freedom and peace, but that it has spread far more than ever before. And it has. Again, name any other era that remotely compares.

> I think you're referencing the cold war

The Cold War has been over since, effectively, 1989, almost 30 years ago. Yet the world is, by some people's measures, more peaceful now than at any time in history. As simple examples, there is almost no international war anywhere. The entire North and South American continents, and Europe east of Ukraine, are at peace.

> It was not caused by democracy

The victors of WWII put mechanisms in place expressly to prevent more wars, including the UN and the EU, institutions designed to apply democracy to international relations. People can always make up reasons, since it's impossible to prove, but the results are what they intended. Further, with the spread of democracy in Europe, for example, the threat of war - which tore apart Europe for centuries before democracy became almost universal there post-WWII, war between European powers is now unthinkable. The exception is the sole non-democratic power, Russia.

Looking around the world, democracies don't tend to start wars or invade their neighbors - there is no chance of war between the U.S., Canada, European countries, Japan, etc. etc. All democracies. In East Asia, almost all threats of war are between the non-democratic power, China, and others. Japan and S. Korea, for example, have no interest in it and work out their issues peacefully.
You likely could find the slot the same day, it's not likely 100% daily tickets always sell (I've been there and while the traffic is substantial, it's not packed, so looks like the capacity is managed quite well).
Solo, an open source security key. Think of the open source counterpart of a Yubikey or Google Titan. Just a few hours ago we've been featured by Kickstarter: https://solokeys.com/kickstarter

What makes Solo special is that it's the first security key:

1) open source + FIDO2: https://github.com/SoloKeysSec/solo

2) NFC + USB-C

3) in many colors, i.e. "customizable" also by non-tech people
How are they going to get money
I could see this being a great home server - it could easily run NAS, Plex, a firewall, and some misc containers. It may be a cheaper option for robotics projects that don't need the compute ability of a NVidia Jetson.

Pretty awesome board:

- Intel J4105 (2.3Ghz Quad-core, fanless!)

- Up to 32GB DDR4

- M.2 SSD (4 x PCIe 2.0)

- 2 x GbE

- 2 x SATA 3.0

- HDMI 2.0 and DP 1.2 at 4k

- 2xUART, 2xI2C - both at 3.3V

- 110x110x43mm

- Expected to ship in late November, price will be above $100
have a question about phantom read issue, i.e. two doctors are oncall for the night, but we have the constraint that at least one is needed to be oncall. If we have two transaction checking whether there is at least 2 doctors oncall, then remove one, seems we could end up with no one oncall with FaunaDB?

If so, seems this violate serializability?
Good system, yes. Though I am still not sure why you can go only to one tower. I am not sure it's worth going to the both, but why not allow it? I don't think it would add that much to the traffic...
>The studying of physical STEM degrees is dependent on level of social deprivation.

Dont have access to the paper to see any more of this. Is that social deprivation increases STEM participation or decreases it?
I bet you learned a whole boatload.
Please stop making assumptions about me.
You're missing the point. Let's say you go to your hypothetical "university in Africa", and that your nation had, I dunno, a significant(25%, say) Uzbek minority. Yet the student body was 98% native africans. You seriously wouldn't consider that a problem? You wouldn't ask why the Uzbeks weren't being educated at the same rate as the rest of the population? You'd consider it "oddly racist" to even ask if maybe this was wrong?

That's where we were, in just our parents generation. Harvard used to be 98%+ white as recently as the 1970's. Of of that generation, there were almost no non-white elite graduates entering the top flight law firms and investment banks and academic tenure tracks. I mean, sure, hispanic kids could "go to college". But because of "merit" they couldn't go to Harvard.

So Harvard fixed it. Harvard is now reasonably well-integrated. But the techniques they used to fix it are coarse and hard to apply in a uniformly fair way. So everyone bitches about it, and they tweak it endlessly. But bitching about the algorithm isn't a refutation of the problem.

So tell me again how that's "oddly racist" to think this is a problem.
Open Source Authentication in All the Colors
This truly feels like an article that doesn’t understand the landscape of digital advertising. It is naive to believe that publishers are taking queues from Facebook on how to publish their content. All publishers ( including Facebook ) take their content queues based on what advertisers want. This is their source of revenue, and the only way to move the bottom line as a publisher. Video advertising is far more lucrative than banners. In order to create a consistent user experience, you cannot have video ads alongside static content. While the miscalculation is certain metrics might have made Facebooks inventory look a little better, it 100% did not have an industry changing influence as indicated here.
GC is like Socialism. The theory is that it's going to be all wonderful, yet every time it is actually implemented it sucks, and you typically have to fight problems that don't exist in other systems.
as a galaxy user I wondered why they dont make smaller phone that i can control with one hand without fear of dropping it?

im okay with a smaller reddit is fun app.
Just saying, Sony was managing to fit a microSD card, headphone jack, and good sized battery (in terms of battery life, they've been some of the longest lasting phones despite using (admittedly low res) LCDs instead of OLEDs) in their 4.6" compacts up to the XZ1C last year. The only feature they were missing was wireless charging.
Definitely, it's not like they just grabbed somebody other's spot and started building, infringing somebody's right. Sagrada Familia is literally the symbol of Barcelona now, one of the most recognizable buildings in the world and enormous tourist magnet. But here come some municipal officials and say - well, nice church you've got here, I see it makes money, so just give some of the money to us because we decided you need a paper from us to build, and also because you have money and we want money. Legal robbery.
not to shit on this, this looks like a great initiative, but I strongly doubt them being able to deliver with only the money they raised.
Things are far from perfect today, but the current situation is a huge improvement. Informal segregation persists but it’s a lot better than the formal kind. Slavery persists in prisons but the vast majority of slave descendants are free. I haven’t seen any “colored” sections on the train lately, or “colored” bathrooms or water fountains.
There are very explicit limits that you select when buying car insurance.
This article was exceptionally poorly written.
Instead of making a cohesive argument, the author only demonstrates his lack of knowledge of what blockchains are and what makes them useful (to him, they are "glorified spreadsheets") while smearing the people who develop and use cryptos.

And it is hardly surprising that someone with strong ties to the current centralized financial system is opposed to innovation in that realm.
A pretty good blog summary of how this differs from past practice.

https://eclecticlight.co/2018/09/24/has-that-app-been-notari...

TLDR: You have to adopt the new OS user privacy protections. (Users must give permission for your app to access things like the webcam, microphone, contacts, photos, location data, etc.)

Your app gets scanned for malware before it is signed.

There is still no App Store approval process involved.
Why is it ironic and why can't it be both?
Well, it may make sense if you're always on the go, but a lot of people like me would spend most of their time with a full size computer available that provides way more utility than whatever phones. I would even totally pay more to have a smaller phone that's much more comfortable. Frankly I don't find the larger iPhone I currently have to be any more useful than the 4" ones.
Yes.. earlier you said the entire transaction amount and a double tax. That’s probably not accurate.

As for adjusted revenue, do we actually know for certain that gross receipts applies to net revenue and not adjusted? Or is Dorsey just “hypothetically” spreading FUD?
Jamal Khashoggi case: Saudi Arabia says journalist killed in fight
They don't all work the same way. Some, like Tether, claim to be fully backed by USD. But it's similarly unstable and is spectacularly shady.
See also http://www.picospace.net/, or http://www.leobodnar.com/balloons/.
Twenty-somethings today don't remember a time before the smartphone era when there was a race for phones to be smaller.

Cell phones were initially huge. Actually, first they existed as "car phones". They were heavy boxes the size of a big bottle of laundry detergent, bearing a handset with a number pad. They operated on AMPS (analog mobile phone service). After that cell phones then became smaller and more portable, but still huge, resembling household cordless phones. There was a race in the 1990's and early 2000's for smaller and smaller phones. Having a smaller phone than the next person was a status symbol.

Smartphones have disrupted that trend, because small touch screens suck. The trend has not entirely been disrupted: smartphones cannot be too large. Then they turn into tablets. And, thin matters, still.
I'm aware of extended attributes and it definitely seems like a step above the completely opaque byte arrays that are the status quo. I suppose we could call it db as a file system.

Another interesting idea is the data types in Amiga OS (http://www.mfischer.com/legacy/amosaic-paper/datatypes.html). I believe it lets applications be generic enough so that as new media formats are added, the applications automatically work with them, without rebuilding or restarting.

Lisp machines were mentioned in another thread here. They also had a better story around sharing data - you shared rich structures (rather than blobs of bytes that are encoded and decoded at every boundary) - and they would update live, etc.

In the end it seems today we're entrenched in something that's reasonable, but many good ideas could be explored more.
Site appears to be pretty broken.
I think bootstrapping and sustainable growth are sexy. A bootstrapped company is like the cute, homely girl next door. Just because she's not a Victoria's Secret supermodel doesn't mean she isn't sexy! Lol
> Misleading bill titles are the norm in Congress.

That's how they roll.

> See "right-to-work" laws

I'm guessing you've confused right-to-work with at-will employment. Right-to-work laws mean that a union can't force you to join and pay dues. "At-will employment" means you can be fired for any reason or no reason (except if the reason is they're a member of a "protected class")
Would love to switch to a phone like this, only problem I have is text messages are inherently insecure and I would have to create a convoluted setup of texting from a devices with apps like signal and forwarding calls to this dumb device...wish there was a simple phone with a restricted build that only included signal and WhatsApp or something similar, in addition to the basic phone features.
Linux Rpm Command with Examples
Most people in this thread have zero experience with national security issues, and the ACLU/EFF opinions are more what those organizations feel should be the constitutional interpretation, not what actual circumstance is. You certainly can be compelled to say certain things to keep classified information secret, at risk of federal prison or worse, and this is the same law that is being abused for NSLs.
That would be surprising judging from some of the the pictures from the early 1900s

https://bit.ly/2EyDkEt

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/06/4a/1d/064a1d213e4c75d4d48d...
They are essentially paying a tax on behalf of Visa/MC/Amex (none of which are HQ'd in SF). It's actual more than a "double tax" since more than 50% of the processing fee is split with them but not a literal "double tax" imposed by SF.

Gross receipts is all revenue not including any cost or expense https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gross-receipts.asp
Debt existed several thousand years before money was invented[1]. Regarding the bible's many references to debt: note that it doesn't talk about inventing debt. The concept of debt - and the problems it creates - were already commonplace enough that for priests to add social commentary about debt into religious texts. Predating the book of Proverbs by ~700 years, Leviticus 25:8-13 discuses the concept of a "Jubilee" every 50 years where slaves/prisoners were freed and debts were forgiven.

Double entry bookkeeping was a great idea that expanded many aspects of business and finance because it was a type of error detection for complex accounts that could be done - in the era before calculating machines - by hand using only addition.

[1] See David Graeber's writings/talk for a good overview of the ancient history of debt and the invention of early forms of money from the need to standardize debts/payments/etc.
I'm still waiting to hear about a better option ... what will yield better outcomes?

> What you are missing is this institution does not have direct accountability to neither voters nor tax payers.

I'm not sure what this means, though it's often repeated.

In most democracies, only one person who does anything (legislatures don't act, they make rules) that is directly responsible is the chief executive, e.g., the President in the United States. 99.9999% of what is done is by people not directly responsible to voters, which includes every park ranger, bank regulator, soldier, janitor, cabinet official, medicare payment processor, security guard, CIA agent, NIH researcher, etc etc etc.

Furthermore, every international agreement is made by the executives, and carried out by someone - Trump isn't going to be personally delivering the mail to Mali (or to Minnesota) no matter what happens, so inevitably it's done by an institution that "does not have direct accountability to neither voters nor tax payers".

How do you propose we handle international mail with people directly accountable to voters?

> why is the Universal Postal Union concerned with income redistribution

It's not redistribution, it's paying our share as the richest countries in the world. Is it income redistribution when Bezos pays more taxes than the person who served you your coffee? The principle is equal sacrifice. If Bezos and the waiter paid the exact same taxes, it would be absurd. Bezos and the rich countries can afford much more. We'd have to be amazing doctrinaire or miserly to demand that poor people pay as much as we do. $300 million issues should not reach the President's desk in the U.S. - it's laughable. There are many corporations that could write off that amount without thinking twice.
I will agree so, since I discovered this and how this and positivity affect my perception I practice it daily like a meditative practice . basically it prolongs your instant gratification.
The Motorola Razr M was an even smaller form factor with a 4.3" display. And all the iPhones from 3g to SE were outstanding in this now-extinct category, especially the 5s.

The 5s has the venerable status of being not only small, but one of the oldest currently-supported smartphones. At over 5 years old, it can still run respectably with iOS 12.
We could set minimum amounts to go to schools

I lived for quite a while in Kansas, where the state constitution makes adequate funding of schools mandatory. The result is a never-ending series of lawsuits in which the legislature claims to have provided adequate funding, and a court finds that they haven't and orders them to increase or redistribute the funding (sometimes it's found that they under-funded the schools overall, sometimes it's found that they distributed the funding in ways which result in some districts not having adequate support).

This and a few other back-and-forth fights led to the former governor and his party-aligned state legislature attempting to change the selection process for judges, and attaching a rider to that law which would completely defund the state court system if the courts ruled they didn't have the authority to change the selection process, and hinted that if they still ruled against him he'd attempt to recall the entire state supreme court and replace them with partisans who'd support him.
Hedge Fund Manager Will Accept Bitcoin for His $16M Mansion
The smoke is already going up when, right now Tether has been at a value of $0.95 for more than a week and Bitfinex who is likely to be behind the Tether corp has its Bitcoin price above 5% above market average.

Reminds me of MtGox when it its price was going off the rest of the market until collapsed.
It also has no camera. It has built-in apps, though, including a Web browser, a calculator, and a calendar—so sure, it's technically a smartphone

The established term for a phone with that functionality is "feature phone". In fact, it's even in the URL:

https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/product/feature_phone/ky01l/
Deriving the Normal Distribution
>Suppose one day materialistic instincts - manipulated by advertisers and wealthy, high-status peers - inform you that you ought to acquire an expensive Thing to maintain your status and sense of self-worth. Your parents are unwilling or unable to provide the Thing for you. You, as a young person, cannot earn or save enough to buy the Thing on your own. As a result, you become unhappy.

Wouldn't this depend on the personality of the child? Maybe the child decides "I'm going to work hard, study hard and hussle until I have these things, and have more of them than my wealthy peers". I've spent a lot of time in China, where the majority of people grew up way poorer than even the poorest Americans (albeit with better access to schooling) and such an attitude is not uncommon.
Brave web experience is amazing, I turn off ads. I read everything in peace.
The loading time is promising of course.

Now, I set it to default browser in all my devices.
So You Want to Open a Small Press Bookstore/Artist-Run Space? A Cautionary Tale
They’ve made similar statements in the past, e.g. regarding patriot act requests in 2013.
I'm starting to think that "computer-substitute" is precisely what smart phones have become, and that having a real computer you depend on might correlate with age, income or occupation in a way that phone ownership cuts across. It's pretty easy to finance a phone purchase through your carrier, especially compared to Apple's Barclay deal (unless this has changed a lot in the last few years.) I think a lot of people under thirty are borderline computer illiterate, but get by using their phone. For them, a bigger screen that's harder to type on is fine. For people with more money and computer literacy, it's just a matter of taste--but we're not the biggest slice of the pie.
I found the Atlantic story really interesting. Thanks for sharing
> Yes, but let's say in the U.S. the numbers are 100% survival for the richest 50% and 0% survival for the other 50%. Clearly the average survival rate is 50%. Now let's say the Netherlands has a flat survival rate of 50%. If I don't consider wealth, it doesn't matter which country I get care in. If I'm at 49.999% of wealth in the U.S., the difference is 0% survival vs 50%.

Instead of just making up numbers that could hypothetically mean something, take a look at what's already been linked in this thread and you'll see that's not the case.