skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, let's play whatabout. What if the US wasn't there in the Philippines or Hawaii? Then Japan would have taken them over just like they took over all other stuff, done terrible things to the inhabitants, just like they did everywhere else, and the US would have sat out the war.

The US being in the Philippines and Hawaii has nothing to do with Hiroshima, other than the US being there when Japan attacked. Japan attacked the wrong country and this resulted in decisive force being used against them.
The British upper class wants the freedom to abuse their lower class more and they sold this nonsense to them with a spiel about sovereignty.

Thank God the Brits have such a taste for irony. They'll be feasting on this one for the better part of a decade.
It was a bit weird to me as well. There's like 7.x% of gay people which would leave 0.4% for non-gay people that feel that they belong to some kind of minority. It makes gay people look like having a ton of issues at once and I can't imagine that's true.

Or is it: "Yes I'm a woman, but I don't feel underrepresented"?
That column of GOTOs in EMPIRE.FOR. That is the stuff of nightmares.

EDIT- Terrifying:

251 GOTO (21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37) I-20
The problem is how hard it would be to create and scale an ethical Amazon competitor. Things like Etsy are the closest viable path I can think of, but I don't know how saintly they are either.
This is a fair argument and I will concede that if we're thinking about success as the getting high quality compliance for managerial games (which really does make up most entry level work in finance, consulting and tech) then hiring from a top school is highly predictive.

Going more meta, starting a median VC-backed company in the Valley is largely playing the same kind of game as in elite private schools and colleges - observing a social scene, identifying powerful players and the ladder to reach them, meticulously performing the necessary social roles in order to achieve funding, cargo cult management styles from the group.
I would guess you'd have a relay for any data you want transferred from non-connected devices/locations, e.g. farm equipment, wind turbines, ships, etc. Also, a client-to-space-to-EC2-only VPN in a I-am-my-own-satellite ISP may have benefits. Unsure whether by "average-ish" you meant the ability to broadcast/receive ground data.
U.S. Census Releases 2018 Geographic Mobility Data
#MeToo is... Disobedient? To whom? 17th century white male Lord's who live by rule of thumb? It is just ridiculous. Apparently this is just a generic "Good Award", for doing "Good Things in General"! Good job #MeToo, you did something good, and MIT Media Lab wants to recognize you for it! Jesus, this is literally bad for both sides.
i dont think its possible to make an international bank transfer in 1 day. Maybe through SEPA (not sure? ) but that's just inside the EU.

Also, how are fees in sweden ? bank transfer/currency exchange fees are just an absurd abuse of power imho.
I used to recruit for tech start ups and can confirm that school is just about always the most important thing to get you in the door, particularly early on in your career.

It's something that I fought against (I have a technical background and had the advantage of being able to evaluate technical skill somewhat independently), and did well because of it.

There were a few candidates that I brought in that I was reprimanded for - physically brought into our partners' office to be told off - only to have that candidate receive multiple job offers from our clients. The partners weren't qualified to really evaluate technical skill, but knew what candidate qualities that a start up is willing to pay a recruiter's fee for.

At the end of the day, my candidates were exceptional for having risen above their alma maters' reputations, and the Ivy league grads are more consistently good/qualified.

When hiring, time is such an important factor. Many engineering teams are unwilling to take the chance on an a candidate that graduated from unfamiliar school because their hiring process is weak and/or inefficient. Or they waited too long to hire, and need someone "yesterday". At least they're more likely to end up with a good candidate by using the school as the qualifier, even if it costs them more because of the candidate's demand.

TL;DR : The 'top' candidates' values are artificially inflated as a result of high demand, which itself is due to ill-conceived and insufficient hiring processes across most companies.
There's a narrative that Bitfinex/Tether drove up the price of crypto fraudulently, and that USDT is not 1:1 backed by fiat.

Not weighing in on it either way, but issues with Tether have been a sword of Damocles of the crypto market for a while. Bitfinex'd on Twitter[0] has all sorts of speculation if you want to get into it.

[0] - https://twitter.com/bitfinexed
This was actually in the documentary too. There is a Russian site or app called Commenter, where you can buy positive on-topic comments. Also common practice to do this to e.g. boost some products in SMB webshops, etc.
Only if the tariffs were clearly linked to polluting and tax-evading. Otherwise they provide no incentive to stop. I don't believe Trump has linked his tariffs to pollution or tax-evasion. He's been talking about China's industrial subsidies, monetary policy and intellectual property theft.

Simply sanctioning bad countries isn't good in itself, unless it forces them to become better.
Stealing 5% of people's money is not OK.

Stopping 5% of people from stealing other people's money is a good thing, but might easily be confused with the first thing.
Daily Mail is a tabloid and this is unironically fake news. If you fall for this sort of thing I'd highly recommend taking a hard look at your media consumption habits.
Hens will happily eat all your slugs, bleach will kill your plants instead.

Soap is used sometimes to get rid of some plagues (because many plages use wax to avoid dessication or deter predators and soap distroys this upper layer) but remains in the soil aren't good at long term. Of course you can't use any common insecticide, because spider mites aren't insects, but you can use (or support) mite predators that will munch on spider mites.

Spider mites hate the moisture and, if is in a pot, just spraying water repeatedly can help a lot, or even solve the problem.

In a non sprayed garden with enough access to water and welcomed predators, spider mites aren't so much trouble.
> That expertise is a direct result of class

On average, it's important to note.
The actual announcement was linked above. Any time before the cutoff Bitfinex will continue to support USDT:USD at parity, and all USD and EUR deposits will be denominated in the fiat currency, not the tether equivalent.
#1 and #3 are not contradictory. #1 is about being undercut by firms overseas that don't respect US IP law. #3 is about US IP law being overbearing where enforced. they're basically orthogonal points.
Google consensus has never been a good way to verify words or meanings. Just look up the definition of the word "definition" in google. The google supplied definition matches no major dictionary online.
I'm sure there are lots of Chinese scientists that would never go back, but at the same time there're also plenty of Chinese immigrants (including scientists) actually went back or are considering going back when the time is right, including myself. I think overall more people are considering that as a viable option over the years.
Sure, this is within Sweden.
I'm fond of calling it what it really is. A cryptocommodity. There is nothing currency about it right now, too volatile to trust on either the seller or buyer's end.
Comcast charges $10 for every 50 GB of bandwidth used after 1,024 GB a month. Which may be prohibitive.

And, unfortunately, some of us don't have a choice of ISP at home.
The question is still somewhat relevant. I realise the prime minister doesn't think it is but she may not be in power indefinitely.
I Did but the camera didn't work until I did

https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie
I've found caffeine to be sufficient, too scared to try anything "harder" - but I suspect many hustlers do not have wives and children, or if they do they are crappy fathers/husbands - I personally know some people like this.
No sharks were jumped in the making of this service or blog post.
It's rather disappointing and yet enlightening that you choose to attack character instead of engaging in the discussion. It's certainly not evidence that you are somehow more "equipped" to have this conversation.
> Any time before the cutoff Bitfinex will continue to support USDT:USD at parity

What does "support" mean? I thought it was notoriously difficult to convert Tether into hard currency.

> all USD and EUR deposits will be denominated in the fiat currency

Will previous deposits, which were held as Tether, be converted into hard currency? (Bitfinex has recently been having issues redeeming hard currency deposits [1].)

The cynic in me sees Bitfinex attempting to convert Tether, a secured redeemable obligation, into brokerage deposits, unsecured obligations in most jurisdictions.

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/for-bitfinex-users-dollar-withdrawa...
Some MST3K videos have joke/reference explanations as annotations.
I think it works on stable these days.
Change your UserAgent to one of Google Bots, and start hitting the pages hosting a PDF. Probably some hints there.
NPM event-stream hack – can we be smarter next time?
Is the Medieval French "the same language" as the modern French? It is French after all, right?
Centuries of financialization in agriculture are working against smaller farms.
"More than 50% of fish caught by British boats end up elsewhere in the EU". A 47km traffic jam isn't going to help getting fresh fish exported either, that's the least of their worries.

What's most terrifying is the knock on affects of one of the largest economies on the planet going into reverse for 5+ years.
Looking for a way we should build crypto wallets if we want to make them really secure.
He doesn't discriminate against men or women. There is no evidence of that in his hundreds of hours of lectures or interviews or books.

His wife and daughter would also disagree with the sexist claim. As well as his many female patients who he has helped with their careers.

> But please, tell me more about what goes on inside my own head.

I didn't mind read. You literally typed out a common dismissal. The sexist comment is also that.
Frankly, it's embarrassing how an absolutist regime can create a sense of more on-the-ground intellectual freedom than can a supposedly free country. Socially enforced censorship of painfully obvious facts in the west has gotten out of control, and unless we place limits on our newfound authoritarian impulses, we're going to be out-competed. While it's true that we've been very successful for a long time, success breeds complacency. Objections to things like genetic editing of humans on vague ethical grounds will just leave the advantage with others.
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"In general, the sale or exchange of convertible virtual currency, or the use of convertible virtual currency to pay for goods or services in a real-world economy transaction, has tax consequences that may result in a tax liability."

It literally says that exchanging the BTC for your debt counts the same as selling it for USD and then paying your debt. You would get the exchange rate at the time of the transaction.

If I bought a coin at 1k and pay my taxes with it when its at 2k, it then triggers a liability of 1k, on the gains from buying it to using it.
The politics of fishing in the waters around the UK and Ireland is long and complicated. Here's just one example: http://britishseafishing.co.uk/atlantic-dawn-the-ship-from-h...

I believe there have been other examples where the Irish fishing quota was expanded by the exact amount of tonnage as whatever new supertrawler just got built.

It's also true that the British government have had their own issues when it comes to fishing policy but I still believe that the end result in total will be better with a single government (the UK) managing those waters rather than them falling under the EU's fishing policy.
anyone using "us VS them" style language and communication techniques

Isn't that exactly what your comment is doing?
that link is great, thank you lol
I haven't been able to test this directly since I'm in New York and therefore am not allowed to have an account on Bitfinex, but nobody has reported withdrawal difficulties in a very long time, and Bitfinex has always treated USDT deposits as USD without any explicit or implicit conversion.

Bitfinex has had withdrawal problems and banking problems in the past, but to my knowledge the only recent problems have been around times when USD/USDT has disconnected, largely due to delays in Bitfinex's fiat withdrawal pipeline that have all since been resolved.
Recruiting is about minimizing false positives, not maximizing sensitivity.
Maybe "Stroke beard" as in " rather than having the luxury to stroke your beard and decide which spectrum you would prefer.".

I'm imagining like a cartoon evil villain stroking their beard/chin.
The problems are (1) that they get a special definition of "negligent" and "force" than the rest of us, and (2) that they and prosecutors cover up malfeasance (the blue line); not that the stakes aren't high enough if they are found guilty.

Raising the stakes for a group that already protects its own just increases its incentive to cover up malfeasance.
Curious: I have had a couple of conversations with people (not arm chair quarterbacks - knowledgeable, but not expert) about pro & con of supply management systems as enacted in US and Canada (triggered by recent trade talks). This sort of cycle was brought up as a "pro supply management" - if we leave it strictly up to somewhat free and somewhat global markets we inevitably get these boom/bust cycles, but they can be avoided by management boards and the like. Do you think it's accurate?
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As a tall, handsome young white man with a great employment history at internationally known companies I do not like this at all.

There is no perceivable bias that would penalise me, besides the fact that I do not fulfil diversity quotas... Or do I? I am not straight! I really am the full package.
It took me a while to understand that facets are a way of displaying another dimension. Facet wrap lets you display one more dimension and grid lets you display two. I've produced some great plots with both.
ViaSat is also trying to do something similar with a "pay by the minutes" usage for their groundstations and communication satellites. Although the main goal for the ViaSat project is continuous coverage so that you can get data from satellites in near real-time.

https://www.viasat.com/sites/default/files/media/documents/v...
"which is why Rich Hickey would even take the time to tell someone that they aren't worth the time of the very response they're reading"

I think you are misrepresenting what Rich wrote. He said you are not "entitled" to a response. That is not an evaluation of someone's worth, but a statement about what they are owed, or not owed.
Speaking as someone who played the Civilization 2-5 to the point of obsession, and one that quit a full time job at $megacorp to focus on a side project of mine full time, this is so apt it's funny.

One of the reasons people do side projects is that they want to be free of other concerns that govern larger projects, like being able to make money, existing code, design or frameworks, or simply, existing paths of thought. But after the 80% point, the project has already created its own ways of thinking about certain problems, and that means you'll have to solve some problems suboptimally just to retain the existing body of problems being solved optimally.

Compromises. Boring-but-important bits, like designing, coding (HTML tables ahoy) and sending launch emails, which I did, the whole day yesterday.

I think as a society we fundamentally underestimate how much the average person yearns for freedom, all day, every day. Selling that freedom has its benefits, but it's not a free lunch.
This goes hand in hand with the fact that its just ornaments around a landscape built for cars. We need to rework the land and our communities based on just humans walking about. Rip up the roads.
Why I can't use wallets like Trust wallet?
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That's true of most scientists from non-English-speaking countries. By the by, there's a market for proofreading those translations (e.g. ThinkScience for the Japanese-to-English market). You won't learn Chinese, but if you're learning Chinese, it might be a good way to see how the Chinese make mistakes going back to English.
> were themselves free of bias.

At what point do we start growing people solely for the purpose of leading unbiased existences away from all of humanity? Of course these existences are isolated from all humanity lest they associate the human that gives them food with positivity, or someone having a bad day with negativity. And of course, we kill these unbiaseds shortly after every selection process, since the mere process of selection itself, generates bias.

Some SF writer must have beaten me to this right?
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Yours isn't the first time I've seen this perspective. It's definitely not just you. That said, as I grow older I find I enjoy this more and more.

To make a case for this particular instance, as others have mentioned, this is a magazine article, not a newspaper article, or a scientific publication. The article isn't _just_ about bug population in decline. There are a number of major and minor themes woven throughout. I feel like the narrative frame works to support that.
Can you be more specific? If previous LWK approaches were OK, what is different about this?
That doesn't happen if you don't have the yelp app installed.

Don't reward their shitty dark patterns[0] by installing their app. They have a site that is perfectly amenable to being consumed in a web browser on your phone. They're _already done the work_ to make it work well on your phone, but then they kneecapped it and turned the hard work of all those engineers and designers into lead-gen for their app so they can get your location data.

m.yelp.com: This page will open in another application.

me: tHiS PAgE wiLl OPEn iN aNOtheR ApPliCaTIon.

[0] You can only see the first few pictures, you can only read the first fifty words of each review, and every attempt to go beyond that[1] is met with a redirect to the App Store app

[1] no, they don't make it clear that clicking that "read more" link is going to send you to another app.
There's essentially 4 options at this point:

1. Take the deal on offer.

2. Stall for more time to get a better deal.

3. Cancel the whole thing.

4. Bail out with no-deal.

(There's also a non-orthogonal option of hold a second referendum to let voters decide which option to do, the results of this are likely to depend heavily on what options are actually on the ballot.)

It's not at all clear that a better deal is forthcoming, given more time. Indeed, the current deal on offer is already kicking most of the hard contentious decisions down the road. So the general preference for what should be done amounts to, in decreasing order of desirability, 3, 1, 4, 2 or 1, 3, 4, 2, depending on how people view the EU. But that preference isn't the same preference that's going on for the vocal Brexiteer politician population.

For those people, the EU has been an ideological punching bag for quite some time, which means that admitting that leaving now is not the appropriate action amounts to discrediting their views. So to them, option 3 is the absolute worst option. Similarly, the current deal on offer commits the UK to maintaining a lot of the EU's provisions without a strong say on them, which is still pretty anathema to those who want nothing less than a hard Brexit, making option 1 nearly as bad. This means that the remaining option are to walk away from the current deal and hope that brinkmanship causes the EU to sweeten the deal, or to believe that the worst effects of a no-deal Brexit simply won't happen. So for these politicians, their order of preference is basically the reverse of what it is for everybody.

Essentially, that is the issue. Brexit was sold on a pack of fantasy and lies, and the people in power have the choice of committing to their fantasies are admitting that they've lied. It's rare to find the politician who would admit that the worldview they've committed to for decades is a lie, and you shouldn't be surprised that the Brexiteers are the same way.
I wonder if there is a word for this state of mind. Kind of a relaxed, unhurried creative state. I think John Cleese referred to this as the 'open state' but it almost seems more of a subset. Perhaps the buddhist texts have a word for this, although I'm thinking of a more general state of mind, not necessarily just after meditation.
A quick glance at glassdoor reviews is a decent insight into the troubles at Omni over the past 2 years. You should always take those reviews with a grain of salt of course...

Omni was a haven of some really awesome people and was a great group of engineering, sales, and management. Over the last 2 years through a series of poor decisions, ignoring the engineering staff and senior members of the sales team, management has driven all but a very few people from the ranks. Happiness was the very last thing considered as consultants were often driven to "stick it out" on assignments that could sometimes be downright hostile at the worst end or career dead ends on the more mild side.
I don't know what you mean by this -- depositing USDT into Bitfinex has always immediately credited your USD balance. Until this announcement, they have always treated USDT as simply a method for depositing USD, with no explicit conversion necessary.

What I mean by "support" is that before the cutoff (at 14:30 UTC on 2018-11-27, four and a half hours from now) any USDT deposits will be credited to the USD account balance of the user who made the deposit, as it has in the past.
Bitfinex is the same operation as Tether (commingled ownership and common control). Tether’s product is the eponymous “stablecoin” which promises that each USDT is backed by $1 USD sitting in a bank account and available for withdraw on demand.

This promise is a lie. This announcement walks back the lie.

This is very important for the cryptocurrency ecosystem, because Bitfinex is a large exchange, liquidity provider, counterparty, and (I strongly suspect) lender. If they are factually insolvent or fail in a bank run, that is a Very Big Deal, at least insofar as anyone cares about cryptocurrency.
You could probably get pretty far by just instituting such a system in the countries with the highest consumption (USA, EU, China), and additionally having them also institute tariffs on any goods imported from countries that don't bake ecological harm into prices.
not even. if one wants to invest for the long term in a commodity, they d pick gold, for the simple reason that it won't rust. Bitcoin may fold tomorrow if a cryptographic weakness is found, its just too risky to be an investment grade commodity. But since it's not a currency either, it has become just a game for speculators, and it will remain so until the people who actually need the tech start puttting it to use en masse.
That's a good attitude comrade. Congratulations on earning an additional 10 points to your social credit score! Now you can enjoy the 2nd class cabin on our country's numerous, punctual, and well maintained trains. Keep up your outstanding and patriotic attitude and you'll be riding in the luxurious and stylish 1st class cabins in no time!
It's called Schmidt Ocean Institute... not a huge secret.
LOL free smog... come one; come all!