skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google hasn't extorted local governments for tax breaks in their recent San Jose deal.

https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/12/san-jose-deal-google-ca...

>Liccardo says, the city didn’t offer the company any tax incentives in exchange for its business. “More importantly,” he added in a Medium post, “Google never asked for a dime.”
Seems like in addition to whether they're more swingy than they should be, are they being presented in a way that is interpreted as more certain or authoritative than they can possibly claim?
Tez (2017-18) isn't dead but just rebranded and still going strong in India. If this page includes rebranding how about including other re-branding like Keep, etc.
Why did this post get flagged? I though free speech issues were very pertinent to Hacker News.

A post below by
kyrieeschaton critiquing the Israel lobby was also flagged. Her/his post just suggested the Israel lobby was involved in the process, and had nothing I'd consider offensive.
I could read it at first glance, I didn’t need any training. Maybe it’s different between individuals
Having a critical mass of people matters. Large, dense cities have economies of scale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JUAx445ReU
Was your application affected? Did you have to perform an extensive rewrite?

Engineering is all about compromises.
Tech Companies Dragged Feet on Russian Interference Data, Reports Say
Evil is more banal than that. I have no ostrich jacket but I’d create a spying tool for an authoritarian government for the right price. For me it would be about $5-10 million.
Because there have not been any serious reports of fraud and abuse, and the things he built are so important for the future of humanity, that even much more serious accusations won't change the total balance to a negative for Musk.
Wow. I didn't realize (until I looked at that wiki entry) that James Gosling -- yes, that James Gosling -- is the original author of sc!
I can access this story using PIA.
Nate Silver built an aleatory model whereby low probability high effect events (Comey reopening the investigation on eve of the election) are discounted because if you add enough of these potential disruptive events the model will be 50%-50% and that has no value to anybody. Who wants to read an article that said "election forecast 50-50" every day.

If a 538 model says one outcome is 75% probable, it really should come with a giant caveat saying "at current trends assuming nothing out of the ordinary occurs". Taleb's beef is that if that is the case, the 75% does not mean in reality this result is 75% likely to happen.

What is a really interesting takeaway is that if in an event where the outcome you desire based appears unlikely, your job is introduce as much previously undefined or discounted uncertainty. Ideally you engineer a black swan event or at least do what you can to make it happen. This would be fun to model from a game-theory approach instead.
Factual information isn’t always useful in another context.
Five thirty eight is pretty consistent with saying their forecasts more than a few days out are unreliable. They’re fairly accurate with with their final forecasts, though.
Why does this not just link to the Twitter war?
Maryland synagogue incident: Suspicious package found with people ‘feeling ill’
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When it is successful, much success can be attributed to the resulting decrease in ghrelin, which is mostly an accident of physiology (the part removed/constrained is chosen for surgical simplicity, and it happens to have higher ghrelin secretion).
> I didn't even know it had any real social features.

hi, Sonica Arora, CTO of Bubblin here.

social is very critical to books, though I agree with you that with Bandcamp and in general with music it isn't so much. our store fees, transactions and writer-reader sale stuff and options will be just as transparent and simple as it is for Bandcamp.

thanks for sharing your views!
How is making everything look the same better for reading? I can read UPC codes more easily that this garbage. This is static. It's compressed like for computers, not expanded for humans.
If you can't figure it out, perhaps you are truly a Hackernews. :-)
Just hold on to the discs you can't rip. Eventually enough keys will be leaked to decrypt them. Blurays will likely die out when internet is fast enough to stream high quality video and at that point you will be able to rip them all when a key is leaked.
What does "bandcamp" refer to? Is that another webapp or are you comparing the bookreader to a summer camp?
Me, I will not miss him, or them.

What was he on there for, anyway? Or them? Isn't that for supporting artists?
Don't forget about the deseret alphabet. I think it's a shame that never stuck.
How can one go about authoring a book on your platform? It's not the same old EPUB, is it?
> Perhaps if they aren’t smart enough to connect the dots they aren’t smart enough to be investing in high risk private companies.

If they are investing one companies resources they expect equity or payment, regardless of if the tunnels are useful for Mars.
Thank you for bringing this up. Legit, was bothering me to the extent I didn’t believe I could comprehend the article.
Think of it as how Americans are completely tolerant of communists while people who lived under communist rule tend to be not so much. Americans have not experienced Cheka, Holodomor or Cultural Revolution. They also have not experienced Taiping rebellion or any of the other massive slaughters that happened in China over religion. Think 30 year war except it happened quite recently.

Would I be ok now with now with grabbing every random moron wearing commie t-shirt and throwing him into re-education camp? No. 15 year old me who just finished reading Archipelag Gulag and was finally told my family history during Holodomor? Well I would get a rope, find a tree and get to work.

Things like this are very complicated. Having said that Google is idiotic trying to reenter PRC market. Communist party will never allow them to grow to any degree there if they have any independence, they would need to become a servant of the party 100%, even then.. likely they will just get all of their tech stolen and bunch of intelligence officers placed into leadership roles. There is NO path for them to grow in China and succeed, what they sell is too valuable for control of people to allow foreign controlled entity any growth inside PRC.
It is kind of heartbreaking.

But, although my current manager is excellent at supporting his team and would never think such a thing, let alone say it, the truth is that, unless you're a professional researcher, you really do have to do the hammock-driven thing on your own time, either by working it into your routine or by taking a long sabbatical (as Rich did). It's something I struggle with, even at a very good workplace.

"Nothing is more precious" than the chance to think through a problem over a long term, and as things stand, the best tool for thinking is still the mind, not the keyboard. I can see how that takes a leap of faith when your chief deliverable is code.

Anyway, maybe a better introduction for your typical manager is,

> The most expensive problems are problems of misconception.
Interesting. Even my old internship had shuttle buses in NYC.
Do DVDs offer better error correction than CDs? I know from ripping CDs it can take over an hour per CD to get an accurate rip because the program has to read the disk multiple times to get the correct data out.
It's worth pointing out we as a society are allowed to optimize for more than just shareholder value and the growth of our GDP.
What pathogens? If you have microbes that can use the plastic as a carbon source, they have a competitive advantage and will out-compete anything else.

Look up how ethanol fermentation is done -- it's actually not that sterile. The yeast secrete alcohol that effectively kills off competitors. A similar effect has been taken advantage of by engineering some yeasts to consume an unnatural source of phosphorus (phosphite).

So if you were to evolve a microbe that can eat certain types of plastic, it would readily outcompete everything else.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6299/583
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It's the business model that we're geared towards. But we're still writing code as we speak so any suggestions on alternative models are most welcome.

[edits] Hoping that site doesn't crash. brb.
The author doesn't seem to understand how the 538 model works. The 538 model does take epistemic uncertainty into account; it just doesn't call it that. The model calls it "likelihood of polls moving by X% between now and election day". In 2016 they offered a "now-cast" which didn't include that, and answer the question "based on where the polls are right now, how likely is any given outcome if the election were held today?" while the "classic" model answered the question "based on where the polls are right now and the fact that unanticipated things will happen between now and the election, how likely is any given outcome?". For 2018, they dropped the "now-cast", because people didn't understand what it was saying.

True, the epistemic uncertainty is limited -- it's based on past elections, because hey, 538 works with actual data. One could argue that rather than saying "71.4% Clinton 28.6% Trump", a better model would have said "71.3% Clinton 28.4% Trump 0.2% Election is cancelled due to nuclear war / natural disaster / etc" but I don't think anyone sensible is interpreting the model as excluding such extreme outcomes.
This is a pretty interesting document, and gives quite a few hints about the workings of the ALCS: https://static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/af_se/public...

My understanding is that inside the capsule LCCs, if the ALCS sends a launch order, if they do nothing in two minutes, the missile launches. I believe any of the ten LCCs in the wing can abort the launch. Then there's some arbitration procedure where another LCC can reverse this and decide to launch after all, and then I think the wing commander's LCC can have a final override on that. The intention is that if all of the LCCs are destroyed, the missiles can still be launched, since there would be no one left to abort the launch, but under normal conditions, the ALCS would not be able to launch. The government is currently starting to build a new ALCS replacement system that is IP based, which I think has to be about the worst idea I've ever heard of.
Your understanding of this issue is much better than many HNers
on the reason why the "concentration camp" exist. Most HNers get all information from West Media with many convincing "evidence" with map and photo analysis. That's why you "appall".

However, there are other sources of information selectively filtered by media. For example,here's a story of a famous Uhigyr celebrity went back to her alma mater (in Chinese):

https://www.backchina.com/news/2018/11/20/594759.html

The Uhigyr celebirties are disproportional more than Han based on their poplulation. But they seems to work/live like nothing happen although the whole world are angry. There are 2 possible reason:s

1. They(all of them) don't care about their compatriot

2. They know the "camps" but they also know the real nature of the "camps".

Most Chinese know these celebrities very well through entertainment news. One even show up on TV almost everyday. If you were a Chinese , which reason would you bet?
I like the idea. The site is well-done and I'll definitely revisit...however...I wanted to ask about some of the comments in the FAQ, specifically:

> Files are about encoding those rotten ideals and force
> them on the society.

> So why should e-books be files at all?

Well, without some kind of common format, you would need a browser always in order to reliably view a book. Browsers are pretty awful on e-readers...so you're basically forced to read a book from your phone or tablet through a browser with this concept.

Another problem is that unless the books are embeddable HTML, it's easy to imagine that your Bubblin formatting would not work well if I try to self-publish to say, my personal blog. So am I not just trading one proprietary file format for proprietary HTML/CSS/JS markup?

I like the vision. E-books can be so much more than they currently are and it would be neat to see more rich visualization and interactivity inside of reading experiences.
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I find the whole article quite convincing actually (including the picture thing). I was just arguing that the statistical model isn't a strong evidence per se.
Yes, but we're FORCING people to, not ALLOWING them to
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Amazing! :D Any information on the tech behind this? :)
It doesn't double the value of his shares. It merely doubles the size of the dividend he receives, assuming that the company doesn't change the size of the dividend to account for having fewer shareholders (which was an explicit part of the hypothetical of the comment I replied to).

In the real world, the company would simply reduce the size of the dividend so his take-home is the same.
Is it a great point?

He seems to miss the point of what 538 is doing. Their nowcasts are attempts to say what would happen if the election was today, which throws away the time-dependent uncertainty.
Then each bottle is still .7 new bottles. Better than 1.0, but still pretty bad.
MCA Notices to Startups Are in Line with Latest Amendment: Indian Govt
Judging from the date on the reddit post, it's a bit late for my comment (two days after the post), but the real issue is not how to duplicate so many DVDs, the issue is how to RIP those DVDs onto some cheap storage for later burning onto DVDs. So high data bandwidth between stacks of DVD players with lots of memory for caching (or however you cache DVD data streams). Fry's had a 4TB external hard drive for $89 this weekend. Maybe have a bunch of SSDs as the intake point for the DVDs, and then offload the ripped copies from the SSDs onto physical drives while you're changing out the DVDs. Would want to use the fastest interfaces available. I've no idea these days what the cool kids are using. (My first hard drive was a 5-1/4" full-height 10 MB MFM. Thought I would never need more storage than that. I think my second HD was 20 MB and used RLL.)

Organizing the DVDs by length would allow optimizing the loading/ripping process to assure minimum time lost waiting for the operator's hands to be free. This kind of planning makes for an interesting project.

It might make an interesting crowd-funded project, if it's reasonably easy to get a research permit. Plan it out, go in with the hardware, come out with the images. Use all the error correction opportunities you've got available.

Do a web search for "bulk dvd ripping" (without quotes) and you'll find lots and lots of discussion and advice, including some about building a dedicated DVD ripping rig. MakeMKV gets good press, in my very quick read of a few posts.

And there's always the option of crowd-funding to raise the exact amount needed to pay off the break-even for Amazon's investment. I can't imagine they'd fight back too hard when looking at a large check vs. a non-performing asset, unless Bezos personally never intended to let the footage go free.
2018 was worst year for violence and abuse against journalists, report says
I mean it makes perfect sense right, I thought this was basic economics.

Market dictates to maximize shareholder value you need optimal board members x,y,z. A law like this makes you replace z with e.

It's not that a woman can't do the job, but instead that the supply of women capable is much lower. As a result, with a shortage and a mandate for women board members some companies will get sub-optimal picks which result in sub-optimal results.
538 provides pretty in-depth discussions of it forecasts and changes in it. Far more than you would expect - and I think because 538 is ultimately a statistics blog at heart, not a political blog.
Anyone interested in BLE might also enjoy this blog post about the Fuze Multi-Card[0]. It mentions the tools btlejuice[1], gattacker[2] and crackle[3].

[0] https://www.elttam.com.au/blog/fuzereview/

[1] https://github.com/DigitalSecurity/btlejuice

[2] https://github.com/securing/gattacker

[3] https://github.com/mikeryan/crackle
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I was just wondering - how difficult is it to commute by bike in from e.g. Brooklyn? NYC seems pretty flat, so biking could get you there quicker than by car if there's a lot of traffic.
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You are missing my point.

Every company does this, even Apple. Every company outsources designs to third parties or buys the rights to an already made product to sell as their own. Apple does it with cables and maybe most famously the Apple branded iMac vesa mount. I'm sure they do it with other non core stuff too.

Entire car companies are nothing but rebadged models from another sister/partner brand. And oh boy you should read the heritage stories of those ghost brands. Audi takes a Porsche SUV, makes a few tweaks and boom, new Q7. Do they say that on their marketing or do they talk about how they spent years studying the needs of a family to be able to balance it with the desire for power and performance? Or how they finally achieved the perfect balance of sportiness and practicality?

Hasselblad and Leica, renowned for their photographic history and iconic designs sell nothing but rebadged cameras at the low end, at double the price of their counterparts of course. Do they redirect to Sony or Panasonic on their marketing pages?

Almost the entire fashion and makeup industries are like this.

These guys have bad quality control, ok, I'll give you that, but that just means they are bad at business. And It is not like their watches were such a fire hazard that all had to be banned from even entering an airplane.
The first problem effectively makes this DOA. A bunch of dots on a page can mean anything if there isn't a grid to orient them.
There is no bleeding out. Google is actually expanding massively in the Bay Area with a huge purchase in San Jose, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, and SF. They are adding space for 50k more employees in the Bay, far more than in NY. Facebook is building out its Menlo Park campus and also signed the largest lease in SF history. Tesla has basically taken over every bit of office space in Fremont. Apple recently opened their $5bn campus.Bay Area can only accommodate 8mn people and with housing push perhaps 10mn at max. So obviously the biggest companies in the world needs to expand somewhere else as well
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Internet is already fast enough to stream high quality movies. The reason you can only access a comprehensive list of movies thru iTunes or disks is legal, not technological.
So I am curious as to the payment plan. So if I understand correctly, the business gets paid in dollars, but the hosters get paid in coins?

How do the coins fare in the howey test?
Are there any governance plans for the token?
Do you run your own nodes? If so, do you plan to decommission them once the platform is popular enough?
What would happen if no one is selling coins on an exchange?
What happens if someone placed a huge dollar order, even though all of the coins on the exchanges do not equal five million worth of fiat value? What happens to the difference?

Thanks!
Generate a UUID on the client side and pass it as a parameter, and configure the server not to process the same UUID twice.

Though if it’s just a todo app, it probably doesn’t matter. It matters slightly more when the resources you’re creating are things like “purchase orders” or “payments” or “shipments” or “hailing an Uber”.
Give a call to Jason Scott at the internet archive? Get lots of friends to help?
Are these analysis efforts publically viewable?
Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_money
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What do they think The Boring Company is really for? And Tesla, and Solar City for that matter.

Uh huh. Sure it is. That would explain why Solar City has thus far failed to account for the significantly reduced amount of solar energy that reaches Mars. Solar cells can't charge EVs fast enough on Earth. With the same panel area, it would take most of a Martian year to charge a single EV on Mars.

But as with the hyperloop, Musk has done a great job of getting people to fall for his half-assed fantasies. Somehow though, whenever you actually try to look into his ideas with more scrutiny, they always fall apart like a house of cards.
Had a read of the FAQ and it doesn't seem like its for me. I prefer my books as epub so they work nicely on my ereader. I also require that they be able to be downloaded as files so I can store them on my hdd and they are safely archived so if the original seller pulls them offline or the website shuts down I will always have access to them.

This services feels more like a longer form blog platform tbh but good luck and I hope others find use in it.
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It seems like parsing both forwards in the normal way and backwards from the end of the file would be helpful? That is, take the longest suffix that parses correctly and assume any syntax errors are before that for error-reporting purposes.

Most programming languages aren't designed for parsing backwards, though!
Do you have context on this? I’ve been ripping/verifying old CD based games using raw cdrdao and can rip a CD with error correction in a few minutes. I often sell games and use the same method to verify the integrity of the game before sending it off.
That doesn't sound like it is different, so much as just more complete. His analysis of permutations in order to analyze runtimes is, as you say, truly a wonder.

This doesn't feel different from everyone else's idea, though. Unless you just mean in the general complexity analysis, where most of us are basically taught to stop at the highest order terms. It is interesting, because Knuth seems credited with pushing Big-O analysis, but he never stopped at the highest term when analyzing an algorithm. Far as I can tell, he never has. He has done this to compare some algorithms, but even then he has always been empirical for actually comparing things. Treating the Big-O as a hypothesis to test, if anything.
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