skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
City’s are not generally profitable as they have real expenses that scale ~1:1 with population. A 10% discount might be a net gain, but a 66% discount is a sure loss. So, for a company to actually generate 150M in taxable activities it would use far more than 50M worth of city services. Resulting in a net negative return.

Politicians benifit from concentrating upsides while defusing downsides. They can point at X jobs, while ignoring the long term issues.
Welcome to The New Yorker.

Malcolm Gladwell, as well as many other great writers, can be found here:

https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/malcolm-gladwell

This weeks story on Donald Trump might be of interest:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/07/how-mark-burne...
The case of false choices, and how they lead to wrong decisions
Haha - I did an mmx version of this in assembler about twenty years ago for Konstantin Boldyshev's asmutils package. Doing things 8 bytes at a time made it ridiculously fast.
The only gripe I had with the writing was the completely unnecessary injection of gender pronoun controversy.

I highly recommend the AlphaGo movie as well, it does a great job documenting the psychology of professional Go in the world of AI.
PayPal is a disgrace. Years ago they blocked my account and freezed my money until I sent them a copy of my passport, my birth certificate, and a proof of address. But sending them wasn't enough, as this dragged on for months and months with no feedback from them. Eventually (after over a year) they cleared my account, but just a month later it was frozen again, and they asked for the exact same documents yet again. By that time I had made sure I had no money in the account, so I didn't even bother contacting them again.

This was many years ago, and I have almost successfully avoided them since. However, a few months back I had to buy something from Ebay, and I could only pay through PayPal. I now live in a different country, and I have learned that I needed to create a brand new account, you can't change the country of the old account (not that i wanted to use that old account anyway). I made a new account, paid that Ebay guy, and got my merchandise. A month later (after I had already received my merchandise and having not used PayPal after that) I got an e-mail from PayPal asking me yet again for a copy of my passport, my birth certificate, and a proof of address.

Unbelievable. Stay away from PayPal if you can!
There's been a pretty significant amount of progress, but it's all private, except for when Jon makes a video. So in some sense yes, but not anything that you can really try, yet.
Me, the artist tried to report them again. It's impossible. I am getting the message that the ASIN or URL is wrong.
Amazon should simply shut down the seller's shop because they know that he is simply selling counterfeit products. A serious company would do this. I believe they simply chose not to. Because they compete with other unethical companies who are probably worse.
I hope that we the people start realising how bad these policies are and protect ourselves.
My dad was the same way. He constantly complained about me not helping but when we agreed on me helping with something he usually changed the time and then I had already other plans. It was constant drama for really no good reason. He also never showed me how to do something. On the other hand my mom usually discussed what to do, when and how, and things got done with much less friction.

And yes, it really reminds me of some managers that constantly change plans and then are surprised that people don't follow enthusiastically.
Ah, I forgot about Scala. Someone below mentioned Haskell too (which I haven't used). Still, calling Rust fast seems wrong to me!
Almost no one reprocesses, because it doesn't make economic sense at current U prices. Even the french have admitted this.

The US decision to not get the government pushing reprocessing was the correct one. You will notice that after Reagan lifted Carter's ban on reprocessing, no commercial firms here jumped into the market. That's because it's not economically justified.

I don't think burying waste anytime soon at Yucca Mountain is economically justified either, by the way.
Tiller Money and Google Sheets. Use their templates or make your own. I use it to track all spending, see daily transactions from all my accounts in one spreadsheet, and to manage cash flow. I budget with it too, but not dogmatically. Just to see what I can afford to save. Tillerhq.com.
An Old Style of Leadership Is Winning in New Ventures
1. Yea, we had a law firm on contract.

2. We didn't hire contractors, they are employees and have more skin in the game.

That said, no employee ever went on Twitter or court.
A short redaction from this comment. I met up with Sebastian at 35C3 and we talked about it. We don't really disagree. He talked about their motivation for doing it in the first place, along with the larger community backslash and lessons learned.
> Small amounts of inflation are manageable. The same is true for deflation.

Only in the presence of a Reserve Bank, which Bitcoin doesn't have. There's no ability for any authority to increase the number of Bitcoins possible, which means it's permanently deflationary.

Inflationary currencies pay interest via Reserve Bank policies in order to be managed. Bitcoin has no such mechanisms, nor can any be implemented.

> The reason people would join such a system is because they want to get wealthy too!

Which is why ICOs are so popular. Why pay tribute to the original Bitcoin miners when you can just become you're own, recognizing that the only thing holding up the value is irrational in the first place (doesn't mean it's not a real way to get people to part with their money).

> The thing they spend their money on is more useful than the money itself.

Computers are one good in many-faceted economy. Deflationary currency means the currency is worth more against everything in the economy with each passing day. So not only will I not buy a computer with it, I will also not put it in a bank (why risk it?), not buy stocks, bonds, or even really loan it to anyone. In fact the right thing to do (if there was anything pinning it's value) would be to first spend all my non-Bitcoin money on necessities, and acquire and sit on, in offline wallets, as much Bitcoin as possible. But Bitcoin is a currency - to even be useful people have to actually use it.

So why don't people do this? For the aforementioned reasons - no one can actually require me to hold Bitcoin to pay taxes or extinguish debts. So just sitting on it is foolish since there's no real way to predict when the irrational market will end - except over the long term, I do know the price must crash since every Bitcoin market participant must eventually cash-out to pay taxes and electricity bills and what have you. So in fact there's nothing holding it up. The only actual reason anyone has to hold Bitcoins is when they get ramsomware'd.
I read through this and I’m surprised at all the negativity. Audio is subjective, and even if it’s just placebo good for them.

In my limited experience audio is all about component matching. Sometimes you want distortion, like what you get from a tube amp. The right mix of distortion is what makes things sound good to some ears.
This breaks down becase the people who benifit are different than the people who pay for it.

The area is worse off, but specific people get rewarded.
35C3 – What the Fax?
> All of the most successful teachers I had placed tight boundaries on when they worked. They were organized, fast, and efficient.

You're describing efficient people. Unfortunately we do not properly train our teachers because we do not want to properly pay them.
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#Guardzilla Security Video System Footage Exposed Online
Nah, there's lots of other ways to get people to slow down. I mean, speed bumps/humps are one way, and they have their uses, but you can also add trees (yes, it's a psychological thing), narrow the road (e.g. add bike lanes or extend sidewalks), make the road less straight, add roundabouts that people can't blow through, add chicanes at some points (I've seen this in the bay area), add diverters that discourage car through-traffic, etc. Lots of options.

The most obvious difference I see between Germany and the US is that the roads are just way wider in the US. That makes drivers feel like they can go faster, so they do go faster, thus making them less safe. You don't really need to enforce tight speed limits in neighborhood streets where I live in Munich, they're so narrow that it's very obvious that you cannot go fast.
It absolutely is EMI and the only way to construe it as a wiring fault is to count the pcb as wiring, because that is usually what you would need to fix.

Long headphone cables don't help either.
I sometimes wonder if some of the resistance to a solar-powered world stems from their discomfort with the implied economic shift of heavy industry to brown-skinned countries.
People like Tuur are so frustrating, because they complained about ethereum since day one (while lobbing lots of cheap shots at it) and now that it has turned into a big successful project, they are still around and say "see! I was right! It still hasn't cured world hunger!"
Regardless of weather the `THN` name is confusing or not and regardless of the speculations, does paypal need to give a reason for termination? Are they legally obligated? Is it something they should do for the sake of customers?

Should one get mad at `THN` because there name overlaps HN and they supposedly are `real hack` or should we be mad at paypal because it's overreaching it's powers?
Why does anyone think a 7 passenger Tesla in a tunnel is more efficient than a metro? Even airport people movers hold more than this.
Research estimates vaping is at least 95% less harmful than smoking
Do you have any citations for these claims? Not calling you a liar or anything - I'm just not at all familiar with the site in question, and it seems like it'd be important evidence if we want to fairly judge paypal's behavior here.
Looks like they sell online courses, with some having thousands of enrolled users.
Probably way more people are dying from car accidents, yet people are starting a major hysteria about a few wolves returning.

Millions of cars running through european towns at speeds high enough to kill a pedestrian, yet a wolve roaming through some far off forrest is considered more dangerous and newsworthy.
Hi, author here.

Maybe you can read some other articles on the blog (it’s new so there’s not many) to get a sense of my interests.

I also have a StackOverflow profile: https://stackoverflow.com/users/458193/dan-abramov
I expect Zuckerberg owns the domain name and would land on you with an army of lawyers.
There are multiple places called Washington and post can mean "mail delivery" or "sign post" or "work assignments".
I didn't quite believe you about that headline until I saw it for myself. It's terrible, but also hilarious. I'd link it if it didn't make me feel dirty, but suffice to say it's definitely clickbait and the content doesn't live up to the title.
Have you done a double blind test? How do you know?
Anyone who thinks in these terms: "only old, white men are taken seriously," is certainly an idiot projecting their insecurities and failures on a scapegoat that is popular and acceptable to hate on.
No; at least not in the United States.
The only way in which they weren't "genuine" is that the plastic they were made from was not blessed by Dell, that's it. The data on them was perfectly genuine, and the data on them could be obtained for free anyway.

You might as well argue that downloading the disk image through a third-party ISP is a counterfeit because the ISP is sending you bits labeled as coming from Microsoft on their own medium, and they are even profiting from it!
Same thing happened to me years ago: https://jakeseliger.com/2011/12/09/december-2011-links-paypa.... Why anyone uses Paypal today is beyond me. Why anyone doesn't expect this is really beyond me.
And it redirects there today, so you’d have to buy it back from Facebook for an exorbitant sum of money to do anything with it, then promptly get sued.
I find useful just for visualizing real-life organizational workflows. Building a graph then let’s you update and layout stuff like specimen transfer across jurisdictions.

So it’s just a cleaner way of storing data relationships that allows for more questions to be asked like “show me all the labs with automated backups” or “show me how many nurses work weekends at more than one lab”
I think too that when venture capital is willing to endlessly throw money at unprofitable ventures, it dilutes the advantage of those that are running a profit to near zero, which means that when investor sentiment eventually flips, we may find that there aren’t any sustainable businesses in the field. Competition based on profitability is really the one thing that capitalism is supposed to do well, after all.
Read this entire thing without realizing it was freaking DAN ABRAMOV. This is a weightier article than I realized. WOW.
According to this:

https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/#trademarks

Hacker News is trademarked.
Yea, ok. But then Windows itself has changed so much, that something like XFCE arguably feels more like XP/Vista than Windows 8 or 10 does. From my personal observation the Charms Bar especially appears to confuse people. (Or, did he in fact put Windows XP on those older computers? If so, then that's also highly irresponsible, as it doesn't receive any security updates!)

So I wonder why Lundgren has been going out of his way to face potential criminal prosecution, fines and jail time in order to provide what most people arguably might more familiar with? I don't get his cost/benefit analysis.
The article you're thinking of was probably this one: https://syonyk.blogspot.com/2018/05/why-typical-home-solar-s...
Death is a large part of life.
Rationality works for some things, doesn't work for others.
Do you want to make sense of the world in a way that helps with your suffering? Rationality doesn't work for most people.

Do you want to include in your model of the world knowledge that cannot be obtained with rationality? Well, then you should use something that is different than rationality.

As a society we held rationality above everything else for a couple of centuries thanks to illuminism. Yes, it helped a lot and rationality is a good tool to solve a lot of problems. Is it a perfect tool? No. Is it an omnipotent tool? Is it the tool to kill all the other tools? No. Luckily, as a society, in the last century we began to understand the limits of rationality and we are slowly transitioning to a world where rationality is used only in the context where it belongs, acknoledging its limits. The same happend with religion. In the past we used religion to explain everything and it wasn't good. Then we said: "Ok, religion takes the spot of religion and just that". The same is happening with rationality but engineers didn't take note yet, pretty much as priests took a while to be content with their spot (and still try to make religion leak in other parts of society).
Installing a UPS behind the conditioner sounds like a good idea. I have been meaning to get one of those... Thanks for the rec on the APC, I bookmarked it for comparison later. What UPS are you using?
Isn't lidar super cheap now? Couldn't they retrofit it.
> NYC was developed in its current form, with high-rises and all, well before cars were commonplace[1].

Ha, no it was not. Oh, it was originally developed sans cars, that's true. But that's not the same thing as its current form. Cities are continually being redeveloped after all. You think Amsterdam was always so bike-friendly? Try googling for what it was like in the early 70's, before the "Stop De Kindermoord" campaign.
Can you expand on this line of reasoning a bit? Specifically, what's stopping a competitor from eating Paypal's lunch right now? They have a majority market share now, but disruption still seems a possibility. Often it seems would-be disruptors get bought by the goliaths, but that's on the owners of the disruptors making their company purchasable such as through accepting investor money.

On the flip side, if we did get new laws, why would the goliaths not use their country-size budgets to lobby for the laws to just ensconce them as the government-approved monopoly (maybe not directly, but for example by throwing up legislative barriers to entry against would-be competitors)?
Eh, I haven’t seen any evidence that experienced professionals can build a website that will last for 5 years either. Business requirements inevitably requires hacks and kludges, and abstraction layers implemented to deal with the problems of today become tomorrow’s layer that everyone wants to rewrite or refactor.
This applies to most centralized external services, but especially those that handle money. If your application or business relies 100% on one of these services that could be shut down or have your account suspended or removed, make sure to have a backup plan in place to switch it over to a self hosted option or another offering from another company.
I wish my city was more livable without a car, but we have more land area than London with 1/4 the population density. The only way to get anywhere is by taking the interstate highways that pass through the middle or else circle around the outside highway. This is Jacksonville, FL.

There are some pockets that are walkable and safe, but nothing at scale.
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The government being in the way of letting you receive a few dollars from your family is what's similar.
It’s more that the A+- system is supposed to help identify a student on the edge. “You have a B+, which means that with a bit more effort, you could be an A” in comparison to “With a B-, you’re at risk of getting a C”. It also helps create more granular buckets out of a percentage scale, which most teachers seem use on grades behind the scenes.
Business? I'm a private individual buying stuff on Ebay. The only time I received money on PayPal was from friends who paid back small loans, like taxi trips or restaurant bills.
While descent was a technical marvel, it didn't have the atmosphere of doom and I think the 6DOF movement scheme deterred many from playing it as the levels got confusing.
Why China could be first with self-driving cars
Care to give any examples which aren't just examples of very short-lived debts? (i.e. when I buy something at the corner store, we immediately resolve the debt).
In the beginning, when he gave a simple and arbitrary definition of Intelligence, I already got where he was going.

It's a well-worded, better-than-average, STEMlordish explanation of reality but still very limited. The guy is smart but should read more before trying to propose just another theory of reality/mind/everything.
I've had a lot of fun over Christmas assembling a Gigatron TTL - a computer built almost entirely out of 74-series chips. It's amazingly easy to follow exactly how it works just by looking at the schematics. (More build photos coming on my blog in a few days: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/)
It’s common for any money transmitter service. Every time i look into the stories I’ve found the ban actually makes sense.

People who get upset generally are running a business that violates their payment processor’s terms of service, or user agreement.

Paypal is the most accessible, largest payment processor so we see the most stories about them.
Ask HN: What product started as an email list?
Not sure about TVs, but car manuals have been around for ages. This link (not previously known to me) looks to have ones from early and mid last century:

http://oldcarmanualproject.com
React is an extremely popular web front end library developed primarily by Facebook. Redux is an important library commonly used with React.
On a tangent: I’d like to hear from someone who has studied law or similar with regards to how to break the ice on such topics? I’d personally love to have “knowledge of” something like copyright law, but I don’t even know how to approach it.
Of course there’s a public interest in blocking counterfeiting scams.
Nobody here criticized the value of reason. The problem is when you overvalue reason. Water is good for you, too much water kills you.

Saying "too much water is bad" or "water is not good when your problem is that your socks are wet" is not an attack on water itself. You waterists should all calm down.
Doing a job incompetently.
> Completely relying on any third party is a bad idea. We should consider the risks when we signup to any service.

I agree somewhat but I will note my different viewpoint: completely relying on only one third party is bad. Its usually smarter at least in the case of payments to accept more than one method of payment other than just PayPal.

I know theres even third parties that will accept PayPal on your behalf. Now how that might or might not shield your paypal from being banned I am not certain. One I remember is 2checkout but I havent looked at them in years, so I am not sure if they still work with PayPal.
So this is about whether or not Dell gave permission? Oh, heaven forbid that someone do something without the blessing of the big corporations! Why, I hesitate to even mention the name Dell in this very post without first asking them for their permission...

The "deceit" here is on the level of "rinse and repeat" instructions on shampoo bottles. The disks contained exactly what customers expected and the "deception" was only in the labeling of the disks. Just because the business seems a bit sleazy does not mean he deserves jail time.
> Completely relying on any third party

What other options are there that exist where a regular person could still make a payment?
Question, why do people talk so pessimistically about the potential for solar? I see lots of comments like, "there is not enough land for solar panels". People seem to have a fixed view about how much power can be drawn. Sure right now the payoff might be underwhelming in relation to the size requirements, but with more development wouldn't the technology improve?

I imagine a future where the technology improves to the point where people who live in cloudy areas can still generate plenty of power. Is that unrealistic?
In the "The International Watch Company" case, I'd expect a trademark search prior to naming the company. In the "The Hacker News" case, I'd expect at least a Google search to check for confusing/conflicting names in the same space.

In either of the above cases, a Google search turns up the conflicting name as the #1 organic hit, precluding my judgment of an honest coincidence, but I understand your position.
DOOM was the first. Well, really Wolfenstein was the first, but it was limited to a grid. DOOM was many people's first networked game too. And the level editors were easy enough to use that they created a community.

Descent's 6dof control system rather counted against it in the days when people had keyboard, mouse and two axis joysticks. I remember struggling with it a lot, even trying two sticks at one point.

DOOM was also more memorable in its black metal aesthetic - the music and gory graphics. The E1M1 theme will stick with me while I can't remember a note of descent.
> He reproduced the printing and labelling of the originals, and kept refining his product to look more similar to the original so they'd get through customs.

Ok, I think that may justify using the word "counterfeit" then.

> There are documents from him where he's selling them for $20.

The thing is, it would have been perfectly legal for him to sell Debian CDs for $20. That would still have made the old computers usable again. It's good to make use of old computers, but I think the implied argument of having to copy Windows recovery CDs to save old computers is nonsense.

The story just puzzles me. Maybe he didn't realise that you can sell free software[1]?

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html