skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's some truth to what you're saying but the idea that you "give workers higher wages...(to create) a boom in spending", as if wages were some kind of perpetual motion machine is not accurate. If everyone was paid more for no reason, that creates inflation since it artificially alters supply and demand even though no new value was created in the labor market. Prices for everything would simply increase.

But even this, is a simplistic view. Inflation typically causes previously issued corporate debt to drop in price and newly issued fixed rate instruments to increase in yield. The problem with that is that increased yield cost corporations more money to borrow when they refinance their existing debt. Now companies are in trouble from two angles: One, a higher cost of labor due to inflation, and two, from higher costs of borrowing money. As a result, companies increase prices even further, which starts an upward spiral where wages can't keep up. By the way, this is the cause of the recent meltdown in US Stocks over the last 4-6 months.

If this process is allowed to run without any controls, you'll wind up with a hyperinflationary environment, similar to Argentina, where the dollars in your bank account are worth 40% less than they were the previous year. People wind up unable to afford anything beyond day-to-day goods like food and housing, consumerism, the main driver of most Western economies, slows to a crawl (You can't save for an iPhone when it costs double what it did last year), industries that rely on discretionary income go out of business, and the economy contracts and collapses on itself.

I know this is a bit dramatic, but it can and does happen. It can happen even without a trigger, but if you suddenly increased the minimum wage in a tight labor market you're basically throwing gasoline on the fire that is inflation.
>>"Debt is a claim on future productivity of the nation, and if a necessary share of the national income is not being claimed through taxes to service the debt, capital will exit to brighter climes. "

What debt? The grandparent is telling you that debt is not necessary to finance a state that control its own floating currency.
But we do have enough strength to have deterrence. Our military budget is equal to the next 8 biggest countries together. The three biggest air forces in the world are, in order, us air force, us navy (their airplanes etc), us army. Each is bigger than any other countries' air forces.
The human rights records is a p/r gambit which is mostly bullshit. The US violates human rights of all sorts of people all over the world all of the time. They just treat their own citizens with a certain amount of courtesy.

> there are no reeducation camps for minority groups (like Muslims.)

No there are just bombings and complete destruction of various Muslim countries that don't go with the economic agenda of the US.
I think the more important misalignment between VCs and founders is a temporal one--if a VC thinks a company isn't going anywhere, they can immediately write it off and get on with their lives, whereas if a founder thinks her company isn't going anywhere, they have to (or think they have to!) "keep at it" until it goes bust. So they waste 2-5 of the most productive years of their most lives going through zombie motions.

Perhaps this perception is misplaced... I know VCs will say that they want a company to go bust as soon as possible (so that they aren't investing in Picplz). And this may be true.. but do you think a founder that had serially--and rapidly--gone bust 4/4 times 4 years in a row would get funding?
I wasn't previously aware of this website, but after reading the article and noticing its rather brash style I decided to take a look at the front page. Several headlines stand out to me, including "Wrinkled, white, and wrong — this is the face of the Democratic party", "Black lives matter, until they’re ended by black people", and "Project Fact: how scared should we really be of a no-deal Brexit?", as well as a few statements seemingly designed to emphasize the racial and social undertones of various national debates. An admittedly cursory skim of these articles leaves the impression that the site's theme is low-key outrage generation and the propagation of divisive talking points that tend in a somewhat novel rightward direction.

Although I agree with the premise of the featured article, I have to wonder if this site's intent is actually aligned with the notion of a harmonic western social order incorporating political cooperation and tolerance for diversity of thought and belief, or if it is yet another low-key radicalization / division vector designed to appeal to those who are too intelligent, educated, naturally docile, or otherwise moderate to be swayed by the more extreme purveyors of discord such as Brietbart, etc. In other words, the site seems to be right on the edge of dog-whistling without actually going over that line, and my instinct is to not upvote articles sourced from it.
Aside from it being fun to work on a small team early on in your career a startup is a great place to gain experience if you come from a non traditional background or didn’t go to a top tier university.

Experience and fast career progression shouldn’t be overlooked when looking at startups.
Thank you. If I read that correctly, the last line runs your artifact - is that for CI or something? (I'd expect the purpose was to just create the artifact?)

Ed: then again, your artifact is a build tool - does that build distribution packages?
China doesn't go around the world arresting people who haven't even visited their country... in Assange's case on the other hand the US...
That's pretty much how JIRA works--based on issue type, you can define "screens" that expose different workflows and data.

It's nice if you have a very clear idea of what you want your workflow to be, but can be a bit overwhelming to set up if you don't. Doesn't help they have a lot of different issue types though. It's a kitchen sink implementation for sure.
Meanwhile in Australia, our government has recently passed a law [1] that very openly and explicitly makes companies legally obligated to add backdoors for the government to spy on whoever it likes, and imposes serious legal penalties on anyone who discloses these activities to their customers or the general public.

I don't know how much of the Huawei article is propaganda and how much of it describes a genuine threat. But one thing is for certain, which is that governments in the west are not much better. This was clear five years ago from the Snowden revelations; our governments are just being a little more open about it now and forcing private industry into their surveillance regimes.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/7/18130806/australia-access...
Might have a case under SLAPP laws
Yes the code needs to be GPL, but that does not apply to the assets of course since the assets (including any scripts, although Q2 does not use scripts) are just "data".

For PC games this isn't really a limitations, there are several games on Steam using GPL engines (mainly based on id's releases) - a known one is Quadrilateral Cowboy which uses the Doom 3 engine.
It seems to me people were more upset with the conference organizers allowing him to submit the talk knowing he was going senile, though I don't know the full story or whether or not he was going senile.
If you're just starting out, I'd register and collect sales tax in the state where you have a physical presence. You would only collect and remit sales tax in that state. As you grow your business, you may need to consider economic nexus thresholds to determine if you have nexus in additional states based on revenue or order volume [1].

You may have different sales tax obligations if you decide to sell on a marketplace such as Amazon. FBA sellers may have additional nexuses based on where Amazon is storing your products in fulfillment centers [2]. Marketplace facilitator laws are taking effect where the marketplace may collect and remit sales tax on your behalf in specific states, but you may still be obligated to report sales tax [3].

All of this can get complicated fast. As always, it's a good idea to talk to a CPA or tax professional first.

[1]: https://blog.taxjar.com/economic-nexus-laws/
[2]: https://blog.taxjar.com/find-amazon-fba-sales-tax-nexus/
[3]: https://blog.taxjar.com/sales-tax-by-state-marketplace-facil...
Printable terrestrial globe
Link to the song https://recordings.irritablehedgehog.com/album/dennis-johnso...
BoingBoing has the skinny on author John Schindler[1]

> John Schindler was a prof at the College; he slammed Snowden as a traitor and compared Greenwald to Hitler, and was generally dismissive about concerns about network surveillance; he also sent pictures of his dick to a woman who wasn't his wife. He also co-wrote the report that stated that Sadam Hussein had WMDs, and helped send America to war. That was a lot worse than dick pics.

I mean, while I have no issue with Schindler's evident animus for the current US President, and while the Polish case may (or may not) establish Schindler's intended point, his credibility is IMO way insufficient to be trusted on stories like this. He's really best seen as part of a fringe movement of pro-intelligence online cheerleaders and would-be vigilantes, whose most visible participant is the infamous Louise Mensch[2]

1: https://boingboing.net/2014/08/12/former-nsa-spook-resigns-f...

2: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/06/louise-mensch-an...
If you really are ‘user first’ then you must be ‘surveillance last’
A New Era of Global Aircraft Surveillance After Iridium Deployment
ZFS on Linux Runs into a Snag with Linux 5.0
The founders play a different game and they get couple of benefits even if the company doesn't succeed. First and foremost is the chance to manage a company while getting payed without having to wait for years going through the corporate ladder and office politics. This is very valuable and for certain type of people also fun. Being the ultimate boss is much better than being an employee in most cases.

People here taking it too seriously, you just have to take it easy and enjoy it, if you feel it is only about making money just don't do it. I have been in start ups that failed and succeeded and sometimes the failed ones were much more fun while it lasted.
> I can invoke some magic command in band to capture the surrounding conversation

I just read about a tool that does this for documentation. I really wonder how this would work in reality because the information you want in the issue will probably be spread across dozens of messages.
I consider it rude in the sense that women are not even considered in the consumer spectrum of these products, as it's not our place to be in the fabricant's opinion. I understand society changes and some time ago it was aceptable for that to be in a conference, but now it's not anymore.

I'm not picking up a fight about this, but it's now the time for these companies to notice that women are also in the market and we like to be included and more importantly, respected.

The booth babes make a statement about the company's opinion on women. They are objects used to attract men to buy our products.
Blockchain network
AT&T and T-Mobile say they will stop selling customers' location data to 3rd-party service providers by March; Verizon says it's winding down sharing agreements. I look forward to a savior with a blockchain-based social network.
Brad Feld – Money Doesn't Solve Problems, People Solve Problems
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Should I interpret not getting response about my question for a project idea as a sign that it is not a good idea?
Have you ever noticed how some of the world's smartest people have a somewhat jerky stop-and-go speech pattern, sort-of like Google's autocomplete? It's not uncommon among smart people who are careful about what they say, strive for precision, and are cognizant and empathetic to potential contextual gaps among their audience and their different levels of understanding.

Elon Musk has a similar pattern, but it's not so much a speech disorder as it is their brain is working so fast, pulling from multiple sources and considering multiple perspectives. They're auto-editing their words in real-time, revising what they're saying while considering all of the above factors and more. But sometimes they get ahead of themselves and so in an effort to be clear and precise, they backtrack a few words and rephrase, filling-in as they anticipate potential contextual gaps. This is what you're seeing.

Rather than thinking they need to see a speech therapist, view it as a mark of authentic speech by someone who strives for precision and is empathetic to their audience. When you look at it this way, you can know and appreciate that you're witnessing the genuine workings of a brilliant mind.
Please don't do personal attacks on HN or take the thread further into ideological flamewar, regardless of how lame another comment was.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I personally enjoyed this article and I wish more people would write things like this. Just reading someone eloquently list their thoughts and anxieties about a certain issue really makes you feel not alone if you are going through the same thing. There was a paragraph where he questioned whether he would lose the good parts of himself by losing weight and I've had that same type of thinking applied to so many other aspects of my life, not necessarily weight, but mental illnesses that I sometimes believe give me insight I wouldn't otherwise have.
> stringly-typed JSON

Off topic but I love this, definitely stealing it. Did you coin this?
"In order to regain freedom and control over the digital aspects of our lives"

Nothing proves his point more than:

<script src="//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js...
if you leave all the colloquialisms, the article is based on two facts:

* Last February, the heads of the ‘big three’ US intelligence agencies warned Americans against buying Huawei phones, which they deemed a security risk.

* Poland ABW arrested the two on the spionage charges, huawei office is being searched

i'm a bit disappointed, because there is nothing new in the article. i was expecting something intel about huawei devices being rigged with backdoors, calling home or having kill switches.

*edit: grammar
Didn't the US just finish murdering about 2+ million Arabs over the last decade or so, I bet the dead Iraqis, Syrians, Yemenis would rather be in "history lesson camps" in China.
The design, typography, and diagrams in this article are wonderful. I like it when people pay this much attention to detail!
> What's the scary remedy for a copyright holder if they already provided a license to publish the published content?

The core problem this law is trying to address is that website users are, en masse, contributing content to websites when they don’t have a license to do so. This behavior is against pretty much all websites’ terms of service.

As there are many users with no money all putting illegitimate content onto a few websites with a lot of money, this law seeks to shift the burden of liability onto the websites. As a policy, it’s not completely unreasonable, but makes the mass content-farm websites like YouTube unfeasable.

The lawmakers fear for their jobs if YouTube shuts down because of their new law, so they carve out a bunch of exceptions to let key sectors of the internet continue operating (with some work to comply).

The broadest of these, implementing automated content filters, is expensive and unreliable. Operators of smaller websites, such as a typical Internet forum, have their own exception. The problem is that the boundaries here are vague and (potentially) poorly drawn, leaving sites like HN (if it were in EU jurisdiction) with a bad set of options:

* Hope nobody notices
* Accept the liability and vigorously police the site manually, probably buying insurance against a judgment
* Rely on judges allowing them the small-volume or non-profit-seeking exemptions
* Implement content filters that are expensive and a terrible user experience
The "clever trick" seems to be:

previously compromised the login credentials for the administration panel of the target’s DNS provider

or

previously compromised domain registrar or ccTLD

Unless I'm missing something, given either of those things, doesn't take much cleverness...
You take a person that could be producing goods and services in the private sector, and pay him to work in the public sector, where he produces no such goods or services, and often is tasked with creating and enforcing regulations that limit economic freedom.

Clearly you're going to end up with lower economic growth.

The fact he would spend his salary on purchases is small comfort, especially when he'd likely earn a larger salary to spend in the private sector.
> Did that help someone who wanted to work on clj or cljs inside Vim for instance?

Yes, it did.

from https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider-nrepl#editor-agnostic

> Projects like vim-fireplace and vim-replant are making use of cider-nrepl already.
PS2 and GameCube are retro at this point.
https://www.scribd.com/document/397140587/Managing-Furlough# for actual document
> has anyone ever seen one that just turns tracking off if you sign up?

Check out ars technica, I think they may offer that
This isn't a story about the destruction of a starbase (you'll note that the actual destruction occupies about one sentence). It is a story about destroying the means of control of the resources of a sector and accomplishing something previously considered impossible. It is a story about a victory in the Great Game [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Game
Seems to be on the same order as a traffic light, so not particularly expensive compared to other street infrastructure.
That's true in the US. EU law actually knows no such thing as vague, court-interpreted fair use. The EU instead has a list of very specific exceptions and limitations to copyright – which member states don't even have to implement, so what you can do varies widely.
Turn your mouse into a brightness dial with 5 lines of JavaScript
Illegal number
2. is basically the work of many think-tanks...

to shape beliefs and discourse in the direction of a particular perspective or worldview.

think socialism versus free-market capitalism versus libertarianism. two-party politics in the United States could be thought of as a paradigm.

these are the types of paradigms under evaluation. altering one of these at this layer has cascading effects on policies etc.

1. is basically the ability to create effective think-tanks to shape beliefs and discourse.
Considering this, I wonder why the choice of Quake 2 instead of Quake 1 since the main thing Quake 2 introduced has over Quake 1 was colored lighting but that was only available in the OpenGL version.
I bet Bird's inventory is vanishing now that word is out, and they are legally flailing about to try it stop it in any way they can. Too bad I can't short them, it was a naive business model from the beginning.
I posted an earlier thread on this in case anyone is interested in the article that The Gaurdian had released:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18880603
Economists don't tend to concern themselves with this. You're better off looking to philosophers, sociologists, etc.

Christianity -> Science is a notable example of a paradigm shift.

Hunter-gather -> Argiculture is another such shift.
Yeh but I don't think western countries have really been paying attention. It's obvious based on sentiment they thought wealth would change that.
It could change if belligerent idiotic leaders get in charge. Remember back in WW 1, at every step of the way leaders of multiple countries thought "surely the other side won't go to that step, they'll stop if we just increase the pressure a bit". Tomorrow a chinese pilot could bomb or crash into a us ship, try to sink a carrier by Taiwan. That could start the war. Someone could take it upon themselves in Russian-occupied Ukraine to move on to the rest, or bomb Poland. Or the bomber flights the us and russia send to each other's borders could crash into the other countries fighters.

We have acting leaders at many levels of the military, and a president who talks the big talk but probably hasn't ever deal with a real crisis where the other side won't fold or de-escalated something ever. He's got no reasonable advisers left.
What ever happened to HPKP? It seems like that would somewhat mitigate these attacks since they rely on using their control over the domain to get a new DV cert. A pinned certificate would at least protect those who have accessed the sites before.
Yea, you would probably have to have a sieve that only allowed issues with the minimal required data to transition into 'in progress' or something.
The money your employer pays you is what you actually earn. The fact that you pay taxes on your earnings does not reduce them. If your tax rate doubles next year, your earnings don't go down as a result (though your take-home will).

The IRS specifically defines earned income as what your employer pays you.

https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/individuals/earned-in...
This is the same kind of stuff Adobe and MS sue companies over — no hosting apps in the cloud without a license that explicitly allows for it.

Improbable didn’t want to pay for it, so they ran with the standard licensing hoping to prove out their product before Unity shut them down. Their board of investors were either OK with this, or were kept ignorant.

If the conversation started over 2 years ago, it was probably around the time SoftBank was doing due diligence for the $502 mil funding round.
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/improbable#section-f...

Gambling on dodging legal issues with someone else’s software is a stupid move, and Improbable’s customers & investors are paying for it.
Wouldn’t a game engine have the same role as gcc? As a tool, unless you’re extending the source itself, you shouldn’t be infected by the engine’s license
I was curious of the same thing.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/american-spectator/

It appears that it is a publication that leans heavily to the right, though apparently their reporting is factual. I would take that to mean that while anything that is explicitly stated as fact is likely true, the takeaways and editorials on the course of action is going be quite biased.

Skimming some of the other articles, they don't seem to be particular fans of Trump, with a couple of exceptions, so I'd guess they are probably of the Neoconservative Bush/Reagan bent rather than Trumpian.