skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is like paying for your startup with a credit card and being called out on it by reporters when the bill gets paid by the company rather than the individual, but on a much larger scale. There are perfectly valid, ethical reasons why you're using alternative sources of credit to fund a startup!

Here's why this article is an opinion piece searching for scandal that fails to reveal one:

Consider the legal definition of "self-dealing":
"One important duty of a fiduciary is to act in the best interests of the
benefited party. When a fiduciary engages in self-dealing, she breaches
this duty by acting in her own interests instead of the interests of the
represented party. For example, self-dealing occurs when a trustee uses
money from the trust account to make a loan to a business in which he has
a substantial personal interest. A fiduciary may make such a transaction
with the prior permission of the trust beneficiary, but if the trustee
does not obtain permission, the beneficiary can void the transaction and
sue the fiduciary for any monetary losses that result."[1]

Every decision WeWork made to lease new commercial space was made with board support. The CEO and family members conducted deals with WeWork that he or family personally benefited by, but it was done in a transparent manner and with board support.

WeWork is navigating uncharted territory. This makes those working in finance apprehensive. Underwriters have certain requirements that a borrower must meet before a loan is approved. A rapidly expanding, growth-oriented business like WeWork may not qualify to lease new space as quickly as it requires. However, perhaps individuals who pledge their own collateral might. Commercial space was leased by individuals (or other entities) and then re-leased to WeWork.

I could be wrong about this case, but if I am then this will likely grow into a scandal and self-dealing will be revealed.

[1] https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Self-Dealing
If you're wanting to make fresh water there, it's probably because people do actually live there and want to do other stuff there, so any method of polluting the environment is going to have negative consequences.

For example if they are extracting fresh water from seawater, they are probably also already using groundwater as well which your proposal would pollute.
Nope, they were just trying to be right over a trivial spelling mistake on the internet. People that do that are the same people that others avoid at dinner parties.
It's not just about rent being in line with market norms. In order for it not to be personal enrichment at WeWork's expense, it's also got to be assumed that these particular leases on this particular properties were sincerely believed to be the best possible use of the $110m of WeWork shareholders' funds committed to properties its execs had an ownership interest in: i.e. that there were no competing locations (or capital investments) that might have been expected to yield higher customer revenues and nothing comparable on offer at below market rates. Additionally, we've got to assume WeWork execs were not in competition with WeWork to acquire actual [part]-ownership of the buildings (the article provides an example of Neumann trying to personally buy a stake in a building knowing that WeWork wanted to occupy it but WeWork blocking it because they were happy to stump up for title deeds as well as the lease. It certainly doesn't rule out the possibility he used his knowledge of WeWork's requirements to acquire other freehold titles which WeWork might have preferred to buy rather than just lease though).
In one of the Railroad Tycoon games, I forget which, some scenarios come with a goal for your personal wealth. The narrow path there be via investing your salary in your own company and then raising dividends. But that would of course benefit all the shareholders.

Instead you would get there by first crushing a competing business, as you would in most scenarios anyway. Then you would buy all the worthless stock you could with your meager salary. Finally you could make an outrageously overpriced buyout offer for the worthless business.
There was another post a few minutes ago from another account calling the opponents of GMO foods 'extremists'.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18920595
I wonder why that never occurred to the researchers who spend their professional lives studying how to safely dispose of brine?

As the article points out, desalinization produces "37.5 billion gallons (142 billion liters) of this salty-ass junk every day." What's your plan for pumping in X times that from the oceans, diluting it, and then pumping it out?
Maybe they would, if the sociopaths wouldn't assimilate many of those "successes". I consider a certain number of successful businesses to be a relatively stable statistical certainty in a society which provides the necessary environment for them (stable legislation, infrastructure, workers, a market to sell stuff etc.).
The sociopaths now don't increase the total number of these successes, but they tilt the distribution of successes towards themselves as a group, thereby making non-sociopaths less likely to achieve a success.
A company sells a legal, FDA approved, drug. The motives of the company may not be pure, but so what? Does anyone sell anything with 100% pure motives?

What exactly is wrong with people making the most use of this drug as they see fit in their own lives? Is it wrong for people with chronic pain to take what they need? Why should doctors and others be able to prevent people from treating their pain?
I meant my comment to provoke you into rethinking before you speak for others again in the future.
Was candidate culturally authorized to use the N-word? Whether it was appropriate or not in a work environment I can see that paragraph reading completely differently with more context.

I actually had to re-read it 5 times at the “non-plussed” part, I just assumed the candidate was of African descent before reading the teammate was too. In which case the voicemail recording wouldnt have been a “flag” just not prepped for professional settings. Many people’s voicemail arent whether its a competitive or not.

The combination would have resulted in smiles and nods for that almost distinctly American experience. But I guess it was just some suburban kid of non-African descent that really wanted to use the N-word.
Basically we want a similar system but at rates where profit is c. 0 (zero) and wages are around the median?

But doesn't that translate to other "industries"? Or, is it recognition that science has a fundamentally greater importance to humanity ... it's that true though, arts are pretty fundamental too, medicine certainly is, housing, food, water supply, sewerage, ... Why do we accept rent-seeking and profiteering and excessive wages and whatever in these other things?

Aside: Seems to me "science must seize [some of] the 'means of production'" is pretty communist.
In reading that, the GPL is working as it should.
Did you read the article? It shows many ways in which XS4ALL differs from other ISPs/KPN. Furthermore they run part of their network infrastructure themselves and put a lot of care into it, resulting in less downtime than other ISP's. Sure if you don't care much about your internet connection or the original values of the internet then you won't notice these differences, but I gladly pay a bit more for their outstanding service and support.
I recently stayed in an AirBnB in Hamburg/Germany. Not only did he write that it's not a hostel everywhere. He used his smart home to keep the temperature below the legal limit and had all internals checked setup with cameras without any information. From the way he talked he also checked whether you exited the shower(not literally the shower, but the bathroom).

He also had Bottles of sausages and would check through the camera who used them without paying. He also charged 50 cents for those coffee pads and used the camera to check on it.

When I asked him to turn on the heater he lied to AirBnB on the phone(which they recorded) and then assaulted me and kicked me out.

His one listing was removed temporarily but his other listings are still there. So yeah, even a hostel would have been better.

Edit: the response from AirBnB was way better than the response from German authorities, but that may have been because they heard everything on the phone.
Glob is easier to code than wordexp. Much fewer rules.
The worst kind of targeting is when I go to a website, browse some similar items comparing their features and price, buy one... and now you decide to show me ads about those same products for the next week even if it should be clear that I've already made up my mind (I'm looking at you, Amazon).
I would be absolutely astounded if targeted ads did not provide significant long-term advantage to a big player like Google. How can it be that having intimate knowledge of someone would not allow you to sell them more stuff? John has a 10th wedding anniversary coming up. Mary is single and goes to the gym every day. Steve just got a promotion and likes the BMW 3 series. Michael is overweight but has just gone on a diet. Are such details of no significance determining what ads to show these people?

Having said that, I'm constantly surprised by how bad Google is at targeted advertising. For example, today when I visit nytimes.com I see an ad from Google with the ad text in French. Hey Google, despite my recent visit to Paris I don't speak French - maybe your AI experts could analyse my 13 years of Gmail and search history to figure that out!

PS: I'm a Google shareholder, so my confirmation bias is in the other direction :)
How to Use Neural Networks to Forecast Multiple Steps of a Time Series
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18920604.
So how long until the best parts of TypeScript are subsumed into JavaScript, and TypeScript is discarded like CoffeeScript?
what are the expertise needed to create such a game? it always looks magical to me how those games are created?
Benchmark numbers for Tesseract on Android
I think TransIP is quite ok.
He makes it look like it's easy. There are a lot of different outfits competing in the same space, a whole industry set up to clean restaurant Kitchen Hoods, Grease Traps, Floors, etc and it is super competitive. The only plus is your costs are not super high (pressure washer, mops, buckets, hoses, and vacuums). Detergent can be purchased as you need it. Labor will be difficult with employees calling sick, not showing up, not doing a good job, etc.

The most successful part of this industry were the outfits making their own soaps, detergents, etc and providing them to the cleaner/cleaning companies.

There is no easy money unless you know someone who can help you get some big contracts. Otherwise you will be chasing the same nickle the other 10 guys are.
It's 100% free, you can use CentOS which is identical to RHEL and provided by Redhat.
If you're interested, but don't want to pay that much, you can borrow it from Library Genesis:

http://libgen.io/search.php?req=apl+mathematical&lg_topic=li...
I seriously hope you reported this to the authorities and not just AirBnB?
The New York Times is not an organization of people who came together to exercise their free speech rights. Its employees are there, primarily, to work. The product they sell is information/entertainment. This product does not change the goal which is to make money and does not change that it’s not an organization of people who came together to exercise their free speech rights.

It used to be the case that media had a special set of regulations regarding their ownership and how large they could be in terms of expansion. That is effectively no longer the case. The government, by the laws it enacted, has the authority to regulate media companies. Well, they used to. Society through it’s leaders gets to decide these things, for the most part. There are limits on what can legally be done by the government. Thanks to the Supreme Court that limit has been greatly expanded. The fact is that until recently few people held the belief that corporations should have the same free speech rights as humans.

Should Toyota, a foreign corporation with presence in the U.S., have the ability to influence American elections the way that a professional society of American doctors has? Allowing corporations to have the same free speech rights as humans is quite bad and will have long term bad consequences for the country.

Until Citizens United corporations didn’t have the same free speech rights as humans. This idea is a recent phenomenon. It’s unique, I believe, to the U.S. The U.S. is not the only “free” country in the world. This ought to suggest to you that perhaps something is strange with the notion of a corporation having the same free speech rights as a human.

I wish the protectors of corporate rights were as vigilant when it came to the rights of humans. But this isn’t the case in the U.S. so I’m in favor of companies not having speech limits in the U.S. for the same reason that I voted for Trump. The U.S. deserves the mess it is in. Let the road to serfdom be an easy one to navigate!
I don't think that's true, I was vegetarian all through the 80s, and vegans existed then.
"Will we be expected to review similarly complex documents/photos every time we enter a physical space? How can we avoid the illusion of consent that we currently have in the online world?"

You could start by understanding that when you participate in an activity that is attempting to extend the online experience into the physical world, that might be exactly what you get. Caveat emptor.
Years ago, I tried to teach git to my (college) students, and it was a complete disaster. Like a lot of technical things, it's easy to get them totally confused with a single off-the-cuff sentence (and to be honest, I think I underestimated how difficult it would be to explain it and the kinds of pain points they'd encounter).

Reading this article, it occurs to me how useful the idea of a "staging area" would be to helping them understand. I don't think of it that way myself when I'm working with it (I suppose I do, but not in those precise terms). But looking back, that's what was tripping them up. If you're just talking about local and remote repositories, you're not really giving them the right idea of the workflow.
which parts aged least well? what major trends are effecting the content?
I'm not sure where you live but mortgages where I live are 20 years. Graduating at 14 does not give one a paid-off mortgage-free home at 20, even if they were to be able to find a job immediately upon graduating.

On another very cultural point, I know of exactly zero women with my education level who would have been willing to give birth before 20, even if they had been out of college by then -- they got to that education level by being ambitious and for ambitious women career takes precedence over babies. (There were also practical issues. If you start college at 15 there are very little safe ways for you to experiment with sex before college. All women I know want to have sex recreationally for like, several years before having a baby, and with different men than the eventual baby daddy too.) I grant that it's in a city -- I think the whole career/baby conundrum is a lot less of a problem in rural or religious areas. Still.
It’s funny when companies do things that harm the public directly or indirectly, we get high minded passionate economists or whomever telling us how companies have a sacred duty to maximize shareholder value, blah blah blah.

When you see countless companies get looted and crushed by private equity takeovers, to the point that middle schoolers can predict with accuracy when a company will vaporize, you get analysts with nonsensical stories about turnarounds, etc.

But when self-dealing management use the company to enrich themselves in a way that is at best ethically questionable, you don’t hear too much.
https://media.ccc.de/v/SHA2017-489-social_cooling

or https://www.socialcooling.com/
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How about we built a society in which people don't have to choose between loosing their livelyhood and being a moral hazard. In the meantime, I'm not going to cry about the deaths of immoral industries.
GPL very explicitly refers to the right to distribute source code. It is not concerned with binaries. That was an explicit choice since the license spirit is about user freedom which concerns access to sources and modifying sources.

See clause #1: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html
Good points, but that doesn't mean targeting is ineffective, only that they currently charge too much for it (and some ad sellers hide behind undisclosed flaky algorithms for doing so).

I'd be interested in knowing if there are other effects: if you remove targeting, does that also mean you're turning off the extreme bloat on sites? If so, I can totally believe that costing you enough users to kill the value added by the ad precision (contra the conventional wisdom of "lol I'm only marketing to people with the latest hardware anyway").
Customers who bought this television also bought:

1) different television
2) another television
3) alternate listing of the same television and 4x the
price because it's controlled by some idiot algorithm
4) more television
5) yet another television

Suuuuure they did
Sea salt has it's own problems due to it's microplastics content. Around 90% of domestic sea salt contains microplastics and the average adult consumes around 2,000 microplastic particles as a result every year. People who go out of their way to buy sea salt presumably ingest significantly more on average.

My mother used to love sea salt, but recently switched to rock salt.
At 9 one cannot have a college life (think specifics).
Evolution of a Rust Programmer
>Are such details of no significance determining what ads to show these people?

Perhaps the question is whether that turns to sales and engagement, or if people who don't click ads don't click ads regardless of content, and those that do, do.
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>double dipping is never ok...

...for companies that are structured as public companies.

If your companies are all private, with no investors, go ahead and do whatever you like. It's all just your money, (or your family's money), anyway.

But to do that with money from public investors is, and this is only my opinion, but I think it's extremely unethical. Obviously the issue is that there is nothing explicitly illegal about what people like the WeWork CEO are doing. I'm not sure why?
If you are a small publisher, why would your ad prices endanger any but the smallest of advertising budgets?
I'm talking about real world software. It's unlikely that anyone cares if a Hello World program is bug-free.
I'm fairly confident that the plant designers and researchers know this and that journalists have messed it up.

They're already pumping in 37.5B + 37.5*2.5/1.5B gallons of it, so pumping in a multiple of that is just a problem requiring money.

But getting the money to do so requires scaring the public into giving it to them, thus the scare articles like this one in the press.
Ah yeah, the old McDonalds farming-scheme. Buy some land, raise some cattle under your flag and milk them till they are dry. They have all the work and risk and you get all the fat money. At least a good farmer knows how to maintain them well for longterm-milking.
The official sources are published by Apple on https://opensource.apple.com

This repository is just a snapshot that somebody else prepared and uploaded to GitHub, but apparently it is not maintained.
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform and AWS Serverless
My Mazda 3 hatchback manual gets 39MPG. I’m 6’2” and have 3 kids. Probably the best car I’ve ever owned. shrug
That sounds vastly oversimplified. So you’ve discovered that I’m into hiking/camping gear. That doesn’t mean I will never buy another piece of outdoor gear or that I have heard of every brand and product in that category.
Maybe the cost for effective targeted advertising is too high. You have to collect a ton of data and analyze it which costs a lot of money. Maybe untargeted are more cost effective.
>That doesn't mean everything is a government conspiracy to spy on people.

No one suggested that "everything is a government conspiracy to spy on people."

The job of the NSA is to "spy on people." It's America's top funded intelligence agency. It's full of extermely competent and very intelligent people and their employer, the United States of America, is the world's sole superpower, the world's largest economy, and likely the most technologically sophisticated nation of earth.

The NSA is one of the reasons for America's preeminent place in the world.
You own sentence shows the relevant difference: "embedded". The GPL license has always stopped at the OS process boundary. You can essentially do whatever you want with a GPL program as long as you interact with it over standard OS mechanisms, rather than direct modification; you're still obligated to distribute source but it's source that is already publicly available, so there's no proprietary interest in it. Mongo's does not. Neither does the AGPL, to show this isn't new.
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Does it mean you need to turn on location services as well, or just grant the permission? Noticed recently that WifiAnalyzer on fdroid needed location permissions (and explained why) but I never turn location on so just downgraded to 1.9.3.
Proofs without Words and Beyond
Millennials in dark about this car dashboard symbol
Thank you for going to the trouble to find that. I wasn't sure how to search for predictions about how the Brexit vote itself would affect the economy, rather than the effects of actually leaving.

The article starts "Leaving the EU would hit British living standards" and only talks about recession (occurring in 2017) in the context of the "adverse scenario" they modelled.

As explained here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/imf-christi...

"[The adverse scenario] was predicated on the UK’s EU negotiations collapsing and the UK eventually crashing out of the bloc without a trade deal."

which hasn't happened (yet).

So I think the lessons to be learnt are that journalists can be guilty of over-simplifying economic analyses (presenting conditional scenarios as certain outcomes) and that government analyses can be self-serving (if they are published before a vote in which the government is campaigning for one side).
Not sure this makes sense to me? There's corruption in every system, regardless of the ideology behind it. Are you saying there's no corruption in communism? Because I have news for you, if you do.

It seems like corruption is simply endemic to the human condition. It has nothing to do with capitalism/communism/etc. Whatever the system happens to be, we will find a way to corrupt it.
Can someone introduce me to these desperate venture capitalists making poorly researched deals?
The official Vote Leave campaign absolutely did talk about a deal: https://imgur.com/a/YGitsR8
It's a bit off-topic but what is the conclusion then, is Wim Hof method safe to do long-term and in a safe environment without medical supervision?
>I have been a postgraduate in the humanities and I can honestly say I've never seen the conspiracy you seem to be alluding to.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not arguing that it is happening, I'm just defending its logical consistency.

Although, I will point out that I have never seen a university where ex-science administrators outnumber ex-humanities administrators. It's quite believable that, as a result, humanities culture would be more common among administrators than science culture. As a result of that, a humanities student might think that the admins have "no culture in particular," because they have humanities culture and that's like water for a humanities student. At the same time, the scientists will be thinking, "nobody around here thinks like a scientist."