skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who also lives in Long Island City, my opposition comes mostly from the fact that other companies like Google were able to bring similar types and amounts of jobs without the media circus or significant tax breaks. I fear that articles like this make it seem like Amazon is doing some great service to us by being here when they clearly have plenty of business motivation to be here as well. It's not exactly a secret that companies are having difficulty hiring experienced engineers, and the NYC metro has one of the largest talent pools. But what is Amazon bringing that those other tech companies aren't?

I'm also concerned about lack of housing stock and potential displacement of people in relatively affordable neighborhoods like Astoria and Sunnyside. Plus, even with the addition of CBTC The 7 train seems ill equipped to handle its current daily ridership of 800k+.

To me it seems unfair to simply brush aside legitimate criticisms of a deal as lack of understanding or political posturing.
I agree with your ideals, but when our financial systems are favored towards the second person's preferences that ideology doesn't mean anything in practice because it is not systemic. Trying to handpick cases like this to decide who is more worthy or not isn't fair when that same scrutiny isn't passed upon nearly anybody else. Im not sure we would even have think about this case if we taxed capital gains higher than income. If people want to sit and do nothing with something with our current version of capitalism, they should be allowed to, provided they are willing to pay for it with a bit higher tax rate. I don't think doing otherwise will lead to anything besides present more avenues for corruption within our current economic model. Now if all factory property was put under scrutiny of public ideal and no longer privately owned, maybe something could be figured out, but without knowing what economic model to assume in that place there are a near endless number of potential solutions.
I have proposed something similar here:

https://medium.com/s/free-money/guaranteed-minimum-agricultu...

(I use agriculture as the catchy example because almost every community could use some amount of it, but it goes well beyond that)
Journalism was literally his only livelihood. He was a journalist/editor years before he even conceived of the theories that spawned Capital, and he did it for the rest of his life.
His first newspaper was actually shut down precisely because of his journalism on the question of the rights of poor to gather wood in forests owned by the crown and nobles. He went on to write for at least 3 other papers/journals that I know of, one of which was american and his work was directly on the American Civil war
Regardless. If radios can get away with throwing an ad every few songs, why can't Spotify et al?
I'll throw my hat into the ring: http://ivanish.ca

What makes my site interesting is that.. I work in web dev and graphics, so I got to have some fun combining the two for my portfolio. I'd love to see more programmers taking advantage of web technologies to make their portfolios more visually interesting, and playful.

As much as Flash caused headaches and was a thorn in the side of the open web, there sure were a lot more interesting portfolio sites in the Flash days than there are now.

Thanks for creating this fun thread!
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-10-04
It's worth mentioning that more civilians died in the firebombing of Tokyo than in either of Hiroshima or Nagasaki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo). That was a conventional bombing raid (essentially covering the city in napalm).

However the psychological impact of the nuclear attacks being a single bomb is important to consider as well.
Previously on HN.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12568250
For an extensive article on how regulation dramatically increases health care costs:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/how-ame...
Is it safe to predict that the world will eventually move to drawing to canvas rather than DOM, preventing the ability to block ads altogether?
Sure, but FB's real "users" are the advertisers. They love this. The people who think they are FB users are just resources, inputs to the money machine. As long as the resources aren't leaving the platform, who cares?
> No, a huge part of the cost is the active equipment, which also requires maintenance and upgrades. Have you priced aggregation routers with 10G ports recently?

At something like $1000/port, for 100 Mbps symmetric broadband customers that's $10/customer divided by the oversubscription ratio, per hardware refresh cycle (say three years). The percentage of the customer's monthly bill rounds to zero.

And the maintenance cost may be significant, but it also shouldn't really be proportional to the traffic level.

> Yes, injecting the TV signal as RF over glass is vastly simpler, cheaper, and more reliable than using IP multicast.

It just seems like the opposite of how everything else is going. Virtualization, SDN, etc. Get everything running on the same kind of hardware so everything is fungible, failed hardware can be swapped out with universal replacements, idle resources can be reallocated to other workloads without changing hardware, etc.

> There is also the fact that it pre-dates streaming services, and is an outgrowth of the analog CATV distribution systems that were in places for decades before streaming Internet TV.

This would be easier to believe from Comcast than Verizon.
Cost seems to be the major factor. I believe the NHS doesn’t supply them for this reason. That said, CGMs cost about £150 a month. Worth sacrificing just about any optional expense for I would say.
I'm not sure about Amazon, but we do the memo thing at Jeff's other company, Blue Origin, as well. Charts are fair game and I've used them a few times. I've noticed others at the company use them too, but sparingly.
Here's a trick I use: most PC ports have the flat plastic (inside) on the top half [0], I have noticed. So, if you look at the USB dongle/stick/cord it will have some small holes punched in either flat side usually. Just look for the holes that aren't blocked by the flat plastic part [1] and make sure those are up, then you should get 95 percent of them correct.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/k09dgzL.png
[1] http://i.imgur.com/6sChr0E.png
Julia deriving from only Matlab and R is pretty off: it was not influence by R at all; it was influenced by C, Fortran, Scheme, Pascal and Ruby.
This is how I found I was importing the wrong file after 1 week of working on it...

I was using Welcome.js instead of Home.js

I was happy, kinda. But also, wondering if I solved the issue earlier in the week.
Good point, but so is everything else you would be using it with.

I dunno, this is just one of those things that I can remember being annoying, but I can't remember the last time I actually experienced it.
taking a quick look around my desk, and the slew of cables i have on it, i quickly find that less than 50% of my cables (many of which are popular and respected brands) do not conform to your description.

admit it. USB-A plugs are terribly designed.
The Personality Loop: A theory to explain the growth mindset
> The 'top' of every USB-A plug I've ever seen is smooth, while the 'bottom' has a seam down the middle. And you can tell the receptacle's orientation from a glance just as easily, but you don't have to because the 'top' side of the plug should face the 'top' of the device it is plugging into in almost every consumer device I've used.

I can't tell if you're joking. You've just written three hundred characters about how to plug in a cable. Why is it that complicated? Why didn't they design it to go in in any orientation?
You do realise that you've described Facebook ads (with a few minor exceptions)?

The commercial ad blocking companies still try and block FB ads because FB won't give them a cut of the revenue.

The non-commercial projects try and block FB ads because they are not interested in incentivising ad companies to behave. They just want to block all the things.
United Healthcare, a US insurer, covers 40M people. That's bigger than the entire population of Canada, but Canada has cheaper drugs.
Not really a fair comparison.

For example the whole of Japan had 28 million visitors in 2017[0].

I couldn't find more recent stats but Austin TX had 20 million visitors in 2011-2012.[1][2]

Tokyo metro has a population of 13million Austin tops out at 2 million.

Austin also has some of the highest airbnb usage, 400k+ guests in a year.[3]

I'm bring up Austin because I live there and definitely experience Airbnb affecting the prices.

Sure we all want more housing but the fact is that investors love to buy homes in cash to rent out for events driving the existing stock prices higher.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/23/japan-welcomed-20-percent-mo...
[1]http://www.austinrelocationguide.com/2012/Tourism-in-Austin/
[2]https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2011/09/28/survey-re...
[3]https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2018/01/30/airbnbs-m...
Can any moral issue be ignored by calling it a "cultural thing"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod_intelligence
Face Recognition? For Me, It's Personal
It's not more people (6-8k I believe) but your point stands
I haven't had that problem, on the same distro even! I do remember them often differing in what fonts they would select by default, and Chrome often seemed to pick a worse-looking option... but I never really had any problems with the text simply not rendering.
Why are we trying to supersize drones and not use helicopters?
> Why should you be allowed to use a service in a way they don't intend you to use it?

The Free Software movement has been fighting against this exact mentality for decades. Digital autonomy should be a basic human right. Anyone should be able to download and execute whatever code they want on their own computer.

Spotify also has this right, of course, and is free to block users if they choose. I am not morally obliged to support their business model. At the same time, I choose to have a paid Spotify account because it's more convenient.
Is not this how the case based learning happens in all of the world's top MBA schools such as Harvard, Stanford etc? The class participants were given a case study in the previous class which they'd need to discuss in current class. I also know that Amazon hires probably more MBAs than other top Tech companies and maybe there's a correlation between these MBA hires and narrative style discussions at Amazon meetings.
Public transport is easy when the city is reasonably sized. Toronto is a huge spread out city. The surface area it covers makes public transport really difficult which is not great for the standard of living.
Show HN: All your article updates, by topic, ranked by AI
Oh yeah. More than two beers in the evening: hypos in the morning, either 4am or sometimes when I woke up around noon.

Also instead of taking sugar when going low, try using a system that counts your basal rates to the IoB. Then after a meal you start going down a bit too early, you turn the TBR to 0%. Loop or AndroidAPS helps with this a lot.
If Google comes in with an order for 25 cars too, instead of 10, they can get the discount as well.

Quantity discounts are normal and commonplace, and do not result in single item prices being forced down to match.

Businessmen aren't fools.
Building a RISC-V PC
Then you can pay for the service
What? It seemed to dominate the Twitter threads linked from the article.
Zurich is very expensive, so of course I'm not saying this. But it's a beautiful city, so by allowing destroying its center and making houses higher you trade something for something else. To tell you the truth I'm all for getting rid of zoning generally, but it's not as clear cut case as making sure that trains / trams / metros / buses are clean, and run on time, never too crowded, and have predictable connections.

Many of my colleagues were living outside Zurich in smaller towns / villages (me too), and we could get to work in 20 minutes, which was for me great actually, I loved sitting on the train and enjoying the beautiful view.
Chrome is getting a dark mode for Windows 10 and MacOS
Okay, how about this?

"Plug in the cable face-up."

It's just less accurate for edge cases like tower PCs with slots facing the side. And fair's fair, I hadn't thought about how annoying it is when you have to reach behind a machine to plug something into one of those.

But then again, it's usually hard to plug things together when you can't see them. I dunno, it just really doesn't seem like an issue in practice.
Paying for the service is a red herring since Spotify is specifically targeting the free tier with this policy.

Thus, there really are only two options here when it comes to the free tier on Spotify: "Endure our ad experience or no 'free' service for you." However, there is a 3rd option here when it comes to the free tier: Spotify fixes the currently-terrible ad experience on its service.

I'd be 100% fine with ads on Spotify if they were bespoke like the ads I see from https://carbonads.net. Their ads are relevant, tasteful, and unobtrusive. Oddly, I end up paying more attention to Carbon ads than I've ever paid to a Spotify ad.

Sadly, Spotify is only offering consumers two options without any hint that they've even considered that they themselves could do something to address the issues underlying their customers' use of ad blockers.
Yeah, I live in SEA and have at a job with a little bit of mobility. When my rent in SEA became comparable to NYC, I seriously thought about just doing NYC instead. But then I realized I would probably still be renting forever without much savings if I wanted to live to my standards of comfort, and I probably wouldn't actually use many of the cool things NYC offers - so I decided to move to Raleigh instead.
I find this hard to believe. Do you have a source?
Very wordy answers, and as far as I can see no single answer has both points:

1. The connector is symmetric. If it was asymmetric like HDMI for example it would be easier.
2. There's no bevel to guide the connector into place, so you can be very close and it still won't go in. That feels exactly the same as if you have it in the incorrect orientation.

All the stuff about the logo is misguided. Nobody reads the logo of HDMI or ethernet cables to plug them in.
Someone will forget their laptop, or won't have wifi, or the power will die, or the link doesn't work or won't have the right pdf/doc reader, or will respond to that notification they just got distracting everyone with their clickity clack, etc.

Making the presenter bring everything needed to have a distraction free conversation is a feature, not a bug.
If you can to get the right pump, I highly recommend compiling one of these apps. Just wipes out all the competition from the commercial axis, truly life changing apps if you learn how to use them.

https://github.com/MilosKozak/AndroidAPS/

https://github.com/LoopKit/Loop
Whether recently acclaimed works will remain relevant or are just trendy remains to be clarified.
like some of the other commenters, I would say without data, it is hard to say how much Airbnb is a factor but I would hypothesize that it is a contributing factor to tight housing markets. I was wondering about this impact particularly when using Airbnb for longer stays (like 2weeks - 1 month or longer).
Yikes! Just a quick follow up to my original comment... After reading a lot of the replies I realized I have never actually given serious thought to what it would be like to have diabetes. Sure I shared my little anecdote, but I’m currently a reasonably healthy (read: lucky) person who doesn’t have to grapple with any illnesses.

Given that, it was quite improper for me to share my thoughts about how I would respond to an interesting development in medicine like this. So, thanks to all the thoughtful replies to the parent, they were very eye opening.
Population growth in developed nation's is generally below replacement levels.

People migrating to more dense areas is the problem.
You said, if you are incurious about something, you ought not to make sweeping statements about it. I was challenging the premise, i.e. that I'm incurious about non-fiction books. I don't, by that way, think the claim holds up. It's perfectly possible to be incurious about something and to make a sensible general statements about it (e.g. 'all ducks have wings'). Hence why I told you to engage with my reasoning.

I never said I don't read much non-fiction. I spend nearly all my time reading non-fiction. I said I don't spend 'huge' amounts of time reading popular non-fiction.
I thought Zerodium (as an example) was only interested in RCE type vulnerabilities, although I could see others being of value as well.
I will definitely need a source for that claim.
An additional reason why people may not be confident in their initial alignment -

Even if a user knows about the icon indicating "top" of a USB plug, and is aware of the top side when plugging in a plug, there's no such affordance for the socket.

The top side of the socket _should_ be on top, but the socket might be rotated 90 degrees, and might be on the backside of the device, requiring _correctly_ rotating your mental model of the socket just to know which way the plug goes in!
Sure, WhatsApp does e2e encryption.

Guess what company is also on both of those ends? If people could stop parroting this as if fucking Facebook was trustworthy, that'd be great.
I'd call him a prose stylist at least as good as JK Rowling; but I suppose that's the textbook example of damning with faint praise...

Also, SF authors don't have societal cachet. Joan Didion has cachet. Tom Wolfe has cachet. Arthur Miller has cachet. Kazuo Ishiguro has cachet.

At best, SF authors have...an audience.
Just pay for the service already and stop being so cheap!

It is amazing value for money, and at least some of it goes to the artists.
How to Convert a Free User to a Premium User
New patent win for University of California upends CRISPR legal battle
Kinda seems like you just wanted to assert the person you're responding to is ignorant, when in actuality news papers advertisements are very inherently less "dark" than ads on websites. News papers are static content - they are in no way interactive, which is normally where "dark" advertisements live. Click a thing, see an add. News papers cannot dynamically throw ads into your face, where websites can.

But yes, in previous generations bad things were bad, too.
...Does anybody consider all the existing bug bounty programs "PR stunts"? You seem like you're fishing for a reason to continue disagreeing, and you're most certainly putting words into a stranger's mouth.

A bug bounty program would demonstrate a lot more sincerity around securing their devices than a one-off reward to a kid given simply because the kid got enough attention in the media.
Bitcoin Price Surges as Hashrate Hits 3-Month High
Interesting to view Airbnb as a kind of capital flight for property. The risk/reward of short term rentals is better than that of tenants, and so owners are switching.

The main gap is between the risk adjusted value of a lease vs. the potential income on short term rentals. Theoretically, over the long term, the net value of a lease should be greater than what you can net from the short term market, but something has broken that.

Also, given that rental income is taxed as regular income at the top marginal rate that the owner pays, does that not mean an owner must charge at least %40 more than their mortgage payment to break even? Given most of those condos have mortgages from people with middle class jobs, pricing that in creates a dead loss that would cause rent increases by itself.
Blinkist is best app for this, google quickly the author to get a glimpse and at least you find some gold pots.
I realize it's probably difficult to give a simple answer to this question, but roughly how long would it take to write such a memo?
Evidence of Cancer Seen in 240M Year Old Fossilized Bone
> Isn't that everything in the world, always?

If you're saying advertising is a thing in the world, that's correct.

We have the ability to adjust this particular aspect of our landscape but your questions illustrate it pretty well. Most people don't seem to get very upset about advertising, and therefore it continues to surround us. I don't think there's anything that any one of us can do at this point, we're collectively shaping this world into the one with all the cereal and car emblems and have been for a while.
This statement is saved by the "and / or other disadvantage" because that includes the subconscious guilt that they ultimately owe all of their accomplishments to their wealthy parents, which is indeed a disadvantage that I struggle with daily. :'c
My rules: be interested in some topic, ask around for recommendations, then pick one or two of the recommended titles based on how people described them in the responses you got.
That was not my experience with Toronto at all. I lived in the Liberty Village area over the summer and could very easily get around the city via public transit. The only time we drove was to get to get to the movie theater in Etobicoke. Eastern Toronto was extremely easy to get around.
I like how he has "machine code", "Turing machines" and "first order logic" on top since it gives a bit of mathematical grounding to the classification - abstract, mathematical models of computation and logic came first and were formulated for generality so it's not surprising if language that might not even know about a given construct might barrow from it.

Still, I'd like to see a wider list of mathematical and other pre-existing models of computation. Maybe "Machine Code", "Turing Machine", "Church Recursive Functions", "Lambda Calculus", "First Order Logic" and "Natural Language Constructs".

APL, for example, seems more similar to abstract recursive functions than to first order logic, by quite a bit.
^ the real hero; thanks.
Toronto does have good public transportation. Every day, almost a million people use the Toronto subways/buses/streetcars.
Medicare is NOT health insurance. It is a credit card that starts to fill-up after age 55. States, by law, are required to collect on the debt you and your family acrue for your medical care. The government, in collecting this debt, will place a lien on your estate. Beyond that, your children can be liable for what you owe.

If everyone in the US were to be shifted into this program it would likely be the largest private property grab by a government anywhere in the world in modern history.

Don’t take my word for it, start here and do your own research:

https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/eligibility/estate-recover...

Not saying a better aporoach to healhcare isn’t necessary in the US. It is. Just saying this is not a good idea.
I guess my point was that parent shouldn't assume defeat based on some HN comments and the fact that "everybody just does ads." My statement is a simplification of what it takes to sell a product, yes, but IMHO this still isn't a big enough obstacle to justify the idea that "ads are the only way."

What are some of the bigger problems you see?
Does Bad Blood cover the tech aspects of Theranos? My impression was that it was more about the psychological and legal stuff.

Edit: ... which obviously doesn't make the book any less interesting.
Huh, maybe it's a regional thing; I've only got my experience to go off of, but I haven't experienced this sort of confusion in years.
But of course nothing is gonna happen