skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an important distinction. CBS reports [1] that a $500 emergency expense would put most Americans in debt. Our consumer-focused economy with easy credit lures people into purchases that they cannot afford. Many spend without careful thought and purchase homes, electronic devices, automobiles, and college educations that they cannot afford to repay.

My wife and I had little savings when I got out of graduate school. Neither of our parents had taught us about budgeting. I found books that taught us how to make a monthly budget. The authors stressed the importance of working together to plan a budget and setting a goal of saving for an emergency fund that would eventually cover six months expenses. We drove our old car until it was too expensive to repair. Eating out was a rare treat. I carried a bag lunch to work. We bought a used tent and camping supplies for a vacation. We had a used B&W TV for years. We were able to purchase a modest house. We never upgraded to a bigger one. A careful lifestyle helped us get our kids though state universities with no debt.

In time we could add more "fun" items because we had a buffer. We were still careful. My employer had perennial layoffs. We knew I could be laid off at any time. Happily, I was ready to retire when my time came (My company went from 65,000 employees in our city to less than 1,700 when I was laid off).

I have a friend who ran his own computer business and counseled (free of charge)many families with money problems. His conclusion was that lack of money was not the biggest problem these families had. He concluded that poor management of what they had was a bigger problem.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/most-americans-cant-afford-a-50...
Niki Lauda won a race for Brabham in the 80s driving a car fitted with a fan that sucked air from below the car. It got banned immediately, before the next race.
> Still, I differ from Richards opinions in that I think that Apple and Google do have some good privacy policies in place.

The problem is there have been a lot of scandals as of late of SV companies violating the trust you place in their 'policies'. A policy only works if it's being adhered to also when it's not convenient.

I have a HomePod, but with the mics disabled, (I just wanted a decent wireless speaker that can stream lossless audio). The problem is there's no hardware cutting off the mics, it's only software and considering there run full iOS, it's one OTA away from violating my privacy, without me ever knowing.

There's been the Alexa stories, the smart TV stories - it's a real prospect.

I think that's a relatively scary prospect with these sort of closed systems, especially as 'smart homes' are becoming smarter.
Sorting algorithms. I learned them in my first CS course 20 years ago and never had a need to know them since.
Thread on displaying data on academic papers
Yeah, this doesn't seem like a big deal to me, and i haven't seen any outrage from actual customers of the product. All the outrage seems to be coming from bloggers who are taking this as justification for their existing "google is a privacy threat" stance.
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I disagree. I was able to get into one of the best graduate programs in my field a few years after a mediocre undergraduate record. This took some preparation, but it came down to finding other avenues to prove myself. The committee knows your undergrad record doesn't mean much if it was many years ago. "What else have you got?" they might ask. It takes some effort and creativity, but it can be done.

Adults with a newfound motivation are valuable and they know that. But just saying so isn't enough.
It's a way to check errors. Mismatches trigger audits.

If you owe lots of taxes, and the IRS sends you their calculations, you might discover that they are unaware of some of your income. Well... guess they don't need to know!
It's open source as of last year. https://github.com/ghostery/ghostery-extension
post the actual link im interested
everything is an automation of some more complex system on top of it
This is on YOU.
Why is the income of the 0.01% rising so drastically? Because it is based on assets like stock and real estate, which are inflating at a rate completely detached from the actual economy.

Why are asset prices inflating? Because of a policy of easy and cheap money, worldwide.

Why is there a policy of easy and cheap money? To "boost" the zombie economies.

Why boost the zombie economies? To maintain zombie jobs and prevent unemployment.

Why not just take a shortcut and hand out cash directly to the people? Because then all prices, including consumer goods, will inflate.

The "solution" isn't tax cuts, it's a massive re-pricing and it'll happen on its own. Something like what happened to Japan in the nineties.
It isn't just Intuit, and it isn't just their $5 million in legal bribes. If it were simple to do income taxes, it would be tens of thousands of accounting industry jobs that would be cast aside. I suspect the lobbying money comes with that as part of the message.

Leona Helmsley, as quoted by her housekeeper: "We don't pay taxes; only the little people pay taxes." She believed that and I suspect we have no idea the extent of this corruption, and very well could also be why the system is the way that it is. Corruption and tax avoidance is a right for the privileged, secured as a product they can buy. If this is all easy peasy and automated, how do you do clever obfuscation so you're avoiding taxes?
If I had colo space, why not just run OpenBSD on bare metal and optionally use vmm? I want this precisely because I'm not in a position to host stuff physically myself.
Even without Internet permission there are easy ways to exfiltrate critical data.

For example, the app could just open the browser set to http://myapp.com/?secretdata=Ultramanoids_password

How are you going to stop that? Have the browser stop and ask before loading the web page?
Fantastic comment, this is to me the crux of what makes privacy so important.

"How could people have decided that marijuana should be legal, if nobody had ever used it? How could states decide that same sex marriage should be permitted, if nobody had ever seen or participated in a same sex relationship?"

https://moxie.org/blog/we-should-all-have-something-to-hide/
You could do real-time ray tracing fifty years ago :D

But you would only compute like 1 000 rays per frame, while now you can compute like 10 000 000 rays per frame :)
the cloop[0] system from knoppix is something i use often to back up arbitrary file systems. debian has the cloop-utils which includes create_compressed_fs, and this is great for making compressed copies of file systems which can then be read without uncompressing the whole blob.
however i have found debian's cloop-src module to be problematic in that i have never been able to get it to compile. the actual module comes as source only, and without this part it is not possible to read the backups without uncompressing, which is a shame. in fact it appears debian has recently removed cloop from debian testing[1] for this reason.
so it is still necessary (and enjoyable) to have knoppix around to use the decompression system, although it is a huge pain to do it this way. i hope debian is able to get things sorted finally with cloop-src! that would be great.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloop
[1]https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cloop
What's the point of arguing who made the arguments, when we are debating how much validity do the arguments have.
Please describe a time you've had a question and successfully used a chat widget to solve it
If we abandon being judged on the merit of our action, what is left? Popularity? Arbitrary rule? This anti-merit philosophy is just Despotism is new clothes.
Just vouched this comment; that it was flagged instead of replied to seems to basically reenforce what the comment says.
10 years ago I might have agreed with you but now I feel most humans are too dumb and easily led. Flat earth, anti vaccine, global warming deniers and so much other crap is easily spread and believed. If I owned a platform I would not be happy allowing it to be used to spread this.
Every state covers mothers under Medicaid.
>But to take an extreme case, there's nothing preventing you from getting yourself into trouble due to a lack of valid payment methods. For example, Americans have visa-free access to the EU, so nobody will check their finances, and an American could theoretically land somewhere in the EU without a payment card and only carrying US dollars, which aren't legal tender.

I thought part of the job of immigration officers is to screen travelers for ability to sustain their trip? Visa waiver does not mean you are entitled to enter.

When I (an American) visited the UK and EU on a backpacking trips, the immigration official asked me how I'd cover my expenses, and specifically queried about backup plans if my card wasn't accepted. (This was back before chip and sig rolled out)

Though they did just take me at my word I had enough US dollars that I could convert them to pounds and get a room if needed...
I think you're expecting Plato to be Archimedes.
> "literally", which has evolved so much that the dictionary has literally changed its definition to indicate that it could be used metaphorically

Just as surprising to me is people saying the word "silently" aloud. As though they don't know what it originally meant!
As Conversations showed in the XMPP land, just a single full-time developer paid from his work on the client can make a huge difference. The foundations are strong (XMPP and Matrix), what you need now is some resources. XSF is notoriously understaffed.
The problems GNU Emacs does not solve for a CL programmer is its generally clunky user interface, lack of GUI features, its non-reusability in a Common Lisp program and its non-source-compatibility with Common Lisp. GNU Emacs will always be an extra component to a CL program and rarely will be the right user interface for a CL program - even though the program might need editor functionality.

One can get very far with it, but for some the combination of above is enough reason to look for alternatives.
One point of contention in this otherwise interesting article: in some languages, pitch is absolutely salient. It doesn't generally happen to be in English, but in Bantu languages, Chinese, Vietnamese, etc., pitch or tone is an important discriminator. How and what it encodes differ, and it is indeed relative pitch or contour rather than absolute frequencies, but it is definitely not secondary.
Please edit swipes and incivility out of your comments here, regardless of how misinformed someone else is. It's actually worse when you're right, because then you're discrediting the truth by associating it with rudeness.

There's an additional concern. As Lisp users ourselves, we remember how the CL culture was gutted by the wave of nastiness that rolled into it about 15 years ago. No trace of that is ok on Hacker News. Dismayingly, your comments have contained traces of it in the past as well as in this thread.

In fact, you have posted so many uncivil comments to HN already that we're going to ban you if you keep doing it. If you'd please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site to heart from now on, we'd greatly appreciate it. This means erring on the side of respecting others, assuming good faith, and providing correct information to teach readers rather than humiliate fellow commenters.

You might also find these links helpful for getting the spirit of this site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/trolls.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
You can have issues opening an account in the UK if you're not allowed to get credit, since many bank accounts include free access to credit, or an overdraft facility, that you can't turn off or decline.

You can be banned from getting credit pretty easily too; if you've failed to pay council fines (parking, tax, etc.), or missed a repayment on a loan, a judge can give you a ban. It can be a real problem for people who get into a bad financial position and want/need a new bank account later on.
My understanding is that of all schools of economics, the Chicago school is the least disconnected from reality, in that it rightly recognizes its own "dismal" science as a social science first.
It might be good for you and me say, because we can order stuff easily and cheaply ship it to us, but the economy is hurt because a whole lot of local jobs were eliminated without many replacement jobs - there's an hourly amazon delivery worker plus a truck driver to the center maybe. Before there were retail workers, managers, mall security and janitors, trucks taking stuff to the mall.

We don't have as good a jobs for a lot of those people.
Just out of curiosity, have you already dealt with Navis, the packing and shipping company? When spoken "Nabis" and "Navis" are very similar, and I'm sure some enterprising lawyer would claim it to be confusingly similar and you're also in a similar business.
The ACA hasn’t been shown to be the cause of group insurance to go up. Not too many “low income” people could have afforded private insurance anyway.

All of the mandates for what qualified as a real plan were things that were being offered voluntarily by both of my parents health plans in the 90s. My mom is a retired teacher and my dad is a retired factory worker.
We're leaving capitalism to enter into a new type of society. Rentierism. Everything is already owned. Even things you currently own, or don't even exist, are being taken back from you so you can be charged rent for it. It's like feudalism, but you can have as many feudal lords as you want to live under--as a service.
Show HN: Majority, a quiz game where the majority always wins
Funny how the author thinks colored vinyls existed then :) my first vinyl release had something like 50 copies in red due some reasons (we ordered all black cuz it was cheaper). Pretty sure one can still order colored vinyls but it’s a “common knowledge” that black ones last longer. Can’t say if that has any merit or not.
What evidence is there that Apple collects data unnecessarily?
Globalism: A World in Chains
Banks do it under fractional reserve banking.

"Lord Adair Turner, formerly the UK's chief financial regulator, said "Banks do not, as too many textbooks still suggest, take deposits of existing money from savers and lend it out to borrowers: they create credit and money ex nihilo* – extending a loan to the borrower and simultaneously crediting the borrower’s money account"." [0]

* hilarious use of Latin to make 'out of nothing' sound authoritative

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking
Professor Eric Laithwaite: Magnetic River 1975
I don't want to put words in you mouth, but social science is not necessarily pseudoscience. A lot of it is, or rather, a lot of what is popularized is, because it's a lot easier to make bullshit interesting.
Of course it matters. How many consumers honestly knew that Nest was bought by Google?

I mean laughing and experiencing schadenfreude over someone planting a hidden and previously unknown microphone in ones home, is just weird man.
What is your opinion of GNU Taler?
Yep, I had a couple of CD sleeves filled with Knoppix and Mandrake somewhere around 2003. I was ~13 and had absolutely no idea what I was doing, but it felt fun anyway.
Interesting. It's a cheap fix-it ticket (much cheaper than a speeding ticket) in MN, but (apparently) it's annoying because it requires an actual court appearance (I haven't cracked the code on which offenses require court appearances in Chicago; I've only had to go once or twice. I wonder if those were misdemeanors as well.)
> Who you are now is very different than who you were 10 years ago

nit: G+ is only seven years old

(Disclosure: I work at Google, though not on Plus)
Actually, coming from a country where Informatics Engineering is an actual professional title, I think adoption of such practices around the world, instead of allowing somone to name themselves engineer after a six weeks bootcamp would already help a lot regarding the quality of work output.

Any good certified engineers degree takes care that students have a concern for acquiring domain specific knowledge and adopt best practices.

Another thing would be liability, people just need to sue more often IT companies, so that security is actually taken up seriously.

Too many CVEs in the last couple of months? The servers get grounded, product recalls are required from state.
That, right there, lines up exactly with what I was afraid had been going on. I'm quite impressed with Brazil for doing their own footwork to ensure their pilots are well informed.

I am abjectly horrified at the self-certification process the FAA has adopted, however.

As someone who has spent a long time doing Quality Assurance, I've learned that Engineering often develops blind spots as a result of diplomatic friction with other areas of a company, and cannot often fend off potentially dangerous technical compromises without an adversarial force capable of stopping the entire show. Even with one, if that department is still answerable to the same overarching business pressures, there is still an elevated level of slippage and inherent risk.

The FAA should never have allowed self-certification. By acting as an external quality control force, the FAA guarantees a decoupling of any financial interest on the part of the inspector, and actually acts as a unifying force against which competing airframe manufacturers can unite. It aligns incentives to keep the FAA getting better at design inspection/approval, and gets airframe manufacturers focused on making information relevant to certification as easily accessible as possible.

Trying to implement that type of mechanism in house, or through delegation aligns incentives in such a way where poor or inaccessible documentation is encouraged to make any inquiries or attempts to prove liability more difficult. It also increases the incentive for the in-house inspector to "give-in" through social forces, and workplace dynamics.

I recognize these types of dynamic everyday in software shops, but I'd never imagined it would happen somewhere that produced something that absolutely must work.
As someone who completed four years of college but did not receive my degree because of one unfulfilled requirement, this is true.

However, it is a temporary phenomenon. Within 5 years I was earning on par with my colleagues who had their diplomas, and today I manage and out-earn people with degrees.

I am absolutely certain that the skills and knowledge I gained in college were essential to my career. So if the question is whether college is useful minus the credential, count me as an enthusiastic yes.

The first job after college seems huge to young folks but it really does not matter in the long run. I can't think of a single person I know over 40 who is doing the same thing today that they did out of college. In some cases the job or industry did not even exist when they graduated.

College education gives you the opportunity to built a base foundation that will serve your whole life, which is (hopefully) long. Who knows what the world and jobs will look like 30 years from now.
Startup Acquisition (Equity+Cash) Structuring
Here is a question I am confused about. Say a startup is being acquired for dual interests:
a) the product.
b) recruit team members

Say:
> Startup gets valued @ X. (for the company & recruiting team)
> The amount is paid out in cash (A) + stock swap(B): A + B = X.

I am assuming that the stock swap (B) will come some vesting schedule of 4 years or similar. So the team members will earn their shares over 4 years of employment etc.

Question:
Say a member of the team holds 10% equity in Startup, if vesting is fully accelerated. However the member is not going to join the acquirer.

Is the member entitled to 10% of X? Or 10% of A?
- It seems to me that 10% of X would be unfair, because the person is not joining the company & will not be working for those shares. While others will need to earn those shares through employment.
- whereas, 10% of A sounds tricky -> because if the entire deal is a stock swap only & no cash -> then the member gets 0.
Love the list/bulleted way that this is presented. Obviously missing a lot of granular points, but at a high level, I think this is spot on
Constant upgrading of the operating system improves performance (iOS 12) and security. I’ve nit had any apps break from any of their updates.
I'm not pretending anything, and if you think I'm deceitfully engaging in this discussion you need to step back and consider that I have my own understanding of this matter and it may or may not be flawed.

> The meaning connoted by cDc is the the one from the movie Wargames

cDc engaged in much more than run-of-the-mill systems exploits. They produced a lot of literature and overall espoused hacker culture as an inclusive one. I'd be very interested to hear what each of them think about how broadly the term "hacker" can be applied, and I'm willing to bet they don't all share the same view.

> The argument isn't about whether Beto was a part of hacker culture at all. Clearly, he was. It just wasn't the hacker culture the OP was referring to.

You can't do that. You can't say "both definitions are valid" and then bristle up when someone doesn't use your preferred definition.
Classic example. The bribe didn't go to the right people. Of course some people must be held accountable!
I used slimv for a while and it worked pretty well. Now I use evil-mode.
You have it backwards. Graphviz doesn’t support the latest MacOS release, not vice versa.