skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Normal commercial solar panels have around 175 Watts/sqm peak output. You're right that you rarely get that peak output, but it's still a lot better than the numbers you gave for wind turbines. They also have the benefit that you can put them on roofs, i.e. space that isn't used for anything else.
Technically, yes. But practically, in cases so blatantly obvious it is fine to draw your own conclusion.

In one court case - where a company I had a majority stake in was the plaintiff - the defendant basically had to admit that they copied the code and content of our website. Their defense: 'we did not copy it from them, we copied it from someone else' (without specifying what the 'someone else' was). Needless to say that did not end well, we were surprised they actually went to court but since this was in a country where the loser pays the court costs of the winner that did not overly bother me.
Sorry for the late reply, but parquet is a columnar format so if it's big enough data, you should have multiple pages/blocks of data in a single column for a specific row group, and then be able to seek to the next row group and sequentially read the next set of blocks.
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It would be (morbidly? Sadochistically? I lack the term) interesting to watch how many people jump ship in a situation like this.
documentation is protected under copyright.
For GraphQL I like graph2doc. I assume if you follow a different API spex exactly you've got many options that do exactly what this package does.
> young people put off having children or avoid it altogether if they feel they can't afford it.

Well, people describe their behavior that way, and it may be true to an extent over very short timescales (like a short recession), but economic development empirically leads to decreased population growth overall; people don't have more kids because they are prosperous and less because they are not, but the reverse.
> We created a standard API for cars.

What do they mean by "standard" here if they object to this API being copied?

The very goal of API standardization is to have a common interface for TWO parts to talk to each other in a consistent manner. An API that through whatever means allows for only one specific backend doesn't really qualify for being a "standard".

> How Otonomo is illegally cloning our product

So am I to understand that the API spec is their product?

Or is their API not as standard as they claim?

Can't have your cake and eat it too.
As other comments have pointed out - the facility to update the details of an expired or cancelled card has been available to merchants / payment providers for years if not decades. I do recall that the type of transactions had to be specifically marked as so at the initial authorisation stage ("Continuous Authority" IIRC) and that would allow the initial auth code to effectively be reused. Visa and Mastercard would then provide a service that allowed you to update card details for those that required it (I can't remember if it was push or pull though).

I do also recall there was a problem when 3D Secure / Verified by Visa was involved - IIRC while the Continuous Authority transaction type allowed an indefinite length of reuse, 3D Secure / VByV only allowed up to 90 days (may have changed or may be a detail of the spec I'm forgetting).

The point is, don't assume cancelling your card will result in cancelling of any recurring debits or allow you to get out of a contract. You have to cancel them with the merchant to make sure they don't continue to charge your new card.
Rich text editing is possibly a special case, though the right person to ask about that would be Jacob Wright (https://github.com/jacwright). He's the creator of https://www.dabblewriter.com (which uses Svelte) and a Svelte contributor, so he probably knows more about this topic than just about anyone else!
Even a drop-in replacement does not normally go so far as to have verbatim copied documentation. Which makes me wonder how far the copying went, if they actually obtained the code as well.
This is great! I'm currently working on a large Django project that has itself and all of it's services running in Docker containers via docker-compose. In order to use a traditional debugger, I would need to set up remote debugging and the integration with VS code for that is really not great. Not to mention that getting a remote debugger to work with Django's monkey-patched imports is a little wonky as well.

With this package, it seems like I can just get my debugging via stderr.
Failing yes, but why?

It's a shitty place to do business for non-CCP affiliated companies.
"One of the whales rammed and killed the shark, and the duo proceeded to eat its liver" - is it hard to get a nice Chianti near the Farallon Islands?
The ease and functionality of the environment is fantastic. I especially like the easy visual cues used to denote what attaches to what/where! Really looking forward to this maturing! I'd love to see a more full scripting environment!
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I’ve been through a technical due diligence for an acquisition and the process was severely lacking. In total it took ~8 hours (compared to ~80 for financial diligence). It felt like a once-over smoke test to eek out any major red flags.

I almost wish you had done my technical diligence, Jacques. I spent a week preparing for it and was very proud of what I’d built.
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As someone living in a city that has over the last 20 years had a massive increase in population I believe the previous poster is referencing less competition for limited resources. In day to day life this could be less traffic jams or less competition to use shared resources such as parks or even just lower property prices.
Honestly, I'm much more familiar with China scholarship than Japan scholarship, and with historical scholarship than anthropological. But Bruce Batten's To the Ends of Japan might be worth a read. There are also quite a few scholarly works concerning the role of kokugaku (roughly, "national learning") -- a fairly fundamentalist, xenophobic school of philology and philosophy that sought to purge Japanese culture of foreign "impurities", and rose to prominence from the Meiji Restoration through WWII. (It also exercised considerable influence on modern Japanese archaeology in its formative period; my impression is that its nativist premises colored many early archaeologists' findings.) Stuff on social status (John Hall's "container society" and more recent materials) might be interesting too -- e.g. on the status of burakumin).
Initial disclaimer that I might be wrong about this and the space in general

Have they cloned the API docs or the entire product? Copying API docs is stupid but I can see how that would have been done in a hurry.

However, if I were building a Saas product with an API and a competitor to a popular tool who has it, I will deliberately keep the basic functions as similar to ensure seamless transition. Its not about uniqueness but moving fast. Companies which might want to switch will have it easier given they wont have to change their code much, and by extension can be deployed faster, and I will try to sell them on the features we offer extra over the competitors.

I am not sure about copyright/patent infringement so cant comment about that. Part of what I wrote above might not be allowed, but maybe mentioning explicitly might be ok .
I know that but I have very simple taxes and was too lazy to lookup the difference... it just appears that H&R Block's defaults are better.
“ANDRÉ: . . . And when I was at Findhorn I met this extraordinary English tree expert who had devoted himself to saving trees, and he’d just got back from Washington lobbying to save the Redwoods. And he was eighty-four years old, and he always travels with a backpack because he never knows where he’s going to be tomorrow. And when I met him at Findhorn he said to me, “Where are you from?” And I said, “New York.” And he said, “Ah, New York, yes, that’s a very interesting place. Do you know a lot of New Yorkers who keep talking about the fact that they want to leave, but never do?” And I said, “Oh, yes.” And he said, “Why do you think they don’t leave?” And I gave him different banal theories. And he said, “Oh, I don’t think it’s that way at all.” He said, “I think that New York is the new model for the new concentration camp, where the camp has been built by the inmates themselves, and the inmates are the guards, and they have this pride in this thing that they’ve built—they’ve built their own prison—and so they exist in a state of schizophrenia where they are both guards and prisoners. And as a result they no longer have—having been lobotomized—the capacity to leave the prison they’ve made or even to see it as a prison.” And then he went into his pocket, and he took out a seed for a tree, and he said, “This is a pine tree.” And he put it in my hand. And he said, “Escape before it’s too late.”

― Wallace Shawn, My Dinner With André
I also appreciate HN for the interesting things I find out about the world that I would've never otherwise found out. I also not only read it for the informational content but can appreciate good writing.

And yes, of course there should be artistic liberty in choosing an interesting title. But this title I think is just disingenuous. There's nothing lost if you put the key information you clearly left out in the title. It is clearly only worded this way so people click on it to find out who this mysterious predator is. That's why it's called clickbait (kind of funny actually, considering it's a story about marine life... but I digress)
I’m not sure about how orcas work. But in Norway you can dive with them (not recommended because you disturb them) and not a single person has been attacked there in recorded history (~200 years).

It may be that it was just curious about you, but heck they might just wanted a snack as well.
I have an anecdotal story on the other side. I had a small startup and we had a list of URLs. We loaded them into mTurk and asked turkers to visit site and find an email address (probably could have automated this ourselves, but we didn't). Most of the responses were just info@<<websitename>>.com and we could see they completed the task in <10 seconds. So although info@ is a legit answer, after checking a few we found out the turker just guessed it would be a suitable answer and get paid for it. We basically couldn't trust any of the answers and just walked away from that service.
It's hard to compete against government sponsored monopolies inside China. There's also a huge nationalism sentiment brewing in China and distrust growing for western companies and nationals from other countries.

It's sort of hard to wrap your head around these concepts as a westerner, because we start form two different places of thinking; in China, the government is your way of life, as long as it doesn't interfere with your daily life. The constructs of intellectual property, property rights, etc aren't present
I've been in this field for 10+ years and I have never encountered ripping off others' docs and calling them your own and it being ethically OK
I haven't, but, at least insofar as my thinking has developed (and insofar as Erlang supports it), the question of inheritance is more orthogonal than essential to the specific point I was trying to make. And failed to state clearly, so here it is: This essay is right, and Armstrong is also right when he said "Erlang might be the only object-oriented language". The tension there isn't, at the root, because Armstrong was confused about what OOP is really about; it's because OOP itself was (and is) confused about what OOP is really about.

That said, I would also argue that, like "object", "inheritance" is a word that can describe many distinct concepts, that and here, too, OOP's intellectual traditions create a muddle by conflating them.
>This has nothing to with government interference. Local players in China are very strong

Why are local players very strong?

* Regulatory capture

* Government promotion of internal services

* IP theft from western countries

How about, all of the above?
There but for the grace of god go I.

I also use that phrase. In my youth, I would even have meant it literally. Now, I will respond to it in the sense of cognitive traps which people too easily fall into and are lucky to escape. I have been "lucky" to have experienced racially motivated harassment in my youth, so I have had a direct view of what people taken by groupthink are like.

Far too many human beings in 2019 are falling into groupthink where they will gladly throw young people and children under the bus, just to serve their "side." Note that this applies equally to the political Left and the Right. Once one wants one's own side to win so badly, that basic principles go out the window, one's mind has been taken by groupthink.

The following is directed generally: If one is of the Left and cannot see or automatically excuse all of its transgressions, then one's mind has been taken by groupthink. If one is of the Right and cannot see or automatically excuse all of its transgressions, then one's mind has been taken by groupthink. If one is of the mindset that critics are automatically enemies, one's mind has been taken by groupthink.
While I think the IRS should do this, it would require a lot of additional work and resources, as well as a reshuffling of filing deadlines throughout the system. The IRS currently does not have all the information it needs to prefill forms, and inly has the resources to review a fraction of the 140M+ returns filed each year.

I don't know why so many people in this site seem to think this is a trivial thing for the IRS. 100% review after the fact isn't even feasible right now, let alone having the information in January.
There is no such thing as "withdrawing funding" in this context. The Series A is long closed and Bessemer is deeply entwined with the company's governance.

The most severe move they could take would be to enforce whatever contractual mechanisms they have to block additional financing pending an independent investigation and replacement of responsible parties. Or they could directly force the matter if investors hold a majority Board vote.
No site, but I also misread the title of the post: I make no money doing it. It is just a hobby. I make kayaks and canoes. Been doing it for almost a decade, I make about one a year.
I'd take money over flattery any day though.
Can someone explain me what illegality did they do?

Is it illegal to just copy some docs from somewhere on the web?

are APIs copyrightable?
> I thought the person you were responding to was making a very thoughtful point, and one that was very respectful of women and the valuable insight some of them have that is often overlooked.

The problem is his comment can very easily be read as "Women should do what they are good at". This implies "taking care of kids and home" for many invested in this narrative. On contested topic like this, we should try to phrase our comments very clearly.

> People have no obligation to buy into others' narratives.

Our society seems to work best if we agree on fundamental "narratives". Equal opportunity being good is one of them. Actually, not really, since perfect equal opportunity would require us to not be able to help our own children more than others can help theirs. But let's not get into capitalism/class stuff but back to gender.
A talking point the other side likes to make is "wanting equal outcomes". Nope, that would be stupid. But significantly unequal outcomes are a good indicator we'll find unequal opportunities when we look into it. Or some other reason. But the other side very quickly likes to accept "men and women are just different" as other reason and prefers to disregard e.g. fixing societal feedback loops via affirmative action. That finally brings me to your first part:

> If peoples' experiences and psychology (in my layman's understanding of agreeableness) show that women tend to be more empathetic than me

I don't think we have hard scientific research data showing to what degree this is based on nature or nurture. The latter would be problematic since against the spirit of equal opportunity. Of cause that question is hard to answer, since randomized controlled trials are impossible and understanding the physics and it's emergent properties is still beyond us.
I'm not sure I follow (and I'm a lawyer). If someone uses my chrome extension to research how to rob a bank, and then they go do it, what is the legal theory that puts me at risk? Is Google at risk because they're using chrome? Or the computer manufacturer?

Napster is one end of the spectrum, but I'm not sure how anything short of that is a legal risk. Are there cases or legal theories I'm unaware of?
mark_l_watson: "We're gonna need a bigger boat"
JetBlue uses DHS's facial recognition service as boarding passes
Geoffrey West and people at the Santa Fe Institute have long argued that cities enjoy good scaling properties which make them more efficient on net and drivers of economic growth. Economists also study these efficiencies under 'agglomeration'.
When I was young my mom would go into H&R Block to do her taxes. She was a single parent raising 2 kids on minimum wage income. She wasn’t tax savvy at all and English was a 2nd language. I recall her paying $89 at the time. I always found it odd that someone as poor as her had to pay money to file taxes. I was too young to say anything at the time. So much for free tax preparation. I wonder how many millions of Americans and for how many decades have been ripped off by these scumbags.
Why? Does anyone think that those aircrafts would not have been stripped down and inspected in every possible way before going into service? Not to mention that they were purchased by a shell corporation to avoid any connection to the US government at the time of purchase.
When Google clones the java API's the tone here is that API's are not protected and Oracle are evil gold diggers. Now an Israeli startup copies API's from another startup and the tone here is completely the opposite. What's up?
> I may be mistaken but I think my economics professor said that supply side economics is the dominant economic theory. Rather than the demand side, it is the supply side that's moving the economy.

It’s the politically dominant theory, insofar as it is the political dogma that provides justification for endless tax cuts on the wealthy and corporations and much bleating about how jobs are created by “job creators” rather than robust demand.

In terms of actual academic economics at this point it has about as much rigour and seriousness as phrenology.
Because the IRS is forbidden from making take less time because of tax prep company lobbying. How much of those two hours are spent giving the IRS the same numbers they already have?
That's a fair point and I think it comes down to the word usage - i.e. dishonest vs misleading. I would agree that they are either misleading or intentionally obfuscatory. I would not, however, say that they are dishonest because to me dishonesty means something more like an outright lie or intentional untruth. The fact that a button says "no" but is colored green is indeed intending to trick you, but it does in fact mean "no" when you click it and the appropriate action is then taken by their site/system. Similarly, the unsubscribe link might be hard to find and not colored as a link, but it's there and it works.
The claim is that the most expensive part is storing the waste for 10000 years. All LLW and ILW doesn't have to be stored that long.
any chance to define a bit more the side income you make?
I think the argument "because I wasn't deceived by the deceptive behavior, it isn't dishonest", isn't a great one. Even if you take a really legalistic view, and entirely ignore the ethical implications of this kind of behavior, simply disclaiming any responsibility to the user doesn't necessarily make it so. Fine print only gets you so far.
Api design is part of the value.
"Instagram’s real product isn’t photos; it’s likes."

This is a powerful view. I haven't read Girard yet, but this understanding just bumped up the urgency.

I do disagree with the statement that the role model of narcissists is themselves, mainly because I think it's necessarily an external figure who inculcates a belief in a perfect self, which the narcisist must then either feel reflected in his relationships, or defend that external image of self with unreasonable ferocity. The role isn't "themselves," in this case it's an idealized reflection they expect from others. Subtle, but key.

It's like the baby or child seeking out a source of pure maternal adoration and then a belief in that lost perfection characterizing them as an adult. When you meet someone in a narcisistic rage, it's because they have had their self-belief wounded by an imperfect reflection, coupled with how hard they have "worked," to deserve that reflection from a person with their sacrifices and accomplishments. This is why they call it, "narcissistic supply," as they will work pathologically to get the external approval of their Self that they cannot produce for themselves. It's almost certainly contagious as well, since parents who use their children as a source of supply love bomb them, creating that reflected adoration high they crave, while leaving the kid with the same sense of perfection and consequent need.

Arguably, coming of age rituals were designed to destroy that image and create self acceptance, and why there is such a renewed cultural interest in "ego death," from hallucinogens.

Trouble is, we know how useful people with narcisistic tendencies are, because they will literally kill themselves for a bit of external approval, and as a society we exacerbate it under guise of creating "pro-social," behavior. It's like sugar, fine in small doses, but you probably don't want to carry around a pump, and yet this is what we do with sources of external approval.

It will be interesting to reconcile this interpretation with Girard's idea of role models and the narcisist's role being self referential. Unexpectedly interesting post.
Wouldn't want to fart in there.
There may be many arguments in favor of having the IRS sending out pre-filled-in tax forms, but this one just isn't true:

> It would cost the IRS almost nothing to send out pre-filled forms

Enhancing the IRS databases to actually plug in the information used on a typical tax return almost certainly would not cost "almost nothing." Back when it existed, less than 20% of people filed a 1040-EZ (the simplest tax form). That means you need something beyond just "plug in the numbers from the W-2" for the vast majority of tax filers. The IRS almost certainly doesn't have all that machinery already. Some of that data, the IRS doesn't have at all. (How many children live with you for purposes of the EITC?)
Once upon a time a group called 'CitizenX' copied the Camarades.com website and software and gave us the proverbial finger because 'they were in the US and we were in Europe and what were we going to do about it?'.

Turns out not everybody working there agreed with the tactic and the day they raised money I got a very nicely worded anonymous email with the name of the investor. The ink on the press release was still wet when I mailed the VC for their legal contact because we were still well within the statue of limitations and now they could actually pay up.

The only message I got back was 'we will not be investing'.
To some people it is. I'm with you, but different folks like different things. I'm not about to judge them.
I don’t think the math works that way. Suppose your return is 35% after paying the long term tax rate. This implies your pre-tax return was .35/(1-.25) = 46.66. Now instead pay the short-term rate and get 46.66 * (1-.4) = 28%. So the return drops from 35% to 28%, which is still mind-boggling (even 20% over decades would be extremely impressive).
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