skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of zeno's paradox, even though you continue to buy google stock its a smaller and smaller fraction so even if you buy google to infinity you still never own it
You are clearly not looking then
Yes, if he's married filing jointly the standard deduction is $24k. Meaning he pays zero taxes. If he's unmarried his standard deduction is still most of his salary (~$12k), and the remaining amount would fall into the 10% tax bracket. But he would qualify for tax credits with income that low. Also very likely social services and safety nets. His effective income tax rate should be negative.

Reading these comments, it's apparent most people have no idea how this shit works. I thought here of all places, I wouldn't see people falling into the "I don't understand how progressive tax brackets work" trap.
Yes, cameras in public spaces are one thing. Surveillance of private property (personal phones) is a completely different thing. I agree that the latter is terrible.
Yes, but that only works for the merge request view so far, are there plans to add a view of these to each CI job, so even if something on master fails, I can see the results?
> An informed citizenry in a democracy doesn't need art.

There's no point in _having_ a democracy without art.
Agreed. I don't have one either, but the photos look great.
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In GP's post the second satellite is the same satellite, just on the way back. The post assumes for demonstration that the ground station is the destination.
When the whole Martin Shkreli saga was making the news I ran across his youtube channel and did end up watching his 'How to analyze a clinical trial' series of 4 videos to understand the process .. they're long but it was interesting to some extent as someone from outside that industry .. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8gjB1PSXv_oAUSAQ16S0fA/sea...
The National ID Card controversy wasn't simply about a photo-ID card (as noted, UK driving licenses are biometric photo-ID cards—and have been since before the NID was mooted). The real problem was the integration of a National Identity Register, a universal biometric ID database storing numerous non-essential items that was to act as a central authentication point for access to all government (and many corporate) services. Failure to register was to be a criminal offense (in US terms, a felony); failure to update within a week of changing address, ditto (don't ask how this would work for the homeless, or for students and workers living away from home part-time): it was to be carried at all times on pain of a hefty fine: changes to your address had to be reflected in a new physical card (which would be charged for): and a whole bunch more stuff.

Let's just say that it wasn't just a picture ID card; it was the camel's nose under the tent flap for a massively intrusive national database system with huge potential for misuse, abuse, and creeping changes of scope.

Today the UK has a de-facto biometric authentication system in the shape of the Identity and Passport Office database and the DVLA driing license database: between these, there's roughly 90% coverage of the adult population. But because it's opt-in and voluntary, and the police can't at any moment challenge you to produce a card and arrest you instantly if you're not carrying it, it hasn't produced the same push-back.

(As for those CCTV cameras? Most of them are in private premises, subject to GDPR data sharing restrictions. It's actually illegal for a shop CCTV system to cover the pavement outside, for example. The police only have access to them when a crime has been reported and half of them aren't working, as my wife discovered when her bicycle was stolen from right under a cluster of them …)
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I am wearing one right now and it’s amazing - Especially it’s battery life (easily 1 month+). I get loads of compliments about this watch. The feature set is just enough for my needs, even though I considered getting an Apple Watch. The app is also more than decent.
>it completely misses the point of what made Timex famous to begin with; excellent quality at a low price.

Brands change, particularly fashion brands. Many high-end brands become debased and low end brands slowly scale up in quality to become high-end a decade later. Timex doesn't need to make a lot of 500 dollar watches because they wont sell a lot of 500 dollar watches.

It might however move the perceived value of the brand outside of the discount bin, and earn some cheap goodwill advertising while it does so.
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> An anecdote from a trip to Quebec city. My wife and I walked up to a hostess to inquire about getting a table for dinner. We greeted her in French. As soon as we started to ask about a table, she stopped us and said, "No no no no. This will be in English."

I was under the impression (having never been to Quebec) that she was in fact breaking the law by doing this.
I'm sorry sir, you must be mistaken, those were just Ukrainian soldiers wearing Russian uniforms and using Russian weapons, happens all the time
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> help me pronounce “derrien”

Do you mean "de rien"? (As in "no problem", literally "it was nothing")

I agree r's are definitely the hardest thing to pronounce in french (as an english speaker at least). I think "rire" is the hardest word in the french language
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Fwiw most people here won't be able to give a hard and fast definition of a sentence; this is why we have Recurrent Neural Networks.
For more reasons why this might be a good idea, see https://indieweb.org/why.
Funny. In Spain (and I'm sure other countries) you are owed severance pay and can claim unemployment benefits in case your employer fires you/laids you off, but not in case you resign on your own.

Few employers would "fire" an employee resigning (also, "asking" to be fired is highly illegal), unless he/she were a very recent hire for which severance pay would be low.
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Question 35 is testing whether you know how "metaphors" work. B is correct because "putting toys back into the chest" is a metaphor for the weekend's fun-and-games being over. C cannot be correct because it's referring to the text's literal meaning ("organizing things") without giving effect to the "metaphor" call-out in the prompt.
That's true, yet you have to go through a lot of Morse -> letter before it becomes automatic enough to advance to the stage where you can go from Morse -> meaning. There's no alternative really, you can't just wish yourself into automatically divining the meanings, you have to put in the hours of incremental training before it all becomes second nature.
no one can win on seiko at this price point and in terms of hardware. but that doesnt matter much. have a look at shinola. they sold 700$ watches "made in detroit" that are quartz movement and they made so much and it worked so well that they are now selling automatic movements. don't hate on the made in america it is a brand in itself.
Yes, you have to make effort to go on meetups and conferences, and meet your friends in other cities on your own. Your colleagues are perhaps a "convenient default option" to socialize, but it doesn't replace proper social life.
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I should know (have been using LaTeX for nearly 30 years) but... what does ConTeXt give that LaTeX does not? I have never made heads or tails of it.

Thanks.
Can't fault him for that as most US companies seems to get tax rebates and other sort of dubious tax payer funded incentives at federal and state level.
Sure:
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-10-03-grass-fed-beef-good-or-b...
These drugs will be registered as an orphan drug, it's a rare disease this guy is writing about, his sheet estimates 200 living individuals in the US. These days, many if not most drugs are registered that way. The author assumes an orphan drug registration for this drug.

The pharmaceutical company usually tries to register all their new drugs as orphan drugs initially, and as a drug becomes profitable for a certain disease, other diseases (more common diseases) are included in the registration to maximize profit.

As an addendum, the development costs for orphan drugs are not magically low, it's still multiple hundreds of millions that the company has to put up with before approval.
A+ name ideas.
You're pinging a device on the ground

t=0 You send out ICMP request
t=120ms it hits the satelite
t=240ms it arrives at the ground station, ICMP reply occurs
t=360ms hits satelite
t=480ms arrives back at the originating machine

The only way doing satelite-satelite at a GEO level would be useful would be

1) You're pinging a device on satellite in GEO (one you don't have LOS to)

2) You're pinging a device that's also connected via a different GEO 120 degrees away from the first

in this case you'll

t=0 You send out ICMP request
t=120ms it hits the satelite
t=240ms it arrives at the ground station 1
t=280ms arrives at ground station 2
t=400ms hits satelite #2
t=520ms arrives back at the destination
t=640ms response arrives at sat #2
t=800ms response arrives at ground station 2
t=840ms response arrives at GS#1
t=960ms response arrives at sat #1
t=1080ms response arrives back at originating machine

You could change that, but you won't save much in GEO as you're connecting to two different satelites, 120 degrees apart or 70,000km (235ms)

t=0 You send out ICMP request
t=120ms it hits the satelite
t=355ms hits satelite #2
t=475ms arrives at destination
t=595ms response arrives at sat #2
t=830ms response arrives at sat #1
t=950ms response arrives back at originating machine

Reality of course is that typical satelite latency is 800ms or more (depending how much you pay to skip buffering) rather than 480ms.
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-10-03-grass-fed-beef-good-or-b...
Why are Robocalls so common in the US, but not in other countries?
Well, there goes my dream of joining the French Foreign Legion.
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So the key points of the essay -- cathedrals are accretions of effort over time, no cathedral is ever finished -- do they apply to software? And do they apply more to cathedral-structured projects than to bazaar-structured projects? I'm perhaps more drawn to this metaphor than I should be; I think I'm still trying to make up my mind about whether it's really useful, and to what extent.
Not all toxins cause violence though probably. Maybe other problems.
It's not uncommon if you're in charge of critical projects that you give your employer an extended window before you leave so that they have a real chance to hire someone to replace you and you can get them up to some kind of functional speed.
I could never go back to a regular 8 to 4:30, with a timed lunch break and all that inflexibility.

I actually recoil in horror at the thought. Just the time wasted in traffic and associated costs is too much to bear.

However, hardly anyone at "the office" is looking to create a relationship with a 50-something senior dev anyway. Without a doubt we are the invisible workers at tech companies, if we ever even get the job in the first place, so that's actually another plus for remote.

However, I've never been the type to mix work life with a social circle, so I'm probably just buried in cognitive biases here.
Thanks for the chuckle, but shitting on the USA is one of our favorite passtimes on HN as Americans, so it kinda makes your "b-b-but what about the USA" here into a trite eye-roll.

It's like complaining HN never talks shit about Javascript in a submission that shits on PHP.
The reason to care is that in the current American economy there is an agglomeration effect in large "superstar" cities that causes wages to be significantly higher than in other parts of the country. This impact is seen to an even stronger degree in SF/The Bay Area due to it being the center of the US Tech Industry, arguably America's most successful industry.

Due to the extremely poor housing/development policies of SF/The Bay Area rather than most of the impact going to the actual people doing the work the gains are going to landlords and other land owners. This is a huge waste of potential with a fairly obvious solution that, for various reasons, our local politics is unable to fix.

It also has the added negative effect of keeping a lot of people from moving to the city and accessing these gains.

In addition, as other's have said, this isn't just a SF/Bay Area problem but also a problem in many other American cities. I think there is a good argument to be made that overly restrictive local zoning policies is one of the larger negative forces on American family's prosperity happening right now.
> It wasn't healthy if you were a developer, and were forking over a monopolistic 'PC game tax' to Valve.

You can sell directly though your own channel and give steam keys. Afaik without paying the 30% steam tax. Those keys don't count for stuff like reviews, to prevent abuse. But this seems like a reasonable trade-off for all parties involved. I'm happy to use the launcher of my choice, dev is happy to avoid the tax, steam is happy to make more likely to use their storefront.

I mostly agree with you and would welcome competition. But I don't see benefits for me if stores compete based on their library of exclusive titles.
Last I heard (see source) is that they can bypass the pinlock delay, making brute-force entry much more efficient.
If you use a numeric pincode, even if 8 digits, "breaking the encryption" is well within their reach.
If you use an alphanumeric+symbols password that 8 characters or longer, brute-forcing rapidly becomes impossible, even for cellebrite.

A running, unlocked phone may be hacked by zero days. Encryption at rest... currently no.

Any body have more details on these technical aspects ?

Source:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/celle...
You make a fair point. I can understand fear about a loss of cultural identity. But, speaking from a strategic standpoint, if you want to preserve the language, you need to get more people speaking it. Corrections can come later. It's like a child learning a musical instrument. Rare is the child who can tolerate being stopped every few seconds with corrections. But, teach a child to play a song in a rudimentary way on the instrument and you capture their interest. Once interest is captured, you can start teaching proper technique.

And yes, we of the US butchered English. I have no qualm with that statement. We also can't get metric right. At least we drive on the proper side of the road though. ;-)
This is about their kid accidentally deleting their phone.
Well. Strangely I happen to be one of the folks in that .000001%, so I apologize if my opinions have been shaped differently.

I lost one of my ex-school mates in an market-place explosion (2005 Delhi bombing). While the London Bombing suspects were identified, all suspects in the Delhi bombing that same year were released due to "lack of evidence".

I am completely in favor of surveillance of public property.
Cable news channels have a problem of not labeling their axes at all, or having proportions that don't match the labels that are there. Like pie charts that show <40% as being roughly half. And then not providing enough time for viewers to fully understand the data.
In the UK exams are privatised, you buy the exams from an exam board. They often have massive errors in them and clearly haven't been properly tested - I used to do mark checking.

500,000+ kids take the papers at £30+ a time. You'd think for £15M you could afford to do things properly; but of course the key metrics are profit/bonus/wages.

Moreover the boards compete in part on making their tests easier, or at least that they give the highest grades. You can't objectively compare students in such a system, it's moronic.
Oh my days. That's the saddest (as in - imparting of sadness) morse code message in the world. :'(
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> But, some people definitely do not care about "showing-off" when they put something up online.

If you don't care about showing off then you won't publish anything. People who are actually altruistic won't tell you about their altruism.

This isn't cynicism. The hunger for respect, admiration and recognition is not a bad thing. But it is necessary for people to understand what motivates them. And it is necessary for us to construct a society in which respect is earned by performing actions that are broadly beneficial to that society (as far as we can estimate, anyway).

Today, anyone can broadcast. But that doesn't mean that everyone should broadcast. The old gatekepers weren't perfect but they served a necessary purpose. Who are the new gatekeepers?
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The swedish government didnt tell their population which saw dozens of submarines and went in to a panic expecting a soviet invasion.

Again, the whole quote:

>Many military officials and politicians said they had never heard of the NATO exercises.

>``You need some sort of agreement to do a thing like this. But I know nothing of such an agreement,″ said Admiral Per Rudberg, head of the navy from 1978 to 1984.

>Current Defense Minister Bjoern von Sydow said he was surprised, but added, ``I have no reason to question what a former U.S. defense secretary is saying.″

The head of the navy didnt know.
Wonderful article, RSS needs to make a comeback. Especially among friends and family who love to make large posts about important topics. I try to tell them to build a blog and then just link to articles that they write. Your article and others inspired me to finally just put together a system to make it easier to start blogging. I just mimic a social media platform, but since everything is committed to a repository using the JAMstack it could easily be converted to a full website.
Any feedback would be wonderful. https://your-media.netlify.com/post/make-your-own-media/

I will also mention that https://www.stackbit.com/ is doing basically the same thing but more from a “Make life easier for Website designers” perspective.
How, specifically? Most people would expect that if the patent benefits were reduced, there would be reduced incentive to invest the absurd sums required to develop a drug.
This is anecdotal and I am a sample of one, so do with this as you will. I have learned to speak French at two particular times. When I was very young, my Grandma Yvette often spoke French to me and I spent three years in French immersion. Now, I am an adult who barely speaks the language, but I have a daughter who I badly want to bless with the French language. So, I’m learning again...

I have noticed two things. The first is that when I was a kid, I didn’t care who I spoke French to, how loud I was, or how many words I mangled. It was like a cool code for me. As an adult, I’m damned near petrified to speak the language. This is unlike me. I’ll gladly spend a week cold calling potential clients, but if I hear people speaking French, I often cannot bring myself to introduce myself or ask how they are. I’ll ask a stranger for money in English, but I’ll be damned if I ask a stranger to pass the cream in French.

Another thing I’ve noticed is that it’s a lot harder to learn how to pronounce things. Some sounds seem to be engrained from years of speaking when I was young. Other words, crap.

Consider the word “de rien”. It is so simple. Three syllables. Yet, I could walk into any French speaking country in the world and get a long term disability pension just by saying it. Last week, I even found a French couple to help me and I’ve been doing lots of drills, but when I record it and play it back, I sound quite soft in the head.

Who would have thought that a phrase that translates to ‘it’s nothing’ would be such a big problem for me?? :)
Unemployment benefits are likely to be substantially less than wages. In Massachusetts, unemployment benefits are about 50% of wages, with a cap of $795 per week (which works out to an annualized rate of $41,340/year). So the employee is probably in worse financial shape than they expected to be.

IMO, the issue here isn't wrongful termination, it's providing false information to the state. Firing someone because they intend to resign in the future is probably legal, but it doesn't change the fact that they were fired. It sounds like the employer reported that they resigned, which simply isn't true.
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The U.S. has more rich suckers to prey on.
Because unsolicited calls are not legal in other countries
Show HN: Visual, interactive analytics for esports (CS:GO)
I'm working on a visual, interactive suite of analytics tools for Counter-Strike Global Offensive called https://www.noesis.gg.

We're bootstrapped and have been working on the project for a bit less than a year. The product has been tested by users in our closed beta since November last year. In March we opened it up to the public with a paid open beta.

There are a few other competitors in the space, primarily https://sixteenzero.net/ and https://shadow.gg/. Their product is targeted pro-teams and cost significantly more than ours. Something on the order of 1000€ per month, against our 30€ per month.

We're super happy that we've received overwhelmingly positive feedback from our users! We've even been told several times by users that have access to both ours and our competitors products, that ours compares very well to theirs. Even without taking the major price difference into account.

We currently offer a 14 day free trial and are steadily getting more users. But we would of course love to accelerate our user acquisition even more! So far, we've been making partnerships with different low-tier teams and streamers, and paying for ads on facebook, twitter, reddit, and google. We don't see a lot of conversion on our paid ads though, and are looking for other options to reach new users.

We would love to hear any growth hacking ideas that you may have! As well as on the product itself, of course :)
Yeah you nailed it!
I don’t know if that double speak conclusion makes much sense. If they were doing bad in foreign markets and the share of revenue there was negligible, currency fluctuations would have no impact.

Actually, it’s the inverse, where currency fluctuations only start to have an effect when you have significant foreign revenue
If this was 10 years ago and not hackernews I'd be able to find a yo-mamma joke somewhere in here...
When the Europeans settled in the Carolinas, they brought malaria with them. The ensuing epidemic affected both the natives and the settlers (and malaria, with lethargy as its major symptom, is especially bad for a manual labor force). People of West African descent tend to have a very strong resistance to malaria that's related (in a way I don't understand) to the sickle-cell gene. Since the ships trading back and forth across the Atlantic were also trading to the western coast of Africa (and exchanging sailors/slaves/passengers at all stops), eventually some west African laborers ended up in the carolinas, and someone noted that they were unaffected by malaria.

The eventual presence of large groups of west african laborers, combined with a tradition/economy of chattel slavery among the Carolina natives that predated the settlers to create a very economically effective slavery system that spread across the southern US.