skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the past I had a problem with my content and even the graphics from my biz site being stolen by quite a few sites. I used Google Alerts from that point on, taking randomish phrases from my text content, directory structure, etc, that don't produce too many hits, which greatly eased the effort in finding and dealing with the thieves.
What makes you feel "condemned for life"?
http://www.gwei.org/img/bg_bwANIM.gif

No idea.
Assumptions like this have a way of getting countries invaded. They're true until they're not true.
It turns out, though, that Okinawan long life expectancy was actually due to rampant pension fraud rather than long life. I can't remember the exact date, but it would have been around 2008, a reporter went to visit the oldest people in Japan (most of whom were living in Okinawa). They started at the oldest and found that the person wasn't home ("visiting relatives"). So they went to the next oldest. Similar story. They went through the top 20 and couldn't find any of them.

The government clued in and investigated and it turns out that Okinawan doctors were making a tidy profit by agreeing not to file death certificates. This enabled families to continue to claim pension benefits on behalf of their supposedly aged relatives.

After the the smoke died down the went back and looked at Okinawan life expectancy taking pension fraud into consideration and discovered that it was pretty much exactly the same as the rest of Japan. The original life expectancy/diet studies had relied on government information rather than actually interviewing people. I'm sorry I don't have a citation for you as I saw this in a documentary in Japan on TV.
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> Lack of other executives is not the same as lack of other founders or even lack of partners.

I didn't explicitly mean, every co-founder would become an executive in the company; but chances are that if I had a co-founder they might have been an executive & my situation might have been better.

>Presumably you would not have found yourself in such a situation if you had someone you trusted who could assume day-to-day leadership in your place.

I don't deny it & have discussed my reasoning in the earlier comment.
There are two types of houses: The house you live in, and the house you rent to others (and sometimes one house is a mix of the two). One of these is an investment, one is an expense. If you can get on board with that mindset, you'll be ok and probably make good investment choices with the rest of your capital.

Maybe you will get lucky, and you wont have a true expense due to appreciation, but it's not something you should bank on. Houses take a lot of money to maintain, time to manage and sometimes just your mental capacity...be careful where you spread your effort.
"Bias for default" - can you explain what you mean by this? Doesn't everybody have this bias? (i.e the countries where organ donation as default option on DMV forms have the highest organ donors percentage)
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Where to share a new sorting algorithm
Hi, I created a sorting algorithm that is faster than ShellSort when the range of values is smaller than the number of elements. I think it is a simple algorithm, placing all the values in an object, finding min and max while doing so. Afterwards it simply checks every value in the object between min and max. I'm not sure where to share it, and I'm also open to someone telling me it already exists.

So, feedback please, and if it is new, where should I share it?

https://github.com/Frazer/hashSort
It's worth noting that they're launching on Epic Games, free for two weeks, tomorrow, I believe. So this is an update they were just recently effectively paid to do. Though of course, it also benefits the folks on Steam as well.
> We'd get way more bang for our buck socially and scientifically by spreading those billion dollar endowments around, and properly funding state institutions like most other sensible countries.

The Obamacare fiasco has proven to me that such approaches are impossible in the near term. The 2017 tax cut really drove it home. How are people not seeing this?

A principally public approach is not viable. It could be, as amply demonstrated around the world. But roughly 50% of the American population rejects these schemes when they're forced to reckon with the costs. It's been this way since before Roosevelt. Social Security was a watered down, private labor market-focused program for the precisely the same political reasons Obamacare was.

The exceptions are clearly and demonstrably anomalous. For example, the heyday of public universities come from a time when only a fraction of the population went to college, much of the land and capital assets were donated, labor was relatively cheap, and the burden on the public purse was negligible.
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Holy cow, I bought the game 10 years ago, found my old email with the "Secret World of Goo Download Location" and it worked :) No Linux update yet, but I'm going to play the original anyway. Such a fun game.

Edit: .deb package didn't work on Xubuntu 19.04 but extracting the .tar.gz and running ./WorldOfGoo.bin64 worked like a charm
So, should a devout Muslim baker be forced to bake a custom cake with the message “Jesus Christ Is The Lord Our God”?
It’s about how the page is being overly helpful instead of giving me just the information I asked for.
Sarcasm is apparently no longer taught in school.
Disappointing... still no support for HTML5 date and time input types. Safari seems to be the last major hold out[0] keeping JavaScript-powered date pickers a (prudent) necessity.

[0]: https://caniuse.com/#feat=input-datetime
They already bought the politicians off so its quite easy to buy Stanford spots.
I think the motive of this group is to organise people to the streets with bare minimum costs, sounds more like an agenda to show that it's possible than to be a practical working space.
Much of that time shaped George Orwell's later writings. All of the weird, anti-truth tendencies of The State were references to things done by Franco's Spain, the UK, and the Stalinists. The erasure and rewriting of the past. The use of blatant propaganda. Getting their own ranks to deny the simple truth before them. To George Orwell, the Fascists, the Stalinists, and the corrupt and Machiavellian parts of the British government were all part and parcel of the same evil and corruption.
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If you owe the bank $10k, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank $10b, you own the bank.

Sanctions against China would be fairly painful for the rest of the world, too.
It's really highly exaggerated, both in that show and in popular culture. Nazis would not have travelled to Mars by the 1960s, and they wouldn't have supersonic civilian airliners. Nazism crippled German science, math, and technology. If you remember your math courses, many things have German names. You'll notice that's mainly pre-1933 works. The mathematical establishment at Gottingten and elsewhere, which included many Jews and people married to them, was eviscerated. Ditto for physics.

The only place they were unambiguously ahead of Allied technology was rocketry. Our bombers were superior, Soviet tanks were superior to what the Germans had, and the fighters were comparable. Even with rocketry, the allies would have caught up even without Operation Paperclip.

Nazism really doesn't have any upsides.
Unfortunately it's double hinged, so the point you'd need to pull down from to get proper leverage on it is at or near the highest point - hang a rope down there that's of useful length and it's by definition longer than half the length of the cabinet, and doesn't fold neatly in.

Maybe there's a different solution though, I'm not sure
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I'll just say it. Commodification of housing is stupid and is a sign of cultural sickness. We can do better.

If housing was protected from market forces, then increases in productivity would actually be realized instead of spending all the gains we make over time as a society back into ever-increasing housing prices.

Capitalism is supposed to make things cheaper over time. It does not with housing, because housing cannot be "produced" more efficiently and is in somewhat limited supply. Because housing is also necessary (unless you find living in a van sufficient), then I believe it makes sense for all apartments, condos, duplexes, etc that are 4br or less to be municipally-owned.

We should reap the rewards of our gains in productivity, not increase our spending to match our income.

EDIT: As an addendum, we should also start trying to stabilize our population. The Earth ain't gettin any bigger.
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"Nip in the bud" is not retaliation. You can ban politics at work in order to "nip in the bud" political bias, or ban some sorts of intimate relationships among employees and the pursuit thereof to "nip in the bud" allegations of sexual harrassment. It's ridiculous to consider these as retaliatory moves.
Singapore is the closest success story I can think of.

Requirements:
- be a citizen
- get married

The government will then build a flat for you and hand you the keys 5 years later for about a fourth of the private market price.

Of course you need an economy that can pay for all this, so it won't be universally applicable
Housing only needs to be a decent investment because is soaks up so much capital and in doing so, opportunity cost.

If housing was significantly cheaper there would be no need for it to be a good investment because you could use the money you would have spent on more expensive housing and put it into an actual investment.
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That figure seems a bit confused.

Up until the final categories, it seems more like it is attempting to delineate time periods sourcing that dominant flavor of scifi, not the time period postulated in its fiction. It lists the contemporary topics influencing that fiction.

But, it then goes wrong as it wavers and transitions into future time periods.

Sticking to the writers' eras, it is the listed "cassette futurism" period that is really cyberpunk. That's where it was born, influenced by those technologies, dystopian ideas, and noir aesthetics. By the 90s, we were into post-cyberpunk works like Snowcrash, reacting with parody and snarky absurdity.
Crime reporting is big business. Besides 'Ring', look at the opportunistic hyping of fake hate crimes, ala Jussie Smollett. The desired outcome is the same: Injecting fear into people, causing them to buy something or vote a specific way.

It's despicable. It pits people against each other.
correct me if I'm wrong but I heard it's very difficult to find any short term transitory housing in Germany, I had heard that short leases / rentals were 2 year terms. This makes it a lot harder to move into an area and decide where you want to live which in turn makes mobility more difficult.

However this info may be out of date / incorrect.
100sqm is undesirable to Americans. We need our living rooms and our man caves and our bedrooms for each child and our back yards.
If he didn't write it, no one could have leaked it. Claiming "no fault" is ignorant. You are ignorant.
I don't know how common it is, but once a person I knew had referred to USC as University of Spoiled Children.
You're okay training an incomplete self driving machine learning model on the general population?
So much written about housing is just... Wrong. And I don't mean factually inaccurate. I mean based on false premises.

Owning your own home serves several purposes:

1. Security

2. Stability

3. As a hedge against inflation

4. As a hedge against market forces

That doesn't mean buying is always a good idea. Clearly or isn't. Like don't but in a town where 70% of the adults are employed by the local coal mine, for example.

Here's how I like to think about it: you are never out of the housing market. By not owning you have a large short position in real estate. Given that rents eventually track prices, if prices go down you benefit (you're rent will eventually go down and you didn't lose capital). If prices go up you lose. You missed a gain and your rent will go up.

Given that, you buy your house to remove risk of local changes to your detriment.
> There's a fixed amount of "desirable" land

I don't think this is true at all. Even the nature of "desirable" land has changed drastically over the last few hundred years. There's no reason to think that change won't continue to happen. Especially given the rise of internet, climate change, and the necessary decarbonization of our economy, what's "desirable", it's ridiculous to think where people want to live is fixed.
According to other comments I've seen, they don't redeem tethers for dollars in the first place, so the amount of reserves they have doesn't matter, does it? Liquidity is beside the point if they don't even offer redemption.
Jet engines were way ahead of the Allies. Modern jet engines trace back to the German designs.
What is the H in BATH?
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"Sarawak Chamber was so big, Mad Phil explained, that it almost certainly contained new passages—particularly in the roof, where no one had ever searched. Although it’s tempting to think of caves as similar to mine shafts—tunnels that slope relatively straightforwardly down—natural caves are nonlinear and expand and contract according to the movement of rocks, the meandering of water, the work of chaos.

Concepts of “up” and “down” assume subtler meanings underground, where directions can be utterly inverted over a few million years. If someone is exploring the down part of the cave, another caver might try looking up. And up was Mad Phil’s specialty."

I've done some caving and I'm pretty sure that the situation here is that there may be stream passages that once exited into the chamber through the roof. They probably no longer carry water, or they would already be obvious.

For, example, the caving term for a vertical shaft that is discovered from its lower end is "aven", and it doesn't imply that the whole landscape has been turned upside-down by geological forces.

http://www.speleogenesis.info/directory/glossary/?term=aven

"aven

1. A hole in the roof of a cave passage that may be either a rather large blind roof pocket or a tributary inlet shaft into the cave system. A feature described as an aven when seen from below may equally be described as shaft when seen from above, and the naming of such a feature commonly depends purely upon the direction of exploration. Many avens close upwards to impenetrable fissures but may still be important hydrological routes; few caves are without them. In parts of France, aven is equivalent to the British term, pothole [9].

2. (French.) A vertical or highly inclined shaft in limestone, extending upward from a cave passage, generally to the surface; smaller than an abime. Commonly related to enlarged vertical joints. Compare cenote; natural well; pothole.

3. (British.) A vertical extension from a shaft in a passage or chamber roof that tapers upward rather like a very elongate cone [10]. Compare dome pit."

"Vadose" is another technical term that applies to the regime of erosion in which water is trickling down towards the water table. That's obviously something that can very much happen in the rock above the ceiling of the chamber. (Vadose erosion is usually contrasted with phreatic erosion, which refers to tunnels which are literally dissolved through the rock below the water table.)
Houses are inexpensive in many areas of the country outside of the HN bubble.
Why haven't you reported them already? They didn't earn that spot and took it from someone that studied their ass off.
That forcible suppression of an opposition viewpoint instead of coming to the table together to debate differences when crafting policy, I see as having elements of Fascism.

It's certainly authoritarian.
I won't argue against over the air for everything but when your 'autopilot' system can be updated any day for any reason, I would argue that it failing and killing you shouldn't be as excusable.
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> where you put products that can't be reasonably recycled today in the hopes that in the future someone figures out a way to do it

We have those; they're called landfills.

> neatly separated pile[s]

The problem is that most types of refuse are already semi-uniformly mixed at the household level, so you would have spend labor separating them, which might not be needed[0], so you might as well put off separation until know you need it.

0: Eg, if the most efficient way of recycling them turns out to be: dump the whole mess into vat of genetically engineered bacteria, and sift out the glass and metal bits when they build up.
Here's where we are currently -

>...Each pod has its own front door, balcony, kitchen and TV. The small, but perfectly formed units also feature a mezzanine floor with a desk, doubled bed, bathroom and storage space.

>The units cost between £80,000 and £120,000 to build and install depending on the specification.

>Designer of the pods, Bill Dunster, believes the homes are perfect for packed cities with little land space as the units can be built above existing structures such as car parks.

>“Importantly the ZEDPod concept decouples housing provision from land prices using air rights over car parks,” Mr Dunster said.

>“This enables affordable, quality city homes where land is scarce or expensive to be put up quickly, helping keyworkers to live near their work and at the same time maintaining precious parking spaces.

>“We are working with key partners to create a development model that allows Local Authorities and others to create communities of affordable houses at almost zero capital outlay.”

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/pre-built-ho...

One thing I noted from this article, was this is pretty much the most affordable you can get and they are being aimed at employed keyworkers. Given the market insists on having 'range' for marketing segment purposes, if the plan is for vital keyworkers to be living in these, what exactly is the plan for people lower down the social ladder?
How is that even possible? Are they not allowed to use something else?
Well, they got their message across in a widely-published news article and you got your comment buried at the bottom on Hacker News
I doubt they'll stop at their home waters. What they consider home waters will just move more and more towards the US west coast. Right now the conflict is closer to them than it is to the USA but things may change rapidly.
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We have that as well - but the Ring was by far the cheapest of these and the most seamless to install.
You can always build your own AOSP (which is essentially Android minus Google). In case of Pixels, this is particularly easy. I use a Pixel to avoid Google, which is a bit paradoxical.
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CNN drops 26% in prime time. What is causing this huge drop?
You would probably find that the teams would just add a hundred new flaps that give a relatively small amount of extra down-force each.
California is as big as a nation.
Nope, this is a modern react/es6 app that's only about 5 years old.
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