skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chargebacks happen. Wven if you do all you mentioned, sometimes people see a charge they don't recognize or forgot about and do a chargeback.

Beyond everything that 0.4% also buys you ptedictability, which is often more precious than margins.
Yeah, that's the point I was trying to make before with my first sentence. A 5-6 hour flight isn't that hard to do in a seat; you don't need a sleeper for that. But a 2-3 day trip on a train isn't something you want to do in a regular upright seat.
> Okay, that’s a bit flippant, but it’s mostly true.

To the extent it was true, that model got overturned due to Korea which demonstrated that it could not work and that the UN would fail utterly without a workaround for veto-induced paralysis; such a workaround was adopted in 1950 and has been used several times since (first notable use being to bypass the Anglo-French veto of a UN cease-fire and peacekeeping force in the Suez crisis in 1956.
> one would have the benefits of citizenship without having to pay state and local taxes.

I assume you'd need to be a citizen beforehand, right?
Yeah, aerc solves the networking issue mostly, and the remainder of the problem can be solved without major refactoring. This was a design goal of aerc from the start.

As for searching, I'd like to have notmuch support in the future. There's also some IMAP extensions for multi-folder search I'd like to add support for in the future, but I'm not sure if gmail supports those.
They could lower their standards and settle, as people have always done. It doesn't feel great but companionship can be found in people who are not "classically attractive", as much as it stings to not be an optimum mate
>> a society which actively encourages theft and murder?

15th century England. The royal houses, and most of the entire landed aristocracy, were encouraged to murder and steal from each other regularly. Those who exercised and demonstrated the most power, the greatest capacity for violence, were promoted. That's how we picked kings.

"By the grace of god", a phrase in many constitutional documents to this day, isn't a beam of light. Victory in battle was evidence of divine approval. It means that God picked your side in whatever war was fought to put your family on the throne. Violence was the core of society then and, arguably, remains so in constitutional monarchies today. (Canada, UK, Australia etc).
Dean Kamen created FIRST Robotics [0] as a partial solution to this problem. Physical demonstrations are often more relatable to young kids.

A FIRST Robotics Competition team in my area does an activity where they bring in various supplies like cardboard, tape, and motors into a classroom, and over the period of an hour or so, students get to design and build small robots that play "sumo" and try to push other robots out of a small tape square on the floor. [1] It's a great demo and has the bonus of providing working cardboard robots you can take to other demonstrations in the future (especially if you're short on time.) Maybe you can take some inspiration!

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[1]: http://roboxsumo.com/
I'm sure running that search or opening that page is not advisable in China. That's not a database you want your IP address to end up in.
Nationalizing them is neither obvious nor a solution.

Nationalizing them would make any problems, real or perceived, 100x worse.
Not necessarily, but Peter Thiel combined with "enrich the poor, clean the atmosphere, feed the hungry" sets off substantial doubt for me, and thus I suspect the stated goals to be akin to corporations engaging in greenwashing.
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Used to work at Best Buy in Mobile. and used this POS all the time. It was good when it worked. A lot of the time it was not working because it had to get flashed by connecting to the Ethernet port.
We used it to transfer information from one phone to another. It did work with almost any phone. You just had to
Find the right kind of cable for every phone back then. Sometimes it would even connect and transfer via Bluetooth.
Good times.
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If you have access to a Parrot AR Drone or other programmable drone, you can have them script out how to make the drone fly. I'm dating myself here, but you can use the Logo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language) examples but in real life instead of a turtle drawing on the screen. Ask them what they want it to do, "do a flip" will be the most likely answer. Well, what do you need to do for that, we need to take off, then what do we need to do... and so on and so on.
Is that a sufficient criteria to say that regulation is bad? As a society we decide on minimum standards that businesses must follow; for example, if a domestic American company needs child labor to survive we‘ve already decided it‘s a company and jobs not worth having.
For independent ML hobbyists, sure. But if you're a business which can get a positive ROI from it, it's well worth the time.
Community-scale bulk analysis of code and development artifacts is now finally arriving. One issue with the open-source community's choice of GitHub over a more open provider, was the leverage to help or hinder access to that data. The issue continues, and manifests as what portion of GitHub data can be downloaded, under what licensing terms, and using what tooling. It would be unsurprising to find those "limited, and less than Microsoft is using for it's own value-added products", "restrictive of competition, and thus of innovation", and "Azure-only".
Easy. Just rig the game.

People don't notice censorship if the media manipulation appeals to a gambler's tendency.
Before this, if a customer opened a dispute and you won, you (the business owner) didn't have to pay any dispute fees without having to pay for anything extra. It was just a part of the standard Stripe offering.

You even wrote this on your site's documentation[0]. Here's what it says as of right now:

> There is a dispute resolution process through which you can respond and submit evidence to make your case that the payment was valid. If the dispute is found in your favor, the disputed amount and fee is returned back to you.

If we don't opt into this new fraud protection service, are all dispute fees still waived if the business wins the case?

[0]: https://stripe.com/docs/disputes
When I first saw Google Trips I thought that it was so great. It was so useful to have an automated tool that grouped all my trips' bookings and travel arrangements. Then I was like: "Waiiiit a minute! They're reading ALL my emails...OMFG.". I am now migrating towards Fastmail one provider at a time.
Exactly....I was like, people are surprised by this? How did they think gmail worked? It doesn't seem to anymore, but years ago it had been showing ads in the sidelines relevant to the content of your recent messages.
WFOEs can sell to Chinese businesses, consumers, government (and they can sell overseas, and overseas companies can sell to WFOEs or domestically).

There's a lot of circularity in your comment.

A company can be wholly foreign owned.

A foreign owned company can sell in China, it can declare tax and issue receipts, employ people, rent office or factory space, build a building, the whole hog.

I'm not sure where what niche you are in regarding import/export taxes, opening factories, and employing cheap labour all in one gulp of air.

Wholly foreign owned companies in China are legal entities and have been for a long time, your comment "foreigners cannot own the majority of ANY company" is factually wrong and is FUD.

Do you have an agenda with these comments? Please don't make HN political.
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There are a number of comments that boil down to "democracy has failed" or "democracy will fail in the next few years" (usually when automation is discussed).

My hunch is that it's a cornerstone of neoreactionary theory that is slowly seeping into public discourse.

My hunch is that it's a cornerstone of the newest progressive agenda to give more power to the federal government and to California and New York. What's been slowly seeping into the public discourse is, "Freedom? Meh."

Don't like someone's speech. "F Free Speech!" The trend is to give either the government or big corporations more control over people's interactions at work, how employers pay employees, what information we receive, and how much privacy we have in commerce and the information we consume.

The people must always fight the power and speak truth to power. What we have forgotten in recent years, is that the insurgents need to amass power to do so, and by amassing power, they often become the established power. I remember a quip about Postmodernism by a PhD student -- how it started out as something disruptive and edgy, then ended up as the stuff you had to spout to get your degree. The edgy, subversive media and academic movements of the 60's are now the media and academic establishment of 2019.

When in doubt, always go to first principles and universal principles. Be skeptical of feelings -- governments and corporations have long been using emotions to manipulate people. Governments for thousands of years, and corporations started in earnest well over a century ago.
There is no 'end goal' because nobody is in charge.

It's a various group of political entities.

Many people of the current political regime probably would not agree with the term 'genocide' but they're not going to speak out against it for fear of retribution.

My wild guess is that whoever's in charge wants to use the word to make a point. I'll bet there was pushback from certain quarters, but they got their way. Certainly there would have been many pushing for the use of the term.

The outcome will be totally ambiguous - it will provide political cover for more spending on reserves, but it doesn't have to mean anything specific.

As a Canadian, I'll bet that the vast majority of Canadians are perfectly fine with big investment on reserves, so long as it's fruitful. The hockey programs seem to be working well in Quebec for example, with some hiccups. But sending very expensive gear up to Iqaluit in perpetuity may not bode very well. That's a tricky one. There are remote aboriginal communities a zillion miles from anywhere - no roads - nothing. There is no economic activity. That's a tough problem to solve. But there are low hanging fruit we could work on.
yes, that's simplifying a lot, definitely. First, the whole landscape would've been different. And then, Hitler invaded Poland because he could, and because he had additional reassurance from Molotov-Ribbentrop. Also, you are conveniently skipping the part where USSR invaded the remaining part of Poland two weeks later. (Need I remind you about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre ?)

As for Auschwitz, nice strawman. Stalin and Lenin have blood of millions on their hands, no need to bring up something unrelated.
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Not exactly relevant but hope this sparks something. I wish I could do this sort of stuff more often.
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Perhaps the title should be "Google catalogs purchases of gmail users"? Any email service with spam filtering and search indexing could meet the description of "scans, parses, analyzes and catalogs your email".
This is so uncreative. Besides conveniently forgetting how Twitter starved out its third party apps with breaking API changes, and Amazon's similar strong arming of smaller vendors and services, he doesn't seem to understand why that is bad.

Breaking up a company is to address a singular problem - that there are too many interests being held under one roof. By breaking up, you are addressing a need for broader governance and ownership that "opening up" doesn't allow for. Let Whole Foods sell groceries, and let Twitch stream games.
Let’s just say the KMT (blue) and the DPP (Green Party) have differing takes on some things.
The closest comparison is India, not Taiwan. 23 mil is about the size of one major city in China. Shanghai alone has more people than all of Taiwan.
Seriously an article like this in the year 2019 - WTF!
Not to mention the impact of only eating meat has on our planet besides the moral and ethical aspects...

I have the strong feeling America really is somehow disconnected from the big questions of our time - global warming, plastic pollution, global wealth and health and so on...
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In my humble opinion, I think the "monetization" of youtube videos has produced a marketplace of clickbait and extreme content.

I'd like to roll back the clock to when youtube itself took all (or at least most) of its advertising income from its users' videos.
Anything that's scarce, either in availability (raw materials) or time required using the most efficient method to acquire it.

Edit: And for which there is demand.
Could someone post the text? backup link?
The things adolescents snide at, start there.

Sure you can drink your beer. Who do you think painted the Coor's light can red and silver?

Mom?
Dad?

Or the People's Republic of China with help of General Sulamani of Hezbollah?

Sorry kids, I'm not going to burn alive a billion people just because you can't control what you shove down your fat throat or what's in between your legs.
> We don’t know what else they are scanning for, what else they are parsing out, where they are storing it and what they are doing with it.

You didn't know that before, either; the "purchases revelation" changes nothing. Also, this is true of every website, retail business, method of transportation, government agency, etc.
I feel it could still help people learn, by letting people step through the movements involved, and seeing it from a more natural visual perspective. Resources like this post's website (obviously) don't involve resistance but are still useful.
This might not be what you're looking for, but interactive sorting can be fun. An old professor ran this with 5th graders where each help a number and they would physically move according to the sorting algorithm. Show's the number of compares and moves in a visceral way and demonstrates the difference between bubble / quick sort in an approachable way.
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I don't really understand the mindset of questioning the validity of an article about something you already know.

It's an opportunity to discuss the specifics of a problem or implementation.

Also, it's always the first day of learning about something for someone. It's an opportunity to let them know about other related information.
Yeah that did come to mind but I wasn't sure if it was true so I didn't mention it. Do you know how this happened for Tesla or have any background on it? Was this an exception that was done for Tesla or the first of a new trend?

Edit: https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/17/tesla-inks-deal-for-gigafa... Seems like this is the start of a trend and the rules for joint ventures have changed. I stand corrected.
DDG's statement on their sources is that they have over 400: https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/?redir=1

But that is largely with respect to "answers" type responses, which they are not lifting from Bing. Search results come from partners "including" Oath/Yahoo and Bing. And I think Yahoo uses Bing. But I know that DDG uses Yandex sometimes as well, so there's probably a handful of potential sources they draw from for search.
Yes, but by that definition every group of bits on a computer is a database. The word sort of loses any value.

I mean a HN comment is also a database, a text is a database, a picture of rocks arranger i the shape of names is a database.

In the world of stupid internet arguments, sure we can agree you are right txtfiles are database, .wav files are database, everything is a database. Talk this way about it at a job interview and you’ll get cut by your second sentence
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Actually, I'd say you could get the content from a good book summary, and not the blogs, which also suffer from the same issue...50% content, 50% links to older blog posts on related topics. It's messy to consume content like that.

The thing w/ these types of books are that because they're not focused on storytelling or character development, the word count doesn't have the kind of slack that a different genre like fiction would offer.

These types of books would be better off as 100 page guides, but booksellers can't sell something that's not at least 300 pages. Pretty sure it wasn't Cal Newport's idea to fill the book with cruft to hit that minimum page count.
According to the Amtrak site, you can go from NYC to Washington DC for $53. That's more expensive, but not tremendously so.
Does anyone have a m3u8-file link for streaming in VLC etc.?
Makes a ton of sense. iPads have so much power that could be unlocked by not treating them as large iPhones.
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I actually changed how I tie my shoes at like 32 years old after browsing this site a few years back :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain#...

The most surprising one, IMO, is .oz, which was used for Australia. So, a top level code was changed even though nothing substantial happened to the country.
Google Sheets lets you download the workbook as an Excel file which can be automatically saved to a Google Drive folder. Hourly (?), daily, weekly, monthly snapshots of a shared workbook can all be easily scripted and stored for later retrieval. It eliminates any confusion over which is the latest workbook because the Sheets version is always the most up-to-date.
Your comment is the exact one I see on HN and reddit.

Yet the USA and EU have democracies with close to a billion people combined. India is an example of a developing democracy with a population close to China and all the issues that come with a huge population. Yet India is a democracy and the people have gone from a population ruled by the British to a democracy.

The people of anywhere should get to decide what they want.