skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yev here -> Interesting takeaways! It was difficult to map how many customers we'd gain after Crashplan left the business and how many we'd have gained if we had raised prices by a lot more. It was made more complicated by the fact that they partnered with our 2nd largest competitor, so we also had to do a quick "sanity-check" about whether or not we wanted to raise prices to near their level, or stay the same until things calmed down. Thanks for the insights!
I don’t agree that it’s unconstititional. (But, I do contend that it’s a foolish, regressive action for the administration to take.)

The federal government clearly has constitutional power to establish preemptive law in this area. Whether that preemptive effect is conditionally or selectively waived, and whether the waiver involves executive discretion, doesn’t change the constitutional dimensions of the issue, in my opinion.
What has the DoD done to restore that trust?
Is there a simple model of this - a script, spreadsheet or something - or in fact is there a open government set of figures showing the situation

I know it's probably well known but i am looking for a modern version of the old coloured liquids in tubes
> There is no real comparison of the indoctrination of the people of China to the US to be made. The systems are completely different as to be unrecognizable from one another.

I'm not sure I entirely agree with that. It's true, the two systems are significantly different, but I don't think that rules out that Americans are subject to a form of indoctrination. Look at the stranglehold the two parties have on the electoral system in the US. Just as one example, what happened to Bernie Sanders in the last election barely raised an eyebrow. If you listen to Dan Carlin's Common Sense podcast for several weeks on either side of the last election (particularly after), I'd say it's pretty hard to make a case that the system isn't rigged to a fairly large degree, but how many people are actually aware of this?

I don't know if indoctrination is the perfect word for it, but constantly singing the praises of the system of democracy, while realistically the only alternatives people get have to go through a very thorough pre-screening for "suitability", and almost no one ever asks what the hell is really going on here, seems like a relative of some sort to indoctrination.
Researchers have much better graphics tools available to them today than they did in the N64 era. Basic familiarity with e.g. Unity would be enough to run these sorts of simulations.
No offense, but what does this have to do with Snowden?
Granted, but human drivers are also unsafe. achieving an order of magnitude better safety than a human is a much lower bar than perfection.
Bill Gates says it’s time to redirect solar and wind subsidies. Is he right?
He’s quoting Will Ferrell from a film.
Yes, let's best put it into the hand of the agency/government that tried to hide the information from the public in the first place...

"Please defendent, have look at the evidence we gathered about your murder case. It's best if you decide which of the evidence we should use in court against you."

lmao (on a sad note, this is how day to day business at goverments looks like and precisely WHY we need whistleblowers)
Åh where was that?
They're coming. Slowly, but they are coming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NScxhRR3LyY
Incrementalism. As long as the U.S. does it on a relatively small scale (emphasis on relatively), no one will want to pay the costs involved in fighting against it, even if over longer periods of time it adds up.
All money in modern economies is based on this kind of debt. Central banking is... confusing.

The immediate effect of the fed doing that isn't catastrophic, it's just devaluing the US Dollar, or put in another way, inflation.

Inflation at a certain level is thought of as a good thing, the fed and economists have inflation targets where they don't want it to be too high or too low. One of the thing that moderates inflation is how the fed creates money and lends it out.

The recipe for WWIII is runaway inflation where in order to keep things together, a central bank issues money at an exponentially increasing rate with a very small doubling period and the currency becomes worthless in trade with other currencies and to purchase goods.

The US is very far away from that. The increase in the deficit and debt is problematic and significant, but not anywhere near catastrophic.
Me too. My uneducated guess is that dang hit me with that flag after chiding me for talking politics.

I don't mind, really. Any topic here even skirting near politics or society brings out a mob of candidates for the "Least Empathetic Human Being" Award, so it's better for me to hit the "too fast" error early on and move on :-)
> This isn't about law

This smear campaign targeted at Stallman only ceased to be about the law once the self-righteous Twitter mob of virtue signallers was forced to admit that Stallman was in fact absolutely right to point out that the accusations correspond to statutory rape instead of sexual assault.

Unfortunately instead of doing the honest thing and admit they were wrong, they started moving the goal post and resort to Cardinal Richelieu tactics to try to come up with anything to keep up with the harassment and persecution.
Yes. And you, horse fish? :D
The argument that it is unconstitutional is not that the federal government lacks the power to make preemptive law, but that this specific action is not within the power delegated to the executive by Congress under Congress exercise of its power to legislate in this area.
The amazing thing about WeWork is that the offices are fun. The one I know in SF is an OK place to hang out in the evening.

This sounds like my worse nightmare. Fake “fun” at work. I don’t go to work to have fun. I go to work to get a paycheck.

And for startups inducing “fun” is just another way to get young gullible employees to work crazy hours for less than the market rate and the promise of equity that statistically won’t be worth anything.
Does anyone have a link to a chart with these?

Can’t find anything on Google.
Snowdens most fundamental job requirement was to uphold the US constitution. He tried to stop gross constitutional violations from within using the official processes and was ignored. He is the greatest American hero of our era for sacrificing his own freedom to protect the nation.

The NSA employees who are 'just following orders' are little better than Nazi footsolders in 1940s Germany. Their continued violation of the constitution is audacious and they should be imprisoned for treason. The NSA bosses who actively worked to craft these illegal plans deserve the most severe legal punishments available.
The mid 70's were just about optimal. Lots of stuff you could pick apart and make new things from with standardized parts. After that more and more integrated circuits made it into consumer electronics and if the volume was large enough they'd be custom so useless to either repair or be used as a source of parts.
People have been civilized throughout thousand years of history?
This feature is close to useless for me since the admin of the slack account has to “connect” the two teams/domains/whatever - how does that enable free and ad-hoc collaboration in a medium-to-large organisation??? I’m used to tools like Dropbox, email, Asana, G-suite where you can mostly just collaborate with whomever you want around the world. I think slack is missing a huge opportunity by keeping it so locked down!
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. I can't access the science article and the abstract doesn't exactly spell out any conclusions from what I can tell.

As for infanticide "during times of deprivation" that is not unique to the Juǀʼhoansi people. Nor death in childbirth.

FWIW famine has been a feature of agricultural societies to within living memory.

In any event, if the movie is anything to go by, they are happy. Like, really happy.
Feels weird for right wingers to be defending a hippie like stallman.
It is fake jobs for women who didn't study anything useful and this phenomena is spilling into the rest of the economy. We hoped that the influx of women to higher education will help the economy but it is only a burden, the return on the money we spend on their education is abysmal, it hurts the whole economy and is part of the reason this debt crisis was created in the first place.
Women almost don't start new businesses and they don't create jobs. Most innovations, technical jobs, dangerous jobs, physical jobs and creative jobs are done by men. Women fill up mostly secretarial roles with fancy names in the private sector. Those roles don't really need any education and it is a total waste of 3 or 4 years just to signal secretarial capabilities to employers. Armies around the world can figure this out with half a day test and can teach those jobs in 3 months max.
The rest of the women work in care taking type of jobs in the public sector, funded mainly by our taxes. We wouldn't need those jobs had those women stayed at home and took care of their kids, their elders, their house and gardens. The education system is a good example of industry overrun by over educated women that is deteriorating and stagnating because there are not enough men to push it forward.
So I think the first step we need to take is limit higher studies only for women who are exceptional and are willing to actually study and work in something productive. That's in itself will reduce the amount of people in the system and will solve a lot of the financial issues. There are also many men who don't have to be there, but the numbers are much lower.
Sure, just like a sloppy slide-rule or mechanical calipers or micrometer will give you iffy readings. Whether the accuracy change is a material one depends on what you are doing. Daisy chaining results would get you into meaningless territory quite fast I would imagine.
It is possible that the choice of Unity version was a factor here. We were using quite an old version of Unity.

It might also be because I was loading the DLL "manually" from C# - a fully fledged plugin might work better.
if OC weren't flagged, we could see samstave's tie-in.

my tie-in would be that we are ruled by evil people, and could really use an army of snowdens.
Having spent a bit of time with Stallman (an afternoon), honestly, I don’t think he understands how his comments impact people. At least initially.

I also agree that the media has over stepped here (as has Stallman).

Stallman approaches things with an uncompromising view of moral integrity. He was wrong in this case, but IMO it’s the equivalent of me telling my non-tech friends about how we should lock down our phones. They don’t get it or care. Stallman likewise didn’t seem to care too much here, and now he’s paying the price.

All that being said, his belief system guides the FSF. I’m concerned that the FSF will degrade with him being gone.

Still head priest at the church of GNU though.
I guess this is a dumb question but can they just keep "injecting" indefinitely? Do they have a magical Money Tree or something?
The Overstory

PS Does anybody use Goodreads anymore?
I forgot that whole Stallman-performing-nasal-sex-on-himself-at-dinner and please-use-my-body-for-necrophilia comment. It was a simpler time back in 2003...

.... However, I did not know about his quote on this page (https://stallman.org/archives/2003-mar-jun.html#28%20June%20...) starting with "The nominee is quoted as saying". I honestly cannot tell if that was an attempt at a bad joke or dead serious.
I appreciate the discussion, and the attempt to add what context you believe is missing, but to be very honest, the context you're proposing rubs me completely the wrong way, because I believe it's wrong. I very much disagree with the point you're trying to make. By calling it 'coveted' money and power, you're choosing to frame the desire for equality as a negative attribute, painting the quest for equality as something selfish and greedy and unnecessary, which is very far from the truth, most especially considering the actual real-world context.

Do you consider your own high school education to be you striving for coveted money and power over happiness?

By talking about broke artists and tree-huggers and people you know, you're framing this against your personal experience, and not accepting that we're in a completely different world over here than Africa. People in the U.S. or Europe who (statistically) got to go to college, and had a house and stable family and enough food to eat and medical help when they needed it, those people choosing to pursue an art career, and/or choosing to care about the environment over money, those people don't even represent our own poverty, let alone the poverty in the third world and oppressed countries.

Your comments feel like a perfect example of a rich westerner living in a world so distant from the problem you're talking about that you don't have the context or experience to even understand what the problem really is. What makes you think the problems of women in Africa are even comparable in any way to artists and tree-huggers in the western world?

Do you think you'd personally be happy as a woman in Africa or Saudi Arabia or India? Please go read about and try to understand what's actually happening and imagine yourself in the same situation before you presume to summarize it in black and white as infighting between genders or that women need to seek happiness because life is about more than money and power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia#G...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Africa#African...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_India
The inner ring – how will you deal with it?
Show HN: Twitter scheduler – auto-recycle your promotional/popular tweets
"Aircraft" doesn't make assumptions about the power source. Piston engine, turboprob, turbojet and turbofan aircraft are all called aircraft despite all having different sorts of propulsion. All of those still breath air of course, but we don't hesitate to apply the term to experimental/prototype electric aircraft either. So an aircraft needn't breath air, and therefore having a rocket engine shouldn't be a disqualifier.

"Takes off under it's own power" is a qualification you're not the first in proposing, but it's controversial because it would disqualify many famous aircraft, such as the Bell X-1 and according to some (mostly Brazilians) the Wright Flyer. There is also the matter of carrier-launched aircraft that take off when the carrier is running flat out into the wind, let alone with a catapult; it's easy to say they are not taking off entirely under their own power. You could make a similar argument for rocket-assist JATO configurations, if the plane drops the JATOs after takeoff.
I've been wanting to read this.
Look at a US dollar bill and what kind of note it is.

Yeah, the Federal Reserve has a “magical money tree”: the whole reason they exist is to manage the money supply.
1) It's not great, however it's not Xi's main point, wealth was Deng Xoaping's promise to China, respect is Xi's promise. Xi is actively expending wealth in trade for respect (military, belt and road, space program, etc.). This was foundational in Xi's being chosen as leader, he cut his chops preparing Beijing for the olympics 2008 international show -- a respect event, not an economic one.

2) No. USA is the leading economy not because of economy but because of dollar hegemony, which insulates it from shocks that the RMB is subjected to. If belt-and-road nations start using RMB as reserve currency (and non-swift banking systems), regardless of economic power, that would challenge USA as leading economy. This is being attempted, but not covered much, for example the sino-russian deal to trade oil and gold in RMB instead of using the OPEC petro-dollar.

3) India is a more socially volatile than China, considering regions like Kashmir and social discord like lower-castes. If India were the #2 or #1 it would suddenly have these situations magnified the way China's situations are scrutinized on the world stage, leading to more aggressive challenges. India currently gets a free pass on inequality and climate etc. because it's a 'democracy.' Vietnam doesn't have the framework to challenge either effectively.

4) Not super, but again not terrible. The main thing is income distribution, not GDP. It may mean less iphones but doesn't necessarily mean less Huaweis, inside the mainland a Huawei is only about 60% the price you see in USA and doesn't represent a major drop in quality of life.

5) This is more a function of capital control I feel. They are a long long way from panic-flight ala Venezuela. Expats at this point are more luxury expats. Lots of other asians immigrate into China for a better life. Regardless, the China diaspora is already huge, and largely welcome in every country the immigrate to.
Step 0)

Use words responsibly. If you are speaking with your own name in a public forum, be aware that people will form opinions of you based on what you say and they are not wrong to do so. You have a right to speak, but others have a right to listen or not listen to you and respond to you however they want to.
I’ve seen MDB (Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud) publishing startup themed posts in LinkedIn. They are certainly trying to look hip again.
You can in fact take out loans against your ownership of a vehicle, assuming you own it free and clear.

For assets whose ownership is more nebulous than an automobile you typically have to temporarily relinquish ownership of it to use it to secure a temporary loan, ie, pawn it.
The Onion?
> cut the crap dude. this guy has been either defending or trivializing young girls having sex with older men

Stop with the bullshit already. Stallman himself stated that the accusations (being offered sex by a 17yo girl) amount to statutory rape. In what twisted mind does this come even close to match your entirely made up story?

Stick to the facts instead of resorting to use your imagination to fabricate any support for your self-righteous witch-hunt.
> The title says "overnight lending market"

This article is about repurchase agreements (repos). They are a form of collateralized loan used in rates trading. If you need to borrow money for a short period, you can do so in the repo market. You sell treasuries to a counterparty, agreeing to buy them back at a later date. You agree to pay an interest rate called a repo rate for this transaction. This is the rate the article is discussing.
The iPhone 11 and iPhones 11 Pro
Ask HN: Critique my landing page, is it clear what I'm offering?
I've just soft-launched my MVP and desperately need some feedback.

https://zlappo.com

Is the messaging clear? Any part that you find confusing?
I feel that weighing if his actions were in the public interest or not is besides the point as I don't believe what the government was doing was constitutional.
This might have been true in the past, but I absolutely no longer believe this.

What you know, what information you have, the network you have is more predictive of your future than any other factor. Most of my mistakes in life have been that of being ignorant, just learning bout something much later in life. Something that some people had passed on to them by their parents etc, but I had to discover for myself.

Information is the great equalizer. There are of course folks who get information but don't act on it. They haven't received the information that they can move mountains if they stay persistent and act.
So, inflation?
Matt Levine is also a lawyer by training...
I believe their balance sheet is about 50/50 between treasuries and mortgages, and that they are selling both.
They may have lost that vote, but how did it affect the stockprice?
I wish they had made a multiplayer grinder for BF with matchmaking.
Looks great! What static engine did you go with, if any?
I don't think I've experienced either side of this. I've never seen people who otherwise have reasonable expectations of response time go crazy because of Slack. And I have never, ever seen someone with unreasonable expectations of response time behave well just because it's e-mail. Especially since e-mail has been put onto smartphones, I don't really see a whole lot of difference in how people behave based on the size of the text box.
School doesn't teach you to do your taxes because your taxes are abstruse and incomprehensible on purpose. If numeracy rose to the level it became easy, taxes would become harder.
No, it's good. It stands alone as a piece of literature. Atlas Shrugged doesn't - it's skippable. The Fountainhead is about work, art and passion. It's also just a much better story.
I've divested from oil companies, not because I think it will change corporate governance at XOM or BP, but because I like to buy things that I can hold for a decade or three, without thinking too hard about them.

I don't want to spend my time thinking about when, precisely, XOM and BP will have peaked. I'd rather just get rid of them and free up that mental space to concentrate on what's next in the world of energy generation, storage, and transmission.
Musk spent $50k digging into critic’s personal life
He was standing in the door blinded by a massive light while a bunch of police and SWAT were taking cover behind cars and trees. He could not have hit anyone with any gun in the world.
The book seller only had to give a guilty confession on TV and was free to go home.

Had Hong Kong remained under British rule and the book seller sold books that embarrassed the Queen, he would've ended up dead like Princess Diana.

Were Hong Kong ruled by the US, he would've ended up dead like Jeffery Epstein.

The Chinese government comes out looking pretty restraint, wouldn't you say?
> you’ve been losing out in real terms because of inflation for years

This is inaccurate. If you break down inflation into its constituents electronics, storage, transfers and cpu have gone down dramatically. An increase of 5 to 6 is 20%, which is far more than 10 years of inflation, even if you account for it being averaged.

I don't know how I can read this as anything but spin. Good on ya guys for increasing prices but don't give it out as spin.
> And from the screenshots, it becomes clear that “hi-res” is a term whose definition varies with the state of technology at the time:

"Hi-res" has a specific meaning in the context of an Apple II, referring to its 280x192 pixel mode with artifact color (or in this case 280x160 with 4 rows of text.)

>Penguin Software’s The Complete Graphics System—a set of drawing and shape tools for programmers was $119.95 ($330ish).

A modern state-of-the-art graphics engine like Unity 3D will set you back $1500. Though for 2D games you can get the desktop version of GameMaker Studio for $100.
I don't know of anyone who uses Gitlab. We use Github at work, and I know several people who use Github at work. In terms of features, I can't think of anything that Github doesn't support. If something is missing, you can always find tools/services that integrate with Github.

That said, I am quite surprized that Gitlab is growing so fast. I would be curious to know what is the source of most of their revenue. Are they targeting a specific cohort of users, which Github is not able to?