skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think about it as the weak government trick to collect taxes. Government is weak and can't enforce tax collection: i.e 99% of citizens will still not comply even if you are aggressive in auditing. So instead, they collect taxes where you can't escape them.

Since you need to register land/house at the national registry (or similar), they require that you pay a tax before you can execute such a registration. Obviously, you can lie here but at least they are getting something out of it. Other tricks are taxes when you are leaving the country (buy a stamp so that you can board a plane), arbitrarily giving tickets on highways, super high taxes on telecommunication, cars and other stuff where you need to go through government, taxes collected by municipality go to the government instead, etc...

It'd be interesting to study all countries and deduce that if a government is using these measures then it is a failed government.
Google to Render All Cryptocurrency and Military Secrets Breakable
It's not touch but I like Mazec [0] on the iPad with the Pencil. My favourite feature is that it's multi-lingual.

[0]: http://www.product.metamoji.com/en/mazec/
Desmos seems pretty nice. https://www.desmos.com/calculator

Things like this has already existed for a very long time though. Like Grapher in Mac OS.

When will some galaxy brain disrupt the market for high end math software like Mathematica and others?

It's 2019 and I should not be doing integrals and symbolic manipulation on paper. At least outside of school.
Yup. Ireland is by far the biggest issue we've got to deal with. I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that a soft border (with CCTV cameras only and no hard barriers) is our only option.

The problem is no govt. has the ability to set this all up within six weeks and is what they should've been doing these past three years rather than endlessly bike-shedding the little things and ignoring the biggest issues at hand...

Legitimate traffic which is the vast majority will have to go over official channels anyway, so it's feasible that moving goods across the border could be as simple as registering your vehicle and declaring the contents.

It's not perfect, but the alternatives are much worse.
The description of flat-file database seems too restrictive. In my experience, flat files with fixed record lengths and no delimiters were far more common than variable-length delimited formats like CSV. File sizes were often much larger than computer memory size, so random read & write was necessary.
Very interesting. A couple of potential issues spring to mind, in my ignorance:

Does this mean that if a founder leaves immediately after 12 months, he will own 50% of the shares issued and it will be a further three years before he is back down to 25% (and his remaining co-founder up to 75%).

Also, if all goes well, the shares received towards the end of the four years could be worth a considerable sum, resulting in a large tax bill each month as they are received.
Private Companies Gathering Plate Data Are Selling Access at $20/Search
You haven't described what the problem actually is with schools. Homogenized knowledge systems are a simple way of having a common "API Layer" in our consciousness that other humans can access.
That's my impression too, specifically with the Guardian. If I'm not mistaken, you used to be able to comment under most articles, then they started to disable comments under articles on "inflammatory" subjects (read: about immigrants etc.) and now you can hardly ever comment. Which makes sense, because o lot of their articles would be just torn to pieces if commenting was allowed.
Perhaps dragging the overlaid app, by its header, straight off the edge of the screen (i.e., horizontally)?
Still no calculator app??
It's amazing how you can dismiss the home minister's own words as not "real life".

The horse neighs and you still insist it's a duck.
Proposition? Does this count as a proposition?:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2114900-concerns-as-fac...
You can deploy your apps to any existing Kubernetes Cluster or build and manage a new cluster on any cloud with https://www.cloud66.com/(Disclaimer: I work at Cloud 66)
Since apple markets their ipados for productivity as an alternative to a MacBook or a windows laptop - I'm not sure Linux can really be included. Simply put - Linux has never been focused on tablet UI UX or that kind of productivity, it's not a technical limitation sure but there's literally 0 polish on any kind of "streamlined tablet experience"
As a VC, I strongly agree with all of these tips except for the one about tracking opens. Like most people, I don't love being tracked.

I especially agree with the first tip about a cold email's goal being to pique enough interest to get a positive reply. The goal is not to convince someone to write a check on the spot by writing a 10-page email -- that's an unattainable goal and no one is going to read a cold email that long.

To use an analogy, a cold email should be like a movie trailer -- or even a movie poster. A movie poster doesn't give you a long summary of a movie, but it gives you enough info to decide if you might be interested. (I wrote a little about this analogy a few years ago: https://www.codingvc.com/what-movies-can-teach-you-about-pit...). A good rule of thumb is to list ~3 bullet points that you think make your company stand out the most. These could be about the team, the product, the traction, or anything else.

It's also good idea to mention your company's stage. Lots of emails don't mention what round they are trying to raise or how far along a company is, and most investors operate in a narrow band. Roughly speaking, pre-seed investors are a fit for <=$1.5m, seed for $1.5m-$4m, and Series A beyond that.

If you send emails from your startup's email address and use LinkedIn, add the email address to your LinkedIn profile so that people can search by it. If your name is not unique and your company name isn't in your LinkedIn profile, people won't be able to look up your background and experience.

Finally, light personalization helps, faux personalization hurts. Light personalization could be a sentence like "It looks like we both went to Dartmouth!" (human connection) or "I saw you invested in companies A and B, which help accountants and lawyers bring their paperwork online. Our company is helping auditors bring their paperwork online." (shows effort/research). Faux personalization is stuff like "I did some research and based on your investment thesis I think you'd be a great fit" (intentionally vague and can be sent to every investor) or "I see you invested in MediaStartupA and SaaSStartupB, so I think you'd really like my RoboticsStartup" (name-drops startups, but the startups are random and completely unrelated).

FWIW most of these tips are not specific to emailing investors, and they can apply to cold emailing anyone.
In the case of Baltimore, Wells Fargo employees targeted black families for subprime home mortgages in the run up to the 2008 financial crisis, even when they qualified for conventional mortgages with lower rates.

Wells Fargo organized events for African Americans on "how to build generational wealth," but internally said they were selling "ghetto loans" to "mud people."

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/us/07baltimore.html

https://consumerist.com/5283290/affidavits-on-how-wells-farg...
Why do you want a extremely limited computer, one that you hardly have any control over, as your development machine. Do you really want Apple making all of your decisions for you?

I won’t even use macOS due to the limitations that don’t exist anywhere else, but mostly because I think Apple makes bad decisions and then does not give me any options to change the behavior. They are such a “one size fits all” company that I just don’t understand why creative people would want to support them. Their tech is more draconian than anything.

They’re like the China of computing.
3 day silent retreats completely changed my life.

As someone who spent a decade in depression and near the edge of suicide, there are two things I ask people to try before killing themselves.

1) A silent retreat
2) An Ayahuasca ceremony

Those two things helped more than years of therapy and anti-depressants.

A pretty intense exercise regimen also helped me out a lot, but its hard to get someone to pick that over death when they are close to the edge so I don't include it.
> Why is that? I f you work at a company where you are constantly emailed screenshots, even if you are aware that image tracking is not in your best interest are you going to bother with this inconvenience?

Email includes the ability to incorporate attachments[1] including images that are displayed inline. Those show up just fine. This is specifically in regards to remote images.

Having the images in the actual email also has the advantage of keeping a record of the assets associated with the conversation. As opposed to having them disappear from the remote location at some arbitrary point in the future.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME_attachment
Is it worth it to sign up? I get so many notices for settlements and they all want my SSN, I would rather keep that private rather than give it away for what is likely to be a very small settlement.
You didn't do anything in the past. People from the past are not here now. You found yourself here as an accident of birth and are now aware of where you are and maybe how it came to be.

Now decide where you want to go from here, just like the countless before you have done - leading to you being here.

P.S : This is more as a note to self :).
As far as people having instinctive reactions they can't control, this can certainly be true. But I don't really understand who you're recommending nonviolent communication to in this context?

The person swearing was a random 911 caller attempting to receive help; we can't expect every caller to know nonviolent communication, or to recall it in life-or-death situations. The person upset by the swearing was a 911 dispatcher; if they have involuntary triggers around language then a job that absolutely requires remaining composed while talking to frightened strangers is dangerously poor fit. And I don't think it would actually be good for the dispatcher to practice NVC - whatever its merits, it's not a process meant for rapidly transferring vital information.

Safety and emergency-response communication is an entire topic of its own, and emergency medical dispatchers already get specific training on how to achieve the goals of that work.
To be fair, the machine's tendency to roll around during transport is irrelevant to the claim that it looks better than its competitors.
I've never been convinced about a touchscreen macOS. The quality of the interface in Windows took a nosedive when they started trying to account for both finger-poking and precision cursor use. I would hate to see that happen to macOS. My preference is to let macOS/MacBooks stay keyboard/mouse, and let iPadOS/iPad be the touch device.
> When you compare it to Android where you're lucky to get 18 months support it comes out ahead

Google keeps their own hardware updated quite well, I liked the monthly security updates.

With regards to the rest of the tablet market, basically only Samsung and Lenovo are left, and Samsung lost me as a customer a long time ago.

I've been looking at the iPad Air 3 recently and while it looks nice, I just fell in love with the Apple pencil. The fact that they update even their ancient hardware is just a huge plus -- that's commitment to the customer.
Video: A Visual Retelling of Foucault's “Discursive Functions”
Despite the name, it's really not the same thing at all.
I had the same experience during my high school and college years. THC consumption (with alcohol or without) consistently induced anxiety (sometimes so much as to induce mini panic-attacks).

Fast-forward five or so years, and I gave it another shot out of curiosity. Interestingly enough, my experience was starkly different. I guess you could say I experienced the traditional side-effects that I had missed my first time around. What's most notable is the subtle after-glow I would feel days after using THC.

I have since been using THC while practicing mindfulness and the benefits have been enumerable! It's quite interesting what role age, set, setting, etc. can have during these experiences.
Had a baby a year ago, my mattress is on the floor and it really is comforting to not worry about him waking up before us and falling us. He's sneaky and doesn't really scream when he wakes up, he just explores.
specifically, don’t love the mass email pretending to be specific 1-1 email. mostly i dislike the asymmetry of people to do a very little work and give me a bunch of work (having to review the company.) i am much more likely to do the work if i think they were talking to me specifically, especially since that means there is a much greater chance that it is a match. much the same as spam, i guess.

the tracking itself doesn’t bother me too much. i do type
in my email to docsend decks which is also tracked. i do not like the fact that the docsend decks disappear though. i suppose that is a different issue.
Is it still worthwhile to set up if I have ad blocking in all my browsers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTYSQq6_IdY
GNU Taler: a privacy-preserving payment system
AIUI, the damages are not punitive. They are meant to cover the actual harms associated with Yahoo's negligence. Unless you've actually had your identity stolen due to the breach, your losses are capped at whatever action you had to take to counteract risks added by the breach. That is, the cost of acquiring credit monitoring services.
Great... so now I can't trust Richard Dawkins OR the people who review his books.
You can choose to view things that way, but that's just a perception, not the actual nature of these concepts. You could equally well say they are all philosophies and use that to reinforce a view you hold.
We have been selling a relatively complex product built using C# for many years now. It is perhaps unusual in that it was built on Linux for Mono primarily, and then ported to .NET on Windows subsequently.

What we have seen over the years is:

1. Deploying on Windows became less popular, partly because it was much harder to manage at scale than Linux, and partly because of the price of licensing.

2. Mono was seen as a toy, and is often considered a critical risk by purchasers. This was even true after Microsoft bought Xamarin, and thus de-facto control of the project, and despite the fact that it was far easier to patch bugs in the open source runtime than in the closed-source .NET Framework (and we ran into several in each).

C# (and even more so F#) is a great language, but was hamstrung early on by Microsoft's approach to competition - I think had this been different early on, the world would look very different with respect to popularity for critical infrastructure vs the JVM. Whether it's late enough to salvage something for a large number of non-traditional-MS is debatable - it will be interesting to see how it plays out over the next few years.
You haven't offered a rebuttal other than saying this argument is "ridiculous". I'm obviously not coming out of nowhere with it. Can you do better than "nuh-uh"?
Serverless seems to just help service providers maintain lock-in both on the technology but more importantly on the margins. I suppose if you had huge swaths of serverless functions running that would be more efficient than VMs or even containers.
I think you need to be realistic about the valuation of the company, and take it from there. I may have spent 10,000 hours perfecting my basket weaving technique and business, but if I can only sell my business for $1, that's what it's worth.

You may feel the value is yet to be realized, but then you should probably stick with the company. Jim's planning to do that, I assume because he thinks his future efforts in addition to what's already been done will make it valuable.

One other thing I'll throw out there. In general, maintaining a complex cap table for an early-stage company is very bad. Jim will have a devil of a time getting investment or funding when he has a 40% share holder who is no longer involved. The optics are bad and will spoil the deal. Given that, I'd consider being willing to part ways for future cash, perhaps cash payable upon closing the first $X in deals or something. Basically converting your equity to debt.
yes. a LOT of them go for a cure teaser.

i simply jump to the conclusion that the founder is bad at communicating if they can’t get this one detail across.
>but even if they fail long-term, they're a success in my book.
>People that think Tesla is a failure at this point are classified in the same category as anti-vaxxers and flat-earthers in my opinion.

Some people don't have the same definitions for words as you do, so you can't put them in the same category as flat-earthers.
Well I can remember when fitting a new dual floppy drive (8 inch) to a pdp11 require two people to install it and a third to help run the cables through the chassis.
>>PS: if you, an Econ neophyte we’re aware that the culmination of all these measures would result in a slow Down (even with the new untested GDP figures) then the govt should know fat earlier

https://caravanmagazine.in/politics/how-modi-stalled-nitin-g...

On 8 November 2016, as Modi prepared to announce his surprise decision to annul all high-denomination bank notes, he gathered his top ministers.

and

When a colleague later asked Gadkari about this, “he said, ‘He had already made up his mind, he was just doing a paper exercise to corner us. So I tried to go one up on him.’”

Basically 2 - 3 people are making big decisions in the government without any advice, inputs or feed back from anywhere.

This is a recipe for disasters. Governments are not a one man show. Politicians are the least qualified people to make any real decisions, governments should be advised by experts panels and committees with politicians doing an intersection of that and what's in the interest of their constituencies.

Also one of the biggest access to talent to human resources this government had in the planning commission was fired and the body dissolved.
So you'd like online journalism to just die off because they can't figure out how to get money from the people who benefit from their work?
Garbage conversations often result when each side is saying reasonable things in isolation but are just talking at each other rather than actually conversing.
How does job control work?
I'll bite. What were the limitations?
Information should never be destroyed. There is a treasure trove of obsolete but preserved cultural knowledge out there, and China is a bit of a dark spot because of the great leap.

Preserving historical knowledge is not the same as perpetuating it or believing it's effective. Keeping a record of what societies did what is extremely important, regardless of whether it worked. If nothing else, so that a particular failed avenue of research isn't pursued again.
Anyone here familiar with photo management know what the likely implications of the new USB storage support are?

My elderly mother has gotten into photography in the past few years and shoots with what I assume is a prosumer camera (high-ish resolution, swappable lenses). The Windows laptop she plugs into is a disaster waiting to happen, in that I’m pretty sure nothing is properly backed up. I think she also barely understands what’s happening on her computer at any given time.

If an iPad, plus camera kit, plus external storage, plus maybe some iCloud backup is a reasonable way to manage photos, I'd consider getting her one.

What might an iPadOS + camera workflow / setup look like? Is this likely to be a replacement for a camera + traditional computer photo management setup?

Edit: I should add that, while I’m comfortable with Linux and coding and other nerdly pursuits, I know nothing about current norms and tech for photography.
None of the professional numerical analysts I know work with a handheld calculator.

The point of learning a slide rule is not that it is a particularly important practical tool, but that understanding how it works has independent pedagogical value.

If someone built their own electronic calculator from discrete components, programmed one on an FPGA, or even implemented a bunch of mathematical functions on an existing computer, that would be similarly educational (though teaching different things than the slide rule), but just knowing how to navigate the interface of an electronic calculator doesn’t teach anything.
Actually it seems to be a growing industry: monasteries are opening up their rooms to paying guests.

We stayed in one in Italy recently, south of Napoli. It was like a very, very quiet hotel with a peaceful garden and a resident cat. I'd have happily stayed longer. I was also in one last year in Belgium, it was part of a larger church establishment but the location was so central it was like staying in a nice hotel. Again - quiet. Both were without luxuries of a 4 star hotel but very well appointed and with excellent breakfasts, and locations.
I wish there was some mention of major newspapers in this. It seems like a glaring omission. Through all the "fake news" stories in the last years, I have yet to see someone like NYT openly talk about e.g. the gell-mann amnesia effect that the rest of us so openly agree is a thing.
Smaller Sun boxes where / are referred to a pizza boxs
I would rather see the US economy knocked back 15-20 years, if it meant we would stop being so dependent on China. Even if it meant my 401k dropped 80% overnight, if we were going back to domestic production I would support it.

Recovery wouldn't happen immediately but there are a lot of towns and cities with shuttered factories, particularly in the Rust Belt and the Northeast which I could see revitalized. Increased manufacturing would vastly increase the economic diversity of the country, instead of a situation where most jobs that pay a living wage are concentrated in few cities and few industries. A diverse economy would vastly improve the housing situation, since there is abundant land and housing in the middle of the country. It would also do wonders for halting Climate Change, since the US has much cleaner power, transportation, and emissions regulations.
Greek Bronze Age
An Introduction into the Law of Supply and Demand
Ad supported media tends to be much more "clickbaity", and I don't think self-censorship to avoid offending corporations is healthy for society.
I’m pretty sure that just hides the app as you can then swipe it back into view from the edge. The parent commenter seems to want to end the process.
Peter Singer criticized the ban, in the article. Is he “on the right”?
As a VC, how to you balance the cost of the search for profitability against the unknown costs of harm to the user in the future from certain profitable models?
The fine art of baloney detection
In Apple's defense, the SOCs on iPads are improving much, much faster than PC chips. Intel chips have been getting faster at something like 5% per year for the last decade, compared to 50% for Apple's A-series. So I think supporting 5 years worth of iPad devices is somewhat comparable to supporting 20 years worth of PC hardware: in both cases it's about a 100x performance difference between the bottom and top, and beyond that I imagine it's not worth it to try and tune an OS for both.
I'm fine with podcast ads because I want the excellent podcasts I enjoy to continue existing. That said, I cannot stand injected ads, since they're often injected in awkward places and are jarring to the experience. I'll (not exactly happily but not angrily) listen to a live read where the podcaster has at least taken the time to try not to destroy the flow of the entire podcast.

All that said, the best ads (from a listener experience POV) are the extremely short, to the point ads that are honestly too short to put the effort into skipping. Planet Money (and the NPR podcasts I listen to in general) does this well. I'm curious what their CPMs are relative to a typical ad.