skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why would they lower prices? Wal-Mart could lower prices now for cash or debit card purchases but they don’t.

You're from the US, right? Then you should be familiar with gas stations which have two sets of prices: an expensive one for credit card customers, and a cheaper one for cash customers. Last time I road-tripped through the California/Oregon area, those were a thing and quite common.

Why doesn't Walmart do the same? Probably because they have 50k prices to consider, while a gas station has like 3 or 4. But the gas stations demonstrate that there obviously is a possibility for reduced payment costs to end up at the customer in the form of reduced prices.

Now imagine taking away the burden of having Walmart (and any other retailer for that matter) add 50k additional prices to their inventory by simply capping all CC fees at 0,3%. If you don't see the likelihood for a reduction in prices for customers in the long run, you either don't have much trust in free markets, or you must assume that the market in question is not free at all, but burdened by collusion.
If the NYT made the same B.S. arguments in favor of the tax cut then sure. But they did no such thing.
I'll save people the effort:

They create an "obstacle" to cancelling your subscription. The "obstacle" is you have to make phone call and talk to one of their agents who will try to keep you as a subscriber by offering a discount on the subscription.

It's a good way to extend your introductory payment plan (or close to it).

You can still cancel, of course, just be firm and say so. Not a big deal.
You know what would be a great marketing tool?

If you summarized and posted the terms and the latest changes for some of the big vendors for free.

So maybe you would summarize iTunes, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Dropbox etc for people and they can be made aware of what they agreed to or not.

I don't think this would impinge on your business product too much since companies are presumably not sending this kind of thing your way. (Although, maybe they are in which case I don't know if it makes sense.)
I can't believe no one else has mentioned the Audio-Technica ATH-ANC9 headphones. They are $139 the last time I checked and they blow the doors off of any Bose noise-cancelling headphones I've tried. They are great for flights. I've had mine for years and bought several pairs for friends and family, and everyone I've gotten them for loves them.
I've been using ReaderMode for 2 days now and I must say that I'm absolutely enjoying the clean, distraction-free user experience! Thank you for making this!
Sorry, Apple: For the education market, Chromebook is the clear winner
Because I'm always going to buy Intel products?
And are you reading that visually in Morse code? I would have thought a different/more optimized flashing pattern that required a smartphone to read would be faster, especially if we're talking IPv6 addresses, but that's just me.
That would be very helpful.

Anecdotally, I found ABBYY to blow everything away, followed by the cloud provider services led by MSFT and then OSS stuff led by Tesseract.
Journalism aspires to minimize bias, and that's why people trust journalism as an institution (and why, lately, that trust is rapidly eroding). Using "journalism" to give your biases/agenda the air of objectivity is misleading, immoral, and unethical. If a journalist or editor wants to push their personal agenda, they can use the opinion section like everyone else. That's why it exists.
The anti-inflammatory effect of milk and dairy products on periodontal cells
The deviation from your initial trajectory is 1/2at^2 where "t" is time of flight, and "a" is net unexpected accelerations. A 30 minute flight time is 1800s, meaning that if you have a target with 20m of give, you can only tolerate an error in your predicted net acceleration of 0.000001g. This is not even close to achievable at launch time.

Long story short: make sure you have corrective gliding maneuvers as part of your imaginary system;)
But that's a strawman argument. By artificially setting the bar that high for entities like the NYT to be allowed to publish stories like that you make it impossible to publish any journalistic piece at all. And that higj bar allows everybody else to just past everything underneath it. A slippery slope if you ask me.
Toronto has had phenomenal weed cafes in the city for at least a decade - well before legalization.

Heck, there’s one (Vapour Central) that’s smack dab in the middle of Yonge and Bloor - about as central as they could get.

These are BOYC - bring your own cannabis - places - they provide bongs for rent and vaporizers like the Volcano, as well as live music and comedy. I recall performing there several times.

The smoking laws in Ontario are strict. I don’t know if we will see the likes of these outside of the grey market here in Toronto - but the grey market ones are great for what they are. Again - nothing special, especially now that it’s legal. It’s a bar but with weed. I mean; what are you really expecting? But if you enjoy it, they’re good, and are definitely a cool cultural experience.
As someone who works for a quantitative hedge fund, you wouldn't believe how many similar results I see of researchers showing a statistically significant predictor of stock market returns. Almost every single one of them is garbage.

But your point stands. The paper has nothing to do with cognitive ability. So why is it being used as evidence?
I have an Awair. I don't really trust the baseline values but I do trust the deltas. I mostly use it to inform me when I should open a window or turn the air purifier or humidifier on.
> EITHER the Apache 2.0 License OR the MIT License

Not simulatneously.
Western societies have been more democratic... and more capitalist. If you take high taxes to the extreme (eg. eliminate all billionaires like Bernie Sanders recommends), you get closer to communism which hasn't done as well.
paid senior software engineers
Kontena Lens 2.6: CRDs, Cluster Events and AKS + AAD Support
I'm going with Common Lisp as my first language:

https://oneofus.la/have-emacs-will-hack/2011-10-30-common-li...

Based on what others have said, I figure it'll give me an edge when learning other languages.

(but I'll also work through SICP)

I also ordered a copy of Brian P. Hogan's Exercises for Programmers:

https://pragprog.com/book/bhwb/exercises-for-programmers
With 10m moms and dads signing up, I'm going to guess this is largely due to password reuse from prior hacks. Christmas123.
It's not clear from the title I think, but this actually was a multi-year undertaking, "This has been a long process, beginning in 2017".

I made some small contributions to Racket's SSH library personally, and I was happy to consent to relicensing. I think most people who contribute docs/code to projects like this did it because it was something they needed implemented, so it would be counter-productive to ask for it to be removed, IMO.
The cargo argument comes up all the time. No, you don't need to buy a truck for the trip to a hardware store. I know some people do, but they often visit the hardware store every day, the majority of people don't. Yet everyone drives a truck up in Montana, I mean so do I, but it was $800 and I can maintain it myself since I bike primarily.
Injury Activates Cytoprotective Network to Confer Stress Resilience&Drive Repair
Putting aside questions of what it means to "buy" the Louisiana Territory and then use military force against the indigenous peoples, one obvious one is the Spanish-American War, where we got Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippine Islands.

We then had to fight the Philippine Republic for control of the country, in the Philippine-American war.
How.. how many people have you shot on sight?
More accurate title: Local Linux user discovers awk is a great and portable tool for handling structured text (it is)!
The email change is particularly disturbing. A good security design would be to send the old email a notice of change request and give them a link that can always be used to undo that change (which might require the at the time older password as well).
Cloud against the storm: Clemson’s 2.1M VCPU experiment
>Aren't their reused rockets significantly cheaper than the competition already?

Are they? Have they re-used their rockets commercially, outside of testing? I was unaware of that, but I don't follow it very closely.

Did they not ditch the idea of re-using the second stage, as it proved too expensive? If so, that demonstrates there's sometimes a gap between targets and reality.
That is not a claim that was made. From the NYT article:

> As for capital investments, the company spent less in the 2018 fiscal year than it had projected in December 2017, before the tax law passed. It spent even less in 2019. Much of its savings have gone to reward shareholders: FedEx spent more than $2 billion on stock buybacks and dividend increases in the 2019 fiscal year, up from $1.6 billion in 2018, and more than double the amount the company spent on buybacks and dividends in fiscal year 2017.

edit: Note: the parent commenter ninja-edited in the word "essentially" after I made this comment.
I think your information is out of date. The biggest banks like ABN-AMRO and Rabobank now support Apple pay along with the few that have supported it for months.
We need to quantify how bad pollution is exactly. How many people should be allowed to die because the ICE ambulance can’t reach them or the doctor isn’t able to travel to the hospital or food isn’t able to be delivered for a reasonable price etc.
Also Georgism and the modern geolibertarian movement:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism
Nvidia Releases Kaolin 3D Deep Learning Research Library
And do you intend to do the regular cleanup and maintenance these areas need when they're opened to the public? Do you intend to clean up the literal human waste and trash on a regular basis?

It's a nice idea to have truly public property, but the reality is that people destroy land, especially when it's not their own, and upkeep isn't free or even cheap. Add to that things like zoning, land use codes and restrictions, and taxes, and it's easy to understand why we've lost so much public land.

It still exists, but it's hard to find now.
Loss aversion may not be a psychological phenomenon, but it is definitely a real thing in most financial markets.

The entire insurance and reinsurance industry are based on loss aversion.
From the POV of the radar stealth tech is mostly passive countermeasures. Active = jamming.
That is a great idea and actually have something very similar to that we will be releasing in the coming months.

Stay tuned. :)
> As someone who works for a quantitative hedge fund, you wouldn't believe how many similar results I see of researchers showing a statistically significant predictor of stock market returns. Almost every single one of them is garbage.

Are you able to share any that aren't (or weren't) garbage?
Corporations saving money by cutting down on the cheap things. Bang head [here].
Okay. FedEx is subject to a law. They also have an opinion and try to influence the law they are subject to. Is there a significant percentage of the population that would assume otherwise? I'm still failing to see where this is "news" as opposed to "agenda."
Moreover, the folks who cry "all news has bias!" to justify explicit propaganda miss the obvious point that bias isn't a binary proposition. A little bit of accidental bias is not the same as deliberately driving an agenda. Real journalism aspires to minimize bias.
So most of these techniques used to have the problem that on Windows "any browser" was always "Internet Explorer"; but while I don't disagree that this is still an issue, it is much much much less of an issue now that Internet Explorer is Edge and Edge is Chromium (which I am not saying is a good state of affairs for the web as a whole, but makes this use case not fall as easily to this complaint).
you seem to have a bone to pick with this list despite admitting to having never read any of them. perhaps they are the best nonfiction but you wouldn't know.

what, then, do you think are the best nonfiction books of the last 25 years?
Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank
This looks like a nice solution to save some time for cross-platform developers on .NET Core. I'm sure we're going to see a lot more of this once the new Chromium version of Edge is released mid Jan 2020 (which will include the new webview2 component).

If you don't want to add an external library to do this, or your source is already platform dependent, just use the default web view component of each operating system (WebBrowser for Windows, WKWebView for macOS and WebKitGTK+2 for Linux) like this library does.

To work around some of the ugliness of the old IE rendering engine used in the current WebBrowser control on Windows, just add this meta tag to the HTML file to ensure it uses the new versions of IE to render the UI: <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge">

You can disable most non-native app behavior in JS (like scrolling or the default right click context menu using javascript). You're then free to use whatever front end framework you want and pass data between the web-app and native code using JSON.
It might be feasible, but I doubt the Italian government has the organizational ability to rally scientists and engineers around it. (I'm Italian, it's IMHO, but I speak with some past experience).
Essentially all air filters filter nano particles.

https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/can-hepa-filters-capture...
This is mostly obscoleted by https://github.com/sentialx/electron-global
I'm pretty happy with Anker Soundcore Space NC.
The first version of Baremetrics is now open source
No, I don't want that. I'm just suggesting a way for them to not have to ask the world for this data by eating their own dog food, in the context of this thread, in a consciously unfriendly way.
I had a similar experience quite some time ago. Somehow small AWS charges were appearing on my credit card--on the order of around a dollar. I called Amazon and asked them where the charges were coming from and they wouldn't tell me. I had no personal AWS account nor had I ever used the card with AWS. They refused to provide me any level of assistance. It was very frustrating. This meant every month my wife had to request a chargeback through the credit card company.
Url changed from https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/11/ai..., which points to this.
> while the Dutch Wikipedia tell these walls are meant to protect fruit from weather conditions

Might also have a historic quirk to it.

"The fruit wall appears around the start of the so-called Little Ice Age, a period of exceptional cold in Europe that lasted from about 1550 to 1850."

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/fruit-walls-urban-fa...
Or just float a thin layer on top of the water that will encapsulate ...ahem...the capsule.
Substack (YC W18) Sees the Future of Paid Newsletters
I think this is a wise approach for large Rails applications, but this just looks like the Repository pattern to me, with ActiveRecord used as the db interaction layer
walk/bike around aimlessly .. you'll find them soon enough.
Purely intellectual exercises, I assure you. Performance art.
I'm not saying anything. I'm relaying what everyone who studies global warming has said. I'm not "championing" anything either.

I am relaying the science on global warming which indicates that if we continue down this path then we are absolutely screwed.

Density is not my idea. Density is what you get if you want (a) 7 billion people and (b) anything remotely resembling a sustainable society. If you also want a not dense society, then tell me which of (a) and (b) you want to eliminate.

If you're saying you want to ween us off of our rapidly worsening fossil fuel addiction then I don't know what to tell you but I do have several bridges to sell you.
Changed from https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/11/ai.... Thanks!
Most services don't do that. I have had my personal email account DDoSed before and requiring access to that inbox to change my email address would have been impossible for over a month.
I think that the open plan office trend is stupid. It is not good for productivity and it is not good for noise.

People collaborate less in open plan offices compared to traditional private offices. Yet open plan offices are promoted as strengthening cooperation.
Neither my example nor the facts of Oracle v Google are dependent on copying of algorithms due to both being clean room reimplementations with the minimum verbatim copying needed for API compatibility.

Since you obviously aren't interested in a good faith discussion that doesn't involve you adding strawmen, I shall bid you good day.
Did you cancel the card and replace it to prevent further charges?
Sorry for the negative feedback, but I'm not sure on the practicality of some of your main features:

> Sidenote: all bars are scraped from yelp.

Is it only bars? If so this is going to be a no-go for a ton of users. Coffee is a much more appropriate meeting spot for people with a lower price point, less commitment, no intoxication, easy to have a conversation, etc.

> Oh, and one more important thing. There's no chat within the app.

I would see this as a missing feature and something that will turn a ton of potential users off to your platform. People want/need to vet each other out before meeting in-person (especially women, and I say this as a man). A quick textual chat can really save you a lot of time, as I filtered a ton of potential dates out that way.

> We will have opportunities for users to verify themselves with their linkedin profile (this would come at a cost, i.e., $10)

In addition to the previous point I made, this is a non-starter because there are still a ton of creeps/jerks that are on LinkedIn, and I don't see this as a concession for removing messaging from your platform.
Better not to post the original if there's already an active thread, because that will either have no effect or split the discussion. We usually change URLs in cases like this. Best is to email hn@ycombinator.com because then we're sure to see it.
Just a friendly reminder not to take legal advice from random people on the internet. This goes doubly for matters of life and death, eh what?
You can also cancel via live chat - or at least you could the last time I tried.
If they ever have a sequel to Office Space, this could be a funny addition.
This is the bullshit asymmetry principle at work:

The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

a/k/a Brandolino's Law.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/01/28/bullshit-a...

The claim is bullshit. We know it's bullshit. Refuting it ties up resources and conversations.

Flag it as bullshit and move on.

See also burden of proof fallacy:

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFalla...
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I took advantage of the homestead exemption the last time I filed income tax. Is that news?
Check out Visual Paradigm, they come now with a Web UI too
I certainly would have liked to the facts rebutted point by point.

But I don't think their response was completely void of substance.

It is worth noting the NY Times also uses the tax laws to pay little or no taxes.

And reinvesting money to shore up pensions -- so many of which are inadequately funded -- seems like a valid point to make when justifying how they used tax laws to their advantage. It's not like all the money used to defer tax payments went to pay executive bonuses, as the NY Times would have readers believe.
Personality tests were devised as an aid to psychologists to use in conjuction with therapy, never stand-alone. Using them for any purpose that they were not tested, standardized for is Astrology.

There is no automation for hiring; it's a harder problem than self-driving cars.
It does. A very fun hobby, with lots of cool toys. I already mix my own juice. Originally that was just to save money, but now mixing is its own hobby. What do I feel like this week? My usual apple-flavored juice? Do I want to throw a little cranberry in this week just for fun? Or maybe I'm in the mood for something minty, my wife likes mints so we've always got an array to choose from.

I haven't even gotten into the world of rebuildables or anything like that. I use a basic Smok sub-ohm box (a T-priv), that I'm probably going to upgrade to the latest model in a few months, but I know there's an entire world of vape devices out there I've barely even glimpsed over the horizon, let alone explored. Luckily it's not too hard to talk myself out of fancy new hardware ($$) when my current mod gets the job done.

But flavors? I went and spent around $70 on flavors a couple weeks ago. Sounds crazy, but it's still cheaper than spending $100/month on commercial juices. And now I have a vast array of cool flavors to play with, and design my own recipes from.

Vaping can absolutely become a dangerous hobby.
Is this not voluntary?

> Q: How do I participate in the Intel® Computing Improvement Program?

> A: When you download and install the Intel® Computing Improvement Program, click Accept on the invitation to join.
Yeah, this is my hypothesis. It is just a brute force attack using old email and passwords from previous hacks on other services.
Best reusable earplugs anyone?

I've used the silicon moldable ones and the plastic ones that go in the earl canal - but they are not very re-usable, and when someone pops over to chat taking them in and out is a chore.
You don't "publish" Go modules manually. If it's a public package, it'll be added to the official mirror and sum database on first use.
Music Generates Feelings That Are Only Weakly Bound to the Music
What does the play command come from?
In what way is this not theft?
I went through something similar when an ex went wild with my credit cards. You can actually call the credit card company and tell them to block all purchases from a specified merchant. So I had to block all Amazon and Uber purchases.

Just reporting the card lost/stolen doesn't work because these services already verified and seem to come across as recurring transactions that still go through even though the old card has been reported lost and there's a new number.
They can publish whatever they want. It’s a free country. And I’m free to disbelieve them or distrust their motivations.
For me it just have incorrect hm "angles" just like misplaced glasses or something like this. 8k won't help much since it is just bigger, not better PPI.

It is just like decade old stereo camera like this: https://www.amazon.com/Fujifilm-FinePix-Real-Discontinued-Ma....
Accrediting outputs of noisy intermediate-scale quantum computing devices
That framing is incredibly negative and obviously communicates it as "near zero" to the passing reader. Vague terminology of "less than projected" is the way they choose to frame it in the first sentence, and "spent even less in the next year" is the next sentence. NYT then chooses to completely omit the actual numerical figures of FedEx's investments, and instead highlights figures in the unrelated category of dividend payments (which were actually smaller than recent capital expenditures).

I'd say that paragraph you quoted showcases the misleading writing very nicely.
Well, I did specifically state that was my target use case.
NYT makes corrections. Your statement should actually read "people don't pay attention to corrections." It doesn't matter how many times a publication issues a correction because people will continue to spread the inaccurate information anyway.

For example, the Wakefield study that led to an entire anti-vaccination movement.
ISP's routers too have issues with this: https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r32578490-Need-help-on-a-po...
I paid over 26% of my income in taxes on my form 1040. No blurred lines, this includes whatever mortgage tax deduction that I may or may not have received.