skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Careful with your use of the word "we".

What is happening is that between 1974 and 1994, the generation that was then in power decided to stop paying off their own debts, and started deferring payment to future generations. The effect is similar to being forced to cosign a mortgage before you are even born, then when you turn 18, your parents kick you out of their house and stop making the payments. You then have to pay for two houses, and can probably only live in the worst one.

It's a really nasty thing for your elder generation to do, but all your life, they have taught you that you aren't allowed to murder all of them and sell off the assets they purchased with your labor as collateral. So it becomes somewhat of a tradition for each generation to refinance the debts of the previous with the labor of the next as security. But at some point, a generation realizes that the only way they can afford the same lifestyle as their parents is by having two incomes and fewer children.

"Our" grandparents needed to make the sacrifice back before they died. But they didn't, and now they can't. So I prefer to let their creditors go find them in Hell if they want their money back. I am perfectly willing to be responsible for my own financial decisions, but rolling over the debts of the fathers unto the fourth generation seems more than a little bit unfair.

And that is justified in large part by use of the pronoun "we". I, specifically, am being taxed to pay for the economic benefits enjoyed by entire generations of older people who reaped more than they ever sowed. And my gruel, along with that of younger generations, has become thinner ever since.

I even get angry when my spouse says "we need to do X" and really means "I want you to do X, and expect nothing--even gratitude or acknowledgement--in exchange", so I can't imagine how politicians can so easily get away with doing the same thing to entire nations. What "we" need to be doing is demanding that some specific people be held individually responsible for their own bad behavior.
Alum (08-12) here, most students dislike her. It's hard to see the benefits she brings to the school, and very easy to find negative points to pin on her, such as the laying off of 80+ employees in '08, the new president's house mansion she had built (which was actually bigger than the town of Troy had permitted her to build, forcing Troy to offer an amended permit AFTER the base of the house had already been built), and the construction of EMPAC (experimental media and performing arts center), a 500 million dollar commitment to furthering the Arts in a STEM school. These negative points could be refuted and cannot be completely attributed to just Mrs. Jackson, but students don't really think about those sorts of things when deciding whether or not they like their president.
The five dysfunctions of a team.

This book is now required reading for everyone I work with. Not only is the content some of the most important I've ever read, but 80% of the book is written like a novel, making it a VERY easy read.
I think you are letting your hatred of white men cloud your judgement.
I'd put that sort of contribution in the detailed bug report category, something I'd absolutely contribute to closed source proprietary software if I thought there was a good chance it would get fixed and that I wouldn't have to deal with it being broken anymore.
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But that does not mean that federal taxes do not enhance the state budget. That just means your federal taxes amount to more than the assistance your state gets. So your state budget is still enhanced by federal grants, over what it would have been.
While the grandparent comment didn't claim his statement as a fact, you are mentioning your contradictory statement as a 'fact' (factually incorrect? What?) Being raped really sucks, yes, and IMO the rapist should get the most severe punishment imaginable, but being falsely accused of rape is even worse - it destroys the whole career and life of an innocent man - and this is something that happens a lot in India and anyone having a few contacts in Police knows that.

Also, not sure about other countries, in India a woman's statement is enough for a man to be arrested immediately, even if it was a false accusation.
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What do you mean? OSM is open data, you can display it anyway you want.
> Ask for stories, not advice. Every piece of advice has a more memorable and interesting story behind it. ... When someone starts giving you generic advice, ask them for the real story behind it. Then, you can decide if the advice is relevant to you.

This advice (ahem) seems like it might be generally applicable. If you read the full quote, you will also find that it comes with its own stories!
We need a "lobby for the common people" fund.
Is Java 7 already supported? I don't mean the syntax I mean invokedynamic, java.lang.invoke, new filesystem API, ….
It doesn't need to be all or nothing... Portland, Denver, Boise and a bunch of other places are still cities while still able to provide some nice quality of life features over the likes of Seattle, San Francisco or New York City.

You can have a much shorter commute. Lower cost of living. And some really nice community aspects.

I've never understood why the likes of Facebook or other large tech companies wouldn't build infrastructure in the some of the smaller cities as opposed to already over-crowded and much more expensive cities.

Intel and Motorolla built out in Chandler, AZ which brought in a lot of technology companies and built the city to what it is today. It makes perfect sense for a large company to do the same someplace with a limited market where they can build out a community.
Plus their TTL policies/issues:

https://community.namecheap.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8...
Ask HN: Who's using Heap for analytics?
I've been looking at a few options for web / iOS analytics recently and stumbled upon Heap. Wondering how it compares to Google analytics and others.
In each bill I get from my bank(a european bank),it's noted,right next to the headings, that if you are an american citizen,the bank will report any operation on your account to the US administration! US went to great lengths to compel foreign banks who operate in the US to snitch on US citizens abroad,even those who havent lived in USA for a long time. I'm not really sure how many countries in the world do that.
Can you give examples of things that wouldn't, theoretically, be better if "combined into a non-profit, shared single source?"

The whole problem is the incentive to innovate diminishes greatly for non-profit, single sources for most products. Thus, we have capitalism and "different commercial vendor silos" for most things, including maps.
Every review of this I've seen by an actual historian says that it's basically fanciful nonsense.
If you write one page a day, you would write a ~400-page book every year.
I'd expect them to have studied farming practices and their effects broadly, and to have studied the status quo of farming in Asia.

Whether they are from Asia or not seems to be mostly irrelevant.
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I only spelled out potential use cases. Opscode might also be able to use Traveling Ruby to package chef-client, but I've only had experience with chef-solo so I can't comment on chef-client.
The Anglican Book of Common Prayer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Common_Prayer
Seconded. I run an online portfolio service that integrates with Fotomoto to sell prints right on the customers' site. Would be interested in adding this as an option.
Looks great. Thanks for sharing!

I like the architecture diagram and explanation how everything is put together at a higher level.
They started Ground Truth when I was there and it really opened my eyes to just how "broken" a lot of map data sources were at the time. Something I considered to be a 'solved' problem (take aerial photograph, pull out streets, poof map!) was no where close to solved.

Some folks have said that Ingress, the Android and now iOS, real world geo game. Was in part an exercise in data collecting. Get people to photograph land marks in the real world to make "portals" while collecting GPS data associated with public landmarks for maps. And then use that data to localize things in satellite imagery, etc.

Makes for an interesting data set.
Terrible. When I was in the Army, the policy was effectively "Ignore anything and everything that might hurt the numbers, until it becomes a PR. problem. Then, just toss the nearest private under the bus". It sounds like they've taken another step sideways since then.
Dark Knowledge Geoffrey Hinton, Oriol Vinyals and Jeff Dean [pdf]
20 euros total so 10 euros per person per night. Sorry that was confusing in my original comment! Having been in Portugal and Budapest on that same trip I can say that Morocco is definitely cheaper. But Portugal was my favorite :) Great people, great waves, great coast!
In the car, I generally alternate between Google Maps, Apple Maps, TomTom and Navigon. After years of doing this, I've rarely noticed a difference in route accuracy -- in my experience they're equally likely to give a slightly faulty route, and there are better than 50/50 odds that a flaw will be shared across apps.

TomTom seems to be the winner with realtime traffic data accuracy, besting Google, and Google beats Apple, although not by much.

Google has lead in POI info, but that lead has diminished to the point of irrelevancy in the last year. Apple and Navigon have the best visuals. Google has the most naturally conversational voice guidance. And while those are nice, I still tend to prefer TomTom's accurate traffic data.
There's also the recent UC Berkeley release of Plan 9 under the GPLv2 available from https://github.com/brho/plan9 which appears to have been made available to support development of Akaros http://akaros.cs.berkeley.edu/akaros-web/news.php
I've never liked the idea of files "belonging" to apps, for numerous reasons. It strikes me as an irreversible institutionalization of the "WIMP" model -- "weakly interacting massive programs." It also makes me uneasy. What happens to my data if I uninstall an app? What happens if that app disappears?

A lot of the data handling choices in mobile and iOS in particular seem predicated on the hidden assumption that user data is not very valuable. Hell will freeze over before I use one of these platforms for anything I deeply care about.

... yet another reason mobile has a ways to go before it can "take over the world."
Which is now up and running a shocking 46 weeks ahead of schedule. Don't believe everything you read.
> no return at all

That's where you got it all wrong; the same common sense argument could be used against using (and contributing to) open source software in companies, and yet the most successful open source softwares are supported by companies. The thing is, contrary to the common sense argument, there is value in not reinventing what others are already doing. That's also a great way to find technical talents who have first-hand knowledge of the tools you use.

OSM is very similar here: the data is openly reusable by anybody and any change benefits everyone.

There can be a good reason for not contributing and using OSM, and that would be because Maps is such a central product to Google that they don't want anything shared with anybody else (plus they already have a lot of data and are considered as the best in class, rightfully or not)
Even then.. Are the airports in NYC, SF or Seattle really that much better than say Portland, Denver, Boise or a number of other smaller cities that aren't as packed?
thanks for posting. Will definitely be reaching out to Michael!
Can companies/PR/media stop using "Uber for.." in their descriptions?

Uber as a company and their business practices isn't exactly positive to say the least.
Also, OSM allowed the amazing initiative of http://hotosm.org/ to be built -- a website where contributors from around the world help humanitarian organizations by adding data into OSM for various areas where people are in grave need (e.g. finding houses of people in drought areas in Africa) based on satellite & aerial imagery. I tried this, and really couldn't walk away much too far into the night, can get addicting... also I think it's something similar to analyzing photos from spy satellites during WWII, only for 100% good case! For more details, see:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team

Quoting from the wiki page:

"From the beginning of OpenStreetMap it was anticipated that open, free map data would be a tremendous benefit for humanitarian aid and economic development. The idea was proved during the Haiti earthquake in 2010. HOT was incorporated in the immediate aftermath, August 2010, as a U.S. nonprofit and became a registered 501(c)3 charitable organization in 2013. Anyone is welcome to contribute to the HOT mission via our Tasking Manager - all you need is an OpenStreetMap Username. We ask only that you try to uphold the same code of conduct as our members, see our HOT Membership Code."

Surprisingly for me, quite many important buildings can be discovered without local knowledge (i.e. without "being there physically"), purely based on aerial imagery and a specially crafted guide. See e.g. the following link, with some hints and clues on how to recognize a school for a current (urgent!) pre-typhoon task http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/804:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Typ...
Hi, I'm a researcher currently and your stuff looks really cool.

I have a number of questions:

1. I saw that flow cytometry is listed on your features. Can you explain how you guys manage this?

2. How do you pay for reagents, etc? Or do people send their own?

3. Any chance for more tissue culture friendly technologies? Centrtifugation etc?

4. I noticed you offer use of a Tecan plate reader; how does the user configure the parameters that the plate reader uses? I have a few templates which I use when I read plates, but I'd hate to have to redefine all of them.
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Because he's not actually proposing to move to an alternative system.
It doesn't matter what he personally pays or doesn't.

He clearly states US citizens abroad should not pay US taxes.
(edit to add "US" which I thought was obvious)
Mike here, one of the founders of Bettir. We'd love to have you try it out. White coat hypertension is one of the biggest problems with hypertension diagnosis. For those that don't know, some studies show 20-45% of people diagnosed with hypertension actually only have white coat hypertension, which means they don't actually have hypertension but that their blood pressure is elevated while in the doctor's office.

Home monitoring is one of the best ways to handle this, and it's a really good use case for Bettir.

Feel free to reach out to me at mike@bettir.com, we'll make sure that you get set up to use Bettir ASAP.
Readable as ever and remarkably clear sighted. Count me as one among many who wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
I've filed many bugs on IE, Safari, and Chrome (for the last two not just on the Webkit/Chromium side, but also on the proprietary Safari/Chrome side).

I see your point, but the reality is that my users are there and these are also products I use every day. It's in my interest to have them work correctly.
Not having enough time to go there and not being in the right season to hike Toubkal were my biggest regrets! Always a next time.
there isn't any reason to suspect that a small company doing one thing better will walk all over AAA, that's hyperbole. AAA's culture is good enough and their other large advantages give them their market share.
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Interesting how 'living in poverty' and 'not married' track.
"Delhi has thousands of taxi drivers, cab companies, private transport vehicles — no one bothers asking for any sort of real background check for anyone driving these things. I have friends who own cab companies — their “driver check” is asking the driver whether he has a license."

I am no fan of uber (although I drive for them, but mostly their competitor, which I prefer). But I think this comment is apt.
In an infinite universe, almost everyone is a smartass mathematician :)
"Oh, if only those merchants weren't so savvy. But the surrounding local tech boom certainly hadn't been lost on them. According to Mickiewicz, when he approached them to make a deal, they laughed, saying they'd expected an offer--and had already received offers--that topped $1 million. Cross Saffron.com off the list."

Just to fill everyone in in case this isn't obvious that's a total ploy. And a stupid one at that. While it's common in the business to state that "I've turned down $x" it's more typical to state "I want $x and I've already turned down $x-(some number)." Or at least that's the smarter way to BS someone.

Obviously a local merchant didn't turn down $1,000,000 at least not a serious $1,000,000 in other words a real offer.

The only exception to this might be perhaps super valuable names (of which saffron.com is not) such as certain words, 2 letter .com's, some 3 letter .coms or names owned by large corporations (that don't need the money) or for developed sites where there is a cost for someone to change their web presence.
> However, I also feel a large number of the reported cases are skewed due to angry ex-girlfriends, intoxication, etc.

What are you actually trying to say here? How are these cases skewed?
I don't know that any one book exactly changed my life, but a handfull of titles do stand out in my mind.

Zero To One by Peter Thiel

The Art Of Profitability by Adrian Slywotzky

The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil

After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Very awesome, I had some headaches with this kind of stuff in college.
If we downvoted every assertion on HN that didn't come with a complete annotated appendix of sources, that would be every comment. Why do you apply this standard to this comment, and not to others?

A googling of something like "intuit lobby irs" will turn up as much info as you care to have about the situation, incidentally.
Heh. I was such a malcontent, hence my quip about evading their donation request phone calls. My time there was well before Jackson, too - '84-'89.
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What is node core devs relationship with V8 team and Google,if there is any?

That's what makes me the most worried with nodejs.It depends on a project led by a corporation that is difficult "to read".We're not talking about a C++ lib that has been stable for 20+ years,but something that is likely to change fast and frequently,which will break every native extension written for node.

It seems to me that Goggle isnt that implicated in node development.
you're forgetting to take into account the fact this is a list about his favourite books this year. Preferences, especially when talking about a 'top 5', are by definition highly selective, and not 'fair' according to any other measure besides how much the reader liked the book.

This is also not about how many books were published this year (which may very well not be evenly distributed among the genders/races), it's about a subset of the books which Gates actually read this year, which may be an entirely different demographic of authors depending on his preferences. So you'd have to take into consideration the demographics of the authors for the particular sub-genres of books Gates likes to read as well.

If you're going to use math to suggest something is discriminatory, you better do a thorough job of mathematically proving it correctly, because it is a large claim to make using only primitive estimations.
I would be interested in reading these reviews. If you have a link that would be great.
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Thanks for your kind comments. :) You're totally right. We believe this is the correct paradigm for the future of medicine. Going to the doctor's office is no fun, and nobody likes to do it. As a result, many preventable causes of death and illness remain untreated. Bettir's goal is to make it possible to manage certain conditions, like high blood pressure, from the comfort of one's home.
Some would argue (not myself, just pointing it out), that every one of your interactions is made in freedom, which is made possible by a very large military spend.
> Being raped really sucks, yes,

> but being falsely accused of rape is even worse

Wow. Just wow. I'm pretty disgusted by this comment. Hopefully you've just phrased it badly, and can edit it to make it less like you're saying that men get a bum deal in India.
Sure, I'm simplifying, but I think my point stands.

Federal tax as percent of GDP: 19% [1]

State and local tax as percent of GDP: 9% [2]

So, even if we bump up state and local expenditures to 11.25%, it still seems like we're getting a better deal from local governance.

1) http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Doc...

2) http://www.ncsl.org/documents/fiscal/TaxesandtheEconomy.pdf (a little out of date...)
Wonderful. If you have any questions or comments feel free to reach out to me at mike@bettir.com.
Let's be honest here: the real issue is bureaucracy, not the actual tax bill. Whether taxes are higher or lower; whether they're on income, consumption or corporations - unless there's some really dramatic difference, it's all a bit of a wash.

Cost of living to some degree reflects what people actually can afford because that's what suppliers can get away with.

The stress and time wasted to comply with pointless regulations (ala IRS) likely affects your quality of life more than a few numbers on a balance sheet that are likely compensated by living costs.
>Any pointers on visas?

You can get a 3 month multiple entry tourist visa pretty easily. It cost's about $140 for the various fees. You have to google visa agencies and fill the form online. Sometimes you can get 6 month visas also though I can't seem them on line at the moment. When it runs out you can fly to Singapore or similar and apply for another. The Vietnamese don't seem to worry too much what you do once you are there. I'm probably off there soon to hang out in Saigon which is quite fun but more expensive.
> and the construction of EMPAC

Ah. My friends currently involved with the school are part of EMPAC, which explains their positive feelings toward her.
you get war and war and more war!
You are poorly assuming that 50% of books are written by men.
I'm curious if Docker is a build-time or run-time dependency on Linux. I tried to pick apart the Linux build script, but it's pretty complicated.
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> Anyway, as for other languages, this is being fixed for
> Go's runtime bits (and possibly stdlib), which i can talk
> about

Even if I have no power to change anything about Rust myself, if you care to advise I'd love to listen and potentially pass on your wisdom to the core team. And if you'd prefer a different medium than HN comments, you can find my email in my profile. :)
What's the best way to reach you, rebel.
Because all books are created equal.
I gave up on boot2docker, and just use an Ubuntu image with docker as my virtual dev environment.

Even with sub-par performance in development, that doesn't mean it's the same in production... your local desktop isn't going to run a full database instance with equal throughput to the dedicated cluster of servers either, so we should all abandon cassandra (or whatever) too?
Having to do significant tax prep is unusual in the US, too: most US employees have taxes withheld (which is required by law), and usually end up with the Treasury owing them at the end of the year.
Not that I hold it against him, but José Saramago was a white guy (although he was pretty tan).

It is a pretty great book.