skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This is completely backwards. The wealthy primarily invest their money; it is mainly spent on non-consumer goods

Have you not noticed that these goods have experienced a considerable degree of price inflation over the last decade? Did houses get cheaper?

>Note that an increase in the speculative value of real estate is NOT inflation

Bullshit. If I'm spending more on rent or mortgage (which I will if property prices increase), I've experienced inflation just as much as if I'm spending more on milk, eggs and bread.

>By the way, if you believe that money going into the hands of the wealthy is the best way to cause inflation, it therefore follows that the best economic stimulus is tax cuts for the wealthy.

Depends on whose economy you are stimulating. If you just want to stimulate the price of property and stock prices, sure, tax cuts for the wealthy all round. If you want to stimulate employment for the middle classes, not so much.

If you want to stimulate general economic growth, tax cuts for the rich are awful because there is a very minimal multiplier effect. The money goes into real estate and the stock market and largely stays there.

The best way to do that is to offer a job guarantee like FDR did in the 30s or increasing the minimum wage. The spending multiplier on both of those is about 3-5.

>Do you favor such cuts during times of recession?

Clearly not.
If you are in a MMJ state it shouldn't be too hard to find a clinic with edibles or pills no?
... then you would miss the core concept of Kahneman's thesis.

His book is very thorough in defining these systems, how they interact, and what situations each are a good fit for.

Fast thinking is important for low cost, instantaneous decisions. It's important so that your type 2 system isn't engaged all day, because that system consumes more energy and takes more effort to kick in.

The problem is that erroneous heuristics are frequently encoded in type 1. That doesn't mean it's useless -- there is an intuitive expertise that can be developed by correctly providing feedback to your type 1.

Try not to think of it like "good" versus "bad" thinking. Type I is incredibly powerful, but has all these gotchas.

The way I think of it is type 1 is like an associative or probabilistic cache. Lookups aren't always perfect -- sometimes type 1 answers an easier question rather than the one it asked -- but the idea is that you wouldn't be able to function if every single decision or interpretation had to be run through type 2.

In other words, type 1 is a shortcut to prevent your type 2 from being overloaded.
> Where does this inherent distrust come from?

Let's assume for just one minute that Nestle didn't pay an illegal bribe to Zimmerman (and/or other Gov officials) to forego/suspend the permitting review. Then what you are suggesting is that Nestle hired a former Govermnet employee they directly knew started working on a permitting review (already 15 years overdue on his watch) and continued this review for four years and then simply suspended the review without completion or even documenting why it was suspended. Then the very same company subject to the botched review immediately hires the Government employee they personally knew not only dropped the ball on the review but completely failed to document Why it was stopped...and do not forget the salient fact that the suspended review ultimately benefited the company.

In any other circumstance than funny business, the company would have never hired an employee they personally knew to be so incompetent as to completely stop working on a 4 year old permit review without either completing the review or documenting what happened.
As much as I understand the point of protecting shared spectrum from abuse, has there been many, if at all, instances of custom firmware causing interference issues? If not, this just feels like another attempt at reigning in control over the users and taking away freedom from them.
Yeah, there was a project comparing YT comments with Metafilter comments at one point:
http://comments.thatsaspicymeatball.com/

Looks like the latest comments are from Feb 2015, sad that it's not still live.

Not a terrible quality snapshot though.
I've always wondered what the FCC status was of devices like Sparkfun's esp8266 based boards. [0] They are all based around the same ultra cheap Chinese wifi chip. Seems like trying to make vendors lock down their consumer routers is pointless when the market is flooded with products that don't have such restrictions.

[0] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13287
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All you have to do is Google "time in Chicago" or "time in Perth" to find the current time there.
Curcumin is poorly absorbed but there are several ways to increase the bioavailability[1]. Otherwise too little will be absorbed to be effective, and you'd just be ingesting an expensive placebo.

You could

* Combine it with black pepper, warmth and/or oil.

* Use the Meriva or BCM-95 form.

* Use nanoparticles, marketed as Theracurmin/Theracumin.

Most nights, I combine two caps of Theracurmin with fish oil and lukewarm water for my wife to drink. It does seem to help with her arthritis.

1: http://examine.com/supplements/Curcumin/
>So does everyone, they just spend it differently.

Yes, and the wealthy spend more, so the effect of their spending is more inflationary.

>Bill Gates' money isn't sitting in a checking account, it's in stock certificates. High net-worth people don't put money under their mattresses, they spend it, albeit in different ways.

Quite. This is why the price of property is absurd and P/E for the stock market is so low. Unfortunately the middle and working classes get hit by this just as much as they get hit by rises in the price of milk or eggs.

>Available housing stock on the whole is just fine in the US. Sure, you and I probably can't afford to live on Park Avenue or overlooking Central Park, but that's because those properties attract worldwide money. We're not there yet. San Francisco's housing problems aren't as simple as "some people have money". Taking money away from people isn't going to solve this.

Oh yes it would. Hit the wealthy with huge taxes and they would end up selling those properties to pay off their tax bill. That would lead to a spiraling decrease in San Francisco and New York property prices as well as a stock market decline.
China’s GSR Ventures Plans $5B Fund for Overseas Tech Acquisitions
An old friend of mine who visits SF periodically has certified that a mission burrito will make it through TSA, and always buys one at the last moment before boarding a plane, to enjoy during his readjustment to east coast life.
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For starters you can do what others suggested: don't buy products produced by this kind of labour. Then, you might take the time to ponder the causes of such things happening in the first place. I'll give a hint: it's capitalism, and the reason you don't see exploitation to such an extent in the West is because of the (very bloody) struggles workers waged here during the past two centuries. Then it's up to you what to do with that realization.
Great article outlining how disconnected the startup culture is from real life and empathy towards its employees and contractors. If this is the direction these startups are going, it will be no surprise that they will all shut down soon. Same fate as Homejoy.
Filmmakers fighting “Happy Birthday” copyright find their “smoking gun”
> you are not suggesting to release robotic serial killers with no strategic purpose, are you?

It won't be my idea, but someone may do it. Consider someone without the resources or motivation to code the decision-making component, but they can code 'shoot every living thing' and drop the bot into enemy territory (preferrably far from their own territory).

Also, to some degree the AI can generate it's own objectives. Also, IIRC one objective of autonomy is for the AI to be able to identify and attack unforseen targets.
There's a reason it's called a "compromise." The FCC has a completely orthogonal set of things it cares about, none of which are software freedom. If you don't give them something like a baseband firmware, the alternative is that the entire router is the baseband firmware.
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> A pipe running from the top of the San Bernardino mountains carries mountain spring water to Nestle North America's tanks below where its then transported to Ontario for bottling.

wait, let me get this straight: a pipe runs from the top of the San Bernardio mountains carying moutain spring water to tanks below where it's transported for bottling?!?!?!

(joke/sarcasm) That line is pasted like 5 or 6 times as the tagline for most the images in the article. Talk about repetitive!
I haven't found a way to block numbers in TextSecure or I would use it

... Oh they implemented it last month :D https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/222
In practice, it'd probably work.

In theory? The compiler is still free to add data-dependent delays.

For an "evil" example, a compiler could do this:

...

for(int i=0; i<token_length; i++) {
char temp = input[i];
if (token[i] == temp) {
match_count++;
}
wait_for_ns(temp);
}

It wouldn't make sense for a compiler to do so - but it is allowed. It
I actually quite like Mac OS X. Things seem to "just work" most of the time, or at least, more of the time than they work for me on GNU/Linux. I can't give any examples off the top of my head, but it seems everything in OS X just "flows together" much nicer, and that's even including programs like Chromium which aren't from Apple.

The reason why I don't use it, however, is because it's tied to the hardware in such a way that if I want this "just works" feeling, I'd need to purchase hardware from Apple, which for me seems overpriced and it shouldn't be necessary. Further, OS X has its quirks that don't let you run it like Linux or BSD - for example, installing things like PostgreSQL.
Yeah, that's pretty much it: By default, contracts can't be updated, but you can create a network of multiple contracts to allow some of your code to update. Myself, I think this is "cheating" and destroys the value proposition of ethereum... a better approach (and what I hope to do) is to keep my main contract(s) alive for all eternity and just add new features with "accessory contracts" but it's easy to fail with this if the original contract has problems.
This was an incredible run-on sentence.
Observance is a state matter, and only two of five mainland states have chosen to participate. Therefore, continental Australia became five time zones for six months out of the year, a decision that has created a bull-headed debate among all its states.

This has an error - three of five mainland states and one territory observe daylight saving time (SA, VIC, NSW and ACT).
There have been cases of manufacturers shipping routers without DFS, where OpenWRT correctly refuses to enable 5GHz Wifi: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wdr7500
Good one! Regarding gravity train and when it was initially "invented":

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_train
No, I think he picked them because they didn't contribute to him and were an easy target. Attacking them also wouldn't hurt any of his wealthy friends.

His actual reasoning is sadly irrelevant to how you mount your defense.
To call this an acquihire is far stretched. Revolving door politics is a better name. Revolving door hires might be usual in the US and to some extent in the UK. But in most other countries it is frowned upon. And I count myself lucky that I live in such a country (De/CH).
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I think they already do that to some extent. The problem is that the Wi-Fi chipset have to be designed to support signed baseband firmware and the like.
I agree, it feels like a really big deal... the fact that so few others are on board with this technology so far definitely means some exciting times are ahead, whether we're proven wrong or right.
SDRs that can transmit at wifi bandwidths are also getting cheaper by the day.

And don't forget the billions of wifi devices already out there that aren't subject to this restriction...

I really don't know what or who they are trying to protect.
That's mountain/cliff/etc housing everywhere. Some people like literally living on the edge. Daly City's got a similar area where the cliffsides are actively crumbling during earthquakes and el ninos http://www.californiacoastline.org/cgi-bin/maplocate.cgi?1,2...
Err wow I didn't think me raising an issue on Github would put me on the frontpage of HN. But I am glad to see that they handle this well by default - another reason why I will be keeping it!
I gather a bathroom might look like a shrine to the unfamiliar anthropologist, but a bathroom is a bathroom, and the activities therein are not rituals. It's an indefensible and incorrect conclusion.

Words like shrine, ritual, etc. have specific meanings which the author skillfully distorts to make the point, and I take it well, but it also casts doubt on anthropology in general when those words can be so easily misused.
It sounds like you already hated him, and your confirmation bias is blindsiding you.
Read the actual rule here:
https://apps.fcc.gov/kdb/GetAttachment.html?id=1UiSJRK869Rsy...

Look at item #2 under "Third-Party Access Control" which states a home router manufacturer must answer this question:
"What prevents third parties from loading non-US versions of the
software/firmware on the device?
Describe in detail how the device is protected from “flashing” and the
installation of third-party firmware such as DD-WRT."

What they're doing is requiring home router manufacturers to claim their device cannot be flashed to gain FCC approval. Theoretically, the FCC could penalize router manufacturers that allow their routers to be flashed. These manufacturers would then no longer be allowed to sell their devices in the USA.
I suspect there's more to this than this one incidence. Has there been friction between you and the developers in the past?
Government agencies have a tendancy to be incentivized to pick on small guys who are easier/simpler to harass. The beurocrat gets the same amount of credit for closing a small case as closing a lrage complicated case. For example this article cites the forest service reviewing water permits for a couple of small cabins and requiring them to install tanks at a substantial cost instead of going after Nestle who is pumping 10's of millions of gallons a year.
Here are several books I've found extremely useful. Ranked by how important I view them.

1. Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman. If you're going to read one, read this. A lot of theory undergirding how people think. Decision making by people will make a lot more sense after this.

2. Influence - Robert Cialdani. Less theory and more pragmatic advice on how to influence people.

3. Drive - Daniel Pink, Switch - Chip Heath, Made to Stick - Chip Heath, Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely. Books on specific sub-categories. More pop-psych. Information density is less, but easier to read.

4. Poor Charlie's Almanac - Charlie Munger. Best known as Warren Buffett's partner, this book is a collection of his speeches, letters, etc... You get an idea of how he thinks but, but you have to dig through the repetitive ramble to get it. Think of it as Charlie observing a lot of the prior principles but putting it into a real life/business context.
They were, but not assembled in one place.
See also: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3818
If you're bad at math, poor at writing or analyzing arguments, and have the competitive instinct of a Care Bear, you're a 10/10 for a think tank researcher. I find it a little dubious to call this a career test.
Well that was... interesting
Why must these Bitcoin alternatives be so hard to install? Why do I have to manually generate my own Genesis Block? Even for testing.
More like Aqua-hired!
I think it's this one:

the US defense establishment is an enormous make-work program and requires a constant supply of enemies to justify its budgets.

The Communists where mostly gone by 2001 - the few left were either laughingstocks or Chinese. The Peace Dividend was a disaster for US "deep state" people and corporations. They latched on to the first easy boogeyman they could, Osama bin Laden. Notice that since Al Queada has effectively been droned out of existence, the emphasis has shifted to ISIS/ISIL, with Iran in the batter's box.

Terrorism has been immensely good for the US Deep State and defense contractors. I don't expect it to go away easily or quickly, cause, heck, it's more profitable than Communism.
I know you are talking about a bigger proposition at this point. But in this instance as a Gov employee Zimmerman literally:

1. Didn't perform a mandatory permit review for 15 years;

2. Started 15 year old over due review and worked on it for 4 years and just simply stopped without documenting why the review was stop;

3. Thereafter almost immediately took a job with the company who benefited from this incompetence (apparently under the guise Zimmerman rather than being totally incompetent is an expert); and

4. When finally questioned about why the delay, why the lack of documentation...simply answers I was busy fighting forest fires.

In short, You are goddamn right I want "rules" for accountability.
Well, the difference is that currently you can only build reputation IN AMAZON or IN ALIBABA, we have no reliable way to objectively generate reputation in the same decentralized way that you might, for instance, have a reputation in your home town... ethereum changes that.

You could say "It doesn't matter if my reputation is dependent on Amazon's database, it still works!" and you'd have a point. This is in fact the big challenge for ethereum (and technologies like it) in that they allow small improvements in many use cases, but there's no obvious singular "deal changer", and admittedly there may never be.
I've fixed this several times by going camping alone for a week with nothing to read, no devices, no pencil and paper. Just me, a tent, food and coffee. I come back full of ideas. Stuff I've been stuck on for a year becomes easy. Motivation returns.

I rarely "have time" to do it ... but somehow I always have time to work in circles for weeks or months and not get much done.

A common answer here is "learn something new" and that works for me at first. When "learn something new" isn't enough, I bring out the big guns and go camping. I haven't isolated what about camping does it for me. (I believe Danny Hillis, the founder of Thinking Machines wrote that he would never have finished his dissertation if he hadn't written the first draft at Disney World. Not my kind of thing but I guess it worked for him.)

Good luck!
Without speaking to your specific situation, because I know neither you nor your coworker nor the full details of what happened...

I think every Python dev I've met (myself included) has a funny/embarrassing story about default initialization in Python. It's a behavior which exists the way it does for a good reason, but nonetheless goes against most people's intuitions. So, we tend to get bitten by it at least once, and then we remember our embarrassment and avoid it going forward.
Getting rid of timezones is not as good an idea as you might first imagine. http://qntm.org/abolish
Read the actual rule here: https://apps.fcc.gov/kdb/GetAttachment.html?id=1UiSJRK869Rsy....

Look at item #2 under "Third-Party Access Control" which states a home router manufacturer must answer this question: "What prevents third parties from loading non-US versions of the software/firmware on the device? Describe in detail how the device is protected from “flashing” and the installation of third-party firmware such as DD-WRT."

What they're doing is requiring home router manufacturers to claim their device cannot be flashed to gain FCC approval. Theoretically, the FCC could penalize router manufacturers that allow their routers to be flashed. These manufacturers would then no longer be allowed to sell their devices in the USA.
It's really annoying when I order a new VPS and it is set to whatever time zone the company's headquarters are located in. As if I give a damn about what time it is in PDT! I don't know about abolishing time zones in the real world, but at least for servers it makes total sense.

That, and the missing UTF-8 locale, are among the most annoying defaults that I routinely encounter on newly ordered servers.
I'm sorry I have a strong aversion to hyperbole, but if you're going to compare the situations outlined in the article to slavery you're going to have to lump a lot of other stuff into the slavery pile as well. It's important to preserve the weight of words lest you further increase people's apathy.
Ha!

...oh wait, are you referring to the models that only sell in china? or did the models that pass FCC also did fail?
To simplify the first chunk of that webpage, all you need to know is Uncle Steve's sunrise offset from you, same as now. If his sunrise is 6 hours after yours, don't call him until you've been awake for 6+ hours.

Also, the lifestyle/local weirdness complaints towards the end are still relevant today. If Uncle Steve works the night shift I shouldn't call him at his solar noon whether there are timezones or not.

I concur with tvon that days of the week get very tricky without timezones, but I think the other complaints in that article are overblown.
Do you think meat appears out of thin air? What do you think a farm animal (which at that point is a horribly inefficient energy converter) eats? Concern for field mice is a very good reason to go vegan.
Fair. Bear in mind: (i) it's aimed at talented graduates (ii) it's finds which of our top recommended careers you should most strongly consider, rather than which career you'd be best at.
This code is probably written by embedded software engineers like myself. No one knows anything about security, and certainly hasn't heard of a fuzzer. If the code works, it ships.

The other parts of Android written in C++ are also a horror show, though I think they have gotten better recently.

And don't even talk about the proprietary HAL blobs or kernel modules. Unspeakable things happen there. And of course, libstagefright talks directly to these.
I don't know anything about 10M, just responding to the parent comment that said "Jokes on me though, they just pulled in 10M."
Some classic games would generate a "code" you could enter to resume the game, all codes would deterministically map to some game state.

Ghostbusters for Sega Master System did this. One day I had a typo in my code and ended up with obscene millions of dollars.

I always wanted to go back and RE that game's code generation algorithm...
Favorite song on the album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNj2BXW852g
I wonder if this also affects Telegram as well?
After watching this video [1] my hatred of GPL is at a whole new level. However, couldn't a company skate around the requirement by simply not providing any way to update the system? Or more likely a vendor could provide a way to upload a new version BUT the released source would only account for the base system minus the features that came pre-installed.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaKIZ7gJlRU
There always seems to be more that we don't know about how the human body, and life in general, works. Every time people discover another layer it seems to get more complex and interesting. Sometimes I wish I had finished my PhD in Chemistry instead of becoming a programmer.
Horrible. That said, I couldn't help but notice how nicely done the web UI looks.
Clearly-presented categories, nice and apparently accurate faceted search, the listings on the right are well arranged and obviously time was sent on picking right fonts, there is a 'Save search' function etc.

Have to say, looks much better than the average "Show HN" :)