jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"China and Japan are nothing alike...." they are alike in the sense that both were/are supposed to overshadow the American economy at different points in time. That is the only comparison intended.

Yes, Chinese people are certainly extremely capitalistic - no doubt. However, there is some serious issues to be sorted out to allow China to continue to grow.

There is no oversight on their unelected government - who knows the level of corruption, groupthink, nepotism etc. that goes on. This is bound to be a big obstacle sooner or later. Democracy has many flaws, but one of it's main advantages is that when the ordinary citizen can see that the government is acting in a manner against the best interest of the people, then at least they have the option to correct that.

Secondly, there appears to be a major housing bubble underway. If history has anything to teach us, it's that the faster a bubble inflates, all the more rapid it's contraction. We will more than likely see a correction, perhaps a recession in China in the coming decade. Real estate cannot be continually be bought up by speculators in the hope that prices keep rising forever - and the culture in China is not to rent out your investment property (i.e. your second or third apartment you bought to speculate with)! This is clearly unsustainable. They are gambling that real estate values always rise, and this is clearly bubble territory.

"China's going to become the world's largest economy -- there's essentially no doubt about this."

I think it will also - but perhaps not as fast as you think. It could take decades. The GDP growth figures the Chinese government put are look suspicious, just to point out one problem. What you could see happening is China overtaking the US in the next few years - then a recession hits and the economy contracts rapidly. Or the US partially writes down it's massive debts, and the Chinese panic because they are holding a huge mountain of partially/wholly worthless US sovereign debt. This means the Chinese cannot continue using the interest from US debt to fund the construction of massive capital infrastructure projects - also leading to a recession. Maybe WWIII. Who knows. Predictions are fun.

"Americans need to get used to not being #1 anymore" Not yet they don't. Who knows what will happen. Btw, I'm not even American (or Chinese) so I'm not saying this in a defensive manner. :)

"The world is going to look very, very different in 10 years." - this a truism!
Let me answer your question with a question: Is it completely unlikely that having a large stash of bitcoin is going to be useful to them?

I think the answer is a resounding 'no.' If it put myself in their shoes, with unlimited resources, I would be like "throw a couple teraflops at this ASAP."
Clicker: http://TryingTo.com
As a fellow day-job-using Ubuntu user, I'm with you. In fact, it's not just this release, I always wait a bit to upgrade, since the general consensus seems to be that fresh Ubuntu's are often a bit touchy :)
"But life without death has no meaning"

Who came up with this moronic idea?
>If you think I shouldn't do that or that inheritance should be heavily taxed, you're essentially saying "even though you actually earned that money, it doesn't belong to you", which is practically communism - I think it's immoral, evil and unfair

If our current system of government weren't rotten to the core, I'd actually agree with you. But so much of the top 1% of net worth has been accumulated through government spending (particularly DoD spending) or corporate welfare (particularly in the finance sector), and that's equally immoral, evil, and unfair.
This simply doesn't make sense, and buyers beware.

If you can make money with 0% risk, you will save the money for yourself. You'll invest all your money (it's 0% risk, right?) and then re-invest your earnings.
If you can't even enjoy yourself on a party with regular people, I doubt a party with female scientists would go very well for you. (as someone who has went to parties with female scientists..)
I try not to get too deep into these literary controversies - newcomers always have to reject some of what came before to establish their sense of novelty. Every British rock band will trash-talk the Beatles a little for the same reason.

The comparison of Tolkein to the Fab Four (Five for those who count G. Martin) isn't accidental - both defined their genres.

And if I remember my Elric, his "drug habit" wasn't metaphorical heroin, but insulin. He needed it to survive.
The cross-platform pwsh is actually what inspired me to go on the hunt, and was the first thing I tried. But while it’s good on Windows, using it on POSIX just felt… wrong, somehow. I later discovered uutils/coreutils (a Rust reimplementation of GNU coreutils that works on Windows) and decided it’s easier to bring my POSIX workflow to Windows than the other way around.
It's called the age of false prophets for a reason.

Trust your experience, it's as close to your reality as you will get. If it feels off, you don't need evidence, and that goes for everything.

Right now you're acting like someone standing outside in the cold, freezing like crazy; but refusing to accept it because someone else says it's warm outside, and you think they might have figured something out that you missed.

There are plenty of real teachers out there, no need to settle for scraps from the table.

Which leads to the question: how do you know? You know because they will tell you to trust your own experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkHvZp-mrKk
Pandas silently converts to different dates within the same column

https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/12585
So... will a new browser need to be created in order for this tech to go mainstream? In the case of building a web app does this eliminate the need for a server?
High speed trains in Taiwan have rotating seats, so if your loved one sits in front of you they can rotate their row to face you. A similar setup in airplanes would solve the biggest impediment to implementing the optimal method, that "I'm not leaving my child!"
You only feel this way because you aren't paying attention to the demographics of eastern europe and east asia.

If it was simply a matter of "running out of new people" it might be OK -- a gradual decrease in population of 50% over a few generation could be sustainable. That's not the issue

The core problem is long lifespans creating a massively inverted age pyramid. At the extreme, the emerging pattern in urban China is 1 child supporting 2 parents supporting 4 grandparents supporting 8 great-grandparents. This isn't a smooth transition to a smaller population; it means that the young are crushed under the burden of supporting a huge population of the elderly.

It crushes dynamicism. It crushes innovation. Crushes education, and depresses fertility _further_, because the kids are too indebted and overtaxed (emotionally -- family care) and literally to ever have children of their own.

It's a death spiral, and a real problem.
You’re talking about why we can’t treat corporations like families with higher tax rates. To me the more interesting question is more about treating families like corporations.

We had a nanny for a year. She made about $50k, but I had to pay her with after-tax income so the actual cost of the nanny was closer to $70k of my pretax income. This is the precise double taxation you’re talking about.

Yes, higher income people have more deductions, but that’s what AMT is for.
Of course, you are right. But one wonders whether things may change on much longer timescales (hundreds or even thousands of years). Certainly, there have been past technologies which got entrenched in a suboptimal spot, and were later radically altered.

“The thing about cars is that everybody already knows how to ride a horse, and you can find a stable in any village in Europe. They work even on rough roads and they are much cheaper. Their “fuel” can be found basically anywhere. Cars may be nice but I can’t see them winning out.”

No claim that ternary is to cars as binary is to horses; I think the difference is way less. But its a fun way to think about the argument “we won’t change because the existing technology has too many decades behind it.”
Gambling. Especially in this environment, but the financial markets are both more available and the games have more depth than any casino near me.

The ability to leverage is a lot less frictionless and doesn't include fingers getting broken when you can't cover.
Fuhgeddaboudit! Simply begin taxing non-profit corporations.

Much more tax income would be generated and auditing these firms would uncover a whole host of criminal operations. Non-profits have been extremely lax with their bookkeeping b/c they aren't taxed. Their immigrant assistant programs are shady and some probably illegal. But w/o auditing its hard to get a conviction.

The Roman Catholic Church in the USA relocates/hides priests accused of pedophilia or other sexual activity. That is certainly socially unacceptable and may be criminal yet the Church merely writes it off as an expense. You pay for this with your weekly/monthly tithe/donation to the Church. The government grants them monies that are used to support all of their activities, these included.
yhat had a nice article on this exact subject and data set with a good walk through of the R code.

http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/machine-learning-for-predicting...
You keep using Ford, when we do effectively limit the downside of domestic auto production via bailouts, or doctors, where tort liability is a major issue of discussion.
Consider the anomaly of Deja Vu.

Did this moment actually happen previously and your remembering it again, or is a chemical reaction in your brain tricking you into thinking you've had this thought before?
For me it's refactoring. I'm in a lull at work so I decide to refactor some JavaScript, while at it I notice the CSS is all messy and has redundant code so I take care of that, then it's the HTML, etc. I enjoy it until the panic starts creeping in that I'm fiddling too much and could break something.
I was really surprised to read this:

We have rebuilt the XAML language service on top of the .NET
Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") to provide an improved XAML editing
experience with rich IntelliSense that is faster and more reliable.

My understanding was that Roslyn was heavily geared towards languages that are largely procedural like C# and VB.NET. So functional languages, like F#, aren't suited to being parsed by Roslyn. But all of a sudden they're using Roslyn with a declarative language (XAML)?
If you're the author of that page, I'd highly suggest adding a "why" to that page. Just list a few of the cool things that you can do. I had to read the getting started guide to get any idea of what I might be able to actually do with it. But, I'm very glad that I did, this seems like a very useful tool.
No justification for the downvotes? I'll chalk it up to fanboism.
Yes, the version that ships with Win 8 Pro. It is hands down better in most aspects compared to VMWare workstation. The integration is better, the footprint is smaller, performance and reliability is great and you get it for free. VMWare might have an edge in the OS Support department - it supports more host and guest OSes than HyperV. But I have had very good experience running DragonFly BSD, Various Linux distros (RHEL7, Centos 6.x, Ubuntu LTS etc.) and Windows 7 of course. Sure you don't get as many bells and whistles compared to VMWare but if you don't need them then HyperV is great.
>If only my girlfriend that actually uses it would allow me to kill the osx and put Windows 10 there it would save us both a lot of frustration.

That's a terrible idea from a battery perspective.
Also before yosemite release apple announced a public beta, which is kind of unusual for apple since they always wait until the party to release stuff. Does that mean some part of apple’s QA is now offloaded to public?
>This opinion is being perpetuated by a few people and it's just going everywhere.

Well, you're attacking others' opinions for being opinions, and not facts, but your claims are nothing more than opinions too. Sorry, I don't know what your point is?

Just to add my own anecdote, my dad recently asked that his macbook air be reformatted to make it 'fast' again. Meanwhile, the '08 PC that I'm using now is running Win8.1 like a champ.

> Yosemite has some bugs, yes, but so do almost every other major releases of Operating Systems.

Heh, so Apple is just .. like everyone else? No need to hold Apple to a higher standard if that is the case. The entire point of people complaining is that Apple shouldn't be shipping buggy products like the competition.

>Apple does have some bugs to iron out, but in six month's time when they're fixed, everyone will forget and start complaining about something else.

Well, why would Apple fix the bugs if nobody complained? They wouldn't even know about them. Of course that is presuming they fix the bugs they know about.

>To the everyday user, there is no drop in software quality.

So why are the everyday users complaining?

Some of the bugs that I've personally come across.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6601963?tstart=0

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6604139

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4766577

http://rustyshelf.org/2014/10/01/it-just-works/

--

Oh.. And

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/10/01/it-just-works

Ok, maybe Gruber is not your everyday user... :)
> Mac OSX is hardly usable.

You cite anecdotes that you don't even pretend to justify with examples. Are you speaking from experience? I'd bet not. And it's interesting that you think putting Windows 10 on your girlfriend's machine would solve your problems - moving my entire family to a Mac running OS X has solved all of mine.
Chris Crawford created the game. On the Mac, it was really a great game for the time (1985), and I'm not sure I ever managed to win. (Blowing up the world or losing to the Soviet Union tended to be much more likely outcomes given my incompetence at playing brinksmanship.)

I liked it because it was probably the first turn-based game I played that really made great use of Mac graphics featuring great interactive maps and mock newspaper headlines summarizing the reaction to actions, along with a frustratingly tough AI opponent.

Crawford was of an era where the interesting games were much more about teaching and conveying the designer's worldview, and less about creating Skinner boxes for maximizing IAP or expansion pack sales, or franchises.

The reason the missiles would always fly had a lot to do with the fact that as a player, you had to really view it not as a confrontational game, but as a cooperative game (with the AI) where mutually assured survival meant concessions were more important than aggression. This is pretty much antithetical to the conditioning in every other game of playing to win.

Some good history on the game here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_Power_(video_game)
The final piece of the puzzle - for me at least - is the ability to collect money as a business, then pay out my service providers through Stripe.

There's a temptation to just let the money sit in my Stripe account, then payout using a "Special Case Transfer"
https://stripe.com/docs/connect/special-case-transfers

But this approach seems non-compliant.

How long before we can payout service providers so the charge is seen as coming from my business, instead of from my customers? (This appears to be the compliance issue.)

An ACH "source" is potentially a good solution (and apparently in beta), but I imagine I'll incur additional fee. Perhaps using my own bank account as a source will be free, but using others will be paid? (Kinda like managed accounts)
The cost of incarceration is almost certainly higher than the losses from property crime (including violent crime), but it's distributed more evenly-- a fraction more taxes is less objectionable than a friend being mugged.
Love it, awesome stuff.
This has been posted about a hundred times already. Perhaps check the history before posting something old?
I hope that when Secunia PSI downloads it's list, it does a cryptographic signature check before opening it.
Zynga - The Game

Aim: Make money
How to: Gather more played time. The more hours are spent on Zynga games, the more money is going to come in. More hours can be had by recruiting more players and making existing players play more.
Add stuff to the games that makes people play more, or recruit others, or spend money.
While I do respect the fact that this sounds terrible, I cant help but point out the fact that torrentfreak's news reporting has always been extremely biased, in many cases rendering the information they provide in their posts as untrustworthy.
There's a Principia Mathematica anniversary symposium at Trinity College, Cambridge this weekend.

http://www.srcf.ucam.org/principia/
His point is in line 1: "However, you're implying that other solutions missing this means that they are not valuable or effective, which is just as wrong. It's purely subjective."
My 11 year old son has played a bit with Scratch and Mindstorms - but never got that engaged.

However, what recently got his attention was scripting in Crysis - he was playing it and accidentally opened the console window and he asked what that was for and it gave me the opportunity to explain about scripting and APIs. As he normally uses a console the openness of something like Crysis was a bit of a pleasant surprise to him.

Not that I'm recommending Crysis as an educational tool - but I do think it is important to find something that engages them.
Believe me, I don't want to sound anti-American at all but... what's up with that adored eagle? Thirty thousand nuclear warheads are enough to keep us scared.
Maybe the answer is less evil - I have the person doing the work because I can't afford to automate it yet, or it is not currently possible.

This, I think, is basically the situation -- yet the end result looks a lot like the Evil Ruling Cabal Theory of Crap Jobs.

In general, the decision to automate, outsource/contract, or employ is made according to whether (at a very high level), the ability to and cost of automation and/or outsourcing a job (technically and in terms of market expectations); the price of labor; and the number of employees engaged in a company.

Eventually (skipping over the model and proof), what you end up with are, in general, tiny numbers of expensive, high-value employees whose skills are critical to the company, rare and hard to automate; large numbers of cheap, low-value employees whose jobs are too trivial to automate or send elsewhere; and a small number of employees in the middle, who carry out important, hard-to-automate tasks but whose skills are relatively easy to replace. Good jobs are scarce, crap jobs are plentiful, and the traditional middle and upper-middle classes will reasonably fear that they could be replaced at any point by fungible labor.

As we have seen across the world, such conditions create a political and social drive towards correction, though the nature of such corrections are themselves the result of parochial political prejudices (resulting in the Tea Party, the Occupy Movement, "living wage" efforts, anti-immigration legislation, the invasion of Crimea, the Daily Express' circulation numbers, and so on).

Historically, such stagnation has also been corrected by the accessibility of new employment markets (physical frontiers, industrial and postindustrial revolutions or, more recently and on a very small and temporary scale, new petrochemical extraction methods), or the destruction and concomitant rebuilding of industry (such as the post-WW2 efforts in Europe). In the absence of either solution, it remains to be seen what will happen to our societies, but the histories of left- and right-wing revolutions are not encouraging.
I turned my side project into a unicorn job. It only took about 10 years of hard work...but I did it the hard way.

Find the easiest thing that you are legitimately passionate about. Do not work on a project because it is in a popular space, because you are looking to make a quick buck, or any other reason than you are undeniably interested in the space.

If you are not interested in the project, it will become boring and you will lose steam. Even if you are interested in it, there will be boring tasks to tackle. It might be that the only project you are truly interested in tackling is not an easy one (as is my case). I have a massive graveyard of failed ideas that halted at some point because I lost interest and/or realized they were dumb ideas. The only one that has lived is the one I keep coming back to (and am now working on full time).

These are not factual statements, just a reflection of my experience. Yours may differ.
> How could you possibly consider writing HTML and CSS by hand? Those are just the output.

You know, HTML is rooted in SGML and digital humanism. The entire point of it is that you use it as a simple means for self-publishing of digital text (and HTML 5 "standards" portray it in that role, in case you've never had a look).

Granted, that isn't quite apparent when looking at the trainwreck that is HTML/CSS/JS. The solution (with SGML at least) is that you use your own custom markup vocabulary, including custom Wiki syntax for markdown and other short form syntax, and then convert that into result markup for delivery. The idea being that nothing can be as lasting for your specific purpose than your own text format.

But the self-proclaimed web heads didn't get it. They made CSS so absurdly powerful and "meta" to cater for the historic shortcomings of HTML, which is just a format for casual academic publishing locked in 1991. Not considering that you can, in fact, define your own elements and meta rules. Or at least, I don't have another explanation for the fact that everything around HTML has to change ad absurdum while HTML has to stay the same while it quite obviously isn't a good fit for the vast majority of content on the web. And that for some reason you absolutely have to send the same HTML to your mobile that you send to your desktop, and that CSS absolutely has to be the place to shift, re-layout and hide content for these different purposes.
It's more like canceling your contract with your ISP, but you don't live in the US and you have options wrt to ISP and you have plenty others to choose from :)
Exciting! I can't believe the incredible rate at which progress is being made on this front. And by a sophomore(?!) undergraduate student no less!
Also the DNC.
> what if one of the protesters was a deranged person or enemy agent with a deadly weapon

This person clearly intended to do much more than just take a selfie: https://i.imgur.com/e2s7UXT.png

(description: a person dressed in black paramilitary gear with modified US flag insignia, possibly with a sidearm, clutching a handful of large zip ties, jumping over a rail in what appears to be the senate or house gallery)
Arguably the curation and format, and perhaps the incentives. Twitter optimized for angry reactions and misunderstandings, deliberately, to drive clicks. Lately more traditional media does the same thing.
underhanded and quite unfortunate.

Sadly, this doesn't seem to be uncommon. In one city-level referendum I am personally familiar with, both sides of the referendum submitted an argument to be put into the election materials. The "Yes" side (loosen a safety regulation) drastically misrepresented the status quo, implying that there was no safety regulation to begin with, and that their referendum would create it. But in reality, the "Yes" vote would loosen an existing regulation.
Agreed. It's not their responsibility to educate users. Maybe it's their responsibility to educate themselves on what their users assume.
With all default repos + IzzyOnDroid enabled and searching exactly for that package name I get all the language packs and a 7 years old PC theme, but not the app itself. I'll just download the APK, I guess.
Technically, you don't need to return 1; you need to return a truthy value. The string "Perl syntax is dumb and hateful" works just as well.