jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The correlation between energy use and ability to pay large tax bills is at best, loose. Alaskans on average consume >5x the amount of energy New Yorkers, which certainly doesn't reflect their respective per capita incomes
http://www.census.gov/statab/ranks/rank30.html

On average the rich use energy more than average people, but the proportional difference isn't huge, and it's pretty safe to assume the top 1% of earners aren't consuming anywhere close to 20-30% of household energy.

Replacing income tax with a levy on energy would be regressive beyond belief, to the point where I don't think it would be possible to match the returns generated by the current system and maintain a minimum tax-free level of fuel consumption that would allow the average person in some states to stay warm and be able to travel to work on a daily basis.

And this is coming from someone who gets by comfortably paying approx 4x the fuel tax Americans do...
Having read the post you voted down, I don't think he/she was actually responding to my joke but to the concept I was quoting. He/she seems to be arguing against computers being entirely deterministic at all.

I wish there were a better/more formal way to quote things on HN as it can lead to confusion with attribution. Purely italic text doesn't quite cut it, but nor does the "source code" quoting feature.
You don't, really. It's just a solid editor in a GUI environment, not as heavy as an IDE, not as esoteric or hard to learn (sorry guys) as emacs or vim.

I've used it pretty much full time for three years programming JS. Autocomplete is non-existent in JS, and WebStorm was just too bulky / laggy for me. The SublimeLinter plugin was enough error handling for me, and there was a Grunt listener running at all times running other validations and doing autorefresh.
He sure did it awful quickly, the site also credited "- Silk Road Staff" at the bottom of the message. Then there's downtime messages from time to time, it seems rather unlikely that MK is DPR but there very well might be something behind this. The domain wasn't registered to John Smith, it was registered in the name of a company that Mark Karpeles owns and pointing to Mark Karpeles name servers.
I like playing with Linux and sometimes other OSs. I regularly set up servers, at home or on digital ocean. For fun I recently wrote a Dockerfile that would setup a Drupal install, it worked well on CoreOS. Doing this felt like relaxing, meditating. I like that feeling of having a fresh, secure system running smoothly. I can get pretty distracted and annoying if my systems are not running smoothly (when I was younger I'd skip a night getting Beryl to work on Gentoo with the beta Nvidia driver but those times are over now).

Recently I thought, I have to do something with this and I started a Drupal system for searching locally cultured vegetables for sale. It was fun in the beginning but my wife is a designer and pretty soon I was editing CSS all the time and I completely lost interest. It felt like work. I left it in an ugly, unusable state.

Still, I keep setting up servers with the occasional blog with some articles if my attention span allows it. Who knows what I might do with it some time. I have this vague vision of setting up a web services company with CMSs for sportsclubs but that will come with paper work and I know I will regret it. I have a nice job as a biophysicist by the way and I get to play with large Linux clusters from time to time and I try to take those chances as much as possible.

Some things just start feeling like work as soon as they become work, as soon as there are any milestones to catch or things to finish. To me things feel like work if I can't just quite half way into a "project".
I read "net news" - a lot. So much so that people comment on it. I always wondered if there was any value in "here's what is hot" in the tech world - like a personal link aggregator.

Yeah, I could share/blog/tweet (and I do, but not much) but often the things that are interesting later aren't things I share right away. Still trying to solve that problem.
How did the power and economic reach of pre-modern organizations like the British East India Company compare to modern megacorporations? -- http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/17mvv1/how_di...
Came to say the same thing. That is creepy, period.

People might be able to adopt, but that's actually the worst part of the open floor plan for me: The constant feeling of people in your back.

I don't need a door. I need a wall. Right behind me.
"But I appreciate you trying to show my point is invalid by trying to get me to disagree with a completely different example."

And I liked how you substituted a completely different meaning of "game".
i enjoy chopping vegetables much more than most people, and i'm told i'm quite good at e.g. making sauerkraut - an activity i truly enjoy. but i get paid a lot more to write software, which is also reasonably fun.

to be honest i think i only enjoy writing software about as much as the next person! can we be honest that it's an absurdly good job currently?

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/01/in-the-name-of-love/
Well, that's what I have experienced for the past four years. I've been suffering from extreme brain fog due to very high copper and mercury levels which I'm getting detoxed, and that's more or less what I'm going through. It will be quite interesting to hear his thoughts.
I don't trust someone that can't get memory leaks in a simple utility function right to get the big, big things with writing software in C correct.

This is Poetterings code after all, and he had his fingers in more than just command line utilities when it comes to systemd.

Writing this kind of software in C requires serious discipline and religious use of valgrind.
Unfortunately lua still waits for a great adoption in ML communities. By now, ML is dominated by python, julia and matlab.I think lua (especially by LuaJIT) is a really strong player in this ground with a great libraries and research projects. I'm waiting for some lua data mining oriented conferences.
The changes differ based on your location.

In the EU (and UK), it's some fairly minor changes to do with business messaging.

Outside of the EU, it is much more significant, merging your WhatsApp data with your Facebook data (including the phantom profiles FB create for users who don't have accounts). They can't do this in the EU (yet) due to privacy laws.
> A founder will never be invested in again if they jump ship on the company when it hits a big problem.

Is that really true? What about all the "fail fast" mantras we hear so much about? It seems like I read about plenty of founders who have run three or four companies into the ground before finally having a success?
> There is definitely a kind of person who's interested in the social aspect of ride-sharing. In fact, there's always been—the people who hitchhike and those wiling to pick them up.

My grandfather hitchhiked to school when he was young. He lived in rural Minnesota and that was the only way to get around, he didn't do it to be social.

Now that most people have other options, the only people still doing it are the people who want the social experience, and it's not many.

I'm not saying there is no potential social appeal to rideshare whatsoever, but like parent, I'm guessing it's slim.
I think this story by Richard Feynman might help illustrate it:

http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm
> Failing to upgrade the peering connection isn't "standard operating procedure" for a consumer-facing ISP.

This seems to be the main point of departure for us. If you could show that large consumer-facing ISPs used to give free peering even when the other side was sending much more data than they were, then I'd agree with you. The ISPs claim it is standard for someone sending more data to pay. Can you show otherwise?
One of the compounding factors is that academic positions disproportionately go only to graduates of top-rated institutions. For CS faculty, 50% of tenure-track positions graduated from the top 18 schools, while 80% came from the top 25. If you want a PhD for academia, then it almost certainly isn't worth it if you don't go to an elite institution.

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/1/e1400005
Hallelujah!

I've been checking my Twitter obsessively today and yesterday for this.
The first one easily generates examples: for all people X, X's monopoly on the labor of X. My monopoly on my labor. PepeGomez's monopoly on PepeGomez's labor.

The second one would be artistic works like books, drawings, movies, etc. Would also include inventions. In that case, it's a lot more likely that someone later on would come up with the same invention, which is why limits on monopoly length are reasonable; as time goes by, it becomes less true that "If not for this monopolist, we would not know of this pattern."
I am disappointed they are supporting mobilecoin yet it's not available for use in the US. I understand it has important privacy and security features, but there seems little point to it if it can't be used in most of the world (the us isn't that big, but it's important financially). There were some confusing comments that it could be supported one day, easily. I guessed that it wasn't supported because they somehow want to avoid us financial regulation. So what is the reason for no us capable currencies here?
Why would the time for the Australian be incorrect? If the meeting organizer is in Chile, then the meeting time would be ruled by Chile's local clock. If the rule change affects the difference between Australia and Chile, then simply loading the updated rules on both sides should readjust things automatically - if the time was stored as Chile local, not UTC.
While I largely agree with you, it strikes me that you've missed an option --

It might be that there's something inefficient in the trial process that holds no weight on "fairness". I'm not a legal expert by any means, so it may not be the case, but it seems as though it's a possibility.
MCG 128 from http://www.pcg-random.org/posts/on-vignas-pcg-critique.html or xoshiro256plus from http://prng.di.unimi.it/xoshiro256plus.c
Pegging against "wall time" in Chile causes it's own problems. What if the meeting is with a person in "Europe/Berlin" via Skype and the appointment is in a shared calendar. How would the new Berlin time be calculated for the unfortunate Berliner after the Chilean bureaucrats have had their fun?
Is this a British centric view of history? It seems very one sided...
I considered a Ford plug-in hybrid and read on the internet how people had fires start because of a flaw with the charging cord, which was probably due to an extremely small cost-cutting choice.

Not all of the "legacy" automakers are Toyota.
There are two components of a modern browser: browser rendering engine and a browser framework (everything around the rendering engine that creates the browser itself).

There are three main browser rendering engines, all of which are open-source: Gecko, Blink and Webkit.

Problem of standards is mainly "offsourced" to these rendering engines and these open source communities have been doing their job more or less successfully.

Browser frameworks are built around these rendering engines. Two most popular open source ones are Firefox (built around Gecko) and Chromium (brother of closed-source Chrome, built around Blink).

I think the problem that you are articulating comes from the fact that 99% of browsers on the market use one of these two frameworks, in reality mostly Chromium. For example Edge and Brave are based on Chromium. This leads to inheriting most of the features but also most of the flaws of the browser framework.

Notably there are no major open source frameworks built around Webkit, which is a shame, considering that at least for macOS, Webkit is by far the most superior rendering engine (both in battery life and sheer performance).
Business cycles and asset inflation are different. Business cycles are natural to capital markets, asset inflation is caused by massive artificial injections of money (a la quantitative easing).
Access does not mean they have $10k to invest.
There are other ways to attack cheating. Besides, trusting a remote system you don't control is a case study in Security Failures 101. It's about as likely to work in the long term as typical DRM schemes: it does create a barrier, and it will deter casual violation by most people for as long as that barrier holds, but if there's enough incentive then sooner or later someone who knows what they're doing will break the barrier, and then they might share that ability with everyone else anyway.
On this topic: Tales of Maj'eyal is an open source game, but the game content is not. I was surprised to learn this, and it seems open source games isn't a complete non-starter like you might expect.
We've been making something during our internal hackathon with a similar goal in mind, but perhaps a different approach. Hopefully I can get some feedbacks: http://jiver.co/startup

It's a rough alpha (desktop web-only, mobile support in January).
Ontario has a bunch of make-your-own wine companies that work like wine bricks.

1. you buy 5 gallons of grape juice for ~$20 per gallon.

2. yeast is dropped into your grape juice

3. you come to the store to decant your grape juice into wine bottles and cork them up.

Since no alcohol is bought or sold, you avoid the (very high) taxes on liquor. You end up with ~28 bottles of wine for ~$4 per bottle.

It's not the greatest wine, but it's ok for sangria and cooking, and it's a good story if you hang out with people who like to talk about tax loopholes...
Another good resource, both for people whose CS education covered Turing machines well and for people who don't know much about them, is Charles Petzold's book "The Annotated Turing" [1].

It takes the paper where Turing originally introduced and analyzed Turing machines, and explains it line by line, provides examples and corrections, and historical and biographical material to put it all in the context of the time and of Turing's life.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Annotated_Turing
Another word for "land rent" is "property tax". I know there are differences from the geolibertarianism view, but in the context of funding something like UBI they amount to the same thing.
Ha, i literally forgot about that. Despite using docker every other day. Thanks for correcting me
Well, the point is to know if intelligence is not about curve fitting after all!
It’s a confirmation bias.

I have a similar story. I dropped out of school at 16, and spent 14+ hours a day playing Stepmania Online, which was Dance Dance Revolution for your fingers. I was one of the best in the world! Then everyone stopped playing and nothing came of it. So for every DOTA millionaire or whatnot there’s likely thousands of people who are obsessed with something equally niche who haven’t realized any financial gains because of it.

Now I’m a software engineer, it’s working out way better than playing video games all day.
There is no ride. From the photon's perspective, it is emitted and instantaneous absorbed at its destination.
There are plenty of western apps doing surveillance on people and selling data, as the article mentions. I'm not sure how abiding by countries regulations when the only thing about them is that they aren't defined by the USA's is really a bad thing.
I've just had play around with the beta. It looks like it's using a version of CodeMirror 4 (as it has multiple ranges). Fairly fast but it doesn't match Sublime Text just yet

Initial impressions: it's early days but this thing is just oozing for customisation. The fact it's written in JS means writing packages is pretty simple compared to Python for ST; we're going to see TONNES of addons for it. I can already think of 2-3 I'd like to build.

The one thing that really excites me is how people getting into programming could start off with a pretty basic editor and add and write packages as they hone their skills, ending with something incredible powerful and tailored to them. In fact I'd really love to see a super customised starter version for children / beginners that acts as a learning aid as well as a text editor.

No doubt there's going to be haters in the vim / emacs / ST / insert favourite editor here camp but I really hope this works out for the Github guys (and I have a feeling it will).
> Why don't tech companies (or any company really) invest in their workers and help them attain new skills and career advancement?

Because they don't actually want the "skill shortage" solved. There actually is no skill shortage.

Companies create the "skill shortage" by making the job requirements so impossible that no one applies:

"speaks Mandarin, programs in Java 7.1 and .Net 6.5, is able to travel 80% of the time, is a Backbone.js guru...."

Just look at the laundry list of "must-haves" in a job posting now a days to really get the true picture.

If companies really wanted to solve their "skill shortage" they would look for talent that could be trained to the exact technology rather than demanding that every possible candidate already know the tech stack.
Yes, I agree with you about the brain drain. But it's complicated, isn't it? At the moment, there isn't the right sort of environment to build a successful software company in my country of origin. The usual suspects are there: corruption, lack of infrastructure. and so on. Things are improving, but there's a long way to go.

But I wasn't quite arguing that I would be giving back to my country of origin. That is not to say that I don't want to. I was just arguing for myself, and people like me: foreigners in search of a better life, regardless of the geographical location.
There are two major problems with listing salaries publicly.

1. We don't really want to make the huge salary discrepancies obvious to our non-tech employees. While it's theoretically true, publicly listing the difference wouldn't be great for morale.

2. There's a huge range, and where a particularly candidate falls in that range requires qualitative judgement. We consider everyone from talented new grads to senior developers with over a decade of experience, but the expected salary range can swing by as much as $100k—publicly listing such a big range isn't helpful for anyone. (Yes, I understand that we could theoretically have different job listings but our criteria are driven more by "how much smart shit can you get done" and "how much will you learn" than by years of experience or anything quantifiable on a careers page.)

> Note that it's pretty strange to claim that you can't attract enough skilled engineers even at higher salaries when you're keeping the fact that you pay higher salaries a secret. How do you expect this mechanism to work?

It's not that I think an unadvertised salary will by itself attract skilled engineers—I'm just using our experience as a counterfactual for the claim that there are loads of senior developers but we aren't willing to pay them enough. Note that in private conversations/outreach, we do try to be upfront about salary ranges.
This is like discovering a pharaoh's tomb for data viz. There's several really nice ones in here.
If it's your right pinky, remap your backspace key immediately. Caps lock is my choice, and I make backspace into a proper (forward) delete key. This has eliminated all typing pain for me.
As the people in question believe that the solution is to train more Americans to be programmers, there are a variety of terms that could be thought of: "pro-trainers," "pro-local labor," etc. Instead, the focus is on what their solution isn't.
I feel like this comment was taken it a very strange way. This isn't about race, it's about economics. I pay a lot to live in a nice neighborhood so I don't have to carry a gun / shoot someone for trying to rob me. I shouldn't have to worry about tax dollars being used to physically & economically harm myself and those around me.
Great story, and great reminder not to let minor pains progress to the point where they cripple you. I say this as someone whose right thumb is in a brace due to deQuervain's tendosynovitis, brought on by banging too hard on spacebars.
This is one of the reasons I'm excited about self-driving public transit vans. Of course, we'll have to figure out ways to keep women from being assaulted in them if they serve routes where 0-2 occupants is a common load.
In order to better understand audio deepfakes (voice recordings faked with the help of AI), we have developed an online game: You play against an artificial intelligence and try to distinguish deepfakes from real audio recordings.

We find that it is surprisingly hard to tell these apart. You can try it out yourself. Average Human Accuracy is about 77 Percent. A specifically trained AI achieves > 90 percent test accuracy on the data.
In my setup it is instance start + cron job timer + MC server initialization. AWS instance wakes up pretty quickly, cron job is configurable (I set it to 15 seconds or so), MC may depend on the size of the world and any mods I suppose (we played vanilla). All in all took between 40–100 seconds I think.
Could you expand how Square is different market segment? I thought POS terminal was one of their primary products.
Speed limits exist entirely because of World War era gas and rubber rationing, and were never repealsed due to their LE revenue producing nature.
Because Heroku is a PaaS and the headline said "with Heroku-like experience". If it's not a PaaS-like experience, then Heroku shouldn't be mentioned.
I’m dumb enough to do it anyway. ;)
Anon needs to move to El Salvador
egrep is grep -E.
https://apnews.com/article/f10ba58472bcc0e1ababb5fc8ad8d321
You're way over-analyzing this. Just put it out there. If you know anyone who might be interested, DM them on your avenue of choice.

Don't worry about books or articles. It doesn't matter. Get it out there and use it and get others using it. The rest will take care of itself.

Just do it.
The profit seems to be in selling the recurring subscription to exercise videos and gamification, which Apple already offers.

Seems like it would be smarter to let others take the hardware risks and have an API for other bike makers to plug into.
Progress in sports is fairly linear. Progress in the arts is not very linear.
yes, thank you for rewording my comment.
You could use Backtype for getting the replies. They've probably already done a lot of work to find the most relevant tweets.
I adblock the images in your articles because I find them highly distracting and slightly repulsive (I'm not a fan of sushi). I did so the first time your articles came up here on HN (and I remarked upon it then), and I had to do so again yesterday, as I've had a new machine since then.
Sure, hit me up on my email and I'll answer any questions you have.
The title is misleading. Grooveshark has nothing against the music industry and never had.

They have something against vendors (like Google and Apple) prematurely pulling out their app from their respective markets/stores because of their ignorance of the law.
I haven't used 3D modelling software, but I presume that you would look up things as you need them as in any other software, and not memorize everything in the beginning.

Things that are commonly used will be memorized automatically.
> Sway

Sway also supports a tabbed layout! I'm a full-time window maximizer (as are sibling commenters). I keep all windows fully maximized and organized on virtual desktops: web and music on 1, terminals on 2, email and office on 3, etc. Love it!

Windows being fully maximized was something I learned to like from GNOME 3 when it came out a decade ago. I used Openbox, Fluxbox, GNOME and others for years and I would never go back. Never KDE though. Too messy...
> The problem is that it's an unfortunate situation

Unfortunate for whom? No matter what direction the industry takes it will never be all things to all people, and there will always be room on the fringes for products that don't fit that direction.