jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Or they can cut taxes by an equal amount and therefore put more money in each taxpayer's pocket. Or drop the sales tax by a point and make life less expensive. 1.5 Europe isn't much but multiplying that by other non-painful cuts (I.e. no resultant loss of services) the operating costs for government are reduced with no loss of services. We should all strive to reduce waste and paying license fees when there is a reasonable free substitute is definitely a dead-weight loss.
How are you to be sure what above-average salary is? You may think you are asking for above-average but instead just asking for average. Your better selling your self as above-average and use that to bump up the salary after their initial offer
It's not just the "privacy invasion business model" (which sounds a bit tinfoil-haty), it's the fact that protecting privacy is really hard. I work for Silent Circle, and the MO is to store the absolute minimum data possible, which makes it hard to use services most companies take for granted, such as analytics, error reporting, error logs, etc.

Doing your job is really hard when you can't use things like analytics services, or detailed logging, or proper feedback. Everything has to be open source, self-hosted and some things other businesses can easily use are just flat-out impossible to do. Any business that does something you want but that requires that data be sent to it will just not be used.

Few companies that don't explicitly have the word "private" in the description of their core product will be very inclined to jump through all these expensive hoops. Hopefully changing the legal situation so the NSA can't just jump in and grab whatever it wants will help this a lot.
If the head is right aligned then all the head element wont be uniformly aligned.
Besides minor things like _links -> links, it specifies a lot of behavior more explicitly than HAL. HAL is a very minimal specification and intentionally doesn't nail down every corner case, preferring implementors to choose what's right for them, perhaps at the cost of a more powerful generic client

Edit: and hey, why not, I'm the author of a generic HAL client myself: https://github.com/deontologician/restnavigator
Yes, there isn't a clear divide between "first-world" and everyone else anymore. That being said, I think the wealthier countries that are more industrialized have a debt to pay with regards to climate impact given that they were able to develop and build before mainstream awareness of the issue, and virtually all of the accumulated pollution today is therefore due to these industrialized nations.

I'd like to see a period in which China, India, and smaller nations are able to use more than their share of the global quota while the wealthier countries in western Europe and North America use less, per capita and in sum.
The late melodic legend Freddie Mercury wrote these words “Who needs to live always”,
Alright, thanks for the explanation. I'll try it out in a week or so I think. If I like it I'll donate some money.

Have you ever considered open sourcing Talon? Because as far as I can see it is closed source right now.
Aren’t NIT and UBI effectively the same thing?
In your story, you are the unfortunate recipient of a shit stick from everyone:

- your brother, a successful attorney who lied to the police to commit you

- your shelter, who kicked you out randomly without cause (people who run and work at shelters are generally well-intended

- your roommate, who literally attacked you with a knife completely randomly

- your lawyer, and potentially the surgeon he recommended

- the chiropractor

- the other driver

Each is believable, especially the chiropractor, but you’re essentially the completely passive and no-fault recipient of a giant shit stick from like 7 different people in short order.

I hate to ask this but do you think it’s possible there’s some common thread here? Your past behavior, mental health, drug use (and thus being exposed to people who attack others with knives during disputes), etc?
Okay, can anyone point out some real day-to-day use case for which I should ditch fish and move to something else? I need all the niceties of fish and something more.
I agree about TypeScript, however this paragraph also describes Swift to a T:

> Sometime you have a library where someone a few years back tried to do something similar to your idea but never had a complete solution and stopped working on it and when you try to benefit from this work to build on top of it, you find out that you need to modify you working environment to support some spacial case of legacy code. You do that and it all falls apart, now you must choose to try to fix it or give up and restore your setup. It's just horrible.

So far Swift code has not aged well, although it's gotten better during the last two years. The perpetual brokenness has moved on to Swift's tooling (binary stability, SwiftPM etc.) which wouldn't affect serverless.
Sure, but on the other hand they are so far behind us that the though of rural Africa developing high tech is laughable.
Design, in the sense you mention here, is something i would expect a good programmer to be good at. It is about problem solving, as well as understanding users of the solution. Designing a solution also requires a bit of algorithmic thinking. I have seen very few non-programmer designers who were good at designing a solution/application.
Interesting idea. However, I don't think that this is the first time. There have been several others who preceded Notch. Jordan Mechner of Prince of Persia comes to mind first.

http://jordanmechner.com/old-journals/
How about the Googler who just took Google for $3.5 extra double wide large? http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/11/google-offers-staff-enginee...

I am certain that there are more than a few code jockeys making a tremendous amount of money on Wall Street... That is, of course, if they didn't build their own quant fund.

John Carmack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Carmack
I knew my #2 would be taken more literally than I meant it. At a very fundamental level, computation consists of moving bits, hence I/O.
The problem with the Taxes section is it doesn't account for the unintended consequences of raising taxes.

Historically when taxes are raised, revenues tend to never get close to projections. Why you might ask? Well, because an increase in taxes usually leads to less investment (startups, expanding existing business, etc). In the extreme case an increase an taxes could even lead to companies moving to other locations to shelter themselves from the added tax burden. Something we are seeing happen in the US now, because of fear of increased taxes. Many large corporations are making structural changes and moving assets out of the country.

We need to cut spending and cut taxes. Reduce, simplify, eliminate.
These countries demonstrate "a willingness to depart from the conventional wisdom of the day and experiment with their own remedies." Sounds like a startup mentality in a diplomatic setting. It's interesting to note as well the author's observation on the lack of democratic progress in these countries. I think the reason that the tone of the article is that of surprise is that these countries think and act differently from Western counterparts. It is hard to imagine progress can impact others who don't follow the same principles as yourself.
The only work purpose for which pushing a team toward five straight weeks of mandated sleep deprevation is good is poor management. Good management matches scope, milestones and staffing to expectations.

This isn't to preclude the possibility of a person going manic on a project they own, but that's a case where those doing the work have control.
Should an AI be able to own its own hardware and have a company by itself?

How will this affect us?
Aynrandistan
This works better than I expected, but I'm wondering how well it will work if the angle changes (flying around the building) or other parameters change. But looks impressive for how little code it is!
I still think that the number one threat to professional journalists is the low barrier to entry for people to get into journalism these days, not robots. That said, this is really interesting and will likely play a role in generating content from structured data (like baseball stats) at some point in the relatively near future.
"it's not compatible with any other browser"

Works just fine with Chrome (beta channel) here on my Macbook Pro 5,5. Quite fluid too, except for the "floating mountain part". Certainly more than 10fps average.
When I said you could set everything up in under 30 minutes, I meant starting with a bare Macintosh (or Linux box), with no development tools or Heroku account, and ending with fully deployed and scalable production application.

The second time through, I can probably do it in under 60 seconds.

rails new my_app
cd my_app
git init
git add .
git commit -m "My application"
heroku create
git push heroku master

Creating database tables adds a few more commands:

rails generate model post title:string body:string
# Commit new files.
rake db:migrate
heroku maintenance:on
git push heroku
heroku rake db:migrate
heroku maintenance:off

I imagine that Microsoft, PHP and Django have something similar, or are working on it as we speak.
I wish I'd kept a tally of how many times this story has been posted on HN in the last week. It has to be over 10 at this point (and I wouldn't be surprised if it was over 20)
without the musical aesthetic or the barest sliver of sanity that SEL had.

and 100% more creepy near-upskirt camera angles.
Wow, we're forgetful, aren't we.
That's a foolish attitude to have about this. The more people use this type of system, the more pressure there will be on those of us who don't want to be spied on, or have our cars hacked. Eventually, it might not be possible to get insurance without a spy system like this, and that's a perfectly valid reason to want to push back against it now. Banning this practice completely would be ideal.
I had no idea how far ahead of node on es6 features io.js was - it passes nearly twice as many of the tests as node (23% vs 40%)
Looks like even the most famous "ghost city" of them all, Ordos, isn't pining for the fjords just yet.

http://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/04/ordos-a-gho...
I'm assuming this is just attention grabbing for this guy's personal brand.

Always interesting to see what kind of marketing stunts get you to the front page.

If this were to be taken seriously, a guy regularly getting drunk is just sad, as alcoholism is a real problem that this seems to be brushing aside.
Or choose free software. If it's free software, even if the original developer goes away, you can hire someone to keep working on it, or someone else can decide to make a business supporting it, or the like.
Nice article.

I like the idea of getting people to at least start using private communication, where appropriate. The end of the article lists some great use cases for private communication (sharing passwords, etc.)
I really enjoyed this comment. Thanks. Yeah, I was thinking of the put options. Now I just need that spare money I can gamble with and I am all set.
Not at all. I didn’t suggest any alternative. Given the controversy, I’m not sure there’s a better one.

But you might compare to what browsers do these days for visiting websites with fishy-looking certificates. They don’t just put up a dialog, they heavily discourage it, because the assumption is that many users would say “yes” just to get rid of the dialog.
I mean escalating a minor dust-up into a blog post about their wrongs, and then further pushing it in a worldwide forum (HN).

I don't mean to be rude, but as a disinterested third party, the optics of all of this and your handling of a disagreement reflect badly upon you. At some point in the future after you've cooled off, you'll probably delete the post (but better sooner than later!)
It's a bit corny that Reddit and HN go over the top about this guy like he's the centre of the universe, just because he's the only player they know the name of and could point out in a photo.
Cynical view: The ban is supposed to drive down the price and motivate the seller.

At the same time, its a nice way to look tough on China while actually doing nothing about China...
Not struggling.

Many a time, I get engulfed with the same feeling of meaninglessness.

That's why I asked this question.

Find it very hard to express this feeling to others, or to face others.
which is good - democracy and such does have some balancing effect. But it's also democracy that elected someone like trump....shrugs
if anyone has questions, feel free to message me and I'd be happy to explain more
A hacker wiki of sorts. It’s a great idea.
Should anyone find the pasta name "from the Abissinian colony" a fascist apology in 2021 instead of an historical reference, then I'll start considering the term "afroamerican" as a racist adjective, and ask for a name change of "New York".
Wall Street is very concerned that the next occupy wall street will circumvent their payment processor blacklists and surveillance by using Chinese competitors that aren't controlled by US financial interests.
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> This assumes one gets back more than a form letter and that the actual rep reads your letter.

Well, the first more than the second; a rep doesn’t have to read your letter to be briefed and direct staff followup, which may itself produce results.
Red baiting what you don't understand. Communism has never been implemented anywhere, ever. Stalinism, Maoism, Marxist–Leninist Minh, but never communism. Cuba got close, but it still wasn't communism.

Irony: you talk about fairness without offering an alternative, system, or a path to get there. Do you think billionaires will just roll-over and hand over their money and power out of kindness? Should we just petition them and offer stern objections? What would that accomplish?

Which "proper" society?
I would really like to hope that "people familiar with the matter" means Bengio off the record, and not some non-Bengio person with an axe to grind... impossible to know, I guess.
> but there's no evidence of it in the article.

That's not quite correct, but true that the evidence presented is weak (e.g. anonymous "sources familiar")
What's stopping you? What does that have to do with having a bit-for-bit identical version to what Signal is running?
Righteous bucks!

Let's not forget it's coming from a company who gave us a $200 store credit for allowing us the privilege of beta testing their M1 silicon DTK for $500.
There's plenty of federal case law that makes it pretty much a right for citizens to enter the US.

"...the right to return to the United States is inherent in American citizenship.” Fikre v. FBI. Which was about this exact issue. They can put you on the no fly list, but if you get to the Border, there is an absolute right for citizens to enter, even without a passport.

Of course, the courts might not get around to enforcing your right to enter for a few months or years, and it might cost you a fortune in lawyer fees
You mean physical, re: skepticism. Just different things. Bulky for "CREATE INDEX" or "VACUUM", but also faster for a lot of things (no decoding) and able to more naturally deal with incomplete transactions. A good way to get a feel for that is to read how people compare using either one for proprietary databases that have both.
> Bitcoin had no pre-mine

/me glances at the great big pile of Satoshi coins...
Have a save hook that converts everything to <tabs or spaces>.
We don't use legal mechanisms to protect citizens from an endless myriad of things, many which are much more dangerous than investing in private startups. This is really a way to keep the proles out of the good investments. It's infuriating and unjust that the wealthy have more rights.
Would that be like an infinite number of bonobos...?
I've actually been trying to get the stats but they are hard to get. I do know that there is a lot of expansion and we are seeing internet speed & price are lower than Comcast. It looks like either feast or famine. I would also note that AOL did not have 100% coverage. You might remember the lawsuit AOL dealt with 800 number charges. Dialup has holes in its coverage.
There's probably no reason this can't act as another competitor to fixed broadband in the US market, bypassing one of the major issues holding back greater competition in that market. Especially if SpaceX can get the launches down to a cheap enough point. And it should certainly be capable of acting as a competitor to 4G LTE and the next generation.

How much data could these push in theory?
Cool! Thanks for the link. I've not read that book, but it looks very interesting and related. It great to see others' perspective on math as a human construction.

Another book on the topic of history of mathematics is "Journey Through Mathematics" by Enrique Gonzalez-Velasco. From its back cover:

"This book offers an accessible and in-depth look at some of the most important episodes of two thousand years of mathematical history. Beginning with trigonometry and moving on through logarithms, complex numbers, infinite series, and calculus, this book profiles some of the lesser known but crucial contributors to modern day mathematics."
Sure, container-centric is great if you are running containers. Until it is shown that containers are actually secure, people are going to push for virtualization.
The worst is when you store it as a string, having learned from others' mistakes, but then upon exporting to CSV... Excel kindly strips the leading 0 and you get a bug report that your software is screwing up the ZIP codes!

Took a bit of searching before finding this: https://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2010/handling-leading-zero-in...
To followup with a note from the article: "A very practical reason for preferring functional programming in a freshman course is that most students already have a certain familiarity with imperative programming. Facing them with the novelty of functional programming immediately drives home the message that there is more to programming than they thought."

It's no surprise that this attitude can discourage students without programming experience... A parallel intro track seems like a nice solution that has worked in a number of schools.
From a quick skimming through the docs[0], Perl 5.8's Unicode support sounds a lot like Python 2's except that the default encoding is latin1 instead of ASCII - i.e. unlike the Python 3 way of explicitly decoding binary data into Unicode text at the point where it's read (where presumably the encoding of the data is known), it will defer the decoding until the data is used (at some completely unrelated point in the program) and decode it with some assumed globally agreed upon encoding. Since there is no globally agreed encoding (Windows even has different legacy encodings between Win32 and the command prompt!) this will appear to work as long as the data is ASCII but later, when you least expect it (and someone inputs a non-ASCII string), give UnicodeDecodeError in Python 2 or garbage data in Perl 5.8.

Ned Batchelder gave an excellent talk[1] that explains how the Python 3 approach to Unicode works. I think it makes a lot more sense once you understand it; the Python 2 way was clearly broken, and it looks like Perl 5 has the same problem but hides it better.

[0] http://search.cpan.org/~jhi/perl-5.8.0/pod/perluniintro.pod

[1] http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sgHbC6udIqc
> "Throw out your fking smartphone then" if you are averse to spying.

It was like I was reading something I'd written, right up until this last bit.

(Just some thoughts. Not taking a point with or against you here.)

People want normality. Smartphones are normal, and so normal people want them. I feel strongly that normal people also want privacy, but only enough to say so and not enough to be inconvenienced or live abnormally. If told that normal smartphones are incompatible with privacy, they will then start saying things about not really needing or valuing privacy.

Cognitive dissonance in action.

imho the fix is still to work at making larger chunks of privacy free for normal people :)
Hold on: does Haskell allow "the" QuickSort on one line, or just a sort? Because from what I've read, if you want to make Haskell do all the efficient stuff in a QS, you have to tell it a lot more, bloating the program.

Edit: this is what I had in mind: http://augustss.blogspot.com/2007/08/quicksort-in-haskell-qu...

Btw, I took AP Compsci with C++ in Austin around that time, so we might know each other.
Did he win? No. QED.
I'm afraid that you are.

The english language is not defined by dictionaries, especially ones which change their definitions as political stunts.

It is defined by how people use it.

Many dictionaries have changed their definition of "literally" to include "figuratively", but I'm here to tell you that's not correct.

Similarly, I'm here to tell you that misogyny is specifically an abject hatred of women, no matter how much it would support your political cause for it to mean differently. Unlike "literally" your misuse of the worm misogyny puts you in the minority. Most people still use it correctly.

I, or someone like me, will for the foreseeable future be here, triggering you, whenever you misuse it.
> for only a bit more money than a professional charges to put a key in the lock and tap it with a little hammer for ten seconds.

In America, people without locksmith licenses can't legally buy bumpkeys, sadly. If I had a problem that a locksmith could solve with a bumpkey, I'd be quite annoyed that my payment to him is essentially a government subsidy coming out of my pocket.
The point is that taxi driving is a service industry, and nobody makes money in a service job by appearing unhappy or bitter. Customers come back more often and tip better if you seem cheerful, not if you confront them as cogs in a system that's screwing you. We want our baristas to be Manic Pixie Dream Girls, not overworked, underpaid people who resent our taking 15 minutes to decide what flavor syrup we want in our latte.

The result is what David Foster Wallace, in his classic essay "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Supposedly_Fun_Thing_I%27ll_N...), called the "professional smile":

This is related to the phenomenon of the Professional Smile, a national pandemic in the service industry... at banks, restaurants, airline ticket counters, and on and on. You know this smile-the one that doesn't quite reach the smiler's eyes and signifies nothing more than a calculated attempt to advance the smiler's own interests by pretending to like the smilee...

Who do they think is fooled by the Professional Smile?

And yet the Professional Smile's absence now also causes despair. Anybody who's ever bought a pack of gum in a Manhattan cigar store or asked for something to be stamped FRAGILE at a Chicago post office or tried to obtain a glass of water from a South Boston waitress knows well the soul-crushing effect of a service worker's scowl, i.e. the humiliation and resentment of being denied the Professional Smile.
Or, more likely, a combination of oil and lithium, since it looks unlikely that purely electric cars are going to make it in the next decade or two.
I interpreted it in a different way; as an example, my father has zero interest and perhaps even scorn for discussing virtually any topic he's done for a living. Doing it for a living can ruin it for you.
Great read! article should have mentioned the Syntecno TeeBee, imo the best hardware emulator made.