skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not expressing an opinion on abortion or agriculture.

Let's talk about "disproportionate" representation. Idaho is home to 1.6m people (http://www.census.gov/popest/data/state/totals/2014/tables/N...). It has 2 votes in the Senate, like every other state, or 2% of the total, and 2 votes in the House (http://www.house.gov/representatives/#state_id), or 0.46%. According to the Census Bureau (http://www.census.gov/popclock/) the United States has a population of 321m. Therefore Idaho has 0.498% of the US population. Accordingly, it is underrepresented in the House and, like most states, overrepresented in the Senate. Overall, Idaho has 4 out of 535 votes in the legislature, or 0.748%, meaning that Idahoans have about 1.5 votes per person. That's a very small margin, especially considering both the underrepresentation in the House and the tiny overall representation. Just how disproportionate is this? Well, if you took away just one representative, the state would be underrepresented overall, as well as being grossly underrepresented in the House. Granularity works against us here; there is no way to fairly represent states with moderate populations like Idaho.

Perhaps this should be telling us that we really aren't one nation and shouldn't attempt to govern such a large number of diverse people with a single set of laws. Again... regardless of what I personally think about abortion or ag-gag laws.
Old auto was completely removed.
There are some echoes here, I think, of Sarah Jeong's thesis in The Internet of Garbage about how copyright laws aren't anti-harassment or privacy laws, how they make terrible anti-harassment or privacy laws, and how victims feel like they're the only option, which is just bad for everyone.

Your friends need better support from society. Some of that support may be from the laws (against death threats, slander, etc.). Some of that support needs to come from outside the laws, in the form of more speech countering the incorrect speech, as well as in the form of norms on civilized behavior. Some of that needs to come from a greater willingness to talk about where the food we eat comes from, how it doesn't just show up magically on grocery store shelves.

But bad laws won't help them in the long run, nor will they help society.
Very much so. The level of targeting these last few years is getting very granular. I can now run personalised banner ads with someones name or other personal information inserted in it. That would creep people out and likely not the best reaction.
The problem with "aboot" is that it's not... quite that. I've lived in a few different English speaking countries, I'm from rural Canada, and I now living in Toronto, the epicentre of accents. Over time, I've started to hear some of the differences, but I won't claim to be an expert.

IMHO: We don't say "Aboot", but something closer to (but not quite) "Abehwt", compared to the American "Abowt". From what I can tell, Americans can hear a difference, and frankly we Canadians can't at all. But Americans seem to hear the difference as more exaggerated into the "Aboot" territory.

In short: We do say "About" very differently, and we're generally totally unaware of it.
Netbooks haven't disappeared. My family and many friends use them as their only non-smartphone device. They're called "Chromebooks" or "cloudbooks" now.

The tablet market was huge, but it was because people craved cheap, usable laptops (see comment above). Something without a physical keyboard or a stand is simply not very useful. It's a portable TV. People wanted the laptop form factor, and all those keyboard/dock accessories became almost standard.

You're right, though, that device longevity has a lot to do with it. Same with laptops. If you have a decent laptop with a SSD from a few years ago, you're not missing all that much by not buying a new one this year.

I don't really see why there has to be any area for major growth right now. A lot of these form factors have reached relative maturity. We'll eventually get to the point where all the computing power we need fits into our phone, and we can just use "dumb" form factors (TV, laptop shell, etc.) to project our phone. Then we'll really see the decline of the other form factors.
How about we use other types of Nuclear like LFTR? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK367T7h6ZY)
I personally use http://www.jwz.org/hacks/youtubedown - it's probably much less featureful than YouTube-dl, but it's a single script, easily hackable, and does what I need. In contrast, YTDL seems to have grown into a generic "video site downloader".
Not bills. Loonies are dollar coins with a loon on the back. "Twonies" are the two-dollar coins with a polar bear. Canada traditionally uses animal imagery on money, a sort of reconciliation gesture given the french-english-native splits in the country. Animals were common ground.

Fyi, the band Nickelback was Canadian. The non-wikipedia joke behind that name is the animal on the back of the canadian nickel.
Awesome hack. I really need to try this sometime. I spent almost all of my digital life in Emacs anyway, so this could work out very well for my workflow.
Wow the hypocrisy is unbelievable. Any other website would have been chided, chewed and spit out by the community if they didn't let you delete your posts (even if they are just hiding them). But because HN is doing it it's suddenly OK? 4 out 5 comments at the time I wrote this support the inability to delete an account.
Any benchmarks comparing Erlang, Go, C, Node performance for network applications (eg. max # connections, max requests/s, request latency, etc) that you can point to?
It costs more than $800 to fly to another country.

For major surgeries, people do fly to Europe for the procedure:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/07/us/the-growing-popularity-...
I'm not sure you have demonstrated what you are trying to show.

If I understand correctly, you've calculated the chance a manager is promoted to director as 1/15 * average number of directors that leave over the relevant time period.

But you haven't made any argument about the chance an engineer is promoted to distinguished engineer besides stating promotion non rivalrous. A system in which no one is promoted to distinguished engineer is non rivalrous, for example.
I'm actually working, and for almost 3 years :)

I definitely agree with what you're saying, especially in startups it really isn't that relevant (part of why I like the startup community so much). But I do spend a lot of time outside startups as well, and that glass ceiling is definitely present in large companies and academia (especially academia).
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Unfortunately, "better battery life" isn't compatible with thinner, better screen, or faster. Of course there is progress being made in CPUs/GPUs that improve battery life without sacrificing speed, but it so far hasn't been revolutionary. The iPad 2 still has specs that work for most people.

As for memory, I assume you meant of the storage (rather than RAM) variety. That's intentionally not expandable, because they want some way to make your old device obsolete.

Cellular data has been available in tablets almost since the iPad came out, so I'm not sure what you mean there...
Anecdote: a colleague bought a system 76 and hated the keyboard, returned it. It wasn't an issue with where the keys were placed, he just didn't like the way the keyboard itself felt, or the way it made him feel, or something.

Try to fondle one before just buying one blindly online.
We have a 10-day minimum here at Khan Academy, with unlimited PTO. It's also communicated to us that the average is 20-30 days.
For at least certain things Medicare and Medicaid is forbidden by law to use it's position to bargain for lower prices.
Yes - when a company reports their actual numbers, we can get a sense of what % of revenue we see and extrapolate to full US revenue. We update our data weekly - our blog too so stay tuned!
Redline Smalltalk for the JVM
There's a 2 hour window on editing/deleting comments.
Interestingly, here in China I am currently editing and shooting a documentary on a foreign community and just yesterday hit on an interviewee's comment specifically to the effect that this does not occur, ie. locals treat everyone equally. The way this was explained was that, if you ask the price for something in a market, wait 10 seconds and eavesdrop on a local requesting the price for the same, it never differs. This is also my experience (after 15 years). I wonder if perhaps this area (China's most ethnically and linguistically diverse) simply has a fair treatment norm based in pluralistic history.
I agree with you, but the analogue is not scientists having their work replicated, it's doing the work in the first place. We don't accept 'trust me on this' in a scientific paper.

Regarding marathons, some people do cheat them - they're more interested in the social rewards than the personal growth. Some people flat-out lie about doing them at all. Different folks have different motivations.
Do you have any reason to sustain this claim?
hg-git and hg-github

I just started using them yesterday. So far so good.
Provincial student loans now replaced with grants in Newfoundland
The proper test for a ML learning system is one that you would expect the average human with 140-160 IQ and 5 years of experience to fail at performing manually? Because most active portfolio managers do not beat the market.
Editing and deleting an HN comment can be done within a limited time (an hour?) after the comment is created. After that it does not seem to be possible -- at least for me.
I don't see why it's your employer's job to subsidize the birth of your children with paid maternity/paternity leave.

Why not just pay everyone more and those who want children can use the extra to save up to take a year off work?
"attack"
The last sentence echoes the OP's last sentence, which was as follows:

> I'm too lazy for ipv6. Nothing to celebrate about ipv6 except for a bigger pool and some other minor +.

Symmetrical construction is nice. :)

Additionally, it's pretty appropriate to say:

> Either way if [advanced users who are setting up static, globally routable IPs for machines] want routable IPs going forward and not be stuck behind CGNAT then they'll have to use their brains and learn something new.

Any sysadmin who is configuring a server that requires a globally routeable IP is expected to use his brain. Moreover, he will be expected to have to use that brain to learn new things from time to time, lest his systems become crusty and unmaintained.

There are many things that can go wrong when you configure a machine as an Internet peer. Some amount of savvy and smarts is required.
Hm, never been there.

I thought travel guide is a convenient format, and they do sell their books as pdf's, per-chapter if desired, so I thought they are doing well?
No argument here. My point is that bad ideas are still bad ideas (although perhaps my point could have been better-phrased).
There's a substantive point here, which is that software designs based on immutable data can conflict with human needs. Sometimes there are legitimate reasons for wanting to alter records of the past. Append-only logs have the same problem.

This is interesting because from a technical point of view immutability is almost always a good property to have, and software designs are increasingly organized around it.
what's left?

Apparently some vendors feel watches are the answer. I remain skeptical.

Personally my consumption habits are probably outlying: my last Macbook Pro's power connector broke... the machine itself was fine, but there's no easy way to repair it, so I bought a new max spec one in Paris (French azerty keyboard) to wait out the next hardware failure. This desktop, assembled from scratch in a Bangkok computer market, dates from around 2011 (Thai keyboard) and happily processes cluster computing simulations, HD video edits, high resolution photography and 3D games. I was totally phoneless for a year and a half until a few months ago, when I bought the Samsung S6 solely to take photos of my daughter while traveling (my SLR and lenses were too bulky to carry). I bought a cheap tablet (HTC?) for my mother in law last year, which sees some use. Here in China the cable TV system gives you video on demand without regard for intellectual property (kind of like Popcorn Time, but instant and pre-cached with a weird assortment of Asian movies in addition to blockbuster stuff) so nobody really does the Smart TV thing, though people use specific torrent-based apps like PPTV if they really want something obscure. Consoles are in my experience exceptionally rare.
Small companies don't always have problems that require $500k engineers. If they do, they shouldn't play in the same tiny pond as Google -- hire remotely or move to a city other than SF or NYC.
I am using a used ThinkPad. Great keyboard, great community around the ThinkWiki, Ubuntu certified hardware, much cheaper than new, solid stream of replacement parts at reasonable prices.

Good luck.
> In preface, when I say blogging is dead, I am referring to blogging in the niches I am most familiar with and active in ; other niches may be different, ....

I wonder what niches are being referred to here. It never occurred to me that blogging might be "dead". It sure doesn't look dead to me. But then I guess I'm interested in different niches.
1.5 votes per person is a huge margin when you're voting on national law that binds everyone.

I'm sympathetic to the idea that we should not try to govern such a huge diverse nation with one set of laws. But then we should get rid of the Commerce Clause. States should be able to erect trade barriers to keep other states from undermining their social policies with race to the bottom behavior.
However, as those Objective-C jobs decline their pay-scale will probably increase as companies desperately attempt to find someone to maintain their legacy apps.
Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about Cocks. Blame my selective memory for withholding credit from people who don't share.

Spooks would of course welcome any discovery, and asymmetric crypto does solve problems for them (getting government crypto distributed as wide as possible). I am saying purely symmetric is "sufficient" for their core functionality - the communications that really need to be secret. Coupled with the head start before asymmetric was even discovered, that is where their focus is going to be.

Put another way: if you were in charge of securing communications and had to prioritize resources, would you rather research a trustworthy asymmetric algorithm or a trusty symmetric algorithm? Likewise if you wanted to snoop on others' communications, would you prioritize breaking symmetric or asymmetric techniques?
It's been awhile since I set it up, but I believe I've disabled gnome-keyring's agent[1], use the OpenSSH one instead, use ssh-askpass-keyring[2] as the SSH_ASKPASS environment variable to ssh-add to read key passphrases from the keyring (manually invoked via a shell script helper; but only needs to be done once per login session), and GNOME's gnome-ssh-askpass installed as the system default, for key confirmations.

(This is on the Cinnamon desktop, so other GNOME setups could be different.)

[1] See https://askubuntu.com/questions/63407/where-are-startup-comm... for how to override in your user dir, or find it in the GUI somewhere.
[2] https://launchpad.net/ssh-askpass-keyring is the Ubuntu page
It's hard to cultivate a good literary culture until you have a large literate and critical audience. Perhaps the same is true for programming culture.

I agree with your other points though.
Awesome! Did you use a tool to generate that graph?
So don't use the same public key on two different site
Having proctored my fair share of exams...you're there primarily to answer questions, not to enforce anything. The student who wants to cheat will find a way to cheat.
Mathematical probability of getting pooped on by a pigeon in New York City
While fc00::/7 is set aside for Unique Local Addresses, -AIUI- the fc00::/8 block hasn't been defined yet. fd00::/8 has been set aside for ULA use.
> rainbow tables

There is no such thing in public key crypto.

The only thing that comes close to it that I can think of is the problem where weak public parameters were hard coded in a library (Apache) and were used by many many many person. Look at the logjam paper.
It's also a somewhat hilarious contrast to those companies who take away your vacation time if you don't use it within a certain time period (often just 1 year).
Only caveat here: the keyboard is obviously a Mac keyboard, which can be very irritating to those of us who like to have dedicated Home/Backspace keys.

Edit: another caveat. I just realized I had one of these for a while and stopped using it because the resolution is just too small. There's just not enough screen real estate to be truly useful without another monitor.
> I do believe that there are important experiments that can only work when subjects are unaware that they're participating ...

Medical experiments? Sure, those were "harmless" bacteria, but maybe a few people died as a result of the test.

But would you believe that indigent cancer patients were given lethal whole-body x-ray exposures, and then observed (without treatment) while they died?
In most countries (that you'd want to raise a family in), it is the job of the government to ensure employers make allowances for child rearing - an activity some consider indispensable.
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Thanks for sharing an honest 1st party perspective.

Would you mind clarifying on:

>"I'm pressured to take vacations."

Is that as a result of the following bullet around managers being taught to be a good example? Or is it because the day-to-day is stressful and the average hours are not even close to 9-5 so the pressure to take vacation is to combat burnout? (Not saying that is actually the case at Netflix, but I've heard of other places where the day-to-day was miserable, so they forced vacation to prevent burnout vs. solving the root issue of reducing overall workload, promoting true work/life balance throughout a given week, etc.)
The difference seems to be, that the US agencies are causing more damage, because they are actually competent at what they are doing, while the German agencies are happy whenever they are invited to play with the big toys - thus the ass-kissing.

I think the reason for this is mainly less budget partly due to the fact, that the German agencies are often not federal agencies, e.g. each tiny state has their own Verfassungsschutz.

I mean, the NSU affair was really bad, but incompetent-criminals-bad not secret-state-government-bad.
I noticed that youtube-dl now converts the webm to mp4 with ffmpeg after the download.

It tries also to merge similar files to an mkv (not sure).
Benchmarks are interesting these days. Software can generally be made "fast enough," but there's no benchmark for maintainability or ease of coding.

What good is a Java program being 2x as fast as a Python program if the Java program requires 3,000 lines and two weeks to write while the Python program requires 300 lines and two days?

The idea for Go is "become the new Java but without that startup time penalty." The goal of Java was to be a "dumb enough" language where individual talent or skill or knowledge doesn't matter. So, you get a language not targeted at expressiveness or ease of thought or ease of programming, but at ease of using people as interchangeable cogs in a multi-billion dollar software development machine. Not really exciting to be a part of.

We've come full circle back to Averages (http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html) — startups not using Go will fare much better than encumbered startups just due to the brain rot you're required to experience while using Go itself. (I mean, TABS? In 2015? Non-versioned web-placed dependencies? What is wrong with these people?)
The next+1 branch has a fairly recent version of v8 4.5 that has fat arrows and other new language features shipped. My guess is that next+1 will become 4.0.0.
Yeah, I think that sounds reasonable to me. I was thinking about my history classes more and there was a decent amount of interaction, just my memory about it was a bit fuzzy, since I haven't thought about the classes themselves in some years.

It had a decent amount of q/a and discussion, but it's rather hard to escape lectures in history. They didn't bother me though, since I had great history teachers that knew their stuff and made the lectures themselves interesting through anecdotes and personal experience. History was always my favorite subject, even though I obtained a degree in computer science.
Thanks. A big part of my strategy was to build up http://reddit.com/r/ottoplay, which is up to 130 subscribers – I've been pushing it in all my posts so far. (At first it was just me talking to myself so there'd be something interesting for the first viewers to read.) I'd like to make that more of a self-sustaining community, to encourage people to stay involved and share it with their friends. Right now I'm working on a much-requested feature (customizing channels) – my plan is to roll that out with private beta invites to help keep people engaged.

Once that's rolling I'll try for another, bigger round of press coverage. Up until now things have largely not been in my control – the first two articles' authors approached me after my reddit posts, the later ones never bothered interviewing me, and it got Product Hunted by a power user who noticed my failed Show HN. (I actually didn't even realize it hit PH until the next day, took even longer to get commenting access.) But that's probably not going to last – I expect I'll have to do much more actively reaching out to journalists.

I'm starting to run out of new reddit communities to reach, but there's some smallish ones I still haven't hit. Maybe I'll try another Show HN. Mostly though, I think I need to focus on the core subreddits/communities that like this sort of thing, figure out exactly what they want and build a loyal following who'll bring it up when a tangential topic comes up. This already happens occasionally, which is beyond awesome: https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/3fc0h0/netf...

Longer term, I'd love to get this on some sort of ChromiumOS stick. Nothing useful on the market for that yet, so I'm chatting with some manufacturers in China. Seems like a good product for a Kickstarter, hardware's more interesting than browser extensions, and it solves the real problem of the app being too hard to get onto a TV if you're not already used to HDMI cabling it.
Are you an AT&T (or other) customer? Confused about the meaning of the word "unlimited"?

Just take it at face value:

adj. not limited or restricted in terms of number, quantity, or extent.

Why must words always have a hidden, contradictory meaning?
I was looking into using lambda functions called in response to an S3 event. Specifically, I wanted to create a record in my SQL database after a file is uploaded to S3. Users are uploading directly to S3 using pre-signed requests, so I needed some way to step in and create a database record after they actually perform the upload to S3. S3 supports this via several methods, one of which is the lambda functions, but when looking into lambda functions there was no way to have the code access my SQL database internally, I would have had to make my SQL database open to the world. I didn't find any IAM rules etc to enable lambda functions to access my SQL database resources. I'd be curious to see how this is handled by this JAWS work flow.
Decentralization: Why Dumb Networks Are Better
Because they recognize that finding a job while having to take care of a 1 year old is a bit stressful, I think.
Not HyperLoop?
People go to overseas to have a better life, mostly. Being in developing world is not healthy. Competition makes you stronger, but pressure and having to worry about living is not healthy for a free mind. Education system cannot change those fundamental issues.