skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the solution were as simple as getting a bus ticket out of town, don't you think more people would do that? (Hint: it's not that simple.) The evidence shows that poor people spend less on entertainment than rich people.

Have you ever been to a rich neighborhood? Every other shop is a Starbucks or Gucci. The owners of those stores aren't keeping them open as a charity. (This statement, like yours, is a non-sequitir. I think what you are trying to get at is basically, "poor people are already disproportionately affected by addiction, so we should take away social services (i.e., where your taxes dollars go) that help them escape said addiction." That's damn circular logic if I've ever seen it.)
Well, if you are sufficiently fuzzy when it comes to equivalence, then every programming language is just about shuffling bits around registers and they're all one and the same thing.

But in the end, interface (contracts) and implementation (asserts) aren't actually the same thing. Having commonalities is not the same thing as being the same.
Managing the wealth responsibly is the innovative part. Most countries with oil wealth piss it away or use it to enrich a tiny elite.

American has loads of money (including a not insignificant amount from fossil fuels). If we chose to do so, we could manage that wealth in trust for our citizens. Instead, we choose to make a few executives and hedge fund managers mind-boggling rich.
“Make the Back-End Team Jealous: Elm in Production” by Richard Feldman
Does the Chromecast allow the user to change routing (set default gateway) and /etc/resolv.conf (DNS settings)?
I have an LG G3 which I paid $50 for (upgrade price) which included an extra battery and battery charger (promo period). Being able to swap in a fully charged battery in seconds is something I now depend on when I travel - I never have any battery life anxiety. The lack of swappable batteries on most phones is a huge turnoff for me.
Not sure how much significance this particular study has (but maybe), but I still have one general within-SFBA question:

WTF did San Jose do wrong over the past 40 years or so? It was at one point #1. I get that companies have become more software/etc. based vs. manufacturing, but there's nothing that inherent to Mountain View to make it better than, say, San Jose. Proximity to Stanford could be a factor, especially for Palo Alto, but it still seems like San Jose really screwed up somehow.
CPU Identifier (TSMC or Samsung A9)
Am I about the only one who considers my Chromecast almost useless? Specifically, I don't want to use it with my phone because when I would use it, I am already on my computer. I really dislike how when it came out and I bought it, their tagline was all about casting what you have on your phone and your browser, then they immediately seemed to move away from the PC browser and straight to the phone.

About the only thing I use it for is sometimes when people come over, we go on YouTube and take turns adding music to play, or sometimes go back and forth showing each other ridiculous, stupid or funny videos.
Great article. If nothing else, spreading the word about the severe limitations of stylometry is very important. This stuff gets used in forensics, and like other oversold forensic techniques, causes some terrible injustices. Once the court has allowed some expert testimony, the jury is instructed to take it at face value.
Rossi has sold 1MW heat plants.
No. I'm making an analogy to racism. It's not actually racism but only because of the arbitrary choice of classification. We usually think racism is bad so we should logically also think prejudice against foreigners is bad for the same reasons. It harms people simply because of how they scored on the lottery of birth. Just as racism does.
Texas's 23rd stretched from Austin to the Mexico border. You think this has "more common interests"?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/TravisCo...

Regardless of desirability, gerrymandering does not by definition increase homogeneity. It's a tool that is used for political gain, whatever that may be.
> Currently, when an account is banned, a software filter trips

Is there a way to check if an account is banned?

EDIT: FYI, my karma counter has stopped accumulating points, and popular posts don't get on the front-page (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10301364 – which has 4 points in 23 minutes – clearly higher than frontpage story 28 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10300732 – 4 points in 2 hours)
I'm still using a nexus 4 for this reason, and it's showing it's age.

Kind of a letdown the 5X is so large. It is annoying that all phones coming out are trying to outdo each other on the same form factor that's both too large to fit in a pocket and too thin to have a useful battery.
OK, point taken.
And my former highschool the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts. I really can't say enough great things about the place.
Export Contents of GridView to MS Excel/OpenOffice Using ASP.NET Sever Control
The Redistricting Game[1] is an interesting approach to teaching about how gerrymandering works.

[1]: http://redistrictinggame.org/game/launchgame.php
Now you aren't actually talking about workers at all, it's just a retread of "Why is America currently in a wealthier position than India?"
Flip a coin.

Duverger's Law suggests that a two party system is the logical result of winner takes all elections, because aspirant will attempt to win with the smallest coalition.

In other words, fair redistricting will reduce polarization.
> My flag link disappeared one day without notice or explanation, and stayed disappeared for a year or so.

The system does screw up sometimes. For about six months I couldn't submit articles without running into a "You are submitting too fast--slow down!" message. I don't submit all that often, so it took me a while to realize that it wasn't just responding to multiple recent comment posts and that something was wrong, but when I finally did email support, they said that my account had been flagged by mistake and fixed it promptly.
Agreed, although it starts getting complicated if you put stuff in there too (do file creators pay? shared folders pay? what if that owner wants to drop out, can they re-elect someone else)? Anything but this method starts to get really complicated.
And Android.
> collectively lowering wages across the board

It would not collectively lower wages across the board, it would leave many completely unemployed and the rest earning double or triple or fifty times what they're making now in real terms.

The solution is a basic income so those that are unemployed don't suffer for it and have a long runway to work on art, hobbies, retrain, etc.
> In short, no major improvements or evolutions in the smartphone.

Try the 3D touch on the iPhone.

Adding what is the equivalent of contextual menus to the UI is a major improvement to the overall experience and I know I will be upgrading to the 6s purely because of this.
Direct link to the paper: http://www.egyptology-nz-review.org.nz/Reeves.pdf

The images show how much the paintings can obscure the surface detail, as otherwise it's rather clear that part of the wall looks different in texture.
Compression of Deep Neural Networks on the Fly
"But even when the USA sees the light on proportional representation"

"Sees the light"? Proportional representation is far from a panacea. It tends to lead to a fragmented government (which is usually bad). It also privileges party over individual candidates (which can be good or bad, but those who dislike partisanship would certainly disapprove). There are other factors at play as well.

Most (in)famously, the Weimar Republic used PR. That didn't end well.
Think of the difference between a basketball player and say a short woman and it is easy to see we need both. They couldn't wear the same gloves.
Literally the only thing that keeps me paying for Dropbox, instead of completely abandoning it for OneDrive, is that OneDrive doesn't have a Linux client. And much of the OneDrive functionality (for example, the photo organiser) is a hell of a lot better.

I'm an edge case, and the case (Linux support) doesn't bode well for DropBox.
If your router can enforce local DNS server usage or allow creation of static routes, you can redirect Google DNS to your own DNS server. Most half-decent routers will allow you to make static routes.

Here's a good resource: http://help.unotelly.com/support/solutions/articles/192836-w...
Algorithm created to encode human memories
That's not the code that currently runs hn - AFAIK it's the code that ran hn at some distant point in the past. I'm not quite sure what's the best current path for those that want to run their own hn, on (something similar to) arc probably anarki?:

https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

Possibly arc-nu?:

https://github.com/arclanguage/arc-nu

At least it appears arc3.1 runs under racket (not sure how long that's been the case, but presumably for a while):

$ racket -v
Welcome to Racket v6.1.
$ wget http://ycombinator.com/arc/arc3.1.tar
$ tar xf arc3.1.tar
$ cd arc3.1/
$ echo admin > arc/admins
# WARNING: running random code from the Internet
# downloaded over an insecure link is not a good idea!
# But a checkout from https://github.com/wting/hackernews.git
# *failed* to run under racket...
$ racket -f as.scm
Use (quit) to quit, (tl) to return here after an interrupt.
arc> (load "news.arc")
nil
arc> (nsv)
rm: cannot remove ‘arc/news/story/*.tmp’: No such file or directory
load items:
ranking stories.
ready to serve port 8080

I don't know if https://github.com/wting/hackernews.git is a reflection
of the updated hn source - I don't think it is. For one thing, if we
look at:

http://arclanguage.org/item?id=19174

"Ask Arc: How to add a toplabels in news.arc?"

> On Hacker News, the ask and show pages are implemented just like the
> front page, but they filter the item list based on title or whether or
> not there's a link.
>
> And yes, that means they won't show items not already loaded into RAM ;)

(defop ask ((p page))
(pagepage ranked-stories* p
[and (askpage-filter _) _]
"ask" "Ask"))

> The magic is in askpage-filter:

(def askpage-filter (s)
(and (astory s)
(blank s!url)
(~begins (downcase s!title) "show hn")))

There's no -filter, in the github repo:

https://github.com/wting/hackernews/search?utf8=&q=-filter&t...
Ooh, I might check that out! Unfortunately any miners I'd attach wouldn't be anything permanent, or even good as far as hashes/sec.
Indeed, I had a hard time understanding your complaint.
At some point I came to the conclusion that the best reaction I could have to being downvoted was to take it as editorial criticism on my writing. This means just assuming that I didn't make my point clearly or that I was mistaken or didn't use the right approach to the reader. When I am downvoted, I tend to edit my comments. Sometimes this means changing the words around.

And sometimes it means deleting the comment. Not because I'm afraid of being banned, but because it's not very good. I've found that deleting not very good comments is good practice. That just saying the stupid thing that I feel compelled to say is enough. I don't need someone to actually read it. I'd rather have people read my occasional good comment.

On the flip side. Sometimes I downvote a comment in lieu of arguing. Actually, it's probably a lot more often than sometimes. Those downvotes are in lieu of mostly unproductive xkcd386 "someone is wrong on the internet" comments I might write if downvoting and moving on wasn't an option.

There are things about which it is reasonable to disagree. For example I believe that discussion is more productive than debate and that conversation is far more productive than either because it doesn't require opposing viewpoints as a starting point and doesn't entail the idea of winning or scoring points.

There are plenty of other places I could do that.
> cheaper price and better integrated with their own products

And in a half-assed way syncing.
I believe he meant the GitHub thread, though those are still useful extensions (for Chrome users...).
I never understood the food app. I figured it was a case of the founder taking "dogfooding" a bit too literally.
I think it's a bit odd that the hn source is only "semi-open" (see my comment below). Having it as a working open source project makes sense to me -- it'd give Arc a boost, and give the world a forum project that is well tested in the real-world.
He said that information is proprietary.
The fundamental problem of the current market is that it's all sustained by VC injections and trivial revenue streams. No-one is prepared to pay for something like Twitter (or Tumblr, or, or...) because we've gotten used to the idea of Stuff For Free. But the model just isn't sustainable, particularly given the ongoing attack on the only (ad) revenue stream that these services do have.
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Now we just need a follow-up post from someone at AngelList explaining how their "signal" algorithm strongly weights proximity to tech hub and we will come full circle.
> Remember, greed will never disappear.

I agree, but that's actually a good thing. How do you get more than someone else if everything is made for free by machines? New jobs would have to appear that produce handmade expensive goods and services that the rich can use to distinguish themselves from the poor :)

We're living in a lite version of that utopian world today, actually. It's pretty damn cheap to live in Canada or the US if you don't buy anything but food, water, and shelter. You'll find that most of your dollars today are spent on luxurious crap to improve your standing versus other people (new cars, rent in a fashionable urban center, new clothes, etc.)

In many socialist countries welfare is good enough that you can live quite healthy without ever working at all!

But we've always found new things to work on and purchase and we will continue to do so. They'll just be more meaningful than the repetitive crap most people have to do to eke out a living today.
I wonder if its possible to counter this through obscurity. Since the sensor is on the back of the phone, you can use your ring finger to unlock it instead. If >3 attempts with any other fingers are made, then the phone will be locked with a password. That way, you still keep your right to protection.
Although nowhere near to your situation, I lost important meeting notes after a conference call. After making some formatting modifications (cut/copy/paste) to organize the notes, I found myself not being able to restore any text by undo-ing some of the inadvertent changes I made. Having been burned by a feature so basic to document editing as Undo, my next steps were basically to export all of my business notes and stop using the service for any work related activities. If not for this incident, I would probably keep using it.
I sound like a cynic when I say this, but the root cause of failures like this is a principle fundamental to Evernote: data owned by an application, rather than data accessed by an application.

If all your data exists in a file hierachy that you can browse, edit manually, and back up, then you have the safety of relying only on foundational systems for the survival of your data, and the power to use your data as you please with tools of your choosing. But if the application owns your data—if it stores it behind the scenes and never exposes it to you directly—then your data is exactly as fragile as that application. If there’s a bug, your data can disappear. If the company goes under, your application can rot to unusability. If the product is discontinued, the same. If the company kills a feature, you have to do without it. Or, most likely of all, the company could start publishing buggier and buggier updates, and you’ll have no choice but to use buggier and buggier software.

It seems like a clear choice to me: if the data is anything I value, I must have direct access to it, regardless of what tools I use to manipulate it. The only data I let websites or applications own is data I’d be OK with losing.
I'm a very casual Evernote user; I only use the free version, every few months, to sync basic things (e.g., shopping lists, or directions) between my desktop and phone.

A few months ago, I noticed that there were suddenly lots of ads within Evernote, encouraging me to upgrade to the paid version. I'm not complaining, since they need to make money, but it did strike me as being more aggressive than before. Now I understand what was (is) happening.
Arkansas alum here too! Still some of my fondest years!

I think schools like this are _especially_ useful in rural/poor states like our own, where cultural and educational norms are a bit behind. Imagine going from a school where the highest level of math is trig and there are no comp sci courses to one where you can take differential equations, astrophysics, or robotics.

For me personally, it was validating to find a like-minded community where nerdiness is a virtue instead of a scourge.
It's not that complicated. Have the user toggle an "I also claim ownership of this directory" flag before letting them edit it and have it count against their storage after that.

(No idea how difficult it would be to introduce this into their system, but conceptually it's a pretty easily surmounted problem.)
Ironically, the "query language" part also misses the mark, and I think that part confuses people more (as in that RethinkDB discussion).

GraphQL is closer to what we call a protocol; it has minimal syntax, a kind of data model, and it can only be used for declaring requests. You can't implement anything in GraphQL: absolutely all of its expressions are implementation-provided — contrast with, say, SQL, which, being an actual query language, defines operators, arithmetic expressions, mutations, etc. A defining quality of a protocol is that it's a medium through which clients can talk to multiple black-box implementations, which is exactly what GraphQL is.

I like GraphQL, but I wish you'd thought through the name before you started to publish about it. If you'd called it something like Extensible API Protocol, nobody would have batted an eyelid.
"consider Android: it lacks button borders, making it difficult to target a particular key"

It is true, the default theme ("Material") of the google keyboard has no borders.

But, anyone can change to another theme ("Holo" theme has borders). And a lot of Android users use another keyboard app, either by choice (SwiftKey is popular, and has borders) or by default (Samsung phones have Samsung keyboard by default, not google keyboard, and it has borders).
> "The idea that a 'full name' can constitute a dox represents an understanding that in some contexts, the publication of a legal name serves as an incitement to drop a full dox."

In some contexts, a full name is a full dox, to anyone who has Google access and 10 minutes to spare. There's not really a functional difference. The presence or absence of malicious intent may determine how we judge the doxer, but the potential effect on the doxee is the same either way.
no nooo, It was an accident, just like that GCHQ guy found dead naked in a suitcase padlocked from the outside.
Yeah, I could have been more clear.
The bottomline is that if someone can hack a server to steal your fingerprint, they can just as easily use the same method to steal your method so I don't really see the differen imho.
The specific examples I used were not the point.

The point is that you must give new technology time to grow and become mainstream before you can expect them to be everything for everyone.

Lots of new tech will never be everything for everyone
This does NOT suck.

General aviation is a fairly risky activity, and usually the pilot (and friends of the pilot) accept that risk when flying. With a service like Flytenow it's possible (in my opinion probable) that 'enthusiasts' don't fully appreciate how much greater the risks are of a short trip in someone's Cessna 172 versus a commercial flight on a 737.

I don't believe that the FAA wants, or should be able, to regulate pilots' abilities to share flights with their friends. In my mind, they see Flytenow's business model as one that encourages people to take risks they normally wouldn't and don't completely understand.
I've ordered a few times from Prime Now and so far it's been a pretty good experience. I like how it shows real time GPS tracking of the delivery driver as well as the name of the driver.

I've put specific instructions on where to leave the package if I'm not there or to give me a call when they've arrived, and so far no problems there. It's pretty easy to associate the courier as a courier since a notification pops up saying the driver has arrived and you can see the person holding a big brown bag with an amazon label on it. Pretty straight forward imo.

So far a much better experience than OnTrac leaving shit wherever they please.
> The Pixel C takes an entirely new approach to the tablet experience.

It looks like any other tablet.
> So it seems to me that I can put my notebooks into git and not worry about losing anything

most of the point of paying for evernote is they should remove the worry about losing anything. Their entire point for being is to record your notes. And keep them safe and accessible. If there's a statistically noticeable chance that they will lose some or all of your data, they have no substantive value.
> I think there's a clear difference between correlating a pseudonym to a real-life identity, and malicious "doxing" that could cause harm.

There's a clear difference, yes, but it's only really relevant to how we judge the doxer. It's comparable to outing a closeted queer person: whether it's done maliciously or out of pure, naive innocence, the fallout for the subject is the same.
I don't think the point is to make the result fair, I think the point is to make the process fair. The US ideal has always been about equality opportunity rather than equal outcome. By agreeing on an algorithm for drawing lines, you remove any bias from the process, which is probably as good as we're going to get.

I do think the algorithm presented here is too simplistic. It's likely to create situations where people have to travel long distances to their polling places and, if anything, we should be optimizing for voter turn out. It could, perhaps, work if cities were never split between districts, but even then people who live just over the border may have to travel quite a ways to vote.

I wonder whether we're arguing over the best bad idea rather than something simpler which would yield a better result. Is there really a benefit to geographically grouping voters? I'd argue that you're likely to get better representation from grouping voters by age range rather than locality. We've consistently seen policies that benefit older demographics over younger demographics...perhaps if there was a candidate elected only by 20-somethings, that demographic would actually be represented for once.
Would you use the same argument for hiring discrimination?

I.e. if a sector of the labor economy is discriminated against, do you say, well, let's fix that issue with government subsidies/negative taxes? If women get paid 80 on the dollar, we make the government make up the rest rather than legislate that companies to pay justly?
While it sounds excessive that a company has so many worldwide offices to even have 3 to close, good luck having them focus on important problems with their software if any of those 47 layoffs included developers. This kind of fatal flaw that can result in data loss makes it sound like they prioritize new features and marketing above the product itself.
I find these long articles about such tiny details odd - extremely nit-picky and ultimately pointless.

Granted this is only based on personal experience and the experiences of people I know. Basically people figure out the shift key in less than ten seconds and it's not an issue.

Is this really a big deal for people? It looks nice and it works well, who cares?

It seems like you can always arbitrarily argue that a certain design decision is better than some alternative - it feels more like bullshit than science.