skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alan Kirman seems to have a contemptful view of Hayek in general, judging from this article:

>he wasn’t very consistent in his views

>actually he was a horrid man

>but he was extremely bigoted, he was racist

Was he trying to imply if you advocate for free markets you are bigoted and racist? It sure looks that way...

It seems that he is trying to appeal to emotions throughout most of the interview in his criticisms of laissez-faire.

The remainder also seems to be a bunch of whoo. To give an example, he talks about people calling for reform of European labor markets, says the results will be more temporary workers and less investment in workers. He then gives the example of Toyota. Toyota doesn't invest in their workers because laws make it difficult to fire someone. The work culture in Japan contributes more to this than some government law making it harder to fire people. There is a social taboo against firing people, so they end up giving incompetent employees menial work. In fact, the prime minister of Japan is looking to break up this taboo to make the Japanese economy more flexible. Companies will invest in promising employees, but don't want to invest in employees who will not provide a return. There does not need to be government intervention for a company to invest in an employee.

Another example, he says this in the article:

>The last remark I would make is that to say “you’ve got to get rid of all those rules and regulations you have”—in general, those rules and regulations are there for a reason. Again, to use an evolutionary argument, they didn’t just appear, they got selected for.

They didn't get selected for. They got put in place. The difference is, to give an example, people didn't just stop buying less cigarettes because they thought it was bad for their health. Aversion to tobacco didn't just "evolve" in the market, it didn't get selected for. People stopped buying cigarettes because an onerous tax was imposed on it and suddenly people were forced to decide between buying cigarettes and making rent. If you say we have those regulations for health reasons, you'll get a lot of cigarette smokers saying they don't care about the health implications, they just want to make the choice for themselves. If the argument then is that their bad health costs society in medical expenses, you can argue that this is so because of still more regulations. This is an example of something that even Kirman admits in the article:

>It’s absolutely clear that as these regulations accumulate, they weren’t developed in harmony with each other, so you often get even contradictory regulations.
As usual I think this is nonsense. You can't reason based on evolution because we don't know anything about the evolutionary environment, and even if we did it is difficult to know what is adaptive from first principles. Anyone who thinks behavior must proceed from adaptive consequence should spend some time watching panda bear videos.

Furthermore this post is riddled with flawed assumptions. Just two examples: its posited that differential investment must have a consequence in psychology. Well, why? Not all organisms have the same reproductive strategies. The mantis tells us nothing about human reproduction. Furthermore the effects of culture can swamp any evolutionary inference we might make. Genghis is a counterexample, not a proof: his success was only the product of culture, not biology, and would be impossible in the evolutionary background.

Second, all of the stuff about conspicuous consumption is hogwash. Sexual selection does not mean that you can start dragging a huge millstone around and suddenly people will find you attractive; it presumes that a particular feature has evolved to be preferred. There were no Patek watches in the Rift Valley; evolution cannot be operating on them. Also, as pointed out this is a controversial theory, hardly one to hang your head on.

In sum, the notion that you can proceed beyond ecological rationalism is bunk. We have no idea what is or was really adaptive behavior. To pretend we do is certainly sexy. But it is bullshit.
My close group of a friends always has a Facebook Messenger thread going. We went to college together but have since moved to different places all around the Midwest. We make time to see each other in person a few times a year, but the main way we keep in contact is a Facebook chat that's constantly rolling.

So it goes both ways.
I love the web but I hate to work in the web. It is a shitty experience. Getting my data in and out can be a pain in the ass and slow. There is very little proper integration between services for obvious reasons. On the desktop I can pump data around in memory to other applications lightening fast and if I need to do something I can't do locally then I pump it into a cluster (cloud) service to crunch it.

Sure there are some desktop apps which suck as much as their web alternatives (Outlook for email is a great example) but overall I would much rather work with a dozen desktop apps than a dozen web services.

And then all of the other things you mentioned come into play such as code signing, no control over updates which might break my process, etc.
In that case, a clearer way of doing that might be to separate the rank 0s into its own section on the same page. "For Grandpa:" and something more bland like "Other Exciting Items" or something like that. That way, as I'm scrolling down, I see a clear break between what's for Grandpa, and what's probably not going to interest him, but is there "just in case."
Lazymorphic Apps: Bringing back the static web
Manpages are completely separate from executables. They reside in /usr/share/man (and perhaps /usr/local/share/man—not sure if that's used). Manpages for user commands are in the 1 category, so they'd be in /usr/share/man/man1.

If there is a manpage, it's possible that another manpage exists with the same name, but in a different category (such as a system call). In that case, running "man 1 http" will restrict man to only look for a user command manpage.
Building Ranorex Framework with Visual Studio
It is important to distinguish between job flexibility and what I call career flexibility. As a software developer, I can often work from home, and I can go get a cup of coffee more or less whenever I please. However, what happens if you want to scale back or leave the field for a few years? How does that affect your ability to get back into it?

Among my family and friends are a radiologist, emergency room physician, nurse anesthetist, and a (multiple) registered nurses. This is just my own observation, but they appear to have much greater options to scale back on work for a half decade while they have kids than the software developers I know, without severely compromising their career path when they re-enter full time at a later date. And all these career paths pay, at the median in San Francisco, more than the median for a software developer in San Francisco.

With the exception of radiology, telecommuting, which may people consider to be a critical element of a "flexible" job, is not a big part of most health care jobs. However, jobs like registered nurse, pharmacist, nurse anesthetist, and emergency room physician, may offer more flexibility where it counts most, especially to people who want to pursue meaningful careers but recognize that a period of life, probably when they have small children at home, will require scaling back for an extended period.
I think that's a pretty good definition. To define it for myself I took the Data Science Specialization from Coursera https://www.coursera.org/specializations/jhudatascience. There's a fair amount of stats and programming involved.
> You are not the customer they want.

That's true. Then I'd say I just don't like the engineering they are doing.
Amazon's profit per employee is about $2400. Not sure they can swing that. (360m/150k)
Any https website that I visit with netsurf, I get this empty warning: http://imgur.com/7bmDqnP ... but I used the version available in my repo, which is 2.9 .
Gimp is a thing anyway, you dirty minds. http://www.gimp.org/
I recently used maps.me while in Europe (Germany and Poland), with no data plan and only GPS on Airplane mode. With the downloaded maps, it was great. It even included entertainment, restaurants and some transportation options.
Forgive me if this isn't the right forum, but I'm genuinely interested - how was Mr. Bezos and your interactions with him?
A few of the comments on the Ars article are stating the dosage of the THC was given at 3mg/kg- but the word "dilution" along with "intraperitoneally" lets us know it was delivered via liquid injection into the gut directly. Are we sure the amount of THC injected was 3mg per kg of body weight, or was that the diluted solution (of which there was no total liquid measurement for).

This decent question asked within comments:

"Jesus, that dose. 3 mg/kg, An average mouse is 0.0192~ kg if the googles are right. A dose of edibles around 10mg for a 68kg~ (150lb) human will result in a pretty faded human, so that works out to... mm.. 0.147mg/kg if I did the math right.

So the dose being tested here is literally 20 times higher than the average dose a human will ingest. I don't know a single person who could eat 3 pot brownies a day, let alone 20. I'd be willing to wager a lot of money on 20 pot brownies a day, every day, for any length of time would be enough to cause negative health effects!

Silly question - why don't they titrate up? The amount used in this study is a massive, massive dose beyond what even a hardcore recreational user would smoke on a daily basis."-TK
My only concern with voice commands is the tracking and search recording that inevitably takes place when using something like Google Now, Siri or Cortana.

If I don't use regular Google search due to privacy and tracking concerns, why would I use Google Now?
except you can second hand inhale it, so there is an additional concern. That same concern occurs when you have children around. How much THC is in second hand smoke, let alone carcinogens and pollutants?
Is there a way to watch the classes and other course material without registering?
Are his quoted 1.4bn Android devices all outside of China? If not then the numbers for mobile and desktop come out pretty similar:

1.3bn non-China Android users = 1.4bn Android users - 0.386bn China Android users [1]
1.28 searches/user/day = 50bn searches / (1.3bn users * 30 days)

That 1.28 for mobile is pretty close to the 1.23 quoted for desktop

[1] https://www.techinasia.com/china-386-million-active-android-...
The level of and emotional investment in denial is important, it just shows that there is a problem going on.

It is a bit like when two people are accused of something, one is guilty and one is not. The one who is guilty will react more violently usually and go to extra lengths to "prove" their innocence.

So in this case we see them going the "extra length" with these response articles months after the original incident.
Designing BuzzFeed‘s YrBFF for Apple Watch
Other than the Nexus 9, Google hasn't done much to revitalize the use of tablets. This will hurt search numbers that are connected to people using office productivity tools, and it will put a drag on Google supposed new urgency to compete with Microsoft Office. A choice of tablets from multiple OEMs that are directly comparable with iPad Pro would do a lot for these causes.
Ask HN: So two tiny and speedy browsers today. which?
Today on the front page, NetSurf and Dillo has been voted up. Both offering speed and having a small footprint. Anyone have experience with both of them and can provide some comparison?
Heinlein's 'Year of the Jackpot' is a rumination on this topic.
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I have been using it in Chile for over a year now and it has been working great. When I arrived, multiple people told me that Google Maps was terrible here, but I have had good luck with OSM.
Because, what's "highly addictive" as opposed to "addictive" or "slightly addictive"? At the very least you'd have to compare heroin to other drugs using statistics to see how many people use the drug, how many times they use it, and what dosage, how many become addicted, and how many are able to break that addiction. And even then, that doesn't prove the drug itself is more addictive than other, because there are a lot of other possible explanations for why people might become addicted to one drug over another than the drug itself. There's a likely a large social aspect which has not been adequately studied: the Rat Park experiments[1] demonstrate give strong evidence that environmental factors are a key part of addiction. It's possible that people who are currently addicted to heroin would be addicted to any drug with a similar social stigma and legal status, because they would seek out behaviors they view as self-destructive, regardless of whether those behaviors actually are self-destructive or not. Do we include analysis of social aspects in what we consider to be highly addictive? And finally, there's a genetic component to addiction, especially with alcohol and benzodiazepines. Do we consider this, or are we just folding that into a flat study of the general population?

In short, saying something is "highly addictive" isn't a scientific claim because we don't have any definition of what "highly addictive" would mean. We can't even start to test the assertion because we haven't decided what the assertion means.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
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Then what explains relentless amount of texting people do during the day? I'm not sure if typing text is the barrier for people not using Google search.
Yeah I found that- but they never stated dilution amounts or total fluids given to the mice on those days, unless they mentioned it elsewhere.
I guess for starters, netsurf seems to be further along the way. At least has an installer for most OS.
>Copyright was created in order to encourage the creation of things that might not otherwise be created were copyright not to exist; //

I'm really not so sure about this: initially, like in the Statute of Anne it was to protect publishers so they could profit from the work. This has a side-effect of encouraging creation in that content creators know they have the chance to make money rather than just having their work duplicated freely.

But in current renditions of copyright law the public domain is (or was) an important element - works that would otherwise have been held privately can be duplicated when the work is older, enriching the public domain just as patents enrich[ed] the public domain with information about inventions.

I think your assertion goes a step too far. WRT the US Constitution'd "copyright" clause [which I'm imagining you had in mind] isn't a million miles away but "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" could as easily be about making knowledge public as it is about rewarding authors of "Writings".
LOL! A veruca is a form of foot infection [1] I remember having them as a kid. Hackers often regard recruiters with disdain [2] So this must be some kind of elaborate joke at the expense of recruiters?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantar_wart
[2] https://mocko.org.uk/b/2015/10/14/dont-feed-the-beast-the-gr...
The registration is free, unless you are weary of sharing your email with a university

(which are pretty good at guarding their students' privacy.. though you should definitely check their policies before signing up)...
This is capitalism critique 101.

Marx was a tech writer in a way, he wrote about the emerging power asymmetries between the people that owned the machines and the people that operated them. I know you guys are not big for socialists authors in the states, but you should at least read the classics.

PS: I'm not a communist.
I'd blame the photographer rather than the phone here. Learn to use lighting and exposure settings properly. Experiment. Take several shots of the same place with different settings until you get it right. Learn picture composition. The first and the last picture seem good so it's not the phone.
Especially because access to their site requires entering information about a recent job or interview. There's very little incentive to do this thoroughly or accurately.
It is. I've actually disagreed with him in the past in some obscure correspondence I sent him (so minor he won't recall it!), but he's not always wrong :-)
Show HN: WebRPC – Cross-platform RPC over HTTP
> The guy who was raping little kids in his van shouldn't serve his time in a nice hotel.

He shouldn't live, period: he should go straight from the jail where he was waiting trial, to the gallows. Prison should be for those who are bad enough to remove from society for a time, but not bad enough to execute; and since they will be returned to society, we should try to make sure that when they re-enter it they do so as productive, mentally-well members of society, rather than as beaten, brutalised future recidivists.
If we met new life, would we know it when we saw it?
That's a great idea :) - A clear seperation will definitely make the recommendations better. I will work on this for next update. Thanks!
Innocent people will swear that they're innocent when you falsely accuse them, too.
I strongly suspect you're correct, but I like the thesis that this is hitting their recruitment hard and that could be the primary driver.

The two go together quite well, we hear that most people don't stay at Amazon for more than 2 years, so this could be an existential threat to their current model if they're no longer able to get enough new warm bodies to replace the attrition.

That it was sparked by the first big, really prominent MSM expose strongly suggests its a perception problem of some sort, that article was just more of the same to those of us on HN.
Some additional information and examples:

A Quick Introduction to WebRPC

https://gkbrown.wordpress.com/2015/08/25/introducing-webrpc/

A Practical Example Using MarkupKit and WebRPC

https://gkbrown.wordpress.com/2015/09/08/a-practical-example...

A Practical Example Using WebRPC and Android

https://gkbrown.wordpress.com/2015/10/06/a-practical-example...
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Both from the soil and from phosphate fertilisers - see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/5914751 .

So yeah, weed probably does have similar components, but if there's one thing in its favour, weed is an expectorant - far less crap sticks around in your lungs than with tobacco.
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There is widely used tagging for a large variety of place types, and it isn't all that complicated to extract that data (which is maybe glib, but the extraction shouldn't be a big hurdle for someone that is using the data for something interesting). So the problem is that the data is sparse.
Uber's Bangalore office vandalized by its drivers over incentives woes
The one thing I'd really like to make voice control less awkward and faster is a push-to-talk button instead of the stupid activation phrases.

I want to just pull my phone out of my pocket, hold a button (or ideally hold a button on a smartwatch) and speak a command. Using the button release to finalise would also speed things up, because the phone doesn't have to wait for silence to know you're finished. It would also work better as a keyboard replacement. Select text box, hold button and speak to type.

It just seems so obvious to me that I don't know why no one's done it yet.
It's not the only reason but it's one reason I don't use their launcher. Thankfully, it's dead simple to use a different one and doesn't require any weird hacks or jailbreaking. Nova Launcher is the closest thing I've found to an "ideal" Android launcher. Superficially looks the same by default but you can enable or disable the search bar, the persistent Google Now on the leftmost page (seriously, swiping up has always worked just fine for opening Now), and fixing their odd insistence on having so few rows/columns of icons and widgets when screens keep getting larger and higher-resolution.

I understand that you no longer use an Android device but hopefully this is helpful to anyone else who happens to read the comments and has similar wants. There are other launchers but I haven't kept up with them in a while since finding one that works best for me.

Seriously though, how is this:

http://i.imgur.com/kazES2a.png

supposed to be better than this:

http://i.imgur.com/RIKz2qe.png

(in fairness, I had to throw a bunch of icons onto the Google Launcher desktop because it's not my default and I wanted to show how space is used. Also I put neutral-ish wallpapers on so as not to distract but they're not my usual ones.)
One perfectly valid outcome for an ad is simple awareness. If I go to McDonalds, I know the McRib is on their menu because a billboard said it was. The billboard didn't make me buy one, but I know it's an option. When I go to the store, I see a dozen brands of soda. I know Pepsi and Coke are popular choices because of the number of ads I see for them. I've never seen a Mr Pibb ad, so that brand seems kind of weird to me. For that matter, I know McDonalds is a popular restaurant simply because they run advertisements.

The goal of many ads isn't to make the consumer say "wow I need to buy that now!". It's so when the consumer is presented with a handful of choices, they say "yeah, I know this brand." And is certainly is measurable, in brand awareness studies.
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What tools did you use to make those nice pictures?

(didn't read it yet though, will do when I have time)
i've seen exactly 0 of this type of projects you describe in corporate multinational environemnt (or any other for that matter). in any non-agile corp i've been, projects are usually a mix, where analysis doesn't finish when dev starts, testing is ongoing with dev, just shifted a bit. and when these projects go fubar, it's usually caused my forces far away from delivery team. rarely, it's really fault of team not delivering, but agian, situation is so complex and uncontrollable, that putting everything and everybody (including all stakeholders) into agile wouldn't probably make a big difference in go/nogo call.

agile approach brings quite a few aspects that developers like and they just feel right (or at least better), but frankly, it's overhyped. just another tool/approach to certain set of situations, in certain conditions
Interesting, but I question the how much this will cost to change over considering training and current workflows on Microsoft Platforms.
Get yourself a vape... I was on 60 a day 3 months ago, got myself a kanga KBOX mini and haven't looked back - lovely thick clouds of fog, feels like smoking a pipe, hits the nicotine spot nicely.

Still coughing up the black-lung, but it's getting better.
Expert options are OOXML and ODF. You can choose your default.

I find import/export of ODF is better than LibreOffice import/export of OOXML, FWIW.
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This is a temporary step. There are two versions of their intermediate cert, the one in this article that is cross-signed and another that is signed by their own root (which isn't yet included everywhere). There's a diagram on this page that explains the situation: https://letsencrypt.org/certificates/
IMHO Leaflet/OSM dev experience is so much better than Google maps - really glad to have this option.