skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that might be the crux of the issue. Convincing people and making a logical argument aren't the same thing and are only tangentially related.

The former requires a level of emotional intelligence and coercion in addition to any logical arguments. Why? Because people are people and they will only resent you if you just mechanically present arguments even if you're 100% right. They will look for any reason to say you're wrong even if it doesn't make sense. That's why sometimes, it's just not worth participating in some arguments. Context matters.
What’s eating Silicon Valley
> Who (in the right mind) doesn't reinstall Windows

All non-technical people, so 90% of users. I get where you're coming from (and you have valid points about speed/memory usage) but to say <1% of software on Windows is .NET is frankly wrong. Sure it's not 100% and might not even be 50%, but it's way way way above 1%.
Not that I believe the Russian economy to be better-run than the American, but right now the US does have the big advantage over just about everyone else of being able to print the world's reserve currency, which makes it easier to make the rest of the world pay to solve its problems, and I think the US did use that trick a lot after 2008 (QE being debt monetization, and the Fed's balance sheet having grown with no clear date when it'll shrink back.) So it's a bit hard to compare the US to others.

As to how well markets functioned wrt the 2008 crisis - one question concerns credit rating agencies. If you believe that they didn't do their jobs well, then it should be troubling that they didn't go out of business, quite the contrary, it's the same small number of firms which still operate in this business. If you believe that they did do their jobs well, because the government bail-out resulted in most junk debt being repaid to creditors, then you essentially don't believe that markets function very well, as they seem to have made a correct calculation that they can extract money out of taxpayers through this junk paper, and that is not what any economist would praise as markets functioning for the benefit of society.

(Two counterarguments to the above that I heard are, the government caused the housing bubble in the first place, or alternatively the government helped smooth/stabilize asset prices, including housing prices, which is a proper use of monetary policy, and the paper was never "really" junk since housing prices rebounded later. Dean Baker argues against the latter based essentially on buying homes getting costlier relatively to renting them in bubble years. The former counterargument is voiced more rarely which is perhaps why I haven't heard a counter-counterargument. Anyway, I think this whole thing is a bit muddy...)
Denmark actually deserves all of it. They've changed recently to becoming one on of the better Scandinavian countries who don't hate themselves. Bonus points for Christian the Tyrant making history classes fun and enjoyable while doing the proper thing to spineless...

I've learnt to overlook their language problems. Danish is still disgusting. But so is manure.
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The one difference between China and India is that of Democracy. Even though both the nations boast of a corrupt governance system, yet the fact that in India, a non functioning government is more likely to get kicked out by an increasingly well aware population, makes it a safer bet in the long term I guess.

To Quote Thomas Friedman[0]:

"If India and China were both highways, the Chinese highway would be a six-lane, perfectly paved road, but with a huge speed bump off in the distance labeled "Political reform: how in the world do we get from Communism to a more open society?" When 1.3 billion people going 80 miles an hour hit a speed bump, one of two things happens: Either the car flies into the air and slams down, and all the parts hold together and it keeps on moving -- or the car flies into the air, slams down and all the wheels fall off. Which it will be with China, I don't know. India, by contrast, is like a highway full of potholes, with no sidewalks and half the streetlamps broken. But off in the distance, the road seems to smooth out, and if it does, this country will be a dynamo. The question is: Is that smoother road in the distance a mirage or the real thing?"

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/08/opinion/bangalore-hot-and-...
Just out of interest, what is the overwhelming scientific evidence? Is it causal or just correlational? Because I can imagine tons of reasons why children who are often spanked have more problems in school - not least, reverse causality - that would not imply you should never spank your child.
All passive income require some initial work. Some more than others. But selling ebooks is something that can get you recurring sales just like "writing" apps, websites etc
> they don't help you find it

Not true in my case. (I've had Pro for a long time, not sure which if any of these are Pro-only...) I can audition as much unheard-by-me recommended-by-Spotify music as I want through its Weekly playlist, its various curated genre "browse" playlists, its "trending" playlist (where you will often hear things that only become "visibly" popular MONTHS later, the playlist content is actually determined via algorithm to spot trendings super early)
I only take a hobby interest in this stuff but one approach is the one DeepMind has taken to learning video games described a bit here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

Their system is I think an AGI as in artificial general intelligence system though not at human levels yet (apart from playing Breakout and Space Invaders). Here's Demis Hassabis talking about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X-NdPtFKq0&feature=youtu.be...

Stack is their Torch machine learning library partly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torch_(machine_learning)
See also 'Bowie Bonds' - http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/01/11/2149761/a-short-histor...

David Bowie sold the rights to future royalties from his music, in the form of bonds. Presumably influenced by his thinking that music was going to be napsterised.
"let's cuddle" "let's have sex" "I miss snuggling" "I don't want to go to sleep alone" "we never spend time together" "I can't sleep when you're not there" "I'm bored" blah blah blah.

She even emailed me some article about how Priscilla Chan made Zuckerberg sign some agreement to cuddle x amount of hours when they were dating before she would agree to move out here to be with him.

I mean, I like cuddling generally and I like sex but I have a bunch of side projects and I get a lot of work done at night! So I've started "putting her to bed" and then coming out to do work. But the problem is sometimes we have sex and then I fall asleep cuddling her, so it's kind of a trap.
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I figured thats why you asked the question... ;)
Same here. I used to make websites around late nineties and early 00s (I was about 12-14 at the time, but was doing a surprisingly good job), but find myself a little bit lost now. So, while I'm certainly not a professional web developer now, here's what I found useful in my small hobby projects.

First of all, I'm not trying to best solution — I'm pretty satisfied if my solution is just good enough. So, instead of top-notch technical quality, I aim for easy to learn tech, because I don't have a lot of time. So, I ended up using Angular in a couple of places for the client-only web apps, and using server-rendered templates backed up by Django on others. Both are mature frameworks, and both have a lot of very valid criticisms addressed at them — by professional developers that create huge projects at scale. Which I'm not, so I don't really care. And in terms of working with HTML, I always end up using Twitter bootstrap, which offers a reasonable amount of template elements that don't look ugly.

I also tried to use different project management/automation tools like npm, grunt, bower and else — because in my main line of work I can't live without em. However, I ended up that I have to spend too much time learning them compared with how much of my time do they save. So, now, instead of proper package management, I just copy minified sources and write a couple of makefiles and bash scripts to automate stuff instead of using JS and Web-specific tools and their special formats.

All of this was really hard for me, because I always feel an itch when I do not automate something that should be automated, copy code or in general, don't dig enough to find the best practice possible. But in this particular case, because I only create sites for small hobby projects, I had to make myself give a little bit less fucks, and spend this time working on actual functionality instead.
I started reading this thinking, why does everything have to be owned? This borders on the absurd. And then I thought, hey, someone should put in a helipad and start live streaming Thursday Night Monkey Knife Fights!

So yeah, now I kinda get it.
Because it's not proprietary enough?

Edit: Original response was a little tongue-in-cheek. More seriously though perhaps they will start bundling Bluetooth headphones as standard. A slim phone plus a "bulky" lightning to 3.5mm adapter doesn't sound like something Apple would do.
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No wpa2 support though.
So reddit?
Interesting. She doesn't kvetch about having to go to bed alone? Because mine does! Do you guys wake up at the same time? My lady likes to get up at 7am and go running, then she comes back and cooks both of us breakfast, so that is one perk of her going to bed first I guess.
"I'm relieved to hear that at least it doesn't pollute beyond module boundaries."

This isn't true, it is easy to come up with an example where lack of safety spreads past module boundaries.

impl Vec<T> {
pub fn evil(&mut self, len: i32, cap: i32) {
self.len = len;
self.cap = cap;
}
}

If we want to know our program is broken now, we need to look across all of the source code to see if evil is called in breaking ways.

The point was that Rust provides abstraction facilities which allow us to contain these invariants. If we are careful.
I agree completely. Personally, I'm really optimistic about India and excited to see the progress that they had lately.

But at the same time, investor's optimism has a positive feedback right until the crash, so investors will inevitably get _more_ optimistic about India than they should.
What social networks bring is the explosion of the hierarchy of information that mainstream media and politicians imposed on us for decades.

That's why a lot of media/politics criticizes social networks because it questions their role and place in the society.
Elm in the Real World
&mut vs. & isn't fundamentally about mutability: having unique access (as in &mut) does imply that mutation will be "safe" (as in, act of mutating won't cause problems, although it may violate invariants in whatever is being mutated), but types with internal mutability allow safe mutation even when shared (as in &), examples are Cell, RefCell, Mutex and the atomics.

Fields wrapped in these types can have invariants that can be violated, e.g.

struct Foo {
must_be_even: Cell<i32>
}

impl Foo {
fn evil(&self) {
self.must_be_even.set(1); // whoops
}

// ... unsafe code that relies on evenness assumption ...
}

> So it seems to fix it by hand, one could wrap all the calls which touch instances of this Vec with safe validation code -- basically guard code that runs at runtime to prevent corruptions from spreading

Yes, but unfortunately one can't always detect the corruption easily/cheaply, e.g. there's no guarantee of a detectable runtime difference between push_good and push_bad without having to introduce overhead as there's no way to look at an arbitrary memory location and tell if it has been initialised or not:

/// Push the value x onto the end of the vector
fn push_good(&mut self, x: T) {
// need space for one more element
self.reserve(1);

unsafe {
// move x into the space we just reserved
ptr::write(self.ptr.offset(self.len), x);
}
// register that there's a new element
self.len += 1;
}

// just like `evil`
fn push_bad(&mut self, x: T) {
self.reserve(1);
// don't bother writing `x`, too slow!
self.len += 1;
}

Also, there are various opt-in modes that will try to detect problems in this vein automatically (opt-in because they have non-trivial overhead). For example, debug_assertions mode built into rustc (enables integer overflow checking, and any `debug_assert!`s in libraries), and sanitisers/checkers designed for C/C++ such as valgrind (works with Rust), TSan and ASan (don't yet work).
> IMHO having courses like ... is a great way to mass produce monkey programmers.

Definitely, I took a RoR elective and I wish there had been a Lisp/FP elective I could have taken. I'm pretty sure I only had one class where first class functions were even mentioned.
Compare a US problem that caused global recession, to a single countries recession!?

Or even better compare to china that might have to down grade its growth to "normal"...

I forgot what your point was...
My original comment:

> a lot of criticism against US financial system is completely valid
Well, even if that's true, we can't pretend that 2008 wasn't caused by unlevel playing field, intransparent markets, faulty regulation, corruption and great concentration of power (in the hands of banks and rating agencies).
The rules of globalisation sadly only suit corporations and not individuals.
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A Brief History of Mobile Texting
> Compare a US problem that caused global recession, to a single countries recession!?

It wasn't a single country's recession, it was connected to the Asia's earlier crisis and oil price plummeting.

> I forgot what your point was...

You can read it above.
It's my hypothesis that the authoritarian actions leading to 2008 and the authoritarian responses to 2008 made it worse than it should have been.

A better structured economy would have more competition and more bankruptcies. And fewer bailouts and government-arranged mergers.

The capitalist system must be able to purge bad decisions and investments naturally or it will eventually calcify like a centrally planned economy.
If it's so, can't they just roll back?
Writing this story, I got a good sense of the difference between silicon valley culture and auto industry culture (at a time when carmakers perceive the threat from tech companies and are trying, sort of, to be more nimble and tech-ish). Bill Ford is a great entry point because his heart is in the environment and innovation--but his soul runs on fossil fuel motors zipping down the highway. And now Ford (the company) is trying to get into services--and to take on Uber.
Yes, just being on HN is one symptom.

While I'm playing around with Golang at the moment, it seems very familiar to a C-based dynamic site I had back in '97.
> 1. You're advertising another company for free. Is Facebook paying you to put their logo on your site? No.

First of all, it doesn't matter. Facebook is not your competitor, so you're not harming yourself.

Secondly, Facebook is an immensely popular communications platform. Even if for some reason you dislike them because they're privately owned, it doesn't change the fact that that's where people are. If you want to reach people, you want to be where they are.

> 2. When people like/follow your page, they are trapped by FB(or some other social media) and you can only reach them there.

Facebook is not trapping anyone inside. If you mean that you can't contact them out-of-band, then well, that's by design and actually a feature.

> If you're banned or they pull bait-and-switch on you, like Facebook did, you've wasted all this time building user base for Facebook and not building your business.

Most businesses come to the rational conclusion that this almost never happens, and the small risk is worth being where the customers are.

> 3. You can't even reach them on Facebook, because you now have to pay Facebook to reach people that have already liked your page.

That is totally by design and again, very much a feature.

For some reasons businesses think they're entitled to "reaching out" to people with their unsolicited offers. They're not. We don't want your spam. Neither your, nor that of any of hundreds of companies we deal with every month. The etiquette here is the Hollywood principle - don't call us, we'll call you.

> 4. Posting on social media wastes a lot of time and money(tools + people).

It's actually simpler than writing quality e-mails, or quality snailmails. There is some additional work because people will reach out to you more through Facebook than through conventional channels, and you need someone to handle the communication.

> - Compare this to getting an email address from your visitors:

> 1. You are in control of your list.

Which is something we, the customers, don't want.

> 2. You can reach them anywhere & anytime almost for free.

And that we absolutely, positively don't want most of the time.

I mean, I get it. There are some exchanges we both agree that we want to have. You can't make a reliable newsletter via Facebook, nor I would like to get my account info through Messenger. But please move your ad communications to Facebook, where they will be unobtrusive for us and properly curtailed by the platform.
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Touch/pointer events test results
I haven't used Redux really yet, because Mobservable [0] seemed even easier to use, with the same end result.

[0] http://mweststrate.github.io/mobservable/getting-started.htm...
Squirrel, Confused Travolta and Augmented Reality
Huh. I do the opposite. I might sign up for direct emails about dishsoap, but I'd be too embarrassed to let facebook spam all my friends that I like melonball cotton candy dishsoap, so I'll NEVER publicly "like" it. I'm really meticulous about only liking things that I don't mind if people know I support the company/product. So, basically I like my coffeehouse and my dive bar and that's about it.
How to get a job in UX
Most of those providers already enforce DMARC between themselves, which provides all the anti-spam benefit you could hope for from a new protocol. (In terms of protocol beauty, it's awful, but in terms of functionality it does what you want.)

If Gmail, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Comcast announced that they are making it more likely that outside email (from online stores, from individual Exchange installations, etc.) will be marked as spam when it's not actually spam, people will find new email hosts. Somehow.

If they just want to mark traffic as spam when it is, they're already doing that.
To clarify, I was saying "-itz" was one of the interesting slavic suffixes, not that it's missing from the linked page. In fact it's quite nicely highlighted there, and is a nice example of the suffixes which appear to be more prevalent in the former DDR.
> If anything labels are more important than ever and music sales are driven by the kind of marketing campaigns that only big records labels can afford.

That's just not true. While the very few artists that do sell albums nowadays (Taylor Swift, Adele, Kanye West, etc.) are on major labels and do have promotion from major labels, these artists are also already successful enough to have done their own promotion if they wanted to.

On top of that, these successful artists by todays standards are selling what would have been considered disappointing numbers for artists at their levels 20 years ago. In the 90s Hootie and the Blowfish (an act with no staying power) sold 16 million albums in the US. By comparison Adele's 25 which is a huge hit by today's standards has only sold 3 million copies in the US (though 16 million worldwide.) In the 90s many albums sold tens of millions of copies, nobody does that any more.

Bowie was 100% right.
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66 days later google.com.mg is still owned by not-Google, not revoked, and not on any 'safe browsing' warning lists.

So? Why would a website be in safe browsing warning lists if it doesn't do anything malicious? Does Google own a trademark in Madagascar? If so, they probably can take down this domain by asking NIC-MG. If not, then, unless this website is used for phishing, I don't see any problems with issuing a certificate.

(It's interesting how companies selling certificates switched to scare tactics after Let's Encrypt made DV certs free.)
Has anyone ever asked for a slimmer phone. Doesn't everyone ask for a bigger battery when asked?
Worse than that is when a developer has side projects that may show real expertise that was not required nor used in the previous jobs. Considering only the skills endorsed by previous jobs when doing a hire is a sure way of handicapping your company!
2008 was connected to 97? How?

Last I checked it had nothing to do with oil, so please explain.
Livescribe's developers pivoted.

The original model was positioned as an app platform -- the OLED screen, the downloadable extras. It was a bit clumsy and annoying (and had a steep learning curve).

I recently bought the Livescribe+. It cut back on features but made the core functionality work a lot better. Charges over micro-USB (like everything else these days), can run on generic pen refils. No apps, but realtime streaming to your phone (iOS or Android) over Bluetooth. It can still do pencasts/audio recording (but doesn't give you a headset so you can replay audio notes on the pen itself -- it's not a true dictation machine).

In other words, it does more by doing less (but doing it better).
China has a history of inflating economic performance indicators. Massive overestimation of grain yields was one of the key factors contributing to the Great Chinese Famine [0] [1]. It wouldn't be surprising if this would still be the case.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

[1]: http://www.missedinhistory.com/blog/missed-in-history-the-gr...
Another thing to block in my browser I suppose.
"At one point people estimated that a Facebook like was worth quite a lot of money. I am quite sure that now the value has greatly diminished"

Have you looked at a stock chart of Facebook recently? All time high basically and worth $220b.

Or did you mean the value the company brings to the user?
If only China and the rest of the South-east Asian countries could solve their tiny-island disputes the same way. Think: Thailand throws water: Songkhran! China throws baijiu: alcoholism! The Philipphines... I don't know enough about the Philippines to know what they would throw.
Me too, on July 2 1990 in New Brunswick. I won't ever forget it not just because Bowie was awesome but because a woman that climbed on stage to grab Bowie's arse leapt over the barriers and landed on my girlfriend, knocking her out.

I had to lift Em over the barrier so the roadies could take her off to get medical treatment and I spent the rest of the concert trying to find her. Poor Em was a bit stunned by the blow so when they asked her if she wanted to meet Bowie, she said, "no, I need to find my boyfriend."
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> Here are some differences: sports fans don't think that their team is capable of supernatural feats. I don't think I've ever seen a fan of one team try to convince a fan of another to change allegiance, or proselytizing on a street corner.

thinking that something is capable of supernatural feats is not required for something to become a religion.

Quite on the contrary I present you exhibit A: "forum atheists", non-believers that believe so strongly in the non-existence of anything they haven't personally seen that they will hijack any thread that is remotely near using any religious word.

To be fair, IMO a whole lot of atheists are great people. A few of them though seems to be more religious and more proselyting about it than almost any other religious group. Which is so ironic it would be quite funny if it wasn't so annoying.

Edit: removed dumb Meh
Same results and I'm way too much into guns.
Nas: Silicon Valley should make products for people of color