skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From an Australian perspective, this is an interesting read. I live in Sydney where houses are so unaffordable that it is cheaper to rent. Protection for landlords and tenants is pretty good and balanced, and in times where nutcases would gladly spend in excess of 60% of their monthly net income on a mortgage, I would rather wait and see until the market has settled. Analysts say the market is about to burst and that, for first time in history, it is considered more feasible to rent as opposed to buying and selling the property 30 years later (the NPV would be less than if I kept the money in a high interest savings account). Property is all the craze here, but soon the average Aussie will wake up with a huge financial hangover.
Democracy might not be efficient but it is the best safeguard we have against severe abuses. Look at China they might have benefited from their autocracy in recent years, but they paid dearly for it during the cultural revolution. India has been spared horrors like that exactly because they have been a democracy.

Other than that I think the countries are too different to make any hard conclusions. China has very strong traditions for effective administration going thousands of years back. This has likely been of more profound importance than dictatorship. Japan after the war managed to grow very rapidly under democracy. So did Germany.

While economic development in India has always been difficult. Even during the British dictatorship in India they had problems getting any kind of modern business going.

I think India suffers from not really being a single country and from being dam hot. It is harder to get stuff done under such heat. Productivity will pick up there when aircondition becomes far more common.

Really I think India should be multiple countries. When you put together lots of countries which are too different, you will get too many conflicts which will make progress grind to a halt.
We use Windows 10 for Education on staff and some student PCs at work. An Atom processor based small form factor PC with 2Gb of RAM is running Windows 10 for Education much more smoothly than it ran the previous Windows 7 install.

No speed demon, but usable. Switching between Outlook, MSIE, a couple of Office 2010 applications, perhaps OpenOffice for conversion, and the interactive whiteboard software does result in some swapping and time for pages to load back into working memory but I guess this is saving us the cost of a client hardware refresh on something like 500 to 700 screens for another few years.

The only thing I don't like is that strange effect when you are typing text into a window (e.g. Word or Outlook email message) when the appearance of the character on the screen tries to simulate a typewriter so it appears then the cursor slides across to the next space for a character.
It's not our fault Windows 7 was the last good thing Microsoft ever did, in terms of operating systems.
I have outgrown a few laptops since 2006 when I finally gave up dual boot and just ran with Linux. Linux admittedly does have the occasional mixup (especially about competing graphical interfaces and init systems) and does sometimes need a little experimentation to get things working as I would like; however, these seeming inconveniences are mostly caused by newly presented "options" and are not about forced lock-in. Besides, Linux also has some very positive qualities that have become essential to me. Linux maintains compatibility with old code (sometimes very very old code) that is still useful to me. Linux puts an astounding array of tools at my fingertips that help me automate work and learn new things. Linux also keeps me secure, virus-free and conveniently keeps everything installed on disk up-to-date... and it gradually (every 6 mos for me) gets better all the time -- for free. I can't see a reason why I would ever want to return to an OS as restrictive and inconvenient as Windows.
Very interesting with the high number of women in college. In the long run I think they will bury Saudi Arabia. Once oil runs out Saudi will have nothing but Iran will have a much stronger foundation to build on.

They already got lots of industry like car manufacture.
I wrote something about this very topic years ago:

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=49
I totally was, being fascinated by the social aspects of metals, I couldn't resist. But a good physics story is still ... wait for it .. gold.
I'm not familiar with HOAs. You pay them, they pay your utilities? How much are the HOA and utilities worth when they are apart?
And so it is, I just commited changes so both PM2 and gunicorn are started with a specific user.
Just how long ago was this? IBM laptops all used the same charger for about a decade now, the only difference is that some models require a higher maximum wattage than other. They changed over to a common connector around the same time Apple switched to MagSafe from what I can tell.
The new hardware systems discussed will result in driver updates for pre-existing hardware to take advantage of/fix bugs with Skylake/Tablets/SoCs. Once Windows 7 is no longer the primary mainstream version, vendors will spend less QA effort on not breaking Windows 7 with a driver update.
This reminded me of this story I read on HN which also talks about how Japan refined American culture: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7580032. Very interesting subject, especially with regards to how we equate foreign with hip, and how the old becomes new again.
What I noticed i was doing was taking shortcuts for the past year so I can work more on my startup. First few years I barely hung out with friends. Big mistake.

Smaller shortcuts, like eating unhealthy to save some time, not showering everyday, shaving, to optimize my working time, was taking a toll on quality of life in the long term. Therefore I said to myself no shortcuts! This drastically increased my quality of life almost instantly as i take my time now to do "normal" things in life without rush. Actually enjoying it.

I also neglected working out and to do things I really like, always thinking I'll get to it once my startups takes off. Since I decided not to work after 6pm, I suddenly have a lot of free time which gave me the possibility to workout without feeling guilty and do other stuff I like.

I think I can further optimize by doing things like you described and will try some of them. Thanks for sharing.
"Under the U.S.A. Patriot Act, the Treasury is already authorized to require real estate companies to scrutinize real estate buyers, but the department has in the past faced fierce lobbying against issuing such rules"

This article leaves out some important background details about why this was ever a thing to begin with. Real estate professionals have lobbied for and gotten an exception to the FinCEN reporting requirements that were passed under the PATRIOT act in 2002. The exception is a 'temporary' one but it has been continuously renewed since 2002. That is largely why this problem exists at all.

The 2002 law imposed reporting requirements on businesses that accepted cash in transactions over $10k. The exemption for real estate left it as one of the only practical ways to make a large cash transaction that wouldn't end up in a so called 'suspicious activity report' being submitted to FinCEN.
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"...the fact that it will still called "Windows 10" means it gets a lot harder to refer to what exactly the OS is..."

Perhaps a date based naming scheme like CentOS might help as updates are universal outside the corporate sector?

https://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-dcca41e9a3d5ac4c6d9...
Sorry, downvoted you by mistake.
MS Office
> If you simply ignore the metro screen and swap out the Start Menu with Classic Shell it's the same damn thing as Win7 but with a variety of minor improvements.

Yes, you can do that stuff now.

The problem was that it took Microsoft several years to get to that point all the while they were jamming Windows 8 down everybody's throat.

The problem is that Windows 8 may very well be a decent operating system NOW, but Microsoft burned its opportunity. When people upgrade and then have to downgrade to get back to a usable system, they're not going to upgrade ever again short of a nuclear bomb.
> Simple supply and demand dynamics are not at work here.

I think that in this case simple supply and demand is a pretty major factor. There has been consistently limited supply of new houses in the UK (policy driven, as I understand it), and at the same time there is a healthy buy-to-let market, where the buyers are both 'big' investors and relatively ordinary people (often from older generations who rode the wave of increasing house prices and so can afford second homes).

These two factors together reduce overall supply, pushing prices up further and making younger people stay renting for longer, thus reducing their available capital even more (relatively speaking).

Governments of all stripes are utterly dis-incentivised to address the issue in any comprehensive way because driving down house prices would completely screw over a large section of the voting public (i.e. almost anyone who currently has a house).

Mortgage prices are ridiculously lower than rents in this country - you could easily pay half as much in mortgage repayments as you do in rental costs for the same home, at least in the south.
>or the decision to not connect Crossrail to Oxford Circus and force people to walk up, along the street and down instead.

Crossrail runs directly under Holborn, Tottenham Court Road, Oxford Circus and Bond Street, but it's not a frequently stopping line like the Central that visits all of them. Also the far exit from TCR and BS are a considerable way towards OC. It costs the same to go on the Central line to OC even if you started your journey on Crossrail.
Come to Rajeev Chawk station of New Delhi Metro, and you will see 3 rows of people on escalator: Left, Right & Center too.

Must be almost touching the escalator's "Design Capacity"!
Of course not. However, since you have several lanes, what about having "walking compulsory" and "standing compulsory" escalators? Assuming enough escalators to get the right distribution, this would ensure maximum throughput and minimum annoyance at peak hours.
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> ...but normally you first set you listeners and then you trigger the events, the other way around makes no sense

Perhaps I might have misunderstood what you're saying, so bear with me:

What about the case where you have two, completely independent processes: a event data Publisher, and a Subscriber proxy that proxies Subscription and Event transmissions between your Go program and the rest of the world via -I don't know- Websockets or plain TCP/IP or something.

When your Go program starts, you're likely to want start up your publisher immediately. As your program generates reportable events, it'll call Trigger even if noone has subscribed to those events, right? I mean, the whole point of a pub/sub mechanism is for the event producer(s) to not care at all about any of the event consumers... so it sounds to me like the case where Trigger will be called before anyone has called On is common. [0]

Anyway. A general thought about safe software design:

It's still important to ensure that unusual or incorrect usage of the public parts of an API fail safe whenever reasonably possible. Even the most conscientious programmers will have a brain fart and fail to remember the order in which API functions should be called. If you can detect improper usage, ideally you should signal an error (whether by return value or exception) and leave everything behind the API untouched. Trashing the list of subscribers because someone called On or Off immediately after calling Trigger is surprising and should be something that can't happen.

Anyway, good luck with your project. Think of fun and exciting ways that boneheads like me could break it, and make it so that we can't break it like that! :)

[0] Back when I used pub/sub mechanisms to attach networked controls to remote computerized systems, it was absolutely a requirement for each of those systems to run the same regardless of whether there were 0, 1, or 100 sets of controls hooked to them.
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It's how humans rationalize their view of their own "development" and "progression":

1. I liked to do an activity before.

2. I don't do that activity any more, nor like it.

3. I am older, so I must be wiser (or else I wasted my time)

4. Therefore the old activity was bullshit all along. All hail my personal development.
There are a lot of banks that will make mortgage loans to an LLC. It isn't common in general though because you would end up paying a higher interest rate (~+2%) since your newly formed LLC doesn't have an established credit record and if you were using the home as your residence you wouldn't be able to deduct the mortgage interest from your taxes. Those to costs would far outweigh any privacy benefit an LLC would afford to the average person.
if you are going to quote from the wiki page and from what Sharon said you can maybe add some other quotes from the same wiki such as:
"I couldn't believe my ears. As I went back over each step of the operation, I began to understand what must have happened. For years Israeli reprisal raids had never succeeded in doing more than blowing up a few outlying buildings, if that. Expecting the same, some Arab families must have stayed in their houses rather than running away. In those big stone houses [...] some could easily have hidden in the cellars and back rooms, keeping quiet when the paratroopers went in to check and yell out a warning. The result was this tragedy that had happened."

And even in your own quote it said that "Sharon personally ordered his troops to achieve" so if you want to have a blame game that the persona responsible.

Again from the same "Orders to inflict heavy damage on the Arab Legion" not to directly kill civilian indiscriminately.

"Civilian scientists working on a military project" - and that's make them a valid target, remember that weren't doing space exploration they were building nuclear weapons!

Innocent civilian die all the time, it's unfortunate and sad but true. But there is a difference between killing for the sole purpose of of killing them and when they are collateral damage - and when it happens Israel regrets that, and remember that Israel tries to minimize it as much as possible, no one is happy when that happens unlike their fellow neighbors.

The MEK has denied any involvement in the assassinations and the existence of any alliance with Israel, and as you said they are no longer on the terror list, it was even lifted in 2009 by the Council of the European Union and on 2012 by the US, MEK is different than what it was in the 70s.
I can't say the same for Hamas or Hezbollah, both funded by Iran, with the sole purpose of destroying Israel.

Israel isn't violating the NPT because it didn't sign it. I would think that once there is no threat to the existence of Israel the need to be a nuclear power will be gone. Israel was pushed to that by the continued aggression of the Arabs in the region.
Why is that? I'm cooking all my meals but think it's the worst choir of all. Complete waste of time.
The real MVP
My newsfeed experience drastically improved the minute they allowed to disable generic this-happened-x-years-ago posts.

That said I think it's reasonable to assume that some further control mechanisms for the user might make a better experience. On the other hand there is probably a point where possible configuration hurts the experience.
I wonder: can we get something like complete list of servers accessed by those Microsoft trojans? If you try to block SearchUI.exe on system level Microsoft will always find a way to bypass it. If you do that with firewal on your ROUTER then you are protected, at least at home, while being in your own LAN.
Microsoft Will Not Support Upcoming Processors Except on Windows 10
How to do something about it:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/04/land-val...

Of course, keeping an eye on the money flows themselves will help.
It's not "the government" and it's not "force".
Several years? Classic Shell came out contemporaneously or nearly so with Windows 8.
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Nonetheless, if that's representative of Metro, I'll just say "no thanks".

The problem is that Metro is apparently intended for phone/tablets. It may be good for this kind of scenario, the little I've seen of it is disastrous for desktop use. I want the best use of screen real estate, not an ersatz Android intended for small touch screens.
Rather indirectly paid for by a preteen or teen with a lot of malware. There's a lot more of them than elderly people with computers. I host lanparties for my sons and their classmates. The things I've seen... Parents will assume the slow computer needs an upgrade (I.e. A new computer). Resulting in an unnecessary expense that could probably be quantified.
How to Cross 5 International Borders in 1 Minute Without Sweating (2014)
I think Seneca said something on the topic that meshes even better with HN and the startup way of life than this essay:

The state of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but the most wretched are those who are toiling not even at their own preoccupations but must regulate their sleep by another’s, their walk by another’s pace, and obey orders in those freest of all things, loving and hating. If such people want to know how short their lives are, let them reflect how small a portion is their own.
20 years is 1% of the time since the Bible was written to today.

Life is short, so is history, and the impact we can make is enormous.
The goroutine is created in Observable.On(), but is initially blocked in a select. Trigger() is what "kicks it off" in the sense of unblocking the goroutine, so it can do real work. Apologies that that was unclear.

The observer pattern decouples notifiers from observers. Observers may come and go at any time, and whenever a notification is posted, all the currently registered observers see it. If you demand that all observers are added before the first notification, then your notifier has to know which (or how many) observers are going to register! You've coupled your notifiers and observers, which is exactly what we're trying to avoid.

Here's a concrete example: the event is the user pressing a key. Keypresses often create a new window or change the focus or something, so you can have new observers added in response to a keypress. So a Trigger() leads to an On(). It does make sense!
India's Move Against the Poor
Interesting you mention the Visa card issue, because that echoes the most compelling story I've heard in favour of Bitcoin, someone stuck overseas with all their cards cancelled and the only thing they could access is Bitcoin. [If you're Australian, check out their Coinjar Swipe card for using BTC in Australian stores & ATMs.]

https://coinjar.com/stories/apostrophe

That said: it's a good idea to diversify your access to money. Have accounts at different banks - if your card gets frozen (eg online fraudster), banks will often freeze all your cards, so it's good to have cards with a different bank so you can still access some of your money. Prepaid / travel cards preloaded with some emergency funds are helpful too.
Sounds like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminiscence_bump
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<input type="password" /> I assume
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development can fix procrastination
Thanks for making this point. It hadn't occurred to me before. I am a desktop junkie because I want to monitor things like Slack, Spotify, etc. on my secondary, and find it hard to cope on notebooks with a single screen. But, you're right, some transparency would really help.. now to figure out how to do it on OS X :-)
Deploying Meteor with Jenkins and MUPX
That's a myth, Windows 10 is lighter than a fully patched Windows 7. It allowed Firefox to function on an old 1GB Eec PC which couldn't even boot without slowing to a crawl with Windows 7 that it shipped with. That being said, it worked better yet with Debian.
One of Crossrail's stations is only 200m from Oxford Circus underground station at platform level; it could have been a "double-ended" station like many other Crossrail stations. There was a deliberate decision not to connect them.
I do not always agree with PG's essays, but this one is spot on. Identifying BS is the major task we all face, and having children is a big help - this has been supremely true in my own life. Granted, this does not solve specific problems, but it gives a sense of direction. Without it we are cannot see the forest for the trees.
Well, if all you care about is value for time spent/productivity then building your own PC probably isn't the wisest decision.

On the other hand if you have more free time than money then buying a Mac would probably be not the best decision.

Context is important and I don't think OP was generalizing that every PC user is a fool. It's just not the right thing for him personally since he got kids and would rather spend time with them.
Shmoocon 2016: Computing in a Post Quantum World
Run a Windows VM on Linux (Windows 7 runs great), problem solved

Install, back up the VM image, a lot less problems than having it as your main OS
Dubai vs. Sharjah – A Cost of Living Comparison
What? The New Deal was socialist, which is liberal on the American political spectrum. Calling it part of American conservatism is clearly untrue.

Virtually no Republicans have a stated goal or platform of reducing economic inequality. Pretty much every Democrat running for president does. To claim otherwise is also clearly untrue.

I suspect you are mixing up the fact that in American politics, conservatism (which is "red") consists of what Europeans would call liberalism (in fact the New Deal was part of the reason the definitions flipped: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_coalition).
Immutable-Props – Simple Immutable.js PropTypes for React
This is the most ignorant piece I've ever read in this site. Ignorant about music, ignorant about philosophy and even architecture gets its fair share of ignorance. His comments about the music of the past are completely off ("the repertory was neither controversial nor specially challenging"), as are those about the present music (" our music has either floated into the modernist stratosphere, where only ideas can breathe, or remained attached to the earth by the repetitious mechanisms of pop.")

This crap is pedantic second rate "family values" conservatism disguised as a piece on music and philosophy.
Does bare metal Rust also use memcpy() or other library functions? If so, how are those linked into the final binary?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_(word)
Here in Lisbon, we have a station with 232 steps. Fun fact: the escalators have been at least partially non-functional 144 times in 2010.
> * Privacy * Bullying * Under age pornography

Although you seem to condemn college students, it seems as though your concerns are all solved by moving the target audience to colleges, because college students are "adult" enough that we don't care about these issues for them for the most part (with respect to laws).

> Facebook, Instagram, Snapshat etc all struggle with this across their networks.

Pretty sure they all started by being built on similar user bases, and it's a tremendously appealing audience to start an app with.
Unless I’m mistaken, if Alice pays 9% of $117,000 (i.e., $10,530), then Bob pays 11.7% of $234,000 (i.e., $27,400).

An 18% tax rate would apply to earners of $1,170,000 (i.e., $210,600 in tax).

The high end would be a 63% tax rate applicable to earners of $117 billion (i.e., $73.71 billion in tax).
Juncker: End of Schengen Would Destroy Euro
More and more games are console "ports" (Both the PS4 and XbOne are basically an AMD x86 PC). And those that are not are "indie" games that work across all platforms supported by the likes of steam.