skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until we reverse aging this just pushes people who should have been able to retire into the labor market longer and longer while their bodies fail. That is a terrible punishment to inflict on people who expected to be able to live their later years without suffering.
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I'm okay with sharing my profits with those who have fallen on bad times through no fault of their own. Yes, I worked hard for what I have, but there are those who also worked hard for what they had, but forces beyond their control conspired against them.

But how should one feel when they are being asked to share with someone who spent everything on the present. They benefited then while you benefit now. It might be fair for me to share with them now if they could share with me their own benefits, but alas they cannot. It would be nice of me to do so anyways, but if I am forced to sacrifice reaping the benefits of saving... then why should I have ever saved to begin with?

What lesson do we want to pass on to our children? That if you plan for the future, you will be able to benefit from your savings and we will help you if you suffer bad luck, or that you should live in the now and you will be taken care of in the future even if you don't plan for it?

(And to complicate the matter, most cases are a combination of some bad choices and some bad luck.)
As I said in a comment below, he's at a top tier program (CMU), so it's likely I didn't understand his adverse reaction. You mention below his/his advisor's adverse reaction may be about "a movement to move to no cost journals", not about reputation. When I see him tonight I'll ask.
I'm intrigued to know the story here, for sure. I've seen people like Chris Roberts refund a Star Citizen heckler's order, but arguably that person was demanding over and over that SC allow backers refunds along with threatening legal action, so granting him one seemed less questionable.
I hope to be wrong, but secrecy like this usually doesn't bode well. Best case, I'm expecting something like Segway or Apple Watch -- overhyped from secrecy, but legitimate, but not all that amazing. Middle case is something like Theranos; not overt fraud from the beginning, but the result of a lot of pivots and coverup. But most often it is outright bad.

Short term practical or tactical secrecy, sure. And in some industries, probably not as bad a signal. But software-heavy hardware ecosystems aren't one of those.

Outside of wars, Ultra or Manhattan just aren't that good a way to work. Why cut yourself off from the global community?
I wouldn't go so far as to avoid them if they have a website. However, my own opinion is that if you need a locksmith or a plumber, go to the good-old-fashioned Yellow Pages. Look for someone local, and LOOK FOR THE LICENSE NUMBER. If you're sufficiently paranoid, check up on that license number before calling them.
Here's a good place to start: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cost_of_Knowledge
The choice to drive, the choice to speed are what I was talking about.
It would be even cooler if HTML input can be edited using markdown source.

For eg., you compile an email in Gmail, but edit it using Markdown in Atom (or whatever editor); the final content gets rendered as HTML. Effectively you are sending HTML email that was composed and edited in Markdown.
Use cases I thought of and I haven't even used it or similar plugins:

You want to use Atom's Markdown preview of a reddit comment or a github issue or anything else that takes Markdown.

You want autosave of a comment/input in case you accidentally close the tab, navigate away, or restart your browser.

You want to write code in a comment/email.

You want to use more advanced editing commands, things like undo-tree.
I wonder if his copy has a notice of copyright recorded. If not, and the NFL doesn't have a copy, how can they prove that the notice was affixed during the broadcast?
If you cannot install a native program you wrote for the device without hacking the firmware on the device, you do not have a 'real' operating system. I mean, of course you have an operating system, it's just one that Apple, Microsoft, or Google controls in the strict sense what you can do with it.
Thats quite true. I've attempted to guide several people and the ones that do well are the ones that will stubbornly constantly attempt to solve and research the problems themselves - I have to keep checking up on them to resolve roadblocks. The ones who do less well are the ones who need a constant high levels of guidance.
Ask HN: Law about X (i.e. Conway, Moore's, etc.)
Is there a ~Law~ which says something like the following: No entity can be created that is more complex than the entity that creates it.

I bumped into a video of F. V. Hayek, and his whole argument hinges on that -- 'was wondering if
there was a namespace for that idea.
Finally! Seagate has been dropping the ball on drive stability for a long time now, and the failure rates on these 3TB disks is completely unacceptable. Additionally, seagate's own RMA department has been failing terribly, with a lot of their "recertified" disks being returned to customers with serious conflicts, ranging from a high number of uncorrectable sectors to logic board problems that completely cripple systems they are installed in.

Nasdaq:STX is down 1.80 points (5.92%) right now. It was down around 6.76% about an hour ago. I hope, for the sake of their shareholders & customers, that seagate gets it together.
Do wonder how many others over in China or elsewhere has made the same mistake i have apparently made.

4.11 could really use a massive cleanup for readability it seems.
I'm curious, what comment by Mr. Musk would make you feel good about Tesla's actions?
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I love U2F and wish more websites supported it. I bought two nano YubiKeys (they fit almost completely inside a USB port, just sticking out enough to touch the capacitive edge or dig out with a fingernail). I keep one in my laptop and one on my keychain (the keychain one also has NFC which, someday, should let me authenticate my phone).

Chrome's U2F support has worked flawlessly for me — when a website wants to register or check the token, an LED starts flashing and you touch the edge of the token to give it permission to respond. That's it — no more digging for my phone to get codes.

I was also relieved that this isn't a list of software that [requires a dongle to run](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_protection_dongle) :).
Wholeheartedly agreed. When I was learning about OSS, I had no idea what a "pull request" was but people kept mentioning it. A standard guide on how OSS works with Github, Linux, and related tools would be immensely helpful in welcoming new developers into the OSS world.
It's a tricky situation. I'm not sure which is best. The advantage of using a directory for your format is that it's easy to use preexisting tools on the contents of a note.

Say your note looks like the Quiver example:

B59AC519-2A2C-4EC8-B701-E69F54F40A85.qvnote/
├── content.json
├── meta.json
└── resources
└── BCA3F8A8-C8CC-4FE5-AABB-C4262134B9E7.tiff

You can examine and modify the .tiff file using normal command line tools. This is nice!

Whether this adds to the complication of the project depends on your perspective. From the user's perspective this is simpler, they can now use normal tools to work on resources without having to manually extract and then reinsert the resource.

But from an overall perspective (which is probably more important), I think you're right that this is more complicated. Directories are higher level than JSON files -- we don't always have tools that can work with them. A JSON file has a both a single Unicode and byte representation, not so for directories. Losing this to make things easier on the user is no small deal.

Perhaps the right answer _is_ to put the whole note in a single JSON file. From there it can be transformed into directory with FUSE for modification by standard tools (or for export purposes if the user wants to move away from our note type). I'm still not sure about this though.
Pffff - totally
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The only real use-case I can see here is getting access to multi-select, and find/replace utilities, or perhaps other custom shortcuts you might use. Overall a neat little trick. Atom is not my usual editor of choice but I could see a few small potential use cases.
They may have people able to testify that they did it to all copies, etc, but it will end up a jury question.
> You're in an RV, how do you go 15 over the limit?

She was doing 43 in 35, or just 8mph over the limit. That's not impossible.
There's a lot that can be done to lower the amount we spend on the elderly. Something like 50% of health care costs are spent on a small minority of the population in their last year or two of life.

Anecdotally, my grandmother who worked as a state nurse for about 15 years (which is less than I've worked now that I'm in my mid 30's) received a golden pension higher than the average salary in the US along with 100% free health insurance. In the last few years of her life she used probably a million dollars in health services - new hips, massive amounts of brand medication, ear specialists, eye specialists, and finally the last few weeks of life sustaining care in the hospital.

She did not die in poverty. In fact, for the last 30 years of her non-working life, she enjoyed better medical care and a standard of living far better than any of her grandkids who were paying for her.
Platforms that are completely compiled will do dead code removal. JavaScript is very dynamic so it can be hard to tell what is and is not dead code.
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I look at it as an evolution of arcade games. Granted, arcades were also meeting/hangout places and they often had games that looked and played better than anything you could get at home.

Still, from the perspective of the companies that made them, it was similar. Look at the earlier games or even the current gen of pachinko games that are still popular in Japan and you can see the sort of overlap between video games and the exploitation of impulses and reactions typically associated with gambling.

I remember not understanding why my folks never wanted to give me money to go screw around in the arcade at the mall but looking at microtransactions and "energy games" on mobile, I completely get it now. Sure, to beat an arcade game or beat a high score can take enormous skill but in order to develop that skill, you need to keep feeding an endless stream of quarters. It's the original gaming microtransaction.
>Assault weapon is colloquially defined as a firearm with a detachable magazine and a pistol grip.

Rifle. Not firearm. Otherwise every pistol that isn't a muzzle/breech loader or revolver is an 'assault weapon', which is makes the distinction even more functionally useless.
As a software engineer, I'm always baffled by this reaction... It's $10, less than what I just paid for lunch. Have we completely lost the value of good software?
That patent is about a user interface for hiding/showing the code that creates particular rendered outputs, not for the general idea of a “notebook” UI.

I suspect there’s prior art (Hypercard? every spreadsheet ever? this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_graphical_user_interfa... ?), and the patent seems pretty obvious, but in any event, I don’t think other “code notebook” implementations are currently infringing this patent, and it seems relatively straightforward to work around.
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This applies to basically everything that a society does.

I completely agree. Couldn't we say, then, that the current system of traffic fines (or at least the one that applies to the woman in this article) is something that has been approved by our society...rich and poor alike?
In my opinion:

User Interface. Dropbox presented a beautifully clean metaphor for how your files get synced. It doesn't matter if you understand what "the cloud" is. My grandmother understands: "put things in folder, folder available elsewhere".

On the other hand we've got Google Drive. Is GMail using Google drive? Is Google Photos using Google Drive? Why don't folders other people have shared to me not appear in my folder? Why isn't 'Shared with Me' the same as "Mine". Is Google Drive the same thing as Google Docs?

Not to mention - Dropbox really pushed the "Desktop App", while Google Drive pushed the "Web First" approach. Add on referral bonuses, Dropbox had some good solid adoption - well, at least among free users.

I use both extensively - Dropbox Pro for everything personal, and Google Drive for everything at work, and I still get confused about the where I saved/shared files to in Google Drive.
Api.ai is focused on conversation and context awareness support and leverages huge amount of data daily processed by its engine.
> terrorist is an armed combatant who explicitly strikes at civilians instead of at their government

Uhm, no. This is closer to the definition of terrorism, but it's still not it. Drug store robbery gone violent involves armed people who may explicitly strike a civilian shop owner who turned out to have a gun under the counter.

Terrorism is about intent: to spread terror. If you're blowing a bomb up just to see the bodies fly, you're not a terrorist. But if you're conjuring an alien monster abomination to prevent a nuclear war between two super-powers through _terror_ against an imaginary alien adversary, you are a terrorist (although in this case one could argue that you indeed do it for the greater good).
For a moment, I felt bad about having reservations about the prospects of ML - I've seen some neat public videos and announcements, but they all struck me as similar to a AAA videogame release from years ago, you know, "Not actual game footage" type stuff.

Then I come here and see you mention something that popped into my head as a related case - the Segway - and I don't feel like I'm being overly negative.

I grew up learning to deal with hype in part thanks to Saturday morning cartoon ads for action figures, so I'm trying to stay on a general "Wait-and-see" positive angle, but as time marches on, it's taxing on the patience.
She's over $50 000 in debt. You can't just discount that from this type of analysis.
It's not that you're complaining about the article reaching front page. It's the insulting way you're doing it. You were out of line in the line that deng quoted (per HN guidelines).

Second: deng is a (the?) moderator here. He's not taking sides in a dispute; he's trying to keep things within the HN guidelines. He can say that the article is a troll, and say that you were out of line in the way you complained, because both the article and you were out of line.
Thats when you end up getting a used Motorola radio as your primary carry... you can't get FRS, but you can at least do GMRS and 70cm... if you do VHF you can do 2m and likely any SAR pairs. -- 73s.
She was receiving $1200 per month if I remember correctly.

Most basic income schemes I see tend to offer less than that. Perhaps this shows that basic income is not the solution we sometimes treat it as.
This was predicted:
http://a16z.com/2014/02/07/love-affair-with-tablet-is-over/
Immigration system as ponzi scheme to pay for old people?
I wind up copying text into Sublime all the time to do my formatting then paste it back into my browser.

Things like GitLab, GitHub, Bugzilla, Wikis, etc.
You have a comma separated list of strings like
"one", "two", "three", "four"
and need to turn them into Markdown bullets
- one
- two
- three
- four

... an easy task for sublime or Atom
A study by the on European trends in labour costs advocates German wage growth
That makes sense from the consumer's point of view. But imagine you're a manufacturer, producing USB device controller chips by the million. Would you really be willing to spend tens of thousands of dollars to protect against a failure mode that can only happen due to some other company's extreme negligence?
I really wish that Firefox would add U2F support.
If you design your app to use Closure from the start, it's not a problem at all, and as a sibling comment said, CLJS apps get it mostly for free.

The entire JS toolchain lost five to ten years by not adopting Closure. I suspect that in a year or two, someone will release a webpack plugin that does the exact same thing Closure did, with the exact same constraints.
The whole point of social security is that it is a social insurance program. It's funded out of workers wages, and paid back to workers in proportion to what they paid in.

If you remove the cap on social security contributions without removing the cap on payouts, how is it anything but a special surcharge on people who earn money from wages?
Broken PC ports like Tales of Symphonia are unacceptable
Yes, there are plenty of tropical countries with visa categories specifically for retired westerners. The requirements are often super-lenient (in Thailand you need to show a bank balance of $25,000 or $2,000 a month in income and you can stay as long as you want on a retiree visa).
And what would native be in the case of Android?

Flip the "unknown sources" setting and you can dump any random APK onto it.

The tablet market neither begins nor ends with iPad.
I've got a third party FB app that is basically a sandboxed wrapper for easier browsing of the mobile website, but yeah, I agree. It's more for the rare occasion I need to check on a conversation with someone who insists on using Facebook.

Otherwise, it's just something I look at once or twice a week when I'm bored and want to see what people are up to. I never connect any mobile games or other apps with my FB account and if a program or site requires FB login, I stop using it.
> If you remove the cap on social security contributions without removing the cap on payouts, how is it anything but a special surcharge on people who earn money from wages?

I never said it wasn't. I can hardly shed a tear (for myself included) for anyone making over $120K/year who pays an extra few percents of tax on income to prevent elderly poverty.
So long as you're fitting within the spectral emissions and power limits expected by the FCC - its highly unlikely that anyone would notice, or much less bother to enforce the rules.
Indeed. It is quite amazing how history is being revised here. Software virtualization was extremely useful from day 1.
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I'm not complaining about anything. I'm trying to put forth a reason for why so many other developers are complaining about the constant churn in the JS tools ecosystem, and the immense amount of setup required to do even simple web apps. Judging by the downvotes, I'm guessing my opinions aren't very popular or I strayed too far off-topic. :-)
LE is working on automating installation of certs on nginx, but not ready yet. Not a big deal though. Once I had LE set up, needed to edit only 2 lines in nginx config to point to the LE certs location. So when LE certs are renewed, nginx will use them automatically and nothing else needs to be done.

> I like the idea of dealing with SSL via reverse proxy and not needing anything in my application code to care.

Yes, a good reason to reverse proxy, also, besides TLS there's HTTP/2, and running multiple web servers, etc. on the same machine...
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First off, never claiming to understand the whole stock market or being an expert. I'm am amateur trying to make sense of this. But here is what I know very tersely (at work, can't write a paper here.)

China is highly leveraged and their stock market was crashing. Their very high spending is often accepted because of their continuing growth which people have been assuming was a lie for the past 7(?) years. They always say it's 7% growth. With a stock market crash people think that maybe people are waking up that the growth isn't there and China won't be able to sustain much longer. Thats not good for apparently many far reaching reasons.

Oil is crashing for many reasons which you could speculate about but not know for sure. The reality for the US markets is that many smaller oil companies are highly leveraged because oil was so expensive and they were funded with the idea it'd stay above something like $50/barrel. Their methods are more expensive than say Saudi Arabia's methods which allow them to sell much cheaper (although they need revenue which they're offsetting by selling bonds). Here is where I'm lost a bit, but somehow this is tied to the banks again who might be in trouble if they all start failing.

Not to mention people have been calling a correction for almost a year now based on debt levels, global banking issues, global economic issues, high P/E ratios, etc. to happen sometime around now till next year.

The stock market fear indicators on money.cnn.com[0] were at extreme levels for several days in Jan. Plenty of issues with fear and emotions in the markets right now. Some of which are well placed fears.

Apple was going down a lot during those periods of fear well before their earning call which is what has been sealing the deal. I think during that major sell off people thought it was the "top" and were getting out.

[0]: http://money.cnn.com/data/fear-and-greed/
Hence the orange jumpsuits of the Rebel Alliance.
Interesting read, but it almost paints anyone who owns a Baofeng as a terrorist. It does do a great job of showing how lame it is to think that those radios will help in a standoff like that. If the government was going to go in, you can bet the first thing they'd do is jam those cheap radios.

For anyone interested in ham radio, there isn't a better place to start. Without these cheap, not-as-good-as-something-that-costs-10x-as much radios you can get into the hobby for under $50 including your license. I'd spend a tad bit more and go for the UV-82hp and a new antenna, but $75 to get going isn't bad. Without these I don't think there would be many younger people getting started. In my area there is a very active repeater of normal people (many of them software guys, so maybe not all that normal) chatting about all kinds of topics and there is always someone to answer a question.

Passing the test isn't bad - checkout the mobile friendly http://www.hamstudy.org (no, affiliated, just a happy user).
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> Expenses increase for the working-age population.

This only happens when your tax policy is setup to fund welfare through the working poor. As an economy as a whole the US has doubled in inflation adjusted wealth in just over ten year (since 2003) and through a recession. It is obvious that the overhead of welfare has not in any way stymied US economic growth, which simply means if the tax burden of the elderly is too great upon the working poor then you are taxing the wrong source of income to fund your retirement program.
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Google Closure has been successfully tree-shaking since it was released, in 2009

One can still write code that breaks the tree-shaking. How does Google Closure solve that? Through its community and best practices. Arguably, this is where Smalltalk failed, and where other dynamic languages can take a useful lesson. (Being fostered by an environment like Google probably gave Closure a leg up this way.)

ClojureScript uses Closure for an optimization path

ClojureScript has an advantage, in that it's probably designed to not-easily produce code that breaks tree shaking.