skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Sanders is taking a very level headed approach contrary to what the MSM tells us. He is well aware that profits drive innovation; but, it should not be at the cost of egregiously high prices and big pharmaceutical companies devoting HALF (yes, half) their profits to marketing schemes and lobbying policies.

I mean, if you have bankers telling what laws to pass for or repealing those against their interests in a democracy (which, I assume all of us want, or not?), then things have clearly gone too far.

As for libertarianism... My qualms with it is that if we woke up to a libertarian country (assuming you and other readers are from the US, which isn't the case obviously; but, for sake of this argument we may assume that...) then any potential competition to the present powers that be (think Coca-Cola or... well you get the point, I hope) would face total annihilation from the unrestrained influence of such conglomerates. Anyway, my point is to get off my tangent is that the playing field isn't level and definitely not fair.

Is Sanders a solution to ALL the problems we face? No; but, then again arguing with his closest friend, Chomsky, is a hard thing to do and I mostly agree with most of the REASONED, not ideological (that needs more emphasis), ideas that Sanders proposes, and they aren't all that "radical" as the MSM says they are.

Cheers.
Where does the youth diaspora in Vancouver lead to? The suburbs? Other cities in Canada or the US?
I think Vancouver's problem is that they don't have a strong economy otherwise. Berlin and new York are bad but at least they offer well paying jobs. That's what I gathered from a coworker who used to live in Vancouver.
I think both prospectives are valid. Personally, to normalize against the vast differences in income, I think some products and services(to a point) should be priced according to income. Medical premiums and deductibles for instance, child care, education loan payments, groceries, rent, and public transportation. If you really want to stir things up all prices are priced according to what would be charged to the top income earner in the US from last year and your price is your income divided by that number with caps(ie. premiums and deductibles no more than 12% of your income).
What you're describing is similar to the approach south Florida takes - assume many purchasers are non-residents, and therefore rely on property taxes rather than income taxes to fill the coffer

https://southfloridaforbeginners.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/th...
Theoretically I think it's great to live in a society were everyone can be themselves, without the need to 'fit in' with everyone else. To be able to do everything you truly want, without having to worry about what others might think. But I think that such a society isn't possible in the real world, since we tend to judge each other in a matter of seconds. I believe that if everyone knows everything about me, that doesn't make them judge me on the whole me, but only on the things that stand out. Just because I like to 'things' in my own home, doesn't mean that i'd like my colleagues to know about it. Or Facebook. Or the government.

It should always be my own decision (freedom of choice) to make something public.
> Nobody expects to get into a car first time in their lives, go through a 2-minute tutorial and drive on the public road.

This is how people learn to drive in many countries (e.g. Ireland). Though you usually start in a quiet car park/road or similar.

I always wondered about "drivers ed" classes I saw on US TV shows when I was younger, since they don't exist where I gre up.
I support a ban on encryption. /s

Any time something is banned, it becomes more prevalent and governments lose any semblance of control that they may have had on a thing. Such a ban would also force people to re-think security. There is a false sense of security if a thing uses an encrypted transport, or has an encrypted disk. This only partially hinders accessing data by people that are not supposed to have it. I should not have to start documenting the ways to side-step current implementations of encryption, right? This is the Hacker News, so most of you should already know at least some of the methods.

OK, back to reality. A ban would legalize what is already being done. There would be no more need for individuals to risk their own safety by breaking gag orders, NSL's, court orders, et al. Everyone would be painfully aware of what is being monitored.

BTW, I am being partially sarcastic here. The 3 letter agencies are nodding their heads as they read this. A ban on encryption would be highly detrimental to their operations. Such bans would be dead in the water or have their teeth removed before seeing the light of day.
Over the last five years, the Canadian Dollar has declined more against the Yuan than the Euro or USD. It is mentioned in the article. I think that explains why Chinese investors purchase more property in Vancouver than say, Seattle.
If your machine can deal with Vista it can deal with Windows 8 or Windows 10. You have to disable some knobs like Cortana but usually it's not slower. I'm having a Pentium M notebook with 2GB memory and it's working fine. Getting 2GB memory for old machines is pretty cheap - a few dollars on eBay.

A desktop with at least some 64bit Core2Duo is actually pretty fast if not even faster with Windows 10 instead of Windows 7 / Vista - 4GB is fine for office on such a machine.

The only caveat are these privacy and spy addons. I've yet to read some conclusive summary of these.
It's shorthand for text foratting when you only have ascii characters to dela with.

*Bold*, _underline_, /italics/, etc.
Barnum effect in action?
Let’s Learn D3.js
Wow, It took them 29 days to say "we hear you stay tuned"
That's extremely cynical and unwarranted.
They did sort of respond on the initial HN thread though. Commenting means committing and if you do the wrong decision in haste, you might screwed up in the process (as an individual or a company). Is 29 days too long? Maybe.

They do address the slowness on the commit too and they provided a timeline.
Dull to Normal Companies Making Strides with the Internet of Things
Vancouver is not unique. Similar problems exist in many cities around the world. Vancouver today is a more vibrant and economically diverse city than it has ever been. The conversation over the direction of the city is contentious pitting the old guard against the new guard, the haves vs the have nots. I would say San Francisco and Seattle have similar issues. And like you say, Berlin and Munich probably have similar problems. Although I'm not sue if Germany is seeing similar large inflows of Chinese capital and immigration.
> the more secure something gets, the less useful it is. At the extreme end, a perfectly secure system is also perfectly useless.

That's a pretty profound statement. On the one hand it totally rings true, but on the other, I wonder is there any sort of argumentation or research to back this up? I would love to be able to reuse.
"Nope, it all went downhill when they made the fonts too small!" - HN
I thought it was already established that the genes for photosensitivity led to the formation of eyes in all animals. And that the proposed benefit in the early Earth's oceans was to keep bacteria from frying themselves if they got too close to the surface (due to there being no ozone layer way back then). So, I'm not sure if this is all earth shattering knowledge at this point, but it's still a fun read.
That's definitely true. I'm completely hopeless at sales.

But I've contracted Google (via Adsense) to sell my ads. For which I pay them a ~30% commission. Conclusion: the Independent's ad sales team is a lot better at selling ads than Google's algorithms.
Story – a super testable solution to callback hell
Eh, it's how I originally watched it maybe 10 years ago when I couldn't find it anywhere else and someone strongly recommended it to me. Glad to see at least some of it on archive.org which would suggest the licensing and legality are sorted out.
DMCA Take Down of GitHub Repo?
Exactly, the best job you can get in Vancouver right now is... Real Estate Agent. And you have to speak Mandarin.
Latest financial report for SoundCloud is far worse than anybody imagined
How and why are we using Surge.sh to deploy our product pages
I agree with you, and when Jono made his post on the original Hacker News thread, I immediately followed him on twitter and even CC'd him on tweets that had people talking about things hoping that he'd respond to them, at least post a public post outside of the HN thread saying that they're working on things... But he was more worried about promoting the community leadership summit.

Kind of sad honestly. Not very good community leadership by ignoring your own community to promote a community leadership conference.
There are miles of difference between altering an organism so it'll survive better against predators or poisons, and altering an organism so it won't reproduce.

People shooting any GM advance on the same basket as if every change was the same irks me. It's similar to talk about how computer malware is harmful, thus you must never install anything on your PC.
I worry about archive.org's long term health, if people continue posting clearly under-copyright media. If I recall correctly, they operate on a fairly limited budget, so defending one mega-lawsuit could kill them. They don't have technical or legal resources that Google leverages to manage such content on YouTube.
London is also suffering from gentrification (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification)
Asics keeps pace with Adidas with Runkeeper acquisition
Amazon is in retail, a notoriously difficult industry. Even today, it does less than 20% of Walmart's net sales and has less than 10% as many employees. People wrote the same style of articles about it for years and years. Amazon is still around because it was growing and could keep raising capital. It did so through two recessions, no less.

That doesn't mean SoundCloud won't tank. But it will tank because it hits a wall in terms of growth without a potential revenue model that works at a large scale.
A global outlook on Fintech
AfriDeo launches online to fix African video discovery problem
Gone are the days Africans get to struggle to find something locally to watch online

Nigerian AfriDeo performs exactly what YiDio does in the US-Make it easy to find videos you want.

The platform wants to turn the regions vast content fragmented across the internet into an easy to find, personalize experience viewers anywhere can enjoy

Offering a service that aggregates internet videos from the continent's based studious,independent productions and user generated material with content bargaining deals

Present African video consumers a free and legal way to easily find homegrown content they enjoy

Redefining how videos from and about Africa are found online across the globe
A new record for the fastest ever data rate for digital information has been set
A lot of the young people go back to Asia for better jobs after graduating. Silicon Valley and Seattle are popular destinations. Also some move to Toronto or Montreal.
About twice a week I wish I was dumber for some reason or another.
That was going to be my question.

I mean, look at the Bay Area. They command some of the highest rents in the country, and many tech-sector workers are able to "get by" because of higher salaries from their employers. Of course, if you're not in the tech sector, you're forced to live in more affordable outskirts, like East Bay.

In NYC, they have fantastic transit, so if you don't live in Manhattan, you can still get to work relatively easily. That infrastructure investment has helped NYC maintain its desirability.

Meanwhile, Toronto has a similar problem to Vancouver, except we're building tons of condos. As long as you adjust your outlook to realize that you may only be able to afford a condominium (to buy or rent), you can make it work. Otherwise, you can move to the suburbs, but our transit is garbage, so good luck with that.

Of course, I've simplified my points and glossed over the nuances. But I think the solution is really:
1) Higher density housing (i.e. high-rise residential)
2) Much better transit
3) Options for affordable rent-subsidized housing in these developments

If you do those things, I think you'll make it easier for millenials to choose to stay, and still encourage a diverse community that's not made up of just high-income tech or finance workers. Places like Hong Kong, Tokyo, NYC, Singapore, and many more seem to be thriving cities, and I think those are the factors they have in common.
You don't need to do that, the world is big and our perspective can only incorporate so much of it. It's not really healthy to let one (relatively small) mistake or a couple of people you don't even know getting mad at you cause you to abandon things of a higher priority. (Like your current identity on a website you like.)

As Mz said, if you learned from the mistake flagellating yourself isn't necessary.
All you need to do is ban general purpose computing first.

And smartphones are pretty close to that. If vendors enforced their walled gardens a bit more and disallowed cryptography apps you would already have a crypto-free zone on billions of devices.
Open Sentry Safe in less than 5 seconds
Date: 2011
As long as sales, or its local equivalent, commits to as yet non-existing products and features, it will ever be thus.
I don't think CPU or memory really is a problem. Windows 10 requires 1GB of RAM. The bigger problem probably is that upgrading actually is costing time, programs/drivers might stop working, home users might think they're not able to update the computer theirselves or they don't even see the reason they need to.
> "Twitter is the world’s most important social network."

> "Not it's not." ... "I don't like Twitter"

What does you liking it or disliking it have anything to do with Twitter being the 'world's most important social network'? You only have to look at it's traffic and influence to know its position on the web. Whilst Facebook and Instagram are larger than Twitter terms of users, it could be argued that Twitter fills a more important niche in terms of the diversity of its content and its role as a fast moving news source.
Some other companies usually don't reply at all. E.g. Apple, Microsoft, etc.
Hm. Of course it's unprofessional to hit on a support agent, but the way this blog-post is shit-talking about their very own customers (even joking that one of them is probably too poor for champagne because they are on the free-side of their freemium plan) seems absolutely bad to me.

Edit: Especially since the product focusses on being "end-to-end-encrypted" and privacy minded, and they just purposely "leak" their customer conversations like that.
How to charge for your Open Source
I went to UBC, Vancouver from my undergrad. A large part of my friends moved to the US (since the exchange rate works in your favor). Calgary and Toronto are also popular.
Oh, I'm glad they did respond :-) In fact, I actually think that if they hadn't responded they would be seeing an exodus of projects.

Given that the issues being highlighted in that letter are long standing though, I don't think it would have been hasty to say that they appreciate the feedback and they are reviewing.

It's great of course that they responded on HN. But the fact that they only responded on HN and had no way of responding on their own site is... a bit embarrassing actually! At least I sort of feel that they should feel that way.

I actually pay for their lowest monthly tier as my needs are very limited. I largely like GitHub and will stick with them, but they just have to do something about their community engagement. If they don't, then someone is going to eat their lunch!

edit: kind of surprised at how some are responding to my comment - what did I say that was so wrong? I'm genuinely curious - it's not just me saying and thinking this, after all!
Normally with crazy bugs like this I can work out the logical sequence of events which lead to them but this one is baffling.
This went around Facebook... and in every case it took three or four people looking at the article to notice how old it was.

As one friend wrote: "_Still_ dead."
> However, for some reason, this is not easily understood regarding people with 25 points over the average.

Because most people of above-average intelligence go through life on the normal path, they just do it faster or better.

Life is certainly going to be more difficult, more dangerous, and probably less fulfilling for someone with an IQ of 85 than it will be for someone with an IQ of 110 or 135.
Is there a tl;dr? Who would be affected? Sounds scary.
I don't know about Twitter itself, but I think there have been a few attempts at federate competitors or protocols. The most recent I can recall is Tent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tent_(protocol)

It seems like Tent has morphed now into this: https://cupcake.io/
> That's like saying gun control advocates only argue as they do because they don't understand guns. It's a really silly argument.

It's a completely valid argument in both cases. Banning only the scary-looking guns has no productive effect. And if you ask normal people whether they think government employees should be able to read steamy messages between husband and wife, the answer is going to be no.

Also keep in mind that push polling is a thing. Every time you hear a statistic like "only 27% of Americans oppose mass surveillance," expect that the question was whether the government should be able to tap your phone if it was the only possible way to prevent a terrorist attack that would kill you.

If you ask whether large numbers of government employees and contractors should be able to know everything about your business and sex life if it would have the same effectiveness in catching terrorists as a variety of alternative methods that would shovel fewer tax dollars into the pockets of large government contractors, you get a different answer.
I dont know if this is sarcasm or serious.

Wasnt docker exactly meant for this purpose? docker run postgresql, oh wow.
Brutal delay in responding to their most important constituent? What the hell? This wasn't a minor user's feature request, it was an open letter signed by a ton of major open source leaders. If I was an investor in GitHub I would fire the CEO.
I remember my dad boring me to death with it until one day I paid attention and he went from a cannonball to the invention of television and I was hooked. Rented them all from Netflix a few years ago to introduce my wife to them.
I agree, some newspaper's web offerings have been awful in terms of page load and user experience.
Not singling any of them out, but I went to a popular UK newspaper's site; it loads hundreds of assets and almost crashes my tablet, and even once it loads half the screen real estate was taken up by a big advert and tiny font in the article.

The Guardian (and BBC News) seem to be the only ones taking this seriously so far, and maybe coincidence but I now go to those sites a lot more these days when I'm on my tablet.

Some of these companies should take the web more seriously (rather than some side offering they don't really care about) before its too late.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/b2c6502f-7b54-4f...

http://usabilitypost.com/2014/05/09/patrick-hamann-on-making...
If you want to read an example of the churn check out the FX industry and incentives.

Technically, the pick was tailoring laws for 1 company versus all the other companies in the state. Is there no company in the state that could benefit more than Tesla and produce growth with changed rules? Even if there was, I still believe this dealing making should be illegal since it encourages corruption and is unfair to everyone else. This is the type of thing that has politicians / political staff members "retiring" to cushy jobs in the private sector.
There's a thing called GNUSocial, which I think is open source and federated. No idea if it's popular, I've never heard of it before someone mentioned it on HN a few days ago. https://gnu.io/
As such a 20-something, I can attest that this is not universally true.
Probably System Restore would, if you have an old enough restore point.
It's really sad though when you consider gitlab answered a while back.
Exercises and Workouts – Three Good Reasons to Exercise Early in the Morning
And have suffered for it in the past (though Apple, less so, it is true).
I'll be more optimistic and be happy they replied and very interested in what they have in store. They say "next week" and it's Friday so it won't take that long.
Berlin's values have risen to the point where rents are on average 10 euros per square meter.

You can rent a 100 sqm for only 1000 euros per month!!!!

You can't get 40 sqm for that same amount in Paris.
"Issues haven't gotten much attention from GitHub these past few years and that was a mistake, but we've never stopped thinking about or caring about you and your communities."

A lot of thinking but no action. Github, what have you been up to these years??
Do your current girlfriends know about each other? :P
If you have a diagnosed disorder, you should take medication for it unless your physician suggests otherwise.
How it's said: "There is a 50% chance that we get it done between six and seven months from now."

How it's heard: "Wa wa wah, wa wa, we get it done between six and seven months from now."
Probably trying to find a balance between badtalking their customers and sensibly bringing up an important topic.

Thus why half the comments are saying they were speaking harshly about their customers, half are saying it's not serious enough in tone.

It seems obvious, based on the last sentence, that they think this is something that must be addressed.
Would you mind explaining or linking to a good document on "C++98 style runtime polymorphism"?
Apple responded to antennagate and other hardware issues pretty quickly actually. 2 weeks for Antennagate:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/201297/apples_iphone_4_antenn...
Exactly. I'm currently working as a software engineer here, and the average wage is significantly lower than what Seattle companies offer (even if you ignore the difference in exchange rate). This combined with the housing affordability crisis makes it easy to leave.
(shameless plug alert)

This is how my WIP (verrrry WIP) game engine written in Guile Scheme works. It is built explicitly to enable iterative, live development.

2 year old video of a precursor to the current project: https://dthompson.us/functional-reactive-programming-in-sche...

Simple example program: https://git.dthompson.us/sly.git/blob/HEAD:/examples/simple....

More complicated minesweeper example: https://git.dthompson.us/sly.git/blob/HEAD:/examples/mines/m...

Home page: https://dthompson.us/pages/software/sly.html

Hoping to get a 0.2 release out the door in time for the Lisp Game Jam coming up in April.
If you install uBlock Origin at least, it will flag the entire site by default.

It is very easy to add new things to the list too (e.g. right-click an offensive pop-up and "block element").

I even told it to block my ISP's ridiculous typo-redirector.
If you are into this kind of thing, this Python project [0] gives you near-realtime Himawari 8 pictures of Earth as your desktop background:

[0] https://github.com/boramalper/himawaripy
Toronto's transit is indeed pretty trash. I want to move down to the city but I'm split on whether to put in a down-payment for a condo or piss away my equity by renting. They say the condo market is very volatile right now. Not sure how true this is because I am not very well versed on the subject.
Self-identification as "model" quite likely includes any number of people who are registered with some agency but effectively unemployed.
Are they at risk of copyright infringement? I thought I'd seen the rights reverted to Burke himself. At one point I had a youtube subscription to a channel of all the episodes that was posted by James Burke. Felt like his interest was in making them permanently available, not in making money.