skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very wrong. American here, was in the UK last summer and it physically hurt me to buy anything.

UK and American prices are around the same number but in pounds which meant ~1.6x USD at the time.
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> social security (theoretically assigned to every citizen)

Participation in the Social Security program is optional.[0]

[0] https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10023.pdf
When that happens, sure, let's be happy. Until then, forgive us for not having an aligned interest in giant corporations being above the law.
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Just replying to the last part -- I have two bank accounts, I don't pay any fees or charges whatsoever. Over here banks usually make the majority of profits from loans and mortgages, and investment fees. I suppose it makes sense to keep the daily banking charges to a minimum to ensure the happy customers will come to them with their financing needs.
Great project! This reminds me of the past where I created some ASCIImations, too:

http://asciimation.de/

Also, never forget the great, classic Star Wars ASCIImation:

http://www.asciimation.co.nz/
This story reminds me a lot of Sanders' old quote: "The revolution will not begin at Harvard University." For how liberal the NYT (and Harvard) are reputed to be, they are actually bastions of the elite, a role that is diametrically opposed to being revolutionary.

Harvard students and NYT writers have very real vested interests in maintaining the current order, which in this cycle is HRC, the most establishment candidate in recent memory (of course, every GOP candidate this cycle is incredibly establishment too, but that's another comment).
"The charitable interpretation would be statistics: if 90+% of recognised films have been directed by men - and I'd expect more men to have directed films in, say, the 1950s than the present day - it's not terribly unlikely that a list would feature only men through chance alone."

Can we get a statistician here, stat?

We have a jar with 9000 blue marbles and 1000 white marbles. We reach in, blindly, 87 times. What is the expectation that we have drawn 87 blue marbles?

We expect this one time in ten thousand. When we observe this in real life, we ordinarily suspect that the procedure is flawed in some way, rather than pure luck.
The 13 slide deck we used to raise a seed round (without a finished product)
- Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek
- Creativity Inc., Ed Catmull
- Reinventing Organizations, Frederic Laloux
- Joy at Work, Dennis W Bakke
- Valve Employee Handbook, Valve Software

This list is heavily skewed toward self-organization because I work for a company (Zappos) that is currently transitioning to a self-organization model. I thought I'd answer the question about what books I wish my "manager" would read even though I don't have a manager because in a self-org environment, you do have leaders that emerge organically. The main difference between "manager" and "leader" is that managers influence their charges with coersion (even if subtle and unintentional) while a leaders ability to influence comes from the bottom-up and is more meritocratic based on perceived experience and ability by those being led.

Most companies hope to promote the leaders so their manager structure is reflective of the actual effective social leadership structure, but all companies get it wrong often.
Ember is nice, but it is a gigantic framework with a steep learning curve, and very heavy on the wire (lots of kb). I used it at my last job.

I'm using mithril.js right now for a side project, with basic ES5 and no build tools. Mithril has a tiny API but still offers surprising amounts of power.

I'm enjoying the simplicity of everything. It's been nice spending way less cognitive energy to understand how all the pieces fit together =) I may have to add some tooling in when I deploy the finished project, but I'm going to keep it as minimal as possible.
I thought the purpose of the militias and the 2nd amendment was to suppress slave rebellions.
That database doesn't yet include everywhere you go for example (hopefully)... Governments would love it if your online activity would need to be tied to a national ID for example...
This is a great analysis, but I'm missing some basic background. Do all of the other cloud providers charge per-hour? Do people typically design their applications around this pricing model, or ignore it and eat the cost?
Of course there is. Every modern iPhone has a unique ID and its own private key.
TypeScript is ES6 with types, so it is not a different language at all.
I don't have any sources now on hand, but for many businesses the cost of handling physical money is greater than the fees from card payments.
'It's dumb, because most of those little shim libraries are things that would be part of the language's core library in a less shitty language.'

I think you are mistaking the language with the browser.
> People who get their information from the Internet tended to support Sanders. Those who got it from TV (usually 60 year olds, which is the networks' main audience), tended to support Clinton.

No. What you're saying there is that older people vote Clinton, younger people vote Sanders. There isn't any evidence to tie that to people's media habits, and "younger people vote for more liberal candidates than older people" has been true since time immemorial.
Arguing Trump as an establishment candidate is a tough road. It seems pretty clear that the establishment would prefer almost anyone else, but their systematic oppression of moderates in their own party left them with no viable candidates this year.

I mean the primaries are already half over and they're still trying to figure out if they can make Kasich the nominee somehow.
Governments composed of humans are not natural disasters.

This is why the US sends representatives from the State Department to negotiate his release and not the National Weather Service.
'immemorial'
The question is, is it done with malice or to further align the article to the viral viewers and hopefully make it even more viral?
> Even in this case, the "solution" meant only that the computer could put forth a strategy that would not lose significantly over time, not a winning strategy.

It's even true for rock-paper-scissors and the "solution" is trivial, and there is no better strategy. The lack of winning strategy can be the property of the game itself. It's entirely not trivial if a "winning strategy" to a game like poker even exists.
> Think a drunk UX expert is the worst challenge you can put your website through? You’re wrong. There’s one thing worse than that: Your mom. Here you can hire someone else’s Mom to torture your website.

ugh, vom. can we kill this already? my friends mom has forgotten more about antenna design than I will ever know. my grandmother was doing computer based typesetting since it was possible and remembers when LaTeX was new.
The dots are also drag handles. Originally I made them disclosure rects, I just think the dots look a little cleaner and since they can be used for both collapsing and dragging I think generic was a little more appropriate too.

Can you explain more on "can't drag an outline to the bottom of the file?". I think that should be possible.
Criptographicaly secure would be good enough for me. If the only means of craking the data us brute force, and it takes 1000 years with current technology to do so, then I'm happy.

Iphones security can be circunvented by 6 engineers in 3 weeks (or was it the other way around?) This is mot brute force, mind you. The work done for one iphone allowd you ro crack (instantaneously!) the rest of iphones.

Has this been developed? I dont care: the fact that ut can be done disqualifies the iphone as a secure device.
But isn't it the land of freedom? Is easier for me to travel to most countries of south america than for an us citizen to travel inside his/her own country.
Have you used TypeScript? Try it out for a month or two on a real project.

It's the best thing that has happened to web development in recent years - it improves Javascript in a completely compatible and future proof way.

The most amazing thing is that Microsoft created it. It's the polar opposite of Old Microsoft - standards are being followed (not subverted), it's simple pragmatic and has no lock-in.
Sure, but same info here: http://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2016/03/16/check-amazing-short...

Someone should ask though given another poster's comment below about the GDC demo of the editor where they were using a GTX 980.
I'm not sure favorability is junk science so much as it is not a good predictor of who will win delegates through a series of byzantine and varied state processes.

And at the risk of stating the obvious, finding someone as more favorable than their opponent doesn't necessarily imply I will vote for them in an election.
Fair enough, if there is ever a quantum entaglement (or other type of course) based solution to go, then I will have been proven wrong. We'll see, but I'm not feeling very worried ;)
I think you're reading a little more into my comment than was there. I didn't agree with what the parent comment said about child porn. I'm very much in favor of secure communication channels and privacy.
I agree. I was glad this was on hackernews.
Unfounded all right. Cyclical, more like it. People's tastes change over time. Grandparents liked cities, parents like suburbs, I like cities, and I can't imagine how my kids will feel. Maybe high housing costs will inspire people to live rurally or in exquisite mobile homes driven by computers. Or it will result in a global densification the likes of which we have never truly seen.

In Neuromancer, the Sprawl spanned the entire eastern seaboard and yet the only place with real distinction was Zion - the Rastafarian space station far away from the regular bustle. Things are always in flux.
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It's not a strong response. Heard it and ignored it--Sass only points out that he has stories of other people say the UI is "relaxing".

Subjectiveness aside, though, my real issues are with Adobe eschewing native windowing and controls to reinvent their own UIs. I'm much more interesting in the apps just behaving as expected than how they look. For example, EVERY time I unplug from my monitor, the windows of the Adobe apps fall off the screen in a way that can't be recovered. They may even be faster than previous versions, but the UI makes them feel bloated and foreign.
These flat designs are the WORST. Jira, Office365, and now Photoshop? They're hideous and they're hard to read/use/work within. Who looks at existing flat designs and decides to implement it themselves? It's awful.
Could you expand on that?

Not everyone is suited to, or wants to be a manager. That doesn't mean that we haven't learned about management in our careers. And I do think we all can learn from everyone around us.
I took tabs out because I felt there was lots of overlap in function between tabs and the sidebar. You can no add saved searches to the sidebar, and that was I think what most people used tabs for.
Network effects are a hell of a thing.
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Relax with the name-calling. Is it really unfathomable that people work differently, and that some people find value in tools you don't use? I completely understand not wanting to use them, but the presumption that they are completely useless cruft that people only use because they're idiots who don't know what they're doing is truly condescending, and closes your mind to learning new things. There are real benefits to be had from frontend package management. And real problems. Don't begrudge other developers for evaluating them for their own uses and making a different choice than you did.
I feel the need to correct that mistake every time I see it: Hitler and Mussolini were both far-left.

This is not a coincidence that Hitler's political party (NSDAP) was called National Socialists. Hitler himself was the fan of Karl Marx.

It is worth remembering that effectively ALL totalitarian systems of 20th century were leftist.
Always a good analogy for pure democracy, but that's not really the problem here since this is the sheep voting to be dinner.
The fact that you think the modern hardware, which is easily two orders of magnitude better at 1 to 2 orders of magnitude lower price than the hardware of the 90s to which you are referring when you make statements like "not being new or revolutionary" means you either don't know anything about VR 20 years ago or don't know anything about VR today. The fact that you're calling $1000 to $2000 "expensive" also means you know nothing about 90s era VR or modern era consumers.

The fact that you keep harping on "no compelling use cases", when games are a clearly a legitimate use case, how completely different things like racing games feel in VR versus on a TV (I can't play racing games on a TV anymore) means you know nothing about modern VR. There are already people using even Google Cardboard-class devices to do medical visualizations and planning surgeries that they are claiming would have been too difficult without it. Companies like AltspaceVR are already proving that 3D chat can now be done correctly and it's better and more personal than Skype. I know of several architecture firms that have jumped on this, are developing tools in-house to visualize new designs for clients, with stories that it has helped the client rethink bad design decisions. I know of real estate agents who are hopping on this to show off their stock of dwelling units. This is all right now. What more do you want to prove that there are at least some compelling use cases, and why do you assume that, once the devices are in hand, we wouldn't be able to figure out more?

Games like Tilt Brush and Fantastic Contraption are proving that there is a compelling CAD use case that could be developed further into more productive tasks. Have you ever done any 3D modelling? It's ridiculously hard. It's almost as hard as "individually position 1 million vertices" sounds. The sorts of things people are whipping up in these games I can't even imagine trying to build in a tool like Blender or Maya on a PC work station in any amount of time approaching under 6 months.

"Oh, but how many people really need to do 3D modelling?" I don't know, how many people really needed to do email on the go? IF you make it accessible and available, people will figure out their own use cases.

I still challenge you to prove you actually know anything about VR other than having read about it in TIME every once in a while.

I thought HN was supposed to be a board of cutting edge technology enthusiasts, startup visionaries, early adopters, etc. There is a hell of a lot of lack of imagination here.
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I think this is typical of US.

I've tried to understand this stark difference to e.g. most of europe as a non-US citizen and this is the best explanation I've come with. Please, correct me if I'm wrong or misguided - I'm trying to figure this out myself.

In the US tradition, the government takes a hands off approach and lets private entities figure it out in the courthouses what is actually an accepted convention and what is not. Unfortunately this means there is one less player with a huge leverage defending the good life of an individual.

When the US was created 'strong government' was considered adverserial for the checks and balances they tried to put in place - and it also probably reeked of monarchy and tyranny. I think the reason lot of US conventions seem strange is that they are constructed from this aversion to big government.

With the rise of the military-industrial complex and the state intelligence and security forces US has, it appears at least to me that the influence of the government in the US system is larger than originally intended, and not necessarily in ways that benefits the private citizen. That's why it now appears odd that while US is this economic and military juggernaut the lives of it's private citizens are surprisingly fragile and ill defended.
My bank charges nothing for my accounts either. And I'm in Iowa.

Accounts are free, because the bank benefits from having your account in their ledger. They make loans and investments using that balance. Its the business they're in.
I find it perfectly fine to read and it seems way less cluttered.
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The equivalent of garden-path sentences in formal languages would be shift-reduce conflicts and most pedanticly strict grammars are specifically designed to avoid that kind of problem, so that they can be parsed efficiently.
The self-named village that the Kohler Company (you've probably used their toilets or back-up generators at some point in your life) headquarters resides in is a good example. From what I understand, even today if you move there, you rent the property your house is on from the company, and the company has authority over aesthetics of house and business changes/renovations.
This article demonstrates clear "main-stream" bias, where an article was deliberately edited to inject editorial bias (even increasing article length by adding 2 sentances) rather than simply correcting inaccuracies or fixing poorly articulated sentences. This isn't surprising.

What is surprising is the effectiveness of non-mainstream and peer-to-peer media. Sanders consistently beats Clinton in the "Facebook Primary". The rise of Sanders as a credible candidate wouldn't have happened a generation ago, and it demonstrates a new twist since the introduction of mass media -- voters who support Sanders get information mostly through alternative media. While the Internet also affected politics 8 years ago, it does so much more profoundly now.

Who would have thought that an off-track candidate (who is an Independent) could run on a major party, and get 40% or more of the popular vote in a primary. Some attribute voting shift to generational differences (millennial vs boomers); while certainly true, I think there's another force at work: access to new, peer-to-peer media and the leisure time to digest it.
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10% seems high. From google: "Women Comprise 7% of Directors"

.93^87 = 0.0018

However, what's the ratio among films not just directors? (can't find)

How about women among top grossing films of all time? http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/domestic.htm
vs. http://www.thewrap.com/15-highest-grossing-movies-directed-b... So: Frozen, Shrek, Twilight, Kung Fu Panda 2

.96^ 87 = 2.9%

Looking at the top grossing list for women you see a lot of chick flicks and kids films. Arguably that's bias, but not vs. the director.
But it's the same with the passports, right? They have a big hammer they can use, but what they really want is their money, so they'll do what they can to get it. They want to have the threat so they can get their money. The new law says this only applies to "seriously delinquent tax debt" which means you not only owe it, but aren't paying it, it's escalated to a lien or levy, and you have no pending hearings about it. Maybe this is less than what it takes to get prosecuted, but it's not like they're just saying, "you owe us a lot, no travel for you until you pay us."

The State Department can already refuse to issue or renew passports for as little as $2,500 in unpaid child support, or if you defaulted on a loan from the State Department to help you return to the US. So this general theme is not unprecedented.
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I always thought that Canada's low pay was balanced by their universal healthcare. No ?
As someone running their own mail server, I completely agree.

I love being a sysadmin and learning how everything fits together, and even I find it at times exhausting keeping up with everything related to email best practices.

For someone without any interest in such activities, it would probably be a royal pain in the butt.
Can Computer Programs Be Racist and Sexist?
HTTP2 What, where, why, and when? Smashing Conference, March 2016
I think it's important to think about the effect technology has on culture (both positive and negative). To that end, I would recommend _Technopoly_ by Neil Postman. (And optionally _Amusing Ourselves to Death_ by the same author -- it's more accessible but slightly less applicable to the software industry.)
I agree that the topic you mention is interesting, but the article as posted is practically guaranteed to devolve into political discussion rather than a discussion about the point you bring up.

A better article, IMO, would have noted that the NYT does this consistently and has done so in a way that has harmed all candidates, not to mention non presidential conversation. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9870347 for another example of this practice.
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I disagree the new ui looks bad, and I disagree Adobe's ui is not important. Even with years of PS under my belt I can't make the transition to Gimp simply because everything is in the wrong place, and I've tried many times.

Part of Photoshops success has been the great layout of its tools.
Except Lambda is quite expensive. Compared to equivalent EC2 t2 instances, Lambda is 4.6x the cost of on-demand, or ~20x of spot instances. I really don't understand why anyone would use it for a high-volume web app. For low-volume sites you have the advantage of not paying for idle time, but the inflection point is somewhere around 13 minutes per hour.
I don't know, I can't think of a single thing I like better about a previous version of Windows than Windows 10 (maybe a start menu that's slightly more streamlined).
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$50k in taxes can be a surprisingly low threshold. If you run a retail business you might do a couple million in sales to clear $100k for yourself. A simple misclassification of your labor or materials can put you $50k in debt to the IRS. In the scheme of how much money passes through a small business owner's hands, $50k isn't a lot of money even if $50k income is.

I had someone classify some non real property purchase from me as a service (personally taxable). I had completed all tax forms correctly. The IRS had accepted the taxes I paid on the profit of the property. But the people I sold it to claimed it was a service, so the IRS thought I had $15k income that I hadn't reported. I wasn't anywhere near the $50k mark (closer to $5-6k), but all it took was one person claiming something sketchy to make me delinquent in the eyes of the IRS, even when I had done my taxes correctly.
Except that was in reference to the demo they gave at GDC while using the editor. Not necessarily the card used to render the demo, someone should ask.
There is also a very strong racial aspect. Young or old black voters break hard for Clinton. Bernie Sanders was trying to win the Democratic nomination without the black vote, which is insanity.

It's a real shame he isn't younger. With the name recognition built up from this cycle he could probably do well in the next election, but he is way too old to be thinking about running again in 8 years. Even this year was pushing it a bit. Being President ages a man 20 years.
It's no longer visible without signing in. Really annoying.
You can add /search to the url in the home page or on the main page of any repository.
>Spike Lee speaks his mind. Nobody tells him what to say. //

Isn't that demonstrated to be false here. He spoke his mind and then he was told that he shouldn't have said what he did so he revised it and made his "speech" more acceptable to those who complained.
The law is clear: FBI can't make Apple rewriter its OS