skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used this: https://johnlewis.ie/custom-chromebook-firmware/rom-download...

To get Linux Mint's Debian Edition running on a chromebox. I went that direction because I'm used to Debian on servers, but Mint does a fair amount of work to get a functional/nice desktop.

I did upgrade the Chromebox to 8GB memory and a 128GB SSD. I also had to upgrade the kernel to get a video driver that was stable on the built-in Intel HD graphics.
And this happens regularly! I know of experts in programming languages[0], compression[1], graphics[2, 3], and computational geometry[3] who all have sites that both have excellent content, and look fairly awful.

[0]: http://piumarta.com/index.html

[1]: http://cbloom.com/

[2]: http://iquilezles.org/ (okay, this one doesn't look that bad in retrospect)

[3]: http://paulbourke.net/
The bar for top 5% is like 90k/year.
If you double the wealth of everyone in 20 years, and the 0.1% have their wealth increase 10x then the problem has gotten worse. I make $1 today and they make $10, in 20 years I make $2 and they make $100.
I have mine dual booted with arch and it works pretty well. If I'm just passively browsing I usually go to chromeos, anything else I reboot into arch (I figured that'd be annoying at first, but with how quickly both OSes boot its not at all an issue.) They have a pretty extensive guide on the arch wiki as well as device specific guides which could be helpful with other distros too:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chrome_OS_devices

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acer_C720_Chromebook
The problems with the European Social Democracy model are becoming apparent even as we speak. It works really well with a small, homogenous, educated, basically peaceable population and assumes plentiful resources and that the population reproduces at a reasonable level.

But much of the world does not live under those kind of conditions and national barriers are apparently very much an artificial construct. Would social democracy work in Iraq? In Somalia? But we share the same world as Iraq and Somalia. So what do we do? (real question... I don't know).
Queensland bricklayer has more than $590m in bank account, court hears
Smalltalk would help with this kind of magic. The Smalltalk Method finder is (British-English School-yard definition of) Magic ;)
I honestly always liked the smell of Whiskas (not that I ever tested it) :)
Unfortunately I don't think that many/any of the Programming language package repositories have manual review processes, or even automated checking for things like known malware...

It depends on what kind of repository you're trying to build.

If you're talking about something like NPM, PyPI or CPAN, then sure, these are relatively open systems where anyone can contribute but that includes bad people.

An example from the other end of the spectrum would be Boost for C++, which is heavily curated and peer reviewed, good enough in quality that its libraries sometimes become part of the full C++ standard at a later date, and tiny compared to the others I mentioned before.
Argh sorry my fat fingers down voted you when I was trying to update. Sorry about that!
Take Maven as an example: it's not vulnerable to this attack for several reasons:

1) No install scripts. Fetching a dependency in NPM will execute arbitrary code. Fetching a dependency in Maven doesn't execute any code from the dependency. Obviously when I run my project, I'm expecting to call code in that dependency, so this is a mitigation not a complete fix. But that does lead on to the next point.

Corollary: You have to change the code in my project to spread the worm, not just add a new dependency, otherwise your worm code won't get executed. This is probably a bit more tricky to get right.

2a) Code deployed internally from CI servers, not local machines. It's got to be code-reviewed before it gets pushed to my employer's package repository.

2b) Code needs to be signed before being uploaded to Maven Central. I'm not going to start typing my GPG key into random unexpected prompts.

Malicious code is still a possibility, but the scope for a worm is much less.
We certainly seem to prefer punishment and retribution over rehabilitation. Many americans view prison as a deterrent, thus making it more horrible should deter more potential criminals.

There's also a disturbing attitude towards (largely male) prison rape. It is completely acceptable to joke about it, even on national late-night television, and the attitude is clearly one of "prisoners are terrible sub-humans and deserve to be raped by their peers". It's really messed up.
Did you just register to say that? Hilarious.

I'd always laughed at "developers" that can't even arrange their own websites properly and still try to educate us about what's acceptable and what is not.

Don't know a thing about web design? Use a ready-made blogging platform then, not a school-grade HTML4 style-less nonsense. No one forces you to roll your own solution every single time. But heck, even a simple Bootstrap-based page would be much more readable.

Seriously, it reminded me of my very first HTML page made in school in 2004 when I knew nothing of it. The only difference is that I omitted the doctype altogether back then.

P.S. HN thinks that I'm "submitting too fast", so it took me about an hour to wait for an ability to reply.
The Way of the Gopher
> If that incredibly wealthy person didn't spend a lot of money and lived well below his means, then why do we care?

Because wealth is many different things. Too the poor, wealth is food. This can be increased, within reasonable limits. Too the middle class, wealth is access to inherently limited resources, like properties with a non-atrocious commute. Too the rich, wealth is power and that, by nature, happens at the expense of others. Capital accretion is power accretion, even more so when the rich lives like a monk. And the power you give one person is freedom you take from another. Once they have used their power to own all nice spots of land and use the food to run their boats and jets on "green" fuel, it turns out that all the supposed wealth you have given the lower classes was just money.

Taxing capital suddenly looks dead easy when you compare it to taxing power.
Middle classes shouldn't be in the top percentiles but it seems to be so.
Recent history shows zero net gain for most Americans there is no lifting all boats just ever more money at the top.
Patent that cost Microsoft millions gets invalidated
We care about wealth because we care about power. An liquidity asset is like an empty threat.

It is very true while real-estate in the abstract is liquid enough, nobody likes to move so owner-occupiers are hard to compare to landlords, traders of real estate, etc.
Lotteries: America's $70B Shame
>Currently it's off by default and you have to explicitly turn it on.

As others have said, the fact that it is included is worrying and a reason I would not even test drive, however promising it looks, sorry.

Also, opting in for analytics means implicitly opting in for marketing and promotions per the linked site:

"marketing and promotion of our Services or related products, for example sending communications (including by email) for these purposes on our, or a third party's behalf. If you do not want us to use your data in this way please let us know by contacting us at: info@defold.com; "

shady

I don't know about Defold, but I'm getting lots of emails lately that goes like, hi customers, we changed our privacy policies and toc, make sure you read the hundred pages the following link and notice the subtle changes in wording without us providing a diff or breakdown. It is this easy to change default behaviour.
Ask HN: How should we go about marketing our app?
So I'm not looking to be spoon-fed an entire marketing strategy - we are doing lots of reading on the topic at the moment. Rather, after having worked on the app so long we've lost a certain sense of clarity, and would appreciate some fresh eyes and outside opinions.

The app itself (http://www.getchowderapp.com) is a collaborative restaurant finder, and came about after many frustrating incidents trying to decide where to eat with my girlfriend (usually something along the lines of "What do you want to eat?" – I don't mind – "Do you want pizza?" – No – "How about seafood?" – No – "Then pick somewhere!!"). A friend and I had some fun developing an app to try and ease the friction of making food decisions when out in a group. It's a little like Tinder for food, only you're matching restaurants, not people, with your friends.

When we initially did our market research, we were aiming solely at indecisive couples who had troubles picking places to eat because they were overwhelmed with options, but later realised that there was a much wider audience and shifted our focus to groups of friends. However, while we've had plenty of people respond with "Huh, neat idea" when we pitched it as an app for groups, I feel like it resonates much more strongly with people when pitched as an app to 'help couples decide where to eat'. When pitched as the latter, we got responses where people explicitly mentioned having this problem with their SOs, as opposed to the former where it was maybe more like 'Cool idea, I could see people using this'.

Given our incredibly limited budget and lack of funding, I'm beginning to think it might make more sense to focus on couples first and expand from there. I'd be very interested in hearing other people's thoughts!

Ultimately we're both just looking forward to the opportunity to launch something in the first place - the experience gained thus far has been very beneficial, and we've had a blast developing it.

Many thanks in advance.
And I'd say your right. I've always just laughed a bit at compound interest after how much I was told about it as a young man.
It certainly makes some people think they do though.

They can't separate the content from the medium.
I found a model of the Acer C720 with 4GB RAM and it's been my only computer for the last 5 months. The 32GB SSD is not great, but xubuntu + all my dev environment still leaves 40% free. Browsing is fine, never had performance problems when editing either. It runs Clojure on the JVM without issues, but I've never tried/needed to run a full blown IDE. That said, it happily runs Minecraft on medium settings.

There are still a few hiccups with hibernation. Using a tiling WM meant I needed to remap all of the chrome keys to get stuff like brightness and volume working.

I got it refurbished for £120 (~$170) before I set off backpacking in Asia and it's been the perfect laptop. Lightweight and decent battery life.

I do a lot of vector drawing and the trackpad fidelity isn't great, but that's hardly something you can ask for on such a cheap little machine.
Cheap labor != consultant. In fact, real consultants tend to be expensive. A real consultant is an expert in a field, not an asterisk or wildcard for anything.
We've had a week that went from a fascist AI bot that was taken down immediately to a real fascist who is being tolerated. This person thinks the "weak" should be enslaved by "strong", nonsensical and subjective categorizations where no doubt "strong" probably includes him and means people like him in this view.

There is definetly a camp of developers (not outsiders) who have denigrated StrongLoops decision and praised LambdaConf. These are engineers who may work with members of groups targeted by this fascists' views, engineers who may review a Black / Latino applicant for a job, contribute to the overall work environment for them.

To my point, what I see is a co-optation of the meaning of the world tolerance. When there is an fascist antagonist on minority groups, it is easier for these "tolerant" everyday individuals to say hey fascists should matter too at tech conferences. Because thats what tolerant means, even the fascists and racists matter, no? Things that appear logically equivalent are not always the best things to do. Part of me thinks this is part of antebellum United States' original sin; the wealthy white class using race and slavery to spur hate-mongering from working-middle class whites, who saw Black people as their problem and not class inequity. This is the "vicious lie" that MLK talked about and continues to manifest today as Tim Wise deals with: www.timwise.org/2015/04/how-racism-explains-americas-class-divide-and-culture-of-economic-cruelty-an-excerpt-from-under-the-affluence/
GalliumOS is a wonderful project. It has turned my $150 chromebook into a fully-fledged dev machine that works perfectly including all the fiddly things like sleep/wake, screen brightness, volume keys and secondary displays. And I get around 9 hours battery.

The 11GB hard drive space I had left after installation was plenty big enough for all the tools and libraries I need, and I added a 64GB SD card for archiving and media.

Since the chromebook (a CB3-131) is so cheap and compact, I take it everywhere, and I wouldn't really care if I lost it or dropped it down the stairs. This confirms my belief that when it comes to buying laptops, one should either go really cheap (<$250) or really expensive ($1000+). There is a no-mans-land between the two where the quality is generally poor but the price is still too high to be blase about your kit.
"hence azakai's usage of it". Abuse of pronouns does make posts unreadable: A new highlight was reached yesterday, when someone referred to "Ron Garret" as "they".

It is no longer clear what is singular or plural.
The US is targeting 'burner phones' in the wake of Europe's terrorist attacks
But inequality is something we don't want. I'm more OK with the argument that income/wealth taxes are only good to the extent they progressive. [As a US resident] VATs don't sound appealing.
The changes a package install makes ought to be limited to the source files within its subdirectory (and perhaps some precompiled binaries). I don't quite expect it to be installing rootkits, and the principle of least privilege dictates that it should not be allowed to.

Once the package is installed, it is already too late for a code review, or any mitigation. A well-written worm will never be detected.

It is unexpectedly bad design (or, in case of the JavaScript community, an expectedly bad design).
Reclaiming Design Patterns 20 Years Later
Looked. So what? There's a difference between "ugly" and "invalid". Both cases are bad but the first one has much more impact on end users.

Edit to answer "how is it invalid": is this not enough? http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombina...
As rebolek said, yes, there is a layer. The blog states that
`Flexible backend support that can be mapped to virtually any kind of UI library.`
which means that the abstractions used are good enough to support different OS.
There are plans to support View (gui) on each platform (desktop/mobile) that Red supports. But it's going to take some time. Lots of other features to be added as well :D .
Why can't we have a packages.lock like composer has? At least we can then decide if we want to install updates and keep all environments in sync.
I don't think purity and simplicity are virtues of Common Lisp. It's more of a pragmatic, industrial, old language, meant to unify the competing dialects back in the 1980s.
I think the latter is fairly reasonable. They may have invented it, but at this point it has been done an awful lot, and someone could be forgiven for being sick of it.

Shakespeare's writing OTOH is still outstanding even if the stories are cliche (and they were cliche at the time as well)
This is the website of John Walker, cofounder of Autodesk: https://www.fourmilab.ch/

There are lots of good articles on there, but the site uses frames. Does that detract from the quality of the content? No.

Paul Graham's site: http://www.paulgraham.com/

Has a HTML 4.01 Transitional doctype and uses tables for layouts. Does that detract from the content? No.

Hell, you're on hacker news. It doesn't even define a doctype and also uses tables for layouts.
Repeating Numbers – What Do They Mean? • Psychic Elements Blog
Who exactly says cons have it easy? I've never heard that one before.
> If you want to tax those with very high incomes, directly tax those with very high incomes.

I'm not going to argue for/against capital taxes, but what are your thoughts on those who are in the top x% and avoid high income wages and make money other ways, or the whole Warren Buffet/secretary thing?
> If that incredibly wealth person didn't spend a lot of money and lived well below his means, then why do we care?

If they truly never use it---spending it or using its mere existence for leverage---they might as well be burning it. Literally the economy is being shrunk for nobody's gain.
Even if you manually freeze deps to 'x.y.z', the deps of your deps might still be specified with '^'. Ideally you'd shrinkwrap, and commit node_modules to your repo. (In case packages get deleted)
Lead Generation Through High Conversion Landing Pages
Tesla charging stations outnumber gas stations in Manhattan
What if we want less wealth inequality?
So, I should communicate with pigeons or what if I don’t want the NSA or Google to know my political preferences? Seriously?
This article raises some great points. When I read about a dental hygienist opening their own practice, my first reaction was - well of course not, they're not a dentist? But then I thought, why not?? 90% of my dentist visits have just been cleanings, which is 99% with dental hygenist. I suppose that look over from dentist at the end is supposed to catch anything early, but I've never had a dentist actually find something dental hygenist missed.
Krimston TWO – Dual SIM Case for iPhone Available on KickStarter
Wow! This is the sort of hardware platform that with wider access will enable some phenomenal new developments.
Prior use is a defense against a trademark claim. Yes, it may involve lawyers to enforce that right, but the reality of the business world is that if you have a name you want protected, then you register for a trademark of that name (and if you don't get it, pick another name). Otherwise, be prepared to have to fight for it if someone registers the name you're using after you had the opportunity to do so but didn't.
EU wants to monitor Skype and Viber
You are making a rather big assumption. Orthodox economic theory has a lot of (well argued) focus on economic "efficiency." But, even positive sum games can have negative impact on a specific party.

IE, I agree with the orthodox position (EG Milton Friedman) that taxing person A to provide services to person A is generally a bad deal for person A.

If there was a policy whereby tax is raised and groceries are provided by central buying organisation and distributed back proportionally to their contribution, almost everyone would loose. The production of groceries would be worse. etc. But, that doesn't mean a progressive redistribution would harm everyone.

In my groceries example the reality is that the vast majority would be far worse off. It's a very bad policy. My point is that the argument for progressive taxation is in my opinion very hard to dismiss from an economics perspective. A dollar is not of equal consumption value in different hands to the same extent that it is not of equal productive value in all hands. Consumption does not have the same market forces funnelling it to its highest value use, a consumption equivalent of Coase theorom or somesuch.

The advantage of redistribution of wealth at point of consumption is (again, IMO) real and it grows bigger as wealth becomes more unevenly distributed.
Microsoft Research was started in 1989, to replicate the Bell Labs model.

(I work there.)
Press conference video, starts @ 05:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5EsSGBnU-I
I am not sure if this is a case of what this website calls "composition/division" or "genetic":

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/composition-division
Aric’s World: Library of design documents from classic games
They made it washed out with poor contrast and made the lines annoyingly short. Seems like the first site is more readable to me.
Many of the 1% (not all) are that wealthy because they are willing to do things that are unsavory and/or immoral if not outright illegal.

Remember that Steve Jobs and Woz would not have Apple unless they were willing to ignore how very illegal it was to make phone hacking devices first and how it might easily have resulted in prison time if they weren't white privileged kids.
I agree. Do you have any sources for these kinds of numbers? Did you have a time or place in mind by "before modern times"?
Rubyists, Please Stop Abusing NotImplementedError
The Lottery (2009)
> Let's say you could double the wealth of everybody in the country in 20 years, but the top 1% (or 0.1% or choose your most hated percentile) would have their wealth in crease 10x. I don't really see wealth accretion as a problem.

The way our politics are structured for the time being (and have been structured for basically all our history), under your hypothetical those getting the 10x increase would see their influence in government increase roughly five-fold or so. The current wealth disparities in most of the developed world are already stretching the legitimacy of democracy to its limits - if what you suggest came to pass what is left of it would evaporate.
I don't see anything wrong with that. Just because it doesn't use the fanciest and newest version of bootstrap, doesn't mean the site is bad.
Sure it uses an old version of HTML but what the heck? It can read it just fine and safari's reader works perfectly – much better then most of the sites that use modern CSS. I'd rather have a site that loads quickly then a site that loads tons of MBs for scripts, big images and fonts (and thus eats up all my mobile bandwidth) just to see a site that breaks safari's reader, and disables zoom so I can barely read it. I'm not saying that all of those fancies sites are like that but a lot are. Especially when they're made by backend engineers who don't know much about UX design. I'd rather get a well made HTML 4 site then a badly made HTML 5 site.
@SvenAndersson Are there any plans to make the GUI feel and look more native on OS X?
NotImplementedError is often misused. In the article I discuss when it should be used and why you probably don't need it.
It's an interesting example. Another one might John Paulson who jumped on the housing short (some say it outright copied the strategy) and, like others, created products to short. Not possible for a computer or a retail stock trader.

But the point here is Paulson has been unable to replicate his success. He extracted huge money in his commodity funds while losing a lot of investor money.

So while you're right that these opportunities will exist, and that people will be required to extract them, I'd say there is no proof that these folks are more or less likely to generate returns into the future. It would be interesting to see if, like active mutual funds, there is no correlation between past returns and future returns for activist funds.
The problem is, unless you know what Fred does, it's really hard to gauge whether you have the $200 Fred or the $10 Fred. Worst still, Fred the dev usually doesn't know either, he just likes playing with technology and rewriting the same wheel with new shiney abstractions.
To put some numbers on the part of the prison population there for violent offenses:

* Bureau of Justice Statistics says 53% of state prsionsers and 7% (what?!) of federal prisoners (2014): http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p14_Summary.pdf
* Federal Bureau of Prisons says 46.5% drug offences (no specification on violent v. non-violent) and 9.2% immigration as the third largest group. Second largest is more violent sounding, though: Weapons, Explosives, Arson 16.9% (2016): https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offen...

I don't think non-violent crime should always mean no prison, but I suspect there are better ways of dealing with the majority of them.

Also, since you mentioned shorter terms, here are the BOP's numbers of sentence length: https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_sente...