skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, but isn't it fair to say that making the unions too powerful was a key part of the story? That ultimately greatly damaged Detroit's ability to compete on the world stage.

Not to say that the automakers weren't also badly run -- they were. There's an NPR piece about NUMMI that puts some great color on the situation -- ah, here it is [0]. See especially "Act Two", where GM completely muffs bringing the NUMMI success to the rest of the company.

[0] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/561/t...
Heck no on thd last part. There's tons of poor and working class people that think they'll get rich with music or something. They get reinforcement from the media and pop artists themselves that brag about getting richer than everyone with just a song or two. I run into them all the time in my area.
You can understand a lot of "progressive" policy as devoted to screwing the white working class as hard as possible (and in fact a lot of the white working class does see it through that lens, which is why, eg, Trump sees such support from that demographic). For instance:

- Hollowing out icky manufacturing & extraction-sector jobs, while ensuring maximal support for FIRE & "knowledge sector" jobs via IP protections & lax regulations.

- Importing vast amounts of cheap labor to compete for service-sector jobs.

- Ensuring that "live in an expensive neighborhood" is the only mechanism to ensure your children go to vaunted "good schools" (or even safe schools).

- Devoting recurring two-minutes-hates to attacking their cultural symbols.
The Buran boosters came down on parachutes and then landed on landing gear -- did that actually happen during either test?
What Thomas Frank does not realize, or is ignoring, is that it's still the 'elite' who create jobs, and antipathy towards them won't improve the situation for the millions who are without work. The reality is, without job creators, most people wold fail, as the success rate for entrepreneurship is very low.
> Seemingly every other developed country has done a much better job of having the vast majority of people live in at least medium-density areas

That's because the US has the most habitable land of any country. Russia, Canada and China are all technically larger but most of their population lives in their small habitable areas. The other European countries are not much larger than most US states.
Ya, I grant you that 'inevitable' is probably too strong. But it does seem that way to me, and that also seems to be the prevailing opinion.

And, at the risk of misinterpreting you or putting words in your mouth, I think you may be interpreting 'efficiency' as necessarily squeezing more and more out of workers. And this is, in general, true. However, efficiency can also ultimately mean a society where people no longer have to work at all - where only a comparatively small number of people need to be engaged in intense knowledge work, and the rest of civilization can live entirely from the fruits of those people's labors, and the automated production processes they operate and advance.
Maybe they should be given a choice to work or not, and not by threatening them with hunger or homelessness. Good luck trying to do that.
In a world of 7 billion people, there are always millions of exceptions. But it's beyond a doubt that there's a very strong relationship between education and economic success and personal happiness.
We have something far beyond a trivial app, and still never have folders for controllers etc. If a feature becomes big enough that this is needed, e.g. more than a few components, they are split up and grouped in several subfolders.
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If you're going to do that, better be sure it's in something with hard value, e.g. gold or silver because government can simply do something like declare that the current currency is invalid and must be exchanged for new, thus forcing everyone with hidden stashes to come forward or take the loss.
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Actually I heard of him stopping to use email during the late 80's and such
> Something like this is sorely needed.

Thanks for the vote of confidence!

> Do all participants need to be using your software for anyone to benefit, or will I see the value by running it myself even if my coworkers aren't?

Individuals could also benefit from this. For example, most corporate jobs have work to be done outside of meetings, and time blocking is very effective at reducing the overhead caused by context switching. Outside of work, we can promote work-life balance by helping you find time for family, friends, exercise, etc.

> How will you prevent meetings from bouncing around my schedule multiple times a day? eg I thought I was meeting with Bob at 9am today, but as I'm driving to work your software rearranges my schedule to meet Bob at 4pm because he just got a slightly more optimal pairing with someone else at 9:15. So I arrive at work ready for a meeting and get annoyed that I didn't even need to be there yet, I could have made that stop at Starbucks after all. Too many days of this and people will stop using it.

The last-minute reschedule is sure to result in a poor user experience, and it’s an area where user feedback would be hugely beneficial. Here’s a couple of our ideas:

- Users can fix certain meetings; ie. once booked, they won’t be subject to rescheduling.

- Constraints based on time: ex. no rescheduling of same-day or next-day meetings, or meetings where, if rescheduled, take place too far in the future.

- Constraints based on participants: is anyone not using the calendaring system? Would it affect external customers? How hard was it to get the meeting in the first place? Is the meeting with your boss? Etc.

> How will you make money?

We would look to charge a recurring subscription fee for this, primarily as it is more transparent and least prone to perceived conflicts of interest. Every moment of a worker’s time has some associated cost, and if we can reduce the time wasted on scheduling ping-pong, and improve the use of available time, we believe we can quantify a value add.

Happy to hear your thoughts!
Study: Students who will outperform take notes by hand instead of typing them
I think that many of us have jobs in which we have to be both "on top of things" and "on the bottom of things" to varying degrees.

For example, when I'm trying to write a tricky piece of code, it goes much better if I can shut out interruptions like Knuth does and concentrate on the task at hand. If people expected me to reply immediately to their non-urgent e-mails, it would be a lot harder to concentrate.

Also, people who expect me to answer their e-mail or phone call immediately are making the presumption that whatever they have to ask me is more important than whatever I currently happen to be doing. In most cases, it's not.
I love it how all the comments to your post center about the infighting between democrats and republicans, and no one wants to talk about the hot potato that is automation. I am not sure if MVI would even be enough at this point. I strongly believe that we are heading for a complete, world wide, economic collapse within the next 30 years. The collapse will not be caused by our failure to correctly apply our current economic theories, but the complete invalidation of the basic economic principles on which those theories are based. To be clear, I am not arguing that capitalism is an invalid theory right now, but it will become invalid with automation, and very soon.

And before people rebut this argument with: "this has happened before, and people will just get education and find better jobs" I challenge you, please do, tell me, what job will you get when the robot/AI replaces you? The answer isn't to fear the future though, but to embrace it and figure out how to make it work for everyone. It's a little hard to do that, and to have this conversation, when the overwhelming majority of people refuse to consider this inevitability as even a possibility and dismiss it. Oh well, rent over.
What does it tell us if people don't recognise that as satire? Is it so close to reality to think that Google could claim rights on our cookie recipes?

And if you really have to ask if such a clause applies to you, you haven't properly read your contract and/or you don't know your rights. People, please educate yourselves, don't let large corporations, even if they claim not to be evil, violate your rights.
I know it as "Smurf Naming Convention", from http://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/

> When almost every class has the same prefix. IE, when a user clicks on the button, a SmurfAccountView passes a SmurfAccountDTO to the SmurfAccountController. The SmurfID is used to fetch a SmurfOrderHistory which is passed to the SmurfHistoryMatch before forwarding to either SmurfHistoryReviewView or SmurfHistoryReportingView. If a SmurfErrorEvent occurs it is logged by SmurfErrorLogger to ${app}/smurf/log/smurf/smurflog.log
In all our new projects we've started using redux with a smart + dumb component architecture and have had some great success. Redux makes keeping track of everything that's going on in large apps much easier. It also allows for only needing a few "smart" / container components that actually know about redux and global application state that then pass down only what's needed to simpler / "dumb" components. We like this approach so much we've even built out various starter projects.
Link to angular 2 project: https://github.com/rangle/angular2-redux-starter
Link to angular 1 project: https://github.com/rangle/angular-redux-starter
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Probably the same as yours and I salute those workers here for the effort they spend.
My identity project was not being poor.

So I was a cashier and a filed bank teller. I delivered newspapers. I washed cars and delivered tires and packages. I washed windows and cleaned doctors offices. Then eventually went to college and got into software development.

It baffles me when some people are surprised that its possible to work your way out of poverty. That's what most sane people do when they have the opportunity to do so.

Of course, if you have a culture that deters hard work and self development, that makes it a lot hard.

Its also harder when people say that environment determines the outcome instead of individual determination. The truth is its both, but telling people their effort is not what makes the difference is creating a environment that does not encourage the effort required to succeed. The idea that environment is everything can help ensure a bad environment prevents you from succeeding. And even the environment cannot be changed without individual effort.
I agree with you 100%. The institutions we participate in are amongst the most harmful institutions in the world. Just because the harms are more indirect and hidden from view than the typical warlord does not make its participants better people.

There's this attitude in America that if you can maintain a bubble of ignorance around the consequences of your lifestyle that you're not responsible for the harm it causes. It's sad.
Because mexicans are doing the jobs even romanians and bulgarians won't do
None of this figures really have any notion of precision, and yet we're dealing with impacts that are a fraction of a percent. There's more than enough room for fudge factor that it could go either way.
I find that when I am studying something tricky (weird or new math), outlining as I read helps a ton. I almost never refer back the notes later, but the act of trying to write something down intelligibly forces me to make my high level understanding explicit and prevents me from glossing over important details. To some degree taking notes during a lecture did the same thing for me when I was back in college.
There will always be physical things of value, or services, that can be bartered between private individuals.
High voltage doesn't kill. It does provide the electromotive force to move current.

Death by electricity is largely a function of the current that flows through the body, though in some cases the frequency also matters. Case of a researcher who was working with millivolt and/or milliamp currents (I forget the specifics) but at frequencies which disrupted his heart rythms. Was working alone late at night in the lab until he wasn't. Died from stopping his heart.

A Van de Graaff generator will kick out 100,000 - 5,000,000 volts, but can be contacted directly. Holding a conductive rod (so that current flows through a large skin area on the hand) allows sparks to be discharged through the body without harm. It's a common science lab trick for children.
High IQ, probably.
I'd like to take that one step further! Strings as a service (SaaS, a nice and unique acronym). You can post strings on the internet publicly and refer to them by Id, and... no, that's Twitter.
The forums and peer-to-peer interactions more broadly are unfortunately one aspect of MOOCs that scale poorly. MOOCs haven't really lived up to their hype (they're valuable but not transformative) because the thing they do really well--broadcast lectures--was largely a solved problem. While the thing that they do poorly--individual or small group interactions--is the part of education that's difficult and expensive.

For certain types of content, which happen to line up well with programming topics, autograding systems are another good innovation. But otherwise peer-grading and multiple choice tests are pretty weak.
Interesting, I was just reading up on the space shuttle design process, and how the shuttle design was hurt by politics and scope creep. Apparently the project was in jeopardy at some point and needed buy-in from the Air Force. So they made a few changes, such as making it much bigger, and the tank disposable for potential military applications.

Well, turns out the shuttle was never used by the military. But the legacy of those decisions enabled but ultimately doomed the shuttle. It did not meet it's economic goals and was less safe because of them.
Is that a correct reading of what happened?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_design_process

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/military/read.main/...

This is where the Buran comes in, they largely copied the shuttle, but did they have the foresight to improve the poor parts of the design?
> If that's something you care about, then it's probably something supporting with money.

But this does not mean that the money with which you can support that issue is there...
I'm sorry but it has to start by singling out one person otherwise noone would have any responsibility in this world for anything.
Tangential thought here - I wonder if we'll ever get to the point that we're using processor designs in the cloud that we never get to own or see in person. It's considered the provider's business how they build their silicon and what's actually providing the service. The ISA is effectively considered their API.

Cloud providers are already known to use custom Xeon variants, and I can imagine a lot of people who use the new POWER9 instances that will supposedly be hitting google cloud platform some time soon would be people who wouldn't ordinarily have wanted to actually invest in purchasing a pricy POWER system...
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So these are socially acceptable terms for what I described? I don't get it, are you on my side or against it?
But ultimately there is nothing contractually stopping either party from being dicks, which is what we expect contracts to provide.
Agreed. Oddly, it seems like a lot of people have no problem believing that he was both an evil mastermind and also unintelligent.
My fantasy short stories
Prince Rupert's Drops Are Stronger Than Steel
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>Toad reviewed his team’s backlog and marked 80% of the open tickets as CRITICAL or BLOCKER.

Ouch.
Probably old enough to learn by experience that you have to fight for the control of your own time and attention. If you get people used to quick replies to any small issue, they will later expect it.
Usually (close to) universal answer is something like is: "If you've used any employing entity resources, even incidentally, your employing entity owns it, especially if the project is directly related to the business"

Some places will attempt to assert more ownership and some will not.
It's definitely a good thing that one can do that if they so choose in this country, e.g. living far away from "civilization" and totally off-the-grid. But the real problem, in my opinion, is how the US made it not just possible, but actually easier, to live outside of the city after World War II. The combination of the GI Bill, developments in prefabricated housing construction, and the automobile allowed for the development of the sprawling suburbs that dominate the American residential market. But none of this would have been possible without the intimate cooperation of politicians, who used this as a means of benefiting their own careers. These politicians allowed almost every white person to own a brand new house and brand new car, with tax subsidies and kickbacks all the way down. A lot of people took this opportunity to give themselves and their families a better life, and moved out to the suburbs.

It continues today in my hometown of Philadelphia, where I still live. My friends and co-workers who are older all consistently move outside of the city, like my parents and their parents did before them, when they have children. This movement to the suburbs today is no longer caused by political intervention, but rather by the terrible school system that continues to be underfunded, which is primarily the effect of the richest Philadelphians moving outside of the city to raise their families (and pay taxes to the surrounding communities). It's no wonder there's such a major divide between people who "have" and people who "have not", or why the schools are so terrible and the transportation infrastructure is outdated by over 50 years. Perhaps if my generation chooses to stay in the city limits when we settle down and raise families, our kids won't have to deal with such dangerous and depressing environments.

On the other hand, I genuinely enjoy getting away from people and being out in the wilderness. Being off-grid sounds really interesting, and something I've always wanted to try in my life, just to see if it was feasible and comfortable. I'm not coming down on you for living your life the way you want to live it in any way. I think you would agree with me that if land around you suddenly became very valuable and apartment towers started going up, you'd feel a little unnerved right? Living off-grid, in my opinion, is not the problem. The problem is people who want to take a beautiful place and build it into a haven for human environmental destruction.
You could put on youtube. Each lottery that makes you a shit ton of money has a $5000 lottery ball machine cost. Or even a computer that looks at 1 lava lamp per lottery and uses it as it's constantly regenerating seed.
In Love with Your Warts
Yup, that's completely correct. No argument there.
The Shuttle, despite its many problems, flew 133 successful flights.
That is why they are called style guides and are opinions. No need to go telling someone they are wrong simply because you do not see the benefit to it...
I hadn't heard of the source material (perhaps more/only well-known in the US?) but I presume it refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_and_Toad

Some insightful parables either way, though!
If anyone saw that note about the computer systems and wanted to learn more about Soviet-era computers, this may be a good place to start:

http://www.computer-museum.ru/english/argon.htm

I'm no expert in this subject.
Tendermint. It has different security characteristics, but the nice thing is, it doesn't rely on extrinsic factors for security. It's not just BFT, it's actually antifragile.
The shuttle itself completed several atmospheric and one orbital flight, demonstrating autopiloted runway landings from orbit.

The reusable booster technology was just planned, though. The project was cancelled long before they could be tested. I'm not even sure there were any finalized specifications.
Can you point me at some reading material regarding Benetton's self-modifying code and the checksums stuff?

Everything I'd read on the topic - until now - had said they had a hidden mention item - "Option 13" - that managed the (illegal) traction control, and when confronted with it, they said it was too difficult to remove, but they'd never used it. (Honest, guv!)
> What Massachusetts liberals pine for, by and large, is a more perfect meritocracy -- a system where the essential thing is to ensure that the truly talented get into the right schools and then get to rise through the ranks of society.

This rings true, and explains a couple of the key failings of modern American society. Liberals' wholesale embrace of meritocracy combined with their traditional alignment with public unions has manifested in this bizarre fixation with education. Education has become the sole means for achieving traditional liberal goals within the framework of meritocracy. That trend has directly resulted in the college bubble: a society where everybody spends inordinate amounts of money getting an education that for most of them is a waste if time.

More fundamentally, the leadership of the liberal establishment doesn't seem to really believe in the idea of a flat, egalitarian society. Among the liberal elite in San Francisco, D.C., Boston, etc, there is an intense disdain for the folks who form the backbone of the middle class in other industrialized countries: non-college educated blue and white collar workers. In places like Germany, you can get a white collar job and live a middle class life with just 16 years of formal education. In the U.S., even the liberals don't seem to think that is a desirable state of affairs.
I thought of Lima city, but they are a German hoster (website is in German, data centers are in Frankfort, Germany). I'm sure you will be able to find many others. Lima city is free (as in beer) and have unlimited storage[1], unlimited bandwidth, support PHP and MySQL, and allow you to add custom domains (you can buy them directly though them for very reasonable prices).

Although they are free, they have very little outages but they area limited to PHP (a big no-go for all my projects these days).

Disclaimer: I'm in no way affiliated with them except hosting my homepage there. I've used them for quite a few years now and they allowed me to show off my PHP projects to friends when I was 14 or so.

[1]: they have a fair use policy and downloads (everything except, html, PHP, css, js, and image files) are blocked and need to be hosted on their download server, which has a rate limit. They will also monitor your account for abuse (so if you consume a lot of bandwidth because you hid your download in the JPG file, they will ban you).