skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think society is (or should) based solely on competition. Society is also built on mutually beneficial cooperation. Most modern countries give money to the poor so that they can spend it, which benefits society as a whole.

The idea of winners and losers comes from social darwinism, which is just another justification for people to keep wealth to themselves and not pay taxes "because it helps the weak".

The reality is that we truly don't know what motivates people to work or to innovate. That's why equality (not egalitarianism) is important.

> Getting lazy because of a win or quitting because of a loss will severely impact someone for their entire life.

Well if you look into society, that happens all the time. And even when it doesn't happen, people still put social filters on each others because of that belief. It's becoming a club of people which believe in "strong motivation".

> I think it is important to have competition early and often in life because learning how to win and lose is an important life lesson.

What kind of life lesson is that ? On what sort philosophy does it stand on? That sounds like a motivational religion.
It should serve as a proxy for a number of things: connections you've made, skills learned, career paths taken.
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Economies with strategically located container shipping ports developed via protectionist trade policies.

These economies were 'allowed' to develop into rich industrial economies was because America provided privileged access to the US domestic markets in spite of their protectionist policies.

They allowed that because they saw the value of having these countries developed into 'westernized' bulwarks against the USSR's sphere of influence.

They could all easily have remained poor under different circumstances.
No, it can't be. Maybe you're rich enough to hire a symphony, but some random laborer in 1885 was not. That's the whole point: everything has changed because music is accessible to the common man now, in a way that it never was before the invention of recorded music.
There's nothing free about Chinese trade.
> You can't "hate" something that just "is".

You can, and you should. Civilization itself is based on the idea that what "just is" can be utterly fucked up and should be fixed.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11645104 was downvoted for being an incoherent non-addition to the discussion. I've re-read it several times and I have no idea why you thought it was relevant or what point you were trying to make.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11645505

> I honestly can't tell if this is meant to be serious or not.

Comments like that will usually get you downvotes.

> For the baby language, maybe, but downvoting something you don't personally like is pathetic and childish.

"People will downvote for disagreement" is a long established convention on HN. You might disagree with (I do too), but pointing it out by calling people childish is going to get downvoted. Your choice is to keep complaining using the same language (but stop complaining about being downvoted if you do so), or to use different language to complain about downvoting.

Here's PG suggesting that downvote to disagree is a problem https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1057347

Here' PG suggesting that downvote to disagree isn't a problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658683

See also this thread where most people are talking about a misuse of upvoting (to upvote mean or dumb comments). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403696

> And it's, if anything, even more pathetic and childish to petulantly downvote a poster (perhaps across different posts) because they point out that fact.

It's also childish to keep whining^W complaining about downvotes using the same language that got you downvotes.
As a european it seems quite unbeliveable that a house should not cost more than 2x your income.
CSP with channels in Go is just a fancy locking mechanism, something that Rob Pike and co wanted to experiment with, and a marketing feature, of course. Nothing more. They don't really work that well. Their limitations, verbosity and quite complex implicit behavior makes them hard to use for high level things. I think mutexes are more widespread and more encouraged already in Go, than channels. So, idiomatically and in the standard library Go doesn't handle concurrency well at all, on the opposite, it has the worst kind of concurrency - shared memory multithreading. And anything can be better than that. Even a wrapper around synchronous APIs ;)

It doesn't mean, of course, that Swift or any other language will be a Go killer. It means that most people never write complex concurrent programs to begin with and don't really care about good concurrency models. Sadly or luckily, this applies to people, who design languages as well, so concurrency tend to be a hype-driven mess. The only known exception is Erlang, where the whole language was designed to solve concurrency problems.
>Also, I think people would have heard lots of music. Pubs in Britain used to have pianos, Irish pubs are known for having musicians, folk dancing was common, etc.

How often did these pub-goers hear Brahms or Vivaldi? Probably never. They heard whatever music that local musicians played, or whatever they figured out how to play as amateurs, and that was about it. They didn't have companies finding talented musicians in different regions, countries, or continents and marketing them, recording their music, and making it available for them to buy a copy so they could listen to it while driving to work.
Not to mention dotfiles. They aren't permitted either.
Absolutely. Continuing with the Toyota example, more direct human involvement with the manufacturing process has been reintroduced [1]

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-04-06/humans-rep...
For most people I agree. However, as someone who has graduated from a top school (U. of Michigan), I can't tell you how many times my credentials have got me both interviews and jobs. Where you go to school CAN make a big difference, but it depends on the school, the person, and the field of study.
Based on what the dictionary says? The idea that gender and sex mean two different things isn't contentious amongst the people who study the phenomenon academically.
If this is true, this is one of the biggest stories of the year so far. There will be a huge class action lawsuit. Wow. It boggles the mind the number of people harmed here -- if this is true.

I wonder, for those people who do not get the full 12-hour effect, are they eliminating the drug quicker or metabolizing it into its bioactive agent quicker? It could be that not only are they going into withdrawal, they're actually experiencing more of an effect than they are supposed to. (I do not know. It'd be interesting for somebody who knew something to chime in here.)
I don't know - this is a language that can't easily handle concurrency. Instead you mess around with dispatchers. And then you're dealing with thread-unsafe structures, objects, arrays, etc.

This is such a critical thing with todays interconnected apps that i have no idea how they did not worry about it from the start. Having had the pleasure of dealing with threads, mutexes, dispatchers, execution-contexts and the like there is no way i'd pick up a language that hasn't evolved in that regard, especially on a server. Even Javascript has this figured out with stage-3 async/await.
Lithium is abundant, the question is just how well it can be extracted. For example, there is more Lithium in sea water than humanity can ever use to build batteries, but we still need to commercialize the extraction. So it's not that there isn't enough of the stuff, it's that there currently isn't that much of a need for it, so only the most easily accessible reserves are being tapped. That might cause supply issues in the short term, but long term, there's no shortage.
>>The main component one has to not underestimate is that in the automobile industry the technology/engineering problem of the car is less important to the technology/engineering/process of the plant itself.

What you say makes some sense, though, you seem to forget that there is vast difference between the technology/engineering/processes of the plants needed to manufacture the electric cars and the ones needed to manufacture the fossil fuel cars.

Another thing, it should not be too difficult for us to grant that Elon Musk is not a fool to make that big a statement without doing some homework. Also, don't forget the current state of the art of the technology/engineering/processes he may employ now that Toyota could (and still can) only dream of.
You're wrongfully trivializing Turbolinks 5. The whole point of using it is so that you get an incredibly responsive experience without having to resort to bolting on a front end framework and maintaining essentially two application states. This is a huge productivity boost.

Furthermore, the optimizations that TL v5 provides means that you can use your webviews for mobile and get an incredibly responsive experience. That is what they are doing with Basecamp and they're able to provide a first class mobile experience on iOS, Android, a desktop app, all with a team of 12 developers (https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-majestic-monolith-29166d02222...). That's fucking impressive. On top of that, they've release the generic iOS and Android wrappers so that you can roll your own mobile applications with Rails and Turbolinks.

https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks-ios

https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks-android

There's no other framework out there that remotely comes close to providing that value to the end developer.

The market demands that your app be present on multiple platforms, which is usually a fucking nightmare if you're a small dev team. These Turbolink additions now give you a fighting chance.
In your list of things that beginners must get an advantage out of, you left out functionality and brevity. Hope that helps.
I suffer from avascular necrosis, where my large bone joints are dying from a lack of blood flow. The bone breaks down (sever acute pain), chews the shit out of the cartilage (chronic inflammation pain), and movement exacerbates both. I still do the excises, as each joint will eventually be replaced, and strong muscles decrease dislocation chances, but this provides no pain relief, and only causes to fatigue the muscles. After 7 surgeries, 3 joint replacements, you begin to realize that the average person has no idea what pain is. A broken bone isn't pain, it's an inconvenience.

I refuse to use opioids anymore, I can't code on them, they muddle your brain. But I wouldn't wish this life on anyone, not even the morons who glibly state that all you have to do is not take drugs.
When Crybabies Cry?
You've totally missed the point.

It's not about what education is or is not, it's that the male brain, for whatever reason, is highly motivated by competition.
> I'm curious if there are any good hosted knowledge base solutions where it isn't an afterthought

I started HelpSite.io exactly because of this. Knowledge bases with the big guys are always bundled with a million (https://help.helpsite.io/articles/5-comparison-with-help-des...) other things. I always just wanted a simple way to create a public facing help site / support center / KB.

Check it out:

http://helpsite.io

A few nice things we support:

- Really fast search

- An intelligent contact form that auto-suggests articles

- We even have a free plan which supports custom domains (via CNAME).

I'd love to hear any feedback!

We're not a huge team either, but we're profitable with no fixed runway or intention of shutting down.

Feel free to reach out at info@helpsite.io
I don't know this survey. But I've read similar and recently published surveys on the subject. Notably, if you stratified the sample to remove computer science students the conclusion is reversed.
What is this "it" which depends? Is the curious language in this headline trying to say: "it matters what you study, not where?"

Ironically, where did this author learn grammar?
And how many of those probes required entirely new rocket technology, instead of being launched on top of a system designed decades ago to launch ICBMs?

Probes are nice for science, but they really don't inspire people the way manned flights, space stations, etc. do. Nor do they require nearly as many resources; they comparatively cheap and simple. The resources poured into Apollo were enormous, and the technologies derived were hugely significant. What technologies were derived from New Horizons? Probably none. I'm not saying it shouldn't have been launched; it was absolutely a worthy project. But it just doesn't compare to Apollo in any way. So as I said before: "nothing as notable".
Every criticism of anti-dumping (bastiat's included) makes one or more of the same three mistakes:

A) industrial comparative advantage is built up in the short run rather than over a period of many decades.

B) that having natural resource comparative advantage is every bit as good as having industrial comparative advantage (see Russia, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, etc. and the 'resource curse').

C) That industrial comparative advantage just appears randomly out of nowhere rather than (as is historically verified), being developed via protectionist trade policies and infrastructural development.
GeForce cards have a driver with reduced pinned memory performance...
Interesting, it feels significantly more elegant to me as you're simply telling the language what you want (reverse iteration) and it handles the exact details, and works for any reversible iterable.
Supermassive black holes can be less dense than water
>GPLv3 is fundamentally incompatible with having a secure hardware platform

That's funny because Chromebooks ship with GPLv3 code.
And acetaminophen has its own set of problems. It's at least a reasonable question whether it would have been approved as an over the counter drug had its level of liver toxicity been known at the time.
Newbie here.
How is this possible? I guess that most of the libraries UIKit,.. are only available on MacOS and Unix. How can this run on Windows?
And make it as autonomous as possible.
>ISS? Hubble? Various Mars rovers?

As I said before, nothing as notable.

>Sure they aren't as notable as putting humans on the freaking moon

And it seems you agree with me!!

>but that's also a pretty impossibly high bar to match. The only thing that would best it is humans on Mars.

Wrong, there's plenty of things that would best Apollo. A serious space station (like the rotating one in 2001) perhaps at a Lagrangian point, a Moon base, Moon or asteroid mining operations, orbital construction of a longer-range spacecraft, creation of nuclear spacecraft engines, etc. Basically all the stuff we dreamed about back in the Apollo days and then never bothered to do and just forgot about.
Isn't this a recent dupe?
Does it matter - he landed a gig in the Economist and proved his thesis?
No read the second sentence.

What I'm saying is the real estate market has very different characteristics in the low, medium, and high end. So the top third, middle thirds and bottom thirds should be broken out and you can't use median for the market as one sample set.
ISPs rent their modems to most of their customers.
more and more this feels like a big smoke screen to keep sheep walking in circles. german publications are losing readers in droves. they desperately need to capitalize on a good story.

there's absolutely no real news here. but suddenly "democracy’s checks and balances have all failed".

come on.
What Tesla has, are Musks shoulders. He went pretty deep and pretty low to make this happen when it was nothing. Not to make him a supernatural being, but now that his ventures are stable and growing I expect him to be able to handle pressure and find solutions way easier than when Tesla almost went bankrupt.
Why didn't video cables go optical? Like toslink did w audio?
Can you actually give that kind of gmail access to third party apps? Luckily I don't but it's unnerving to think that doing so can have those ramifications.
I haven't read the indictment in this case, but HSBC didn't merit jail time for anyone in the U.S. The DOJ had no evidence that anyone in the U.S. at HSBC actually knew about specific money laundering transactions. The charge was based on inadequate controls. That's the classic case for a fine as opposed to jail time.

It's not illegal for your bank to be used for money laundering. Every bank is used by money launderers. And every U.S. bank knows, in the abstract, its branches are used to launder money. Read the money laundering statue: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1956. It requires transferring money with either: a) intent to promote illegal activity; or 2) knowing that the transaction is designed to conceal unlawful activity.
The n isn't the bad part. I'm skeptical of all psych studies. Readers extrapolate too much from simple, controlled experiments.
"Especially when the pain is linked to a temporary condition."

I think that's the important point in the original comment.
(i.e. everybody in academia has a job because a discipline exists; question the disciplinary boundaries and that calls the whole physical structure into question.)
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11627901
Not really. Boys have about 14 to 17 times the amount of serum testosterone as girls and that does affect their felt incentives for things like competition. Culture can mute this but at great cost to boy's and men's health.

The idea that gender is separate from biological sex is very recent. When you examine its origin you find that it comes from Foucault and Judith Butler. Both were gay. It's unsurprising to me that that idea would come from that lineage. If you are gay you are confronted with a difference between what you feel and what society tells you from a very early age. In general straight people do not have that issue and would never consider drawing that distinction unless the concept is introduced to them.
Why don't patients for whom OxyContin does not work 12-hours ask their doctor for some another drug? With smaller interval, generic, and much cheaper?

Would a doctor refuse to prescribe different, much cheaper drug, keeping them on expensive drug that does not work? Should not they then lose licenses?

The whole prescription medicine system always seemed evil to me.
Bitcoin was just staring out back then and was barely worth anything, also there was no Bitcoin deposit option one had to use exchangers back then, I lost 700 usd back then after getting paid for a design job,should have asked for bitcoin and be a millionaire now. Lr were more reliable than PayPal who hate freelancers.
How about safety?
Oh, I did not know about Carmack's port of Wolfenstein 3D, very neat. Here he is talking about motivations and lessons learned: http://functionaltalks.org/2013/08/26/john-carmack-thoughts-... (Summary: The worst problem he had with the port that he could not motivate himself enough to work on a learning project instead of a current, commercial one.)
Beat me to it. The problem these guys had is they are not paying protection money in the form of job offers to former regulators and politicians.

Banking needs a total reform and right now. These guys are circumventing our legal systems and our democracies. They are utter filth. Their rentier activity adds nothing and takes from productive work.
Well, that rings true for a lot of my experience with NI, but my recommendation was based on writing a linux driver for one of the NI digital IO cards in a university class. I figured if we could do it in that class, maybe they're not all that bad?
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My advice: get your eyes checked. Vision changes as we age. In my early thirties, my lifelong 20/20 was gone. These days, though not part of my prescription, I often use reading glasses for books.

It might help to move exercise to the middle of the day if possible. If your employee schedule precludes that and requires long hours, that may be a symptom that the problem is more structural in the employment context and less something under your control.

Good luck.
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The article glosses over an important detail. It is far more likely that he raised suspicion by wearing a keffiyeh, or 'Yasser Arafat scarf', as he calls it on his Facebook thread concerning the issue. The Palestinian Liberation Organization is still on the proscribed terrorist list.

Edit: See tuna-piano's comment below where he links a picture of Guido Menzio wearing a scraggly beard and keffiyeh combo.

http://web-facstaff.sas.upenn.edu/~gmenzio/index_files/self4...

Edit: Guido Menzio has since deleted, or made inaccessible to the general public the relevant Facebook page.
I don't have much experience, but I think the VeniceX packages from Zewo answer the concurrency issues quite well.

https://github.com/VeniceX/Venice
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It says "return on degree", so is the income measured relatively to what they spent on the degree? If so, it obviously depends still very much on where you study, as top schools cost much more.
I illegally use marijuana, not for the pain relief, it's not any more effect in my case than a bottle of Jack. But it gives me a pocket of time where I can just feel okay, mentally, knowing that I will never live another day without pain.

The medical community focuses too much on symptom/treatment, and not enough on quality of life. I'm not saying that marijuana is an answer here, and I completely accept anyone who says I'm just using my pain as an excuse to get high, but it lets me feel emotion again, something you wrap up so tight in order to deal with the pain, you forget how to laugh and cry.
To pick one example, what did JPM do that involved "outright criminal fraud?" Give specific examples that a jury would convict for, keeping in mind that knowledge and intent must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt.

If I had to guess, what made this case easy was the fact that the guy left the country under circumstances where it could be inferred he know he was facilitating illegal transactions. That was the key element missing in, for example , the HSBC prosecution.
What do you mean? That sentence can read a few ways.
It was active way before bitcoin existed and their primary currency was Liberty Reserve Dollars. You could deposit via western union or other cash deposit methods and transfer funds internationally with no questions. Bitcoin was added as another method fairly late on.
I just realized there's a small typo in the above, it should be

return data[pos]
This is probably the only direction available to Tesla. They can grow or lose market share over 5 years as the legacy automakers catch up.

The biggest threat to Tesla now is that their logistics teams will be able to source sufficient materials. I think getting the manufacturing lines up and running will be a challenge, but one Tesla has met before.

Financially can Tesla do it? I'd say yes, and they probably won't even have to do any fundraising to do so. They will probably be able to fund it completely through debt instruments. They are a good bet by any measure at this point.
re gobolinux

That's the one I was trying to think of! Yeah, they solved the directory problem. NixOS solved the packaging problem. Little projects doing what they can to fix the UNIX/Linux mess.
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"want to win for the money (as be said repeatedly)."

He said both: that he wasn't doing it for the money, that he wanted the money, and things he could spend it on for Pinboard. If he didn't want the money, then it's a decent outcome. His comments and Twitter feed implied to me otherwise.
Well, gender studies is not very scientific. It is more "theorizing", in the sense of writing obscurantist explanations for everyday phenomenon.
Do you think this would somehow exonerate the "concerned citizen"?