skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a legitimate criticism, but he's arguing a strawman.

First off, the reviewer's coinflip analogy is deeply flawed. If you take a million draws from a binomial distribution, it's not going to end up the same as a million draws from an exponential distribution. That has an even deeper meaning when you, as an individual, are one random draw from said distribution, especially if you want to live in a society that considers itself "fair" (whatever that may mean).

Now Frank is not arguing against inequality. Frank is an economist, and almost no serious economist is against inequality as a whole concept (though many are against extreme inequality and, importantly, social immobility) because inequality is what you'd call "incentive compatible".

Frank's policy proposal is consistent and sane, but it will rub some the wrong way, as any policy proposal does. I'm certainly in favor of it; consumption is a better target for progressive taxation than most of what has been proposed this election season. That's the part that got the reviewer so riled up. I'm guessing the reviewer is not a professional economist.

The idea of a progressive consumption tax is consistent with microeconomic theory, too. People value things in an ordinal (not cardinal) manner, and at a sufficiently high level of income this means consumption has to be conspicuous to some degree (that's Veblen's whole insight).

Of course, political feasibility of the policy proposal is one thing, and certainly many worse policies are more politically feasible, as exemplified by how rubbed that reviewer has been by Frank's book.

The main difference between this book and Taleb's book is that Franks book is "Successful people are lucky, here's a policy proposal" and Taleb's book is "Successful people are lucky and also everyone is dumb and I'm so smart"
> Around here (Texas) I tend to suspect unfriendly driving from large trucks and "cheap" sports cars and am more defensive in my driving when I 'm around them.

Really interesting. I'm from Texas also (Houston) and I also seem to get more defensive when I see trucks coming up on me in my rear view mirror, and even more so when they have two sawed off mufflers so that everyone can here them coming from 5 miles away. I used to drive a truck myself when I was a teenager, and am well aware that they aren't all out to get me, but I still catch myself thinking "What an a-hole" when I see them on the road (which is constantly, because Houston).
There have been many developments in laser technology and many updates to the page since then - check the version history (unfortunately missing dates) and you may spend a few more hours!

http://www.repairfaq.org/sam/lasersam.htm#samver
Hell, you can get whole books for $0.01 on Amazon.

Books are a different equation, a different tier if you will. With a newspaper, a large part of what you are paying for is currency. Books can be timeless. Magazines are somewhere in between, immediacy of info is deprioritized somewhat in exchange for increased depth, but not as much as books... Old magazines lose relevancy, just not as quickly as newspaper.

Dollars per time spent reading is a poor metric, IMO.
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You don't have to. Fonts should be (and usually are) offered to the web browser with the instruction to cache them indefinitely. You will only have to re-download them when your cache is cleaned up (due to its size, private browsing, or manually cleaning it). Upcoming technology WOFF2 helps further compress them by a significant margin as well (I've seen up to 50% improvement in size over plain WOFF).

The problem is that the behaviour you are describing is also one of the ways a fingerprinter gets its data on your fonts; by specifying an @font-face declaration that first tries for a local font, and only loads a remote font if that is not found. Do this for a short-list of popular but distinct fonts (such as Roboto), and you have a nice amount of bits of identifying data to add to the stack.

Also, tricks like these exist (using rendering metrics to detect fonts):

http://www.lalit.org/lab/javascript-css-font-detect/
SF pitches $149M plan to replace cars with self-driving vehicles
You're well beyond the normal limits for being able to initiate a chargeback i'm afraid.

But no harm in asking your card issuer to see if they can help.
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I like this. It's important for many software people to understand hardware, and even if it isn't (like, you're a frontend web dev and never want to do anything else), understanding different paradigms is very useful in diversifying your thinking.
Cool stuff. Previously, I was looking at eASIC or Triad if I needed this cuz I thought FPGA people cancelled S-ASIC's. Good to know there's a high-end one from Xilinx. Here's the others in case you didn't know about them:

http://www.easic.com/products/28-nm-easic-nextreme-3/

https://www.triadsemi.com/reconfigurable-full-custom-asic/

eASIC has a maskless capability where they straight-up print your silicon for prototyping/testing. Triad brought S-ASIC's to analog/mixed-signal. They're top players. eASIC's basic prototyping was $50k for 50 chips on older ones. Idk now. Triad I heard is $400k flat. Need a price quote to be sure. ;)
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I understand it can ethically makes sense, what is more/less difficult and what is more realistic. However, we dont live in a bubble. Groups are provably more powerful than individuals and, if you believe in evolution, an individuals rulers can effect who will and will not breed causing lasting effects over generations.

I can understand that you do not want to be part of something bigger and can rationalize it by focusing on real problems right in front of you. But simply by posting here you have already decided you wanted to give something to everyone else, namely apathy and the belief that nothing will ever change except your immediate surroundings. If you believe that ideas can go viral, you have enabled a large group to surrender. Are you ok with the only people who believe they can change the world to be the ones with ambition and hunger?

Changing the world, your rulers abd your life should never be seen as a hopeless endeavour. Once it has become that, we truly are nothing more than sheep and parrots.
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The menu option actually calls it "Path Bar", not "Breadcrumb Bar".
Mostly for programming languages with hash tables / dictionaries.

Python dictionaries hold keys but the keys aren't in any particular order, so allowing them to come out in whatever order maps very naturally to the language.
How exactly are these actionable?
It would prevent you from falling with locked wrists and breaking your arms.

You'd still get scraped up and hurt, of course, but falling at 20 mph and not running into a brick wall doesn't have to result in broken bones.
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If you consent to the way things have always been, do nothing!
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How often does someone actually donate?
http://fooledbyrandomness.com/minority.pdf

this chapter interesting contrasts with this blog post

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/12/01/setting-the-default/

-------------

a better writer than me could shortly synthesis what's interesting about the two

the blog post is sort of a defense of cultural warriorism

the chapter seems to expand on it
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Sew (washable) RFID tags into your clothes, and you're halfway there.
I mean you're generating energy. It's like your filling up a bucket. Once the bucket is full what can you do with the excess?
I've found the opposite, get nothing but interest when riding a boosted. Everyone wants to know what it is and where they can get one :)
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A neat read I think, even touches on LANDR, a new-ish and pretty compelling service.

I do take such an article with a grain of salt though, because a lot of the "tightest" sounding music since 2010 - in my PERSONAL opinion - is in drum & bass and, more than likely, not run through too much outboard gear like is romanticized here. Smart routing in Ableton and into iZotope isn't outside the reach of intelligent, determined artists and producers of many stripes.

I just tend to think "Oh, yeah Grimes sounds pretty good, so does Radiohead, but compared to what's happening in a Netsky or Camo & Krooked track, just different ballparks altogether." Like I said, that's me and my ears.
I see a consent overlay on that very page.
Kernel security is good, and more kernel security is better. I'm still hoping that Linux gets W^X (Write XOR eXecute) protection like some BSDs have - it eliminates several classes of vulnerabilities at a single stroke.
That's awesome. I had heard about them before but never used. Crazy how low that price is.
Similar for store clerks.

Supposedly there are doctors in Norway still holding on to their DOS based patient journal software. Arguably because they can operate it without taking the focus way from the conversation with the patient.
>> I’m slightly shaking and shocked. I’ve been in this street for ages, inside Cinema4D. Now I’m actually there.

When I flew to San Francisco for the first time, I was shocked that I recognized the all bay scenery from having played many hours of Flight Simulator going from Oakland to SFO.
Whoops. Didn't indent this to get out. But Autotune doesn't actually change any settings. It just recommends changes and it is up to the admin to change them. It's more of a tuning assistant at present.
I realize you're just being snarky, but for the benefit of those playing at home, only U. S. citizens can make campaign contributions.
No. Microphone requires permission.

Your browser can leak a ton of information about your computer silently: window size, screen resolution, pixel density, time zone, language, installed fonts, installed plugins, operating system and version, browser version, plugins and versions, etc. There are good reasons for all of this data to be available to JavaScript for legitimate purposes. The AND of all of these datapoints, however, may be unique (or close), particularly if you have ever done something like install a novelty font. The EFF runs a website that fingerprints you and tells you how unique your fingerprint is:

[0] https://panopticlick.eff.org/tracker
I think of 'modern' metal as extreme metal. I wonder who would qualify, then...Lemmy? Quorthon? Tom Warrior?
From that codereview site:
"We're doing this via a flag so that we can control this behavior should there be sufficient outcry."

So it would be hopefully possible to re-enable it via chrome://flags or something like --enable-backspace…

Edit: Or not –– "We ended up not having a flag for this. Even if we had it, it would only have been in place for a single release."
Does anyone here have any experience with one of these in a hilly city? Does it work, or is the utility so compromised that it's no longer worth it? I wouldn't mind one but I'm in Seattle and afraid that our inclines would severely crimp it.
You know, I don't really edit JSON very often. Generate and consume it by the gigabyte, sure, but I'm not actually editing it.
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Maybe I'm missing something, but neither this article or the paper discuss why blockchain is better for this use case than a distributed database.

At least then you wouldn't be subject to bitcoin transaction fees for every data entry. Even if they created their own blockchain network, you'd still have to reward miners for their work.
I didn't say it's available everywhere I said there is another solution (already working in another browser) besides removing a very long lived keyboard shortcut.
Yeah #2 selects the whole content visually, but it doesn't put the contents into the primary buffer, very annoying.
The Jaws problem may have been video card drivers. Jaws installs it's own video driver that I have found to not work under Virtualbox unless guest additions are installed. I could see there being something in the Amazon virtualization solution that could cause problems with the driver.
Advanced search settings have been missing from the Google App for some time. To search only the past year, you have to use their mobile website.
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Prompts do little to prevent accidental behavior as most just get clicked through without absorbing what they're saying.
I'm glad they are still plugging away at this. Supporting standalone apps for wear will let you do a lot more without having your phone tethered.
The steps don't even have to be discrete. An analog computer can give a continuously varying response to varying inputs with no sequential operations.
It does have brakes (regenerative!), which usually work well, unless you need to stop extremely quickly, or there's RF interference and the remote momentarily loses connection (which is pretty rare and usually in the same location every time), or the battery is fully charged (thus nowhere for the energy to go)

But seriously, the brakes work pretty well. You should still learn to footbrake.
I love how most of the comments on the bug tracker are "I've never lost data so therefore no one has and this should go back because I'm used to it."

Typical myopic power users...
> Don't you think this sort of thing warrants a separate sort of browsing mode? A lot of people who use the likes of incognito mode just use it for e.g. browsing porn where they don't want the local history to be preserved.

Think about it this way, would those using incognito mode for porn be OK with their normal browsing being peppered with ads claiming to "Improve your <fetish> with our range of <sexual implements>"?

Whilst I think incognito mode's warnings about not hiding data from network operators should remain (i.e. your boss can find out what sites you were visiting at work), that doesn't mean efforts to prevent it shouldn't be made.
This looks promising.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aiforeveryone/mycroft-a...

https://mycroft.ai/
Educating the poor up to speed with modern technology doesnt require money? Who wants to keep me alive while I do this service? Who benefits more from this education, my government or me the individual?
I sort of get you, personally I feel the same. But then I walk around here and see people with dogs in baby carriages. Why ? Because they could never have a child, they're too old, or cannot or don't want to spend the money they think it'll require.

The problem does not tend to be that it's physically impossible to get a child.
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I've visited SF and NYC, not frequently but I know how to get around, so I'm surprised they sound like such target markets (other than $$$).

Where I live and work (Dallas area), there are actually quite a surprising number of longboard riders in various areas. For a very car-centric culture in Texas, there is a big local push to make things more pedestrian / low-key friendly - best example being the music & arts hotspot (now gentrifying yay) called Deep Ellum. Lots of Ruckus scooters, long boards, beards and piercings kind of area.

Honestly I think the Boosted Boards would be great for the general North Texas terrain - flat! - but the condition of the pavement / concrete and gaps caused by high heat and brief winter freezes leaves the conditions very sub-optimal. I have friends into RC cars and seeing the different wheel rim & tire combinations made me think "Why not apply this kind of tech to this board here?" because with a general upgrade I think a Boosted Board would work a whole lot better. Offhand and all, but gut instinct.
Sorry, I don't know. I don't really use Firebase.
If the sites can be detected, wouldn't it be possible to come up with a browser extension to at least let people know this is happening?
Founder here.

Actually, we see people using it because they prefer it to a bike in certain situations. It's compatible with most public transit and ridesharing, and there's little to no risk of theft. Compared to a normal skateboard or bike, you also don't risk being sweaty when you arrive at work. Bikes also require more regular maintenance, which isn't expensive but can be time-consuming.

We've seen it enthusiastically adopted in many cities outside SF and NY.
I'm in Vancouver, BC and the Dual+ can handle any hill here
It's a shame that Open Scripting Architecture has languished. It let you write scripts to extend and connect applications on your Mac in very powerful ways, in any OSA language you choose (including Javascript).

Unfortunately AppleScript was the default language, has always been terrible (IMHO), and became more so with OS X. Apple Events took a serious backseat with OS X as well, making it difficult to implement in your app.
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If you press and hold on the comma key and go into languages, enabling languages such as French or Spanish will bring back the ability to press and hold for diacritical marks. As for your complaint about key size, I wouldn't know because I use swipe typing exclusively and have found the update a significant improvement. I also really appreciate the new gestures for deleting multiple words by swiping left on backspace and for moving the cursor by swiping on the space-bar.
As pointed out (arguably a bit harshly) in comments under the original article, this is really a strawman argument. That's because that ol' classical GoF book on design patterns - which the author admits has not even read - addresses this concern already. It's still a valid argument, but not exactly a fresh one. And speaking on the subject without even bothering to read the piece widely considered as canonical is a bit arrogant.
Their FAQ says the Dual+ can handle a 25% grade.
I tend to unconsciously follow the rule "write for the problem at hand, aggressively abstract as soon as you have to solve a variation of that problem."

Sometimes that means I'm writing a function, and I find I've written a few lines to summarize and output info about a data structure the same way a few times in that function for debugging purposes. I'll pull that out into a function.

Sometimes that means I have a fairly complex processing function for a data source, and a few months later I need to process a new data source of similar, but not the same, info. I'll try to (somewhat) normalize the data sources to a format that can be processed or almost be processed by that function, and make the changes to the function so it can work on the mostly normalized data, and handle the specific differences as needed.

It's almost never a good idea to make your algorithm very abstract in the beginning, as it generally makes it more error prone, and usually you don't know the specifics about how things need to work anyway. By the time you're feeling the need to abstract the function, not only do you know more about the problem and can implement it cleaner, but you can use the prior implementation as a test harness to confirm the rewritten version is functionally the same (or better). I can't stress how useful that is and how much time and pain it can save.
Thanks for the links.

Agreed, but what made it into mainstream computing we are aware of and touch and fiddle with? I don't consider a deeply embedded baseband processor to be mainstream outside the handful of radio engineers.

It's crazy how Burroughs (B-5000) solved many issues elegantly and Intel's team with i960 lost the internal challenge to the x86 group. It may have been before its time to some extent, but worse isn't better when it concerns the underpinnings of computing.

Barrelfish is very nice but purely research, OLK4 used the Dresden design and took efficient microkernels to another level and managed to deploy into millions of devices and that's great, but the only mainstream microkernel'ish remnant I could point to that is active and modern is NT's userspace graphics and audio drivers. There are similar things on Linux but not quite the same. I find it telling when network gear switches from vxWorks or QNX to Linux with extra kernel modules. Market forces and maybe the illusion of more linux developer might be the reason, but it's not too smart.

The success of UNIX in the 80s led to the unsatisfactory OS architectures we're using today. It also led to the rise of C and the introduction of trivial attack vectors all over the place. Even plain Pascal was much safer and used on Apple systems above ASM.
Yes, it does.

In the context of html in a browser, a form isn't a concept to be debated, it's a well understood element defined in the html standard.

If an app chooses to not use html forms and instead uses something like contenteditable to create its own editing environment, then you likely have much bigger issues than the back button.
This would be so interesting! I don't know any other language that has made this before. But if the intention is to increase the reach of OCaml then if sound like a great plan.
Never lost data on firefox by going forward after going back for accident while writting on a form, but whatever...
Google only wants dumb users who can't see past what they're doing.
Nope, just rode my 1st-gen board over to see him, dropped off a remote, and rode home.
There are real consequences to ascertaining the accuracy of such evidence. Cases get reopen and verdicts thrown out.

For years, prosecutors told jurors that DNA and hair tests were much more accurate than they truly were, some cases claimed that they were 100% accurate. Jurors then convicted possibly innocent people based on that lie.

The result was many convictions can now be overturned, prosecutors reputations sullied and millions of dollars wasted.

The people that pay to keep these labs running have no interest in digging that deep.
> Nintendo has said that the NX is not designed
> to be a replacement for the Wii U, meaning that
> Nintendo may still plan to sell the Wii U

Generally these sort of comments can also just mean "please don't stop buying our current stuff just because a replacement is around the corner".

We'll see when it's released, I wouldn't be surprised if it's a complete replacement for their existing consoles.
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Brought down from Northern California via the Colorado River, huh? Might want to check a map. Or, like, the name of the river.

http://media.web.britannica.com/eb-media/60/89860-004-F57B19...
> It would be shocking if Theranos survives this.

According to the last paragraph, they're still expanding.

"Last week, Siemens delivered lab equipment to a Theranos facility in the Harrisburg, Pa., area, according to the person familiar with the matter. The person said Theranos is preparing to open there what would be the company’s third lab."

I'm still not willing to bet everybody involved won't come out fantastically rich.
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To expand this with quotes a little, OED (using the paid OED.com so can't provide links unfortunately) defines "animal" as:

a. A living organism which feeds on organic matter, typically having specialized sense organs and a nervous system and able to respond rapidly to stimuli; any living creature, including man.

b. In ordinary or non-technical use: any such living organism other than a human being.

The etymology from OED shows that its origins are both a borrowing from French (which excludes man) and Latin (which includes man), which explains the confusion a little I think.

So technically, the people claiming humans are an animal are correct. In common parlance however, distinguishing humans from animals is totally acceptable.

Both sides have an argument but I don't see how it's appropriate to describe other HN users as "nit-picking boobs" or compare them to "leg-humping chihuahuas". That's the kind of childishness I'd expect from Reddit or 4chan.