skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Software development and web browsing seem like they would be a bear (depending on the software you're developing I guess, anything with a GUI would be tough). A touch based OS would be a must, cursors would be way too laggy.

It would make a dandy comic book reader though!
I think Garmin is way underrated as a (hardware) technology company.

Given that they were a GPS company that people wrote off as being irrelevant in the age of smartphones and Google Maps they have done a great job carving out multiple niches in sports devices (and that ignores their "Smart Glass" airplane business).

I have 2 Edge cycling computers and a Garmin running watch and love them all.

The Edge 520 is the type of device that I'd see the specs of and expect to be a half-implemented heap of junk (connects to my phone to receive notifications while I ride? Automatically uploads rides when I finish them? This will never work). And yet it really is rather good.
If you count it like that you get at least four trips for turf car service where you have two for the private car. That's not counting potentially cruising around in areas where you have a higher likelihood of finding customers but no parking.
But then, why does Jimmy Carter want terrorist regimes to blow up school busses in my country?
From personal experience, black and white epaper can run at ~20-30hz if you turn off the page refresh system. This usually dramatically cuts down on bit depth and dramatically increases ghosting, however. With page refresh on, you can expect ~5hz with some nice strobing inbetween.
Archipics: When Digital Art Becomes Pixel Art
Same here, using google apps mostly.

Tried real hard to switch to linux but couldn't because of video edit requirements for family video. That was few years ago.
> We have been told that international free trade benefits us all.

If you have 10 jobs paying people $10, and replace them with 50 jobs paying people $1, but keep the prices of the products the same; 10 people now don't have jobs, and 50 people each don't make enough money to buy any products. You've increased productivity 5x and cut costs in half but all of the gains go to shareholders.

> A more educated workforce should be able to produce more and better goods for us all.

Same as above.

> Automation...has, at times, apparently made us vastly richer.

Same as above.

> I think there is a larger issue at the root: debt.

It's the same issue. Debt is just another thing to rent to poor people.
>that's not happening for 20-somethings now.

This chart [1] seems to imply that 21% of people under 25 own a house, which is higher than the 14% of under 25's who owned a house in 1994.

http://thereformedbroker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Scre...

...maybe someone can check this against another data source.
This is the epitome of hipster.

Hey guys, lets carry around old typewriters and use those instead of computers!

If you can't see that this is a hipster web framework, then there's a chance that you haven't ever met a real hipster before.
The size of my apartment, which houses one person, is a tiny fraction of the size of the house I grew up in, which housed 3 people. Living on my own is dramatically less wasteful than even 6 or 7 people living in that big house.

So it depends on the spaces in question. Urban living is typically compact and economical. Suburban living is expansive, what with the yards, cars and multi-mile trips to the store.
The problem with the DFW Metroplex is that walkability is kinda garbage.

Also, the burbs (Grapevine, Colleyville, Arlington, Euless, Irving, etc.) are soulsucking tracts of aparments and housing subdivisions. Walking around is hard, biking difficult (getting murdered on large streets and highways), and the only non-chain stuff tends to be overly-face folksy town centers that people are moving towards (see Southlake, but even then it's a lot of big chains because of how much it costs to be there).

And that's before you even go into the shittiness of commuting around Dallas.
I'm new to Bitcoin development and cryptocurrencies in general. Can anyone give a quick intro to Ethereum's scripting system and why it's such a big deal?
You're right. Sorry for making a joke!!!
Peter Thiel Has Been Funding Hulk Hogan's Lawsuit Against Gawker
Pony Patterns: Accessing an Actor with Arbitrary Transactions
The neoliberal Taliban rush to sell off Brazil
you could do

if let method = classInstance.methods[methodKey] {
//Put some ugly method argument checker thing here
method.execute()
}

It would be typesafe, not dangerous, and statically typed.
Is the President a Woman?
I recently switched to 1&1 here in DE. They offer 1.5gb for 17eur with unlimited calls (without contract). You can get better/cheaper plans with a tarif though https://mobile.1und1.de/
> Obama's proposal was Obamacare without an individual mandate. Clinton's proposal was Obamacare with an individual mandate. Those were the only entrees on the proverbial menu. No candidate ran on a public option

Actually, all of Obama, Clinton, and Edwards ran on a public option. They differed on other points (as you note, during the primary Obama opposed and Clinton supported an individual mandate, and there were various other differences between the three plans, but largely Clinton and Obama cribbed their plans from the same place Edwards did first, so they all looked pretty similar.)
Might Fred Ehrsam have some personal interest in Etherium, being a former Goldman Sachs trader (Etherium having been co-founded by Goldman Sachs alum Joseph Lubin)?
Nim supports sets which IMO is a much better solution: http://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#types-set-type
I believe the right problem is progress, not capitalism.
I'm an emigrant from a non-capitalistic country, by the way.
Tor is a layer 4 overlay network.

Layer 5 would be HTTP, layer 6 would be the content (JPEG, MP4, etc.), and layer 7 would be the application serving or sending the HTTP requests/content.
You were right until your last sentence. Reagan made the nation feel that its civic and moral fabric was strong. Nevermind that his policies undermined civil society and his religious backing was hypocritical of anything close to Christ's teachings on compassion, it made people feel strong and so it won him the election.
Always appreciate the feedback.
"I think Garmin is way underrated as a (hardware) technology company."

Can't agree more! I just wish they had a decent SDK so we could have apps on Garmin devices just like Pebble OS.
Yep that's true.

But I will put up with that -- the "good" of it being easy on the eyes trumps the "bad" of latency issues.

Though, let's hope the technology matures and this problem is solved to some extent.
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I agree with the overall sentiment of the piece. The one thing I disagree on is the perception that there should be "killer apps" for bitcoin. I think this perspective views Bitcoin as the the technological breakthrough, looking for apps to be built on top of it. But really the technology is the Blockchain, and Bitcoin (decentralized currency) is the "killer app".

Ethereum is different because in addition to being a currency, it is also a platform. It needs "killer apps" to differentiate itself, otherwise it's just a currency, and can be discarded like litecoin and doge. I think Fred has given us reason to believe it will succeed in providing the ability for killer apps to be built on top of it, but we still have to see. None exist yet. The DAO has yet to do anything real.

Maybe just a detail, but it seemed like an important one to me.
> But we are talking about performance... Having something in a single table that is denormalized is always going to be faster than having an elegant data model with "Everything In It's Right Place"

Unless you specify the workload, that's anywhere between completely true and exactly incorrect. Do you have big values you're always interested in and a couple of tiny ids? That's probably going to be faster in one table.

Are you querying only the metadata most of the time and the big value is multiple KB, almost never accessed? You're just killing your readahead and multiple levels of caches for no reason. "always going to be faster" is always incorrect ;)
I've wanted to do this but have the art undergo a very subtle or slow animation. Like have the clock on the wall in the painting tell real time, or leaves very slowly flutter in the breeze.
Excellent programming wisdom.
I'm reminded of Jimmy Carter's "Malaise" speech:

Don't worry, there is someone here who promises to "Make America Great Again"
Just about as wrong as the day it was posted here in December
I've seen demonstrations of eink displays showing 60fps video without any noticeable latency. I think the latency is purely dependent on the voltages used to drive the display.

Edit: This was with a black and white display. Depending on how the colour displays work, avoiding latency might not be possible as easily.
This is article is pure speculation. The linked source[1] does not make such a statement.

Basically they put a graph on the right side without labels. This could be everything. E.g. inverse TDP

1: http://www.3dcenter.org/news/amd-verspricht-fuer-bristol-rid... (german)
Using a Venn diagram to justify a loosely defined grammatical choice is quite possibly the nerdiest of approaches.

pushes up glasses
On the Trail of Nabokov in the American West
More likely Coinbase just started accepting ethereum trades because bitcoin is stalling and 2-3 other strong platforms(aka competitors) already offer it.

His basic point was related to bitcoin being not great "beyond store of value and speculation.", and how etherium is magically going to avoid that with killer apps.... sure...that is bubble speak for solving problems that don't actually exist.
Indeed. The world needs to return to feudalism (EDIT: it looks like I said "feudalism" and meant "the current economic model of Europe"...), with elites -- who are more or less permanent and hereditary even in capitalism -- having, and believing and accepting that they do have, clearly-defined obligations towards the common people and towards the collective defense of the realm.

Of course, there'll always be room for islands of capitalism (imagine New York or San Francisco as a free city), and a modern neo-feudal system will allow social mobility more readily than the original; but still.

I'm not trolling, by the way. The usual assumption is "if not capitalism then communism," but there are older, more interesting systems out there.

(There are also younger, scarier systems out there. The far right is getting disconcertingly strong in Europe, and indeed in the US; I think that if we don't explicitly choose some sort of neo-feudalism, we're going to get neo-fascism instead, or possibly just the original kind of fascism.)

(Disclaimer: neo-feudalism does not mean the revival of torture and oppression. One, "revival" implies that they aren't currently with us. Two, I think that a king, who answers only to God, assassins, his own conscience, and his hopes for his heirs, is less likely to turn lawless or pander to bloodthirsty mobs than a president is.)
> If it's hex without dashes, it'll be varchar(32)

Or just char(32) no need to note the length if it's always the same.
That's like my dream (living in a rural lake house)!
That is rather hostile, but in any event that is only one of the things I asked. There are two other questions.

How do I get multiple .onion domains and how do I back up my keys so I can keep my domain?

Still, there are a lot of things that aren't very evident. It's just a bad experience in general.

We can have obscure documentation only accessible on the tor website, or when you install tor you could get a nice command interface like something presented by UFW.

One will lead to better configurations, the other will lead to mistakes and loss of data.
Crypto is special. You do not want to have both ends negotiate down to an insecure cryptosystem. SSL/TLS has at times been persuaded to do just that via MITM attacks. In most other systems, you want interoperability if at all possible.
Honestly, if they're willing to put this clause in there in the first place, it's unlikely that they'd be willing to negotiate it for anyone but high-level hires. And that's iffy. They apparently have a very strong desire to keep their financial data private, so the most likely outcome would be rescinding your offer if you state that it's a deal breaker.

That said, I think it's a foolish clause for companies to try and force through even though I can see their arguments for it. It puts the employee at a distinct disadvantage, and invites future problems when the employee wants to do something with their shares and has no choice but to sue for records access. Requiring an NDA would be sufficient. Beyond damages, the stigma of being the guy who broke their NDA and leaked financial data would pretty much guarantee no startup would ever touch you with a ten-foot pole. As incentives go, it's a strong one.
Serious question: what caused you to purchase a Voyage vs. an Oasis or regular Paperwhite Kindle?
Idk. I thought YouTube ran on it, it was fast, and also lightweight. I figured hackers already had plenty of goes at it given that.
I wonder who can find heat maps for the price of things like milk, bread, electricity, similar to this map for gasoline:

http://www.gasbuddy.com/GasPriceMap?z=4
Broken-clock Ayn Rand did get something right in a scene in Atlas Shrugged where the [malicious and grossly incompetent] government figures toast to the "end of the age of money," and are interrupted by a [flawless and endlessly brilliant] capitalist who warns them that it will only usher in "the age of pull."

Power and money are largely interchangeable in a free market world where there's always a way to get what you want. At least money can be measured, and that makes it honest, sort of.
Citation needed, but I agree all those things are bad and have nothing to do with the concept of offshore processing, I agree that things should be more transparent but I do not think that would work in the favor of those who are detractors of the scheme. It should also be noted that Saudi Arabia is on the council for human rights with the UN, so I wouldn't hold their opinion very high.
You can google this stuff very easily, it's been reported a lot over the last couple of years.

I also posted a few links here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11766158

Specific allegations of legal counsel being refused:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/17/australia-refug...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/31/legal-aid-denie...

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/18/lawyer...

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/may/02/widow-...
"According to AMD"... yeah. Right. Just like the last generation.

I'll believe it when I see the benchmarks run by anandtech, arstechnica and hardocp.

It doesn't have to be as fast as the top end core i7, if they can make something faster that sells for the price of a mid range core i5.
The Kindle PaperWhite and Newest Kobo readers both sport 300dpi resolution.
My new reader is like reading on a something that came through a printer. Its amazing!
Not Perfected Here
It's cheaper to buy and trash than compete.
I use Pale Moon, a firefox fork. I currently have ~200 tabs loaded (in a session with ~500 tabs) and it's only using 2.7 GB of RAM.

> ... even though fairly close to Gecko-based browsers like Mozilla Firefox in the way it works, is based on a different layout engine and offers a different set of features. It aims to provide close adherence to official web standards and specifications in its implementation (with minimal compromise), and purposefully excludes a number of features to strike a balance between general use, performance, and technical advancements on the Web.
Well I just became one of the dozens of people that monitors loaded kernel extensions.
While I think it is a good idea for a company to stick to their knitting (making movies and such, not video games) I'm not sure what studio will want to work with them when Disney holds all the IP to the characters.

Say a game is a hit and makes the game studio a lot of money. Disney's going to see that and demand more for licensing fees. What is the studio going to say? No? It isn't like the studio can start releasing games with those characters without Disney's blessing.

Or maybe it will work, who knows. It will be interesting to watch.
That largely resembles the contemporary European social contract, where there are elites and commoners and in exchange for the elites not having their boat rocked too hard the commoners are guaranteed health care and general welfare, but not necessarily prosperity.
And even that assumes that Something doesn't Go Wrong:

http://imgur.com/9WQcjyT
happy to help! have fun!
I can't wait for the refresh rate to catch up with other display technologies. Imagine seeing a movie in subtractive color, it would be like watching a moving painting.
colored ebook reader, low powered electronic bill boards, camouflage armored tanks, and planes, smart phones, smart watches e.g. Pebble, store signs, laptop, monitor, tablet...

Basically, anything you can do with a LCD. This however uses way less power.
It's amusing that people try to replace phonetic spelling with pictograms, and rediscover that phonetic spelling is better.

For one thing, you can look up spelling in a dictionary. How do you look up a pictogram?
Agreed. I am glad they conceded that people use Strava. If I am going to upload and track results somewhere I would rather use Strava then their implementation.
What stops the attacker from just imaging the drive in its encrypted state and continuing to run attacks on the 8 char password well in excess of 10 attempts?
>Indeed. The world needs to return to feudalism, with elites -- who are more or less permanent and hereditary even in capitalism -- having, and believing and accepting that they do have, clearly-defined obligations towards the common people and towards the collective defense of the realm.

This post is a good reminder that capitalists are the radical liberal utopians of an earlier age, and what the realistic alternative is: social engineering and control of ordinary people by elites who think they know better, in the best case.

Count me out. I'll die fighting before I become a serf.

(edit: Also, it's just not true that the elite in capitalism are mostly permanent and hereditary. There are over two million Cuban-Americans who either came to this country with nothing to their name, or are the descendants of those who did. Today, they've found their way to the middle and upper classes in about the same proportions as non-hispanic white people who have been here for much longer.)
It's terrible, I agree. They could easily fix this problem in iOS 10, though. If they don't, I'll be worried.
Aren't the articles of incorporation public information? You should be able to find the the percentage of equity that your options represent from this.
I suspect that Twitter became popular because it came before Instagram and Snapchat. If it had come after, it would be ignored.

I taught an MBA class with 11 students. They were required to use Twitter for a group assignment.

My shock when a large majority of them had never used it, and a large minority of the new users just couldn't figure out how to use it, and why it was useful.
That's probably because Apple bought up Mirasol. http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/12/15/apple-has-taken-ov...
I honestly hadn't thought about Europe that way, but I always did know that I liked the cut of their jib.

Hearing this is both heartening and depressing: heartening because a neo-feudal system already exists; depressing because it's precisely the neo-feudal part of the world that has a neo-fascism problem...
Ethereum is an cryptocurrency retailer and exchange platform. Coinbase should support cryptocurrencies where there is customer demand and backed by credible technical teams. Bitcoin and Ethereum both meet that criteria.

I wish Coinbase had a stronger set of technical advisors. Fred and Brian seem to rarely meet with the engineering and research community. Charlie Lee is pretty strongly on crytocurrency technology but just one person.
The California suicide map is interesting. Coastal suicide rates are low until north of the Bay Area. Then they are very high.
I feel like calling citation needed on imports. Outsourcing is massive, and far larger than automation.
The government has an easy answer to this, data retention laws, which are already common in many countries. The more companies start doing this, the quicker the laws will be passed, and the stricter they will be when they are. It's a temporary solution to a structural mismatch between government and startup incentives.
Yeah, I saw it a while back. Messed with them about using OpenSSL. Predicted problems. ;)

Yeah, low-level stuff can be painful in Ada for we apps. My main idea was to make a scripting language with type inference and annotations that would autogenerate Ada code. Its own constructs handle web safe by default. See Opa language for example.

Another idea was porting Python and stdlibs to Ada or Rust. So, you get Python or its web frameworks at user level. Underneath, you get safe, systems constructs to make abstract machine and performance-critical stuff run safer.

What you think of these?
That's the part I understand. What surprised me, when I bought a house, was that for all the talk about what a big deal this deduction was supposed to be, and how difficult it would supposedly be to eliminate it, the actual effect on my total housing cost was effectively negligible. They could roll it back tomorrow and I'd never notice.
It's not just simple UIs, though -- As a programmer, I generally need to be able to dig down through the code and figure out what's going on behind the scenes.

This means that the implementation is often just as much the UI as any other aspect of the program. Simple implementations are just as important as simple UIs.
California's major cities are doing well, while its rural areas like those of much of America have been in a depression since 2000.
Nice! They finally fixed that.
Get behind the $15 minimum wage. Then the 8 hour day and 40 hour week.

Those policies don't seem well targeted to help the permanently unemployed.
I love static typing and stronger type systems, but I'm also mainly a data dev guy (that do CRUDs and data manipulation, plus app/web development).

The big trouble with inflexibles types is that work against data manipulation. Data using maybe not, but is a mile easier to do database development in python than in F#.

My ideal setup is a strict-types first and dynamic optional, so I can do:

row = MakeRow()
row?first_name = "Jhon"
row?last_name = "Doe"
row?fullName = fun row:Row -> row?first_name + " " + row?last_name

and stuff like that...

But still keep the type system everywhere!

fun sum(a, b:Int):Int -> a + b

Mainly, because readability. I think that is better when you can stare at a fragment of code and extract as much info as posible. Type annotations help that.

That infuriate me about F#. I do python, and in both basic code "look the same". But I hate that F# know the types of things but do not tell me! (without a IDE!) and I still need to track down the flow of code to figure out things.

Type inference must be local, imho. Or not at all...
Nah, it's just the standard HN-ian modus operandi of misusing Latin phrases like a priori which doesn't actually mean "prior" or "prior knowledge" despite the incessant use here on this site.

How else would I attempt to appear superior? :^)
It looks like the DPI is only half of standard print DPI, so it might not look as good as traditional print photos, but it's a good start.