skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately having once been a starving student, and also being well off financially, the only thing worse than being well off and having an awful burger for dinner, was being poor and not only having an awful burger but knowingly blowing my valuable and hard to replace $5 on it. Why now rather than saving up two more dollars to go to Culvers, I'm going to have to save up $7 ...

How middle/upper class people think poor people think, and how poor people actually think, are often two different things. Also middle/upper always confuse poor vs working class along the "everyone beneath me is a prole and they're all alike" model.

McDonalds is more a working class place than a poor people place. Working class people don't think in terms of "saving up" for $5 because they have an income stream and McD simply fits that budget. They might "save up" for and plan ahead for $20 at a sit down dinner. But not McD. Its affordably cheap for them.

I guess what I'm talking about is the difference between urge based spontaneous spending for working class or above, vs planned saving up for actual poor people.
This is where I'm currently sitting:

http://i.imgur.com/n77GGsK.jpg

It's a small restaurant that sells food for a dollar or two more than McDonalds. It's a 10 minute ferry ride from downtown Toronto, and after the work day ends (very soon) it will be full of people talking and laughing.

I'm not going to judge somebody that loves McDonalds going there, but I am going to long for a society where we have less mass produced, race to the bottom, crap. I want artists and greenery and real forks and cups. I don't want to be around a bunch of unheathy food wrapped in wax paper. I don't want to be around shitty "John is gay" graffiti on poorly lit washrooms.

How is there even a discussion here? Can't we hang out in parks and eat veggie loaded wraps? Can't we get people off of transfats and sugar?
I got my callsign a few years ago but never use it because of this. I wanted to use it more, but it felt like it was not a conductive place to research without supervision.
I've bought my 2014 rMBP with Mavericks and immediately upgraded it to the beta of Yosemite.
Some fun history on SimTower:

> After my lecture, a Maxis employee who shall remain nameless buttonholed me. "You guessed right," she said. "Sim Tower was built around a real elevator simulation program we bought from a Japanese guy."

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/2150/the_designers_not...
>because the Internet is a utility

According to whom? The Internet is delivered to homes on top of existing regulated utilities, that are quite essential to our survival. But I can use the Internet anywhere with a sufficient enough population density if I pay for a wireless data plan. Because the true value of the Internet is global availability of information, access to that information doesn't need to be tied to a physical address in the same way a life-saving device like a telephone does. Really energy and sanitation is what we should be thinking of. They're truly necessary utilities.
Why not, instead of paying mothers to birth at clinics, give the Nevirapine to the traditional birth attendants. Then you won't have to twist arms to get people to change their traditions and you can still prevent the spread of HIV?
Good idea but I do not understand the necessity for the variety of permissions the app needs. Can you please explain?
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Cool. Let's put ad-blockers in the UserAgent string so that both parties are approaching the transaction honestly, and see how that pans out.
Yes, Vox does exist to perpetuate that exact liberal nonsense. That's why Emmett Rensin, a communist, critiqued smug liberalism there.
Quite the pedantic distinction. Bombing them is enough, except if magically taking out an aircraft carrier is worse behavior than bombing a city or invading a country.
More companies should disavow growth and aim to be stable cash generating entities. Dropbox is a utility. Unfortunately VCs don't like this.
Ads for Zoloft?
Great list!
To quote Bob Colwell (former Intel fellow and DARPA director), it's hard to replace an exponential. There will be non-uniform improvements and "one-off" type of breakthroughs but a sustained 2x every 2x years is just not going to happen ever.

As a thought experiment, what if Moore's Law scaling had ended in 2000? No smartphones.

I agree that the value of software engineering and computer architecture in general will increase as the transistor-scaling free ride ends. We have to make more efficient use of existing transistors that will no longer scale going forward.
I actually think your advice is more harmful than helpful - web developers are not renowned for writing secure software. This is a very good case of finding a good, well-tested and vetted library that does this. Not sure what options exist, but I would be highly surprised if there weren't any already.
If you use Chrome/Chromium you can see with More Tools > Task Manager and view Memory/CPU/Network usage by tab.
> Zero-rating raises barriers to entry which reduces competition.

I'm having a hard time seeing that. If I have two kids and I reward one with some candy, that's not the same as punishing the other one.
>While also being used in China to hamper Chinese aggression.

Where Chinese aggression = China trying to police its own area?

Maybe some Chinese carriers should have helped tamper US aggression all those years in Banana Republics, Mexico, Panama, South America, etc...
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ATM skimmers in action
>For example, liberals might hyperbolicly call Trump a crypto-fascist, and Sanders supporters might call Clinton a crypto-Conservative, or a crypto-neoliberal. Granted, it's not used in mainstream political discourse much, but I hear it more on the fringes, and it probably has some academic use.

I don't think that there's anything particularly crypto about Clinton's neoliberalism. She helped create the New Democrats. She may not use the term "neoliberal" on the campaign trail, but the house intellectuals of her own movement applied it to themselves.
Isn't the whole thing with fastfood that you can take it anywhere - so grab some and go to the community playground?
In the article I see no mention of obstetric fistula [0]. This is a serious problem that leads to shame, pain, and serious economic loss for mothers who suffer it. Am I correct to assume your program seeks to prevent fistulas from occurring? Does your program also include include care for women with fistulas?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstetric_fistula
I think you will be interested in this submission from a few months ago: Just-In-Time Static Type Checking for Dynamic Languages, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11528375
>Likewise, if the choice is between Google controlling access to the internet and Chinese-style regulation controlling access to the internet, there's really no choice at all:

This is a straw man argument, that's not the only choice, in fact it's not even the actual choice facing us right now.

>it's an epithet because utility regulation over the past hundred years has been absolutely disastrous, enabling the supreme power of corporations, not limiting it.

This is not universally true. In the comparatively economically conservative Southeast where power generation and the electric grid have been regulated as public utilities for as long as anyone can remember, there was never a temptation to experiment with deregulation as in CA, and no small bit of schadenfreude when Enron wrecked havoc on the CA energy system as a result.

Stability is an (maybe the most) important characteristic of national economic infrastructure that is susceptible to systemic risk. It enables the forces of innovation to confidently build on top of it - capital formation, ROI forecasting, planning & investment, long-term credit extension to wealth-creating industries, etc. Introducing shocks and instability into the base layer infrastructure makes that wealth creation activity much more difficult and constrained.
What if Facebook developed detection of drug users? Good? Bad?
Yep. I think crowdfunding started off well during the boom, but then people abused it and it got too crowded, causing people to lose faith on both ends.
>It used to be that the left was anti-authoritarian and the right was authoritarian. Libertarians were extremely anti-authoritarian. What has evolved, however, was that "soft" libertarianism got co-opted by the right. The left also co-opted libertarians, but not to the degree the right did.

Since the "right" as we know it remains, as ever, in favor of banning gay marriage, recreational marijuana, and alcohol sales on certain days of the week, I'm very skeptical that this story happened as described.
no backups?
Who, Hitler?
I was wondering the same thing... ??
Oh, and you get an upvote from me too.
Frustrated by the people who are claiming that this piece or the company is racist/unexceptional, or that this man's success is due to exclusively hard work. They are missing a greater point that hard work and circumstance are both needed and one is significantly less useful without the other, and that there are structural social challenges that should be addressed.

It's also very possible to praise this, and everyone else's, achievement without: comparing starting circumstance in an attempt to one-up each other on the tragedy train, discounting luck, or discounting other struggles.

Discussions like this remind me of this poignant comic on income inequality that is pretty much impossible to argue around: http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/the-pencilsword-on-a-plate
Yes, and to be honest this could have happened. Fortunately my investors were cool about everything and let me open source it.
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They probably have it
To resolve the matter of being unallowed to plug anything non-AT&T into AT&T phone lines, you can just make a law stating that anything that can operate compatibly on the network is allowed to participate, something that allows consumers to bring their own device. You don't have to have utility-style control, nor do you have to break up the company, to resolve that particular issue.
What area/country is that in?
It pushes a localization and UI problem down into the filesystem layer. Case-insensitivity is pretty easy for US-ASCII, but in release 2 of your filesystem, you realized you didn't properly handle LATIN WIDE characters, the Cyrillic alphabet, etc. In release 7 of your FS, you get case sensitivity correct for Klingon, but some popular video game relied on everything except Klingon being case-insensitive on your FS, and now all of the users are complaining.

How do you handle the case where the only difference between two file names is that one uses Latin wide characters and the other uses Latin characters? This one bit me when writing a CAPTCHA system back in 2004. (Long story, but existing systems wouldn't work between a credit card processing server that had to validate in Perl, and a web form that had to be written in PHP, where the two systems couldn't share a file system. It's simple enough to do using HMAC and a shared key between the two servers, but for some reason, none of the available solutions did it.) I noticed that Japanese users had a disturbingly high CAPTCHA failure rate. It turns out that many East Asian languages have characters that are roughly square, and most Latin characters are roughly half as wide as they are tall, so mixing the two looks odd. So, Unicode has a whole set of Latin wide characters that are the same as the Latin characters we use in English, except they're roughly square, so they look better when mixed with Unified Han and other characters. Apparently most Japanese web browsers (or maybe it's an OS level keyboard layout setting) will by default emit Latin wide unicode code points when the user types Latin characters. Whether or not to normalize wide Latin characters to Latin characters is a highly context-dependent choice. In my case, it was definitely necessary, but in other cases it will throw out necessary information and make documents look ugly/odd. Good arguments can be made both ways about how a case-insensitive filesystem should handle Latin wide characters, and that's a relatively simple case.

Most users don't type names of existing files, exclusively accessing files through menus, file pickers, and the OS's graphical command shell (Finder/Explorer). So, if you want to avoid users getting confused over similar file names, that can be handled at file creation time (as well as more subtle issues that are actually more likely to confuse users, such as file names that have two consecutive spaces, etc., etc.) via UI improvements.
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Yeah, not to mention its quite a complex code base. But hopefully I can help some people at least getting it to compile. :)
What kind of cost-effective not-for-profit "freshly made things" store do you imagine?

Bear in mind that most restaurants and similar food-production outlets are practically not-for-profits or "for very limited profits". As are most grocery stores.
And some people are flat out wrong. Monopolies at the local level are very common historically. Small towns would have 1 blacksmith for example as there was not enough work for 2 and transportation was prohibitive.
What I did was take the money I would have used to pay the car off, and instead put it into a term deposit for the same duration as the loan payments, thus earning myself a couple percent above the loan rate with no risk.
Nice introduction. Though I disagree his opinion that it is not worth learning awk in 2013.
For quick operations on DSV files it fits perfectly for the command line and learning its compact syntax is not hard for (most) Unix users.
But it probably really is a photo. Here [1] and here [2] are some more and that thing looks pretty unreal in most of them.

[1] http://wetpixel.com/full_frame/brett-seymour-return-to-antik...

[2] http://antikythera.whoi.edu/2014/10/07/exosuit-dives-antikyt...
I mostly take the kids to McDonalds when the weather's bad, personally. The play place is a good way to get out of the house and do something energetic despite the rain or snow.
Nonprofit researcher with web design/management responsibilities

Side project: vertical farming startup and website: https://urbanverticalproject.wordpress.com/

Hydroponics installs
>Where are people supposed to be socializing, if not the place they like to eat?

In a lot of places, there are publicly-supported community centers equipped with kitchenettes. Even in America, there are often churches, school buildings, or (dare I say it) community centers equipped to function as community centers.

The fact that Americans think "no public place for general socialization" is the default is part of what makes Americans (and the Anglo world in-general) a little weird.
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> Living another miserable 30+ years is a worse way to go than a gunshot.

I have a lot to say about this, as I am a phone volunteer at a crisis center where I routinely have to address all manner of issues, suicide being one of the most serious of them.

I'm limited by time right now, so what I will say is that, based on what I've seen fielding calls, suicidal people are largely suicidal because they are seeking relief from a feeling (or lack thereof). In large part, having someone to whom they can talk and trust is paramount. Just listening to someone actively (paraphrasing their feelings) is a form of relief in and of itself.

When I'm on the phones, I don't try to take away the option for suicide - they are feeling suicidal after all, I am not going to deny what it is they are feeling (in fact, I do the opposite and will openly talk about that suicidal feeling) - but I also sit there and just exist for them. It doesn't always help, but by and large I've found that just being there can provide immense relief. (I should add that I do more than just listen, but active listening is the number one component to what I do.)

I think that's a far-cry better than permanently removing that pain. Suicide is an option, but it isn't the only option.
That said, you can't deny the power that television has had on information consumption. They had a massive negative impact on the newspaper industry, such that even before the Internet, there were few cities that had more than one newspaper. The Internet has hit TV properties hard, a lot easier to name big TV networks than it is big newspapers.

I think it's even more accurate to say that TV and movie entertainment continues to dominate. HBO only recently gave in to opening its gates to the Internet; they were doing just fine producing new series and important documentaries. It's impossible to think of a premium print brand that can blow money on prestige products the way that HBO or its competitors can.

And of course, the movie industry is still going strong.

I agree that text is a more universal portable interface for transmitting information. But that's not a quality that hugely matters to consumers, compared to ease of consumption, nevermind the power of the visual medium.

The game-changing element about social video is that, unlike TV, people have the ability to create video nearly as easy as they consume it. I like reading letters as much as anyone...but I can definitely see why video will be seen as a much more engaging way to communicate for participants...less so for archivists, unfortunately.
This is pretty cool; it does one thing well and it's short and sweet. Nice!

Do you have a strategy for handling duplicates? What happens if I (accidentally) plug in the same USB drive twice?
Re: cruise missile targets, not quite for the targetting. A group of the Tomahawk Block IV missiles can be launched over a target area and loiter for some time with a list of pre-programmed targets or updated live from any other sensor platform (a jet, helo, satellite, etc). Say there are 20 targets and 25 missiles live loitering around an area. When the operator says to strike, 15 of the missiles can strike simultaneously while a few can stay aloft to provide BDA (battle damage assessment for non-military folk) and then go in for the 2 of the 1-2 punch.

The Block IV missiles can also share targets amongst eachother and decide which target to strike (among a list of programmed targets) themselves based on factors such as proximity and other classified bits.

http://gizmodo.com/this-tomahawk-is-a-mighty-morphin-cruise-...

https://defense-update.com/products/t/tomahawk.htm
The photo shows four women, but the article states that "Facebook has a team of more than a dozen engineers and researchers dedicated to the project."
Probably very dumb question: is it normal for options plans to expire for an employee that hasn't left a company?
>So 2/3-5/6 of black students at the top 25 schools are outliers?

Princeton's total undergrad class size is about 2000 of which 7% identified as African-America (2000 * 7% * 25=3500). BLS says that was from a pool of 2.2MM students. (Assuming even population distribution of 13% African-American=286000).

So of the potential 286000 African American students every year, 3500 are going to top 25 schools - which is 1.2%. Is it far fetched to assume that the top 1% of Black students are outliers (to your "study")?

Keep in mind Asians are 5% of the American population, but make up 22% of Princeton's undergrad class. To me - it just looks like you are grasping at straws to make this conclusion. Basic statistics overwhelmingly backs up your "stereotype". To imply the admissions officers are giving minorities a whopping 80% preference to minorities, based of the data, shows that admissions officers are either incredibly incompetent at giving preferential treatment to minorities, or you are just talking out of your ass.
Python is apparently the first language you used in anger and now you want to use other things, but that simply doesn't mean that it is unsuitable for experienced people or complex projects.
And of course, for more controversy, we could always replace "suicide" with other kinds of unwanted behavior.

I can't shake the feeling that social networks are sleepwalking towards the very primitive versions of whatever the human analogue of a Skinner box is.

I know gamification is a thing. Along with the other types of psychological manipulation in games. But this feels different to me.

I get that suicide prevention is a prima facie positive, but I wonder what Facebook's ethics board has to say about this type of behavior in general.

I guess in 20 years it will probably be just like advertising. We know it's inherently manipulative, but try to ignore what we know to be it's goals. And lie to ourselves and eachother about the extent to which it can alter our behavior.
I don't think so, but it used to be normal for companies to try and IPO
Looks like NFC is back... I had my OPO for about two years and while I really liked it, the coverage (via T-Mobile) really were less than stellar. I switched to a Nexus 6P and Verizon back in April, so will be a while before another switch, I'm not sure if the OP3 will work on Verizon or not, if it does, would be my new recommendation for upper-mid-range phone.
Now someone could make a Chrome plugin for YouTube, which seamlessly seeds the watched videos and, when it goes offline, loads from Bittorrent.
You can always give them a heads up too.
It looks like the color saturation was maxed out and some of the blues and reds started clipping in the saturation range.
Ok, wikipedia lied to me then, or I misread. Sorry.
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If lots of things change though... Couldn't that be a smell of bad boundaries? Like the change would not have been so drastic with the right abstractions?
Ingredients May Vary

I should hope so. Chicken is not listed there, in any form!

Speaking of which, a general note: never, ever buy anything with Mechanically Processed poultry or pork... or at least read about exactly what that means first.
Ah double thank you!! Yes that is the article and yes I did not realize there was a search at the bottom! Somehow I did not upvote this article, despite clearly liking it and wanting to think about it.

I would upvote you as a human if I could. Thank you!
Trying to cheer people up and not to kill themselves doesn't seem to have much downside. They can still top themselves if they really want to.
That's on a normal day, not going out.
I'm happy that Gavan is Open Sourcing his work and that people are generally happy with the outcome.

That being said I would not be surprised if Gavan announced a brand new voxel project and kickstarter a few years from now, starting from scratch like last time.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7491456
The apparatus that thinks suicide is an option (the sufferer's brain) is any many cases not the best apparatus to make that decision. There are some rational reasons for suicide, such as severe chronic pain, but most of the time they are not.
I understood "unbounded polymorphism" to mean that for a given variable, it took on values whose types do not follow any structural rules. Your example with file objects and StringIO objects would not fall in that category, because their relationship could be modeled with single inheritance. (One from the other; both from a parent; both implementing an interface.) Nor would 'len(s)' be unbounded, because 'len' could be modeled as parametric polymorphism.
I'm not sure that "the areas of the complexity spectrum where the problems are too simple for async/await" overlaps with "the areas of the complexity spectrum that async/await can't handle", but I agree that there's an issue there. Async/ await is definitely an incomplete solution, and Haxl attempts to address one area where the abstraction fails. Of course, there are always places where you can do better dealing with the asynchronous/ concurrent primitives, but just like there's a place for both manual memory management and garbage collection, I think there are use cases where these abstractions can provide real value.