skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good question. Quite a few people seem to be, actually. Mark Lutter is one at http://freecitiesinitiative.com/. Patri Friedman, perhaps the most famous supporter of idea, attempted to start a charter city in Honduras but the Honduran government changed its mind (https://athousandnations.com/2012/10/31/future-cities-develo...). The Seasteading Institute, cofounded by Friedman, was once backed by Peter Thiel.
Which is, of course, entirely absurd. Why would Ultron need to be “present” in only a single robot at a time, if not for the sake of plot?
So no real choice, then.
"Part of working at a large company is being able to be tactful and wade through the bullshit"

^ This may be the only thing a whiteboard test is actually good for.
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My apartment has just about every ISP in the area including locally run fiber that runs 60/month for gigabit. I actually laugh when I see fliers from the other companies offering "blazing fast" internet for 100+
I'd like to live in a city where people assume their neighbors are smart, where it is assumed that everyone has something legitimate and constructive to add, where people give each other the benefit of the doubt, where people are generous with their interpretation of what they say to each other, and where people always try understand each other rather than try to prove each other wrong.
Enron was probably the last large example of a "corporate death penalty". Since then, in the US there has been a doctrine of minimizing "collateral consequences". Consequently there has been less criminal prosecution and more reliance on financial penalties.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/04/eric-holder-1999-me...
I don't think Apple's cash accumulation was down to the likes of Icahn. Steve Jobs was pretty committed to the policy long before. Powerful investors usually would rather the cash paid out to themselves than sit in the company.
A new city would be much denser than the suburban and exurban sprawl that currently fills our demand for new housing, and so would end up in taking much less farmland than continuing along the current path.

(And the amount of farmland we're talking about, both for new cities and for sprawl, is small as a fraction of total farmland.)
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This seems like it could easily be confirmation bias. When you have an idea that comes as a fast-flowing "inspiration" and you manage to write it down, and it turns out to be relevant, it registers in your mind as a close-call. However, you'd also have lots of those fast-flowing ideas that are actually not that great and are just ignored.
Friend, I am aware of the "streetcar conspiracy". I am also aware that streetcars died out for reasons well beyond conspiracy. I am further aware of many areas where cars are very useful that never had streetcar systems to be destroyed by GM.
What about my lungs?
I use a 13" macbook air (fully optioned) for xcode - objc and swift, easily get a day out of it, I'm regularly surprised with "you have only 5% charge left", oh time to charge it. Performance is great, better than my behemoth windows box with C#. I even run a couple of windows VM's on it for other dev work and runs like a charm. The best thing is its so light!

I remember thinking I should get a macbook pro, but glad I went with the air. The only reason I'd consider a pro is if I wanted to do a lot of video work, but then my daughter has my old air and she makes movies with it, though space is sometimes an issue. If it came to that one of those Samsung USB3 external SSD's are dirt cheap now. I know people who run VM's on them over USB 3.

If you want more than one external monitor though it can get expensive - you need to daisy chain thunderbolt's. USB monitors are possible, but not sure about performance on those. I have an external 27" monitor on mine and works fine, I have recollections of running a third monitor over airplay to my apple tv, but I'd have to check that it's been a while (I use my phone for that now)
I don't generally use feature branches on solo projects. Working directly on master (and pushing origin master at arbitrary moments to back up my work) is a deeply ingrained habit.

A code review tool that's off by default and trivial to bypass in your sleep is a poor code review tool.

This is easy to prevent in Phabricator, which will block pushes to master if they contain changes not also present in an approved unit of code review. I run into that wall a few times a week, and am reminded to move my commits into a branch.
There are some more kid-friendly programmable robots/hardware and coding tools listed here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r1b2CM1uTdST47IbWa7zlZYm...

Project Bloks isn't out yet, but a similar one is littlebits. The ones I've used with elementary school aged kids though include Sphero, Edison, and Lego Wedo, along with software/sites like code.org, Lightbot, and Hopscotch.
Where besides NYC? Nowhere. Americans like their cars. They like to drive. America is not the collectivist/statists that represent modern HN...which is pretty sick.

Hackers are anti-establishment! Hackers are not conformists that defer to government minders!
Deciding to give up some lavishness and to stop working after acquiring some passive income and a reputation to fall back on seems like a pretty straightforward if healthy decision for somebody who can afford the luxury.
Well life is unfair. Globalization has probably made things fairer globally - China for example is far closer in income levels to the west than it was. It does create problems for some groups though including many of the Brexiters.
...so dog meat is wrong because of the anthropomorphism of the animals? because cows and horses and buffalo and ostrich don't have 'personalities'?

I get that its a cultural issue the west has with the east, but seriously, whats the issue other than they're pets in one hemisphere and a protein source in the other?
Because even Ultron doesn't want to `git merge` those personalities, memories, and experiences back together.
6/6, and I didn't read more than half-way through most of these. What's the tell? Focus. The human-written poetry develops a single, coherent subject with each passing line. Each new line adds new light to the ones that preceded it. Any single line of the machine written sonnets, considered alone, might appear to be written by a human but, when taken together, they simply don't add up. The progression of a single idea just isn't there.

I freakin' hate poetry. Give me prose or give me epigrams! To me, a poem is an awkward combination of prose without clarity and and epigram too bloated to be stated succinctly. I point this out, because I want to be taken seriously when I say that this machine-written poetry is bad in a way that makes me appreciate human poetry just a little bit more.
Furthermore, if the owners weren't compensated, many of them would continue to drive these cars rather than sell them at a loss. The outcome would be worse for everyone who breathes air, not just the VW owners.
> The pop-sci version of Dunning-Kruger is that, the less someone knows about a subject, the more they think they know.

Author's take on Dunning-Kruger is a strawman. I haven't seen that version be a "meme". I also dislike this single word rejection, the calling it a "meme", of how people talk about DK, it's like name calling or something. Unwarranted and arrogant dismissal. It's one thing to be wrong, it's another to be wrong and then also haughty about it. I feel like most people that I've seen bring DK up understand what the implications of it are. My favorite thing I've read about it is that the less you are competent in something the less you are able to gauge competence in that something.

> In two of the four cases, there’s an obvious positive correlation between perceived skill and actual skill, which is the opposite of the pop-sci conception of Dunning-Kruger. A plausible explanation of why perceived skill is compressed, especially at the low end, is that few people want to rate themselves as below average or as the absolute best.

In one sentence he's declaring someone else's opinion on it as pop-sci than offers his own similarly silly take on it. Oh wait he showed some charts. I did like seeing that people with more skill saw themselves as better than people with less skill, but conjecture on what people want to think of themselves? That's pop-sci.
In the United States, the VW defeat mechanism abates 275,000 tonne/yr CO2 at the cost of 8,200 tonne/yr NOx.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

[1] NY Times: How Volkswagen Got Away With Diesel Deception
http://nyti.ms/1ZjAV1w

[2] Vox: VW's appalling clean diesel scandal, explained
http://bit.ly/1MhJVuA

[3] FHWA: Annual Vehicle Distance Traveled and Related Data
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics/2013/vm...

[4] EIA: How much CO2 is produced by burning gasoline?
http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=307&t=11

[5] EPA: Does the fuel used in fuel economy testing contain ethanol?
http://www3.epa.gov/otaq/about/faq.htm#ethanol

[6] DOE: Fuel Economy of 2015 Volkswagen Jetta
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/bymodel/2015_Volkswagen_Jetta...
It's all about balance and tradeoffs. OP isn't really "retired" per se, since his projects have a positive monetary expectation. But he's decided to make tradeoffs and made following his curiosity and interest a priority, instead of putting money first.

The more relevant question is to ask ourselves what our priorities are, and if possible, be able to answer, what our #1 priority is -- the one we truly want to maximize. Once we know that, then we can look at the paths we have available to maximize this, and what sort of tradeoffs with other valuable factors (like money!) it would entail, and whether it's something that makes sense in each of our lives.
> How do markets optimize net social utility ?

In the absence of externalities, this should be obvious. And in the presence of externalities, I did not claim that markets optimize either net social utility or net individual utility. I claimed only that markets work at least as well as any other solution (and that government regulation works worse, on average).

As far as your specific example, modern advertising, is concerned, I'm not clear about whether you think externalities are significant in this case or not.
I think you're right. Fines have to be higher than the direct cost to society and they have to be higher by the chance they're caught.

In this case, it was very hard to detect, it was fully intentional on the part of the company, and they fought for years to keep it hidden.

This sort of deception is maybe 1 in 20 or 1 in 50 to be caught? So it isn't like a parking ticket - it's hard to catch and was hard to prove.

Furthermore, this is a "deal with the mess you made" solution - or a "natural consequences" consequence if you are a parent. There are certainly much more efficient ways of spending the money to improve public health, but those are abstract, hard to explain to the public, and hard to explain to the car owners. So they are less efficient from the government, public and company's perspective. Make America hyper-rational and the owners would continue driving these cars and we'd spend the money on truck emissions or something.
None really. You can extend the life by dimming the display, shutting down applications (including browsers), but if you are coding, compiling, testing and debugging no mac (or really any laptop) will last 8 hours that I can think of. This is especially true if you have device plugged into it for any significant amount of the time.

If I am doing more heads down coding and less cycling through testing etc, my 15" mac retina does ok but I am typically around 6 hours disconnected IIRC, and sometimes as low as 2-3 if I am doing firmware work where I have devices plugged in a lot of the time. Honestly IMO, this is really good and I don't need/expect more then that right now. Right now, with a 99% charge and only surfing HN and doing some reading my mac is telling me I have 10:45 left, but it isn't working much obviously.

EDIT: specifically I have a mid 2014 15" macbook pro
VW owners paid a lot of money to purchase a product that was advertised to perform to certain specs. VW lied about this, and the cars didn't actually perform to these specs so the people who purchased the car assuming it would work as advertised definitely deserve something. This is important because in many places VW owners may not be able to legally drive their VW anymore (or at least in the future), because it doesn't meet emissions laws, so they suffer large damage there.
Here's an article which might expand your empathy for the "irrational" purchasing decisions of the poor: https://tressiemc.com/2013/10/29/the-logic-of-stupid-poor-pe...
Quite honestly that would shock me, but I wouldn't know where to get data about this. I always believed that only a microscopic fraction of tech workers actually made off with more than a year or so of salary from options (but those who did likely made out extraordinarily well). I would not expect a very flat distribution.
In California you pay a small fee for planned non-operation of a vehicle.
> Wait, Adora is part of YC?

I was really surprised by that too. Looking at her and her co-founder's handling of the shutdown as well as the overall fact that they just couldn't execute (raising money isn't executing). I'm not sure what track record and skills she really brings to this.
> There's some situations that are so ethically indefensible, wherein a corporation can cause incredible harm over a long period of time, that the only just outcome is for the company to be destroyed.

This would hurt those with claims against the company but no hand in the decisions as much (if not more) than the responsible actors.

A real corporate parallel of the death penalty -- or at least, an ultimate corporate penalty for serious violations -- should take a different form. A couple ideas:

(1) personal, joint-and-several, liability of corporate officers with responsibility over (whether or not directly involved) and those employees actively directing the offense,

(2) allowing piercing the corporate veil to make equity holders liable in the event the corporation itself and legally responsible officers and employees as described in (1) cannot meet the liability for the offense.
Good stuff! Great to see people working on this.
To be (sort of) fair, he's based out of Brazil. In many developing countries, maid service and massages is fairly standard for the middle class.*

source: I lived in India and China.
I don't think that globalization itself is unfair. Different standards cause it to appear unfair. If the average wage amounts to 800€ in country A, it might feel more satisfactory for a person from A to earn the double or triple income in country B, although that amount might still be below average in country B.
I'm starting to learn postgres as well, which book if you don't mind me asking?
TBA:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/business/international/vol...

> German prosecutors said on Monday that the former Volkswagen chief, Martin Winterkorn, is suspected of market manipulation for having waited too long to disclose that the company faced an inquiry. They are looking into another member of the management board as well for potential violations of securities laws.
?? This wasn't true in Hyde Park and it certainly isn't true in South Loop.
Really it's punishing the innocent shareholders more than anything. Executive compensation is unlikely to fall at Volkswagen.
A visual assistant for the home
As a member of an HOA board with 7 builds and 13 units, is there a reasonable way to go about setting up a common conduit system so any ISP could come in? Currently only Comcast had run lines with the original building of the property and of course didn't trench properly so no other ISP could come in.

Has anyone done this before?
That's exactly how it exists. What you're describing here is reality. If you have a machine running Windows XP and you never change anything, then nothing will change. Software doesn't magically bloat over time, those changes happen with updates that add new features. If you never update things, you'll stay on the same software revision and it will run the same as the day you bought it.

A company I used to work for in 2012 had a Windows 3.11 workstation running some ancient software to support an auxiliary system. Many banks run COBOL on mainframes and haven't changed anything since the 70s.

I'm really confused as to the argument here. If you never update your software and don't expect to browse the Internet, old software works exactly like it did in the past. How do you expect it would change?
I like to think SMBC[1] presents a more accurate graph of confidence vs knowledge, but I don't know enough to really speak about it.

[1]: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2475
It depends on whether you only care about yourself, or think a little bit about others in your situation too. While the poster got himself a nicer deal, taking it only incentivizes the company to continue with this practice. After all, per one HNer who can negotiate a better arrangement, they'll have a hundred schmucks who will take the default.

Now, I understand that in real life, it's not an easy, abstract choice - you have "only human" issues playing part, like being tired and wanting to get the Internet situation sorted out ASAP. So to be clear - I'm not blaming the poster for choosing this way. But it was a suboptimal decision - and the kind of decision that lets schemes like this exist in the first place, so I wouldn't call it "beating lock-in".
I think companies should disclosure, at least, what are the sources/db-fields of their mining algorithms. We can call it "habeas source".

A few weeks ago a friend told me about this and I wondered why nobody had mentioned it before. Facebook was suggesting someone who wasn't contacted to her by any network/e-mail/contact.
Aaaaand, here come the shills.

Good job, Microsoft. Everyone who works on the Windows team should be proud. You've built something that you literally can't give away for free without force-feeding it to users, and that can be defended only by downmodding those who object.
Much respect toward Snowden. Sacrificed his birthright as a US citizen to bring an injustice to light.
Re strawman:

I saw someone making a very similar point to the one this post critiques, which reminded me of this post and prompted me to post it. It's definitely out there as something people believe.

See e.g. this comic http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2475

Edit: or this one http://orig04.deviantart.net/6527/f/2012/283/9/7/dunning_kru...
A good portion of mainstream American and European liberals would consider Jewish culture to be a real thing that deserves preserving, even while they claim that saying the same thing about any other culture or identity is racist
John Oliver did an awesome bit recently on scientific studies and how popular conceptions of them, especially media portrayals, completely distort the results.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rnq1NpHdmw
I don't like the idea of minimum service periods.

If you want to require a minimum commitment from employees, just increase the cliff. For one thing, cliffs are well-understood.

My chief objection to minimum service periods (whereby you only have 90 days to exercise if you leave "early") is that they actively hurt disadvantaged groups. An upper middle class engineer often has resources or access to resources which will let them exercise options early. In contrast, a disadvantaged employee is unlikely to be able to come up with those funds—which is particularly problematic because they often are leaving to escape a hostile work environment.

At least cliffs apply equally to everyone, regardless of their resources.
... against the US dollar, specifically.
Please make a change and the addiction will wear off. Not easy, but worthwhile.
Check out Ram Mounts (http://www.rammount.com), they mostly apply to mobile environments. But we also repurposed them for wall mounts, and furniture mounts without any real modifications. Just some basic hardware.
Are you really coding all day on a laptop with no access to power points? That doesn't sound very ergonomic.

Why not use an external battery pack?
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/macbook-portable-battery/

I guess you could even hackintosh a Windows laptop that has interchangeable batteries, but recharging both (or even three) on a daily basis would soon get tiresome....
Because the serfs working in all the 24 hour establishments don't themselves need a life. There are also noise issues in mixed use neighborhoods as seem to be being advocated for. And business volumes don't justify 24 hour operation of most businesses.
GP's marginal cost to AT&T is probably zero, so they're still getting some free money over what would happen if GP fought a bit more. So in a way, it is a wasted opportunity - instead of dealing the enemy a powerful blow, GP only scratched them a bit.
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Thanks, good point. We're extending protected branches so all code will have to undergo a code review, see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/18193
I feel for OP because I've gone through something similar. I was motivated by money because I was born poor and went through the stresses of work and starting up because I wanted to be richer than I needed to be. People struggle in their own ways and there really is no need to compare them.
You must have really had a lot of negativity to save a few hundred dollars in 20c increments!
Maybe we should just split up big companies that screw up bad.

Maybe in 2 pieces, maybe into lots more pieces.
this is great and all because it will introduce more kids to programming but now that we've got a couple different things like this I think that we should start to focus on more syntax oriented learning where the kids can learn why that syntax makes that happen on the screen and what each individual part of the code does. For example, if we were using Javascript to check a variable and see if it is the same as another variable and then log "yes", we would use this:

var a = true;

var b = true;

if (a === b) {

console.log("yes");

}

now, this may seem obvious but to children or someone who doesn't program they might not under stand what console.log does or any other part, also we need to teach kids where they can find the resources they need to learn more if they are interested.
Well, the gov cabinet members are not elected either. People elect only key people(i.e. the PM/president etc) that have the power to delegate others to work on their behalf(i.e a chain of command that starts with the vote).

I don't see how the interest of the EU would not be the interest of the member countries.
This seems like the inverse of littlebits. On littlebits, the things you assemble are the output of your system. With bloks, the things you assemble are the code itself; this is more like a tactile visual programming system, not a way to make hardware easier to use.
Fathers can pass anxiety and depression to their children genetically
Good luck on getting a rule like that implemented with little or no grandfathering. The economics of that are just too extreme.
Thanks all, these are great suggestions!

By the way, re- The Powder Toy - despite my comment in the question it actually seems like it's pretty realistic in many ways. The number of different things it models at once is impressive (interactions between substances, airflow and pressure, ambient heat and heat flow, etc) plus it has a ton of visualisation modes for seeing properties of the simulation (such as visualising temperature). Highly highly recommended - I've already spent a large amount of time in it! :)
I feel like you might have to wait. A long time.
Yuk, this is terrible. Please use the source of this data: https://nodejs.org/download/release/index.json or https://nodejs.org/download/release/index.tab, same URL works if you replace "nodejs" with "iojs" if you want to include the io.js versions as well. Use https://github.com/rvagg/node-version-data to grab it all programmatically if you have use for it.