skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Growth and progress are dehumanised meaningless terms when divorced from quality of life of all citizens on earth. You can have massive unsustainable growth that only filters to the top percentages and destroys the environment. This is quasi feudalism.

Currently we seem to have an economic system whose sole purpose seems to make a few wealthy. Any technological, social and political progress is a side effect to sustain the primary purpose of wealth for a few, and should any of the side effects come in the way of the primary purpose it will be quashed, which seems a tad uncivilised. These billions are just a social number more than anything else, and do not do anything meaningful, apart from affording power, privilege to sustain an inherently exploitative cycle with serious environmental consequences.

Capitalism by its very nature can only reward the top percentages, the moment demand rises with scarce resources prices rise too, leaving a small exclusive group with disproportionate wealth and power always in control.

The market cannot decide anything without heavy constraints, and will take us quickly to a gridlock. In a non functioning traffic intersection, humans will always act not in enlightened self interest or common interest but short term immediate self interest which is neither good for them, everyone else or their environment, evidenced in the ensuing gridlock that will leave everyone including themselves stranded. Yet we set up a system that rewards this uncivilised base individual behavior to get ahead at all costs nevermind anything else. If low cost drives choices it only means the market will rush to exploitation and plunder without constraining rules. If someone is plundering the environment or using slaves an informed choice can only happen if the consumers know about it, cares about it and by the time this happens irreversible damage to the environment or social structure may already be done. Power could ensure information is not available, propaganda or lack of choice for alternatives. Capitalism cannot deliver an egalitarian enlightened sustainable society and is not designed to, only promise to while the small elite control the cycle.

Currently the elite will always support the system out of self interest nevermind the consequences for everyone else or the environment while others seek a way to break into the club or an alternative way. This is inherently unstable and will lead to periodic purges or paranoia and control of the population. Like the old quote goes there is enough for everyone's need but not for their greed.
If you were using the primaries as a way of predicting the overall winner, the critical word would be "random".

The statistical idea that a small sample can accurately represent the whole is based on the assumption that the small number are largely indistinguishable from that whole. It's like taking a sample of

In this case, the people voting in primaries are a self-selecting group - people who are both relatively actively engaged with politics and members of one of the two main parties.

It's not unreasonable to think that the wider population (even the wider population of people who normally vote at an election) could behave vastly differently.

For instance, if you had a candidate who was so divisive that they were either loved or hated, then it wouldn't be overly surprising if the vast majority of their supporters had signed up to vote in the primaries, with little support outside of that core. Compare this to a more middle of the road candidate - they might struggle to get as many people out to vote in a primary, but might do far better in the wider population.

That theory is very relevant in the UK at the moment, with the leader of the Labour Party (Jeremy Corbyn) being very popular amongst grassroots party members, but with his enemies saying he could never win a general election as this level of support would never be reflected outside of party supporters.
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The Healthy Side of Narcissism
Just bought this one, excited to start reading it when it arrives.
I don't understand this website, how could Vancouver, Prague, San Jose and Porto have the same cost of living ?
I'm pretty heavy into home automation and I use this technique all the time to learn how to control various walled garden home automation systems. Even worked with my Alarm company's system.

However, if the phone app uses certificate pinning and SSL it doesn't work. (yes, that means my alarm company doesn't use certificate pinning).
Seymour Papert, Paulo Freire: The Future of School (1990)
Saatchi boss' sexist slurs are straight out of Mad Men
I never had the opportunity to use Logo, but I think it's obvious how much influence Seymour had on our industry and many of our paths. RIP.
To be honest, that's more the norm for organ systems than not. The tests are mostly giant red flags, not subtle warning signs. Hopefully this is an area ripe for disruption with machine learning systems.
Users Bring Down Q&A Portal Quora – Faces Frequent Outages
Not that I know of. I mean, I've been a heavy vim user for years and haven't even bothered trying neovim.
As a Solar City shareholder, I think I'm getting screwed. Solar City, at $26.70/share last Friday has a lot more upside than TSLA at ~$235. Hell, I lost almost 5% over the weekend due to where they priced this deal.
nscurl -h

gives some useful info
Using Models in Developing Software for Self-Driving Cars
I don't see a problem. They are the Republican and Democratic party candidates. The members of those parties can nominate whomever they want. There's nothing in the constitution that says anything about how political parties chose their candidates. Primaries didn't always exist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_pri...
> "the capitalists behaved like socialists while the socialists behaved like capitalists"

Where does France's Minitel sit in that dichotomous world?
heh! This is the result of the new policy Chinese government put in place that prohibits ride sharing companies from subsidizing rides to gain market share. It pretty much forced Uber to get out of China! I don't think Chinese government care about anti-trust as long as the monopoly company is from the gang that runs the country.
I also really enjoyed the presentation of the information. The information was presented gradually in an easily digestible format.
100 kg/m m isn't immense in my book.

Yeah, ISTM most floors in commercial buildings that serve crowds could probably handle that. (Not to say that such floors are airtight, but the basic engineering of supporting an average American man on every square yard of a particular surface is quite feasible.) It would be even easier for a self-reinforcing structure like a tube.
Marvin Minsky: Papert's Principle (1998)
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I really doubt that 9% in the primaries looks anything like the general election, which itself probably diverges from a pure population demographic sample (voter ID laws, disenfranchisement, etc)
Personally, being more familiar with European parliamentary systems, I find it quite astounding that the canidate selection is such an open an public process.

In many countries, the parties select candidates internally and then present them to the public. Letting non-party members vote or register just before voting would be unthinkable there.

Then again, this is probably a necessary result of the US political system: majority voting rules, therefore (basically) only two parties, and of course, the US is huge and diverse.

The whole process is ridiculously long and expensive. But it's also a way to get people familiar with the candidates early on.
The article implies an indictment of Clinton & Trump. As if they were nominated inspire of the will of the vast majority of the people. But it's actually an indictment of the American public for failing to vote.
Just FYI you can do this a lot easier in the future with a Teensy board.
Sounds like postgres needs to support pluggable storage engines. I am sure Uber (and many others) would have paid some license fee to someone who developed a storage engine that fixed this use case. Think of how much it cost them to switch...
I would like this phone because, I assume, I can inspect and change the kernel and all other OSS software on it. What I don't get is, with their focus on emerging markets, why it needs to be so expensive. If they would focus more on performance they could have one for $100. I recently bought some iPhone clone in China, and besides the software, it's a fine phone; most people who see me with it immediately want one. It was $65 and works fine for most things I use smartphones for, even, to my surprise, taking great pictures. Battery life is around 8 hours/day with quite heavy use, the GPS performance is total crap (I think this is a software issue), but for $65 this is a nice device (it feels great as it's a 6s+ ripoff casing wise). But proprietary software in as much that I can't swap out the kernel and the rip off iOS on-top-of-Android is quite painful. If someone would just equip these phones with something fully OSS (minus a few drivers possibly) I don't think I would buy anything else.
Don't see why not if you're in a country that's planning to stay in the EU and you're crazy enough. For non-EU, no idea what the freelance situation looks like :/
Somewhat of a meta observation - we seem to be entering an era where mantras like "Those who write their own networking protocol are doomed to re-create TCP, badly" are becoming less true, at least for a small subset of the programming population.

It's fascinating to watch some of the foundations upon which we do our work being shaken up a bit. I just hope they settle into more stable and more secure foundations, not just "better".
And yet everyone remembers "I'll be back", or "Hasta la vista, baby!". Any memorable lines from recent movies? I can only come up with ironic memes like Bane crashing the plane with no survivors from The Dark Knight Rises.
Guile-lips: Scheme as a generic macro language
How many people in the UK chose Theresa May as Prime Minister?
Yup, it works for me with C/C++ code
It is quite an interesting time. My liberal friends are all irked because Bernie got hosed by the DNC. My conservative friends are irked because the RNC did not do more to stop Trump. Talk about a role reversal with the party of the people and the party of the establishment.

Personally, I see so many problems with both candidates that it makes me sick that I have to vote for the least worst one.
You're only getting screwed if a higher offer isn't made by someone else.

Disclaimer: TSLA investor.
LogoWriter was my entry into programming. I started with the turtle in elementary school, and in early high school my mind was blown when I leaned about the "flip side", where you could use functions and script things.

In grade 7 I used it to make an elaborate multi screen Sierra inspired game that took the better part of the year to make. What I would give to have a copy of it now...

RIP. Thanks for Logo and everything else.
Because those typically do not get realized and yet will result in a sizable number of lay-offs.
I've found Uber, AirBnb, Grooveshark, spotify, and many other startups through here. The frontpage has a list of 30 links that cycle, basically, 24 hours.

HN is my homepage now. If it was just news on startups that would be interesting but not something I would visit daily. Just like I don't visit Apple or Android news sites daily. It's a good mix (I would even say firehose) of topics and I like it that way.
The History of Mr. Papert
I'm... not sure where I was demeaning it that way? I certainly never said the quoted thing, and I didn't intend it.

I don't think that Summly was a bad product, and I don't think D'Aloisio is a bad dev. I specified him alone because as far as I know he's the only one Yahoo acquired - SRI is great but Yahoo didn't acquire their devs or exclusive rights to their tech.

The question at hand is whether Yahoo got their money's worth, and I'm claiming that they didn't bring on enough relevant tech or expertise to justify the expense. That holds even if Summly, SRI, and D'Aloisio are all fantastic.
A democracy deficit plagues the US and the European Union
Does it matter how old the account is? I have no idea about mine, and I'm not bothered to even look. What I do know I've been on HN for a lot longer than I have the account.

About topic: there is a lot more politics, a lot less about hacking and tinkering. I dont if HN has changed. It is much more popular now.

Or maybe the world has changed.
Of course, Logo was just a means to an end, something that was meant to be one example of many as to how to introduce children to the medium of computing. As is often the case the wider message was lost -- to me this was much like when englebart died and he was called "the inventor of the mouse." Mindstorms is a must read.
Definitely, although the New York Times develops a lot more than other newspapers do: http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/category/interactive/
As far as I understand it, you already have to live in Germany when you apply (so that you don't move to Germany only when your application was successful). To quote from http://prototypefund.de/en/submission/:

"Ich bin über 18 Jahre alt und mit meinem Hauptwohnsitz in Deutschland gemeldet."

(roughly "I'm over 18 years old and have my primary residence in Germany"), which you have to sign. Additionally you have to fill out your application on http://prototypefund.de/en/submission/ in German. So if your knowledge of the German language is not good enough for that, you are probably out of luck.

So it seems to me that if you are only willing to relocate to Germany when your application is successful or if your level of the German language is not sufficient to apply, the answer is "no". On the other hand: If you aren't a German citizen, this should be no problem.
Of course they do, that's why there are the Normal Forms. Since like the 1970s people have been talking about this stuff. It's actual maths.
Even more depressing than that is the larger number of eligible electorate who don't bother to vote in elections that are only for local and legislative candidates.
I have been a Sublime 2 user for 4 years now and have always been content with the experience. When I first used Atom because it was the only browser supported by Hacklang's tooling. What I noticed was how slow Atom was, startup, large files, and typing in text. It is something I have been so used to in Sublime and I could not give that up for unless there is a tool I really need on Atom.
JavaScript and Selenium IDE
Our economy depends on growth, and I think this will cause lots of problems.

I saw a quote by a US congressman blaming young people today for our financial problems because many of them are unwilling to put themselves into debt for homes, cars, etc. An outrageous statement, blaming people for doing what they believe to be in their own self interest.

If the value of production mostly stayed with the people and local businesses then I can imagine our society thriving with minimal growth.

In my opinion, the requirement for growth to keep the financial sector going is like a cancer. Wall Street, central banks, etc. grow in power and consume more of the productive segments of society like a cancer.
It hasn't always been stated there, and it was a warning on a README somewhere. The server would run happily on 32 bits, and never crash or produce any user-visible errors, it would just silently corrupt data while pretending the insertion went great.
Spotify Wants to Be Good at Failing. How about You?
>I don't see a problem. They are the Republican and Democratic party candidates. The members of those parties can nominate whomever they want.

If there's no legal constraint on how the parties select candidates for office, why should the parties have a legal monopoly on ballot-line presence?
Selling open source the smart way
Well, if you made layoffs, and both companies continue operating, haven't you saved money?
Try UCBLogo (https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/logo.html) or NetLogo (https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/).
> Very-low cost higher education was a thing in mid-20th-century America--it was possible to attend your in-state university for a few thousand bucks in today's dollars.

I went to a state school in mid 2000's and paid around $1700/sem in-state tuition for full-time course load.

Is this still an option?
I'm there with you at 35, sir. My father too suffered through his emotions from his time in Vietnam, having to keep it all down. My girlfriend tells me the one differing factor between me and all of the other men she's dated is that I express my emotions, and I'm not afraid to talk about them. However she's warned me not to let that show around her father because he will react critically. It's healthy to open up and express emotions. It's a shame we're just now, with this youngest generation, beginning to truly realize that.
A discussion of Vintageous's design:

https://github.com/guillermooo/Vintageous/wiki/Design
Could someone explain why we still have monolithic "firmwares" on our phones instead of PC style OS which could be updated directly from Google? That wouldn't preclude OEMs and carriers adding their crapware (and drivers), but it sure would make the landscape bit more secure.
Nice! Sad I'm missing it this year but enjoy!
This actually makes a lot of sense. You do 8 hours of business every day no matter what the medium is, satisfy your legal requirements, and say that everyone gets an equal chance in person or online. Then you run your hideous 12 hours of cron processing to clean up the day's mess.

"Makes sense" does not mean "good", but I do understand the madness a little better now...
WOW. I am really glad you shared this, thank you. I signed up and then my dad was like hey how do I subscribe and I was like uhhhhhhh good question. Glad this was here, thank you.
>> But then shouldn't people be happier than 20 years ago?

A few years ago there was a survey among the amish, and it appears that they are as happy as modern day billionaires.

On the other hand, another survey have shown a decrease of 20% ! in empathy among college students, between 2000-2010. And it have probably became worse since than. And empathy is core to so many critical things.

But when you don't aim society at nothing meaningful, just more money, what do you expect to get ?
That's why this is called "primaries", not election. The primaries are supposed to chose candidates, not the president. Assuming that they're not representative just because of that is trying to stretch reality.
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Exposed: D-Wave is a scam
D-Wave is not a quantum company. They are a bunch of dorks who have got together and think that their collective intelligence might solve some of today's computing problems.

Companies are paying $10 million to basically have some D-Wave dorks go to their campus and teach their dorks how to do the cooling process. But they're all still dorks who can't compute.

The equivalent of buying a D-Wave computer in the next 100 years is buying a toaster that takes 1000 years to toast.

Exo computing is miles ahead. It's an industry cover up. And it's got to stop.

D-Wave is a scam.

PS: please hire me! :)
How many people have chosen any Prime Minister of the UK? Its just their constituents that vote for them, so ~50000 people at most.
I think it's very cool that Postgres didn't just post some long thing about Uber saying "they're using it wrong omg!!!" and instead address the problems, understand their decision, and move on. I think that's very cool, there's clearly a good team working on this DB.
Kagi was a payments processor / fulfillment service provider focused particularly on shareware. Back in the days before app stores, if you were an indie developer your options for distribution and monetization were very limited. Generally you put out a demo version that took some sort of code to unlock, and users sent you money via the mail in return for unlock codes. This is how many software authors got their start in the 80s.

In the 90s, it began to become clear that accepting credit cards and providing the unlock codes online was the way to go, but for most developers actually doing that was out of reach. Not just for technical reasons, but the fees on having a CC merchant account on a low-cost, low-volume app were just not feasible. Kagi filled this niche. They would do the actual sales, in return for a cut, and provide the unlock codes to customers. You as the developer still handled all support. It was by far one of the easiest ways for a small developer to sell their software online.

I am guessing, although I don't know for sure, that they also provided some sort of libraries or implementation assistance for the 'unlocking' features inside the software itself, because many Kagi-sold apps had very similar-looking unlock codes.

Exactly what happened with the "vendor fraud situation" I don't know, but it's sad to see them go under so suddenly. They provided a valuable service for many years and there are a lot of apps that would probably never have been developed were it not for the sales channel they provided.
No, you have to be registered to a political party to vote in primaries in most states. If you're registered independent you don't get a chance to vote unless that state has open primaries.
How does bloat affect the end user?

I'd focus instead on how several more recent vulnerabilities with OpenSSL have not affected LibreSSL, and the code quality being improved with LibreSSL, hopefully resulting in fewer vulnerabilities in the future.
>Uber switching to MySQL over Postgre is rather scary, I wouldn't want to be a Uber investor right now.

That is extremely hyperbolic.
> why should the parties have a legal monopoly on ballot-line presence

I didn't think they did. Do they? Can't anyone apply to be on the ballot as long as they demonstrate a reasonable level of support?
Exactly zero people voted for the UK's new prime minister.
So true. "Every time I go in the subway, I die a little bit inside" - a friend of mine used to say this when we lived in Beijing.

Can't remember if I've even been to the Shanghai subway, but the feeling inside in Guangzhou and Shenzhen are like Beijing, but even more foul-smelling. Traffic is also really really bad though, so at least on the subway you know it's going to take an hour instead of the "30 minutes or 3 hours?" estimate you get by car.

Now Hong Kong is completely different... for now.
If you're interested, B&H actually commented on on this thread.

Looks like the Sabbath violation would be on their end, when they take money for a service, so the problem only arises when during their local Sabbath hours.
Right, that's my take as well.