skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article speaks mostly of Macroeconomic forces such as increasing the money supply.

The problems with the economy are mostly caused by microeconomic issues. Politically induced scarcity ("economic rents") that results in higher prices, externalities, and asymmetric information.

A very, very large problem is the use of zoning laws which reduce density and overuse of historic landmark status which artificially increases land value and hence the cost of renting apartments and buying houses. This results in a transfer of income and wealth from people renting apartments and buying houses to landlords.

Income that should be going towards purchasing goods and services and thus stimulating the economy goes towards landlords instead. Removing the politically induced artificial restriction on zoning would lower the cost of housing and stimulate a housing boom.

This is the reason for the high cost of housing in NYC, SF, LA, Boston, Washington DC and other cities.

In NYC, there is a limit of 13,000 taxi medallions which resulted in a medallion market value of $1.2 million. After Uber/Lyft came along the value dropped to $700,000 and not surprisingly the cost of taking Uber/Lyft has decreased compared to taking a taxi. This makes it so that New Yorkers can spend less income on taxis and taxi-like vehicles and more on goods and services. Of course course, the "taxi medallion landlords" have lost big time, because the political scarcity of medallions has been undermined.

Many occupations have unnecessary licenses or unreasonable licensing requirements in order to create scarcity in that occupation creating artificially high prices while keeping others who would like to work out of the market.

Stop the "rent-seeking" of "economic rents" through Federal Laws and we'll make sure the markets are more efficient a huge growth to the economy.

What is baffling, and perhaps others can comment is why the NYTimes is writing economics columns without addressing the microeconomic inefficiencies which includes "economic rents." Can't they find someone with a basic understanding of economics to write an appropriate column?
That's a good point. I wonder what the conversion rates would be comparing high speed unlimited access to a subset vs. low speed limited access to the entire network.

Would be interesting to see what people preferred if both had happened.
It did allow https. They weren't blocking https.
Does anyone know of a good English translation?
Very cool. I experimented with something similar in JavaScript.

https://github.com/smizell/snug

For me, it is useful for runtime checking data that may come across the web.
Then that's not going to result in much good. To grow the economy, you want investment, not people funneling a free $!000 to China for some cheap consumer goods.
It uses their intellectual property and content Game Boy Advance versions of Metroid. Chances are Nintendo will take it down same as when they killed the remake of Mario 64.
How hackers are targeting the Olympics
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Mysterious, ice-buried Cold War military base may be unearthed by climate change
OpenBSD just added initial support for the RaspberryPi 2 and 3 devices
> Apple may be betting that people care about online-privacy snake oil.

You can't blame people for not fully understanding how their data is protected. Even the average geek gets confused pretty quickly (I know I do).

People also chose their battles. Between facial recognition, revenge porn, online harassment, IMSI catchers, video surveillance, police overreach, and many other issues, they may not think of end-to-end encryption as a priority, but people do care about their privacy.

As techs, we have to do our part in explaining these things correctly, and also making sure we push forward legislation that helps protect people. This isn't something that will self-regulate.
Show HN: Top student hackers demoing live on Twitch.tv
So - let me get this straight - if I want to provide VoIP services to India, I'd have to make deals with all my competitors - the telecoms companies - to do so? Where's their incentive to do that? What if I'm running a personal blog, or small informational site? It becomes even harder to do than today.

The Internet, as it stands, with some hiccups, allows anyone to put up a website and have the globe be able to access it. If you have to make deals with ISPs to allow their customers to see your content, or never be seen because nobody will pay for "the real Internet" as long as they have Facebook and Wikipedia and Amazon... the result of that is that the Internet becomes a means of commerce, not a means of communication. Another system by which companies and Governments and the rich can market to people, but people are silenced from criticizing them and building alternatives.

Stop twisting words - this isn't about "free Internet access", this is about free access to specific websites as chosen by the telecoms companies.
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See my other comment above about alternate revenue models (which have worked!) for free-internate-for-everyone.

IIRC facebook wasn't even paying for the data in Free Basics (this may have changed?). They were spearheading/funding a marketing campaign, but the actual service was funded by telecom operators on the business model that a large enough fraction of people will switch to a paid plan. Facebook didn't even need to exist in this scheme (but nevertheless painted it as them being charitable)
25years of the World Wide Web
Posting on a 2009 iMac right now - do both web development and Unity development on it every day. Personal computers have never had longer useful lives than now.
> Honestly, the biggest thing that hurts Mozilla's market share right now is the pre-loading of Chrome on Android devices. Mozilla should hope that the EU takes some kind of action against Google over this, so at least Google shouldn't consider it a "hostile action" when a random OEM wants to put Firefox on its devices rather than Chrome.

Why? What has Google done monopolistically here? They don't stop OEMs from shipping other browsers, as far as I'm aware, even as the default. Samsung, noticeably, ship Samsung Internet (still Chromium-based) as the default browser on their devices.

The fact that OEMs basically always decide not to ship other browsers isn't something that's Google's fault.

> Also, I'm not sure if Microsoft still respects the browser option thing in Europe with Windows 10 anymore.

They don't. The five year term of the EC and Microsoft agreement ended at the end of 2014, and they've had no obligation to ever since. The website itself has been gone since mid-2015.
That's pretty cool. Looks like you're using the Torque app[0], which doesn't seem to do any real-time uploading. Not the end of the world, but would be kinda nice.

[0]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.prowl.torq...
I'm keeping my mid 2012 air for at least another year. It's fine. Use it every day and I'm not gentle with it. Only the battery needed replacing. Let's be real here. If you need real power you get a proper desktop or use servers. If you're constantly running your laptop hard enough to power up the fan then you're doing it wrong.
The guy used to have an MBA, which was not exactly rich with ports either; but the new MB is so crap, that port scarcity is now unsufferable.

The MB is garbage. It's aimed at the Kardashians of this world. I'm starting to think the delay in refreshing other Mac lines is a desperate attempt to coax people into buying MBs which would otherwise go unsold.
What you describe is exactly what occurs in UK biotech. Many drug-oriented biotechs aim no more than to please the big pharma companies...
"“Made in China 2025” initiative, which aims to ensure Chinese-made components and materials account for 70 percent of China’s manufacturing inputs by 2025."

http://atimes.com/2016/07/us-warns-at-wto-of-china-backslidi...

US warns at WTO of China backsliding on economic openness
Indian here. Not true, most of us love our country. And people do love to go back. Relocation in general is tough, once you have a family and kids going to school, its really tough to go back
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This.

I have an iMac from 2009 which is totally fine for day to day basic stuff, the kind of usage your average person requires.

I have a 2014 rMBP which is far more than enough for an average user. I use it as my primary development machine and push it pretty hard. Would I like something faster? Sure. But it's not too bad in that capacity.

I also have a 2016 rMB which is more than enough for basic usage and it's not too bad as a development machine. I prefer coding on my MBP but the difference is small enough that I've stopped bringing my work computer home with me.

Long story short: Except for a relatively small group of people with niche needs, people don't need new hardware anymore.
Given that they have offices in London, NYC, and Milan, and have ads up for seven jobs on their site, they're a bit bigger than a one person shop.
I see that a UBI would help in the short term, by getting cash in to the hands of people who don't currently have cash. But it doesn't do anything to solve the systemic problems we have. Internet and telephony companies are still oligopolies that charge huge extractive sums of money for digital services, our food production system degrades the environment, and health care prices are out of control.

Yes, we absolutely need to get more wealth into the hands of regular people, but setting a fixed income from on high doesn't do anything to change the power structures that led to so many people being disenfranchised in the first place.

To me, there is a problem when power is concentrated in one place, and remote megacorporations flood the market with goods that won't last but are so cheap most people (irrationally) choose them. The end result is that those in power have no connection to consumers except as sources of money, and people and the environment get treated as disposable.

I see the solution as something more like what the New Economics Movement has been talking about, which has a big focus on local businesses. What do you think of this video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDw4dZLSDXg
Because most people can only afford one computer, and if you need a laptop, that will be your only option for gaming. Also it makes LAN parties 1000x more convenient.
The problem is that we live in a world governed by natural forces, and not by spiritual revolutions.
Fall of languages is not bad thing. For example, without the fall of Volapük, it's very possible that Esperanto would not have taken off, since much of the early growth of Esperanto was a result of Volapük speakers looking for a new constructed language.

If a community lacks reasoning, that is the real issue, not major battles, which might just means there is in fact a valid reasoning to split the community.

Keeping a community together just for the sake of doing so is a recipe for failure.
I'm replying to your post, specifically, but the other comments seem to be making the same point: HTTP2 confers a performance advantage.

So I repeat my question: is this speed advantage stricto-sensu necessary? Why can't one "just" spin up a few more EC2 instances until this is fixed?

Is there a case in which HTTP2 is necessary, and HTTP1 just won't cut it? I think that's the sense of the original question, and I think it's a valid question when talking about hacking one's way around bugs that are going to get fixed anyway.

I'm open to being wrong about this, but I'm surprised at the resistance to this question.
And then people wonder how the misconception that "autopilot" can drive itself arises.
Dear Wired, it's not QR, it's Aztec Code (http://www.howtobarcode.net/howtobarcode/barcode-types/image...) Call it a 2d barcode if you want to generalize it.
Not just desktops. I'm typing this on a 2012 Asus Zenbook, which did not have any hardware problems so far (unless you count that one screw that came loose last year). Even the battery is still going strong: `acpi -V` reports "design capacity 5871 mAh, last full capacity 5070 mAh = 86%".

Of course, chances are that any other notebook might fail sooner, and I assume that my careful handling has increased the longevity of the device.
Heh :).

I was thinking that the current "best" model/architecture may change fairly frequently. Obviously you wouldn't want to download 100MB every time the application starts, but maybe amortized every time there is a significant jump would be good.

Anyway, I haven't seen anything like this, so was curious.
Which makes me think that the lesson of this story is not "avoid forking at all costs", but that building anything universal is a fragile endeavor. Anybody can just come along and obsolete your status with respect to that goal. As for being forgotten, it seems inevitable, if universality is your only selling point.
I'm only surprised because this story has basically nothing to do with India's space program. HN has its share of "India is too poor to do space" commenters that come out of the woodwork on every ISRO related story.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12242372
At the time Latin was as universal in Europe as English is today. The Eulers and Newtons and Descartes spoke latin, in fact you can read it, today:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophi%C3%A6_Naturalis_Pri...

Later German became the language of the philosophers and scientists and English the language of the practical engineering.

English was not or is not gradually becoming a universal language, but suddenly after the US of A won the WWII(and everybody else lost, for example British lost their empire).

After the war the US banned all scientific knowledge in German, and forced the use of English. Remember they took half the scientists of Germany with them(that later created their space program), the other half were taken by the Russians.

In (inland)Europe we used to measure height of a plane over ground in meters before and during WWII. Kilometers for horizontal distance. When (North)Americans won it became the ruler of the world and imposed horizontal distance in miles, and height in feet.

I speak several languages because I love to travel and it is completely different when you speak the native language. It is not a good idea or polite to only speak one language thinking that people should talk your language because it is "universal", which usually means your country has intelligent nuclear weapons and drones that can draw any other country on their knees(or so you believe).

What I mean is that any empire will end, like any other empire has ended in the past, and things change over time.

I believe the Universal language of the future will be machines translating with small delay and helping people learn other languages much faster.
we will build our own internet... with blackjack and hookers :P
For most type classes and instances, the proofs that the corresponding laws hold break horribly if you substitute their free variables with nonterminating computations. For instance, `0 * x = 0` doesn't hold if `x` is `undefined`.
i thought chrome already had "close other tabs" in the context menu when you right-click a tab
The idea is that with UBI people don't need to work 40 hours per week at a miserable job if they don't want to. This in theory causes prices for stuff like McDonalds to go up which should reduce consumption. In addition, people are free to pursue things like further education and the arts that are much harder when you're working two jobs to put food on the table.
When the only journalism you see is from BuzzFeed, you know this world is really fucked up.
> we want our internet browser to start when we tell it to, not after a period of time that is long enough to wonder whether it even started at all.

I wonder if there's a way to solve this problem that doesn't involve buying a new computer every three years.
I used that approach for my minecraft protocol parsing library (https://github.com/dividuum/fastmc). It's indeed very useful to decouple parsing a protocol from the underlying transport. I used my library both for socket communication as well as to read and write files. I'd love to see more libraries implemented that way. So thanks for posting that link.

I imagine it might be difficult sometimes depending on the protocol. IIRC TLS might sometimes require writes while reading.
Aha is such a tool - some PMs swear by it. It seems ok. It's super expensive.
Robert "Bobby" Kennedy's 1968 speech is appropriate: https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/may/24/robert...
Well, sort of. The 13" got Broadwell in 2015; the 15" rMBP didn't-- its 2015 update retained the Haswell 4[7/8/9]80HQ from the previous year's model, since Broadwell quad-core parts were late coming out and the ones that did come out weren't really an upgrade.

A mid-2015 15" rMBP purchased today is running a two-year-old processor from a three-year-old architecture. And the GPU, should you get the discrete GPU option, is from a four-year-old architecture (it's a GCN 1.0 part).
Would the Great Epidemic refer to Plague of Justinian?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian

That army of White Ugric sounds unfamiliar to me, what would that be? Perhaps the Finno-Ugric tribes who in 1087 raided and sacked Sigtuna, then capital of Swedes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigtuna
From the description, it sounds like the necessity is the lack of a single way to do I/O in Python. If that's right, then this shows the real advantage of Go's io.Reader/Writer/&c. interfaces, which enable this sort of composability.

From my Python years, I'd think that something built around mandatory read()/write() methods could do much the same.
Oh wow, even with support for static type-checking. It really makes me want to give ruby another shot.

Piggybacking on this: apart from F*, does someone know of a language or support for existing ones for contracts, loop-invariants and possibly verification?

Dafny and Spec# aren't very general-purpose and apart from those nothing much comes to my mind.
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Can you elaborate on this? What are you classing as natural forces? Spiritual revolutions?

Such a small comment is so easy to dismiss because what you mean is not clear and those of us reading it can dismiss it as trite, obvious, or irrelevant without consideration or if we do give it consideration we are at the mercy of our own interpretation of the words used - either way it makes something you obviously cared enough about to write a null contribution to the conversation.
Hmm I'm sorry but this sounds like trying to rationalise blindly the fact that Apple sells old computers. It's irrelevant if they are "fast enough" or not. What about energy savings with each generation? What about graphics performance, where Moore's law is undoubtedly still alive as well (~2x gains in the last generation of GPUs)?

And no, PC sales are not declining because of the slowing down of Moore's law, but obviously because of smartphones and tablets.
Zoo hypothesis
“Lack of demand creates lack of supply.”

Exactly. Americans are spent out. The US savings rate is near a low. Americans are spending 95% of their income, and for the bottom 90%, it's more than that.[1] About 1 in 7 Americans has trouble getting enough food.

What we're discovering is that, when it doesn't take that many people to make all the stuff, the economy winds down to a state where most people are just surviving. This is a new thing. Historically, the big problem was making enough stuff. For millenia, society ran out of labor before it could make enough stuff. We're past that. And we have no idea how to cope with this.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT
Unfortunately their platform has all the commoditization pressures as things like elance. Looking around at projects, it looks like you're be competing against 18-30 other people on any particular project.

No thanks.
It's not a necessity that the machine must slow down with each OS update. Boot an XFCE on Linux image to establish a baseline level of performance. Make that your OS and you can _buy_ from guys selling 2012 computers.
It hasn't been mentioned because compared to the last 70 years of high growth there are now fewer regulations on business and industry than ever before, in the US at least.
You Are Not a Commodity
Or Google
Most of the people I've met who actually believe the earth is only 4,000 years old think that it was created already old [1]. They usually start with something like: Did the first created tree have tree rings?; did Adam and Eve have belly buttons? etc... They believe that the answer to those questions is probably yes, so the theory is that the earth was created similarly.

At that point they're not really making any refutable scientific claims.

Unlike the flat earth people who are making refutable scientific claims that almost anyone can refute for themselves.

[1]. I have also met people who believe that there is just not enough evidence for any kind of evolution. However, even that position is much more defensible than the flat earth position. If only because there is more evidence that the earth is round readily available to people without specialized knowledge, than there is for evolution. A layman can't observe evolution, the way they can observe that the earth is a sphere.
People have been saying this since 2009, yet the S&P 500 is up 250% since then.

We need to put things in perspective.

The reality is:

The US has greater inflation-adjusted GDP growth than most of the world, including much of Europe, the Middle East, and South America, and Japan http://i.imgur.com/SBqFqtt.jpg

Profits & earnings for tech companies, payment processing, retail, and consumer staples companies have far-outpaced GDP growth. A lot of the lag comes from the chronically weak financial, commodity, and energy sector.

It's much harder to grow a large economy than a smaller one. There's diminishing returns to scale. It's harder to grow an economy at the same rate it was growing when it was 10x smaller.

2% real GDP growth, while slow, is still growth. Most people cannot perceive the difference between 2% growth and 7% growth.

Real GDP is back to 2003 levels, and far fewer people were complaining about slow growth back then

Slow growth doesn't preclude discovery and innovation, things like web 2.0, smart phones, apps, theoretical physics, mathematics, uber, self-driving cars, on-demand entertainment, etc.

So while more growth may desirable, 'slow growth' isn't too much to lose sleep over.

A lot of ppl have mentioned the UBI, but it's worth reminding that the effective income tax for the lowest 20-40% of earners is negative
A laptop is much easier to carry to a LAN party. (And yes, those still exist. I hosted one a few weeks ago, and it's still fun.)
Great article, and one more point: The weight and terrible screen resolution are not show-stoppers for people like me who mostly use their Mac on a desk, with an external display. (Mine is actually a 2012 Air, but I barely move it and can absolutely relate to happy cMBP owners.)
About 1 in 7 Americans has trouble getting enough food.

but the obesity rate is actually higher among lower income earners

As for job destruction, the jury is still out. It is generally accepted by economists that new technologies spawn jobs for all skill levels.
Nah. The US isn't that heavily regulated. Anybody can start a business. It's been decades since the ICC limited entry into trucking and the CAB limited entry into the airline business. Whining about regulation is mostly complaining that you can't dump your externalities (pollution, employee injuries, etc.) on other people.
Which natural forces are you referring to? Are you sure that they are natural forces (rather than learned behaviour)?