skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is obviously tangential to the original issue, but your interpretation of the task given to the public broadcast stations is incredibly narrow. The law explicitly includes social and cultural aspects and deliberately does not limit the task to dissemination of news or educational tasks only. Entertainment is explicitly included in the mandate. And as much as I dislike soaps, most of the music played on the radio in general, most game shows, they definitely are part of our culture, thus covered by the mandate:

§ 11 Auftrag

Auftrag der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten ist, durch die
Herstellung und Verbreitung ihrer Angebote als Medium und Faktor des
Prozesses freier individueller und öffentlicher Meinungsbildung zu
wirken und dadurch die demokratischen, sozialen und
kulturellen Bedürfnisse der Gesellschaft zu erfüllen.
Die öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten haben in ihren Angeboten einen
umfassenden Überblick über das internationale, europäische, nationale und regionale
Geschehen in allen wesentlichen Lebensbereichen zu geben. Sie sollen hierdurch die
internationale Verständigung, die europäische Integration und den gesell-
schaftlichen Zusammenhalt in Bund und Ländern fördern. Ihre Angebote haben
der Bildung, Information, Beratung und Unterhaltung zu dienen. Sie haben Beiträge
insbesondere zur Kultur anzubieten. Auch Unterhaltung soll einem öffentlich-rechtlichen
Angebotsprofil entsprechen.

http://www.die-medienanstalten.de/fileadmin/Download/Rechtsg...
This really shocked me when I found out about it a few years ago.

According to this statistic [1], 2.5 % of the electorate is disenfranchised.

2.5% is a HUGE amount for a 2 party system with elections often being very tight.

This is somewhat less severe due to fellons probably belonging to demographics less inclined to vote, but it's still a large number.

[1] http://felonvoting.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=0...
Framework with a simple method of rendering images and play video.
Been using ST2 for many years, then ST3 till last year. Tried out Atom but it was slow and sluggish. Out of sheer curiosity, learned myself some vi from scratch and switched to Spacemacs, haven't looked back since :)
You're completely right. TSLA investors are being used to save a company with uncertain future.
It's 9% consisting of the members of two private clubs who have thrown up massive barriers to the participation of people who don't agree with either of their programs and who don't have to be active or engaged to be counted, just to vote correctly. Ideally, I'd think that the parties would want to an even smaller percentage to make the choice for the rest of us. 9% of the population have proved very difficult to wrangle this time around, with a near total failure on one of the sides.

Either that, or the best candidate for president out of 300 million is the wife of the president three terms ago. Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Clinton? This has nothing to with issues.
What is the incentive for carriers to limit updates ?
To save cost on bandwidth ? (...)

Another related/unrelated rhetorical question, should I prepare to buy another Nexus when my Nexus 5 is no longer supported ? (which should be soonish)
There's a fascinating story in which Terry McAuliffe of Virginia tried to use an executive order to allow the 200,000 felons in Virginia to vote this fall (seen by some as a partisan move for the Democrats, others as restoring voter rights). The courts blocked him, so he instead is granting up to 200,000 individual clemency grants to allow each voter an individual exception.
What surprises me isn't that women improved, it's that black/white/asian men barely did.

[but even still, some of those numbers were abysmal...]
I was going to say, wasn't this last week? Confirmed article from the 28th.
You're right, but I think that the population can be educated and convinced of the necessity of certain taxes without them feeling ripped off. Therefore, I have this hope that a more transparent and purpose-bound tax system can work and finally discourage tax payers from complaining about taxes as if infrastructure and services grow on trees. What I mean is that I've met many people who view tax evasion as a national sport of sorts, and the professionalism rises the higher their income, unfortunately, while those with lower income are less capable of leaving 30 to 50 percent of their income on the table. I'm not advocating a rich-people tax or anything like that. Just apply tax laws evenly, without making exceptions or implementing loop-holes for those who can hire a tax lawyer/accountant. I believe that once people know why certain taxes are paid and see what they're used for, they will be less likely to be frustrated about it. Now, there's the risk of people not caring about issues somewhere else and thus not wanting to support that, but that also can be solved with education. There's so much useless stuff put into people's minds via psycho-advanced ad campaigns that it's possible to use that for good as well.

With all that being said, maybe the Germans are less likely to be educable in that regard, and thus you're perhaps right that a fair and logical tax system won't fly. If so, it might work in Japan's society.
TOHKBDs do occasionally show up on eBay, though. It took me about two months to be able to get my hands on one.
As I posted on the other, stillborn, HN thread[1] about this:

I had been selling through these guys continuously for the past 19 years. Back when I set Kagi up to handle sales of my apps for Newton OS (1997), they were one of only a few companies offering that kind of thing, and were a familiar name to anybody who bought shareware back then.

But, for me, well, I guess the Newton OS gravy train[2] is finally over! :-/

It's interesting to me that I set up that store in 1997, and it ran untouched for years after that, generating a decreasing modicum of sales, every year, until today.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12200601
[2]: http://www.fivespeedsoftware.com
By that reasoning Steven Hawking is hardly doing anything, as he barely moves. Work doesn't need to mean physical labor.
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They are one of the few newspapers that can possibly afford it, I guess.
Another option is to use dynamic DNS service like - http://www.noip.com IIRC they also supports wildcard subdomains.

I've recently started to add a local. record to the DNS of the project which points to the statically defined local Vagrant IP, as you often need to add dev and staging records anyway.
I would expect it to be an order or magnitude smaller than the general, just on the pure physics of it. If it were <1% this would be a story.
Trump got the most votes of any Republican candidate in history. It probably would have been lower than 9% if Trump hadn't run.
I agree that that would be impressive, but beating a human being at Go is also very, very impressive, and had been considered a high benchmark for many years. I can't help but think that after a machine can do basic story analysis, there will still be people saying that this is just a trick, that doesn't show any "intelligent" analyses of the story.

AI has a long way to go, but I don't think we should dismiss intelligence as an either/or binary, and call things that are not "intelligence" mere "pattern recognition." Strategy games are widely accepted across cultures as a mark of intelligence when humans do them; you'd be very comfortable saying a human chess or Go grandmaster was intelligent. There was a long time when people were dismissing basic AIs as mere toys by saying they'll never beat a human at Go. There's a little goalpost-moving any time someone responds to an AI breakthrough by saying "You know what would be really impressive..."
Per-capita spending on structures is down.

Since 1992, federal spending (in real terms) on transportation/water infrastructure has doubled. State spending has increased by 2.5x. Population has increased 25%.
That's horrible considering the sacrifices these people have made essentially their entire lives. Training to be Olympic level, basically means giving up your ENTIRE youth to it.
No, but lots of firms (this wasn't Amazon) hire external recruiters who are commission based, usually a percentage of salary for each candidate placed. Some also get "right to represent", where you can't apply through the employer directly once you've started a process with the recruiter.

Which makes this utterly weird - it was literally a matter of giving up (potentially) several grand by not forwarding an email.
Don't use a VPN in UAE – unless you wanna risk jail and a $545,000 fine
Yes, but the parties allegedly have used the legal system to harm other candidates' efforts at ballot access:

> In 2004, Democratic operatives were especially zealous in their efforts against my campaign. They hired private investigators to harass my campaign’s petition circulators in their homes in Ohio and Oregon and falsely threatened them with criminal prosecution for fake names that saboteurs had signed on their petitions, according to sworn affidavits from the workers and letters containing threats that were presented in court. Our petitions were also disqualified on arbitrary grounds: In Ohio, complaints submitted in court and to the office of the Secretary of State by groups of Democratic voters led officials there to invalidate our petitions. They disqualified hundreds of signatures on one list, for instance, because of a discrepancy involving the petition circulator’s signature. In Oregon, Democratic Secretary of State Bill Bradbury retroactively applied certain rules in a way that suddenly rendered our previously compliant petitions invalid.

> Democrats and their allies (some later reimbursed by the DNC, according to both campaign finance reports and a party official in Maine who testified under oath) enlisted more than 90 lawyers from more than 50 law firms to file 29 complaints against my campaign in 18 states and with the Federal Election Commission for the express purpose of using the cost and delay of litigation to drain our resources. “We wanted to neutralize his campaign by forcing him to spend money and resources defending these things,” operative Toby Moffett told The Washington Post in 2004.

> Democrats falsely accused my campaign of fraud in state after state. In Pennsylvania, they forced us off the ballot after challenging more than 30,000 signatures on spurious technical grounds. My running mate, Peter Camejo, and I were ordered to pay more than $81,000 in litigation costs the plaintiffs, a group of Democratic voters, said they incurred. In an effort to collect, their law firm, Reed Smith ,which the DNC also hired in that cycle, froze my personal accounts at several banks for eight years. A criminal prosecution by the state attorney general later revealed that Pennsylvania House Democrats had, illegally at taxpayer expense, prepared the complaints against our campaign, and several people were convicted of related felonies. A federal court in Pennsylvania ultimately struck down the state law used against me that had led to the order that I pay the litigation costs. But Reed Smith was still allowed to keep $34,000 it withdrew from my accounts, because state courts wouldn’t let me present evidence that could have permitted me to recover the money.

By Ralph Nader https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/03/25/...
I'm sure the board is behind Nadella's strategy. It was pretty obvious what they were going to get when they appointed him, and no-one could say he hasn't followed through on the vision.

It's the investors that will force the issue if anyone does, IMHO. Yes, often investors just follow the patterns and trends because that's where the money usually goes as well, but if Microsoft have any major institutional investors that are looking a bit deeper, I could see meaningful concerns being raised if the picture isn't looking a bit more healthy by 2-3 years before the Win 7 "deadline" arrives. If those concerns aren't then robustly addressed, I could see shareholders forcing through a change of leadership and strategy.

As for what constitutes success for 10, it's hard to say objectively, but I suspect it will always be held back as long as the telemetry and forced update concerns persist. There's a certain part of the market -- apparently quite a substantial part, though it's hard to gauge exactly how much -- that really, really doesn't like those things. Given that 10 seems decent enough in most other respects and it does have some potentially useful incremental improvements over its predecessors even if it lacks any really compelling selling points, it seems like Microsoft could make the bad PR go away almost overnight if they just reverted to their traditional strategy by giving control back to their customers and being transparent and less greedy about the data collection.

However, this brings me back to the question of the new business strategy, because it seems shifting control and data back to Microsoft's hands are basically the things Nadella is all about. If customer resistance to that strategy is what is holding back more widespread adoption of 10 and limiting Microsoft's future potential, that doesn't look good for the current leadership team.
>I keep trying to come up with a reason for how recent advances are improving our lives without increasing GDP. Does anyone have a compelling one?

GDP/GNP is not a measurement of happiness or standard of living.

>Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children. Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.

-RFK, Speech at the University of Kansas at Lawrence (18 March 1968)
Because I can't even buy 10 and have shipping remain the same. The limit of 1 per customer means that I effectively have to pay $25 per Zero, which is completely the opposite if it costing $5.
2016 strikes again. :(

Seymour Papert was "co-creator of Logo" in much the same way that Doug Engelbart was "creator of the mouse". Their ideas were bigger than something you can fit in a headline. Papert believed that computers had a unique potential to help us learn and think. Anyone interested in computers or education should check out his book Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas.
You don't need to be a member of the commons to be prime minister though, you could be a peer instead, so you don't need to have constituents.
The primary reason many people don't vote is one of convenience. If every state allowed early voting online (home or public libraries) and through mail-in ballots we would see a massive increase in participation.

That's only going to happen through strong, reliable, accurate, and verifiable technology.
I have worked a lot with systems like Teradata, and I am trying to explain to the want-NoSQL-on-my-CV-crowd that large/complex JOINs are _really_ not a problem. Also trying to explain that relations in RDBMS' have nothing to do with relationships, and that normalization is just a tool that provides certain guarantees on the data you store is simply ignored :)
> Can't anyone apply to be on the ballot as long as they demonstrate a reasonable level of support?

Yes, they can, no that won't change anyone's mind.

This election year is showing that internet-borne conspiracy theories are just as powerful than facts, if not more powerful.
Exactly, I wouldn't mind paying for shipping if I could buy 10-20 units and amortize that way, but I haven't found anywhere that will let me.
The people who run in the primaries are selected by far fewer than 9%. Parties other than the two have been excluded by bipartisan agreement between the two.
So what? if Americans focused more on congressional elections then things could change. There's only so much a president can do.
>Then again, i'd rather see something like "Ok, you made this thing and you're fairly sure it's viable, let us help you make it shine".

I found this comment interesting, in that I imagine with the right PR campaign this could be easy to sell, and seems to me to be in line with extant German culture surrounding engineering rigor.
Oh, they sell $5 Zeros in-store? Where is this? Are they original Pi Zeros, or are they another brand?

This sounds odd, I regularly see them going for $10+ on eBay. Why don't people just go to a Microcenter and get a few?
I Knew How to Validate an Email Address Until I Read the RFC (2007)
Lets assume we develop technology to travel at near light speeds and go mad colonising the universe, what exactly contains us to the observable universe, move 4 light years in another direction and your observable horizon shifts
Right well that does sound like unfair behaviour, but it's not a legally enforced monopoly is it? Which is what was claimed.
Beginner’s Guide to Online Security
"The fundamental fact about learning: Anything is easy if you can assimilate it to your collection of models. If you can't, anything can be painfully difficult." [0]

Although Papert is most known for Logo, he did not believe learning how to program was specially good in itself.

It is the fact that the computer allows the child to model almost everything (at almost no cost) that allowed that child to develop and fall in love with a topic, the same way he fell in love with gears at a very young age.

In his own words [1]: "It did not occur to me that anyone could possibly take my statement to mean that learning to
program would in itself have consequences for how
children learn and think. [...] But encouraging
programming as an activity meant to be good in itself
is far removed, in its nature, from working at
identifying ideas that have been disempowered and seeking ways to re-empower them."

[0] Papert - "Mindstorms" in the Foreword: 'The Gears of My Childhood'

[1] Papert - "What’s the big idea? Toward a pedagogy of idea power"
Nope. I ran into EDI when I was doing an integration for a JIT Hub that had to integrate with Hitachi and Seagate inventory systems. It was pretty awful to work with but the protocol was rock solid.
Yea, damn that cache invalidation!!!
Here is the original message in the thread, and it gives some additional reasons as well.

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/579795DF.10502%40comma...
What if they were denied the chance to vote due to onerous voting restrictions (closed primaries)? Clinton has horrible negatives, but the state party of NY forces voters to be registered by October of the previous year (!!!) for a late-April primary.
People aren't upset that the DNC was against Bernie, they're upset that they were against Bernie while telling the public they were neutral to solicit donations. I'm not a lawyer, but that sounds like felony wire fraud to me.
I call this "agonizingly slow runoff voting", the opposite of instant runoff voting. The French presidential election is similar, although the first round all the candidates are considered as a single pool rather than two party-orientated pools.

IRV and proportional systems produce 'external' coalitions at the government level. FPTP produces 'internal' coalitions, which is why the Republican party looks so strange from the outside.
Or pg if the context is clear enough.
The correct spelling is "MariaDB".
I've been reading HN for a decade. For that time it's been a fascinating technology and cultural discussion aggregator. There is lots of quality sharing and discussion of deep issues. Thank god only very few "me too! look at my trivial cool stuff!" vanity posts reach the headlines. I think it's been that way for the span I'm aware of (otherwise I'm pretty sure I would have moved along).
The Vintage plugin is very basic and limited in many regards.

(cross file) bookmarks, missing navigation options, no commands (like search and replace, ...), and so on.
Hmm... I always tend to use XML for B2B communication or Mine-to-Theirs type RPCs. I use JSON primarily for Client-to-Server communication internally with own applications or for public APIs.
Almost as importantly, it is web scale and thus also uber scale.
It's unrealistic to remove all joins (usually), and most joins aren't very expensive. In normal cases a join is strictly faster than running an extra query to get that extra data.

Joins start getting particularly tricky when you do expensive stuff like filter over the correlated results of many tables. But in those cases, there's also no easy alternative: you'll need to redesign the way you store your data, if possible.
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In Australia or the UK, you can run without being a billionaire, and legislators who aren't members of major parties still have influence (sometimes disproportionate) on who is chosen as head of state.
This is nifty. For absolute beginners, do you[1] recommend any resources?

Though, the pricing confuses me a bit. It mentions ¥1,000/month for all content, is that a comma in the American sense (¥1000), or a decimal (¥1)? Apparently in USD, that is ~$150 vs $0.15.. one is insanely expensive _(in my opinion)_, the other is insanely cheap. Pardon my ignorance :)

[1]: You, being the author.. or anyone i suppose.
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Theranos to reveal science behind ‘groundbreaking’ technology, amid skepticism
naah its fine as is.
People forget that resource pressure acts as a population control measure, and it isn't an 'if'.

It is to be noted that resource pressure is not the same thing as poverty. A lot of poor regions produce more babies than say people in Manhattan, because people in Manhattan have higher life quality expectation for their kids, than people living in a poor region.
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I was recently advised by a DB consultant whose area of expertise is MySQL that 5.7 is still too new and risky and that he would advise against upgrading for at least another 6 months or more. He feels that the releases come out much, much too unstable and unpolished and that it typically takes at least a year since release before he's comfortable running it in production. I don't know enough about MySQL to know if that's true or not.

We are now investigating switching to MariaDB instead. (I'd personally love to move to Postgres, but that's not likely to happen any time soon)
I find that quite hard to believe, as I don't see any visual distinction between Brits, Ashkenazi Jews, Irish (unless ginger), northern Italians and Poles. Southern nations could be distinguished (e.g. southern Italians, Spaniards, Greeks), in that case it could have been racism (e.g. in the US they still consider "Hispanics" a different race, although I don't).
I mean, apart from how they used (abused) the legal system to ensure their monopoly on voters continued, no there is no legally enforced monopoly...
Do you though? There are more than 2 candidates...
I wonder if, as neuroscience research improves, intelligence itself will seem less "magic." As you say, good AI researchers shouldn't claim to have magical powers--as far as we can tell, only these lumps of meat in our head are magical!
How to use your full brain when writing code
Why did he endorse H. Clinton?
Other options include (1) not having kids, and (2) finding a partner (possibly a woman) who's willing to provide.