skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Someone promising to make public services much cheaper should be treated like someone offering to sell you a $10 Rolex.

That's what we do in the private industry the whole time. We try to improve processes, reduce wasteful behaviors, improve our efficiency and ultimately try to offer better services and products, while competing on value vs other competitors.

I don't see any reason why such a way of thinking would not be applicable to the public sector.

My experience of the public sector is rather the exact opposite: they have way too many civil servants for the work they do, and could benefit in simplifying/streamlining their processes to cut down costs significantly and at the same time improve their services.

> Besides, when redistribution is a goal in itself, it's a mistake to talk purely about cost and you have to look at outcomes.

That's a naive view. There is a lot of waste in the "processing" of redistribution.
My concept of practical is stuff like: implementing things, doing experiments with prototypes, producing stuff that is imperfect but does something and can be improved upon.

Theoretical stuff is like: proving theorems, conceptualizing the task at hand, philosophical inquiry into the nature of agents/intelligence/reasoning/goals/human values

I'm not trying to argue which is more important, but surely MIRI focuses more on the theoretical.
except that the state is manifestly _not_ more consistent than our personal ethics. See how each state varies in its treatment of punishment? See how in each state, some groups (often black, or minority, or hackers) get a lot worse treatment?
Does a logo really strike you as a thing that you want to "hurry and buy it now" compared to spending some time looking at it?
Apologies for the slightly editorialised title; I omitted the word altruistic in order to come in under the 80-character limit.
I'm not qualified in this, was told by a guy who is that the abuse is against WADA rules but wasn't prosecuted. For now I don't now, let's wait the wider discussion
Full-Time Physician Publishes Debut Sci-Fi Novel
If it starts including things like display size, device, etc. then you get into the realm of browser fingerprinting which while maybe not truly unique does start to narrow the pool quite a bit: https://panopticlick.eff.org/about#browser-fingerprinting
Why did the woman switch from salad to the burger?
I would have to disagree on the last sentence -- there is nothing in any definition of a software framework I know about that suggests that a software framework cannot encompass more than one function. .NET indeed does have a much larger solution stack then most web frameworks, for better or worse (there are advantages and disadvantages to this approach). But that does not disqualify it from being a framework in my opinion.

Web programming is more fragmented in nature, for better or worse. I think that was more my point with the first paragraph (and also a response that most .NET programmers don't need to care too much about any backbone frameworks .NET was built on). .NET provides you with a full front-to-back ecosystem. With web applications, you usually chose, at minimum, some form of Javascript framework, some back end framework, and some form of style framework. (Full stack frameworks for some reason have not taken off in the web ecosystem.) Even that description simplifies some of the fragmentation, due to the bewildering amount of choice. If you want to implement a Flux pattern in React for instance, there are over a dozen versions out there to chose from.

I don't think this necessarily says anything about app complexity or speed of development at all, agreed. Complex apps are going to be the same. I do think that the current fragmented, churn-y nature of the Javascript ecosystem can be a barrier to entry for simple apps at the moment; for that reason, I'll welcome the day when the Javascript ecosystem reaches peak "Javascript fatigue", becomes a bit more stabilized.
How Elucify got into Y Combinator
Alcohol is illegal during competition and the first doping suspension was for sneaking brandy during the 1904 marathon
Ask HN: General advice to grow my network
What mode of communication (LinkedIn InMail, Facebook Messages, email, phone or something else) do you use when trying to build your network? What general advice do you have for someone who is starting to grow their professional network?
Thanks, taught me a new word today.
Run Your Code on Our Self-Driving Car
I can see your point. Let's take music for example seeing as you majored in it and I am also quite invested in it. I can't think of too many music jobs that require a degree. It tends to be an industry where you work hard, from the bottom and learn as you go or you teach yourself. There are legitimate reasons to study it as a degree but are you really getting $60-100k of value from it? Some people might but even a lot of the people prepared to succeed are not going to get that amount of value out of it and likely could have got the information they need for their future through an online course, on the job training, or a community college course.

My main point is that a lot of people are doing degrees when they can get the information they need elsewhere, much cheaper, and they are not getting value for money. Unless we can convince people college isn't something they have to do being more specific about which degree paths get loans is the only way I can see to prevent those people taking out loans they will never be able to pay back.
Even if you think the apology was insincere and did nothing to ameliorate the harm of the pardon, at the very least the fact that Clinton was forced to apologize is evidence that, contrary to the assertion above, political reaction is "important in granting pardons."
That's bizarre! Have you tried disabling everything except uBlock and seeing if that persists? Maybe it's some kind of interaction with other addons causing the problem.
The story from the founder of Bleacher Report was fascinating. Takes great wisdom to demote oneself. Definitely worth watching.
I believe it. It just doesn't make sense that everyone would move to the US before starting their idea, the sheer volume of people in China means that they will have so much personal capital they should be leading a lot of these fields.
Everyone starts as "a copycat". It doesn't matter; consumers benefit from competition.
It's worth noting that Conrod doesn't use any unsafe code [1].

In light of the "Why I'm dropping Rust" post, it's nice to see a proof point that it's possible, and easy, to write heterogeneous trees in Rust without using unsafe code. It looks like Conrod uses petgraph via the daggy crate [2].

[1]: https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/conrod/search?utf8=%E2%9...
[2]: https://github.com/mitchmindtree/daggy
I like the idea of subscriptions to pay content makers directly, but I do see two issues that don't seem to have solutions right now:

1. Subscribing to every content producer directly will be extremely expensive for people. Advertising, on the other hand, spreads the costs across a large population with some amount of invisibility on who, in the end, pays for what. Only some kind of aggregation like on cable TV or others (Netflix, Hulu, etc.) have some potential to survive and pay content producers somewhat well. I'd be interested in any large scale aggregations that come at a not-too-high price yet provides an ad free and flexible experience (time shifting, place shifting, cross platform, cross device).

2. In your case, even if you were to subscribe to The Guardian, I seriously doubt if it would stop tracking you. Web sites that provide content always have analytics for their own site, but they're also interested in learning a lot more about the visitor so that they can get more data points on what their focus should be in order to maximize their impact and money making potential (not necessarily in this order). I'm guessing a lot of sites that offer subscriptions continue to track their users even without showing ads. The only difference then with a paid subscription is that they have a real name (likely), a real address (likely, depending on the payment method), and an email address attached to the subscriber that they can connect to the user's behavior. It actually seems worse, that you would pay to subscribe and yet still have to use a tracker block (like Privacy Badger) or ad blocker (like uBlock Origin).

A company called Blendle has started working on micro-payments on a per article basis across several sites, but I personally don't find it friction-less to use and see that the price per article is actually high (so I end up ignoring the email notifications with headlines).
[Sorry for the late replay, Adrian, in case you read this.]

> Candidate set of universal semantics

more precisely the semantics and api for a uniform treatment of the full state[-transition] space of an Eventually Consistent Available Partition Tolerant (ECAP) distributed system.

(I would think you will agree that ICG is fully bounded by ECAP and does not concern CP systems. The dual to ICG would be an incremental availability guarantees. I'll grant that these two modalities (ICG/IAG) seem to have a wave/particle type of relationship.)

The concern with performance hit is mainly that, would the conceptual framework prevent categories of optimization.
American email hosting, what could go wrong?
From wikipedia:

"The restaurant offers guests one multi-course tasting menu inspired by the agricultural bounty of New York"

"Daniel Humm's cuisine is focused on the locally sourced ingredients of New York"
"fear not humans, I am probably going to comply with Asimov's first law"
> The Supreme Court does not itself have a constitutional mandate to decide on the meaning of the constitution and the constitutionality of laws.

I disagree. The judicial branch, within which the Supreme Court is established as the paramount actor, has the Constitutional role of resolving all cases and controversies arising under the Constitution and laws of the United States, which cases and controversies often, in their resolution, require determining the meaning of the Constitution and laws of the United States.
Google's cars are operating on city streets you know. They're up to over 1.5 million miles.
Eligible (YC S12) Hosting Security in Healthcare Event in NYC
Definitely. As bad as it would be to struggle with expressing a single word, that must be even more agonizing if you're a genius in high demand.

I also wonder if something like this could be adapted to test for locked-in syndrome?
> Do you need to pay $5k up front? It's common here to take loans for used cars.

No, you don't have to pay $5K up front; you could take out a loan, but typically if you're taking out a loan you're buying from a dealership, and you aren't going to find a good $5K car at a reputable dealership. What you're looking for when you shop for a $5K car is a 10-year-old for-sale-by-owner car that the person left in their garage and didn't drive much.
No, just a few known laws of physics and chemistry. The conditions required are expected to happen spontaneously during planet formation.

We just don't have a handle on how common those conditions are. And many other subsequent conditions, for cellular life, for multicellular, for tissues and organs. Finally, for intelligence and sapience.
​Linus Torvalds reveals his favorite programming laptop
A OpenSource password management system like LetPass based on Laravel5.3
To stay on topic: Does anyone else have stories of moving massive datasets to postgres from other commercial databases?

We're looking to make the switch from SQL Server when 9.6 comes out (and proves to be more scalable).
Nope. Extract that was far from just being factual:

> Danes are smart enough to accept that it has to be paid for.

This was clearly an opinion about the matter at hand.
Go on. They give you a domain? I never saw that... Link please?
What do they do with the monkeys after they're finished with their experiment?
Easier solutions aren't necessarily good. Rockets are extremely dangerous and expensive.

The ~200km required is daunting, but imminently possible.
This is what I used to think, but the diversity of the devices in the developing countries (for example) adds more specifics. Even in countries where there is a lot more homogeneity of devices - you mention HN for example, but if I install ABP on my device and visit multiple sites using the browser, remember that the list of sites is another little trail of breadcrumbs. That could only become significant if the advertisers themselves share this data amongst themselves and combine it with user-agent + geocoded address, but you can count on a service which will pop up to facilitate exactly that (assuming one doesn't already exist). Not to mention, what if these ad networks consolidate at some point in the future?
> Contrary to what people on HN believe, advertising is not inherently evil.

Most people on HN make their living off advertising I would wager!
That's why I video the wrap, send and receive parts on valuable ebay sales
Licensing is different -- that's a persistent relationship.
Benchtop Black Holes Help Physicists Glimpse the Quantum Universe
Transit Maps: Apple vs. Google vs. Transit App
I feel like there's a baseline assumption here that the people who make ad blockers would somehow be more ethical or "nicer" than the people who make websites that serve shitty ads that got us all to download ad blockers in the first place. But I don't see why that should be true.
Yeah, see, that parking fee would be about enough for me to pass on the car. Just because one is a HN reader doesn't mean they find that a trifling expense. Luckily either that isn't as common in the city I'm in or we are lucky enough to live in a small house turned apartments with parking right outside.

I'm not entirely certain about insurance rates on that one - truth be told, that is just something my spouse picks up and I never bothered to ask. I'm still not actually legal to drive here yet. I missed the short deadline, now get to take classes and re-learn. I think if we didn't have dreams of living out in the countryside where transport is much more sparse, I'd not even bother with the expense.
People rarely recommend routers by their model number, if they recommend a router, they recommend the brand.

It's very hard for marketing guys to call Costco and say "hey, you remember that router we tried to sell you 6 months ago? well we just gave it a firmware update!", and close the sale

it's very easy for marketing to call Costco and say "hey we got this fantastic new router you guys might be interested in stocking", and close the sale
They simply out-source it to a corporation that would be willing to do what it takes to collect the information, or as much as possible. It's not uncommon for the three letter agencies to delegate the illegal ramifications to a "corporate" entity, freelancers, mercenaries, etc... The FBI hires gangsters and criminals to "gather information" or "assist in investigations" when they need something done that is highly questionable. It's a really grey area, and a very large market.

Snowden for example succeeded in pinning "illegal surveillance" on the NSA, when the work was contracted out to the American corporate security-cartels, although he is a very rare exception, especially considering he is alive and not jailed.
>Have you looked at the gay-bashing that Christians indulge in?

But look at matters of scale. In Islamic theocracies, it is frequently illegal and the punishments severe. Even in attitudes, the numbers are really, really bad. Compare these two polls, one of predominantly Islamic countries and one of America (arguably the most Christian nation in the world). Obviously the US still has some work to do, but it's way ahead on this issue.[0] [1]

[0]: http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religi...

[1]: http://www.pewforum.org/2015/11/03/u-s-public-becoming-less-...

*edit: Typo, and added a qualifier
Last time I've checked Gaza also borders Egypt, the Egyptians also aren't keen on letting anyone through, and they've have been stepping up since the war in the Sinai started 5 years ago and arms were flowing both in and out of Gaza.

The Egyptians actually fire across the border, flood tunnels with sewage, and without going out on a full on assault do pretty much the same thing the Israelis do but since it's Egypt (almost) no one is reporting on it.
So having read through the slides, these are not bad slides, but I'm missing the 'real' wow-factor of why Postgres was a better choice in the end than Oracle. There's no doubt that the rewrite (which, because of PL/SQL -> PL/pgSQL, there was a rewrite) benefited them, but all I can glean from the slides is Postgres hasn't failed them yet and the rewrite worked.

So as much as I want to talk about Oracle vs. Postgres, these slides aren't giving me anything technical to debate.
Organizations would become more efficient randomly promoting employees
I can only speak about myself, I come from a lower middle class family in India and probably was the poorest in my school. Now, I am at senior position in large well established tech company and definitely doing better than any of my class mates back in India.

My family still lives in India and I am amazed how tough their life is when dealing with every day things.

My life is so much better than my sister's who lives in Pune and also works in a similar position for a tech company. She would move to US in a heartbeat but has some personal issues.

This is how bad conditions in India are, my mother, who lost her husband when she was 34, worked all her life and raised 2 kids on her own. After several decades of employment, she needed to withdraw some money out of her PF account. She had to bribe at least 4 guys and pay a total of 20,000INR to be able to withdraw money from her account, her own hard earned money.

Life in India is pretty bad, I do believe us Indians have a "chalta hai" attitude and a lot of problems are just shoved under the rug or considered "yahan aise hi kaam hota hai" (this is how things are done here) category.

I would want India to be the same as US where I have lived now for more than 15 years and Bollywood movies keep promising me that India today is so much like any other developed country, but my 15 visits in the last 15 years break every one of those promises.

Back to the original point, no financially a person earning at the same position in India vs US is not any better off by a huge margin.

Now if your point was is it worth it moving from Germany or Australia to US, then the answer is completely different answer.

India is not there yet, a lot of work needs to be done, a lot of change needs to happen. If people in India start believing that they have arrived then they will be doing themselves a hige disservice.
Yes - he said on his site that he wanted to do more logos, so he just did 50 in a row for fun. Now he's selling his "practice" work. Profit!
But the actual phase has nothing to do with it, the moons position around the earth does. It's possible to have a full moon over head or a new moon over head, the gravitational pull will be the same regardless of the phase. It's purely coincidental about it being a full moon.
A place that wasn't a police state of sorts with increasingly draconian legislation. Opposite end would possibly be Swiss or Icelanfic jurisdiction. I'd never use an email service in Russia. I have an untrusted, Gmail account for availability purposes. Confidential mail still encrypted and preferrably sent through Swiss account.

Thinking about switching untrusted one over to Fastmail. Still surveillance state but less surveillance and supposedly good uptime.
Based on the additional details I would target roles as your sales strategy.

I agree with BlogTrafficGuru's post in terms of sales tactics. Showing/telling how your app answers a question or solves a problem is proven to work.

I think you are looking for far-reaching, broad approaches that will allow you to wrap your arms around as much business as possible all at once. If you take roles, i.e. owner, sales, manager, purchasing etc. and create use cases around the roles you can show the range of features.

It sounds like your product is "feature-rich" as opposed to complex. That is a good thing.

Each role will likely manage things differently for different reasons. This will only improve how you engage one-on-one sales. Additionally, your current customers could be a wealth of information in developing a better understanding of the different roles/use cases.
Anticompetitive behavior, boy oh boy.
Not really "trying Google roadmap", because in some areas (search, maps, mail) Yandex was first. They were not as successful, however, due to the focus on Russian market, management and technology specifics and business climate.
"text" isn't the right section name; that'll create a new data section named "text", and then you'll segfault trying to execute out of a data section.

Specifying ".text" causes the toolchain to attempt to create a data section named ".text", which causes the "changed section attributes" message; the array then correctly ends up in the executable ".text" section, though. I'd like to see a way to declare a section without attempting to make it a data section, but I think the compiler folks' answer to that would probably be "use a linker script". And I don't know a way to disable the warning.
Good tip. I recently did some research on email with free custom domain (well, really just googling and visit the first results) and did not know about them.

So for the moment I'm using zoho.com.
If you use PGP it doesn't matter where you host, right? If you're concerned about local officials having access to your data I don't think it's much worse than Google scanning my email to better target ads or "just to remind me" that I'm going at X or Y place in Z days.
> There are no constitutional restrictions on what can be taught in schools.

There are Constitutional restrictions on both what government can cause to be taught in public schools and the techniques which government can direct be used to teach those things, arising through the various provisions of the Constitution that constrain the powers of States, particularly the 14th Amendment.
Once you're dead, is it really "your" body anymore? Religious superstitions aside, I've never understood why anyone cares what happens to their meat sack when they no longer inhabit it.
Yeah, I always find it amusing when people find russia and china on a lower moral/ethical ground when everything on american soil is equally watched and processed. if not by nsa, it's for ads.
You may not get all teary but let's remember why US has had to keep a such massive arsenal and expand so much energy globally. It was to counter Nazi Germany, Russia, and Japanese Empire.

Before WW1 and WW2, US was indeed a 2nd tier nation but they were quite happy.

And don't forget, corporate masters are everywhere, not just in US.
Of course, it is the first version. I wanna more issues :)
Ow. That's pretty painful. Let me explain. You claim that 99.99% of the population is really dumb. You use Wolfram as an example of someone in the 0.01% who squandered their talent. This shows that being in 0.01% percent won't necessarily give you a strong advantage, and the advantages you get are easy to squander.

You than say:

>It turns out that human nature is such that being really smart doesn't give you a high probability of being right about things, especially when the truth is not favorable to you, just a slightly better one.

So if being smart won't help you much with being right about things, and there are other skills that can better help you be right about things (there are), than optimizing for intelligence isn't a reasonable goal, because there are other abilities you can optimize for which would give you a greater advantage.

What did I miss?