skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair to yourself, kids often disappoint their parents, but this is more on the parents.

An anecdote: My dad was driven nuts by how much time I wasted as a kid and teen on gaming, and how it seemed that I had few productive interests,never built anything, and stopped projects as soon as I got bored.. He wanted me to be obsessed with something, but few teens are obsessed with anything but not being lonely, social interactions more generally, and just following a random walk exploration. Dad never won those fights to make me serious then.
But you know what? As an adult, I am quite different. I am now a post doctoral fellow conducting cutting edge neuroscience, having completed numberous complex, long-term research programmes that have required obsession, grit, and a determination to perfect his craft.

If your kids can avoid the usual pitfalls (e.g. a serious drug addiction) Im sure all your efforts will come into fruition when they are ready to committ themselves.

Today I buy my son Rasberry Pie's, laptops with GameMaker installed, etc hoping he too will find an obsessio. But he too resists i.e. stops as soon as he is bored.

C'est la vie
> Really, spotting your name on a petition isn't mass surveillance.

No. The goal of a petition is to show support for a course of action, and in this context, exercising freedom of speech in a democracy.

Taking the list of people who signed a petition, assigning a "risk score" to them because of their activism, storing it in a database for the future, and using that as a means to make decisions that affect those individuals freedoms is exactly the purpose of mass surveillance. In isolation, for one petition or one activity, it is a sensible thing. As a general practice it promotes the notion of thought-crime or pre-crime in which an individuals freedoms are curtailed because the individuals exercise of their freedoms is unpalatable to either the elected officials, or the entrenched bureaucracy.
I don't see how this is getting "his wish, in the worst way".

Wasn't one of their stated goals "to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport?" (https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you)

It sounds like that goal is finally starting to become successful. We should all be grateful at the economic pressure Tesla applied to change the market. I hope that our next milestone is to see more EV sold than Combustion vehicles.
Do you not think that kids experience awkwardness? Isn't that how this conversation started?

(Have we learned nothing from The Breakfast Club? :)
How does it compare to the most popular cars in Europe?

VW Golf https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/VW...

Ford Fiesta https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Fo...

VW Polo https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/VW...

Renault Clio https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/20...

Opel / Vauxhall Corsa https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Op...

Peugeot 208 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Pe...

Nissan Qashqai https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Ni...

Opel / Vauxhall Astra https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/20...

Ford Focus https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Fo...

Skoda Octavia https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Sk...

Fiat Panda https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/20...

Peugeot 308 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/20...

Renault Captur https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/20...

Audi A3 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/20...

VW Passat https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/20...

Toyota Yaris https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/20...

Fiat 500 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/%2...

Peugeot 2008 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Pe...

Opel / Vauxhall Mokka https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Op...

Skoda Fabia https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/De...

Dacia Lodgy https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Lo...

Or in Japan.

Toyota Aqua (Prius C) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/20...

Honda Fit (Jazz) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/20...

Nissan Note https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Ni...

It looks like it fits between those cars.
Not a post, but a comment.

I can't find it right now, but it lead me to purchase the book "Permutation City" which is now one of my favourite novels because of the way it comings CS, philosophy, and writing that isn't stilted like a lot of the stuff you find in this realm.

The reason I can't find the comment is that there are pages and pages of them that mention Permutation City on Google. See for yourself, Google:

permutation city site:ycombinator.com
Spending 30% or 40% of your family's income on a car is bad financial planning.

If "the narrative" indicates you "should" be able to spend that much, you need a new narrative. Ideally one that will not send you into penury.
He says he's just slightly north of $100k (six figures) which I assume somewhere around $125. I'm certain he can get a similar salary in many parts of the country if he's a good SRE, at the very least: Seattle, Portland, Phoenix, Dallas, Austin, DC, NYC, Philadelphia, Boston, San Diego, LA (those are the markets I'm familiar with from my job searches). Other cities might be slightly lower, but still right around $100k. Compared to the difference in cost of living (a few hundred percent now), it's essentially the same salary as the bay area most anywhere else without the expenses.
I remember being bullied several times as a kid for being the short, very slim nerd.

But being a victim, do you want to sign up to an app? I had to learn it the hard way to get myself out of it.

That being said I also know I ended becoming a bully out of revenge. A vigilante bully.
They must constrain the AI to effectively only "click" on things at a rate and as far apart from the last thing clicked on such that a human could do it with a mouse
more along the lines of: the government that can't seem to make anything cheap ever and that is mostly lying and full of shit all the time wants control of my WHAT?
Would you ask this question using more words, please?
To be CLEAR: You can shut off your voice history being tied to your Google account, but if you use Google Voice Search, Google owns your voice recordings. Turning off the history merely means they permanently keep all recordings of you with anonymous identifiers.

Keeping your history on, allegedly, means you can delete them manually, if you remember to, but turning your history off guarantees you can never tell them to delete the recordings, and they still keep them.
True. That was also the first time in forty years that such an incident had occurred. The officers responsible were relieved of their commands; the enlisted personnel involved were retrained and in some cases demoted; the entire command structure around nuclear-armed formations was reworked to reduce the likelihood of future such incidents. What about this response strikes you as having been ineffective?
He didn't mass-dump like Wikileaks does though; Greenwald has been dripping out the vetted content over time..
It's even scarier than that. Both Google and Facebook got into politics. Both were caught manipulating results to favor their political allies.

Even if you like the politicians they have today it's still a serious issue. A huge step towards an Orwellian Nightmare.
I've told the story many times. It can happen anywhere. It was an unscrupulous group of people in it solely for the money primarily selling to people like NSA. The target wasn't popular with anyone. Guy running it was offered some cash to sabotage the equipment of that target to help a major customer. "Happy to oblige!"

My endorsement of Switzerland is about legal jurisdiction, culture that respects privacy, and stability. Well-intentioned owners won't be forced to do the kinds of things we see in America or Russia. At worst, it will be something selective with a warrant. A nice foundation to build on.
Who said anything about the United States not being authoritarian?

This is the problem with these uninformed, emotionally-driven debates about ideologies; everybody thinks it's "me vs you", rather than trying to understand anything in depth.
What if all my friends get this app and I suddenly find myself sitting alone at lunch with the realization that I'm an asshole?
I have some ideas that probably fit that description. But does the "lean startup" concept still not fit? In other words, is the MVP feasible alone, developed to a point where it can be announced and tested by real users, and possibly gain popularity and possibly income, and ultimately facilitate the necessary growth?
> what would the risk be for me to sign this?

You could end up in prison. It's not likely, but it's possible. Signing this petition could get your name on a secret list of people who are likely terrorist sympathizers, and that in turn could lead to your arrest on trumped-up charges, or perhaps even non-trumped-up charges based on coincidental circumstances that would never have been noticed had you not signed. There are also a whole host of other less serious possible consequences. You could end up on the no-fly list. You could be denied a government job. Who knows?

And that is exactly why you must sign. Ed Snowden put a lot on the line so that we can know for sure that we are facing risks like this, and possibly even do something about it. The least we can do IMHO is to take a small risk to help him come home. That's why I signed (and made a modest donation).
If anything, the new price point for the Dot and the fact that the Tap has been on sale for $99 recently could presage a lower price point for the Echo this holiday season.
Relavent to this smaller/longer distance airplane conversation:

http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/09/boeing-737-max-jets-wil...
GCHQ planning UK-wide DNS ‘firewall’
But doesn't this business model entirely eliminate someone's income to be cheaper?

Is a total elimination better or worse than a reduction? I don't have an answer, and I see good arguments for each side...
Try again. Take the effort, and then try to promote it and help other people do the same.
Chelsea Manning needs it more, and in my opinion is just as much deserving of a pardon. I wish Manning was getting more attention and pressure for a pardon.
This is a good point. But Google's services make a person a more powerful agent compared to others: one can navigate quicker, find better services and access information faster and more accurately.

So yes, there is a trade off. But humans have been making trade-offs forever - civilization itself is one big compromise. Domesticating cattle meant human could not move as quickly and as fast as they used to. But they lived better and longer.

I don't see why information trade-offs are somehow different.
"They seem to have learned the habit of cowering before authority even when
not actually threatened. How very nice for authority. I decided not to
learn this particular lesson." -- Richard Stallman (http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/109)
You can put Trump at non-zero because of his very random behavior.
It's not necessary in practice for everyone to be equally inclusive to everyone, just that for every person there is adequate inclusion from someone.
If you are doing something illegal, never comment your code.
If we are into comments anyway, the "comeback of all times"[0] is a winner, a reminder to treat all those pseudonymous or even semi-anonymous handles carefully : )

[0]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
This is rich. James Clapper says the rule of law is under assault, which is true. He's a notable assailant! He hasn't been indicted for perjury, and the CIA is spying on Senate oversight, for starters.
Oh sure, but that wasn't the surprising bit, the surprising bit was that the exact same thing (same brand, same ingredient, same strength) was 10x the price.
"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way." Marcus Aurelius (from his Meditations)
The Goldsboro crash didn't came "close" to a detonation, the result of the crash were that all but 1 of the fail safes that would prevent it from going off were damaged, it doesn't mean that it would be able to detonate if the last one would have failed too from the crash.

The detonation sequence of the nuke isn't just the conventional explosive part it's also the nuclear trigger itself (a fast neutron source) which has to fire at the exact time and power levels while the casing is still intact and can be used as a neutron reflector.

Without that even if the core goes critical it would not detonate (might result in a fizzle if the core is really big) but it would go very hot and melt down.

"one point safe" is a metric in which the US measures the nuclear explosion due to accidental detonation, anything above 4 lbs of TNT doesn't count as one point safe, this however doesn't mean that any none one point safe weapons can be detonated at full yield or anything close to that.

So yes I would still stand by the fact that there is absolutly "zero" chance of an accidental damage to a weapon to bypass all the PAL's and other failsafes and initiate a nuclear triggering which would result in a substantial yield detonation.
With modern weapons it's even less likely since technically modern designs can be considered "subcritical" (under normal pressures and conditions) and only undergo fission when they are configured properly via boosting/salting and neutron management, this is how you get "dial a yield weapons".
My guess is the insurer will get a rebate at the end of the year from the drug manufacturer based on volume discount.
Great read. This has been debated in Latin America for many years. Apparently, the only country where the presidential system works is the USA. And it only works because the elites work extra hard to make sure that it works. But the political system has been deteriorating in the later years. More and more polarization.

Furthermore, that piece was written in Oct 2015. The author had no knowledge of surrealistic world in Sept 2016.
the world isn't fair and what's fair and what's right are rarely the same thing.
موعد مباراة روما و فيكتوريا بلزن القادمة في الدوري الأوروبي والقنوات الناقلة
The problem is that it is not actually a free market. The government grants monopolies to prescribers, restricting access that way, and to drug manufacturers, through the FDA, directly or indirectly (it's crazy to me that the government grants these monopolies and then complains when businesses take advantage of them financially). Then you have the insurers, who are not actually the beneficiaries of the product and who are therefore not in a position to fully judge the benefit:cost ratios of the products.

To me, the problem is lack of competition. The government should remove or sharply curtail licensing laws, or expand them to other professions substantially, and eliminate or loosen drug schedules (the new kratom fiasco is just one example of many spanning decades of how inept the government is at regulating substances). Basically, decriminalize and deregulate drugs completely. Let the FDA focus on purity and rigorous testing and education, but take away its regulatory authority beyond that. Let pharmacies produce more drugs, and get the government in the business of producing drugs. Nothing will drive down drug prices faster than a public entity producing drugs in competition with private corporations. Give tax incentives to businesses for producing or researching drugs in the public interest.

It's madness to think that somehow problems with overregulation and monopolies are going to be solved by increasing regulation and monopolies.
Interesting analysis. I've thought about this from a tax, interest rate, and transactional approach.

Although we often think of landlords and renters in an adversarial way, they might be able to work out a deal that is better for everyone than selling and transferring ownership to the new residents, especially in California.

Think about an an heir to a house in palo alto, a house that her parents purchased in 1970. She doesn't really want to live in it, and is deciding if she should rent it out or sell.

Let's also say that her parents were wise about refinancing and did so when rates were very low. Because prop 13 preserves the low taxes through inheritance, her taxes are extremely low, and would skyrocket if she sells. Furthermore, let's say interest rates have gone up, so whoever takes out the new mortgage will pay a higher rate. Alternatively, if rates are low, she can most likely refinance and pull some money out. If she's smart about this, she can remain cash flow positive and still have a large chunk of money without selling.

In some ways, it just doesn't make sense to sell. It might make sense, at this point, for people who own property to become permanent landlords, and for the vast majority of tenants to be renters. This might even be better for renters, since the overall cost of housing would be lower due to overall lighter taxes and interest rates.

Interestingly, that hasn't happened, so there is clearly a strong motivation to not be a landlord and/or to be an owner rather than a renter. The income tax break could be a big factor here as well - perhaps that exceeds the value of the property tax break?
> I can't find it right now, but it lead me to purchase the book "Permutation City" which is now one of my favourite novels because of the way it comings CS, philosophy, and writing that isn't stilted like a lot of the stuff you find in this realm.

If you haven't already, then don't wait to buy the rest of Greg Egan's œuvre. It was "Quarantine", a lovely plot but arguably one of his weakest stories, that got me into his work, and since then I've found no-one except possibly Ted Chiang (whose work is very different) who comes anywhere near him in the world of hard sci-fi. Almost everything of his is rewarding, and I believe a lot of it was relatively recently (within the last 5 years or so) released as e-books after a long period of unavailability. He also has generous excerpts from selected books and stories at his web-site, and—my favourite—proves his non-fiction science bona fides as a regular contributor on the n-category Café (https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/cgi-bin/MT-3.0/mt-search.cgi?Inc...).
Flivs – Agile DevOps from Uruguay at TC Disrupt SF 2016
You now have both.
As a whole Windows is not a new system nor hailed as a fresh start. Yes, there are new systems in Windows and the Universal Windows Platform is sort of a fresh start (but even then the UWP is certainly more evolutionary than revolutionary in a practical sense, ultimately still having roots way back in COM, early .NET history, and Longhorn ideals that didn't get finished in time for Vista).

At the end of the day, even Microsoft's resources aren't infinite: they can prioritize new features and tech or they can prioritize cleaning up old stuff that still works and isn't broken, and unsurprisingly many times they can't prioritize both.

I get that the little inconsistencies bug a lot of people, but it's a complex ecology of systems and they all evolve at their own rates. A truly fresh start for Windows would probably have been shutting down the Win32 subsystem altogether and they experimented with that on ARM tablets and people lost their minds; Windows' backwards compatibility swamp means that it will always be a somewhat inconsistent ecology. (Windows is much more consistent on mobile and Xbox and presumably the HoloLens where Windows 10 is less constrained by backwards compatibility ghosts.)

To bring it back on topic: complaining about where Windows 10 is now, consistency-wise, is much like the complaints when OS X released and the way Cocoa apps and Carbon apps lived side-by-side. Eventually it will be great when the Windows equivalent to Carbon apps are all gone, but with the long, long tail of Windows apps in the world and even inside Windows itself, that's going to take a while and Microsoft has much less of an ability than Apple to just fiat mandate that Win32 will end of life any time soon (at least not without angering a vast number of developers and users).
> you can write "foobar == .someEnum" if you've defined "==" for your enum type

Why wouldn't enums be equatable by default? Why rely on a user implementation of ==? Enums, even with associated data, are rather obvious values, aren't they?
How the Apple Plugs parody site went viral for free
Coffee is indeed complex. Although a great cup can be had with aeropress, drip, pour-over or even a percolator, Espresso is the ultimate form of the beverage. By "espresso" I mean the process of forcing 200F water through a properly ground dose of fresh coffee at 9 bar of pressure for about 25 seconds for a doubleshot. Anything that DOESN'T do that may very well make a fine cup of coffee, but it ain't espresso.

Making espresso at home, however, continues to be elusive if you have high standards. The nespresso capsule machines do an OK job but the consumable cost is high and you can't do much to customize it. "prosumer" espresso machines can be hit-or-miss (mostly miss). You really have to tweak stuff to get it right and this includes spending more money than you would think on the proper grinder. Some folks resort to hacking their modest Gaggia's into something greater than the sum of its parts by using PID temperature control (http://www.home-barista.com/espresso-machines/almost-done-ha...). I have a Gaggia and hope to mod it someday when the wife is on a long work trip.

A while back there was an INFAMOUS kickstarter campaign for an attractive, easily hackable PID controlled espresso machine (the ZPM, I think, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zpmespresso/pid-control...). It never delivered and pissed a lot of people off (see NYT article, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/magazine/zpm-espresso-and-...).

I think there's room in the market for a home espresso machine that outperforms current prosumer models... but it is a difficult project!
Couldn't this also be used by the bullies? I mean they could put a spot open and then when the kid approaches the spot, bully them away and embarrass them.
That's step 1. Once people get confortable then you move onto the next step.

Even lane following is not an easy problem.
Autospace Bootstrap columns on small screens
I think "async functions" are peak async handling. That is either a function returns synchronously, or returns a promise. Anything more feels like fiddling.
Thanks for clarifying the point re module evaluation not being sequential – that would seem to break some fundamental guarantees about execution order, but I guess that's a separate discussion. The point stands that your entry point has to wait until each of its dependencies and each of their dependencies (&c) have finished before your app can start, and it unavoidably slows down module loading.

> This is basically the same old argument against `await` itself: that it allows developers to write bad code

It magnifies the effect to a degree that isn't immediately obvious – hence footgun. Users are the ones who will suffer, therefore it's right that we exercise some restraint.
Can you elaborate on what makes IIS a nightmare? What version(s) are you referring to? What other HTTP servers are you using as your basis for comparison?
Envelope, fastest way to publish a web app from PostgreSQL on GitHub
Come on, authoritarian and totalitarian aren't that much longer than socialist. There is no need to write an essay.

You would never think of signing such a petition in Pinochet's Chile or Stroessner's Paraguay and those weren't socialist.