skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like our measure of GDP needs to be narrower. For example, why are legal services revenues included in GDP? In theory, value created by the legal industry should already be reflected in the real economy. If two companies enter into a joint venture to produce widgets, in reliance on the legal system enforcing their joint venture agreement, that will be directly reflected in additional widgets being produced. But the cost of paying people to draw up the contracts is a transaction cost that should be excluded from GDP. Similar reasoning can be applied to the financial system. If two companies rely on financing to jumpstart the joint venture, the value created by the financial system will be reflected in the production of widgets. The investment banking fees and interest are transaction costs that should be excluded from GDP.

Of course, doesn't the same reasoning apply to everything that isn't consumption? For example, any value created by Google Search should be reflected in the productivity of the real economy. Any revenues to Google from search should be excluded from GDP, right?

It's not like GDP doesn't have other major flaws. For example, after Fukushima, Japan's GDP went up due to rebuilding. I.e. GDP is susceptible to the broken window fallacy!
Have more faith in European engineering and regulation, it's something we excel at :-)

There are 9 grades of lighting, ranging from that required on a motorway interchange, through urban motorways, rural motorways, major roads, etc, to residential areas.

Here's the relevant standard: http://vili.pmmf.hu/~mate/oktatas/VilTech_levelez%F5/EN13201... (BS = British Standard, but EN = European Norm, so the British Standard implements the European Standard. [I think that's how it works.])

This is the code of practise for Britain: http://persona.uk.com/orga46newark/ha_docs/disposit_docs/dd1...

The "Manual for Streets" has an overview, from p120: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

(Similar documents should exist for every EU country, but the British ones are in English and easiest to find with Google.)
I don't think a kid would be intentionally optimizing anything in this situation. So if you mean that creativity is not only a tool to be used conciously, I agree.

I just mean I think it's difficult to argue that anything we humans do can be viewed as anything else but problem solving.

So in the case of the kid there might be millions of direct reasons (e.g., boredom > want to solve that), but I think it would still be possible to map any of them to some form of problem > effect or cause > effect relationship. Nothing happens without a reason (without religious connotation).
In addition the telemarketers, I wasted a bunch of time listening to Lenny. This is amazing! Thanks!

Edit: I love his ducks
In exits we trust. All others must bring validation.

If you've built, executed and exited then your "idea" is more likely to be trusted. Others have to try harder.

Them that gots is them that gets
> you can argue pedantically

This isn't a minor detail, it's actually quite important.

> perpetuating the seeming belief that the civil war had nothing to do with slavery

Don't put words in my mouth, that's not what I said and I would appreciate it if you'd be a bit more intellectually honest here. The South seceded because they were convinced Lincoln would work to end slavery. They did not secede because abolition actually happened.
Enlighten us with the proper usage of the word hacker?
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Ok, but there are other less ambitious questions you can answer within the paradigm of economics. What are the losses caused by the current system vs an alternative according to a specific welfare measure?
It would be nice if you had some evidence other than your own personal ideology.
I thought spamd passive aggressively insulting spammers and tarpitting their connections was a good effort at wasting their time. This is a big step up from that.
There is a documentary about Marcel Proust that features long interviews of Cocteau, who knew him well. He seems amazed that Proust's fame grew so much bigger than his, and prudently but unmistakably talks down Proust's achievements and talents. It leaves a general impression of pettiness. He passes for an elegant man but I'm not sure he was one.
Ask HN: Someone uses stock trading as passive income?
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Still not even wrong
Lol. You can bet your ass that the BND is far more active then anything the Swiss do. They regularly work with forign agencies and do exchanges. They sit right at the largest network hub in europe. There is also little democratic insight into the BND, as the public is excluded from all hearings.
The comparison is really apples and oranges:
1. One is in the center of a job district where you can often walk to work (Manhattan) and the other (Sunnyvale) has some jobs but is generally 30min to 120min from the center-of-gravity of jobs.
2. How much do you value your time? I'd pay that much in Manhattan because it would allow me to spend 2.5h more per day with my family (when I worked in Manhattan, i strolled to work)
3. Property taxes are generally higher in CA, as is upkeep and insurance on these homes
4. You need 2 cars in Sunnyvale generally, but in Manhattan you can live very comfortably w/o cars and overspend on the apartment.

There are so many things that make this an apples-to-oranges comparison, the above list is not comprehensive.
Chelsea Manning's 14 days in solitary for suicide attempt is 'cruel and inhuman'
I think you're missing a bit of jargon. A transfer (wealth transfer) is one person getting richer and another poorer without either participating in economic activity. A gift of sorts. For example, social security is a transfer from workers to retirees. The nuance is that many government policies result in transfers indirectly. For example, the mortgage interest tax deduction sounds like a transfer from taxpayers to home buyers, but its real effect is a transfer to home sellers, which is slightly different. Not surprisingly, many government policies are indirect transfers from the general population to capital holders and the elderly, because that's who give money and vote.
The best smartphone is the one you already own
There are those who do. Even without patents. They leverage the internet/publicity/rpost etc to deter intellectual theft and also learn who to talk to and how at companies, leaping over those barriers. There's a book reference here I'd like to drop but I don't have it handy.

Few ideas are easily patent protected, plus it's easier to improve execution than the quality of one's ideas - so you're always advised to do what's easier. (First off, at least.)

Note too that "Execution" is often a way of saying "patentable ideas that you can hide instead of patenting them" - which is to say, trade secrets (always more valuable than patents, not least because they don't expire.) Intel was built on just such an invisible trade secret (akin to annealing) that made their memory (this is pre-cpu days) far more reliable than competitor's. So a lot of those who expound about "execution" actually mean "ideas", just non-public ideas.

The other thing that prioritizing execution says, is that people tend to have part of an idea, and not realize how much more thinking (and further patentable ideas) are necessary to make it work. Having a necessary-but-not-sufficient patent (such as Wang's 2D iron-core memory patent, back in the day) is not as valuable as a necessary-and-sufficient series of patents, or far more complex patent.

Also the system (laws for sale) is tilted so that corporations can appropriate the ideas of individuals, in many ways. They are put in a position to patent-and-execute; and individuals are short-sheeted.
This is great. At the time I had no idea how a Game Genie worked or how they'd come up with codes, though thinking about it now of course that's what they did.

I know what Mickey Mouse game they're talking about too. "Mickey's Dangerous Chase" I'm pretty sure. At least it had patrol dogs and fire hydrants, so it seems likely.
That's great, is there an app that will do this, like put it down next to your landline phone and let it answer for you?
> It's theoretically possible that this labor is now freed up to create value for lower income households.

If there is competition, then it is true that driving down food/commodities prices will create value for lower income households. But a solid portion of that value will still accrue to the companies running the transit networks using fewer people.

Google has spent years trying to enter the field of self-driving cars. So has Uber. Would not the inherent difficulty they are encountering be a barrier to entry.

I'm not arguing for throwing regulations around willy-nilly. I'm not arguing for regulations at all. I don't know enough to do that with any confidence. I'm just saying that in asking the question "Should we use the force of the state to handle some of the effects of this?", the probability of this increasing income inequality is worthy of serious consideration.
I'd buy one, so it's an unfilled niche for me. The success of android was sort of predicated on this concept that openness always wins. It's just unfortunately sort of turned out to be a bit of a bait and switch.

I've talked to Chinese companies about this idea quite a bit. The Chinese companies that have put the effort into debugging a good phone motherboard don't want to give up that IP.

However, the smartphone market is so brutal for manufacturers it seems like it's bound to happen sooner rather than later. After all, companies like Asus, Gigabyte have made plenty despite the software side of it open for years.

The impression that I've got speaking to Chinese contract manufacturers about it is that if you BYO'ed your own motherboard design, and possibly forgoed some exotic components - you could do it now.

Feel free to give me a buzz if you go down this path. If you are interested, I have a bit more feedback I can give on how you could keep costs really low. Email is in my profile.
But there exists an equilibrium: one company has all the money :)
Yes, that is quite true.

However I prefer that pain, to the lack of strong typing that C++ offers over C.

But better would be to use something else instead of C and C++, more type safe, without UB and without the wide range of implementation differences and compiler extensions.
> Why not?

Well, that's not the problem the site owners were trying to solve, and it appears that trying to solve it would impact what they are trying to do.
I hope the server gets back up quickly. Im still getting a no response error in Sydney. I'd love to read a post mortem about the issue sometime in the future.
I disagree. Lots of the founders behind companies who've shared on Indie Hackers have reached out to me with good stories about getting more users, positive feedback, relationships, etc. And I know a few people personally who've given Park.io their business in the past few days, too.

Every community is different. Park.io received nothing but love on Twitter earlier this weekend (https://twitter.com/IndieHackers/status/779330003829944320). The HN crowd is particularly cynical and prone to outrage/judgment in the comment section.

I got a similar response when I launched Indie Hackers itself in August. But despite some negative comments, most visitors loved it and 99% of the feedback I've gotten since then has been positive.
That post (aside from being overly juvenile) is pure speculation and not backed by any sort of data that would suggest that "help vampires" impact the larger community.

It's an extremely condescending and unprofessional term to refer to your less experienced users. It really betrays the core problem with the SO staff. They've gone moderation mad and see the user base as the enemy.
This would be cool. Netflix could offer an automatic daily batched download at 2:00am to get around peak times.
So it's up to the defense to introduce resonable doubt then. Such as: a plausible motive to fake the log entries. A demonstration of how easy it is to do. A convincing argument that there was an opportunity to do it.
Not even that. The company might make a bad investment, then poof no wealth anywhere.
A Simple Commodore 64 Game in C++17
For Ruby pry comes close but he's right about the inability to have the same kind of turnaround cycle when you're developing a C extension. I don't think anyone is gonna beat SBCL in that regard any time soon. There is no way to take Ruby and then generate machine code that ends up being callable from the current address space. Although I guess there is some way to do it with cffi and a compiler constantly running in the background.
Great replies, I got it now, it makes sense. Thanks to both of you!
Would you host openly racist white supremacist content? (E.g., an American Renaissance mirror?) I understand that you believe you're promoting free speech, but I'm curious where your limits actually are.
American democracy! And yet they want to export it to other countries too.

After recent wikileaks leaks, I think we can all agree how deeply corrupt system is.
But just telling someone the answer might be available somewhere else doesn't direct future traffic to the canonical question, which is the entire point of the "marked as duplicate" flag. If your question gets marked as duplicate and the question it's a duplicate of is a different question, it is not very hard to get it "re-opened". Maybe people don't know that this is true, but I think the main people having problems with questions marked as duplicates are new users where you've had very little time to educate them about what it means to have your question marked as a duplicate (basically, not much). Even if you made the "marked as duplicate" flag less obtrusive or whatever, politely saying, "Your question may have an answer at <url>" probably will get interpreted as "RTFM", and called user-hostile as well.

As an aside, my only experience with having a question marked as a duplicate happened on a sister SE site - it was my first post there, I asked a question, then after posting I found the answer in one of the "related questions" links on the sidebar. I answered my own question with a link to the other question and a description of the answer I found there, then flagged my own post as a duplicate. Both the question and answer were highly upvoted.
That's an awfully large list of domains for "hidden" telemetry. Hard to imagine why all of those would be specified for that. e.g. Some of those are just landing pages.

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Understanding evdev
It's really interesting how little time it is before things become disjointed. Recently working with some legacy code I noticed this. Usually I have a continuous unit testing process which normally is < 4 seconds to give feedback. I had to wrap some tests around some legacy code, which required some expensive setup which added an extra 10 seconds. I really feel pained working with that code and the extra 10 seconds. It is just enough time for the brain to drift off somewhere else.

Ironic when in the past I have worked with C++ code bases that would take 20 minutes to compile, though incremental builds and parallel builds brought that number down.

Also in embedded systems, I've got 3 minute cycles to try something out. However most of the coding is done on a PC with a fast unit testing cycle which dramatically improves feedback loops.
It seems to me you aree providing a perfect example here:

From what I can see you did not read the post you answered to (Is it inevitable that two different questions with different answers will be marked duplicates of each other, for example?), yet you hand out the answer like the ones we criticise for rubber stamping "duplicate" etc.
I would've thought that scaling was a fair way down the list. Don't scale prematurely is one mantra commonly mentioned.

It's also question that needs to be better defined. What sort of site? What definition of success?

For many sites, the biggest pieces are having something that people want or need, then consistently providing it. Of that pairing, having something people want is the absolute core.
Can you go into more details? Why did something take 30 minutes or longer to build? Was the environment being cleaned every time? Was an artifact server not being used?
They must enjoy making you pay for something that has virtually no cost. My ISP charges for stuff like displaying the caller ID or checking the last number on the landline phone.
I look forward to when this lands on PostgreSQL 9.7 without the need for an extension. But more so when I can also include the Citus DB extension.

Running CitusDB with just 1 master made me nervous. They did talk about having multi-master replication as a belt and braces solution, but I don't know how far they got.

Thinking about this. Both being used may give you a 100% fully fault tolerant solution?
And this effect is why Trump will do far better than polls suggest. Lots of people will vote for him, but are afraid of saying so for fear of losing their jobs
keyegn + cp don't do everything. Unless the distribution and session killing is automated, you can't easily revoke access. Of course you could implement this fairly easily with {chef/puppet/salt/ansible/...} and ldap, but it requires time / bandwidth. This is what userify seems to give you.

I'm not saying it's a good solution though. I agree that it's giving someone full access to your whole environment and it's a bad idea.
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This is like asking "what is that one deciding factor that makes a small business successful?"

It is too broad and so there is no one deciding factor. You don't even have a clear definition of success. Is http://lawcomic.net/ successful? It has a loyal following, but it doesn't update that much, or earn much money for its creator.
One of the problems with SO, though is that frequently, once you get one ranty idiot tearing a hole into you for being so stupid as to ask a question they have personal problems with, you're stuffed.

Because once it receives one downvote, you'll get pile-on downvotes, particularly if it's an entertainingly abusive rant; which means that nobody will ever see it again. And you can't change the wording and repost, because you know that there will be people who will notice that it's a repost, and then it gets even worse.

You will never get help with that question, because of one ranty idiot.

And if you try to complain, the official response from the moderators is to suck it up and deal [paraphrased slightly].

Not that I'm bitter, or anything.
Why is that dude's face is masked?
Facebook disables accounts of Palestinian editors
I take your point if they were actually using our bandwidth to launch attacks. That's not what's happening here. Instead, they're putting marketing sites behind us. I'm not sure where the line gets drawn:

• A site that actively encourages 3rd parties to launch attacks

• A Twitter account that takes requests on sites that people want DDoSed

• A phone number that you can call and request attacks get launched

• A blog that provides instructions on how to launch attacks

• A company that sells boxes that facilitate oppressive regimes censoring the Internet

• The political sites of the oppressive regimes themselves

• A search engine that includes DDoS for hire sites in its index

Agree that if there's something that is per se harmful then the choice is easy. What's hard is that the universe of per se harmful is pretty small.
There are mountains of evidence. Though none, I suspect, that will rock you off your little throne.

Edit: I should have made this comment with more tact and empathy, and maybe have been a whole load more hearable for it.
Why? Video game economies are already bigger than many real world nations. If enough of us live in the video game world, game labor has value.
LOVED my Action Replay. That was really clever - apart from infinite lives, you could also pull out the sprites.

I feel like we live in similar times any time I see a good javascript game!
"In the 1800's, having children was a net asset because they were put to work as soon as they could walk"

You are expanding upon my example without explaining it. My point remains: has the standard of living gone up? If people could do productive work at the age of 10, but now they have to wait till they are 25, then what metric do you use to prove that the standard of living has gone up? If you want to argue that leisure has expanded, can you prove that the expansion of leisure is entirely experienced as a positive thing? Are young men happier now that they can't find good paying work till they are in their late 20s, rather than finding such work in their late teens?

It remains true that it was easier to raise children 100 years ago than it is now. Is there a metric that shows this as a decline in the standard of living?

My point is that there is a lot that is left out of these metrics. A simplistic look at median wage and the Consumer Price Index suggests that the male median wage peaked in 1973 and family income peaked in 1999. But if you were to measure those factors that are specific to raising a family, the decline in the standard of living, for families, would show up earlier than 1999.

As to the "half the children died" argument, the steepest part of the decline in childhood death was 1850 to 1900. Of the 16 children my great grandmother gave birth to, 15 lived till at least their 18th birthday.
"With the Addams Family game for example, Fred just couldn't locate where the game stores the lives or any useful value - the only thing he managed to do was lock the jump button on, so your character was permanently and uselessly leaping about the level. We submitted this to Codemasters QA as 'unlock pogo stick mode', and they accepted it."

Awesome bit of marketing right there!