skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I had basically every Motorola DROID with a keyboard. Until Google bought the company and killed off the DROID 5 which was late stage in development because "keyboards are obsolete".
There are plenty of senior dev jobs in London that pay far more than that. I passed that level in London 15 years ago. At that time I had about 6 years experience.

It depends much more on niche, how well your market yourself, and what type of companies you work for.
> The way Democrats are running their campaign they are the real threat to democracy.

Yes, this exactly. While Trump is out there making lewd, offensive, or ignorant statements, the Clinton campaign and the Democratic party are actually carrying out actions that threaten the integrity of our democratic process. It's sad that all of those things are just from the newest leak. Way too much collusion amongst the party, the campaign, superpacs, the media, and outside interests. All of this makes it nearly impossible for the public to make an informed decision.
>I think the another issue with most of these "for kids" environments is that they have low ceilings of mastery

A modern GUI OS for adults has a very low ceiling of mastery. I don't know why we need to make simpler designs. When my kid was literally fourteen or fifteen months he could pick up a phone or tablet, swipe to the youtube app, press it, and then press the thumbnails from a recently viewed video and watch videos (usually Peppa Pig).

Kids don't need dumbed down displays. We already have dumbed down displays for adults. This reminds me of why the OLPC failed so badly. Even ignoring the cheap netbook competition, the interface was too 'top down' academic crap about 'how kids think' and involved a lot of shoddy assumptions on how to teach kids how to use a computer. A netbook with XP was perfectly usable by even the very young.

I was 6 or so I could use my parent's TRS-80 and was writing fun little BASIC programs with it. I think we need to give kids more credit here. They're much smarter than we think and its adult hubris to pretend they're so unintelligent and unable to figure things out on their own. Perhaps we shouldn't shy away from overly-challenging kids. The recent trends of 'soft' and 'helicopter' parenting cannot be good for the long run. I plan to be somewhat tough with my son because I don't want him to grow up into some of the people I work with who have near zero self-learning and critical thinking skills and have a 'give me fish' mentality and will actively fight against a 'teach me to fish' mentality.
What do you need the space for?
"Online editions offer a 'less-than-satisfactory' reading experience, she writes, cluttered with intrusive ads and hampered by poor design."

Our local newspaper's Web site is terrible. It's not just lack of investment; they rolled out a new HTML5 Web site that demonstrates to me that bad HTML5 is the worst-yet flavor of bad HTML.

But this doesn't mean that the strategic error was digital news; it means the strategic error was making a terrible Web site.
There's at least three proverbial sayings that apply here, one of which is hundreds of years old and another that is at least 2,000.

But as a 2 year old article on this very topic put it: "The decision shows that communities ultimately are the property of the companies that run them, not the members who supply their content." - 'Panoramio founders try persuading Google not to kill site', CNET, 24 Sep 2014 (https://www.cnet.com/news/panoramio-founders-try-persuading-...)
Because a house costs you 200k instead of 400k
Why are new phones so large? I'm stuck on iPhone 5S because everything newer is so damn big.
I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that 140 Chinese characters contains way more information than 140 Latin characters. Then again, even Weibo raised its character limit to 2000 characters.
Google Pixel review: A very good phone by Google
I've had to do that once. I got denied short term medical insurance because they said I had diabetes (this is before Obamacare).

I've never had diabetes. I called my doctor and it turned out they coded one of my visits wrong and said I had diabetes, and it had been in everyone's system for at least a couple of years. Wonderful. Got it fixed, at least.
The V20 is just as horribly expensive as the Pixel.
On the trails, sure, but a short way off of even the busiest trails you could go an extremely long time without seeing anyone, especially in areas that don't allow hunting.

For example, this woman died after weeks spent lost just near the Appalachian Trail: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/05/25/hiker-who-died-...
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Wouldn't be surprised to see Apple unveil something similar to Daydream in the next year or two.
Almost everyone that I know that isn't comfortable putting private data available for the world to see when there are security exploits.

Also, not all of us live in areas where the Internet is available 100% of the time at cheap connection rates.
LG phones are one of the most repairable out there. Could easily taken it a apart and replace the mic yourself.
What does the research on computer literacy (if any) say about the appropriate time to introduce these things? I don't think a five year old will be tremendously behind. UI literacy probably comes from mapping UIs to things you are familiar with in the real world. Command line literacy comes from knowing how to read, type, and organize information.
The data is ambiguous as presented. The chart footnote says "Overall hours per person, not just for people with jobs incorporating time at work along with retirement, vacation, unemployment, and other time spent out of the workforce." which does not tell me if it counts children and is still vague about whether it includes adults who have no intention or desire to find a job.

The data given is in the article is far too sparse to draw any conclusions from. I hope the paper it's based on is more explicit and careful.
It was submitted to Apache by MIRACL Labs, so seems appropriate, if not creative.
Legislation to support startups
The N900 was great, but I've basically given up hope for one of those. My favorite was a OnePlus One for some time - it was too big and had some shortcomings, but it was a fast phone with superb CM support from day 1.

I flirt with the idea of getting a FairPhone 2 [1] again and again, because it seems a Good Idea and they seem to encourage ports to other platforms (i.e. there were rumors about a Jolla port).

1: https://www.fairphone.com/
If you believe Robert Scoble, iPhone 8 is going to have like desktop-grade VR. Now mind you, I don't believe Robert Scoble, but the claim has been made, as if it was fact.
Probably a while yet. Here are a few cloud services I use that have outlived most applications I've ever had, except for unix command line tools and Photoshop and Word: gmail, flickr, Reddit, deviant art, Facebook, hacker news, stack overflow,...

Of course, I've had to purchase new versions of any applications I wanted to keep running, if the new versions were available, which in some cases weren't. I was pretty sad when my outdated version of Shake would no longer run on OSX.

It certainly shouldn't go without being pointed out that we are comparing apples to oranges. Cloud services on the whole gereally provide different values and different kinds of features than local apps.
Working more means more income only insofar as it's pretty hard to get promoted if you're working 40 hours and everyone else is working 80 even if you're better producer.
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Nine Millions of Domain Names Are “Just Numbers”
> Who has only one agenda instead of a mixture of many voices and ideals?

I think you've nailed the value proposition of newspapers and other hand-curated services here. When dealing with a single editorial voice their biases and a agenda are at least knowable and mostly consistent. Compare to "crowdsourcing" where the agenda and bias you get may change day to day based on bots, advertisers, scammers, and online mobs gaming the system. Likewise "deep learning" makes decisions based on an algorithm unlike that of any human and is not easily easily pinned down to a consistent agenda either.
Compassion is good, but projecting human ideas of suffering onto robots is the sort of thinking that gets you knitting sweaters for poor freezing penguins.
"The Pixel is the first Google phone built from top to bottom"

The others were built bottom-up?
Does anyone else find it weird that you click and drag in the opposite direction you (well I) would expect, considering that the cursor becomes a hand that grabs?
"Efficient" here does not imply "economic viability," which the original article suggests is out of reach for this technique.

Should click-baity science articles be flagged on HN? I don't know.
Except iPhone has 5 years updates.
The NSA will be delighted...
I feel like the hype around deep learning is slowly spreading to all "deep [Noun Phrase]" phrases.
In the past at least you could have pointed to Twitter as having a strong commitment to free speech, but that has completely evaporated.
So move back to Europe after five years in SV and buy the house in cash.
In American culture education-related jobs are to be aspired to and vocational-related jobs are looked down upon. Just observing, not propagandizing.

Therefore school vocational activity is socially inferior to school educational activity.

The best (only?) way to teach vocational skills is to practice them. Carpenters do not learn the dovetail joint by reading books but by making a hundred or so by hand. It works pretty well for vocational skills such as carpentry, arithmetic, and coding. But, vocational work is what social inferiors do at school.

Kids on an education path should not be tainted by experiencing prole life such as homework therefore Americans generally don't like homework for social class reasons.

Adding to the fire, higher math is educational, lower arithmetic is vocational grinding. Kids are going to spend most of their school time in "math" doing vocational grinding. Vocational work is prole and we are all socialized by our culture to hate vocational work so obviously the result is "I hate math". Meanwhile people who haven't learned arithmetic in 30 years think of all of math as educational experiences in topology theory in grad school or whatever and mistakenly think kids math is just like their last grad school math class, all deep thought and reasoning and education, therefore vocational grinding is inappropriate, although ironically its the best way to learn that early subset of the field. Its simultaneously true that grinding homework like a prole is an inefficient way to learn topology in grad school and a good way to learn addition in first grade.

All you need to do to change American attitudes toward homework is upend the entire socioeconomic system and how culture views the socioeconomic system. Until then expect to hear a lot of "my kid gets too much homework" and "I don't like math". And people outside American culture will continue to be confused, and American kids will generally graduate somewhat innumerate compared to other cultures that have different hangups. Which results in a lot of crooks selling snake oil that'll fix everything "silver bullet style" if only we put bibles in school or fill in more scantron tests. And much like programming, WRT school and learning there is no silver bullet.
The keywords are "professional developers".
If you can explain the mechanism behind the manifestation then you can understand why it isn't real.

To me it's the understanding of why it isn't real that makes it not real. If you don't understand why the things you are brutalizing aren't real then you might as well be brutalizing small animals and I think it should be verboten until you are able to understand the consequences (or lack thereof) of your actions.

We are happy to brutalize animals for food or exterminate them as pests, but it's illegal to do it for pleasure (with many details and caveats). Going back to my long dormant religious education this is because how you treat powerless animals reflects the standards for how you will treat powerless humans. Society has a vested interest in keeping boundaries intact.

I would not hesitate to engage in all kinds of experimental and trolling behavior in Westworld confident in the knowledge that this is not how I would treat living creatures. I'm a gamer so exploring virtual worlds and systems in unconventional ways is just part of the fun. Putting those systems into meatspace sans meat doesn't change that.

So if we could explain consciousness would that mean brutalizing humans would be ok? I ask this as person with no religious beliefs (agnostic). I don't get at all how the organic matter in my skull results in what I (and I assume others) perceive as consciousness.

I would say no, but not as a question of morals or ethics just as a matter of practicality. I don't want to pick a fight with the world. Even if I could explain why I feel what I feel I am still programmed for self interest and to avoid pain and I see no reason to fight that programming.
Can you not see the difference between judging people for their public positions and making it illegal for their positions to be private?
First of all, mass surveillance has nothing to do with this topic. Second, trying to meddle with encryption technologies is not the same as state regulation of encryption and prohibiting encryption, which is what France's lawmakers did in the past and tried to re-institute recently.

I'm not the kind of guy who compiles the source code himself and vets it against the audited code (who is, frankly speaking?), so I only run encryption software that has been developed by individuals and non-profit groups of individuals that do not run a private security company and that I consider trustworthy based on personal criteria.

In cryptography, private companies have proved again and again that they cannot be trusted. They invariably mess it up due to incompetence or meddling with the government (see e.g. Crypto AG as a typical example). Open source is good, of course, but it is only a necessary, not a sufficient step. Security audits will not help you at all if you download binaries from untrusted sources.

It's fine if you trust Idrix, but it's also fine and fully rational if I don't, based on what I know about France's intelligence apparatus and how they operate.

Yes, I do consider it possible with a low but significant enough subjective probability that Idrix is a government setup.
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2013/dec/19/...
MicroSD card is also extremely slow compared to phone memory. I would have paid $100 to get my Samsung phone with 128gb if they offered it vs the 128gb sd card I have.
Ah, I think this is where the confusion lies, I never meant to accuse you of ad hominem against ThomPete. Sorry if I caused confusion there.

> And no I don't want to defend Trump or Theil but rather the fundamental principle that no matter what in a democracy everyone have the right to say and mean what they want without having to fear the repercussions

I interpreted "repercussions" to mean ad hominem. Peter Theil has his reasons for supporting Trump. But I see the conversation shifting to his transitive guilt of bigotry/misogyny, as opposed to the political motivations for that support. I think this is ad hominem, as it's a focus on the moral scandal and not the political issues.
"unremovable crapware" like... Google Play Music, Google Play Movies, Google Play Books, Allo, Android Pay, Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps, Google Translate, et al.?
An Airbnb for Baby Gear On-The-Go
I really can't wait for a retro cell phone fad to be a thing.

Remember when you had to replace batteries instead of phones? Manually install SD cards? Type on that hard keyboard? Screens so small they didn't even fill a quarter of your man purse? Now you can live like a double naught!

Technology is cyclical.
The point to a more progressive tax system. If the goal is to maximize a number(GPD) then a less progressive tax system makes sense. If the goal is to maximize "total human happiness"(could use a better term here I know) you need a more progressive tax system.
Yes, they are emulating Linux kernel by translating the syscalls.
I don’t know which ones are implemented, but MS told “lxss.sys has ~235 of the Linux syscalls implemented with varying level of support. This support will continue to improve over time especially with the great feedback we get from the community.”

The underlying filesystem is NTFS, Microsoft implemented two wrappers. VolFs supports all Linux features, but not interoperable with Windows. DrvFs is limited from the Linux perspective, but interoperable with Windows, i.e. Linux apps can read and write data from Windows’ drive C.
There's at least two Americas.

If you are born middle class or with an intact family structure or immigrate, opportunity is unlimited. If you're born here poor/without a family structure, or were born in the wrong place, you're stuck in a feudal-like system.
I think (hope) we've hit the "peak phone" argument in that phones now are as flashy and hyped as they're ever going to be. Hopefully we'll see superfluous features and sparkles fade away as people start to want something that feels like a more natural extension of their person.

Her (2013) executed this well -- the in-universe "phones" looked natural and offered the same functionality as our current top-of-the-line models. (Of course, this was in a world where voice recognition and ML were more refined, but that's even more off-topic.)
So a Samsung Galaxy S7 U variant?
Wait, who are the fascists again?
I think self-control should be valued higher than self-restriction. With self-restriction I mean blocking bookmarks (hindering you), not muting the phone (removing outside distractions). To me this self-improvement through shedding responsibility is scary. It's the same for fitness tracker that tell you when to do. (I have to admit there is some grey area in between though. Some habit forming can be beneficial ((e.g. allways riding the bike to work))

Personally I like small breaks between the tasks, but only if I change work contexts anyways. Do people really have a problem just riding the flow and not heading off to hackernews mid-task (honest question)?

edit: here I especially don't get the "pomodoro" technique where you are interrupted by your own alarm every 20 min.

Btw: noisy music works wonders for me sometimes (other times it's Bach I admit, but even than: loud Bach)
It's not like we couldn't stop if the CO2 levels dropped too far.
I kept my N900 for years and years until I finally broke down and got a Nexus 5 in 2014.

I still miss it, but it's just too outdated to be usable anymore.
Which has what to do with standard of living?
3 Message Exchange Patterns for Application Integration You Should Know About
No water resistance. $200 more than the last Nexus phone for no apparent reason.
> I'd venture to say that most folks would rather use some other option than something made in China.

The device on which you typed that, where was it made?
Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris and Dennett wrote books, participated in debates, and basically reimagined atheism as a political movement. Then the question of social justice's role in atheism split the community in two via progressive purging. Splitting the community resulted in movements with significantly less political capital, and the main thinkers moved off to other projects.

It's fairly political, so even though a lot of it happened online you'll still have a hard time of getting a clear picture. "Elevator Gate" is the obvious starting search, http://www.conservapedia.com/Elevatorgate seems to be the most complete single page I can find as an introduction.
These are tricks and "hacks," which are certainly useful. But they are only band-aid fixes. The external environment will continually evolve to find new ways to blast stimuli at you. The only real defense is training your mind.
A painter creates value when they add color to a blank canvas. Some colored canvases are worth millions of dollars.
John Stuart Mill did not believe that people should be shielded from criticism, even massed criticism, for fear that they might be victimized by their own bad feels. In fact: Mill believes that the preservation of free society and ordered democracy with equal access by citizens was one of the few reasons society has to limit freedom. As luck would have it, we're here today debating the very real candidacy of a person who proposes to strip Muslims of their citizenship rights, and of someone who stood on a debate stage and proclaimed that one of his first acts as President would be to ensure the imprisonment of his political rival.

Thankfully, nobody here is suggesting that the state should limit anyone's freedom (for that, you have to go to a Trump rally). Instead, we're simply criticizing Sam Altman for endorsing Peter Thiel.

There is no appeal you will be able to make to any liberal philosopher that people should be immunized from criticism.
Am I to understand that diversity of opinion is only acceptable when all the various diverse opinions are compatible with your morality?
Here in Finland there has been recent "boom" of pensioners getting part time jobs.

They get something to do and bit of extra money. There is very little stress or risk as they can always fall back on pension. The only weird thing is that this has not happened sooner, as there is very "universal basic income" -like situation going on. It probably has something to do with overall elderly health improvements. And social perception that pensioners should be lightly sedated stay-at-home grandparents.

"Pension discouraging people from working" is at least partially load of bullshit.
Actually, standard of living is pretty heavily tied with gdp per capita, but I'm pretty sure we are talking about which country is richer not standard of living.
> I'll throw another one in there for you as well: Starship Troopers.

Yeesh, we are clearly going to have to agree to disagree.
> Racism is not just racism, sexism is not just sexism.

They are just wrong and they have no place in a modern western democracy.
Overdosing on VC: Data from Tech IPOs 2011-2015
> If the proposition was higher taxes but less overall money spent on healthcare then it's a net gain for you.

Sure it would cost less, but then I'd be on the same insurance as everyone else. That means worse quality of care for those of us who currently have something other than Medicare.
This is only because "social mobility" is in terms of percentiles, which doesn't account for differences in income variance between countries. The US has anomalously high income variance, so large changes in absolute income can equate to relatively small changes in the percentile.

To put it another way, if everyone made the same wage, an increase in salary of $1 would check the box for "social mobility" because it would move you into the top percentile.
> the majority is less rich in standard of living than most western European and nordic countries

Blatantly false (see the other comment re: GDP). With a few exceptions[0], the US is very close to the top in terms of overall standard of living.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...