skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Question to landlords: does rent control hurt your bottom line?" Of course. If rent remains constant and every year the cost of other factors such as insurance, upkeep, salaries of employees, etc. go up, eventually, the bottom line will be negative.
XKCD is always appropriate when it's relevant, pretty much. There's only etiquette for 927.
>> We do get factory worker's children in the main admission, proof that it's possible.

I don't doubt that it is possible. What I'm saying is that it is not common, nor easy. Overwhelmingly education favours the kids form the more privileged backgrounds, who can afford not only a good education, but also all the expenses of actually studying for a good education (for instance, not having to work part-time to support their studies) and who are better placed to take advantage of a good education once they graduate at whatever level (e.g. because they come from a good family and people will take care of them).

Also, France is a bit special in that higher education is cheap or even free. This is not the case in other industrialised countries, notably the USA and the UK. In the UK in particular, studying for a higher education qualification often means having to repay a student loan debt for a very long time (like in my case.

>> Life's what you make it, and society can't offset your own will.

In principle, perhaps. In practice income affects every aspect of your life. It affects the choices that are available to you, and it affects the outcomes of those choices.

For instance, if you go to a good school where good kids don't do drugs you'll be much less likely to do drugs and harm your prospects than if you go to a school in a poor neighbourhood where that thing is far more common everywhere you look. Same goes for (violent) crime and so on.

Also, it's the case that when you're poor you can't afford to fuck up even a little bit (not to mention, a whole lot). When you're rich it's much easier to get off lightly, or even get rewarded for screwing up. I have personal examples of that also, but others have discussed it. I'm looking for a source, but I think Noam Chomsky has talked about this a bit.
Not everyone reads news all the time.
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> So one way to improve HN submissions and comments is to weight points by the user's tenure on HN.

I've been on this website for quite some time and I don't honestly care about "Show HN" links. I mean, I wish the submitters all the best in the world, it's just that I'm not visiting HN in order to see who is gonna get funding or not in a year or two, I visit HN for interesting links and some interesting comments.
What do these attacks have to do with the government? My current understanding is that it was an attack against a private organization
It looks like they want to just eat bower. Tbh, if webpack or browserify can eat a tooling & dev stack, and yarn can eat bower and do package management, it would be a nice workflow.

I wouldn't want 1 tool to rule them all, but a single tooling/dev/task kit and a single dependency/pckg manager would be nice.
The lesson from this:

Just looping trough input arguments from the client, validating them and then acting on them gives the client control of the code execution.

It's not enough to validate each input argument. You musth also verify that all parameters are really there and no extra parameters can slip into the system. The whole combination must make sense. Enumerating all used parameter combinations in a record that can be changed easily is one way to solve this.
When my wife worked at Apple Canada we got to borrow a G5 tower from the company demo pool for a bit. Noisiest and hottest computer I've ever worked with. In the summer I could have the AC on full blast and the room I was in with it would be hot. And in the winter it was an effective space heater. And a super noisy fan.

PowerPC always sounded good on paper. But it was definitely a dead end for Apple.

Some rump stump of the Amiga community seems obsessed with PowerPC still for some reason.

It is nice to imagine an alternative timeline in which Apple pivoted directly to ARM instead of to x86 when the switch happened. It was only a couple or three years after the Intel switch that the iPhone came out.
The game of life meets the Dunning Kruger effect.
What problem does IPFS actually solve?
Business startup ideas are essentially experiments in economic theory.

Yet HN comments are vastly inferior to Reddit's when regarding anything to do with economics.

It didn't used to be this way, and I kind of miss the HN of old... where logic and fearlessness were valued more than affiliation or keeping up of brand appearances. I've been finding it increasingly disconcerting that the incentive here lately has been to discredit or silence (bury) comments from anybody whose opinion points out something like: yeah -- Airbnb's "business model" might be creating way more more problems than it's claiming to solve. Or that collusion in and among YC-funded companies might (or maybe should) yield some Antitrust issues. The tech commentary can be pretty good, and there are plenty of active HNers whose opinions I respect. However, it is leaning heavy on becoming selection-biased and just plain mean to anybody with an original idea.
Attacker's first attempt has a nonnegligible chance of success. Attacker can just do one attempt against one account and move to attacking a different account after each failure.
They don't count. They aren't even close to good enough to replace human drivers yet, let alone optimize traffic enough to make trains obsolete. And the fact that there is some very solid physics evidence that they won't ever be able to make trains obsolete seems like a perfect reason to invest in them.

But sure, lets not invest in big things that we really need now and in the future because AGI is only 10 years away and it will solve all of our problems this time for sure.
Great stuff! For the record: Avahi is an implementation of Zeroconf. Bonjour is another implementation from Apple. Bonjour is built into macOS. Bonjour is available for Windows too, for example it can be downloaded somewhere on apple.com. (Personally I just install Cyberduck on all Windows machines I touch - it's an open-source SFTP/FTP/block-storage client and includes Bonjour for Windows.)
I guess the whole thing hinges on Tesla producing and selling a lot of cars. Succeed and they are good, fail and it collapses. Best of luck to them.
I do feel React developers are like hardcore apple fan boy. The can't accept people criticism openly.
Have you heard of AirJaldi? - they're a not for profit that have been setting up long haul 802.11 links throughout the Indian Himalayas.

Not sure if they've reached Leh though.
Fear of a Feminist Future
My dad likes to dismiss Wikipedia, and he used to be an admin. They may just know how the sausage is made.

His rule of thumb is "If it isn't a major article there's probably errors". His favorite example is that of an article about an ancient persian poet, which says that there's only 2 of his poems known, and only 1 remains. Next to that line, there's a picture of the other poem.

Eh, who knows.
Most of the environmental impact of a car is in its manufacturing, so global warming is made worse by Tesla selling more cars instead of people buying older ones.
Yes. But keep in mind that these where in part maintenance accounts not visible to users. The areas that also need to be kept in mind are manufacturing, maintenance, repair and upgrades.
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A lot of contemporary SJWism follows Leninist, Trotskyite and Gramscian scripts. The boots on the grounds don't realise this, they are young and naive, but their leaders know exactly what they are doing.
The $400m cash flow from pre-orders is an example of it being easier to tackle hard problems than easy ones.

A lot of people would rather risk money in Tesla then make money investing in a bank or an oil company.
Absolutely disgusting behavior by Kevin. I'm kinda hoping that it's just incompetence at UpWork that caused this, and not that Kevin actually knows someone at UpWork, but in all cases that's why I stopped freelancing through UpWork and similar, and started building a solid client base which know that I'm always there to help, for the right price of course. Plus I write somewhat technical and topical blog posts about the technologies I work with (mainly video encoding, processing, P2P CDNs, etc.) and that seems to pull clients in easier than it would be using UpWork.
I've had the misfortune to work with a Java developer who insisted he didn't know JavaScript and therefore wouldn't ever touch JavaScript code even if it would have saved everyone a ton of time. Yet at the same time the Java code would often generate HTML or even JS code directly.

There are companies with stupid silos like this, but for the reasons I laid out I doubt they actually benefit from the "toy-language templates" approach -- even in the aforementioned company the non-developer designers would implement the entire layout as a mockup in HTML and then toss it over to a frontend dev who would cut it up and add the actual template logic (because although the template language was "easy" non-programmers couldn't be "trusted" to get the logic right).
(Up) Video game voice actor strike begins over concerns of 'safety and respect'
Let's take a look at GNU tar [1] and GNU social [2] webpages as examples. The first thing they tell a user is what the project is. I would say, both of them are order of magnitude better than the yarn homepage.

1. https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
2. https://gnu.io/social/
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I use the bookmark feature for articles that I want to keep, not read later. For instance, I seldom bookmark news. (I would, without data, guess your way is more popular.)

Otoh, I often bookmark an article just to keep a reference to the comments.
There is considerable disagreement on how one's mothers should be treated, as you'd realise if you left your bubble. I recommend a holiday among the Taliban for contrast.
Read http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/customerservice.html
Here’s a (albeit small) sample of his students’ opinion of Geoffery.

http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=1626392

A common criticism seems to be that he has a huge ego.
Damn, that's rough. Hard to believe customer support is this ignorant, but if it really directly comes from the CEO, I doubt they can do anything.

I hope this gets some traction through HN to bring it to the attention of the right people.

I am currently looking for a Freelancing platform and also looked at upwork. Thanks for that, will avoid them!
> Most of the environmental impact of a car is in its manufacturing

Do you have a reference for this?
As in "it's not just YouTube that perpetuate that urban legend" or its not just YouTube that's a source for it?
Adtech isn’t dead, it just has a lot of dead weight
Tesla aims to make their cars last 10 times longer than the average gasoline car. There are less things that can go wrong with an electric car.

They are creating ways to increase utility on each car. Less people will need their own car.

Edit: I should clarify. Tesla is aiming to make their drive trains last 1m miles. Most car companies don't offer extended warranty past 100k miles. Normal car companies want you to buy a new car at that point.

https://electrek.co/2015/11/04/musk-we-want-drive-units-that...
True, but it's easier to fix those causes. It's a lot harder to take the millions of ICE cars off the road then it is to cleanup the environmental impact of a lithium mine.
Commerzbank actually uses 8 characters, but that’s still horrible.

Luckily, you can also require all transactions to be done via HBCI with proper security and a smart card for auth.
Reddit is a swamp of filth wrt economics comments.

Basically all the subreddits except /r/academiceconomics, /r/badeconomics, /r/econpapers are awful. I'm friends with the mods of /r/economics and they have a really hard time reigning in the masses of ideologues (on all sides) ruining what should remain pure economics discussions.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/20...
No, no -- "Mathematica: A World of Numbers ... and Beyond" has nothing to do with "Mathematica" the software -- the name coincidence is just because both use the Latin word for "Mathematics".

It is a version of the IBM-funded 1961 exhibition that has been shown in various museums such as the California and Chicago museums of science and industry. Its main claim to fame is that it was designed by Charles and Ray Eames (yes, of "Mad Men" era recliner fame, but more relevantly they also did the famous "Powers of Ten" film). It is a somewhat dated exhibit (I doubt a section on famous mathematicians would be titled "Men of Mathematics" today), but still has some interesting pieces, and the Eames influence means it is practically a piece of art in itself.
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I doubt that such a beast exists because 17" laptops are a niche product.

1. The sweet spot of that niche is games with CAD a somewhat distant second and both of those uses demand GPU's these days.

2. The size and weight and form factor of a modern mobile GPU probably does not make replacing it with a battery a viable option. If it were, putting in another battery would add significant weight.

3. Lightweight laptops will tend to run their fans more (or use lower power processors) because the mass and volume of the case is not available as a heat sink.

Personally, I'd look at Dell Precision 7000 series. They can be ordered online with Linux out of the box (at least in the US) and therefore enjoy long term support. In terms of processors, they come with just about whatever one's wallet can cover.

The current 17" model: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-Precision-7710-Workstation...

The older m6800 may also be available online in the US: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Dell-Precision-M6800-Not...
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I've noticed that sometimes updates to Firefox cause it to stop working until it's restarted. If you're writing a long message, or filling in some form, or if you have an order confirmation page open, then you might lose that data.

I've never seen that happen in native GNU/Linux applications, though. I guess it might be related to the XUL stuff in Firefox.

But given that Firefox (and Chrome/ium) are memory hogs that eventually get OOM killed, you need to restart them periodically anyway, so it might not make a big difference if the OS does auto-updates in the background.
They were prevented to sell them in the beginning, which was when some of the AT&T guys brought the code into universities like Berkeley and Stanford.

EDIT: Well, they actually did sold licenses, but I guess $99 even in 70's was quite cheap vs what the alternatives were asking for

http://engineering2.berkeley.edu/labnotes/history_unix.html

"This led to requests for the system, but under a 1956 consent decree in settlement of an antitrust case, the Bell System (the parent organization of Bell Labs) was forbidden from entering any business other than "common carrier communications services", and was required to license any patents it had upon request.[6] Unix could not, therefore, be turned into a product. Bell Labs instead shipped the system for the cost of media and shipping."

-- Wikipedia
I don't mean this as criticism, only observation. Maybe you haven't been expressing yourself accurately, but based on what you've written in this thread, it appears you have very, very little empathy.

You are trying to give logical explanations of how other people are living their lives wrong. It seems like you think it would be easy to be in their shoes. You've listed some benefits given to them and asked what more could you possibly do.

The fact that you think $1000/yr is almost free is just so wrong for many families. I am glad you didn't have to grow up in a situation where $1000 wan't an incredible amount of money.

Everything you've written still contains an Us Vs. Them vibe. Please try to be aware of this. It can really improve you're life and relationships with others.
Overhead was more expensive and there was a cheaper alternative called UNIX.

I wonder how ir would have turned out if it wasn't available.
Congressman calls for probe into Valeant’s pricing of lead poisoning drug
Is there a strong correlation in any field between remuneration and quality of service? And even if there is, is there also evidence that changing the remuneration will have a proportional effect on the quality? Where in the s-curve/sigmoid/logistic function are we?

It seems plausible to me that simply increasing the supply of doctors and implementing air transport style safety systems would be much more beneficial than anything else we could do.
That sounds a lot like the United States. Most western european countries function like that too.

It should be that way everywhere, but it is not! Infuriating!!!
> And there are more data base than you think, also most of them are not connected to each others.

I've thought about this issue a lot (I'm a data-herding obsessed guy myself), and I think that this is one of our last chances at decent privacy, I mean, the fact that there are still many unconnected databases containing our data instead of one big blob where search for relevant info would be much easier. I'm still hoping that enough things get lost in "translation" between these several databases so that the info becomes less intrusive, and that some of the databases will eventually become "deprecated" i.e. data will become stalled.

> It is abused on a daily basis, but the consequences are not too insufferable yet.

Just the other day I found out about a guy whose credit application had been rejected by the bank because he had gotten a police ticket a couple of years ago for "public disturbance" (some neighbors called the cops when he was throwing a party at his house). What was crazy is that the matter hadn't gone through any legal court, it was just saved as a ticket stored in the police's database and probably the local tax-office's DB (the police tickets are collected by the local tax office). I can't really fathom how a private entity (the bank) got hold of that information. (I live in Eastern Europe, if it matters)
form/validation should be what HTML excels at, it should even one of the few things it does. and we should use another technology to do other things we've been commandeering it to do.
Web scraping efficiency tests using different programming languages
It is but it doesn't have much to do with the income of the doctors.
Stubbing External Services in Rails
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1055 km/h is far from a ground-speed record for airliners. North Pacific tailwinds can push them over 1200 .
I'm trying to point out that meta-comments (feedback) can help guide the discussion in the correct direction. It's generally unwanted to mix meta and non-meta discussion. So it may be practical to do allow for meta-commenting on comments, but display it horizontally. This would allow users to focus more and better on the matter at hand.
> This might be a viable alternative for companies who don't want to agree to React's licensing terms[1].

The concern over React's licensing terms is that:

1) Facebook might have a patent on some aspect of React (such as the virtual DOM).

2) You might get into an unrelated patent dispute with Facebook.

3) This would allow Facebook to terminate the patent grant.

4) A court might hold that the implicit patent grant usually assumed to be in the BSD license was superceded by the explicit patent grant.

5) Facebook can now sue you over your violation of their virtual DOM patent.

That's a fairly tenuous chain of events, but sure, it's possible. So let's say instead you pick Vue. Assuming Facebook does have that virtual DOM patent:

1) Facebook can sue you over your violation of their virtual DOM patent (since Vue also uses a virtual DOM).

That doesn't really seem better? Actually, it seems much much worse! Of course, I have no reason to think Facebook has any such patents, and if they don't, then the entire discussion is hypothetical. But still, it is interesting to try and figure out what patent they might hypothetically have which applies to React but clearly not to Vue or other similar framework...
Heh, I prefer to refer to that whole comment as Bane's Rule. I have had many interesting discussions with IT managers face to face after having them read that, especially regarding the idea of having vendors show that their product beats out the current system.

For programmers, I think one of the key takeaways from that comment is not the clever coding, but the direct tie into business results from the coding. Not just immediate business results, but also how the system was set up for growth and improvement easily too.
Building a solid client based has to be the way forward. I was very hesitant to actually make this post, as I don't know how it'll reflect to future employers of any kind.

I think your way of doing things is far better and something I've actually been working.

Appreciate the comment buddy, have a good Sunday
Why do you want to type code quickly? I gave up touch typing in high school more than forty years ago but have been coding for most of the intervening time. I don't think I ever felt a need to type code faster because even with just two fingers I still type code faster than I can think it.
How+to+Choose+Computer+Memory+for+Your+System+
DigitalC forms fund for civic-minded startups
Sorry to hear about this Shadi. Kevin is one hell of a asshole. I try to refrain from using profanity but this man utterly deserved it. Will do my best to let every other freelancer know of this and recommend them to stay away as they can from Upwork.
what i never understood is why learning the language and culture is not the immediate #1 priority, i think its the only way to really integrate and prosper in an foreign country. Of course there are more pressing issues (getting a place to sleep, get to know you working environment and responsibilities), but i would dedicate every second i can to practice the language and understand the culture (not in the academic sense).
Why Entrepreneurship Should Be Number One Option in Your Aspiration Lists
> A parser for any one dialect of CSV is trivial to implement.

That's what the formal definition is for. If a document doesn't match the CSV description then it isn't a CSV document. It's something else.

> A parser which can robustly parse many different dialects of CSV is quite a challenge.

A hand-written parsers that's less than 1k loc is not a challenge. JSON is also a trivial format to parse, and a JSON lexer alone exceeds 500loc.
Let's not pretend we don't have a clue where this stuff is coming from. We know very well where it is coming from. It is straight out of one specific set of political doctrines.
It depends on the car you own, the one you are buying and how much you drive. If you don't drive a lot and have a fuel efficient car, keep the car.

If you own a Land Rover and drive a lot, buying a Tesla you'd be up over a few years.

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1093657_buying-a-new-car...
If I try to host a javascript application that uses LocalStorage for saving data, it would be visible to any other ipfs JavaScript application because they all exist under the same domain, right? Have you thought about having the URLs be something like ipfs://<hash>/index.html instead of http://local host/<hash>/index.html so browsers keep the LocalStorage for each ipfs hash separated?
That is horribly fake. It is meant as an April fools joke.
Are we even safe with a VPN ?
Inertia on the pathway to decarbonization