skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine those loud objectors would take issue with the idea that the government is "literally just US" - it's much more literally a small minority of us who are deciding on behalf of us what we are to do with our resources. There's nothing inherently wrong with that - the US was always intended to be exactly that - but it certainly leaves room for the represented to debate about the way they should be represented. "Us" consists of people with different ideas about what is worth spending money on, both in terms of goals and effective ways of pursuing those goals, and using the government to allocate funding ignores all that.

It's easy to look at Tesla and SpaceX and see a couple winning tickets in the "give money for technology" lottery, but they are not the only tickets our government has purchased. Consider all the other entrepreneurs who are doing an outstanding job of not so much moving technology in any direction at all but rather lining their pockets while cratering their industry's reputation, or those that make reasonable attempts with interesting but ultimately impractical innovations.

The people who object are generally objecting to the playing of the lottery itself. The most commonly proposed alternative is that these companies should earn the money by providing value in the market or convince investors (who have powerful financial incentives to get it right) that they can do so, rather than by convincing a relatively few laypeople with no real skin in the game to risk other people's money on them.

Pre-emptive disclaimer: yes, I know I've not mentioned any of the opposing arguments here. My purpose in writing this is solely to explain some of the key points (including some of the emotional appeals) in this particular side of this particular debate.
> By contrast, a small fraction of the output can be labeled as Value Added News; these items are supposed to be unique, more deeply reported than on average —they also cost much more to produce.

The author's idea is quite interesting. I'm reminded of publications like The Information, though I don't consider this type of premium content mainstream.

I'm also not sure that I can believe this is the case, as much as it's what I would like to hear:

> That correlation between Engaged Time and propensity to return is the seed of a foundational transformation taking place in the online publishing industry, from a digital content economy based on clicks and indiscriminate traffic to one that values quality and attention.
For some reason, the string around the folder icon seemed brilliant to me. It was the kind of thing you could only do in the kind of giant icons they had on NeXT.
Here's a bunch, mostly ad-free: https://www.reddit.com/r/woodworking/

However, you're making a classic category error that says there's no difference between rivalrous goods and public/non-rival goods.
If apple let you build iOS apps without a mac I wouldn't be so grumpy. As it is apple's choices effect me without there being any recourse, because my development machine has to be a mac (for work, anyway).
I'm reminded of an article I read in a magazine or newspaper a long time ago. Briefly, a school district gave IQ tests to all of the children in a particular grade. There was a bimodal distribution, with the black children scoring significantly lower than the white children.

Most officials in the district concluded that the test must be culturally biased or flawed in some other way, and were going to ignore the results.

One teacher, though, decided to operate under the assumptions that (1) the test was not flawed and so was showing a real difference between the children, and (2) there was no inherent racial difference in the students, and so started looking for other explanations for the lower performance of the black kids.

He found that all the black children lived in older housing, built in the in the early '70s or earlier. All the white children lived in newer housing, built after 1980. He knew that we had stopped using lead paint in housing in 1978, and wondered if the black kids could be suffering from lead poisoning.

They and their houses were tested, and sure enough, the black kids were living in high lead environments. One of the effects of lead poising is a reduction in cognitive abilities.

The houses were cleaned of lead, and the children treated, and within a couple of years the gap on IQ tests went away.

If that teacher thought like you did he would have just dismissed the question of whether or not the black kids' performance was due to a real cognitive difference as offensive, unacceptable and ridiculous, and those kids would have went through much or all of the rest of their childhood and teen years suffering from cognitive impairment and the accompanying limitations on their futures.
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Interesting points, thank you. EEVblog agrees with some of them and did the numbers on others, I might link it if I remember(it's bed time here soon)

One thing where I don't agree:roofs being an unemotional decision. Everything is influenced by emotions. All Solarcity has to do isb make it at least feasible for everyone price wise, then having the combination of the (apparently very fancy) French something style+the feeling you are a part of the solution for the planet+the tesla allure will do the rest for a suitable percentage of the market. That is iff the numbers work out enough to not make it an unreasonable choice.

The iphone would have failed at 1500 say. But 500 was barely cheap enough for what people got and felt they got to be worth it.
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Except those machines are (arguably) full of compromises in today's market. I don't feel the same personally, but I get the general impression that if they kept each product line healthy and active, then the differences between each line wouldn't be so stark at any given point in time.

For example the MacBook Air would be fantastic with a Retina display, but it's a tough sell without one in 2016.
I'm not enough of an environmental physicist type to know for sure, but I think warm air (produced by various electronics) is preferable to a hot roof emitting blackbody radiation (which radiates at the wavelength that greenhouse gasses absorb).
I'm sure there are thousands of republicans chomping at the bit to do just that...
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The comma only works on a few (maybe just one) Honda car that has a built-in front facing radar that they're able to tap into. With that, comma is using roughly the same sensor package as the V1 Tesla autopilot.
Yes, but the energy that gets converted into heat is replacing energy that would have come from some other source (fossil or not) that now doesn't have to be consumed.
It's a deal breaker if your car can only go as far as you "regularly" drive if it fails when you drive farther than that.
Typically when you get to the point of getting one of those it's because you've been blatantly ignoring regulations or regulators up until now and they feel like they need to get your attention.
at least for me, my MBP is sometimes just a mobile battery to charge my phone/headset/3DS/whatever. :-/
We don't need another crap Level 2 system. Lane keeping plus auto braking just isn't enough. (Crap auto braking, as with Tesla, is even worse. Four collisions with big, obvious stationary vehicles so far.)

The NHTSA, Google, and Volvo have it right. Systems where the driver has to back up the automation will not work in practice.
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don't know if you'll see this ... but I think that part of the reason that we don't have this is because nobody has made it "sexy" enough.

I think we've conflated user desires in things like the iphone as the clever marketing from Apple Inc. I think the effect of their marketing really eclipsed the quality and features of their product line and we've drawn a false equivalency that the methodology of their product line is what consumers actually want.

I have no empirical evidence to support this wacky theory however and I remiss that it's likely 80% wishful thinking.
Can you see Schrödinger’s cat both dead and alive on acid?
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Except now the dongles you had to buy last time need to be replaced.
The converted font did look pretty good on Windows. I wish I knew who I got it from, but this is way back in 96. I still have my NeXTSTEP and OpenStep discs. The ugly blue of the current plain icons makes me long to figure out how to put them on my Mac again.
Owning the domain is not the same thing as fully controlling the web service.

My use of Tumblr as an example rather than simply stating hosted-CMS has probably misconstrued my point. (I use Tumblr with my own domain and forget that it is primarily not used that way.)
Thank you for taking the time to respond. I signed up :)
I'm generally favorable of adding information into the IDE (see my website for all my research on the subject).

However, I imagine this just being messy and seems to be trying to replace too many different things. Would it benefit me to have this in the IDE rather than in the browser? I don't imagine myself switching between them that often.

Can you provide a concrete example and maybe a mockup?
You would have won so much Irony Points if only you had written "Producing food without following proper hygiene regulations? Disrupting the medicine industry with revolutionary tests without sufficient scientific validation?"
Oh heavens no, I'm not going down the Inception rat hole! ;) I'm developing Unity apps so there are already way too many levels of abstraction!
Kids tend to be dishonest to themselves because they get caught up in playing a social role, and only gradually fall off of that track over time. So in a lot of ways it doesn't matter what you say or prompt them to say at that one moment. If you want them to want things that aren't money, you have to build a whole village of peers and mentors that keep driving that point home. Sadly the world is mostly petty and will slot business ownership into "job+" - even people who operate businesses themselves!
Sorry, I should have added that Musk bit as an addendum to my first comment - and it's a reflection from previous experience, not from any activity on the comment I made on this thread.

I could care less about my 'HN karma' -> it's meaningless to me. I made the comment purely in jest.
It is now compared to 3-4 years ago but it's still arguably the strongest part of our economy. It's not like we have much manufacturing.
Actually price is starting to be a problem, for businesses in some EU countries.

We have a tax law, that exactly specifies what you can expense as a tax-admitted OPEX during a year, and what you must depreciate over several years as CAPEX. For laptops, the amount is below 1700 EUR (without VAT, so that makes it 2040 EUR with 20% VAT) and the duration of depreciation is 4 years.

No way most businesses are going do depreciate laptops for 4 years, unless there's a very pressing business need. The recent 200 EUR price hike severely limits the useful configurations available.
That there could have been some covert messaging between Trump's people and an important Russian bank ;

In other words, this seems to be more circumstantial evidence of Russians involvement in the American Presidential campaign.
I agree 100% with Thiel, but Trump is not remotely the right messenger for this message and Thiel is making a huge mistake supporting him as such. If ever there was an appropriate time for "shoot the messenger" this is it, lest Trump taint the entire message.

Additionally it's not even clear Trump fully understands the problem Thiel cares about, but may just be exploiting a political opportunity with just enough rhetoric picked up from alt-right forums and publications to get the job done, rather than any substantial understanding of or personal commitment to it.

It's a great shame that two of the most eloquent and legitimate people trying in recent times to publicly address these fundamental problems - Thiel and Andy Grove [1] - are foreign born, hence not eligible to run for President. But they should be archetype candidate and messenger for this message.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Grove#Preference_for_a_...
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> I pay $0.2 per kilowatt hour, and live in one of the most expensive electricity areas in the country.

PGE charges tiered rates, each tier of about 325 kWh where I live, and the rates in the third tier are almost 40c per kWh. During summers and when using an AC, that's the marginal rate people you end up paying to charge your car. They might offer lower rates specifically for car charging but will impose other restrictions making it less attractive.
The same sentiment could be applied to luxury cars but people still buy them. A 30k car and a 300k car will both get you to the grocery store.
Supermicro Power8 servers are competitive with Supermicro Intel servers; it's just Talos that's failing.
Ok, trying to write 国家栋樑. Unfortunately I only got the first two characters..国 is Fqge, 家 is ei(, but haven't figured out how to do the last two. Any idea how to get the last two?

Quick suggestion: when shift key is not down, should show lower case letters. When shift key is down, show upper case letters.
Pretty cool stuff.

My high school had one of those big flatbed lever presses. It took four strong teenagers to run it.

One, with clean hands, to put the blank paper in the truck.
One, with clean hands, to take the printed paper from the truck.
One, usually an ink-stained wretch, to use a hand roller to ink the form.
One to push the truck into the press, pull the lever, and pull the truck back out of the press.

We could usually get three or four pages a minute out of the thing.

It took us a semester to compose and print a 48-page literary magazine. But the result was fine.
I, too, have a feeling that in the 21st century theoretical physics (understood as mathematical, or computational, physics) is destined to replace experimental physics in all areas - except those that do not yet have an effective mathematical model to work with. (I do not know if String Theory can qualify as such.)
Is Nitrous.io web IDE shutting down?
I just received this email:

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Any payments made after October 16, 2016 will be refunded in full.

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How many of these could be resolved with a really decent USB-C hub? Is there none that currently exists?
I'm genuinely curious - what is it about the pictured solar shingles' look that you don't like?

To my view and taste, asphalt shingles are pretty ugly; the pictured solar shingles don't look particularly better but they don't look any worse.

Thoughts?
One of those new Macbook Pros, combined with that 5k LG display, would be my dream setup. Plug in a single cable, and you're connected to power, keyboard, display, network & mouse.

I don't use VMs, so 16GB are enough for my development needs (thanks to compressed Memory I seem to rarely fill up my RAM anymore). CPU performance has never been an issue for me.

Since I carry my Macbook Pro with me every day, and I often use it on public transport, I appreciate low weight & long battery life.

One thing I'd really like would be a built-in 3G/LTE modem because connecting to public Wifi or personal hotspot seems like an unnecesary hassle -- I'd like to have my Mac be always online without any manual intervention.

Yes, I'd probably need to get a new cable for my keyboard, but at least USB-C is a standard that everyone agrees is the future!
Wow. The first part sounds good until, wait a minute, I need an amendment to the state constitution to put solar panels on my house?

I might have not given that first sentence a lot of thought at first, but by the second sentence my alarms would be going off. It's vague, weasely, and open-ended. But the first sentence is convincing enough that I might never get to the second sentence.

In the end, I don't know that it will trick voters, but it just seems so poorly written as to border on unprofessional. But I am not a lawyer.
I'm in a similar position, working on an app idea that I've decided to open-source. If it catches on I can create a hosting service for it.
bonus points for mention of c64

LOAD "",8,1 or even more old-school LOAD "",1,1
It took a while for $2 lightning cables that worked well to show up in dollar stores. In the first year or two, they weren't around.
This made me think of something William McDonough said.

"Imagine this design assignment: design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, accrues solar energy as fuel, makes complex sugars and food, creates microclimates, changes colors with the seasons, and self replicates.

Why don't we knock that down and write on it."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoRjz8iTVoo
I have a new Macbook Pro on order, I'm excited to try out TouchBar, I hope it hangs around and isn't just a gimmick that falls by the way side.

The price is high and I'm surprised they pushed it that far (being in the UK it's even worse since at the same time they corrected for the USD > GBP exchange rate changes) but I'm also not hugely price sensitive. I just like a robust, light, laptop that works.

I use Windows, macOS, and Linux daily and while I'm comfortable with all of them I'd never choose anything else for a laptop (equally I never use macOS in a desktop setup).

macOS feels, to me, like an operating system designed for laptops. The power management is excellent, the hibernation is robust, the screen (on the Macbook Pro line at least) is high quality and crucially the OS is well optimised for a high DPI display.

I get the feeling there is some sort of internet/blog drama war going on here, it just doesn't seem to warrant the response it's getting.
Over the last 10 years average car and light truck sales were 14.5M/year.

Even in 2008-2010 annual sales never dipped below 10M.

Detailed stats - https://www.bea.gov/national/xls/gap_hist.xlsx
Rest in peace, Keith. I'll always hold a special place in my heart for the NeXTStep interface and general look.

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Anyone notice some visual parallels between the icon aesthetic since El Capitan and Keith Ohlfs's icons?

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This guy recreated the NeXT icons (with some creative liberties):

http://galgot.free.fr/wordpress/?p=1380

http://galgot.free.fr/wordpress/?p=1410
If they do that, then the new POTUS account will start at 0 followers (unless they have a special agreement with Twitter).
Notes on the upcoming release of Scala 2.12
Sure, I just sent three friends the link. Hope they get jobs using the site.
> Even papers nobody but the author reads are useful.

But to a very, very limited extent. Why do we publish papers? Because we want to share the knowledge we generate. Papers are the very essence of the ideal of open science - science that is accessible not just to the people who did the work, or those who paid for it, but (in theory) to everyone. Papers are there to communicate information, but communication always requires a recipient as well as a sender. Ergo, if our papers aren't being read, there is no recipient, there is no communication: our papers have failed their most basic raison d'etre. And because they are our most important method of communicating, you could say that open science itself has failed.

Yes, there is a value in writing up your thoughts and results just for yourself. But then why go through the hassle of publishing? Why waste paper and ink (in a printed journal); and more importantly, why waste the time of the reviewers, editors and typesetters involved in the process?
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I'm confused, it shows me "Thanks for playing" before I've eve done anything. Is this one-time event that's already finished?
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>What's next? Producing food without following proper hygiene regulations?

Boy do I have the product for you! Question: Do you like the color beige?
That is far too shortsighted.
High-voltage DC is actually more efficient for long-distance transport, and makes it easier to interconnect grids. Efficiency is not why we use AC. Installation cost and history is, because you need converters everywhere you connect it to an AC grid.

Up until recently a lot of standard pieces of equipment weren't practical for HVDC lines. Electrical breakers, for instance: They existed, but tended to have short lifespans. That's because DC lines never go to zero power, whereas AC lines do so a hundred times per second.

Modern technology has changed that. The equipment is still more expensive, but that would be made up for by the reduced transmission losses... if we were starting from scratch. We're not.
Documentation is not about functionality, but about maintenance and the Bus Factor.
Wow I never heard of beam sync or beamoff -- great tip! Googling for that found some other useful vm performance stuff.

Looks like it might only work in older operating systems since El Capitan is based on Metal instead of OpenGL.

https://www.reddit.com/r/macgaming/comments/3l3mp2/anyone_kn...

https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2014/12/13/improving-yosem...

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/302424-yosemite-on-vm...

http://www.chromescreen.com/disable-beamsync-at-osx-login/
You are being dramatic, but honestly they probably would adopt it if it was better. There is a reason people like mechanical keyboards and solid feedback from input. It's not just nostalgia, trust me.
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What? Refusing to cooperate with the government in a highly regulated industry will 'ruin your business' anyway.
I'm very excited about this! Minoca is an interesting system, and I applaud any attempt to make driver-writing less inherently horrible.

Minoca OS has been around for a while, but the news is that they're GPLv3. I think that's a great thing! The MIT license is good for software that wants to permeate through everything, but for building a community, the GPL is a good idea.

It seems that for any operating system to be successful, it has to carry around POSIX compatibility like an extremely expensive entry pass. I wonder when we will leave that behind? Or if we ever will? I'm glad POSIX is just a layer in Minoca, and not the base of the system, because these days it really should just be treated like a big wad of glue.

PS: I love the object manager. I don't see any particularly ground-breaking networking stack, though. A plan9-inspired networked file system approach would have been amazing, but it seems this project is content with today's more typical approach. Perhaps it is just trying to be less opinionated about network structure than plan9 was?

PPS: I'm terrible at organizing a comment. Maybe I need a blog.