skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One I could think of is that rather than investing in human labor (e.g. education), it would make more sense to invest in capital (e.g. stock market) since that would yield you higher returns

Keep in mind that, in economics, capital includes machinery - anything that can be owned and generate passive income. So robots, computers, machines - all fall under capital. Anyone that lives in today's world can clearly see that labour is being replaced by machines. So capital's share of income absolutely (r) is growing faster than labour's share of income, represented by (g).
If Named Data then no need to trust the server, because trust the data. The data is signed. Signed data is trusted and doesn't care what path it takes to go where it's wanted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_data_networking
Wonderful! I wonder if there was the same plan schedule for computer science like this.
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5GHz has horrible range and wall penetration (by design), so it can't really get as cluttered as 2.4GHz which has decent out of line-of-sight performance
Yeah, Chris wrote up something on this a couple months ago.

http://www.chris-granger.com/2016/07/21/two-years-of-eve/
Perhaps when you have hundreds of developers, but how many on Hacker News have that size?

Separately, how do you properly verify some library, tool, or vendor if you can't actually push it during evaluation?

How do you mentor more junior engineers if you don't know how to create working code?

And the reason everyone has to spend 30 minutes writing working code is because there is a depressing number of seemingly inflated resumes out there.
Do you have any further information on this? Having opened up an IBM PC keyboard, and knowing that Z80 CPUs were still fairly expensive in 1982, I'm a little surprised.
Review "The Black Book of Communism" for a catalog of the death and misery from communist countries, over and over.

Voluntary communes and Kibbutzen have failed as well - none have been capable of operating without subsidy.
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Deleting a pirated movie you downloaded doesn't absolve you of the original copyright infringement.
Wealth is taxed by inflation.
Lateen sails took a particularly long time to spread. They had been introduced to the Mediterranean region as early as the 2nd century BC (and had been developed much earlier in China and Arabia), but were not brought into widespread use in European sailing ships until the 1400s. This is hugely significant as a lateen-rigged ship can sail far closer to the wind than a square-rigged ship, giving it much better maneuverability, allowing it to navigate complex waters (e.g., harbour entrances) under less-than-ideal conditions, and increased the length of the sailing season -- November through May was "no-sail" season from Roman times (with numerous interesting impacts on historical events, messages, etc.).

The rig seems to be among the technologies lost during the middle ages.

The big hitch, as noted in James Burke's Connections, was how ships and sailing voyages were financed. A ship was a sufficiently sizeable investment, and financing sufficiently difficult to arrange, that conservative financiers opposed any radical explorations of such tomfoolery as them thar lateen-rigged newfangled boats.

As for other transportation innovations ... there mostly weren't any until quite modern times.

Once introduced, though, their advantages were immediately obvious, and they were adopted quickly throughout Europe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateen

Yes, you saw further advances in ships and navigation. Especially navigation -- position-taking and timekeeping were critical, and several innovations followed catastrophic losses of entire fleets run aground and shipwrecked into the 20th century -- see the Honda Point disaster in which seven US destroyers sailed at full speed into rocks just offshore the Santa Barbara coast in 1923.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Point_disaster

After the Lateen rig and excepting other ship designs, the major transport innovations were canals (major construction from the 1500s onward in Europe, though much earlier in China, and some earlier European/Mediterranean instances), the railroad (1825), steamship (1810s), safety bicycle (1870s), automobile (and truck and bus -- 1880s), and airplane (1900s). These all spread essentially instantly throughout the world wherever industrial capacity (and fuel) capable of producing such vehicles existed.
This would probably be too hard & expensive to implement, but it seems as the most user-friendly solution: create connection protocol where both ends send all possible protocols they can work with (standard codes could probably be established) and the cable would include small chip & LED diode in both connectors - when you connect two devices, it would either light up green (both ends share at least one protocol) or red (incompatible).

For example, I plug one end into my phone and the other one into my sound card - it the phone doesn't support external sound cards, the cable would light up red - otherwise, it would flash green for few seconds, then turn the light off.

Another (maybe more practical solution) would be to implement this in both ports, but some vendors may not comply with the specification. (in the cable, you could only buy those cables that support the negotiation protocol - it would be your choice if you decide to pay a bit more for a better cable)
It doesn't make any additional maintenance unless you chose to rewrite your pre-existing projects when any new random thing comes out.
Environmental risk of GMOs is not limited to biotoxins. I imagine parent commenter was mostly referring to the impact of Roundup, a synthetic pesticide used in GMO crops.
Neither the CEO or the developer linked to the original. That's definitely on purpose.
I understand. The projection you link to here is the one I keep in my living room.

About satire and/or parody: I would try to master the form first, as well as finding out where it's effective. 'Allo 'allo and Candide are in my opinion brilliant examples. In a rational discussion it easily appears a bit like mockery, or "did you stop beating your wife".

As for the comment you replied to: I find it very credible that these things aren't so important to everyday map users. The Mercator projection does have its advantages for some applications. Other projections for other applications. Putting a sphere on a rectangular piece of paper will involve tradeoffs.

The sheer utility of a suitable projection far outweighs any notions of trying to put any particular nation or continent - for most people.
George Hotz cancels self-driving car product after US regulator asks questions
Was this the keyboard they built using a touchscreen and a bunch of transparent keycaps?
This is among the most uninformed commentary regarding Tor that I have ever read. The author seems to understand nothing about the history of Tor, the usage of Tor, the technical design of Tor, Tor security research, encryption strategy, or the reception of Tor within the U.S. Government.

I can't even take umbrage with anything that's written here, because the author's basic factual axioms are simply wrong.

EDIT in Reply:

I started fact checking, and I couldn't past the first two paragraphs. It is a work of fiction that, if it occasionally flirts with the truth, does so almost certainly by chance.

Below is my rather unorganized beginning of a fact check:

------------------

I would like to fact check the entirety, but I'm running short on time, so I'll skip his tin-foil hat pre-ramble:

>Tor became a prominent feature of political discourse around the world in 2013 when Edward Snowden popped up on the scene...

False. Tor rose to prominence far prior to leaks, particularly with the Arab Spring and the Silk Road. The first appearance on the front page of the NYT was in 2009 [0] A year prior to the leaks, Foreign Policy named Dingledine et al. to its Top 100 Global Thinkers list.[1] Snowden's sticker didn't start start that fire, although it might have added some fuel.

>I knew about some of the pit-falls and problems of Tor: I knew that if you signed into Google using Tor, it didn't really matter because Google still had all the information about your personal account. The same with Facebook. So Tor didn’t really solve the corporate side of surveillance.

>I knew about some of the pit-falls and problems of Tor: I knew that if you signed into Google using Tor, it didn't really matter because Google still had all the information about your personal account. The same with Facebook.

So Tor didn’t really solve the corporate side of surveillance.

So now, I have to ask. Has this guy just found a way to make a living getting stoned and spouting faux-anarchist nonsense?

Not signing into websites with your real name while on an anonymous service is the 1+1=2 of anonymity. So to remain anonymous, just... don't announce your name. That isn't a "pitfall." That's just common sense.

Around the point at which he was inventing grand conspiracies, particularly through close and perfect action of a monolithic government, I couldn't take it seriously any longer.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/world/middleeast/23censor....

[1]http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/26/the_fp_100_...
Not officially announced/released yet, but here are (better) release notes: http://get-scala.org/2.12
I wouldn't lump "developers" together with "other creative types." They depend on developers to make the apps that make their devices desirable. If devs stopped buying macs there would be nobody to make apps for iOS. They don't depend on film editors in anywhere near the same way.
I'll clarify: Implicit in my "don't agree to it" was "you don't get to distribute it". I'm not attempting to say that one can "disagree" with the GPL yet still distribute code that's licensed under its terms.
These don't seem so bad to me:
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> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but do many C programmers understand not only the current state of malloc at any given moment in their code but exactly how it works?

Good programmers understand how malloc works. What, are you kidding, or am I misunderstanding?

Performance-oriented programmers do not use malloc very much. As you say, you can also try to avoid allocations in GC'd languages. The difference is that in a language like C you are actually in control of what happens. In a language that magically makes memory things happen, you can reduce allocations, but not in a particularly precise way -- you're following heuristics, but how do you know you got everything? Okay, you reduced your GC pause time and frequency, but how do you know GC pauses aren't still going to happen? Doesn't that depend on implementation details that are out of your control?

> even though in practice SO many things do not deliver on this promise in shipped products!

But, "in practice" is the thing that actually matters. Lots and lots of stuff is great according to someone's theory.
Run your own!
This comment thread was refreshing to read because it was technically enlightening, devoid of malice, and each party conceding arguments while expanding and clarifying places where it broke down or wasn't clear.

Something we can all strive for professionally and while commenting on HN.
Yeah everyone has their own way of peeling eggs, handed down by parents/grandparents? Mine is to shake the saucepan quite hard just after the eggs are boiled (how hard depends on how long you boiled the egg). This should put a few clear cracks in the shell. Now submerge in ice water or just run cold water over the eggs for a minute. Now when you go to peel it, the shell has separated and it should just come right now cleanly. Works for me about 95% of the time (could be more but I'm often lazy)

Here's my method explained in detail by someone else, followed by comments of more methods.. it's a rabbit hole.

http://thestonesoup.com/blog/2010/03/the-secret-to-easy-to-p...
So you'd rather have 8 different standards? I know I love having to have a DVI, displayport, VGA, and HDMI adapter in my bag in order to have my bases covered for presentations.

I'm confused the scenario you're imagining in which someone both doesn't have their own, known good cable, and also is in a place that doesn't provide a cable, where displayport would even come into play.

I can think of exactly 0. If the projector needs a displayport capable usb-c, it's going to already be attached to the projector. If I need one for home, I'm going to buy one that supports it.
If I remember correctly, for 2.12 the compiler will generate additional forwarder methods, which mitigates the performance issues, but increases file size again.

It's still a lot smaller than 2.11, but for instance the standard library of 2.12.0-RC1 was 900kB smaller than 2.12.0.
Zoho is based in USA. It would carry the same privacy concerns as the other US companies.

Without knowing exactly what you want it's hard to say. There are literally thousands of email hosts.
I am developing a rule of thumb for this: the more pointedly in-depth your technical question is, the more likely you produce false negatives through obfuscation of intent. The grandparent's "what does this mean" question suffers particularly from being in-depth without stating it. Every CS student who learns C gets the high level treatment of pointers. But in many cases, their class does not proceed on to examine what this looks like in assembly code, except in a separate course devoted to ASM or compilers where it might be mentioned obliquely that such a representation exists. That is a relevant skill, but you have to ask for it. An easier way to get there is to ask how a C compiler turns a pointer assignment into executable binary, working backwards from the output. There are now degrees of success, since the candidate gets to discuss how compilers work if they're really engaged. But a basic answer can still capture the essence.
I own a Thinkpad X1 second generation with a touch bar, its not as sophisticated as this or the new MBP but I really hate it.

It lacks feedback when pressing the button. Trying to find the correct button without looking to the keyboard is quite difficul since the virtual buttons dont have relief.
I find it as well quite annoying since moving your sight down makes you feel out of place

If you check online the Thinkpad X1 2nd gen is one of the most hated Thinkpads, because of the touchbar and the trackpad...
> I think your advice sounds great for people living in a Star Trek utopia where people only work to better themselves.

Or, you know, any country where you can study without ending up burdened with crippling student debt. There's a few of them; I went to art school in one.
I would start by understanding the polítics behind your boss or contractor. People working at silicon valley, for example, are frequently helping someone to apply an agenda that don't benefit a lot of people other than their shareholders.
The problem impacted all of the schools in the US in the 90s. As a national issue, the governor of California had nothing to do with that.
I lecture webdesign at a prestigious art school in Sweden. I've done this for the last 5 years. One thing I've noticed is that mentioning anything regarding money or how to earn money(make a living) using the skills/knowledge you've aquired is strictly taboo and frowned upon (some of the students and most faculty. I've even been told not to talk about such things in my lectures. Utterly bizarre
How so?

I use maybe 3 main tools for my build system. Gulp, webpack, and babel. And I only use gulp because it is a bit easier to read than just putting stuff in a makefile (which is replacing one tool with another), or just using bash scripts.

If we were going with the "add options instead of adding tools" way of doing things, I might have one tool, but 100 flags and settings that I would need to manage and change, and you can't ignore the flags and settings just because you want defaults, because the defaults would work in a way that's out of date, or there might no be defaults at all.

Just because there are tools out there, doesn't mean you need to use them all. You can ignore everything you don't need in your project. And that includes ignoring the downsides, bugs, security issues, breaking changes, and baggage that comes along with them.
Communism isn't inherently authoritarian.
I think the user needs to notice a lot of improvements, at all at once, because firefox really feels hopeless at this point. I don't know though, maybe a slow turnaround will work, or a sudden rendering integration will be the turn around it needs.
Google taught artificial intelligence to encrypt messages on its own
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Yea for anything faith based a rule I follow is to never trust with anything more than I'm willing to lose. This is the equivalent of giving out your bank card and pin to someone and asking that they kindly take $10 out and no more please. Doesn't matter if the bank rep tells me that is the only way to give money to the customer, I'd sooner take the hit to my reputation than to risk such a terrible worst-case scenario as the OP seems to now have learned.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoho_Corporation says that "the company is headquartered at its largest campus in Estancia IT Park in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Formerly, it filed headquarters in Pleasanton, California, USA."
> Similarly, you must use logic and reason to deduce that putting a mandated price floor on labor will reduce the amount of labor demanded.

Ehhhhhh. First, according to a simple theory, yes, you are correct. This means that if the evidence points in another direction (and the article is suggesting it is pointing in another direction), then clearly your simple theory is missing something.

Second, the situation is definitely more complicated than that. It's not like the ONLY effect raising minimum wage has is on the cost of employing people; if you're only paying attention to that one effect, sure, I'd expect your conclusion. But - I say - apparently - I note - in this situation, your conclusion is not occurring, so -

How do you tell whether this is due to the other, unexamined effects of raising minimum wage, or whether it is due to other causes?

Finally:

> You don't need advanced economics to understand that setting a price floor will reduce quantity supplied and increase quantity demanded

...No, I wouldn't necessarily expect that. Let's say I mandate that corn costs $10 a cob. What are effects I might expect to see?

- Some farmers switch to making more corn, because it's now worth more (they may not be thinking about whether people will buy it at the new price, just that any sold is sold at $10)

- Corn moves to be seen as a more "luxury" resource, a la the "keeping up with the joneses" effect.

- Some farmers switch to making less corn, because they anticipate fewer people buying it at the higher price, since fewer people can get $10 worth of value out of one cob. (The nominal price of corn may then rise to $10, due to a reduction in supply moving to match demand at the new price).

Let's reverse the situation. Let's say I mandate that corn now costs $0.01 a cob. What effects might I expect to see?

- Only shitty corn gets made
- People find uses for cheap as shit corn, that weren't economical before. Demand for corn rises as there are more economical uses for it

I'm not saying that "price floor for employees" is the same as "price floor for corn", I am saying that clearly they are not the same, so you definitely can't apply the same model to both and expect to predict reality. Setting a price floor on a good is definitely different than setting a wage floor on people.

And, I'm saying: this is more complicated than such a simple model can predict.

Here's a question: Why are you even trying to explain economic cause and effect through logic, rather than through statistical correlation? It's not like you're ever going to be able to understand enough of each situation to actually model everything* "clockwork-universe style", and that's if you can even derive solid laws with which to run the model. Statistical tendencies seems like a much more reasonable way to try to model everything.

* Well, maybe with mass adoption of AR.
The military is also a non-profit institution, yet it's the most expensive thing we pay for in the US. Just because the institution itself is non-profit doesn't mean there aren't tons of entities making a killing off of growing the beast.
Any discussion of scientific studies of this kind of sensitive subject should be understood with the appropriate disclaimers. In particular, the is-ought fallacy: if experimental studies find out, backed with experimental explanations, that men and women tend to behave differently, it does not follow that discriminating them (by law or by social customs) is desirable or acceptable. It's very hard to avoid falling in the trap, but any factual thing that science tells us about humans cannot, in itself, be the justification of any kind of policy.
Yup.

I like how people asks if the setting was necessary. Would they have got off their asses if it wasn't done on public roads?
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Don't use email. Just use end-to-end encryptions?!

I may be slightly churlish and glib.
> If this were really so why would there be a schedule to phase it in slowly over 7 instead of immediately? I think part of the reason is that it is expected for natural monetary inflation to cancel out the effect of the min wage increase. If we assume 2% target inflation from the FED then that would be a 15% reduction in buying power of the dollar, reducing the burden on businesses for the increase in wage price.

All things being equal? Come on...I doubt it. The inflation will certainly be a bit of help to the businesses, but don't forget that the status quo has been raising the minimum wage piecemeal, and the Washington minimum wage is at quite a differential from Seattle. Also, don't forget that once Seattle's minimum wage is in full effect it's chained to the CPI, so it's not just a raise on the minimum wage it's a permanent minimum wage.
Pinochet's Chile for example.
> Without knowing exactly what you want it's hard to say

A single mailbox, 5 or so GB of space, IMAP, the ability to use my own domain.
Great post! I hope you find equally nice cofounders!
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> I don't think people are supporting Trump because they like him, but I think that they've almost got no choice but someone that might (even if totally by accident) blow up the system.

They're supporting Trump because they've been failed by the status quo, and Trump has, at the very least, recognised that, versus the establishment who just pretend everything is OK.

His 'fixes' for the economy aren't the typical progressive economic fixes, but rather populist ideas like strong-arming corporations into keeping American jobs or keeping money in the US which, while not necessarily drastically reducing inequality, will have the result of at least giving some of the working class a boost. Globalism absolutely has allowed many working class jobs to be outsourced to areas of cheaper labour.

Whatever you think Trump is, he's a result of the sentiment of his supporters. He's the least-ideological Republican candidate in recent history (which is why Ted Cruz campaigned on the idea that Trump isn't a 'conservative').

> if he loses I fear things may get violent.

Things are already violent. Look at the news, riots in multiple US cities. Violent protests everywhere. Mass swaths of unemployed people who resort to crime. These are all the result of failed economic policies.

You're right though - if the status quo continues, the violence that's occurring today likely will escalate.
You're confusing communism with totalitarianism.
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Once you gain enough influence you get a promotion from brown-noser to nose-browner. :)