skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typical passive aggressive leftist bully talks to the crowd, over the head of the libertarian, instead of addressing the libertarian directly.

Way to go with the straw man arguments too.

Orwell on socialists:

>The first thing that must strike any outside observer is that Socialism, in its developed form is a theory confined entirely to the middle classes. The typical Socialist is not, as tremulous old ladies imagine, a ferocious-looking working man with greasy overalls and a raucous voice. He is either a youthful snob-Bolshevik who in five years’ time will quite probably have made a wealthy marriage and been converted to Roman Catholicism; or, still more typically, a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaller and often with vegetarian leanings, with a history of Nonconformity behind him, and, above all, with a social position which he has no intention of forfeiting.
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Just make sure to blog about it and you can file this time under "marketing". A touch of geekiness looks good on a résumé as long as it does not smell of elitism.
You may be interested in these photos by Camilo José Vergara, where he took pictures of the same building or street over a span of decades:

http://www.messynessychic.com/2016/10/26/for-over-40-years-t...
I've been using it since December 2015, and for the most part everything was working nicely. The issues I had would be present on any other laptop running linux, so it's not related only to this one:

- Hi-DPI still deserves some love, especially if you're using different DPI on different screens (e.g an external 4k display), although ubuntu gnome seems to handle it better than plain ubuntu and definitely better than xubuntu.

- Tablet mode is funny: orientation sensors don't work well, keyboard & touchpad are not autodisabled in tablet mode, but then again it's not my use-case, so I just disabled all those features.

- (ok this one is a flaw of this particular laptop): When the display lid is closed, the touchpad is not auto-disabled, which results in weird mouse movement and clicks, since the lid presses on it. I had to hook an X-event with a script to disable the touchpad input device when the lid is closed.

Other than that - everything works flawlessly.
Usually these unique bits are burned in with fuses as a step in manufacturing in a non reversible process.
'eSIM' is on the way to replace sim cards. The biggest challenge of 'downloading a sim card' to a secure enclave on a phone is of course security.

The GSMA and members (i.e. telcos) have been working on secure remote provisioning. I think it'll take a while for the technology to make it in to consumer devices, though it's likely to be used in IoT relatively soon.

It takes a long time to spec these things up collaboratively and then even longer for telco's to act on it!

See: http://www.gsma.com/rsp/2016/04/27/esim-opportunity-operator... and http://www.gsma.com/rsp/ (Warning: Lots of marketing BS)
If I mow your lawn without your asking, and you set up a lemonade stand on your lawn, and as a result, benefit financially from the lawn mowing service I provided, because it led to more people visiting your lemonade stand, that does not give me the right to threaten to imprison you to force you to pay me $20 for the service.
> People with security, budget and privacy concern go for flip phones.

No. That ensures you can't send encrypted messages or do encrypted calls.

Also see one of the reasons Signal moved to sending encrypted messages as data and stopped supporting encrypted messages sent as sms.

> SMS and MMS are a security disaster. They leak all possible metadata 100% of the time to thousands of cellular carriers worldwide. It's common to think of SMS/MMS as being "offline" or "peer to peer," but the truth is that SMS/MMS messages are still processed by servers--the servers are just controlled by the telcos. We don't want the state-run telcos in Saudi, Iran, Bahrain, Belarus, China, Egypt, Cuba, USA, etc... to have direct access to the metadata of TextSecure users in those countries or anywhere else.

https://whispersystems.org/blog/goodbye-encrypted-sms/
I'm hoping robots, ai and UBI will liberate the masses from material obsession, leading to increased appreciation of the arts as vocation and entertainment, reviving and democratising our institutions. I fear reality will be more aligned with Black Mirror type scenarios.
Well, you can relicense the MIT-licensed code. They might have had to include the text of the MIT-licensed component license, but that would still have no effect on the license of the derivative work - it would be GPL.
That's also a 1st world thing. If you travel often between two European country it might be cheaper to have two SIMs, one for your country and one for the other one, especially if you pay as you go. Cross border roaming fees are getting cheaper because the European Commission wants so (luckily) but telcos are doing their best to regain those money by any other means.
Yeah, while I can appreciate the question (curiosity is a good things) I don't think anyone with experience of software should be surprised. When you consider things like passwords, credit cards, wifi login and e-mail addresses the question is really why aren't more things like sim cards. (which is kind of what Apple is trying to do these days?)
And it runs Java!
On the contrary, it is the result of a concerted effort to reduce friction.

With SIM cards, users can switch to a new phone by just moving the SIM, or switch to a new provider while keeping their phone (assuming its unlocked) by just replacing the SIM.

Prior to SIM cards phones where frequently programmed to be tied to a specific provider.

A pure software solution could work, but requires the network operators to be able to trust the phone manufacturers to secure it well enough to not let end users change things in ways they're not supposed to (e.g. consider a hacker harvesting authentication details from phones). The SIM card is the simple solution.
SIM cards actually make it far easier to switch carriers. Compare the competition in the European market where SIM portability has been there from day 1 to the situation with CDMA carriers in the US and their refusal to reprogram ESNs.

A software solution would quickly devolve into the US CDMA system where you have to get a whole new phone to change providers.
I haven't kept track, but last time I read about it, DMCA lobbyists managed to get a pretty absurd restriction into the exemption: Cars may only be repaired by their owners, so handing your car over to a repairman or to researchers would still be illegal.

This means in practice the excemption would only change things for people who are both highly skilled in the relevant technology and are interested in fixing their own cars - a very small subset of the initial group of people affected by the DMCA restrictions.

Does anyone know if that restriction is still present?
It is always amusing for people to debate about 'open source' and how licenses work. They, as the CEO of Wix has, repeat the same misunderstandings time and time again. You don't need a lawyer. You don't need an opinion. Set aside 15 minutes of your day and actually read the license. It is not complicated.
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I don't use Twitter, but I though it gave the story a stronger 'live' feeling, making it more engaging. It made it easier to share the feeling of joyful discovery the author experienced.
The github mobile site doesn't have search. If your mobile site doesn't provide all the features your desktop site does, you're asking me to make a choice between features and usability - and I'll usually choose features.
Agree with so much of this, but definitely not with #28. White space has become a design curse. I know how to manage information; I'm not bewildered if I see a lot of it in one place, and I don't need to be guided through it.

And I'm truly tired of clicking ellipses to 'see more' Just load the damn page, load the damn comments and paginate. Abandoned Gawker for this reason long ago.
It would be nice if calling things "Total Nightmare" did not become a trend.

I've seen more of this negative rhetoric lately and I suspect it's influenced by Trump's speech patterns of describing everything as a "Total Disaster, Sad!"

It's not a constructive way of speaking, and it's hurtful and discouraging to whatever or whomever it is criticizing. That's likely why Trump does it.

How about changing the title to "USB-C adapter confusion: what can we do to improve this?"
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My 5 yo phone eventually died at the beginning of October. I put the SIM in my tablet and I kept going until I received the new one two days later. A pure software solution would have worked as well, but the SIM is an authentication token. 2FA are all the rage nowadays and if we went pure software I bet we'll have to use a separate token anyway.
Pentagon is notorious for steeling other people's inventions under secrecy laws. They probably already have some big defense contractor building exact replicas of his boat in secret right now.
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I tried reds and its worse than chiclet or butterfly keys, a lot of mistyping. I bet it's good for games though. Blues are annoying, the browns are the sweet spot.
> we had trolleys of various forms you could load your bags on to

and a man or boy you paid to push the trolley. Much more civilised.
I wonder, why NYTimes is not banned here???
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That license change would only apply to the changes and additions, any of the original code would still be MIT licensed, also if the changes are trivial then the whole re-license might fall through.

Copyright would still lie with the original authors as well, after all sub-licensing allows you to pass on the rights that you already have, but does not give you any new rights.

Since the MIT license is mostly a super-set of the GPL you will lose some of the MIT parts if you sublicense but if you wish to gain more rights than what the MIT license already provides you with it will likely not work when tested in court. The best way to deal with stuff like this is to stick to the original license unless you have consulted with an IP lawyer that signed off on your plan, it is very easy to get these things subtly wrong.
I actually think it's the opposite. I've met many high-falutin designers who seem to care more about an abstract vision and theory then practical terms.

I've seen designers coddled and defended against avalanches of negative feedback under dubious auspices that users don't know what they want or that it's a natural thing to complain...

I envision whenever I see these redesigns that there's some Im-so-smart person on staff from like mit media lab that was given dictatorial power over the interface and features, had no actual idea what they were doing, but had too much of an ego to ever admit to it.

The real "most clever" thing you can do is be useful and get out of the way.
At least make the example straight: The majority of the neighborhood decided that all lawns should be mowed, because they don't want unmowed lawns that are bad for the economy.

And that neighborhood are the only ones who protect you from the squatters outside with nuclear weapons ready to take the lawn, so they think they have a say. (Unfortunately you are surrounded by neighbors on all sides, so they cannot stop rendering protection services due to laws of geometry). And they are the descendants of the neighbors who helped your great-great-grandfather take the lawn from the Indians in the first place.

I don't agree that there are cleae cut simple examples when it comes to property.
Pointer is not initialized, program will crash.
In music it may even be worse, because the top conservatories award a good number of full scholarships. A high percentage of the students who go on to have successful careers are already great when they arrive, full scholarship in hand.

In many cases, the demographic that actually pays the sky high tuition isn't getting the best version of the school. They aren't in the elite ensembles or the advanced courses with famous teachers. Launching a successful career from that starting point is even more difficult, debt aside.
One place where the MSDN docs is way ahead of the manpages is the documentation of function paramters. For instance, here's the ouput of man 2 write.

ssize_t write(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count);

DESCRIPTION
write() writes up to count bytes from the buffer pointed buf to the file referred to by the file descriptor fd.

The number of bytes written may be less than count if, for example, there is insufficient space on the underlying physical medium, or the RLIMIT_FSIZE resource limit is encountered (see setrlimit(2)), or call was interrupted by a signal handler after having written less than count bytes. (See also (7).)

For a seekable file (i.e., one to which lseek(2) may be applied, for example, a regular file) writing takes place at the file offset, and the file offset is incremented by the number of bytes actually written. If the file was open(2)ed with O_APPEND, the file offset is first set to the end of the file before writing. The adjustment of the file offset and the write operation are performed as an atomic step.

I have to go through a block of text scanning for the parameter I'm interested in. When I'm using the manpage as a reference (which is most of the time), this is less than ideal.

MSDN indexes the documentation by parameter so you can quickly find what you're interested in.

LE. Sample msdn link for comparison: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3... .
The problem we have in the UK is that multiparty politics has arrived and the existing First Past the Post system has the same problems and more. For example, it has a habit of handing power to a party without a majority of votes (randomly, when it doesn't produce coalitions).

If you take the view that majority rule and minority rights is necessary for democracy, a majority government without a majority of votes is a problem. If you don't take that view, then you would probably want a different non-proportional voting system, but we've already rejected AV (instant runoff voting) in a referendum.
This is a nice example of how much work goes into a good implementation: http://www.exploringbinary.com/how-strtod-works-and-sometime...
So do you also do this with men?
Logic and coherence appear to be playing an ever decreasing role in your comments.
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I think the title is a good metaphor for the events described in the linked tweet storm. I might have clicked on the link as titled, but had it not been a Sunday morning, I might not have done.

As it stands, I did. Following a lengthy tweet storm, not really knowing where it was taking me; Almost gave up at one point until I noticed the "Show More" button; And found myself enjoying a stranger's wonderment at something dear to their heart that took them completely by surprise.
He is very new to this mechanical keyboard thing. He can be forgiven that he is not familiar with the different types on that account.
Exactly. It seems the less people know about web tech, the more third party stuff the add to a website. And then they wonder why the visitors drop off and hate the sites. Some website got so bad, that they crash mobile browsers due excessive CPU/memory usage. As you mentioned server side generated code with eg PHP and HTML5, CSS3 and JS5+ is in many cases all you need to know.
I've seen countless people of the years plug their phone cable into the Ethernet port.
Sure, maybe a tiny utility one.

Actual workhorse? Those can have 200L or 400L or even bigger tanks - when you go out in the field you are going to stay there until the work is done (or the day is done). So account for 10 or 12 or more hours of work.

So let's take the best case scenario - 200L tank on a machine that takes ~10 gallons (say 50L)

40% efficiency for the diesel engine cuts energy available from the tank giving us 3040kWh for 4 hours of work of not-the-biggest machine

That is ~225 powerWALLS (at 5,500$ a pop it gives us 1,237,500$), The weight is 27000 kg

That is 16 powerPACKS 2 (wiki doesn't say if those are available really) - at 145,100$ a pop it comes out to 2,321,600 - but it might be wiki numbers, it also says 445$/kWh - it comes out to 1,352,800$ - more reasonable compared to powerwalls, the weight is ~26000kg

That is for a small-ish (relatively) machine with 200L tank, for 4h of work...

Now take a 20 gallon/h that works for 10 hours.

And finally, we come to the issue of lifespan. In work machines you are going to be using close to nominal power for the whole time it's working - batteries don't like that, they get hot, the cells might die and worst of all it really damages even the working ones

Then there is an issue of ground pressure - you don't want your machine sinking into the ground and fucking it up
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I'm not talking about unmowed laws that are bad for the economy though. That's a negative externality for which there are many more justifications for government intervention (though not for an income tax).

It you want to nitpick on my thought experiment, you could also bring up the fact that a lawn is on top of land, and that there are strong moral arguments against an individual having a natural right to absolute private ownership over land, which in turns provides various justifications for government dictating land-use rules and collecting taxes on land/real-estate.

But I was not trying to make a comment on negative externalities or the right to private land ownership.

I was making the point that the government spending money on something, and this action ending up benefiting you, does not grant the government the moral right to threaten you with imprisonment to force you to pay for that something.
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The Yubikey Neo and similar gadgets are pretty much the same thing as USB smart cards. The software could be improved but in the end it is a pretty convenient way to achieve two factor authentication.
Better make sure that country is a proper friend. If you take stealth tech to somewhere like china you can expect a noose if you decide to come back.
Thanks for making my point for me.
> How about you act like a decent human being instead of making ridiculous strawman arguments against me?

Love the calls for civility from the person proposing that anti-discrimination laws were bad. Also "the free baby market" isn't really a leap from any of these hardcore libertarian views.

> In Western countries in general, social welfare spending is substantially higher now, as a percentage of GDP, than it was before the 1970s. Social democracy on the scale we have today is a relatively recent phenomenon.

This has absolutely nothing to do with program expansion, it has to do with an aging population. It's an increased percentage of GDP because the population is skewing older:
https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/images/pubs...

> Regarding your claim that welfare reform has had "horrendous" consequences, it is overly narrow and simply assumes no broader and longer-term negative consequences from compulsory income redistribution.

We can debate about how absurd it is to say that the 50% of the population who can't work (and would provide basically nil extra productivity to the labor force if they were unjustly forced to rejoin it) shouldn't have income redistributed to them, but I suspect this is a point of philosophy we'll never agree on.
yeah that made me think the guy who made the list is taking the list :p just that some of the points he made are in the UX book. it's very similar definition of what UX design is since it's about improving user experience, rather than streamlining user productivity.

but that #0... cheeky.
Development is the risk involved in that business no? After you have a contract you are guaranteed to sell a certain number of units and the risk disappears. Seems like a good way to private the gains and socialize the losses.
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To allow for fixes in the field. You can't really repair hardware once it is shipped, but you can reprogram an FPGA to fix a problem in a bunch of logic so it is better to have that logic in an FPGA than to have it hardwired.

Don't be surprised if an upgrade to your OS also reprograms that FPGA.
don't you wonder why kids so close to you across the canadian border don't have these problems/dilemas at all?
Doesn't every login form on the web also protect the respective operator from the subscriber? Why can't a "software SIM" simply be a username and a password?

My explanation is that it's difficult to change something that literally the entire world uses.
A very much cut down version of Java https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card
Actually there is at least one company already offering Remote-Sim-Provisioning. https://medium.com/@ComfortWay_Glob/cwsim-freedom-of-connect...

They are selling local data-plans abroad without switching the SIM card by implementing RSP.
Calls are coming in 2017, also promising a portable phone number later that year.
The game has changed in major ways and contraception is one key part. Sex is detached from reproduction.
nice, been meaning to pick one of these up
In theory, couldn't their market be commercial rather than just defense/government ? Couldn't the propulsion system still be built for a non-radar deflecting passenger/payload structure on the top ?

Or their goal from get go was to be able to become a defense contractor/supplier ?

[EDIT]:Just saw the video again. The primary goal indeed is to cater to the defense segment.
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Well, they at least they no longer leak them to the servers of every application provider on their smartphone.
>Love the calls for civility from the person proposing that anti-discrimination laws were bad.

You say that as if saying anti-discrimination laws are wrong is uncivil. That is just whole different level of close-mindedness and intolerance to ideological unorthodoxy. I'm half-expecting you to call me a heretic.

You're completely missing the fact that I consider forcing (through threats of imprisonment) people to surrender their private property as a punishment for private discrimination to be extremely uncivil, due to its use of violence.

>Also "the free baby market" isn't really a leap from any of these hardcore libertarian views.

Deal with my arguments, not straw man arguments that you conjecture into existence.

>This has absolutely nothing to do with program expansion, it has to do with an aging population.

You clearly didn't read it.

Annual spending growth on various components of social welfare spending (1972 - 2011):

Pensions and retirement: 4.4%

Healthcare: 5.7%

Welfare: 4.1%

Annual economic growth over the time frame:

2.7%

Now that I've substantiated my claim that welfare AND social welfare spending have grown tremendously, you're trying to move the goalposts. You ridiculed me with your snarky put-down when I made the claim, and it turned out to be absolutely correct.

Your "but but" argument just shows how far your intellectual dishonesty goes.

>We can debate about how absurd it is to say that the 50% of the population who can't work (and would provide basically nil extra productivity to the labor force if they were unjustly forced to rejoin it) shouldn't have income redistributed to them,

Should we throw people in prison for not living up to your moral standards and giving to the poor?

You're ignoring this authoritarian aspect of what you're endorsing.