skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This, which is also ironic considering what happened in the late 1700's. No Government should ever program itself to be resilient to change. Such a thing is a virus, not a Government.

"Ok kids, we're going to play a game called 'I get a unique power but you can never take it away no matter what!' starting now!"
About controlling people in a democracy, there's a great documentary, "Manufacturing consent" featuring Noam Chomsky.

See [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent:_Noam_...

Seems to be available full-length on YouTube: [http://youtu.be/YHa6NflkW3Y](http://youtu.be/YHa6NflkW3Y)
Signaling theory dictates that cheaper price can be a primary source of detraction, not aspiration. Cheaper never yields "coolness."
> "mind you TF adds 80 per day, so we are picky for now)"

TF adds only a handful of new Wordpress themes per day.
The longevity of European-style washers varies a lot. I had a cheap top loading model break after three years -- the mounts of the plastic enclosure around the drum broke, and there was no way to fix it. Those parts are made of steel in better washing machines, so those last a lot longer.
I've really become more and more for states' rights as time goes on. It's very clear that most states (especially rural states) fundamentally disagree with California, New York, and the other blue strongholds.

I want to preserve the culture I grew up in. I want everyone to contribute to society. I want a culture where what you get is what you worked for. I don't want "diversity" or a bunch of people from other countries to move to the town I grew up in.

Having moved to California from Iowa, I can totally understand how Californians value diversity and equality (not necessarily equal opportunity) above all else. But where I'm from, people value equal opportunity and hard work. It's very hard to see the merit in one culture, being from the other.

In my mind, it would be an absolute travesty to allow the distant majority to vote for the destruction of the culture I grew up in.
Gentoo is none of those, although the main "idea" of Gentoo - the compilation - scares a lot of people away. Suffice it to say that I was somewhat against Gentoo until I put it on an old, failing desktop - it absolutely purrs.

If you stick with a tiling WM and don't install GNOME/KDE/whatever, the compilation is far from being a persistent problem, and I say this as someone on a usually <1 Mbps Indian internet connection. (Except for Firefox, that is. But you can get a binary package for that.) I do worry about unfixable package management trouble in the future, though...
Gentoo is none of those, although the main "idea" of Gentoo - the compilation - scares a lot of people away. Suffice it to say that I was somewhat against Gentoo until I put it on an old, failing desktop. If you stick with a tiling WM and don't install GNOME/KDE/whatever, the compilation is far from being a persistent problem. (Except for Firefox, that is. But you can get a binary package for that.)
I think you’re taking my comment rather more personally than is reasonable. I don’t have any idea what you believe, who you sympathize with, etc.

You said “Cohesion of the whole can be impaired despite all the parts being of good quality, if they do not fit together very well.”

This sort of vague analogy has been a common rhetorical device used by anti-immigrant populists trying to stir up nativist resentment for 150+ years, without any strong evidence that it’s true. I’m calling the specific sentence out for being usually, in my opinion, toxic nonsense.

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To answer your previous points:

As for the effect of immigration on labor markets during the Gilded Age, I’m not enough of an expert to say. That sounds like a topic which could fill a few academic research careers in labor history and produce several books (or probably has).

On the other hand, the research I’ve seen about low-skill immigration from Latin America in the past few decades has seemed reasonably convincing that such immigration has not had dramatic downward effects on wages for native workers and on average has boosted local wages by strengthening the economy generally, and that downward pressure on wages for unskilled factory work, etc., has a lot more to do with other factors (changes to labor law, global trade, automation, etc.). There’s obviously a lot of debate and controversy about the precise details.

> Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, etc weren't drastically more corrupt than the United States a hundred years ago, were they?

Well, they were all feudal societies with a landed aristocracy ruling by force of arms, with most of the migrants being rural peasant farmers driven off the land (often forcibly) and forced to migrate abroad due to population growth and lack of local employment opportunities. I’m not sure what you count as “corrupt”. In my opinion everything about a feudal society is inherently corrupt.

The situation of peasant farmers fleeing these countries is actually remarkably similar to the situation of migrants from southern Mexico in the 1980s–2000s. If you took my Irish ancestor’s story from the mid-19th century and set it side by side with the story of a rural Mexican peasant migrant from 1995, and changed all the names in both stories, you wouldn’t be able to tell which one was which.
Reagan was not a particularly popular actor, and only rose to national prominence as a political figure. So no, not like Reagan.
Definitely not a must, I guess he may be referfing to how immutability and pure functions bring great benefits for writing concurrent programs.
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This is great and all in words, but in reality a lot of democratic decisions end up with really close counts like 51% against 49%. If you look at it like this, a majority is forcing the minority into something even though there is actually a significant number of people it effects who are against the motion. This is far better than a dictatorship, but it is a flaw and something that human society still needs to find a solution too.
It's totally not.

One thing I think this conversation has highlighted is the way we think about risks to us as individuals and risks to us as a species. So whilst in the past, the thing that worried most people was illness, predation, starvation, conflict (and in parts of the world this is happening, but they are the exception)
Now our worries are expressed in nuclear war and climate change.

Perhaps in the future those global worries will manifest and it will be the worst time to be a human, but right now it is the safest. Less war, less famine, less disease, more food, better health.

I totally get that this statement flies in the face of what most people experience in their everyday reality - I feel that emotional pain as well - so whilst our physical wellbeing has improved, our ability to manage our own feelings is still difficult.
It's much more a game of wealth than of population.

India and China were the largest countries (or regions) of the world for most of the period from the fall of Rome through the early stages of industrialisation -- say the 17th century. But they lacked the global reach European nations established -- Portugal ("Bombay" comes from the Portuguese "Bom Bia", or "good harbour"), Spain, the Netherlands, and of course England.

What India and China will need to compete with the West is a large wealthy class. That's going to depend on both the absolute size of their economies (or their capabilities to extract wealth by other means), and the size and wealth of individual members of their wealthiest classes. China's economy is pulling even with that of the US, though how sustainably it can do so remains a question. It has over three times the population, though, so the mean wealth will be smaller.

What we're looking at though is the stratum of the ultra-rich. Here there's a fair argument that, say, China could produce more billionaires than the US, and if I'm remembering recent stats correctly, it's approaching that count. Again, though, that's somewhat shakey, and it helps to remember that such standings aren't based on liquid wealth (cash and equivalent holdings), but on the valuation of held assets. Should the Chinese or Indian economies collapse suddenly, those valuations will fall (of course, the same caveat applies in the US, UK, or EU).
That's always hard. I was involved in the arguments over this for Go. Most languages today have multidimensional array support inferior to FORTRAN. This is not only embarrassing, it's why some heavy number-crunching is still done in FORTRAN.

Some people want nice, simple, dense multidimensional arrays. Some want the ability to extract a square section from an array as a subarray. Some want that for N dimensions. Some don't want the overhead for that generality slowing down their matrix multiply. Some are content with arrays of arrays. Some want ragged arrays (rows not the same length). Some want arrays in a format a GPU can use.

Passing the buck to each package, though, results in recopying arrays as matrices move from a function in one package to a function in another. One reason people use MATLAB, FORTRAN, and Python's NumPy is that they at least have a standard representation and matrix functions interoperate. I'd argue for supporting dense arrays in the language (and the optimizer) and doing the fancy stuff in packages.
I agree, but I'm curious if there is a way to tell "for sure".
Homebrew is a "package manager" that has worse dependency management than a ham sandwich and a community that reacts to criticism with "don't talk to us, you're being negative".
The thriving Asian replica knock off market for high end goods would counter this argument though, I would think? I think the important distinction here is that people without the means to afford a real Apple device would be satisfied with a 'nearly Apple' facsimile.
The author speaks about the "provincial" partisans that exist between states, cities, and areas of the Union as if it's the byproduct of a failing Democracy. He or she points specifically to the different ways laws are written and enforced, as one example.

This is, to me, perhaps one the strongest strengths of our Republic. Different ideas and values can be thrive in different areas at the same time, and we can test and experiment with what's true and right.
But share photos, videos, information about who knows who, messanger and now whatsapp.

Edit: and which sites they visit and like.
If you're looking for a package manager which does not force applications to be installed system-wide, Nix in daemon mode (as used in NixOS) works wonders.
> The people that placed them on the frontstage already are in charge of it?

First off, there's no secret cabal of billionaires that's "in charge" of the economy. Let's dispense with the conspiracy theories.

Second, the group of people that has a disproportionate amount of economic influence (i.e. bankers and the extremely wealthy) generally supported Clinton and rallied extremely hard against Trump. I don't blame them; Trump's policies are bad for trade. But let's not pretend that they're both some sort of globalist illuminati puppets or something.

> I'd say that's perfectly representative of the type of misdirected anger that rises out of repeated failings of the system

You mean the sort of misdirected anger and other irrational motivations that would completely dictate the behavior of a "democratic economy"? Don't put your money where your mouth is; put someone else's money where your mouth is, and vote!

> I'm not proposing elected slavery,

Interesting, because that's the only meaningful interpretation of "democratic economy".

> I'd say your ability to vote, and decide mutually with other people the form society takes is your life being controlled by democracy.

Besides this statement being more or less incoherent, it also doesn't have anything to do with your earlier statement that

> if you believe democracy is a failure, you're saying that your ability to control your own life is a failure.

There is no connection between the decisions I make for myself and the decisions imposed on me by the whims of a political majority.
Figuring things out is a process. Don't expect to write production-ready code at first run.

Every step of the journey informs the outcome and sometimes the destination. Code and logic change -- so learn to program in ways hat adapt to change.

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Try new things and concepts in tiny single purpose projects.

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Ask for help, programmers like to explain things.

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Ask why from your business users. Multiple times, until you get the context. Once you have the context, you can create freely and come up with better ways to do things. If you don't position yourself in this way, you may end up with people trying to control you like they would a tool or a sock puppet. Having people's hands up your bum is no fun.

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Fight for uninterrupted focused time. This is your spice and the spice must flow.
Bills of rights don't address the problem of the majority voting to define crimes that suit themselves and punish the people who commit them, even if they're not very bad. For example, various drug and sex related laws that keep changing and we can never agree if something should be an important right to be supported or a crime to be punished.
The house has me concerned though. It seems too easy for a minority to overrule basic governmental functions.
Sounds like a lot of buzz words. Is there any papers or research you can provide links to to flush out the concept. Or maybe provide some insight yourself. There are millions of workers. How do they control the economy and coordinate? And syndicalist push in Europe and even the US is a proven failure of the idea.
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What's the alternative, assuming that you can't reach into peoples' heads and change their positions on an issue? Regardless of the decision, you would still have 51% of the population in support of it and 49% opposed (or vice versa, if the system were minority rules).

If I could reach into peoples' heads, there's a solution: "mind your own damn business". If we didn't care so much what other people did, then we wouldn't disagree so much. And in general, I think the world would be a better place if more people did this. But some fraction of issues will always affect multiple people (that's the whole point of government, after all).

And besides, nobody's yet invented a mind-control ray, and it would be pretty icky if they did. (There's a certain irony to altering peoples thoughts so that they care less about what other people think...)
I only ever had to deal with one of those.

I don't really like it.

I think all of my friends also have separate ones.
I'm an actual commuter in San Francisco. It is very dangerous. Just last month someone was stabbed on the bus I was about to get on, 1 block away. (http://hoodline.com/2016/10/woman-stabbed-last-night-on-7-ha...)

There are currently 6 crimes per every 100,000 miles on Muni (http://sfgov.org/scorecards/crimes-muni). If you commute 5 miles per day, that's 12,500 miles in a decade. I work near Civic Center, a dangerous area, so I assume it's probably 3x more dangerous than average so the equivalent of 37,000 miles. So each decade I ride transit, I'd be victim of over 2 police reported crimes.
It's not just the limited information space, however. There's also the solution space or "action space". A poker game-space is quite narrow compared to that of StarCraft because of pixel-wise differences. This is the main reason that makes StarCraft "much more realistic". In real life you have infinite moves and options with (almost) analog differences, whereas a game like Poker is much more discrete. Go is somewhere in between.

For instance, as any protoss player knows this all too well, a Zealot placed a mere pixel away from where it should could allow a stream of zerglings in, completely throwing any game plan you had up to that point out the window and enter crisis management mode. Usually this is a "mistake", which a computer may never make, but it needs to learn the relevance of such pixel-sized mistakes, which is unlikely to have as much of an impact in a poker game or Go game as it would in StarCraft.
I don’t like computers
> But I'd much rather have it than any system of forced social roles, where there is one person or small cabal of people who make the decisions and everyone else knows their job is simply to obey.

If Clinton wins the election in a few days, then at the end of her first term, you're looking at 32 years of only three families in the Whitehouse. If she wins a second term, then that's 36 years - almost two whole generations. It's symptomatic of how little things change at the top.

To be a big gun in US politics, you need so many connections and so much money that only a few people can do it. This election has had a two-year electioneering cycle, a ridiculous expense. The notion that 'anyone can become president' just doesn't pan out in reality.
Democracy and Capitalism are not a failure because they don't have better alternatives.
> Now the flagship iPhone can't be plugged into the flagship MacBook

You know that USB-C to Lightning cables exist, right?
What about HTML themes or other themes that do not include Wordpress?
>First off, there's no secret cabal of billionaires that's "in charge" of the economy. Let's dispense with the conspiracy theories.

Not at all what I'm trying to say, I don't think there's a shady room where rich people come to smoke cigars and plan out the election, in fact you actually agree with what I'm saying in the very next sentence:

"Second, the group of people that has a disproportionate amount of economic influence (i.e. bankers and the extremely wealthy) generally supported Clinton"

>I don't blame them; Trump's policies are bad for trade. But let's not pretend that they're both some sort of globalist illuminati puppets or something.

I agree, which is why I said Trump was a protest vote, a naive attempt at hitting back at the system whilst still completely supporting it. I don't know how you think I'm sitting here talking about illumaniti when you demonstrably agree with me about capitalist influence on the election?

>You mean the sort of misdirected anger and other irrational motivations that would completely dictate the behavior of a "democratic economy"? Don't put your money where your mouth is; put someone else's money where your mouth is, and vote!

I don't think you know enough about a democratic economy to be attacking the idea, evidently since you're still believing that I think a democratic economy can exist in a capitalist system.

>Interesting, because that's the only meaningful interpretation of "democratic economy".

Then I think you're very poor at reasoning, can I suggest "The Conquest of Bread" it's a great book that might help you on your journey to understand what I'm saying.
I really like ocaml, but it could do with better community management I think. Eg it's been more than one week that the links of the news section on the homepage result in a white page. This might deter newcomers to even try it.
Assuming 1400rpm and a 30cm radius loader, the edge is moving at over 150km/h. Probably close to 10kg material spinning around so that's a lot of energy. Not something I would like to be close to if it explodes.
It doesn't work when the population is composed of different social groups with vastly opposite systems of values. Iraq for example (I was born in Iraq).

We can already see a similar thing happening in America with different ethnic groups not getting along well together. I think this will only get worse over time.

Pro Trump and anti Trump camps are really about how a significant number of whites are not getting along with a significant number of Hispanics (and other ethnic groups).
> This is to say that the platform approach has the advantage of allowing actually informed/skeptical/intelligent people to do the talking. They can discuss subjects they know, at their own pace. Contrast with traditional journalism, where even when things go right you're still dealing with someone who's reporting on things outside their profession, probably on a deadline, and beset by an industry (public relations) basically devoted to deceiving them.

I agree with this. At least with site comments you get to read a variety of viewpoints and viewpoints are actively criticised so if some facts or perspectives are dubious it's usually really obvious. This isn't true when you stick to one news article which is sometimes nothing better than a long-form comment if it's poor journalism anyway. There is the hive mind aspect with commenting communities which is bad but you get similar group think on news sites and you have to engage your critical thinking skills at some point.
Maybe we should ask,

- is representative democracy a failure (in contrast with direct democracy[1])

- is a two-party system a failure (in contrast with a multiparty system[2])

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-party_system
As I stated, there is no alternative as of today, and that is the flaw. Its not terrible flaw, and I think that the democracies on this earth are far better than any other form of government, but maybe one day someone will think up the alternative. Mind control though would just be an uber-dictatorship.
Isn't the other advantage that VLC can play incomplete movie files? Any other players I have tried 'crash' on incomplete torrents, when VLC just fails until it finds the next I frame.
Same for me. Linux/Chromium or Linux/Firefox
I'm very excited about this! I've been waiting for something like this for a long time!

To me, the power here is in using the technology to foster local, human-scale interaction.

Intranets are totally underutilized. How many people do you know who can reliably transfer personal files over a local area network? Not nearly as many as those who know how to use google or send an email... that's absurd to me, given how ancient of an application file sharing is.

It's my opinion that the survival of the internet may very well rest on p2p webs like this.
Around here Miele is know as the rock solid ones.

We got a front loaded Miele washer for our wedding and it has a warranty for 10 years but is expected to easily last up to 20 with minor fixes.
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Very true, but if you dig down at the root causes of drug dealing and sex trafficking, you'll see a definite profit motive which drives these systems, that is capitalists which monopolize these trades and continue them for profit. Drug cartels are a perfect example, and basically all organized crime. People who voluntarily participate in these systems (i.e. drug dealers and prostitutes) do so usually out of desperation and the necessity of a capitalist society where poverty means participate in shady pursuits (especially when you're alienated from the work force due to blacklisting like having gone to prison) or go hungry.

I am however not saying that a purely democratic society would eliminate all of societies ills, I'm saying it would make many of the constructs which perpetuate these sorts of problems would become non-viable.
And then in 2 years time we have 1 less high speed usb-c port, when everything is using usb-c.

Seriously, you're spending 2.5K on a laptop but $20 on an adapter for a device using a usb-a port is too much?

This is just the typical Apple release bullshittery. No matter what they do, people want to complain for the sake of complaining.
>> I don't want "diversity" or a bunch of people from other countries to move to the town I grew up in.

Yet you have moved to California? Can you hear the irony?

>> It's very hard to see the merit in one culture, being from the other.

You don't have. You just have to accept other people think differently and want different things to you.
And what if that line was drawn and you are on the wrong side?
Unless of course those groups mix and form new ones. Unfortunately people like to self-segregate and push down others for their own cultural pride.