skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really ought to know better by now, but I'll bite.

> libertarians have been saying for a long time that it's best to keep government as local as possible, so you could choose how you wanted to live

... and maximize the reach of the market, which is more global than any government on Earth, and in practice works in the opposite way: organize your life around making yourself useful to those with money, fast, or you will starve. If that means uprooting your family and moving someplace where you can work yourself to an early grave in the coal mines, so be it. If that means neglecting your duty as sherriff and looking the other way while the company machine-guns striking workers, so be it. If that means giving blowjobs to strangers on the street, So. Be. It. Such liberty! Very freedom.

> Libertarians have been saying that judges should do their best to interpret the meaning of the legislators

... unless they're striking down regulations that are a result of government overreach, which is quite OK.

Every corner of the political spectrum accuses judges of judicial activism precisely when the rulings don't go their way. It's like complaining about the referee in sports, except easier, because laws for society are much more complicated than the rules for sports, which are complicated enough. Yesterday's legislators and their laws agreed with each other about as well as today's legislators and their laws, which is to say "not at all," so everyone has a claim to the judicial activism argument and everyone uses it when they want to sound insightful but don't want to expose themselves to the risks of talking specifics. Yawn.

> All along, those promoting local government rather than central, unescapable authority have been derided as fascists by liberals.

That usually happens when local government is being especially asinine -- buying their police department tanks, targeting minorities, making poverty illegal, making protests illegal, etc. Local != benevolent. Local != escapable, either, because opinions and incentives tend to be highly correlated between communities, so even if it is worth it to up and move you'll find that every other "local" government is doing the same damn thing. Options without choice. Something that should be all too familiar to free-marketeers ;)

> Now the chickens come home to roost. Do you think now that maximizing and centralizing and moving out of reach as much power as possible was a good idea?

Even if we wanted, an option to federate power was never really on the ballot. All parties want power, that's why they seek it. Everyone thinks they are right, or else they would change their opinion, and everyone wants (reasonably) to fight for what is right. Show me a politician who wants to devolve power and I'll show you a liar. They may not know it yet, especially if they've never won power, but it's true.
there is no evidence that you are looking for evidence.
Glad to hear that someone else finds this direction interesting. I actually built something in that direction half a year ago: https://owleo.com

But I mostly abandoned it for now, as expii.com seems to be pretty close to what I wanted to have. Also since I finished my studies, my learning changed to be more explorative and need-driven, which didn't fit well into the thinking behind Owleo.
rideaustin.com isn't exactly what you're looking for, but it's a push in that direction.

Cell411 has decentralized ride-sharing, with payment via cryptocurrency
I fail to see how civil rights legislation or Loving v Virginia allowed the creation of the NSA.

It appears that most surveillance programs are operated under the foreign intelligence and/or defense umbrella, a part of government that has been centralized longer than the country itself exists.

I'd also like to see a few examples of states vigorously opposing these programs. I mean – so many of them are willing to overstep their authority when it comes to hot-button issues such as the widespread voter fraud that some must have tried to get creative to stop surveillance, right?
Sigh...I guess I'll be sticking with web dev.
I don't think there's a serious question here. I'm sorry if you don't feel like I'm engaging your argument; it may genuinely be thoughtful but just comes across as intentionally ignorant.

EDIT: I'm going to engage with this even though the premise of the request bothers me significantly.

Here is Trump announcing his candidacy, declaring Mexican immigrants rapists and drug dealers (but it's okay, he's sure there are some good people there, too): https://youtu.be/q_q61B-DyPk?t=7m57s

And here is our President-elect advocating for sexual assault: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wM248Wo54U

That's just a taste. I encourage you to wade deeper into this muck if you're unfamiliar with it.
It's also used to mean product manager. OP should've spelled this out to get better answers.
In other posts, you make a big deal of evidence, so where is your evidence here?
The decision about what to publish is journalistic.

It seems they have published thoughts about surveillance previously though.

http://nation.time.com/2013/10/04/what-happened-to-obamas-ns...

http://nation.time.com/surveillance-society/
Donald Trump’s Election Leaves Angela Merkel as the Liberal West’s Last Defender
As someone not living a place with huge, straight highways with perfect asphalt, I haven't seen anything making me believe it will be generally available soon.

Right now I'm in the mountains. Narrow, icy roads. Thick snow fall, making some of the sensors already available unreliable.

The Google approach is to map everything before hand, and mostly easy conditions. Tesla somewhat more general, but still not too difficult roads. Volvo has been the only one I've seen with something that might tackle these issues.
Based on your description, I think your tl;dr was meant to read as, "Banning bags has no measurable benefit."
I'm old...
Obama supporters were all for mass surveillance when it was their guy doing it. So it's more like the firefighters showed up hours ago and you told them not to put out the fire because it was only burning someone else's room.
Ahh, makes sense now. The emulator sounds like it does an outstanding job of functionally reproducing the APU, but clearly doesn't capture the analog LPF contributions of the original architecture[1] (2nd and 4th pages apply).

An improvement to the NES Classic will necessarily have to come in software as a DSP LPF either within the emulator application or at the OS level (someone mentioned seeing alsa during boot??). Nevertheless, a passive analog hack is definitely not going to be applicable.

[1] http://www.freeinfosociety.com/electronics/schemview.php?id=...
Exactly. It's totally inaccurate to blame our domestic spying apparatus on liberal initiatives to protect human rights. It's the inevitable result of fearful citizens on both sides of the aisle ceding their rights in response to war, terrorism, and foreign enemies.
Any alternatives for state machine/business flow in other languages/platforms worth to take a look at? I was actually looking for something more or less like this and I was thinking about python, but I'm open to evaluate Stateless or other solutions in other languages too...
I really don't know, I have little basis for weighing up those testimonies; It is up to the law to investigate, not the media.

Would you detest wiki-leaks because Assange is a rapist?

When one of the more alarming lawsuits (not just media chatter) has so many problems: http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/3/13501364/tr... I'm more than a little skeptical...
Honestly, this is the first way I read it as well.
Ask HN: If democracy were to be invented today, what would it look like?
The idea of ubiquitous and powerful computers in eveyrone's possession contributing to some global processing while they're idle, is actually fascinating.
Interesting - do they at least give you less of the "reuseable bag"s?

On that note, whenever I've seen these bans I always assumed they worked similar to what Aldi's does around where I live (And I presume everywhere): They have no bags at all, and simply have things like discarded boxes that you can use to carry your food out with. You can purchase an actual reusable bag, but besides that there are no bags. That said, I can see how that might be tough for stores with more customers, and in places where you may be carrying your food a ways and not just to your car. Being from a suburb in Ohio I can't say I know tons about living in Chicago ;) But the setup does work well over here and absolutely decreases the number bags. Aldi's is the only one that does it though.
The Rise of Illiberal Democracy (1997)
I will second this, that book was fantastic. I hope the movie is as good as the story, but I don't think it will.
>> So you say Redis acts as a magic faerie dust that eases integration process? How?

> I guess what I said was too vague. It should have been "it makes an RPC-like system easier to integrate when you already have Redis".

OK, let's work with this: in what way is Redis helping here over XML-RPC or
JSON-RPC? What kind of problems does it solve that are pain in the ass with
the other RPC protocols? (And now don't take my word that it doesn't, try to
justify your choice, and next time start your README with that.)

I'm not against custom protocols or adding daemons to a system (I've
recently(ish) written a set of RPC daemons with their own protocols; the
daemons are replacing Celery task queue, which itself is a widely tested
software), they just have a decent reason to be introduced. Additional
complexity just needs to pay for itself somehow.
Is it true or is it reactionary drivel? Come on.
Wait, so unaccountable billionaires pouring money into politics is now a good thing all of a sudden? Between this and the 180 on surveillance I am getting serious whiplash.
> Third-party Bitcoin payments services typically take a 1% fee.

This is not accurate. Bitpay (most popular payment provider) charges you only if you settle (convert your BTC to USD).

If you are going through an exchange (bitfinex for example), you'll pay 0.2% for taker rates.

0.8% seems reasonable enough for me considering that Bitpay provides a decent interface and decent tools.
Yes, you are. The best opportunities are in cross-field expertise, so keep working as a PM, but learn coding and other software development disciplines in parallel. Don't underestimate the management contribution to the quality of the code and to the final result: through building the right process, through the deep understanding of development team needs, weaknesses and strengths you may influence the resulting product much more than one of the coders. Everyone can code or learn to code - it is much harder both to possess the coding skills and manage people at the same time.
Trump Confirms He Just Googled Obamacare for the First Time
What is it an instance of? You maintain your own server for no good reason, except more control over the paper-trail; something explicitly disallowed.
This whole election, every time Nate Silver made a prediction about Trump, it turned out to be wrong.

That's a 100% failure rate.

Now, they're trying to claim that they were the least wrong? LOL.
I completely agree. The word sharing economy basically means "regulation loophole".

For Uber "sharing" is a way to get around employment laws and taxi regulations.

For AirBnB it is a way to get around zoning laws and hotel regulations.
Among other things, spreadsheets allow you to see and fix one-off errors caused by bad data. A "real" programming language is great when you have clean data, but the real world is messy and businesses generally don't devote enough effort to cleaning data. So the person doing the analysis usually has to both scrub the data and do the calculations.
I don't know what the alien script in the movie looked like, but in the book (if I remember correctly) they started out from a point and spread outwards, drawing connectedly on the entire page.
Thanks, tremendous feedback. Seeing as you're making a card game system this feedback is invaluable to me. There are so many things I would want to ask you. Would you like to join our discord? https://discord.gg/0q1HOSYDXzcJRg7h (Invite open to anyone btw, let's talk!)

These are all important questions and I'll be using this to help make our FAQ.

1) You own all rights to the game. We're just a host. The terms page will detail it. All cards and code is now available over the rest api and you can already export it. Check the network tab. There is a backend compiler for the dulst dsl that's our secret sauce, but if we ever end the project we'll open source that too. We're also planning on adding a "pro" mode with better/faster support, git based version control, and more code privacy so that your game can't be so easily copied. Right now the code is easily exportable.

2) 30-70

3) Yes, singleplayer is on the roadmap. Initially it won't be very sophisticated and we'll only support an onboarding / tutorialing process, however I expect it to get a lot better over time.

Thanks for all the compliments.

General:

1, 2, 3) Agreed. Thanks. Will send this to the designer.
4) Properties are used by rule cards. Rule cards are basically code but resides in the card effect building interface. You can find it on the rule cards tab when you go to the main card list. We'll improve the UI for this on the gameplay admin page, thanks.

5) Will fix thanks.

6, 7) Thank you will look into it.

8) The instructions for the new creator experience will be worked on. Right now the only way to understand it is to read the Rules.

9, 10) Rarity system will be improved and clarified with better docs. I'm unclear what you mean by decks in the last sentence. There is no way to precisely define what cards appear when, just higher rarities appear in higher packs on the market. This is the only place where rarity is used atm. Right now the rarity system is simplistic but I wanted to make the default experience somewhat fool-proof creators. I would love more feedback on what you would like to see so we can add more features for people that want advanced controls over card drops.

11) CSS editing is available. There's a button for it on the left in the board editor. Positioning the board elements is done in JS and not CSS. Hopefully it'll become clearer. We're going to be making some videos explaining this. Binding code to them is done in the Rule cards.
This is Brilliant. The Clintons did a good job in the mid 90s bridging this gap, but when you are in the middle you get shot at from both sides. The recent progressive coalition tended to not recognize a middle.
How Hillary Can Still Win
Can you please mark your comment as containing spoilers?
Like much of hckrnews, I've stopped supporting AirBnB. Though we are usually extremely supportive of disruptive startups, the tide is starting to turn [1]

AirBnB and Uber are both profiting from "disruptive innovation," or rather facilitating illegal actions. Both benefit the consumer but damage the community. It's like buying a stolen bicycle.

AirBnB: Transforms residential housing into (in most jurisdictions) illegal hotels. Ask a local renter in NY or YVR how that's working out for them.

Uber: Losing crazy amounts of VC cash to [often illegally] compete against traditional companies that must be cashflow positive. It's not a level playing field. Laws exist so that drivers could make a livable wage; Uber is devaluing the medallions they've invested in.

Is this really how we want the world to see us?

Real disruptive innovations already have huge social implications: autonomous vehicle fleets, mobile phones, data collection/mining, machine learning, CRISPR, cryptocurrency - the list is very long.

Why do we elevate companies like AirBnB and Uber that circumvent laws for profit to be our champions and unicorns?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11930080
And those voices would then vote to elect and re-elect Clinton, and advocate for her every chance they get, as most of them did this year.
I wouldn't be discouraged. I just had a look and parts 1 - 4 are simple maths, and everyone should know those maths anyway. Then part 5 is application of simple arithmetics (except questions 8 and 12) to options, which means if you already know arithmetics you only need to learn what an option is.

What I mean is that you should be learning basics maths anyway, and when you know a bit you can solve all those questions.

What a lot of people could benefit from is learning how to learn.

EDIT: Thanks for downvotes guys. Should I also downvote when someone says "don't be discouraged with distributed systems, or asynchronous programming" etc? I don't know those things, so maybe I should downvote those people?
But you will go to the movie anyway, fully knowing that it will not meet your expectations... ;)

(Also, free will vs time seem to be one of his favourite themes - at least two other stories are about that.)
Thank you.

I looked at jrcii's account and see what you describe: jrcii was feeling his oats after the elections and took a Trumpic victory lap by posting a pretty snarky comment on YC. In that comment jrcii disses:

climate warning, "Silicon Valley people, LA people, NYC people, city people, liv[ing] in a bubble formed by the urban politics around you and reinforced by liberal college professors, the liberal students they create, and the liberal mass media. This is simply not reality for vast swaths of the country."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12917083

OK, so he does this once, just once. There's no pattern of misbehavior. He didn't threaten anyone (no "Second Amendment People" comin'!). For all we know he's the last conservative in SF and needs to blow off steam.

YC is a great forum. I think it harsh for a techie to be banned for a single scattergun comment especially after a heated election. I would think a caution would be better at this juncture, or even some ribbing: "OK, we hear you celebrating! Your guy won this time. But soon we'll find out whether he can ride the horse!" or such.
No, not crazy, people change careers all the time. My suggestion would be to go over your reasons with someone like a counselor to determine if they are true for you or not. What I mean is, you said some things that are made up meanings. If you're cool with what you made up, then no worries, it's just something to look at, that you may be convincing yourself that "if I do this, then I'll finally feel fulfilled." (Not sure if this is true for you)

Like "I don't feel like I am building tangible skills as a PM, it is more about project management and coordinating." Perhaps you are learning many tangible skills (just not ones you prefer). Also, "I have a feeling tremendous opportunity will be available over the next 10 years to software developers while other disciplines such as management become less and less important." That could be true, but maybe it won't be.

My 2 cents
This research is valuable, but the quality of this paper seems rather lacklustre. Do research well or don't do it at all. Don't publish an un-peer-reviewed paper with the phrase "is parroted by" in it.

The scope is too wide considering the research it draws from - pick a sub-topic like "plastic bag restrictions effect on tonnage of plastic recovered from street surfaces".

Drawing a chart of "number of bag bans"? Really? We could make that down to one if we just outlawed it nationwide. It isn't a sensible thing to measure.

I really want to see this research done well, but sadly this isn't it.
GNOME 3 went all the way with the paradigm shift.

On OS X and Windows these are just stamped on features and the old crud is everywhere.

On Windows 10 there are 4 versions of "Control Panel". You can not access new settings from the old ones, and vice versa.
Like Calexit, this proposal is so unrealistic as to be unserious and not worth discussing.

What is needed now are technologies of resistance. We need the private sector companies who essentially built this monster to give us the tools to render it nugatory. Not only is that the only way forward, but they owe us that.
This is a great idea, I can tell you from personal experience of running a coding school for 5 years that over 50% of inquiries we get in regards to adult classes have to do with spreadsheet skills. Some adults even think that Python will make them better at Excel macros. This is a great niche to be in, I think as you improve the UI and learning experience you'll find a lot of people who will benefit greatly from this!
> So if you decide not to have kids and you don't have a brother or sister who can keep the bloodline going that is an absolutely fine choice, but it's also a shame that that genetics and traits that were passed down for centuries get lost.

That's silly, unless you family has been has been having a single child for each generation the last 9 centuries, the genes of your ancestors from back then will probably be in hundreds or thousands of people living today. On average, people have been having more than two children per family for hundreds of years, so each generation you go back will have exponentially more descendants, and up to some limit the number of ancestors you have also doubles each generation you go back. Of course once you go back far enough it turns out we're all related.

So it may be the case that some of the genes of your direct parents will not get passed on if you and your siblings never have children. But it's extremely unlikely that this means the end of a 900 year bloodline.
I can only speak for myself here, but for me having Blink means that I can travel for a week and not bring my laptop. Other apps like Prompt were pretty decent, but Blink has brought all the pain points (compared to my Macbook) to (almost) zero, through faster rendering and its amazing support for shortcuts and remapping the keys an the Smart Keyboard. I mostly do development of numeric software, so even when I'm working on the Mac, I'm always just connected to the development server or cluster nodes, with tmux + vim.
Moore’s and Eroom’s Law in a Graph
> These services can only be called "sharing" economy if they operate at zero profit and their app code is open source.

That's a very weird claim. It's like saying information economy can be called so only if everybody uses open source and nobody is making profit from information. That's just nonsense. Making profit is part of the economy - in fact, a vital part, an engine that makes the economy move, and using open source has nothing to do with this at all. I get that Stallman wants everybody to use open source - but it has nothing to do with economy. It's a moral ideal Stallman strives to, and it's fine, but economy can be economy with or without it, so can sharing economy.

> I think they should and pretty soon will be public services

They won't, unless the government forces them to and kills them by that.

> Furthermore, these should be local services, catering to the specific circumstances of the city or town they operate in, obeying the local customs and so on.

Nobody prevents you from doing that, but it's harder than you think. And on local level taxi lobby will swat such service like a fly. Uber can resist it because they are big enough to put up a fight. Volunteer non-profit service won't stand a snowball's chance in a volcano.
Because it would have been buried otherwise.
I really wish Nintendo or Sega would come out with an official retro WiFi appliance that allows one to buy classic games from an "App Store" and play multiplayer player games over the network. They have the extensive catalog of retro games to make money (NES/SNES/N64 or Master system/Genesis) and it wouldn't take that much hardware to do it.
The .ch is a 301er to the .com.
Hours (2013) with Paul Walker was quite good [1].

As far as I can tell, having followed this writer for a while, a lot comes down to opportunity and demonstrating talent within the spaces you are given opportunities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hours_(2013_film)
I think you're right, but your phrasing is a bit odd. If you adopt, you are explicitly not passing on your genes. I think a better word here is 'memes' (in the original sense) or 'values' if 'memes' is too polluted.