skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are over-generalizing the Dunning-Kruger effect in your strawman argument. Moreover, you might want to consider that its not intellectualism -v- anti-intellectualism but psuedo-intellectualism -v- anti-psuedo-intellectualism behind the Trump win. There is a difference.
He's trying to play off of his "I'm a business man" persona. By calling it a "contract" people are more likely to believe that he will honour it. Time will tell if that actually happens or not.
Sure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Afforda...

There you go. Because you can't read:
* There is in an individual mandate for insurance, you must have it, or you get hit with a tax penalty.

If you can afford insurance, we'll set up exchanges, and offer a subsidy to help offset the cost.

Employers over a certain size must offer healthcare.

* You can't drop people for preexisting conditions.

* You have to keep people on until age 27.

I can go on, but there's more.

If you're going to through out nonsense for premiums, I'll remind you that subsidies go up, and premiums always go up regardless of the law.
And failing that, LED indicators, which you could have on your case.

Maybe someone can program a Mac's camera light indicator to blink when the SSD is writing?
Doubtful that it would involve a currency consensus, but the cryptographically-auditable log portion is right
Fair use is impossible under most forms of DRM.
The Supreme Court has a really straightforward framework for their job though. They are judges not politicians.
Yes, more context in planned use-case would be good. I'm a SQLServer DBA fwiw.
There will be redistricting in 2020.
No, what bugs me is the racism, the misogyny, the intolerance, the anti-immigrant rhetoric, and most of all that he rejects data that doesn't fit his views.
This is why libertarians only support laws that are DEFENSIVE in nature, i.e law banning Assault, rape, murder, theft, fraud, etc.

Outside of these types of laws, enforcement of other laws like Copyright, Drug Possession, etc are unethical initiation of force.

Here is a quote from what many consider a foundation book on libertarian legal theory

http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G004

The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defense. It is the substitution of a common force for individual forces. And this common force is to do only what the individual forces have a natural and lawful right to do: to protect persons, liberties, and properties; to maintain the right of each, and to cause justice to reign over us all.
A madman has been given the keys to the surveillance state
How does this not break the signature on the binary and stop execution?
No distinction. The entire industry is built on shaky legal ground. The only defense available to growers, distributors, and their investors is estoppel.

Estoppel is a category of legal principles that basically allow a court to refuse to hear a claim or defense if the claimant or respondent (in this case, the government), through affirmative action or gross inaction, did something such that the law would deem it especially unfair (often the test is "unconscionable") to permit the claimant or respondent the benefit of a claim or defense.

The classic example is promissory estoppel.

The biggest problem is that most forms of estoppel are generally not permitted in criminal matters, or much more difficult to convince a court to accept.

In this case, the basis for estoppel would be that various regulators and the DoJ have made statements that they would refrain from prosecuting certain offenses related to marijuana commerce if the acts were permitted legally under state law.

However, as far as I know, these statements

1) never pronounced the behavior legal under federal law, but merely provided an outline for how regulators and prosecutors would use their prosecutorial discretion;

2) were generally limited to medical marijuana;

3) were otherwise heavily hedged.

For these and other reasons I don't think any major financial institutions have invested in the marijuana industry. Usually it's local, individual investors providing financing, if any.

As the law is understood today few lawyers would expect to successfully defend a federal prosecution. At the margins, given all the context maybe many judges would be more likely to favor a defendant, such as imposing unusually light sentences or being unusually deferential to other defenses. But nobody should harbor the illusion that any aspect of the state-sanctioned marijuana industry, medical or recreational, is legal under federal law.
No, it isn't. If Clinton won half the front page would be Clinton propaganda.
Ironic that you are complaining about me whining but in fact you are the one putting your hands up and saying "nothing we can do about the government, best to just leave it to the market". I am more optimistic that change is possible.

There are still numerous opportunities for people to convince Republicans to start believing in climate change and making the energy market fair and equitable to allow renewable technologies to compete. Look at what is happening with solar panels when their subsidies are removed. It's not pretty.
It doesn't compare.

A Republican who was once in the KKK would never be forgiven no matter how many decades went by.

And you aren't responsible for who endorses you. Trump doesn't actually believe in white supremacy, so a KKK endorsement is meaningless and it's a logical fallacy to say otherwise. If the KKK endorsed carrot cake, carrot cake would not suddenly be bad.

Unless it's the kind with the overly sweetened frosting they serve in cafeterias. With the little orange and green frosting carrot on top.
Well written blog post explaining Trump's victory
It's huge for FB, and he's on the board.
> https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/46

To me, this sounds like a quarantine law. All countries have these, e.g. it is not allowed to transport certain meat products or other foods across German borders.

> https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1716E

Once again, a "standard" anti-trafficking law.

> https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/39

What? Such things exist? Are these "traffic signal preemption transmitter" devices used in e.g. ambulances?

> https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2285

A ban on "drug subs", commonly used on the southern border these days. Gangs actually manufacture high-sea-worthy subs in the jungle.

> Yes the "repeal two regulations before imposing one" is just a gimmick, but there are an insane number of federal laws and regulations that are, at best, unneeded.

Unfortunately, you picked out the worst examples of "unneeded" laws.
Why didn't you use PostgreSQL's uuid type? PostgreSQL ships with several different functions for generating uuids.
I would prefer to live under the yoke of a local government than a HOA. At least here in the states, HOA board members seem to be exclusively pulled from those deemed to vicious to be a guard at Guantanamo who recently moved there from the NSA.
> But Trump's promise to block the merger won't necessarily be fulfilled.

Cop-out in the subtitle followed by thirty paragraphs of navel gazing.
This can't be good for Tesla and a lot of other green companies. My hope is that despite this "contract" he won't do much... I believe the price of the energy is not longer only about the production and distribution but also its long term effects(i.e health, sustainability, climate change).
8 ways to localize your social media presence
But HN has an explicit policy against clickbait titles, and usually edits them to be more descriptive.
Coroutines in C, revisited
Does anyone know why "xxxxxx;"? Seems like that would make an invalid call, so wouldn't it make more sense to replace it with some sort of no-op? Or is xxxxxx sql's way of doing a no-op?
I agree, sometimes you just compound the cleverness too much. There's lots of software that could be written in J in about 150 characters that might take much more in other languages. But I can come back to a line of J and wonder, "what was I doing there?" for a long time. Similarly, I have to stay current in Haskell for it to continue making sense. If I put it down for a few months, I come back and have to re-learn a lot of concepts each time, especially to understand other people's libraries as they adopt the next cool thing.
Putting "Do not wash fish in faucet" signs up would probably go a long way. If the problem gets completely out of hand, make it a civil offense that carries a fine.
He's handing America's world dominance handedly to China. Start learning Chinese folks, America is done.
Identity theft is illegal. Rifling through mailboxes is illegal. Burglary is illegal. I don't see any particular harm from somebody wearing a postman uniform any more than say someone who wants to dress up as the UPS man. Especially for six months in federal prison.
Can you clarify what you mean by "pseudo-intellectualism -v- anti-pseudo-intellectualism"?
I don't think he's saying that Elm is actually hard to learn (like Scala or Haskell).
This is a declaration of war.
Entertaining! 833433 humans live in the U.S. with the first name Thomas. That number seems a bit low
isn't the vacuum operation's job to reduce database size by removing free space and defragment the data?

edit: ok, I got the answer by myself: apparently, Vacuum copies the database to a temporary file and then it overwrite the original, it's not the usage, it's the writes that are the problem here.
The Trump Administration Could Test Whether Deficits Help the Economy
The filename has 102316 in it so probably 10/23/16, only two weeks ago.
You'd be welcome here in Edinburgh

https://www.buzzfeed.com/hilarywardle/edinburgh-is-the-best?...

https://edinburghshogmanay.com/
> Many people don't believe in Global Warming

I spent a lot of time reading the "Ask Trump Supporters" Reddit this cycle. Climate Change was one issue where almost all of them broke with their candidate, which was pretty interesting to me.
Abacus (YC W14) is looking for a designer
>> which means no more dealing with Venezuela or need for huge defense spending to protect strategic resources across the world.

The problem is that we HAD energy independence when we discovered oil in the Bakken Peninsula and what happened? Our fearless leaders who wanted to be energy independent had a great chance to tell OPEC to go screw themselves and what happened?

They let them go to war with OPEC. We lost jobs, oil companies shut down in droves as the race to the bottom happened. OPEC said it wanted to put them out of business and for the most part, the people in Washington talking big about energy independence let it happen.

I have no faith they will ever keep their word. We had a wonderful opportunity and they let OPEC drive our companies out of business and cost that region thousands of jobs. And in the process, drive up the cost of oil as well.
I can’t believe that he is really going to go through with:

THIRD, I will direct the Secretary of the Treasury to label China a currency manipulator.

Has nobody told him what this is going to do to the economy? The rest of his proposals he will have to get past congress and the courts, but this is one he can do all on his own.
You can fact check this in 5 seconds, but it looks like the average sceptic is not even able to achieve that simple task.

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
It's not a matter of "We don't want this product", it is simply unaffordable for a great number of people. For many paying for insurance would essentially mean living like a Chinese peasant farmer, eating ramen noodles every night. Given that it covers essentially nothing until 10k or so, it's not a sacrifice that they are not willing to make.

That said we have a funny system here, when people get to a certain age (when they actually cost money to insure) we give them socialized medicine. Same thing happens if you get really sick and go on disability. It's a nice deal the insurance companies have, they get to privatize the gains and socialize the losses.
That's a pretty weak consideration. Even if `give people the ability to store wealth' was an overriding imperative, what's wrong with letting them buy a lump of gold or Google stock?
That and
>FIFTH, suspend immigration from terror-prone regions
where vetting cannot safely occur. All vetting of people
coming into our country will be considered “extreme
vetting.”

are the 2 most scary things on that first page. I really like his limitations on lobbying though. I hope they aren't too ham-fisted and easy to get around.
If it really becomes a big deal, Apple can move the factory back state-side. They are getting to the point where Chinese labor is getting expensive enough that they are automating manufacturing and replacing people with robots over there anyway.

Human labor is becoming increasingly irrelevant.
Fuck Peter Thiel and every last person who voted for Trump.

Fuck all of you.

Now hellban me.
No, I don't even think 6-7 hours is bad unless I'm flying and even then most seats have plugs these days it's just a pain to have the cables all out. I just noticed the huge disconnect from the 17 hour claim.

Between Chrome and Photoshop my GPU seems to be on pretty much all the time on my MBP. I get probably 5-6 hours on it working unplugged(my power cable is usually at my standing desk and some days I'm lazier than normal so I get close to this before standing up again).
Some of those can and should be consolidated - but they're not all quite as flippant as you might think. The prohibition of transport of water hyacinth, for example, is because it's a massively bad invasive species: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichhornia_crassipes#United_St...

Sure, it too should probably be consolidated - perhaps under the Lacey act or the Plant Protection Act or Alien Species Prevention and Enforcement Act. But it's not actually a dumb regulation, just an inefficient expression.

You can probably imagine that the letter carrier uniform one may have been in response to fraud. Same for the false weather reports - it's kind of useful to be able to whack someone on the wrist for publishing a hoax tornado warning.

I'm all for the idea of cleaning up our soup of regulations, but I think it's worth noting that many of them exist for a reason, and it's typically more complex than the famously silly "can't ride a horse in a dress on sunday"-type laws still found on some state books.

Putting my geek hat back on, It'd be cool if we could train an LSTM to de-dup laws... ;) But I guess in the meantime there are interns.
Disgusting. Terrifying. It was a nice planet while it lasted.
He's all about removing regulations, and then wants to regulate this?
Ya don't get me wrong. I wouldn't totally castigate her for that. I was just trying to explain the criticism. You definitely need both kinds of people for different things at different times.
> They assume the most elegant and concise form of expression for an idea or a concept is equivalent to pragmatism.

Alternatively, perhaps many academics don't care about pragmatism and appreciate elegance and conciseness for their beauty. Admittedly I might be projecting, but part of the reason I have considered getting a PhD is to stop having to concern myself with the interests of the industry and money.
California's legalization allows local government to outlaw outdoor plants. Palo Alto outlawed outdoor plants last week.
I didn't miss it, but here are some things I've heard him say on that issue:

The first method is to control costs on military projects, and audit their finances. I think he'll do fine on this boring executive work, though I don't think better project management alone is going to get a 35% tax cut on the middle-class.

Second, there are foreign members of NATO that are supposed to pay 2% of GDP for a defense pool that are not doing this. He wants to pressure them into paying their share for protection. Since he's mentioned this, supposedly some countries have started paying into it.

Third, he doesn't actually want to go to war. War is pretty expensive, so building up a military to project strength without actually using it could be cheaper if we pull out of all on-going wars.
Somewhat relevant, I used my DSLR to take pictures in a country 8 timezones away.

Later as I was going through my pictures, I unfortunately realized that the EXIF DateTime field is a string, meaning I had to batch-convert the timestamps into the country's local time. It was a completely unnecessary annoyance, why couldn't EXIF just use Unix time?
Absolutely terrible example.

The TV show created many jobs (producers, editors, filmers, the 'assistant' (spokesperson...) position being fought for) and those who were "fired" (never really hired to begin with, were they?) failed to meet the job requirement. Which was to be the best business-person. A meritocracy, as things should be, rather than being based on race/gender/filling some sort of diversity quota.

In reality they became spokespeople when they won. But that wasn't what the show was about or portrayed. Trump was portrayed as the "hard/rough" sort of boss and the "You're fired." was just the slogan/catchphrase which worked wonderfully as a TV catchphrase/slogan. It was short, memorable, and people knew where it was from.

There was a whole lot more creation than destruction....
First I should remind that no DRM does not mean that creative works moves into the public domain when released.

I have a cabinet full of discs holding movies I could more conveniently just have downloaded. I chose not to as I believe that this is not an acceptable behaviour for me.

Now lets just assume that people like me become a really small minority and the only way to use digital distribution effectively would be to implement DRM in its fullest draconian beauty.

For this I'll say that if this is the only way to have a digital distribution, we should let it go.

First of, we will only loose the digital distribution, that did not contain any monetary interest anyway.

It would not mean that there is no money to made be in the movies. There are still cinemas. Yes, we will loose convenience, but this is in my opinion a small price for the greater good if it has to come to this.

Second, the financing model assumed here is not the only option.

Many movies get made, at least in Europe, based on the money from the culture funds, national or private. Perhaps the budgets of these movies are not really huge, but interesting work still gets done.

There also exists the kickstarter model. Nowhere it is told that the only way to finance a big budget movie should be by to movie studios. Perhaps it would not work for all the ideas, but I can see it working for novel and promising ones. It is possible that the quality of the work will actually increase.
correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is a fork of owncloud

owncloud is nothing but horrible, full of bugs and zero innovation when it comes to file sharing.
I have a lenovo thinkpad x140e and I love it. It's underpowered and "bulky", but as a healthy adult I really don't care if a laptop is a few hundred grams heavier. I've dropped it once or twice as well.

But I am not going to buy a laptop that won't run Linux. have any recommendations?
Put out of work coal miners on social security early at their full benefit and fund it with a carbon tax. This doesn't even need to be a carbon tax; simply a transfer from the general fund.

The average coal miner salary is ~$22/hr, or ~$42k/year. 174,000 coal workers in the US @ $31,668k/year (the max SS benefit permitted) = $5.5 billion/year. This is not expensive, nor in perpetuity, only the years from now until they would've hit their full retirement age regardless, not to mention the cost savings from drug addiction and other social negatives currently occurring from the industry collapsing (please, please, please take the 2 minutes to read this footnote) [1].

People should not be harmed by our transition to renewables, and it is laughable that we can't afford to take care of those no longer employed within the economy.

This is not unprecedented. The shipping industry used redundancy payments to transition longshoremen out of the workforce when containerization exploded, funded by profits from the efficiency gains of containerization. I'm simply arguing for the formalization of the process, and administration through the Social Security Administration (one of the most efficient orgs in the US government).

To be clear: I am essentially advocating a bridge basic income for these workers. Not subsidies, not incentives. You quit your job at the coal mine or coal generator today, and you're
retired from the coal industry.

EDIT: @derekdahmer & @ArkyBeagle: I'm not requiring someone to retire if they don't want to. I'm simply ensuring they don't fall into poverty. What more can be done when your job is destroying the environment? Allow it to continue? That is unacceptable. I'm not proposing welfare, I'm proposing financial freedom to explore other options to find purpose and self actualize.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/07/us/drug-overdo...
Some background on the water hyacinth [1]. You might have a point there. Mailing of tobacco? It is already illegal to avoid taxes and tariffs on tobacco. Why ban mailing it as well? Similarly, it is also illegal to smuggle drugs, why does the fact that someone may have done so with a submarine mean that "unregistered submarines" should be banned?
Icahn Left Trump Victory Party to Bet $1B on Stocks
trump is an idiot who has no business being president of the country, which marks the first time someone with zero (literally zero) political experience, not even military service, was elected to that position.

That said, he speaks his mind and it's trivial to see what he's thinking.

Had Hillary Clinton (who I and any sane person would like over Trump) become President, it would be impossible to know what she really thought of anything or to decipher anything she said: she's a career politician, who pauses before speaking and then speaks out of both sides of her mouth.

listening to Trump is like listening to some random drunk idiot in a bar. he isn't pulling one over on anyone - he barely knows where he is. sometimes that has its advantages.
Thanks for helping the readers of Hacker News understand why Trump won.
"Trump voters were not being captured by the polls. A lot of the dynamics were very similar to the Brexit vote in the U.K.,” which also took many commentators by surprise."

The media in both countries was outright lying. The only surprise here is that they believed their own lies.
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I remember that poster! I actually got a copy from the Exploratorium...
It also raises hotel prices.
Yeah, you get child and elder care if you make enough money to owe enough taxes to cover those bills. Poor? Working minimum wage? Sorry, I guess your kid gets to stay at home with gramma to kill two birds with one stone.
Is there anything like Kickstarter where citizens can pool their money to buy up land for conservation?
> I have doubts climate change strategies will work at all given how they're partial with lots of noncompliance. Meanwhile, those infrastructure aren't getting much support. Lesser of two evils.

Sorry, but once the worst effects of climate change kick in, your infrastructure won't last terribly long at all.
Exactly what the other commentators said.

Looking at your pay per hour is just a decent yardstick for when you should trade off time vs money. No need to find an outside job for the yardstick to be applicable.

Eg should you order groceries online, or go to the shop, or plant vegetables in your own garden? It's all a matter of time and money, and also hassle vs enjoyment---since some people dread going grocery shopping, and some people enjoy gardening.
No problem, I'm glad you like it!