skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The luddite fallacy is in itself a fallacy as we are today not just talking about replacing physical labour with technology we are also replacing jobs that require mental abilities and at higher and higher levels of abstraction in an environment thats exponentially progressing.

The cold hard reality is that a lot of the jobs that's been created in the US are wallmart jobs or part time jobs and that the cost of living is going up.

So those who keep mentioning luddite fallacy owe it to explain what new jobs it is they see replacing the current jobs. Because if it's just a hope that it will be all right in the future some day it's not really an argument for anything.
nothing is end-to-end encrypted.
"I'm interested to hear how the poster would hope to influence someone of the opposing view (that alt-right is good)."

That isn't the point. If someone believes that the alt-right is good, it is very difficult to convince them otherwise, and this isn't anywhere near an argument towards that end.

Instead, this is an argument for people like me, who are unsure of Trump's intentions and who are looking at the article's arguments that Trump is not leaning in unsavory directions.

The idea is that, even if Trump is no worse than any traditional Republican, he is surrounding himself with people who are.
I hope they aren't planning on going down the path of golden-image testing, if so they're in for a world of pain.
Why are you focusing on taxes? Current government marriage is too tied to religion anyway. Make all government "marriages" be civil unions, no tax breaks but all the legal advantages such as sharing insurance and not having to testify against each other etc (this is the main point of getting married currently IMHO). Then make having kids give you tax breaks.

This should sate the religious (they can have their marriage rules and do whatever they want they just wont have legal standing, we aren't calling the legal union a marriage anymore). It should also fix your issues.
I'm flagging this article because it is making a blaming statement nobody cares about the security of my unlocked phone, which is provably false. Let's start eliminating dissonance from HN by taking the time to think about the content we are consuming and how it affects us!
Ask HN: Which web browser do you use/like?
The other day, I was reading a comment here where someone mentioned they use Waterfox (I think it was francopoli). I hadn't heard of that browser before. Since then, I've been looking around for alternatives since someone told me that Firefox is on its way out. I've been using Chrome, but I'm not really fond of it. I really don't care for IE or Edge.
I looked up web browsers and was surprised to see so many out there.
Which web browser do you use and why?
My only complaint is the "dark pattern" of not listing prices. There are prominent calls-to-action to enter your email address and sign up. I don't want to enter my email address unless I want to sign up, which is dependent on the price.

"example@example.com" now has an email from Candy Japan, and I obviously can't click on the verification link there.

After some digging, I found https://www.candyjapan.com/gift, which lists prices:

24 shipments! ($348.00, sent over one year)
Dozen shipments ($174.00, sent over six months)
Eight shipments ($116.00, sent over four months)
Four shipments ($58.00, sent over two months)
Two shipments ($29.00, sent over one month)

Doing the math, it's $14.50 per box. Even though many levels are listed, there is no quantity discount, which is not obvious - I'm not good at multiplying 29 or 14.5 by powers of 2 in my head. If it was $20 or $30/month, that would be a little different.

Some more digging with a disposable email finally brought me to https://www.candyjapan.com/subscribe, which shows that it's still $29/month whether gifting or subscribing. Furthermore, anyone can go to that page and see the price. No, the tiny "subscribe" link on the main page under the comic does not link there - it's an anchor to the email entry point.

Perhaps A/B testing says differently, but I would like the business a lot more if there was a big label, above the fold, on the main page, that said "$14.50 per box" or "$29 per month".
We should probably step back and rethink this devops thing
Good point. I have an un-used domain. Maybe this is the time to finally use it.
That is correct.

It has some downsides. A recent piece of research into racism recently assumed that all Japanese nationals were ethnically Japanese so did not survey them on their experiences with racism. Considering around 1 in 50 children in Japan are 'mixed race' this seems a little off.
Christopher Alexander – Patterns in Architecture (OOPSLA 1996)
> "Middle Eastern" is not a race though. I'm Turkish and we are very Caucasian. :)

"Race" is kind of a silly thing to begin with. For example, "Caucasian" doesn't actually mean "white", even though people use it colloquially as if it were.
wait. even though the veteran was suicidal, it's that he used the wrong phone number? i'm confused.

veterans go though a unique form of stress. and they get seperate medical care etc, which I hear is not always that great.
>And do you ever control an URL? No, you don't.

Well, yes. If I own a domain name, I can point that domain at any resource I choose. I might be technically "renting" the name from a registry via a registrar, but for all practical purposes I'm in control of it.
I scrolled through the page. This is clickbait to show ads and not a well thought out collection to learn SQL.
"I personally see that as a bad change for macOS -- the app store is really not very good"

On multiple systems, using multiple versions of OSX[1], I have actually never gotten the app store to even launch properly.

Luckily, system updates for SL came via the apple menu so it wasn't an issue. In Mavericks, however, it took multiple (sometimes 8 or 10) tries just to fire up the app store without an infinite beach ball in order to do simple OS updates.

[1] Snow Leopard and Mavericks
I found that when I drove in LA (lots of traffic lights), and drove from NY to SF, having an automatic was really helpful.

I drive a manual every day here in the UK, but when you have to stop/start (traffic, lights, etc), I wish I had an automatic.

But then, I love driving around normally with a manual. It's not really something I think about when driving.
> For every fuel-injected engine

Well, I own a 911 that says otherwise. It's an older fuel injection system (Bosch K-Jetronic), but it's most certainly fuel injection. Porsche wasn't the only maker to use Bosch fuel injection.

I just don't think DFCO (deceleration fuel cutoff) was a feature of most of the early electronic fuel injection systems. Perhaps it was standard by the time EFI made it to economy cars. I'm fighting a massive urge to go down this historical rabbit hole and read about it, but there's work to be done today.
That was a quick backpedal. :)
I'm not sure why you think the poster (or me) is trying to change anyone's mind who already believe that the Alt-right or Bannon are good people.

There is room for such arguments, of course, but not every discussion needs to be framed as winning over the Alt-right.

In this case, I think what people are trying to achieve is to say to those who are generally liberal: "No! Don't normalize Trump and his allies' behavior. Don't say that everything is ok when it is not. Because then you start to ignore it when it becomes true in way that are subtler than you expected, like banning Muslims without using a scary-sounding "Muslim Registry" [1]"

The normalization of this president is part of what allowed so many people to sit out the election. See also https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/15/dangerous-fa...

[1] http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/16/13649764/t...
I do agree those tiny helmets don't look like much help. But not all helmets are like that.

I use a full helmet, shaped like the one you use when riding a motorcycle, just not as heavy.

It already saved my face from scratches in one fall I had.
Hey, I have a Subaru with those paddles! I never knew what they were. I've never pressed them.
I've used SAP, Oracle Forms, Navision and a custom made framework written over 20 years in my current company. They all impose constraints on their users with their weird interfaces. However, users just need to get used to it and I haven't met a single person other than the developers themselves who overthink this subject in such an obsessive manner.
At Googles scale you can be sure that if they didn't delete things they said they did they would be in big trouble.

In the modern world it isn't acceptable to keep backups indefinitely. Big web companies keep backups for 14 days. When you close your account, 30 days later they delete it off the main servers, 44 days later they delete it from the backups, which might take 4 days in case of a national holiday or strike in the drive-crushing department, so 48 days.
Imagine the tires were velcro'd to the ground. Or that they had giant spikes stabbing down for traction. Clearly you could go over 1g with that, right?

The same kind of thing (not literally, but analogously) is already happening at the atomic level, giving the tires a coefficient of friction of more than 1.
Really makes one wonder why RH is still allowed to set the direction of Linux as a whole. Oh wait, money...
Keybase chooses Zcash
I think it's more helpful to blame the incentives and the individual actors. Nature isn't malicious or powerful enough to break science all on it's own. It didn't write the rules, it just plays by them.

ie Hate the game, not the player.
Except that doesn't solve this problem (mostly: Read all the way through)

The issue isn't The Wealthy having all the money. The issue is technology that will actively remove jobs. It doesn't matter if minimum wage is 90 pounds an hour if you don't have a job. An automated train isn't The Wealthy stealing money. It is a conductor out of work because their job could be handled by a raspberry pi.

Basic Income is a theoretical concept (been implemented in small, borderline meaningless, experiments) to combat that. Everyone gets a bare minimum "salary" regardless of if they work. That covers cost of living (how much more varies). Then, those with jobs have the potential to earn a lot more (incentive to work) on top of that.

What Thomas Piketty proposes wouldn't address the lack of income to those put out of work by technology but could, possibly, help to pay for solutions that would.
Is there any counterpart on Android? Or is Firefox for Android good enough? Of course ... not. I wish it would support greasemonkey or something similar.
Why, then, doesn't firemonkey have any scaling or layout problems? Not all applications need any of the system level services that are coupled tightly with the system widgets.
It's a super weird comparison if you grant the author's premise and don't read critically. But the author has selected a tendentious premise; there is no setting on the "charitable" knob that allows Alexander to downplay or ignore instances of overt racialist rhetoric from Trump, since the whole point of his piece is to immunize Trump from charges that he's a racialist candidate.

I mean, for fuck's sake, he tries to claim that Trump is less racist than Mitt Romney. There nobody in the world who believes that, except for Alexander's readership, who want badly to believe it.
From the little kendo I did, it's both, but mostly slashing. You wouldn't so much slice them in two as open them up from shoulder to hip, if you can. If you're going for the neck though, the basic technique is throat-stabbing, not slicing the head off. If the enemy has good armor, I guess you'd have to go stabby, I can't imagine a katana can slice through good steel plates (or mail, really).

But 1) the spear is the stabby weapon of choice when not in close quarters. From horseback you'd only use the katana to slice. Certainly, you wouldn't try stabbing someone with a katana from horseback.

And 2) the Japanese mostly didn't have excellent armor. They had shitty iron, so making good steel was very expensive for them. They couldn't have mass-produced steel plate armor.

The amazing thing about katanas is not that they're better than european swords (they're not), it's that they were able to make good weapons at all out of shit-tier iron.
While static typing surely helps, Go has its own issues working with polymorphic JSON, and don't get me started on working with XML. I have never liked struct tags. Why would a statically typed language relies on this fragile feature ? it's often a source of bugs since they are just strings that need to be parsed at runtime, with reflection, and frankly the std lib struct tag parser is extremely fragile. Go is full of these things. In order to make the compiler go fast, the developer has to do the compiler's job, at runtime. That's not right.

If some external data doesn't fit Go type system then Go makes it extremely hard to work with these data. Same thing with SQL, it's extremely tedious with Go when fields can be null.
Thanks, that was fascinating. And props to the salt-n-pepa fan!
I've written a relatively popular Atom/RSS feed parser for Go [0].

I struggled with this very issue but I ultimately ended up attempting to be robust against out-of-spec feeds. A super strict feed parsing library is less useful than one that can successfully parse certain classes of broken feeds.

It is a fine line to walk -- I won't add a great deal of complexity to support overly broken feeds, but if it is relatively simple to support certain types of common mistakes I'll do it.

[0] https://github.com/mmcdole/gofeed
I believe the reasoning here is that braking all the way down a steep grade can cause your brakes to overheat and become temporarily inoperable. I don't know whether this is a real effect or not, but I have heard it given as a justification for engine-braking.
Going to the courthouse to do paperwork surely is not the oldest and most important ritual you're referring to, but that's the only part of it that the state has power over.
Speaking as a dev this looks really useful, but as a regular person rewatching a browsing session really gives me the creeps. Any plans to provide privacy controls?
> Radio host Adam Carolla, who collects and races vintage cars, said with a stick shift, drivers can’t “just lean back and go into autopilot mode.”

I think this is an overlooked advantage. Modern cars are ridiculously powerful, yet modern drivers are more less attentive than ever. I feel like the roads would be safer if everyone wasn't just mashing the Go pedal as soon as the light turns green. A manual transmission promotes more mindful driving.
Don't speak for my dreams. I made zero comments regarding whether I think this is true or not and only provided as much info as I had on it. To have you comment in this way with some lame ass link is likely a sign of conflict within yourself.
I didn't know about this crazy new regulatory requirements until now. Quoting from an article [1] describing the new law:

> “When collecting personal data, including through information and the internet telecommunications network, the operator is required to provide a record that the systematization, accumulation, storage, updating and retrieval of personal data of citizens of the Russian Federation, is held on databases located in the territory of the Russian Federation.”

I could imagine that complying to this regulation wont be worthwhile for most companies.

Edit: The interesting thing is, that the law seems not to forbid to store the data outside of Russia, it "just" dictates that the data has to be stored in Russia also.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2014/07/02/russia-moves-to-ban-online...
I live in Silicon Valley and sit in nasty traffic daily in my manual transmission car. It's such second nature it doesn't even register.

A motorcycle is a different story. Holding the clutch in with your left hand gets downright painful after a while. Thankfully lane splitting is legal here.
Kubernetes founders launch Heptio to help bring containers to the enterprise
He wasn't suicidal. He just call the wrong hotline.

> A disabled vet with PTSD accidentally called a suicide prevention hotline when
> intending to dial the Veterans Crisis Line.

Very first line in the article.
If I understand correctly, this is not even a compatibility layer like Wine. This is literally a part of the Windows kernel and userspace, running entirely inside Linux userspace.
Kubernetes the Easy Way
I think you are missing the bigger point that racist campaign promises weren't a deal breaker for people who voted for him, so just as most Germans in WW2 didn't think they're racist they voted in Hitler and the majority of them did nothing to stop the extermination of the Jewish people in Germany and across Europe. They didn't think of themselves as racist. There you go I simplified the moral equation for you.
Ask HN: Best third-party cloud service backup solution?
What is your preferred system for backing up services like gmail/google calendar/etc on a fully automated basis?
> It's no secret that Syrian refugees in Europe are disproportionately physically able males.

What? I never heard that before, so took exactly on minute to Google "Syrian refugee demographics" and found that this myth originates with Ben Carson.

In fact about 49.5% of Syrian refugees are male, and only 21.8% of them are males ages 18-59.

https://www.factcheck.org/2015/09/stretching-facts-on-syrian...
I like the design, but have they fixed the other issues? The UX is awful to use, the search hardly finds things I'm interested in and opaque to filter, and I have a recurring task that has been going for a year and I cannot figure out how to stop it.
Why not use Private Browsing in Firefox for Android?
Something like phabricator is always a reasonable choice

https://www.phacility.com/
I'd like to know as well. I do know that the FBI has really nice pensions, but like you said, that information is public.
There's a significant difference between slanted news coverage and fake news. You're conflating the two.
Then why bring it up?
Domains can be stolen or seized, but somehow the internet still manages to function. If you're not doing anything silly or shady, domain names are extremely durable. They're certainly more durable than an e-mail address or a subdomain on someone else's domain, more durable than a phone number or a street address. If you can choose only one identifier by which people can contact you, there is no better choice than a domain name under your own control.
I had to draw a car, and I lost because it didn't recognize my drawing and said "police car" instead.
Then your point isn't related in any way to the comment you replied to, which mentioned neither party.
the people are scared.
The existence of SEPA shows that it might be viable on a larger scale. While the EU and EEA members already share a common legal framework, the other two SEPA members (San Marino and Monaco) don't (even though they cooperate closely with the EU in certain areas). With enough political will a larger payment area doesn't seem impossible. (But personally I can't imagine this to happen globally.)
There aren't that many places where Go's syntax would make such things useful. There's := and // for comments. A case could be made for [] to indicate slice. Reading over some code the only other one that seems to come up a lot is (), which is just "calling a function with no arguments" and I'm not sure I'd want that particularly distinguished. Comments are generally already color coded, so that really just leaves :=.

Although I could make a case for making :+ some sort of ligature that makes it obvious I just screwed up by holding SHIFT too long. :) You won't see it by scanning my code base, but I definitely type it a lot....
Netscape [present day, present time]
I worry about the regulatory aspects of getting self-driving cars off-the-ground in the United States. It is inevitable that self driving cars will make mistakes and people will be injured or killed as a result. It is also inevitable that people will be injured or killed as a result of people driving cars. But in the long run, it's virtually guaranteed that self-driving technology will result in safer cars and fewer driving deaths. Computers can respond quicker, communicate well with other computers (hopefully) and they don't get drunk.

It's a fact of life that while accidents from ordinary drivers go unnoticed (ironically because they are so frequent), car crashes from self-driving cars will get covered extensively by the media, at least for the short term.

All this means that it will be a tough regulatory environment for self-driving cars in the US. In China, the government has more power to create regulatory policies around self-driving cars that take a long-term view without having to worry as much about lawsuits and other concerns.

Perhaps the fear of seeing the Chinese companies "getting there first" with self-driving cars will be an impetus for US regulators to create policies that are encourage the development of self-driving cars.
This shows the wisdom of requiring explicit casts for truncating conversions, as found for instance in Rust.
It's about who you follow. I never see any abuse on Twitter, but I am ruthless about unfollowing anybody who is overly negative or abusive. I also have a few mute filters for topics I'm not interested in. It makes for a much better experience.
OP posts about the current state of science, A better way of doing science is needed.
Interesting fact: Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court decision upholding the internment of Japanese Americans, was never explicitly overruled by the Supreme Court because there has not been a similar controversy before the court.
Some metrics are more resistant to manipulation than others.

Mechanism design (reverse game theory) is subfield of game theory deals with these issues.
If it helps, it's just a Safari wrapper, so it shouldn't take much more space.
So, in a nutshell: we're running into barriers put forth by physics. We've cracked the quantitative digital divide and now physics is a key barrier keeping us from have equal quality on a planetary scale. The speed of light remains a bottleneck.
> whilst keeping the precise, mechanical and quantitative spirit of science alive

It's not obvious to me that measuring scientists or research quality has anything to do with the "spirit of science." Just because science involves very carefully measuring the objects of study, it doesn't follow that science is best served by trying to meta-measure that process. And there is evidence that it can be harmful.
It's interesting to see what it doesn't recognise, especially to compare my failed drawings with the other successful versions.

I couldn't tell the difference between my basket and most of the successful baskets, but the robot didn't like my drawing.
Andrew wasn't their self driving car leaders, he was their DL and ML leader, he didn't lead the SDC division specifically.
So how many places do I need to manage my boards now? Trello, GitHub, and now Asana as well? Why doesn't Slack add this feature while we're at it?
You're right / I wasn't clear.

The student loan confirmation is sent to spam every month. I mark it as not spam.

In their defense, the message is full of all caps words that look like a sentence formatted from a sql query with little attention paid to formatting plus it has all sorts of spam words (bank, payment confirmation, loan, etc).
Did this replace another browser they had? I woke up this morning and it was already installed on my iPhone, so I must have had something else already installed if this was just launched today.
Founding Members of Kubernetes Team Start Heptio
Why would you put your data that matters to something like Google and trust it?

I keep my data that matters locally on my disk. And a backup of it too on a removable usb-drive. Call me old fashioned.
Except when they stand between your head and the road. I found mine pretty productive in the head suddenly meets road event. Mandatory helmet laws are counterproductive for cyclists. Helmets help more often than they don't