skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Far from “state capitalism,” where the profit motive is eliminated and production is under the complete control of the state, Neumann noted that under Nazism, business — especially large corporate interests — was given extraordinary leeway. They did not have perfect free rein, but large business interests were relieved of many previous social democratic restrictions. Independent labor organizations were crushed, and business was allowed to coagulate into massive, profit-generating monopolies as long as it produced the necessary goods and services the party and the army required.

No, they were not given 'extraordinary leeway'. Example: 'Ownership' was newly defined.

> complete control of the state

That was not necessary. It was set up a structure where people worked on a common goal, in the end the Endsieg.
But make no mistake, enemies ended dead. The political leadership made it clear what the goal was: re-arming Germany and beyond. Making the German military 'fit' for a new war.

> as long as it produced the necessary goods and services the party and the army required.

That's the key point from where to look. The economy was not having 'extraordinary leeway'. The economy had a purpose: making Germany fit for war in the shortest time possible. From 33 to 39 build up a huge military machine, able to win in the west and the east. In Nazi ideology the plan was to occupy large areas in the east, kill the jews and enslave the slavic - new room, new raw materials, new markets, ...

The economy was a tool. This has very little to do with capitalism, thus the comparison between Nazi economy and a crisis of capitalism today will be misleading.
Apples and oranges I guess. I'm good at my job, but I would rather quit to draw avatars, make games, and doing things that could change something without the prerequisite of making money. "Value" is a deeply personal thing, isn't it?

I really identify with that person.
It does, in the copyright section.
You are quite correct. But for vast majority of real world users RSS is quite misterious piece of technology. Emails are ok, everyone 'knows' what the email is? But 'feed'. Can I save it for offline use? Can I forward it to friends and family?
True, but we were all using most of that same technology when a core2 duo was a top end laptop, and it's not as though productivity has gone through the roof just because we can get an i7 laptop.

Mobile CPUs are approach mobile core 2 duo performance.
The advice at the end is pretty important - if you want the thread to die, just ignore it. All told people mostly followed this, and if only 120 replies were sent in an organisation as huge as the NHS then that's pretty incredible. In our company's "social" list the silly reply-all chains have a very predictable pattern, coming in a series of waves:

1. original sensible email like "hey guys, I have some honey/walnuts/fruit/spirits from my hometown if anyone wants to try/buy"

2. sensible replies start rolling in, but which were accidentally sent to all

3. some jokers/trolls send memes in response (also reply all)

4. the whining begins, people reply-all asking everyone to stop spamming them

5. the memers reply (sometimes with more memes) that it is the optional "social" list that's for this sort of nonserious/fun stuff.

6. some helpful problem-solvers weigh in, sending reply-all instructions (often including MS Paint'd diagrams) on how to unsubscribe from the list or apply an outlook filter

7. finally the "can everyone just stop replying to this though?" emails start, also reply-all (and apparently oblivious to the contradiction/irony of their own reply-all) and everyone participating starts to realise it should be ignored...

Once you recognise the pattern it becomes pretty enjoyable identifying which stage of this month's "Emailgate" you're currently at - the whole thing can around to 45-60 mins to play out.
> the winner may be someone who was #2 on 80% of the country's wishlist

That's an advantage, not a disadvantage.

IRV/RCV has one more critical flaw which makes the "lesser of two evils" problem worse: it completely ignores any later preferences on your ballot. If you list your preferred third-party candidate first, IRV/RCV ignores your preference for one first-party candidate over another. As long as your third-party candidate can't win, then your preference gets respected. However, when your third-party candidate reaches the tipping point, it's entirely plausible for your preferred first-party candidate to get eliminated first, followed by your preferred third-party candidate, letting your least preferred first-party candidate win.

That's quite plausible, because it's common for most voters for a particular third party to have the same preferred first-party, while first-party voters more commonly vote for only that party.

That creates an incentive for third-party voters to continue voting a first-party candidate at the top, because in IRV/RCV, only your top choice counts.

That said, hopefully it'll improve the ability to show third-party support, if not actually get third-party candidates elected.
And how many people use the application per week?
This is woefully incorrect.

The Crown is the head of our State; all authority derives from our Sovereign.

http://www.parl.gc.ca/About/House/compendium/web-content/c_d...
Are you saying Visual Studio feels much better on mac? If you've tried it, is there a link to download so that I can try it out myself?
I'm surprised they don't have a cap on number of recipients. That is often a problem orgs had to deal with around holiday time.
Is Quantopian a good idea for an entry-level quant-wannabe?
I have had clients that use Xamarin. This is what I've observed:

1. If you don't use Xamarin and you don't have a team in-house that uses C#, don't bother. You'll be better off doing native development on iOS and Android platforms.

2. Your app won't be as pretty, and it won't adhere to platform native UI conventions as well if you use Xamarin.

3. Xamarin does a better job of it than most but it will still be lagging in access to the latest features.

4. BUT, if you are doing a vertical market app that wants to be cross-platform AND you have C# coders you can apply to that task, Xamarin is the best choice.

There are a lot of places where choosing Xamarin makes a lot of sense. And the people who created Xamarin are excellent. And now that Xamarin is owned by MS, it won't die because it is hard to make money as a cross-platform startup. But as with every other cross-platform tool for non-game apps I've seen, it isn't the best choice in green-field situations.
If it was a list, the list owner would have disabled posting to it by now.
"Why the duck would developers need function keys"

Are you serious? They need them THE MOST.
F10 = step over
F11 = step into
Shift-F11 step out

Standard VS debugging keys. And on the asinine Mac laptop keyboard, you could make F12 = Delete (or at least you could until Sierra, when Apple broke Karabiner)

Then there are other apps that you might want to fill glaring functionality holes in. Like Photoshop, which still has no "paste as new image" command. So you have to record a macro and assign it to a key, like F2. And for some reason you can't transform a selection rectangle after you draw it, so map F3 to allow that. And on and on.

Think it through. That's no a strip OF KEYS. It's a non-palpable strip that changes its contents willy-nilly and forces you to look down at it every few seconds. Your examples are pretty weak strawmen.
The reason we don't recognize ownership of the air above your land is because we have no way to precisely track its flow and pollution. Land is easy to track, it doesn't go anywhere.

It's a technical problem. Capitalism can't value something if it isn't capable of measuring it.
This doesn't deserve down mod. If Hacker News is going to cite Dan fucking Rather about anything then pointing out the intellectual fraud this guy is guilty of is 100% legitimate.
Neither poor enough nor rich enough not to do what you don't want to do. The curse of "middle class" so to speak.
It's required for v4 too, if you want PMTU discovery to work.
Consciousness (and pain) aren't illusions because they correspond to external phenomena, and have a significant objective component. An illusion is something that nobody else can experience, even partially, other than the subject having the illusion.

Even if free will is rule-based at some low-level, that doesn't erase the concept of rights.

We have rights even among inanimate objects. For instance, some server instance has rights to access certain files.

Rights are not pinned to free will. They are mostly about declaring certain unwanted actions of others to be wrong and punishable. Whether those unwanted actions are the result of free will, or whether they are deterministic, is immaterial. At most, that consideration only influences how we regard a violation of right; we might be somewhat more lenient if we believe that it was inevitable.

This is why the criminal courts take a particular view toward defendants who are mentally deficient or insane; in effect, this is based on the belief that those people possess less free will. It is never declared, however, that whatever they did was OK.
Aha! Now LJ is showing me 2 spam comments – but as I said, no notification. I've unscreened them. Sorry about that.
The Crown is the head of our State; all authority derives from our Sovereign.

http://www.parl.gc.ca/About/House/compendium/web-content/c_d...
Yes, I wasn't claiming that there is a perfect voting system. Just that IRV seems strictly better for pretty much all voters than FPTP.

I am also seeing several comments that try to take into account the preferences of the candidates themselves, or their parties. Why? Aren't we talking about efficiency from the perspective of the electorate? To the extent that the candidates are themselves members of the electorate, and can vote for themselves, shouldn't we ignore them in this analysis because their preferences are inherently biased?
Rich Lee, Transhumanist, unfairly loses custody of chilren due lifestyle choice
At least for London, this is simply not true. Sure, you may find there are some things open late, like maybe a gas station off The Highway, or casinos devoid of anything interesting beyond buckets to sink your money into.

And that's what it comes down to I think. While London (I can't speak for Berlin and Tel-Aviv, I've never been) may be a big city, it's far from interesting at 3am. Hell, in most areas it stops being interesting around midnight or 1am, when most pubs close. You'll have a hard time finding anything that's more interesting than a seedy chicken shop at that point.

That the only public transport available 24/7 are buses, most of departs perhaps once an hour, probably doesn't help making a city active 24/7.

On the other hand, in London you'll see bankers having a large pint at 8am. So I guess there's that.
You can make any sort of UX in Xamarin. Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.IOS are just straight up wrappers to the real api.
I think it's disingenuous to try to appeal to what you see as the norms of "professional IT culture" when Linus founded the Linux community, and with it, its culture. I think invoking the "Ugly American" concept when discussing this is interesting because saying that Linus and the Linux community should conform to "professional IT culture" at large seems emblematic of that mentality. Linus started a community and gets a disproportionate influence in setting its norms as a part of that.
I'd argue that some of what you describe should probably be an anti-pattern, or is at least a byproduct of very fast, cheap CPU power. Emacs has worked for years on much lower-end hardware and has been used to build some very elaborate systems.

These days a typical developer laptop is 5x more powerful than the system the code will be used on (mobile device, virtual server, etc.)
> Where there is no ground pin, North American power supplies must meet UL1310/CSA No.223

So, as far as I can tell, with a brief skim of the standard, a class 2 device should have no more than 0.5 mA leakage current, right?

I just measured the leakage from my macbookpro through my body to ground and it's about 50 μA. Well within the limits.

So I guess that's why they never did anything about it. Still amazing that you can clearly feel this current: if you lightly brush your wrist around the sharp edges it actually hurts. I wonder how 500 μA would feel.
Ezjail now supports ZFS.

Sharing one basejail via nullfs is useful feature, can Iocage do this?

Nullfs not only allows to save space on disk but also allows faster updates (extract new basejail then switch all jails to it, without full upgrade of each jail).

Also in software old doesn't mean bad, and newer is not automatically better.
I am sure Code Pink is also planning to protest unjust wars again too.
Although they may not have been cutting edge, they were pretty hot: Facebook was started in 2004, when PHP won the TIOBE 'Programming Language of the Year' award, and GitHub in 2008, two years after Ruby won it (although I'd say 2010 was the most popular year for Ruby on Rails).

(This year it looks like it'll go to Java though, so :P)

http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
+1 For Postgres with Binary JSON, when that feature was added a few years ago it completed changed the value prop in how we respond to customer requests (them: "can you please add two extra fields for fax numbers?" us: "who needs two fax numbers?")

@Tyre: we use React on the front end but have struggled with meeting customer's UI expectations for Master/Detail displays of tabular data... the mobile UI design paradigms on this are so rich, are there any best practices for web UI?

Thanks!
I don't know enough about alternatives to say, I just remember reading about fundamental problems with IRV and dug up some links that confirmed what I remembered.
Samsung Acquires Harman Kardon for $8B
I can't speak for OP, but I'd think Anarchists can swing to both extremes. Self defense is not the same as enforcing a dictated law. This is reduction ad absurdum, but still worth thinking about. IMHO, anarchy is not an alternative to other rules, it's the foundation of free will, the empty set that is part of every other set. Of course, anarchism as a label is used with a different message.
True those are slow. But I think most projects could compile a lot faster if the dependencies were compiled into a separate bundle once a day and the app code into its own bundle when it changed.
Ranked voting could still produce a simple plurality, not a majority, if no candidate is ranked by more than 50% of the population.

E.g. in the extreme case, with three candidates, suppose everyone hated the other two options so much that they refused to even write in a #2 choice.

Of course, this seems like a completely silly argument, because it's much more likely to generate majorities than the single-choice system.
If you want to build your own LMS (Learning Management System) the EdX platform is opensource: https://github.com/edx/
From the BBCs coverage (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/37979456), it seems like the problem was caused by a contractor setting up a full-org distribution list by mistake. This DL would have appeared as a single (unfamiliar) email address to most recipients, making it less obvious that "reply-all" would actually send a message to a million receipients.

The NHS resolved the issue by killing the offending DL reasonably quickly, which would stop further replies from being generated. This is also the reason why only about a hundred folks (out of a million) replied-all to the message.
I wonder if most employees lack the needed permission to send an e-mail to 1.2 million recipients. It seems like a smart thing to restrict that kind of action, precisely to avoid havoc.

Another possibility is that dealing with messages that have 1.2 million recipients so overloads the system that it it has only been able to deliver 120 of them so far.
Gmail's mute feature is a pretty good countermeasure for this sort of thing, at least at an individual level.
What situations specifically? The first link I provided describes a number of issues, like increased susceptibility to fraud. Another link describes how IRV is probably illegal in the US.
If so, there's ways of limiting who can address that address and in so doing spam the entire company.
But this rule is pretty clear, no? What am I missing?

> You may use the Services and Content only for personal, noncommercial purposes
I'm using a touchscreen Windows laptop and can't imagine going back to non-touch. Windows bit the bullet and reworked their UI for touch. It cost them some time, but it seems like they are in a much better position now in that regard, than Apple.
It's hard to say. Maybe not. When driving, I am 100% aware of what is happening in a self-driving car I would be focused on other things, perhaps work. In that case I wouldn't mind at all I think.

But it's the thought that I'm spending so much time, on what should take far less. In essence losing time compared what it could be if not for the external factors.
Exactly. Without adequate sleep and time to engage in purposeless activity (e.g. walking) there can be no insight. But perhaps only creative minds come to understand this, which is why mediocre middle managers insist on long hours.
Hyundai says Ioniq Hybrid to offer Prius-besting 58 mpg
His Life Matters
> I bet they will reconsider that strategy now.

That will be hard, given that it won them the White House, and produced the victory for the now-defacto leader of the Republican Party.

Party rules to amend it would be a slap in the face of Trump, much like if the Democrats tried to change things so that "an Obama" couldn't win while Obama was in office.
Slow motion waves of jumping genes in the human genome
My mistake, I thought you were saying I could still have the syntax features I wanted in the language. I like the range syntax, and backticks, and calling functions'. I also liked signals and having access to more stuff that is now 'magic' in the Elm compiler.
>There is value in having a nuanced understanding

No doubt. People should try to understand the nuance of things. But there's a difference between understanding nuance and actually trying to refute expert opinion using specious and simplistic arguments. Non-experts will never be able to understand all the science needed to establish a judgement such as "humans are causing climate change". It requires training in atmospheric science and years of experience as a scientist.

There's a different between better understanding the conclusions of medical researchers and questioning the validity of their opinion. Sure, there is no doubt areas where there is disagreement and more research is needed, but it's useless for an amateur to judge those issues.

The only information that the general public really needs about climate change is the opinion of experts. Sure, they can learn more if they are inclined, I hope they do. But when amateurs start questioning the validity of experts' opinion, we are hopelessly lost. An amateur will never be able to judge the validity of an experts opinion on an issue that requires expertise. Never.

Even Martin Luther wasn't some random lay person when he questioned the doctrines of the church. He had specialized knowledge of theology and used it to engage in the discussion the same way a member of the church would.
We sometimes get situations where there's a semi-important note in a daily newsletter, and the group secretary decides to copy-paste it in an email to the whole group. Then the level 1 manager doesn't look at the To: line and forwards it to the whole group again. Then our level 2 manager gets the same information from someone else and forwards it to the entire group as well. I'll get the exact same information about today's health and wellness walk or whatever upwards of 3-4 times.
The "E" in EMV is for Eurocard which is something different (and now merged with MasterCard).

The fees for the German Girocard system (which is what colloquially is still called EC) are lower than MasterCard's fees but not by that much anymore nowadays. MasterCard debit should not be 50% more expensive than Girocard considering all fees (which of course still is more) if you shop around a bit. Even Aldi takes them now and they try to save money wherever they can.
Ask HN: Side project support group?
I have a side project I am working on, but often find something comes up and I end up not working on it/procrastinating. Does anyone else find this happening to them?

Would you be interested in founding a small support group just to discuss goals for side projects/keep track of progress?
Textmate 2.0 is no longer in beta
I'm a fan of Quantopian's product but I don't understand why anyone would invest this kind of money in their solution. They'd have to manage an enormous amount of money to have any reasonable growth. Add to this that the hedge fund world is consolidating, I just don't see the value. What's the out here? I think management fees are going to close to zero soon (if they are not there already).
I received such a mail from Microsoft a few years back. It was something related to WP/W8 development with thousands or tens of thousands (IIRC) of email addresses in the "to" field, so probably all registered app devs. I tried to send a witty response, but my mail server (ironically on outlook.com) refused to do it.
Sounds like a DL Group to me..
Bots for Messenger Adding Analytics and FbStart Program
Does your NDA permit you to tell others that you have an NDA?

/s silicon valley reference
I really love that HN now has ~1 "blockchain" (read Bitcoin) story on the front page at all times!
Attacking Network Infrastructure to Generate a 4 Tb/s DDoS
Ask HN: Is React Native worth learning?
The recent thread on Xamarin (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12948611) gave some great insights into the pitfalls of that platform.

I was hoping to gather the same kind of insight on React Native from those currently using it.
This happened at Qualcomm once. Some IT email was sent out to most of the corp and then people's vacation/out-of-office auto-reply-to-all propagated it more. Then people would send reply-all messages like "remove me from this list!" it went on for most of the day.
Wow, drivers pay for a whopping 37% of transportation funding and receive only 96% of transportation spending. Truly they are paying their fair share /s
Given the stacks at BigCorps (at least here in Chicago), I would say "it depends". Working in an enterprise environment where everything is older and battle-tested, probably not, given most of the camps gloss clean over the details, opting for training against the MEAN stack or variants thereof as far as front-end options go, that would enable someone coming out of these camps to hit the ground running.

It'll be an interesting observation to see if that comes to pass, but insofar as I'm concerned, they're training front-end students for startups building platforms.
TrailDB
I don't see one mistake (assuming it is that; I don't know the details) in a long career as discrediting him, or else everyone is discredited. We have nobody left.

Integrity isn't binary; it's not all or nothing.
How often is this sort of thing actually a problem? Are there examples of elections that turned out this way?
Had a Program manager once who was the English Gentleman stereotype. No matter how ridiculously behind schedule someone was he could not confront anyone about it. He would just ask the same questions every week.

For six months I knew that we had a hardware driver problem on the target hardware that was causing the drive to be accessed at PATA speeds (3 MB/s max throughput stuck out from my time spent configuring Linux).

Finally, finally I convinced him to let me sit in on a call to the vendor (VxWorks) and in fifteen minutes we identified the problem and a feasible workaround. Old VxWorks, new bridge controller(?) backward compatible with one they DID support.

All because he couldn't say what needed to be said.

We got a nice 35% jump in the app after the next firmware upgrade.
It ranks up there with unpaid internships (which should be illegal).