skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I didn't mean to imply that regulation was actually a feasible answer (it needs to be enforceable, non-captured, effective… hard to do). Maybe it's hopeless. I was just suggesting that races-to-the-bottom can only be solved with regulation or other systematic measures, not asking each player to refuse to participate. If you're right that regulation won't work, then you're probably also right that it's hopeless.

There are some mitigating factors though, like if we push for software freedom and get rid of legal support for DRM… that at least will allow some level of control by technology users.
Well, everybody starts somewhere. And books greatly help (me) to get more input and some books (like An Everyone Culture) are so outstanding and unique, that it's worth reading them even if you are not in the position to change an organization.
Yes, certainly, but the bad ones are few and far between. Also honesty makes it easier to identify and limit the emotionally toxic relationships. Coping becomes much easier with the increased network of people to share with.

"As such, I think these traits will greatly improve if you are honest." - This has been my experience!
Tesla aims to sustain purity of car batteries, but can any company be sure?
One guess is to be able to have some intel and insight into what is going on in the kids life as well as their friends and who they interact with. Not sure if this is the parent comments reason but I can see it having some value for that reason.
You're right of course that not everyone watches the same TV shows (etc), but the major cultural divide is urban/rural, not state-by-state or region-to-region.

There was an interesting discussion of this and related topics here just the other day:
'Duck Dynasty' vs. 'Modern Family': 50 Maps of the U.S. Cultural Divide (nytimes.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13264083

I moved in the last year from a mid-sized city in the northeast to a sightly smaller mid-sized city in the south, and everyone keeps asking me excitedly about the culture shock. People eat more okra here and it's hard for me to understand the speech of the few people I've met from more rural areas of the state. That's it. The culture here is "mid-sized US city," just like where I came from. It's almost disappointing.
I'm still convinced that programmers working 35-40 hours weeks will generate more correct code than "high performance" office environments working 60-80 hours a week.
Reading between the lines of the original (and I realize I'm being very generous) was perhaps a fear that once they knew the content they would take some action to prevent it from being discussed at CCC. You can't get a judicial figure to agree to an injunction based on "we think this will be damaging to us but we're not sure" but you can get one based on "this is what the guy is going to talk about and we're going to be damaged in this way..."
The US has working holiday arrangements with only Canada, Australia, Ireland, South Korea, and New Zealand. In contrast Australia has dozens of countries they can do this with. It's just a bigger part of the culture there, most Americans aren't aware of the existence of working holiday programs.
Yeah, I've had the latter. I refused. Had I had something to actually do in those hours it might have been different.

You really need to make it clear to the people you work with that this is an issue of integrity. You want to work with people who have and understand integrity.
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This is the sad thing about China's boom: it's paid for by the common worker, but it all ends up owned by the richest of the rich. It's a plutocrat's dream.
Adobe Illustrator is not a paint application. It's a graphic design application.

Corel Painter is a digital paint application. [0]

Usage differences between these two programs is huge.

Usually paint programs lack filters, but specialize in brush macros, biasing behavior in favor of starting with a blank drawing areas.

Meanwhile image manipulation programs pretty much have a configurable airbrush and replicate some dark room techniques, and possess a rich filter library, biasing behavior in favor of altering and layering existing content together, after the original creative process.

[0] http://www.corel.com/
I dunno, the fact we literally manufactured a trillion dollars out of thin air and the dollar wasn't devalued? Can you cite any other nation doing similar with similar results? The mere SUGGESTION of financial instability as a result of Brexit has ruined the British pound.

*ruined is a bit strong, but it had a serious impact
As I said a couple of posts down, the parent poster said, "I have a hard time imagining how anyone who actually reads these studies could possibly deny the occurrence of global warming," and I simply answered his question; both accurately and truthfully, I might add. Feel free to do a Google search on "why people reject climate change," if you believe my statement is wrong.

Nowhere in my post did I ever speak to, or infer, my views on the subject, since they are irrelevant. I merely answered a question with factual data.

I find the knee-jerk down-votes and negative commentary disturbing, since my post is being judged not by the accuracy of the answer I provided, but rather based entirely on the irrational assumption that I don't think the same way others do. I would think, being the intelligent lot we're supposed to be here on Hacker News, we would see my commentary as a list of obstacles to overcome in order to reach those who reject climate change based on these observations, rather than killing the messenger, so to speak. Seems like the prudent course of action to me, anyway.
many enterprises run a security requirements check before allowing corp email or other communications on. One of the checks is "is rooted" which android reports via api. This usually disabled access. Another is "full disk encryption", and "boot password". This is what big co I work at requires. Also small co we bought required it for 2fa on vpn. They also want remote wipe capabilities. Exchange does this on phones too by domain. But the place I work has a sidecar app that constantly monitors the phone and locks it out if the rules are violated, with is usually accidental by user or a sign of an attack.

I'm fine with not doing so as I don't want bigco's email on my phone, it's super spammy. It's more of a todo list than actual communications, forever base lining permissions.
Later today there will be a leap second. Leap seconds are introduced to keep time in sync with the rotation of the Earth, which is slowing down, although not at a uniform rate, and so we only know when we will need a leap second about six months in advance.

Today's leap second will be introduced at 23:59:59 UTC, which means the following second will be 23:59:60 - giving the minute of 23:59 61 seconds in total. This means that if you live in the UK, or any other country using UTC as a time zone, you will need to count one extra second before shouting "Happy New Year".

If you live east of UTC, the leap second will happen after the new year, and you don't need to worry. If you live west of UTC, including all of the USA, you will need to set your clock back 1 second before midnight in order to count down accurately.

In theory, internet-connected devices like smartphones and laptops should adjust themselves, but in practice, they may only do so after the actual event, and so your phone may not have exactly the correct time tonight.

For accurate time keeping, the site I have posted here will accurately show the leap second as it passes. I am not affiliated with it.

Happy New Year!
Of course I am not talking about barely working at all or some miniscule amounts of hours, come on now.

It's the latter from your comment -- I disagree where the peak is for software developers. But I can't give you absolute numbers that I can claim are true for everyone. There's no such thing. I am a proponent of the per-individual approach.

That being said, if we try and devise a good median number -- I've read quite a few articles several years ago that claimed that 27-32 hours of work are not only the peak of the programmer's productivity but that's also the working schedule that makes people want to work more in their free time. So in terms of your "free 20-30%", for people like myself a 30-hour work week would likely result in free 50% once every several weeks.

Not feeling forced into unproductive schedules gives your brain and psyche a good leisure time during which you occasionally find yourself thinking about the work problems in a chill state -- and it's also often the case you reach for your laptop on the couch to try and solve them outside of the working hours.

Again, it's subjective. I knew several people who worked best when they were given tight schedules and impossible work hours. I have to somewhat gloatingly add that all of them ended up in hospitals and subsequently became very strong advocates of low-to-medium working hours. So IMO the "punch the sun!" people don't live a sustainable work life.
pretty sure you just described exploratory surgery.
Right, I get that too. But then: is the article correct? Are middle class families being priced out of LA?
Most offices are not remote and most businesses operate in one time zone.
That's a nice succint way of putting it, better than anything I could express.
The disconnect you two have is that C++ doesn't force you to always use those safety features. Furthermore due to reasons that are entirely non non-technical in nature will never force you to use them. The reason Rust exists is to solve that problem and the result is that an entire set of bugs, that have plagued developers in the target C++ domain for ages, are literally impossible.

ADT's have been known to be a superior way to express state machines for ages but C++ for both technical and non-technical reasons will never actually get them. Rust solves this problem by starting over.
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Ask HN: What might be the future of open-source offline-first email apps?
Most people are happy to leave email to the big players, most notably Gmail. But many of us would like this aspect of the Internet to remain meaningfully decentralized, as it was in the beginning. And some of us would prefer not to rely on proprietary software for this crucial task.

Probably the most well-known open-source email application is Thunderbird. But it's clearly on life support, and at least in my experience, it has never been very robust. Plus, it's an old-school desktop application, and while some of us (myself currently included) prefer that, most people prefer to do email in a web browser and on a mobile device.

There are open-source webmail applications like Roundcube, but at least last time I looked, they required frequent round trips to the server, albeit with some JavaScript enhancement. In modern parlance, they're not offline-first.

So is there already a good open-source, offline-first email application that can run on multiple platforms (i.e. not something like K9Mail for Android)? If not, what might be the best way to go about developing one? I'm guessing the best starting point would be the email application from Gaia [1], part of the now abandoned Firefox OS.

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia
It's definitely the right point to make. I didn't even know the number myself.
Well, I didn't watch the video, but I'm guess what the video didn't show was that after 3 app crashes, the app state will be discarded and restarted as usual in a PC.

Learn about it before criticizing after watching a infotainment video on YouTube.

Then, fixing this is just a question of not opening the vCard, and update your phone software when the fix is available.
The GSMA could attempt to frame this as an extortion attempt against the company, as you have sensitive information you are asking them to pay for that you will be releasing to the public. How do you protect yourself against an angry consortium with deep pockets?
This article reflects my wife and my experience: just a month ago we left San Diego for a small town north of Salt Lake City. We make over six-figures and San Diego held only poor economic prospects for us. We'd have a very difficult time buying a decent home (2000 sq ft, good neighborhood, reasonable commute) for a price which wouldn't jeopardize other essentials like retirement savings, kids college savings, savings in general, and debt payoff and avoidance. When a small box in Clairemont (neighborhood of San Diego) cost $500-600K you know things are out-of-wack.

Things are more reasonably priced here, but probably still higher than their intrinsic value. However, at least we can afford them without mortgaging our (and our kids') future.

The truth is that this isn't a situation the government has shown any ability to solve for. There are a myriad of reasons, but ultimately my feeling is that federal housing policy is deeply flawed.

Inevitably, by necessity, the solution to this mess will come from all those in the middle class who've been forced to find another way. Our voting with our feet will shape the next ten to twenty years in ways which are hard to predict. One likely outcome is that big cities will not be able to maintain their current housing price structures. A tipping point will come. You can't build a viable local economy only on the top and bottom of the income spectrum. You need a robust middle class. Otherwise the absence of the middle class creates a vacuum, and conditions for an implosion into that vacuum.
A parameter != a neuron. A single neuron probably has thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of "parameters" (of course the vast majority are probably unrelated to learning - but given we barely understand neurological learning it's hard to say).
It scales better than complaining on Hacker News.
Mutt. http://www.mutt.org

"All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less."
> I think it's fair to assume that most people posting there are "real tech companies":

That is debatable and depends largely on a definition. My viewpoint is that a large portion of the
companies in the current VC-inspired "tech" world are merely applying tech and not really developing it. For every company like Datastax there's a dozen of companies which are just applying tech solutions (packaged and sold by other companies) to a specific business/consumer problem.

Or, to put it in other terms, if the job offer does not say "Msc/PhD in X preferred" (where X is the job, like distributed systems, deep learning etc.), then it's likely not quite a "real tech" job.
Punishing Russia
It's not just with Germany, I believe it will connect through Central Asia to Spain. Central and South Asia are the key. They're using this to project influence across these countries to eventually form alliances and sway them from the US. When China is your largest trading partner and foreign investor, the US is much more easily ignored. That's long term. For now, smart countries will be playing off both of them and their rivalry to their advantage.
Since I wrote that comment I have found a job using React. They are confident I can pick it up looking at my code portfolio which makes me lucky. The point is that people are looking for React developers or in this case someone who they think can pick it up quickly.
Is "working 1 month to be well off for the entire year" an inferior financial position to you?

I have news for you: for nearly the entire rest of the world, it's not. Leave your bubble for the new year, will ya?
Is that happening soonish?
The ratio of savings:spending lets me know when I can retire early.

Using exaggerated figures, if I earn 100k in the US, save 10k a year but I spend 90k, then it's going to take me longer to retire than if I earn 35k in Europe, spend 30k and save 5k. Because in the US, it'll take 9 years to save enough to live off one year, while in Europe it'll take six years to do the same.

Of course you can move to a cheaper country when you retire, but you'll have to rebuild your friendships, adjust to the culture, etc.
Not really. There's nothing stopping the capitalist class from reverting back to, say, de facto feudalism. Don't think that the working-class always has a way forward. We do regress, and we have been regressing.
Talking about size, but not specific architecture is pretty meaningless at this moment.

The assumption that only when we have comparable number of parameters to the number of brain cells we can have nearly human performance is no longer true. It gradually loses traction once people discover that stochastic connections may be more effective than merely increase layers/parameters.
And why not, especially Berlin?
Freight rail traffic from china to Europe is hugely subsidized though (can't compete with boat on cost), while the trains are coming back to china relatively empty. It is purely an influence move ATM, and doesn't have economic value yet.
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I've lived in Queens for 25 years. A house is minimum 400k, more often 500k in the towns furthest from Manhattan (Floral Park, Douglaston, Far Rockaway). Anything closer is 600-1 mil.
Thank you, Hacker News, for being a place of sanity in 2016
For almost everyone I know, 2016 has been a difficult year. Many troubling events worldwide; lots of charged, unpleasant things said and done by many people. But dependably, I could come to HN and escape all that by participating in thoughtful conversations about a wide range of interesting topics.

So, thank you firstly to the moderators for their tireless work keeping HN free of the kinds of comments found in far too many other forums.

And thank you also to all fellow HN participants for posting interesting articles, sharing knownledge, thoughtful comments, and wry observations.

We need more of this kind of community on the Web!
I grew up in a suburb outside of Manchester, New Hampshire. You can get a pretty sizable house there for $300k, rent a nice apartment for $700/month. I'd consider my upbringing middle class. It was cheap but wholesome, with access to an excellent New England education, mountains, the ocean, Boston, and enough social connections that I've never ever felt isolated. I think living in the Bay Area heavily distorts your view of what things are like in the rest of the country. Some people insist on living near Silicon Valley as if everywhere else is filled with bumpkins and barbarians, the uncool, but then can't make the connection that they must pay dearly for that inflexibility. I say, if you are poor in San Francisco, there are plenty of beautiful, cool, places to live that are much cheaper and culturally interesting.
Thanks! I noticed the /snap directory, but didn't know snap was installed and usable.

Worked on 16.10 and I'll use this on 16.4 too.
... Uncontrolled format string bugs? In 2016? Really? Someone would fall for that? ..
> Factories and supply chains and aren't built over night.

The US also has multiple trade partners around the world. China does not hold a monopoly on US imports. If anything, it's more of a final assembly point for many things, and the US could do more business with southeast Asia.

On top of that, the usual workings of supply and demand would make it quite profitable to divert $STUFF from another economy to the US. Heck, if China still traded any goods the rest of the world at all, firms in the rest of the world could just sell us back many of the exact same goods, with a competitive markup for the indirection, unless and until China puts a complete stranglehold on all its trading partners' deals with the US.

It'd be bad, but at worst it'd be more like 2008 bad than 1930s bad. People did "flood the streets" a little back then, of course (our friends at Occupy Wall Street). It was pretty easy to ignore, though.

Now, if we want to talk of the disruptions associated with an outright war, that's another matter, but we'll also have to worry about the war, which will likely be far worse.
I know it doesn't have to be powerful but throughout my technical life I became sick and tired of having to restart routers every time they clearly show signs of temporary overload. If this is coming from potential hackers looking for holes, or my torrent client goes crazy once in a while, or the 2 live video streams + 2 low-ping games that me and my girlfriend are playing, or its logging subsystem is killing it because of slow memory -- I can't say. But I've grown weary of routers crapping out, even if it's once a month. So I'm gonna go all-in.

Plus I want to try and host a mail server and a website in the future as well, so I am looking for a powerful fanless machine that can do several things at once.
Don't forget that Prop 13 disproportionately favors buyers who bought closer to when it was rolled out. Their rates were locked in a long time ago. I'm not sure how repeatable this will be for new buyers.
This is really neat! It's fun to imagine what true 2D programming could look like, unconstrained by bitmap fonts.

I'll state the obvious, though: this isn't going to be useful for the #1 time I need to code on a whiteboard: interviews. Both parties need to be familiar with the syntax in order for it to be useful.

Tangentially related: check out these alternative musical notations: https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-alternatives-to-standard...
Why use Javascript for this?
As an example to back up what you are saying, when the Middle East decided to embargo the west on oil, the west focused heavily on fuel efficiency and developing new oil resources, to the point that oil went bust for the most of the 80s and the Middle East hurt badly.

There are always options if the country is rich enough. The USA could redevelop manufacturing relatively quickly or even lean more heavily on Bangladesh, India, and Vietnam. All china would get out of it are newly developed competitors.
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Surely refinancing impacts this equation some though, right?
A solid overview of Chinese HSR:

http://www.railjournal.com/index.php/high-speed/chinese-high...

>In 2013, Chinese high-speed traffic reached 214 billion passenger-km, slightly more traffic than the rest of the world's high-speed networks combined

>the CRC network is already one of the most densely used in the world, with robust growth between 2009 and 2013. Overall passenger traffic grew by 5.5% per year during this period reaching 2.1 billion passengers or 1060 billion passenger-km in 2013. Railfreight grew by 6% per year to 3.6 billion tonnes, or 2633 billion tonne-km in 2013. These are large volumes compared with the size of the network (103,100km in 2013).
True, insightful, but completely beside the point - which was "bracketless conditionals open up an avenue for coding errors."

The fail in #gotofail wasn't in using GOTO - it was a coding error, where a misindented line after a bracketless condition was always executed, when it should have been only executed inside the condition.
I stopped drinking sugary drinks (mostly coca cola) everyday and lately I just reward myself with a small can on special occasions/hitting milestones, etc.

I had huge cravings on the first 1-2 weeks but nowadays I don't feel the need to drink them at all.

Since then I lost quite some weight and my blood pressure got a lot better as well.
is this only for India?
This is awesome, I had no idea they did this. Quite accurate, too!
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Until those cities inevitably become too expensive, too, just like Austin did. (I desperately hope I'm eventually proved wrong)

"I asked a passing teamster, for want of something better to say, what land was worth there. He pointed to some cows grazing so far off that they looked like mice, and said, 'I don't know exactly, but there is a man over there who will sell some land for a thousand dollars an acre.' Like a flash it came over me that there was the reason of advancing poverty with advancing wealth. With the growth of population, land grows in value, and the men who work it must pay more for the privilege." -- Henry George
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