skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how the analogy requires or implies the creation of economic value or productive work or any other particular use of the money, only that the money put in today is being used today for whatever purpose.

Again, I'm not arguing for or against Social Security, just whether or not the original analogy is apt. If it's not, it does no harm to those arguing against Social Security unless the argument relies largely on the analogy being sound. I can't imagine that's the case at all. If it is apt, I think it likely can be expressed in a way that more clearly shows its intent.
You want enlightenment? Ignore the frameworks/JS hype.

"It's now JSX and you have to write boilerplate JS code just to show a simple hello world example."

This is absolute insanity. It's time for a re-discovery of “vanilla” HTML, CSS, with a sprinkling of "vanilla" JS from the ground up without any frameworks.

I mean.. this website doesn't even seem to work as intended: http://imgur.com/LdRFS4L
I am running https://fandemic.co for a couple months now. We essentially create beauty kits for social media influencers. It was spawned by the Kylie Jenner Lip Kit popularity and we decided to make a builder for influencers to create their own.
But your employer is perfectly capable of doing accounting. So they pass through their 6.2% to you.

In practice the mechanism is that every employer figures it in to their offers, such that every offer you ever receive is ~6.2% lower than it would be if SS didn't exist.
I bet you could get 4 seasons out of it in the south, don't you think? I don't know much about sleeping bags, though.
I wish companies would start rolling with HD-BaseT.
iOS has supported USB keyboards for 6.5 years now.
lol, this comment.
For one, they routinely work 80+ hours a week and are on call constantly.

Almost every day of their job is managing extremely time sensitive transactions that are often the most important single event in the lifecycle of any given company.
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Hi,

I'd like to find a tool with which to generate a printable flowchart of indexed thumbnails that represents a website design, where any index number corresponds to a closer look at any given page printed on its own sheet.

How do people present site layout on handouts in meetings?
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I started https://netin.co about 9 months ago and now we have several customers including a government client. I live in SF so that's to say I need additional sources of income. I have another website which is pretty much an archive of a radio program that has been going for 10 years and that is a pretty good compliment to my income.

The growth curve for NetIn is rather smooth, I did the usual marketing for it, including creating a Chrome Ext, posting to LinkedIn, FB, Twitter, etc. I'd say the biggest difference came when I manually submitted a sitemap to Google with near 30 million URLs. Also after getting a lot of angry emails from people decided to remove all public info until a time when I can address the privacy concerns in a better way.

It's Stripe with monthly subscriptions, I tried calling prospects but soon realized I'm not a sales person, so now it's fully automated, it's free trial and then you pay if still interested in using it, no sales calls, no sales emails.
For my feel, the phrase "security by obscurity" is a little overapplied.
Does OSX? All the mobile operating systems certainly do, but nothing makes you use the OSX app store, and you have root access
The most concise summary of why the US should adopt the Metric System is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system#/media/File:Metr...

If the metric system had no value then the map would be reversed. It's already here being used by many industries, almost every other country has adopted it (to varying degrees), and there is a cost to not adopting it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_dollar#Introductio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_New_Zealand
Just from the title, it seems this is aimed at the emerging 8K television segment -- with a little overhead.

As such, I don't find it "wow" at all. Maybe more "just in time."
Learnpython.org and other interactive tutorials - passive income that gets me a full high tech salary.

Got started when I realized there was a need for an interactive tutorial (before CodeAcademy went live). Wrote it, and that's about it :)
mbed is not a large ecosystem, its large in the 'IoT' world, but no one doing real embedded work (more than say half a million units) would use mbed.
> Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.

I always get a chuckle out of his soap boxing. He's not wrong, just amusing.
Looking at how one-sided the discussion here but especially on reddit is should be worrying.

Not saying it's the case, we all don't know, but if the accusations are right, it's absolutely reasonable to not want to work with these people. You can say all you want about being professional and not having politics influence your technical decisions, but that's easy to say if it's not your life style choices that are discriminated against.
I am at my worst as a driver when I am fatigued from the stress of attending to driving for a long time. Having an L4 system where I could step in for a few minutes after just riding for an hour, giving fresh attention to those few minutes, would make me a better driver.

The advent of cruise control has not made people incapable of using the accelerator. You occasionally meet 16-year-olds who enable it on any 35, 45 or 55 mph road when they reach the speed limit, because holding constant speed is a skill. But it's not difficult to refrain from using it for a while to brush up on the skill.
Read 'Guns, Germs and Steel' then. I think its engaging and broad enough in it's scope of the development of different parts of the world to illuminate what more particular aspects of human history you're interested in. The main subject is technological development and its spread across the globe, so it may appeal to a technology-oriented person.
I love you, man! Thanks for posting this.
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If you hit it to often just dectivate slot 1. Unless you really need 2 slots.

(Slot 1 is click, Slot 2 is long click)
> The FSF could have handled this more professionally from the beginning.

In what way?
Or don't use a massive government sponsored Ponzi scheme for a national retirement plan.
Yes, and the money is easily portable between them and you choose what level of risk you're willing to tolerate.

You can even run a self-managed superannuation fund and make all the investment choices yourself if you want but people rarely do better than a standard fund.
I believe that's usually called MSAA, Multi-Sampled AntiAliasing. It generally does work very well for making a pretty image but it's also a lot of samples that'll be redundant. That's why there's some things like CSAA, FXAA that try to only do it on places where there's higher contrast or on edges where it'll be most notable.
PyPy isn't an interpreter, you are just validating my assertion about JIT/AOT compilers.

I usually ignore it when talking about Python, because that is what the community does, by gathering around CPython.

> For the things that don't need to be fast, why build them with C/C++/Rust/Go when you could spend half the time building them in Python/Ruby/js/etc?

Because one can use languages like OCaml, Haskell, Lisp, Scheme, Racket, F#, C#,... thus having both the productivity of a REPL environment and the execution speed of native code.
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I look forward to a podcast like this to fill the void that the old "startup" episodes filled.
I really hope we can end this absurdity with prioritizing slow methods of transportation. Cycling instead of driving costs an extra hour per day of commute time, and I am already living in the most premium (read: close to work) location I can afford. Time that I depend on for higher-intensity exercise and more thoughtful dinner prep.
The comp is standard across the industry with extremely limited room for negotiation. It isn't a function of them being 'savvy'.
If you are looking for Irssi with a very nice native OS X interface make sure to checkout MacIrssi https://github.com/Dakta/MacIrssi
Complete tangent but... why is this a NPM package? There is no actual Javascript code in it.
First off, if you are using built-in `dir` alias, why not use the `sort` alias? Note also that you get tab completion for `dir`, `sort`, and `LastWriteTime`, so "verbosity" becomes decoupled from "speed of entering commands", which is the real goal.

dir | sort LastWriteTime

I think many in the "Powershell is too verbose for interactive use" camp have simply been trained by cmd to have a very narrow view of what is appropriate for interactive shell execution. Cmd's syntax and toolbox is so poor that only the simplest of tasks are considered tractable for interactive scripting - doing anything non-default is incredibly difficult (or impossible) without a dedicated flag on some windows util (e.g. `/od`). Thus you come to a state where the only commands anyone enters interactively in cmd are very short and simple - not because the language is concise but because it's too painful to attempt anything more.

Translating that narrow set of cmd-suitable tasks into Powershell, one finds that indeed on average Powershell is a bit more verbose, and one says stuff like "Powershell is more verbose than cmd".

What you're missing is that Powershell actually gives you a general, complete, and uniform set of tools, which really are fairly concise given their power. The space of tasks which are now suitable for interactive scripting is now vastly larger.

So before you say Powershell is "too verbose", I ask how concise batch/cmd is for the following tasks:

# assign earlier result to a variable (quite hilarious the gymnastics cmd makes you do simply to assign stdout to a damn variable)
$x = dir | sort LastWriteTime

# sort by the modified *date*, then by filename
dir | sort {$_.LastWriteTime.Date},Name

# get the sum of file sizes in the current dir, in MB
(dir | measure Length -sum |% sum) / 1MB

Many would reply to this with something like "well if I need to do something like that I'd be using C#/Python/VBS". That's my point! With powershell you have a great interactive shell for super short stuff like file copies or `dir` listings (not the case for C#/Python/VBS), but ALSO the ability to do powerful general scripting with one-liners in the shell.

My "everyday shell" usage frequently covers scenarios similar to or more complex than my examples above. I am quite happy to pay a minor verbosity tax on the trivial commands so that I have the power to do the non-trivial stuff without leaving the shell.
That is almost exactly what my self-designed/built computers looked like. The baseboards were longer and used an edge connector and card format that was popular at the time in industrial applications:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_connector

This would be a fun project to work on if I could set aside some time. FIRST robotics build season (http://www.firstinspires.org/) is starting this weekend. I mentor one of the local teams. This sucks-up most of my free time for a few months.

Adding to my to-do list.
An individual voter has effectively zero impact. No federal office has ever come down to a single vote, and it is unlikely to happen.

It's only when we all vote together that there is power.
When Bush the younger tried to privatize SS in the early 2000's as a favor to his cronies, he made sure the defaults were e.g. John Hancock at 2.4% fees.

With effort you could have run it through Vanguard but most people are confused by investing and would have ended up being robbed in broad daylight by borderline criminal "asset managers."
I'm not sure I understand.

Does Chrome store your e-mail and address data for easy access in any website? So, if I go to amazon.com and put in all of my information, it stores it in some generic place rather than only amazon.com.

And then, if I go to smallgameshop.com, it offers to automatically fill out fields like Address and E-mail based on the info I provided to Amazon?

This is a problem here because said info fields are hidden so I actually don't know what I am auto-filling.

I don't think Firefox allows me to save a generic address/credit card/phone number to be used across all websites.
The use of "Machine Learning" here is either naive or clickbait.
Is that because there is very little original development occurring in Libreboot (it's my understanding that it's basically Coreboot with some binary blobs removed but not actually replaced).
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> I'd imagine it's because little effort is put into optimizing games for Linux.

I wonder what's changed. Used to be people would reboot into Linux for better performance in Quake.
I've always thought of it this way. There are the people who want to "Be" something (writer, entrepreneur, etc) and those who want to "Have Been" something. The ones who want to have been always seem to be the ones who turn out to be not what they wanted because they've spent all their time thinking about how great it'll have been to be something than actually doing what they should have done to have been something.

Whew. Still with me?
Looks great. Just a small question. Where do you get the prices from?
Oddly, you don't sound very tolerant...
Bread is a processed food.
> CA would be the 7th largest economy in the world if it were its own country. NY would be 11th. But yes, let's just pretend like they don't matter when it comes to the US as a whole.

Except we're not pretending like they don't matter. We're pretending they have a proportionate say. Regardless of wether your hypothetical proportion would be sound or not the proportion just isn't based on the size of the economy of a state.

Businesses work that way though.

You're free to petition for a CAexit or NYexit if you desire. Not that that'd happen either...
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I see. Simple but efficient.

Last question, you send directly from aliexpress to your clients right? Does it not bother you, your clients receiving packages coming from a different store than expected and with a Chinese address?
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13323154
The design of the electoral college was not to prevent influence by larger states. That's the function of the Senate. The electoral college exists in part to enable the 3/5ths compromise and in part to allow the vote of the people to be changed by someone who is theoretically more sophisticated.
> 48 Gbps might hold us for a while on the video front.

Maybe, but Dell just announced their new 8K monitor today, so we may need more bandwidth sooner than you'd think.
It's pretty clearly hosted by freecodecamp.com; of course it's something intended to promote them. It's like saying that a post on the Google blog about "getting girls into coding" is an ad for Google.

But it can't be astroturfing, which has a specific meaning about misrepresenting the source of the support.

The stock image is shady, but that's more of a Medium-style-blogpost thing (edit: see below) -- people routinely add stock images in obviously-not-fair-use ways, without permission; the negotiation article used a ton of stills from Mad Men (presumably before they got a nasty letter and took them down).

[1] This one: https://medium.freecodecamp.com/how-not-to-bomb-your-offer-n...

Edit: Didn't check that url -- n/m, you're right, it's something FCC seems to do a lot, not a Medium-thing.
Some more design advice if you're interested:

In between the big 3 sections, I would do at least 40px.

In terms of spacing between the heading and the content below, I generally use a variation of the rule of thirds. It's not a steadfast rule, but generally if you have 60px above a heading, something like 20px between the heading and the content it belongs to would work.

Also make your primary CTA bigger and keep it to one line. Put that 500 pages free text outside of the button:

Sign up now and get 500 pages free

[ SIGN UP NOW ]

I agree with the too much text comment as well, especially above the fold. Keep it simple and then provide a section where the users can go for more info if they need it.

Your headings and boxes are not aligned on the left side.

Change those example buttons into regular links.

40px+ between navbar and the h1, also make the h1 medium/bold weight. It looks weird when you have headings of the same font family alternate between bold/light.
Why should the coal miner get more of a voice than the guy who lives in a city? They're both citizens, right?

They both get to vote on their state, city, and county stuff. Why should the guy who lives in the middle of nowhere get to say "my vote's worth 50x what yours is, sucker!!"?
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> one perhaps-toxic person getting up on a soapbox.

Quite possible, and sadly seems to be happening more and more within the FOSS world.
The upscaling process on some televisions is astounding. Upscaling a 1080p@24 source to 4K@120 display brings out so much detail and gives the content an entirely different feel.
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> The individual cities aren't all that big, but they are clustered in metropolitan areas.

That's the same everywhere. London is a cluster. My suburb of London itself has about a dozen town centres.

> Frankfurt is first and foremost a banking city (and secondly an airport city)

That's great for employers, awful for employees.

> If you live in the vicinity of Frankfurt, you can just drive to Heidelberg for a Saturday night out (about an hour)

Driving for an hour is not attractive for going out whe working long hours. This is why you see bankers paying millions of pounds for small flats in London Docklands so they are close to both work and nightlife. People who are used to walking distance or a few minutes on the underground to get to work and the same to get to restaurants and nightclubs are not going to be impressed by an hour to get someone interesting.

> Equally, the pool of support staff you can draw from isn't recruited from the minuscule population of Frankfurt (700k), but from the whole metro region (5.5 million).

Nobody cares about the support staff. They're easy to hire and cheap. The banks cares about the traders they pay a million plus in base salary and similar levels in bonuses. If they are willing to move to Frankfurt, the banks will go there. If they say "no, I'll just go to bank Y instead - they have an office in Paris," the banks will go to Paris.

As I've mentioned elsewhere, the bank my ex works for maintains several offices because of individual traders that insist on living in specific places and who bring enough business to justify it.

> If banks want to exert some influence over policy there, they have all the leverage they could want. This is not the case in Paris.

Banks have plenty of leverage in London, which is much larger than both Paris and Frankfurt combined. If anything they will have more leverage in Paris because Frankfurt is real competition for Paris in a way neither Paris or Frankfurt has been for London.
Ridiculous healthcare is one of the perks for govt officials. Any one of the Congress people or Executive administrators can get a full body scan on a whim (e.g. it was all the rage in washington during the first bush administration through the second bush terms). You get a clean bill of health for your campaign, or you get whatever you find, treated and maybe get well enough for the next campaign cycle.
Thanks, didn't know about that one!
What are you talking about? FSF handled it 100% examplary from the get go.

Leah Rowe however was the toxic and crazy drama queen who couldn't keep a civil tone, and even her initial email included the word "fuck".

To top it off, she had zero proof for her allegations, and the person she claimed to represent specifically didn't want her to raise those allegations in her name.

In the rest of the world, we refer that as slander and libel. She should be happy nobody bothered to sue her. On either end.

Given Leah's behavior, I cannot see how on earth the FSF could have acted more level headed, reasonable and professional.

Seriously... what did they not do right?
You're confusing two different trans people. One was fired by the FSF, and another, Leah Rowe, claimed her friend's firing was an instance of transphobic discrimination and pulled Libreboot from GNU.

The person who got fired from GNU hasn't said a word on the subject, and there's no evidence of her being unstable and unprofessional. Leah Rowe, on the other hand, was indeed acting unstable and unprofessional. The really sad thing was that Rowe's flip-out actually outed her friend, who was stealth, so she wound up hurting a fellow trans person far more than the FSF allegedly did (and due to Rowe's instability, I have difficulty believing her version of why her friend was fired).
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It's a recursive definition, at least. They say the value rests on the faith of the community, and that this faith can be undermined by a change in value/price. But I guess this is an accurate description of the value of money: it's worth something because it's worth something.
You know, sometimes there's an argument for taking the slow and steady approach.

I know it doesn't always jive with the current fad of "move fast, throw in a bunch of js and break things" where everything is obsolete by the time it's released, but there's frankly no need for irssi development to proceed at an urgent pace. The 0.x versions were perfectly usable.
In fact, I will argue that the commenter's attitude is MORE harmful. He or she is placing the responsibility on the individual, when this clearly is something where the individual has no authority. The notion that if you just vote REALLY HARD the people in power will treat you well, and that if you're not treated well you must not have voted hard enough, only helps maintain the status quo.
How do issues like this happen? I'm fairly new to software development and I haven't really seen issues like this, and I'm having trouble thinking of what types of code would cause it.

I'm assuming it's usually related to things using multiple threads or at the boundaries of different programs communicating?
> 115,000 is a really low threshold to use to define "executive" - many blue-collar workers make far more than that.

Quantify "many".

$115K/year comes out to an hourly rate of $57.5 (assuming 2K hours). Even factoring in overtime (1.5x) or double time (2x), I doubt a significant percentage of people make that much at a blue collar job.
she seems to have devoted considerable time and resources (monetary included) to the project.

For a bit more context: Her full-time job is Minifree, a company she founded that sells computers with Libreboot pre-installed. Minifree has then contracted other developers to work on support for more hardware.
Social Security is a money funnel from the young to the old. It will end if and when young voters ever outnumber old voters. Pretty simple.

Likely will not happen while the Boomers are still alive because as a generation they're huge and they vote, but I can't imagine that today's Millennial generation is going to keep Social Security around for us relatively few Gen-Xers when we need it.
Totally correct. I had to reword that a few times but figured less people would understand it otherwise :)
What competitors have tools that just work?

For the most part there provided guis work wunderfully.

GPG is of course always a mess.

I agree with click to sign, that seems to be a bit hacky, otherwise however its fine.
The only person that can set the record straight, the person that was let go by the FSF, have been silent the whole time.