skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's amusing. I'm 45 and said the same thing when I was in my mid-20's. And now I think it's just naive. The most docile 60 year olds I know become positively vitriolic at the idea of even the age of benefit payout being changed by 5 years. If Social Security were just done away with, I guarantee you the violent revolution they'd be considering wouldn't involve clever devices that take people's heads off cleanly, quickly and painlessly like the French did. Vlad the Impaler would be seen as a massage therapist in comparison.

So if Social Security (and don't forget Medicare it's part of the same FICA taxation) were to go away, it definitely means some nasty calamity happened first, like Yellowstone or a meteor just blew up half the country, in which case we've got other problems.

The thing to be concerned about is privatizing it. That's a con game to dump a shit ton of money into the stock market, with the ensuing distortion inflating the stock prices of the very wealthy. It's about helping them. It doesn't do squat to help the people who will depend on Social Security. They will not make more money. And just like with getting rid of it, there's no way it's tenable to tolerate the inevitable short term loss of asset value with recessions. We can't have retirees experiencing 5% let alone 20% loss of income for 1 month let alone 1 year let alone 5-8 years for a recovery. Old people would sooner pick up axes and make you shoot them, because shooting your grandma in the head is kinder than this Republican privatization of Social Security nonsense. Grandma is not going to go back to dumpster diving and living under a bridge again like the 1930's.

And you've got the same financial concern with an unbalanced 401K - that could leave you in a lurch the same way a privatized Social Security plan can. So take the risks in that 401k while you're young, but at some point probably in your 50's, you'll want to start moving it to inflation indexed treasuries.

Young people right now are more likely to be savers, because of 2007/2008. They saw what it did to the unprepared, so they know that sort of thing can happen. Gen X and the Baby Boomers didn't have anything nearly that scary.
> Should autofill skip regular form elements that are just a little below the viewport?
And even when clicking into the credit card field you still need to click a little popup that asks if you want to autofill.... at least that's how it works for me, I don't remember ever changing a setting on Chrome for this so I assume this is the default state. In fact it does something similar for my address information too. There must be some setting because I know my address autofill info is saved in Chrome but when I tried the demo I did not see my address info in the headers
> Chrome Autofill is specifically designed to help users quickly fill forms that they've never filled before.

Browsers auto-guessing private data into arbitrary fields on never-before-used webpages?

IMO that's "Just because you can doesn't mean you should" territory.
On top of that, I'd recommend reading through r/AskHistorians posts. History is such a broad field, that it's overwhelming, and since it's so broad you find a lot of dry, broad coverage for "beginners". A lot of the folks over at AskHistorians are experts in their (sub)fields so you can find in-depth answers on small things. For me that helps make it "real".

Here's an example of one that stuck in my memory recently:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5f86lb/what_...
The very nature of saving in a 401k is that you never at one time put in a high percentage of your balance into it. The max individual contribution is $18,000 a year.

Let's say you have been doing around $10,000 the first 10 years of your career and the economy tanks. You now have 30-40 years until retirement, and you start doing $15,000 or so a year. That money that you put in before this huge crash may not grow that much before retirement, but the money you put in after the crash will be bought at low rates and will grow for a long time. You will also have put in a lot more money post crash anyway.
I know quite a bit about FSF and GNU. The maintainer of libreboot here makes blunt accusations and decides in the name of other participants of the project (and they don't all agree to her: http://zammit.org/libreboot-screwup.html). She uses vulgarity, over-reacts, abuses her position to publish articles in the name of all the community on the project website.... see, who would you find more dependable in this context?
Sure, but then the attacker can draw the fields within the 'visible' document, but below the 'fold'. If the browser chooses not to fill fields like that, it breaks a lot of autofill on long pages. Those two cases aren't significantly different.
Yes I agree. It can be frustrating for me to see all the much less important things that humanity wants to invest its resources into these days.
I guess these guys hadn't seen the info on https://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Page when they were trying to get the device to run arbitrary code. All Allwinner SoCs have a USB bootloader baked into the _CPU_, which you can talk to over an open-source protocol (poorly documented, but on my old A10 tablet the magic term to google for is 'LiveSuit' - there is an open-source Linux driver, bootloader, and flasher stub to be found on github somewhere).
I wonder if there will be an option to keep the two extra screens collapsed. Certainly there's still the weight factor, but this would allow it to be more compact and would probably extend battery life considerably (though I imagine it will still be laughably bad).

I think it would be awesome to have access to three screens when you're on the road, but this thing definitely won't be replacing any ultrabooks anytime soon.
It's actually quite apt. AWS is a different beast, but Google and Facebook can and routinely do ship broken code to production that drops queries on the floor, serves broken JavaScript, redesigns the UI in ways that confuse millions of people, etc. It doesn't matter because the products are free. The worst that can happen is you lose money by failing to serve ads for a while.

Selling into the enterprise space can be very different. There even a single dropped or bogus query can have a big impact on the business. They are paying, so they get to decide if and when they upgrade. You have a small number of very important customers, instead of a billion unimportant customers, so losing one because you didn't meet their bizarre requirement is a big deal, whereas in the consumer space if you decide your app is iOS only, OK, no problem, you can still be successful.
This is the only possible reason that might be helpful, but even in that case I would say that it's a distraction.

Better/Easier to buy the congressmen and presidents off to build legislation in your favor.
This situation is subject to information asymetry, and, as with some other conflicts, reduces down to a question of trust [1]. Half a year ago, the question of the Tor Project and accusations against Appelbaum formed a situation that also caused unrelated third-parties to evaluate who they trust more, which, given the gravity and nature of the the accusations, was an extremely contentious exercise. And in that case, the accusations, if truthful, came directly from victims.

In this case, I don't think it's quite a fair ask to unilaterally imply the existence of a troubling conflict, taking a moral position in the name of a different allegedly aggrieved party, force people to pick a side, then punish them for their choice. It seems many other people feel the same way, which they express in varying tones.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173742#12174545
Obviously, graph partitioning is a useful and practical problem whether or not there are publicly accessible graphs that require more ram than an EC2 X1 instance gives you.

But yes, assuming your data is "big data" when it can easily be processed on a dev workstation or beefy server is very much in vogue right now.
So the alternative is tyranny of the minority?

It doesn't reassure me that we give much more weight to a minority of voters just because they live in less densely populated areas. That's completely arbitrary.
For me it pops up a little box under the input asking me to choose if I want to autofill. I like this option because it doesn't autofill without permission but my info is still saved and easily accessible.
I'm also thinking about developing my first product and wanted to start with wordpress, I think a Saas would be too ambitious, how did you start promoting it?
This is very interesting. Can you elaborate more on such organizational structure or know of anyone implementing in real life?

To me it totally makes sense. Instead of the inevitable interdependency that arises through the component model, I can see that if teams were building features on their own than it could be completed at their leisure (in the budget & time affordable) without the multi-directional multi-disciplinary communication shitshow.

I wonder if there is an official name for this feature teams model or more guide on how to implement it.
> On the other hand, this will lead to us only being able to read the blogs and personal websites of people who are able to dip into their own money and time to make and host a blog.

If you just want a blog or simple personal website, a hundred different services will host that for you for free, including Github, Wordpress, Tumblr, and others.
The only thing I can think of is a separate prompt, that would ask "Do you want to autofill Name, Address, Phone..." etc.
This is not entirely correct.

By buying stock in a given company you increase demand for that company's stock and increase its value. A company's market cap is a very real thing that allows it to engage in economic activity that it would otherwise be unable to execute on.
Not necessarily. The browser often paints a much larger area than fits in the viewport, then hands it off to the GPU. (This can be cause performance issues for very tall scrollable pages, which is why I've run into it.)
This is a great point I don't see brought up often enough. It also has a lot of implications for the "gig economy" and independent contractors.

If the majority of the workforce works as independent contractors, the government will not be able to use employers to collect ("withhold") taxes automatically from workers' paychecks. The IRS will need to wait for the contractors to explicitly pay their own taxes.

I suspect this will have a big impact on cash flow for incoming taxes. Also, it could give more power to the people should they ever choose to execute a tax boycott.
Donald Trump Could Reinstate NSEERS, a Registry for Muslim-Majority Countries
Probably because that's exactly how it was written on the machine's original logo[1]. I think it changed later on, though.

[1] http://www.vintage-computer.com/images/apple2logo.jpg
A pile of scam – Scam email is still escaping spam filters so having fun it is
I'm sorry, but this statement is not true. These numbers require the use of the Social Security trust fund. The Social Security trust fund is a "special issue treasury bond" in which money is deposited and then spent by the US government.

So, when the trustees say that Social Security can pay 75% of the benefits, what they mean is that there are enough IOUs in the trust fund to pay 75% of the benefits. But when we start redeeming the IOUs, we will quickly discover that the money isn't in existence. We are going to have to raise taxes or cut spending or otherwise get the money from somewhere else. The trust fund is just a very very clever way of obfuscating the fact that the government has no money saved at all for Social Security.
HN discussion from October 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10316060
7 million

Wow. Very well done.
Yes of course. It's concurrency related. You write a program that starts something, does some work, then tries to access the something expecting that it's already started. On your computer, the "does some work" stage happens to take long enough that the thing has indeed already started. On some other machine, it doesn't and you get a crash or hang.

It happens quite often when developing concurrent software.
The Vermont Power Grid Hack That Wasn't
I imagine there are multiple reasons why developing therapies for children is more difficult, but what would be the adequate level of funding? Less than 0.25% of cancer deaths correspond to patients younger than 20 when diagnosed (and I guess the low incidence is one of the reasons why developing new treatments is difficult).

[ At least in the UK, according to http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-s... ]
>Anybody who makes more than $115,000/year qualifies, which applies to a lot of engineers.

For instance I imagine Apple's automatic 401k enrollment is in part because without the participation of retail employees, their engineers in Cupertino would be caught in this.
Yeah, it's gotten to the point where I'd rather just buy Thunderbolt cables (despite the extra expense) because it's the only easy way to be sure that I'm getting a cable which fully supports all the features of the USB standard. (Thunderbolt cables are compatible with USB-C connectors, USB 3.1, and USB Power Delivery.)
I disagree with the 'operating system war' numbers. Not that Android and Apple are in the lead. But there are so many cheap flip phones and basic smart phones out there that use Java Micro as their OS that the alternate OS percentage should be more like 3-10%.
Newsflash for ya: The whole world is moving to SPAs.
From AdNauseum's FAQ

Indeed it is marginally safer for one to simply use a strong adblocker and protect themselves. And it is also safer to stay at home rather than to attend a protest. But safety is not the only concern. Using an adblocker does little to change the status quo. AdNauseam, and the obfuscation strategy in general, instead presents a possible avenue for collective resistance; a means of questioning and perhaps, eventually, changing the system. But this is not for everyone. If your goal is primarily self-protection, it may not be for you...

So they're aware of the fact this is worse at protecting privacy than a simple blocker, and equally unambiguous about their objectives being to change the status quo by damaging ad networks' business models. And yes, they've calculated the direct cost of some of those clicks too:

As the precise cost generated by clicks is not visible to the client, AdNauseam calculates an estimate using an average value of $1.58 for each clicked Ad.
Shiva Ayyadurai, Who Claims to Have Invented Email, Is Suing Techdirt
I think there is a comedy routine in there somewhere. Imagine the passenger in the middle seat of a crowded flight and suddenly their laptop keeps growing and growing :-).

IBM did a similar idea with a dual screen thinkpad, it was not very successful. My impression was that it just didn't make a lot of sense. Imagine a couple of USB-C connected displays on either side when you wanted them, no need to lug them around when you didn't. That would seem to be a bit more sensible to me.
Good. I'd prefer that my private data remain private, and private companies like Uber have a responsibility to protect that data.
It's a good idea to think of the temperature rating of sleeping bags as "survivable" rather than "comfortable."

I camp year round in CA. I use a 20 degree bag for late spring/summer/early fall and a 0 degree bag for the rest.
Just because you're surprised, doesn't mean it was "the people". You can't have an Electoral College system in which shuffling Toledo across state lines changes the electoral outcome and credit the people for political outcomes.
The Twin Prime Hero | Rags, Riches, and Fame in Mathematics
If a site looks like google and you enter your TOTP it will just take it and login.

The only thing TOTP protects against is somebody collecting logins and using them later. Today good phishers do attacks JIT, so TOTP is pretty useless for that attack vector (and that is the most importent one).

Your Yubikey can pretty much be connected to your computer all the time. So usability is actually better.

Plus there is of course the problem of smartphone security.
One really nice thing about this is that the screenshots are built-in defense against the editorialization of the submission title.
Lots of decisions in life are arbitrary, or based on fuzzy moral standings.
What history is that? The history that has shows the % of seniors living in poverty consistently decrease over time? It's half of what it was 40 years ago.
Build plant in U.S. or pay big border tax
I get it, now, thanks. OP used biometrics as a strawman, and I misinterpreted the use as a reply to a (nonexistent) point in the original article.
Maybe I'm terrible at communicating honestly in a nice way - but I've found that people in my life hate when I'm honest. Enough that my slogan for myself is "honest to a fault". I refuse to lie to people, even over small things.

I've found that the world runs better on white lies and omission of details and that opening up with your own problems just makes people avoid you - rather than help you solve them.
A taste of linear logic (1993) [pdf]
There's a lot of selection bias there. Google at least has failed and late projects like any company. You just don't hear about them.
The real reason my startup was successful: privilege
I agree given the project and the usability of prior releases, but you have to admit a 17 year schedule is amusing in todays world.
I recently quit my (great) job to work on my online business which was once my side project. I'm not solo - I have a partner (@dmtintner).
> Our business is a newsletter, blog & podcast called Hacking UI - http://HackingUI.com (for designers, developers and creative entrepreneurs like ourselves)

> I wrote ALL about how we started, and also how we scaled it to the point where we could leave our jobs
http://hackingui.com/product-hacking/side-projects/

> We were so overwhelmed that we pulled this off that we actually also opened an online course to teach others EVERYTHING we know and all our workflows: https://sideprojectaccelerator.com/

Actually - my partner David is going to talk about that live in an hour here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/talks-david-tintner :)
Are Michiganders still angry about that?
I'm curious about how much the need for social interaction through work differs between Europe and the US.

In Scandinavia I feel that there's a pretty distinct border between work and friends/social life. Socialising with colleagues is usually pretty superficial like afterwork and such.

Maybe this is the reason I find these "water-cooler moments" so vague and overrated. Personally I think I derive a good and rewarding working relationship by basically just working together, even if that would be mainly through text. I do however realise that there's a lot of people - in my current on-site job as well - that really avoids communicating through text if it's possible to talk face-to-face. I'd assume these persons would probably not enjoy working remotely.

I hope remote-only companies make sure that new hires actually can, and like to, communicate through text.
I recently quit my (great) job to work on my online business which was once my side project. I'm not solo - I have a partner (@dmtintner).
> Our business is a newsletter, blog & podcast called Hacking UI - HackingUI.com (for designers, developers and creative entrepreneurs like ourselves)

> I wrote ALL about how we started, and also how we scaled it to the point where we could leave our jobs
http://hackingui.com/product-hacking/side-projects/

> We were so overwhelmed that we pulled this off that we actually also opened an online course to teach others EVERYTHING we know and all our workflows: https://sideprojectaccelerator.com/

Actually - my partner David is going to talk about that live in an hour here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/talks-david-tintner :)
This article is mostly bullshit.

AppNexus is one of the major SSPs (sell-side platforms) but they still have major fraud and legacy tech issues. They are also one of the primary causes of miserable user experiences across the web. They will not be part of any adtech renaissance.

Google won't flinch if margins really do go down to single-digit margins. They're already built for worse conditions than today and are just pacing the market, as seen with the whole header bidding scenario. They also have Google Cloud rapidly scaling and will likely be a bigger source of revenue than their entire ads division in a few years.

Meanwhile AppNexus can barely survive on their current margins and will be out of business if it hits single-digits. The disintermediation mentioned in this article will also apply just as harshly to AppNexus.

The lame insights about machine learning and formats aren't anything special. This is why Google and Facebook get all the money already, because they have a much faster, cleaner, more relevant, and more effective ad experiences. The renaissance is already here and it's getting increasingly harder to compete with these data behemoths. It's not impossible though and there are several niche focused ad startups, but there's no big sea change about to happen. This is all just business as usual.
I Shadowed Our CTO for a Day, and This Is What I Learned
I didn't realize it was such a huge problem until I moved to Los Angeles a few weeks ago. We did a bang up job finding an apartment with grocery stores, restaurants and parks within walking distance. Unfortunately, the red light situation makes it somewhat difficult to get to these amenities.

LA needs to do a better job of balancing pedestrian and motorist interests. With more and more people abandoning or at least de-emphasizing cars, I hope and expect this balancing act to happen sooner rather than later.
Are you guys actually arguing that closing a dialog or popup in a web-app should be done with the back button? Or merely that the back button should DO that functionality? Once you write a true "application-like SPA" you see the flaws in the back button, for anything other than static docs, but unless you have the experience you won't "just get it". There's a reason no "back button" was ever invented for "desktop apps" and ONLY came into existence in web browsers browsing static docs.
People dislike Silicon Valley types because they are perceived as pretentious, arrogant, weak physically, yet intimidating intellectually. Not that this is true for most, but still the animosity persists probably as a result of envy from workers finding themselves feeling their self-worth diminished by the loss of blue collar jobs
So... not a successful one-person online business?
How did you go about growing the communities?
Well it might've been a difficult week for her. The last twelve months have been truly and profoundly terrible for me, this wouldn't justify me acting mad like her though. It's obvious that she's not the kind of person to bear responsabilities.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13319482
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> A Ponzi scheme is by definition an illegal crime and an unsustainable set-up that crashes very quickly. Social Security and Medicare, which have been around for decades, are not criminal schemes.

This is terrible legalistic reasoning. It essentially says the government cannot create a Ponzi scheme because Ponzi schemes are by definition illegal and governments define what is legal.

Better reasoning would incorporate the government's indirect control of inflation, direct control of federal wages and ability to "restructure" social security benefits and taxes, as well as the fact that the economy grows in real terms. This reasoning is more complex, but it is behind why investing in a start-up that plans to go public isn't a Ponzi scheme.