skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So which is it is saying:

> You are both unproductive and busy (both bad)

> You are both unproductive and busy (but busy is okay)

> You are productive but also busy

> You are unproductive because of your busyness

This is hard for me because productivity invokes delivering value. Busyness invokes behaviors that take up time but deliver less value. Conflating these two with out really going into any of their virtues and how they interact with each other seems glossed over.
Is that a joke or can you actually do that?
> But you can't avoid google analytics..

That's the easiest to avoid. Ghostery, or a simple edit to your /etc/hosts file.

The problem is that tracking is much more pervasive, and there are many more ways you can be tracked that are much harder to block than Google Analytics.
Boy would you love the Netherlands. Here, almost everyone rides a used bike that's had many owners, each of which changed it in some "improper" way. Wheels the wrong size for the bike, duct tape holding the bike together, half of the spokes broken, etc., etc.

But you know what? That's what the whole country uses for transportation, every day, and it works fine. It turns out that, in your day-to-day usage of a bike (and this is for a country of people who ride their bikes as their main mode of transportation) it doesn't matter what ridiculous new type of Chinesium your wheels are made out of, as long as they stay vaguely circular. Brakes don't work? Here, put this duct tape on the brake pads, now they work. Chain keeps falling off? Oh, just don't put it into that gear then. And when it completely falls apart one day, or when it gets stolen, then another one costs $50.

When I'm in the US, I ride an $1100 bike. It's ridiculous, the thing is this gleaming sparkly shade of white, fancy carbon fiber parts that are 150% more aerodynamic than everyone else's carbon fiber parts, a frame that is so light you can carry it with one finger, etc., etc. It goes really fast, and is so smooth I forget I'm biking. But when I'm in the Netherlands? I ride a $20 bike that has spokes sticking out and broken, rust covering everything, and sometimes the front falls off. I'm serious, the front actually falls off. Yes, the handlebars and front fork and the whole shebang, in one go.

Somewhat uniquely, American bike enthusiasts are insane about safety. "You could DIE with an improperly maintained bike!", "Not wearing a helmet is like not wearing a seatbelt!" and "Walmart bikes are death traps" are things I've heard recently. But somehow, when the front of my $20 bike falls off (which has happened twice now) all I get is a minor scrape to my hands.
> We all kind of know that we're well beyond sheer domination of all things earthly and bestial. There's not much to revel in, and it's not valuable to teach your children to revel in such displays.

I certainly don't know that, and I do think it's valuable to teach a child to how to wisely and kindly exercise authority over the world and the animals in it. Were circuses a vehicle for doing that? I don't really know — it's been decades since I've seen one, and I can't remember any of it now.
Pentadactyl isn't the successor to Vimperator, it's just a similar extension with a different feature set and some former Vimperator developers working on it. From what I understand, Vimperator continued to be developed after Pentadactyl was born. Long ago I compared the two and decided to use Pentadactyl because it seemed to be more powerful, but I'm not sure how they compare these days.

A much bigger problem is that Firefox is moving (has moved?) away from XUL and XPCOM, a move which permanently breaks extensions like Pentadactyl (and Vimperator too).

Already Pentadactyl is broken for me on the latest versions of Firefox and Pale Moon (though I can't say for sure that it's because of XPCOM and XUL or for some other reason).

In addition, the Pentadactyl nightly builds aren't signed, so if I want Firefox to allow them to be installed I have to run the Firefox Developer build and make a global preference change to allow all unsigned extensions to be installed.

This breaking of my favorite extensions on Firefox has made me move to Pale Moon, where Pentadactyl was working until recently. Now that Pentadcatyl doesn't even work on Pale Moon anymore, I'm not sure what to do.
The Scheme79 / 81 chips seems to go in that direction:

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6334

Scheme86
https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/mhwu/scheme86/sbt.ps
I absolutely agree with you. But it's not addressed here and simply continues the trope that all marriages become sexless, joyless slogs where we're just supposed to be happy with living. You see it everywhere, and I think it gives people the idea that there's only one kind of marriage: one where you don't have sex but you love each other all the same.

I think it would have been great for her to at least talk about their sexual frequency and how agreement of frequency is important, otherwise that lack of passion undermines everything.
People are set in their ways, but there's a continuous rollover of generations. Current young adults are much less into cars, air travel and meat. (Older people do make these changes too, but it's slower).
You can just press `o' to open instead, plus you can add your own key bindings. My favorite feature is probably the buffer searching if you have a lot of tabs open, and the link highlighter when you press `f' or `;’.
Public APIs
Noise is a fantastic set of protocols for building modern cryptographic applications. Here are a few things to look out for:

- The interactions in the protocol are precisely specified

- The exact security properties of the different interactions are precisely specified, including in-depth concepts like the AKE's KCI properties (AKE: authenticated key exchange, KCI: key compromise impersonation, where post-compromise, an attacker can impersonate anyone to the victim, instead of being able to just impersonate the victim to anyone).

- Several mutually compatible reference implementations.

As great as it is, most applications should still rely on TLS for transport security. Noise is primarily for places where TLS' properties aren't suitable.

Another interesting tidbit that might not be obvious: like TLS, Noise is one protocol with many instantiations. Because it builds on a few simple primitives, these can be swapped out, although Noise defines sane defaults. However, an application built on top of Noise is far more likely to have one fixed ciphersuite set (agility, but not negotiation) -- so it wouldn't be unreasonable to think of Noise as a blueprint for a set of protocols.

I'd be happy to answer any detailed questions about the Noise protocol; I am a cryptographer, but I've had nothing to do with its development.
> Living in a zoo, free from predators, plenty of food, and veterinary care when they are sick. Its sort of like an animal utopia.

Replace "zoo" with "modern society", and vets with hospitals. Sounds pretty similar to what a lot of people strive for.

The common argument against that comparison is animals don't have a choice in the matter, while we are free to flee.
Graph Isomorphism Problem Vanquished--Again
Right, most people have seen this trick performed with a broom handle or maybe even done it themselves. This is the same trick done from edge of space to sea level with a much smaller margin for error and a gravity well.

To me it's fucking awesome. To everyone else it's just a large broomstick.
Heh, that's funny. I am American and don't understand the meaning of the terms "liberal" and "conservative" in our modern culture.
How to Become a Hacker by Eric Raymond (2001)
dkarapetyan linked a good Cookbook. That's essentially what you're asking for. In addition to that, when I had to learn Powershell I found "Learn Powershell in a Month of Lunches" quite useful. At the time it was considered the go to book for PoSh, but that may have changed.
Reliance on a single coaster brake is dangerous. When a coaster brake fails, it can fail in two ways that are both very dangerous: full lock-up or full brake failure. They also have the tendency to catch at strange points in the pedal movement, like the vertical noon/6 position, which are difficult to establish the needed force to slow the bike.

I have a Shimano Nexus 3 speed with a coaster (and hand brakes) that is my daily driver, and where the coaster brake catches is pretty random. I can sometimes make several, as in 3 - 5, full backwards pedal rotations before it catches, other times it catches immediately. I am now in the habit of catching the brake before I descend any large hill. Since I live in Nobb Hill SF, that's every day.
Belt drive - I can't see much advantage to that.
Aluminium frame - probably the Wallmart ones are as well.
Disk brakes - cheap V brakes would be fine for the sort of cycling you will do on that thing. (This seems to have the cheaper cable pull disk brakes, rather than more powerful hydraulic ones).
2 gear system - hardly worth having only two gears in my opinion.

Maybe it's just because I am a bit of a bike snob with a fairly decent mountain bike, but I thought this looked pretty expensive for the type of riding it would be used for.
Use longer term metrics (grin), which means relying on multi-year performance rather than quarterly.
Out of interest, how do you verify the similar design choices? For example, how do you check that, say, your AKE is KCI-secure?
You can. I used to be a Vimperator user few years ago. Left because I felt it made browser a bit slow.
You can also use `H` for back and `o` for opening the URL prompt, among others. That requires you to be in the insert mode for typing in input boxes or interacting with the website you're on via keyboard shortcuts though.
> Ride-sharing is not an area that can be monopolized

It is very close. There are massive network effects and it will be hard to unseat an incumbent.

The more riders there are, the more revenue is available for the service provider (eg drivers). More riders means average waiting time is lower because more vehicles will be around. More riders means less downtime between riders since the next rider will be closer. More time in revenue service lets you spread fixed costs over more riders, reducing the fixed costs per ride (economies of scale).

This all means an incumbent will provide better service especially as reduced waiting times, and will be able to provide that service more cheaply due to greater utilisation. Their drivers/owners will also make more money due to greater utilisation. Newcomers will end up providing worse service (longer waiting times etc) and cost more!
do ride sharing companies become airlines or cereals?

Over the years, we've tried to figure out why the competition in some markets gets sort of
rational from the investor's point of view so that the shareholders do well, and in other markets,
there's destructive competition that destroys shareholder wealth.

It's easy to understand why air travel is so unprofitable....

Munger: If it's a pure commodity like airline seats, you can understand why no one makes any
money. As we sit here, just think of what airlines have given to the world - safe travel. greater
experience, time with your loved ones, you name it. Yet, the net amount of money that's been
made by the shareholders of airlines since Kitty Hawk, is now a negative figure - a substantial
negative figure. Competition was so intense that, once it was unleashed by deregulation, it
ravaged shareholder wealth in the airline business.

But why is the cereal business so profitable?

Munger: Yet, in other fields - like cereals, for example - almost all the big boys make out. If
you're some kind of a medium grade cereal maker, you might make 15% on your capital. And if
you're really good. you might make 40%. But why are cereals so profitable - despite the fact that
it looks to me like they're competing like crazy with promotions, coupons and everything else? I
don't fully understand it.
Obviously, there's a brand identity factor in cereals that doesn't exist in airlines. That must be the
main factor that accounts for it.
Maybe it boils down to individual psychology....

Munger: And maybe the cereal makers by and large have learned to be less crazy about fighting
for market share - because if you get even one person who's hell-bent on gaining market share....
For example, if I were Kellogg and I decided that I had to have 60% of the market, I think I
could take most of the profit out of cereals. I'd ruin Kellogg in the process. But I think I could do
it.
In some businesses, the participants behave like a demented Kellogg. In other businesses, they
don't. Unfortunately, I do not have a perfect model for predicting how that's going to happen.
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yes, you can definitely do that. I'm using the chrome version (vimium) but have back mapped to capital h (for history)
how about an incentive instead of another tax? a tax break for people who rent out their homes at least 6 months a year?
Probably because your MBP is using UEFI?

I'm still using good old PC BIOS partitioning, dual boot Arch and Windows 10, and after every single Patch Tuesday I end up having to manually change the boot partition, update Windows, then use third party Windows software (because Microsofts built in tool wont let you set a partition containing a filesystem they don't recognise as active to switch it back to Archs /boot .

I rarely boot in to Windows 10, but very single time I do now its a 5 minute update, rollback, reboot dance. I just don't know how you could call this 'FUD' when its been painfully obvious for 10-15 years that Windows Update is about as broken and agonising as it gets.

And, while I am a 'Linux fanboy', I also have a Mac... and Apple manage to make updates a joy.
Now _this_ is how you write a readme. The first sentence has a clear, concise explanation of what the code is for and why you might care, without a garble of acronyms and abbreviations.
Doesn't ublock block requests to the likes of GA?
Find a metric that is hard to game and aggregates the results you're interested in driving over a relevant period of time.

"Widgets that sold and had no returns logged" is better than "Widgets that passed QC" is better than "Widgets completed" is better than "Widgets started" for a widget assembly line worker.

Perhaps even better is "long-term profit and sustainability of Widgets, Inc" but that is harder to tie back to the individual widget maker. (A possible metric for the last is "arithmetic average of the share price of Widgets, Inc measured between 9 and 15 years from now", but that's hard to use to motivate someone to make more/better widgets this week.)
An idle web app will use up just as much battery as an idle native app.

How about when they're not idle? There's probably an order of magnitude if not more instructions being executed in Electron, which eventually reaches the same OS APIs a native app would call directly. JITs still have overhead.

You're always going to end up with a larger code base and more complexity when making things cross-platform. Using something like electron is an excellent way to avoid all that complexity.

All you've done is moved the complexity to where you as a developer may not see it, but your users sure do.
Alternative TL;DR: The experimental methods you use can color the results you get.

E.g., lesioning different parts of a microprocessor may reveal "clusters of function" much as such studies do in the brain.
simple fast and secure, pick any two?
> Except a social contract is not a contract at all

Fine, don't call it a social contract. Call it a foo. People, collectively wielding more power than any individual, agreed on a set of rules that make collective life better (in the view of those people). These rules are the foo. If you are in the geography where these people, your fellow citizens, have power then you must follow the foo or face consequences. If you don't like the foo, you can leave.

> I'd like to see the social contract be an actual contract that you opt-into

How would you propose enforcing laws? The U.S. Constitution and its ensuing legal corpus is the law of the land. If you don't like it, you can "opt out" by leaving.
Because I don't often have physical dice handy. So it's that or pseudorandom numbers I generate on my local machine.
In other news The Atlantic asks, "Was Obama's mishandling of Syria just a plan to discourage his successor from foreign intervention?"
How Davos Brings the Global Elite Together
That may be your intuition, but I wouldn't describe riding a few miles in the city at a casual pace as "hard core" (my typical ride).
Voting, though important, is not the only form of political redress. Immigrants in this country have successfully lobbied for all kinds of beneficial political reforms through protest and financial support of groups representing their interests.
I think the most interesting concept here is that a future with driverless cars is a future with almost no way to incriminate an American. Cars are the main way the government gets in your business. I live in a big enough city that I don't have to drive and the move has removed so much of the day-to-day anxiety of life that I was astounded

What will they do when they can no longer control us via "you could be drunk" or "you're driving the wrong way"?
This obsession with comparatives is pointless if we don't know the scope.
No, not quite:

"It can only be for foreign intelligence, or other enumerated purposes. So it’s not that those agencies will just be able to see whatever they want – it’s that they will be able to request, with particular justifications, access to more raw signals intelligence than they had before."
Because all politicians serve the same interests: private interests in the military-industrial complex that has the whole of the US in its pockets and pays for their real salaries and retirement, and government interests in increasing their bureaucratic reach and thus their negotiating power with said complex and their comforts and power.

Their beef with Trump is more that he'll do the same things but with no manners and without respect for the 'rules of the game' -- and in that he hasn't kissed enough ass to get to do them so he's a little of a wild-card. Not that he's a crook and they aren't, because they are all crooks.

[ADDITION] And for the suckers on the sidelines, whether on the coasts or "flyover country" (what a dismissive, borderline racist, term, as if those rural people are a subspecies), there's the sideshow of the "cultural wars" (as some other commenter rightly calls them) to keep them occupied with a number of inconsequential crusades pro and against.

Those play into the eternally true fact that people on the rural areas will be a little (a decade or so) slower to adapt to major cultural changes -- so you can exploit the friction politically forever to gather your faithful, dems or reps against the other side.

(Of course those "progressive" city people only take up those issues en masse when they are already settled and tired and safe to identify with (e.g. not many fighting for gay rights in the 70s and 80s, but everybody and their dog do it now when most states have already voted them in, or are about to))
I have been riding bikes since I was a kid and still do. Seen one case of frame failure (or a fairly expensive enduro mountain bike that was used for downhill).
I'm curious to what HN crowd thinks about a question related to all this.

People are now under the assumption that US agencies are collecting all calls, emails, anything electronic for all citizens as it's technically possible and confirmation is slowly being revealed.

If a crime was committed to a citizen, how would said citizen legally make a request for information the NSA or any agency has that would be useful as evidence. Shouldn't all citizens be able to use what is being collected in court as the government is for the people? How would a person in court go about requesting anything if the possibility exists.
I may be an outlier in this regard. I learned PowerShell by starting to golf in it. However, while I know the language quiet well, I'm completely useless at using it for administrative tasks, simply because I've never done that with it. I use PowerShell as my go-to scripting language, calculator, interactive .NET playground and a bunch of other things, but rarely for managing Windows servers.

I can recommend the PowerShell cookbook too, though. I've been a technical reviewer of the 2nd edition and at least back then it was good :-)
Your website is pretty much blank. Only words on the home page are about, login, and Elyxel. Also this post didn't explain what your project is. The about page contains a vague one sentence description.

You need to explain what problem you are fixing and how your product fixes it if you want to get any traction. People aren't going to signup if they don't know what they are signing up for.
If you run your own mail server, it's hard to get email deliverability to the inboxes of people who use the Big 3 (Gmail, yahoo mail, Outlook.com). This makes using these privacy-invasive email services a much easier decision
Are you in Toronto? What makes people hesitate before moving to Montreal? The usual "disincentive" is the language - a lot of people (including immigrants) just don't care about learning French. Personally though, I have met plenty of immigrants (at school and work) and from my own sampling, the more educated immigrants all learn French - it's a no-brainer for them. They consider it a genuine advantage, not a chore. For natives though, that's another story.
I've talked to people in the Netherlands before, and they've mentioned the ubiquity of slapped-together bikes.

I think that the difference over here is that we pretend that our cheap new bikes are safe ;)
Its also a good way to go over the handlebars if you only use a front brake.
You can easily understand how to fix an electronic device, but understanding how it works at a fundamental level is where the complexity comes in ;)
Nobody's going into the NFL because of peer pressure.
I used to work in Halfords in the UK and they sold adult bikes in the apollo range for £75. They do still have one for £80 on their website.

The apollo outrider (as it was then called) was always pretty shoddy, but mostly just for the look and feel of the components, a bit heavy etc. We didn't get that many of them back in for repair.
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Yup. Same principle for older pre-anti lock brakes on cars, if you lived in a place with regular snowfall, learning not to lock the brakes was considered a basic part of learning to drive.

I have been riding for 15 years without a rear brake and have never come close to going over the front. Not that I would recommend it to other folks, the redundancy argument is valid, but it is not unsafe at all.
Stop and frisk. Maybe it won't be applied to you, but it will be applied to an awful lot of people.
I've started reading this one and found it pretty good. As a beginner at least.

https://www.manning.com/books/windows-powershell-in-action-t...
Go get something cheap (but a real brand) off Craigslist. Watch some YouTube videos on how to tune it up. Buy some lube for the chain ($4).
I think increasing landlord's profits isn't the way to go here. That would further increase house prices.
I haven't used vimperator for a long time, but in petadactyl you can use C-o and C-i to go back and forth, respectively. The key bind matches pretty well to what it is in Vim too.
No, they would behave like a ball floating on top of a wave and given that there are waves involved there will also be interference patterns. There is nothing quantum here. Sure, in one particular way it looks like a quantum particle (to the extent of a cargo cult), but in all the important ways it does not (entanglement, computational power, generalisation to multiple particles).