skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way word "hero" is used, it pretty much excludes paid professionals by definition. You could argue that society doesn't need heroes but trained experts instead, but that's an orthogonal discussion.
The th sound in that is exactly the same as the th sound in with.
So I am no more significant than a robot worker? Great.
Regardless of funding source, the US spends dramatically more per capita on healthcare than the rest of the developed world.

Australian healthcare costs half of what American healthcare does - $4,420/person in 2015 versus $9,451 in the US. Given that we don't see substantially better outcomes for that doubling of costs, we're getting absolutely hosed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
The Shanghai metro, while pleasant to travel on and incredibly cheap, closes at 11pm.

At least the NY subway is 24/7
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There's also Zom (zom.im), which like Conversations is derived from the Guardian Project's ChatSecure.
I feel like this is one of those things that gets implemented over and over again. I wonder how the creators IPFS, for example, integrated this into their project or even if they knew about it.
Yes, I've said this as well. Non-lexical lifetimes will make the borrow checker more complex; but if it tends to work closer to the way that you intuit things, as a developer, it will _feel_ simpler.

Right now, the rules are very simple to explain. But that means your code gets a little more complex at times.
I believe that's a backronym.

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/usr....

In current Unices, /usr is where user-land programs and data (as opposed to 'system land' programs and data) are. The name hasn't changed, but it's meaning has narrowed and lengthened from "everything user related" to "user usable programs and data". As such, some people may now refer to this directory as meaning 'User System Resources' and not 'user' as was originally intended.
That's not accurate. The vast and overwhelming majority of all the good things we have now is not the result of open-source or self-powered or free. It is likely the case that for it to be a true success, it needs to be the opposite of free. Just like nearly every other cool thing that exists. You know, like rocket ships.

It seems like you want to solve a political/social problem, with a machine. You'll find out what the inventors of all other machines found out. They will be used for good, they will be used for evil, and the human politics matter much more than the tool.
Many institutions have a hard rule that says you can't start a postdoc if you're more than 5 years out of your PhD program (discounting any time for parental leave, medical leaves of absence, etc.).
On the scale of HN stereotypes, you're "pedantic off-topic guy".

But you could be a woman. And it's more of a 2D scale.
It was set because of nuclear testing. Thankfully we made it through the 80s without nuclear war.
> if they don't [deliver on their promise], what will happen

Revolution, Tiananmen Square style.

> you describe China like some sort of wonderland

Do I? China is rich, will continue to grow richer but it is hardly a wonderland. In fact, my last paragraph about subtle and overt social control should have made it clear that it is far from a wonderland.
Which, "jk" or Caps Lock? The "jk" mapping is just in Vim. As for Caps Lock, if you go to System Preferences, and the Keyboard prefpane, there's a button "Modifier Keys…" in the lower-right corner that lets you remap the modifier keys (including Caps Lock) to other modifiers. So I just use that to remap Caps Lock to Control.
Specifics here would be very useful; sometimes you _think_ something is safe, but it's not, because you forgot something the compiler didn't.

Take http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2015/05/17/the-problem-wit... for example...
Yes, but I'd rather pick free health care and five weeks vacation. :) Your numbers are correct, but I don't think they are meaningful.
Insurance in the small group market isn't subsidized; it's employer-provided. So subsidies can't be confounding those statistics, can they?†

I'm not disputing that you experienced a barely-tenable increase in insurance premiums since 2011. But if your premiums had been increasing 30% YOY since Obamacare went into effect, you'd be paying something closer to $5000/mo, not $2200/mo. What you experienced instead looks closer to 13% YOY.

The distinction is important because:

* The California small-group market, which like most group markets was guaranteed-issue prior to ACA, was already experiencing increases at that scale before ACA.

* Not only was that happening, but further cost increases were easily hidden by terms and conditions that reduced actuarial value for policies at the same premium. The ACA prohibits that practice; if the broader narrative about ACA was true, you'd expect even steeper price increases because insurers have fewer ways of hiding them. But we don't see that.

So to me, you're telling a story about broad dysfunction in the health care marketplace that is orthogonal to ACA. I find that narrative very easy to believe! Either way, though: I might be wrong (and would love to hear about it if I am), but these issues aren't unknowable.

† This is one of several reasons you know you're in trouble when you read an analysis of the ACA that insists on comparing the pre-ACA and post-ACA individual markets, or suggests that comparisons based on the small group market is somehow shenanigans: in addition to being the insurance market most of us startup founders actually participate in, the small group market is the closest we have to an apples/apples comparison: an unsubsidized guaranteed-issue marketplace for small numbers of people in both eras.
One advantage is I have 5 year old) keynote presentations that keynote refuses to open (tells me file format is too old), and 3 year old PowerPoint slides the new version messes up the formatting of. I'm slightly more confident my HTML will continue to render right, and at least open!
I don't think GP wanted to compare this to various real tragedies. Hyperbole is a figure of speech.

That said, whatever you point to, you can always find greater tragedies. I don't think such comparisons would help much here.
You make some good points, albeit most of them quite exaggerated.

For example "almost impossible to fire anyone" : the up to 1 year trial period is pretty much hire-and-fire at will. After that, it's never too hard to fire a single employee. It's true that mass firings are quite heavily regulated though.
Google's office in Paris (rue de Londres) in pretty big. And it was only a few examples, but there are other wealthy multinational software companies hiring engineers in France.

I have friends who had an offer at Google, but joined French companies that aligned their offer with Google. So the impact on the job market goes beyond people strictly working for them.
I dont know where this idea of relieving people from work came from. Humans are workers, it's a part of our being and their wouldn't be a civilisation without it.

The idea that everyone really just wants to put their feet up in a hammock and relax but these damn social constructs are keeping us tied to work is crazy. If the need to work and strive for something is taken away, I can tell you bad things will happen.
I just saw something about this last week when I was curiosity browsing:

http://rbth.com/science_and_tech/2016/02/23/its-official-nat...

According to this research, not only did they find a Siberian link to NAs, but they found a link between Australian indigenous people among some NAs.

Wikipedia says:

Two 2015 autosomal DNA genetic studies confirmed the
Siberian origins of the Natives of the Americas.
However an ancient signal of shared ancestry with the
Natives of Australia and Melanesia was detected among
the Natives of the Amazon region.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_history_of_indigenous_...
Don’t think of a rampaging elephant
Have now upgraded it to use AngularJS 1.6.1
Along most of the west coast of North America, the Pacific Ocean depth drops down past 400ft within a couple miles of shore. When we go scuba diving we're never far from land. So certainly some sites are now underwater, but as long as the people spent time at least a little ways inland then there should be evidence near the current coastline.
not really looking forward to the release of webpack2, all it means is wrestling with existing webpack 1 configs (which are already fragile and difficult to deal with) to port them over.

I wonder if the performance has improved.
Have you tried it on Safari? I see mostly empty pages.
If labor from robots and machines in general also taxed, governments should even subsidize the initial cost of those machine, as that cost/investment will be rewarded later by the taxes.
What kinds of skills would a volunteer need to be able to contribute?
In other words, healthy educated engineers with no children who are motivated to work need not apply.
Easy. Glowing eyes = robot. Special rule also applies for Tricia Helfer-type robots, that only occasionally and inexplicably glows, and then in a sinister way.

R2-robots are exempt, as they just beeps annoyingly while getting lost.

The thought that you could tax software for the performed labour is new to me, but why not. As the way it is sort-of implied in the text - requiring some sort of mechanical implementation in addition to software, it will probably slow down development of robotics in EU, which is currently the only way we can compete with slave labour^H^H^H^H low-income economies.
Portability. If you have to send a presentation around, embedding fonts in PowerPoint only works if the viewer is on a Windows machine, and keynote is not an option if your viewer is on a PC.
3 mistakes I made validating my idea earlier in 2016
FWIW, the US has Trump as President and he's about to Make America Great Again. So... all this debt/gdp ratio talk is just nonsense.
You'd need evidence for this position...
You are a normal person (as far as I can know from this side of HN). Robot's are electronic persons
That depends on the fire service.
The FDNY fight fires aggressively.
I know of other fire services where the number 1 priority is firefighter heath and safety, ie above that of the potential victims of fires. They still like to run marathons in their fire kit and play on the hero rep at every opportunity though.
It sounds like a very roundabout way of raising taxes on the European tech industry. The part about establishing liability rules is certainly an important thing for lawmakers to be tackling about now, though.

> "The US, China, Korea, and Japan are currently working on very ambitious projects," Vice Chair Mady Delvaux wrote in an op-ed last fall. "If we do not create the legal framework for the development of robotics, our market will be invaded by robots from outside the EU. The European Parliament could be the first Parliament in the world to discuss and create such a legal framework."

Its fascinating how this frames the issue. Not only are jobs being taken by robots, but they're being taken by immigrant robots! We must strengthen our cultural norms to prevent this invasion!
You can use Google to prove to yourself that either the infosec industry really exists (including skilled full time reverse engineers) or there is a vast conspiracy. Same as you would prove to yourself that nuclear submarines exist, without ever being allowed onboard one to inspect it.

Consider all the people who study closed source browsers (MSIE) and plugins (Flash) to write malware. Consider all the people who reverse engineer malware to write protections or ransomware decryptors.

The people who can do such work don't work exclusively for the NSA and Google, and you can probably hire them for $1000 a day. but none of them will do tricks for you for free just to prove that they exist. They're too busy making money.

I saw some of the work described in this [1] excellent paper on reverse engineering NSA's crypto backdoor in Juniper equipment being done live on twitter. People exchanging small pieces of code, piecing together all the changes that were made in order to allow passively decrypting VPN traffic.

1 - https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/376.pdf
R.I.P. The XKCD (893) truly nailed it.

And, NASA made a typo.

> He went into private business and served as television
> commentator for early fights of the space shuttle.
...and has "preexisting conditions" clauses, right ? This doesn't exist in France.
Because we don't need one? When did a bullet train become a priority for anyone?

Seriously I have to fly 2000 miles soon and I can buy a plane ticket for $200 and be there in 4 hours. Have you checked the cost of a train ticket lately? It's something like 4x the price and 4x slower.
> Even though the cost of living is commensurate - it's hard for young people to factor that in. They see $150K salary in the US and glaze over it.

I don't even earn a third of that, and I've been building native iOS, Android and Windows apps for more than 3 years...
That isn't their goal, it's a side effect of prioritizing other values, some of which are selfish.
It would have been more worthwhile in my eyes had the author simply omitted that sentence. Since the focus is on "zero cost living", selling your work isn't strictly necessary - The Machine provides for your basic living requirements. However, s/he mentioned healthcare as an open problem.

And if you're worried about what happens when 10%+ of people spend more than 20% of their time on art, I don't think you need to be. My social needs are by and large not dependent on impressing strangers, but by doing with my equals. I play music with my friends, and no audience, for example. We're out-talented pretty much everywhere we look in that aspect, but it doesn't make things any less enjoyable in the least.

The author seems to predict this will decrease some forms of inequality. If that's the case, I'll have more equals to befriend. I'll have more opportunities to engage in fulfilling collaborations. My sense of social worth will only increase.
I sure hope it's just 4TB, because if you're running Raid0, god help you when it fails (unless you're somehow backing up 8TB to Glacier or something)
The real issue is federated IM vs non-federated IM. Anyone can make a IM system work off a single server. People do it all the time and we have had a series of incompatible IM systems in the past. Signal and Whatsapp are just the current flavours. Soon they will be gone and there will be new hotness. At this point I consider any non-federating IM system to be part of the problem.

As mentioned by someone in the linked thread, part of the user problem is that users can't even conceive of a federated IM system and don't know what one might be like. Asking someone to get a XMPP client so they can communicate with you normally just ends in confusion. There is no download button on the xmpp.com site.

* https://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/2017-January/031...
I think more people should post that comment on HN. :)
I would bet the influence is not significant to you — you would get the same product for the same cost either way in most cases, but it is significant for the brand you end up arbitrarily choosing.
Correct. And Signal’s .apk includes a Google library for cloud messaging, but that library also collects information about the user and sends it to Google, even if the user does not have Google Services installed.
in addition to what others have said: teamwork. Coordinating a group working on Powerpoint slides is quite annoying, text-based formats are a lot easier to manage and merge, especially for technical folk familiar with git & co. Google Slides is the only GUI variant I know that deals with this by syncing changes immediately, and it has other weaknesses.
private healthcare that you're forced to pay as well "une mutuelle"

You're not actually forced to pay them, are you?
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The era of humanity's initial diaspora is truly fascinating. I'm particularly awed by just how quickly humans managed to colonize the Americas. By any account, humanity progressed from the just a few thousand people gaining their first footholds in the Americas to conquering the entirety of both continents with an established population numbering in the tens of millions in just ~10,000 or so years. The pace of expansion and growth is truly amazing considering how challenges posed by geography and nature.

It's not that it's impossible for humans to branch off and establish new groups in previously unexplored regions, it's that establishing sustainable communities on virgin territory isn't a one-time affair. Think about how many failed attempts were made by the groups who conquered the vast deserts, mountain ranges, and rivers between their place of origin and their new homes. To successfully conquer two continents in such a short span of time is just insane in my mind whenever I stop and think about it.

It's also funny to see how confused the efforts of archaeologists can be on this topic. This article cites the previous date of "earliest human presence" in North America as 14,000 BP while there has been well known evidence* available for years that humanity had spread as far south as Chile by that time. Obviously this discovery now makes the Monte Verde evidence far less controversial but the disconnect between the Canadian and Chilean researchers shows just how regional and siloed the study of the early America's can be.

*Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Verde
If you're worried about portability, you can export as a PDF. You could also use LibreOffice, which is cross-platform.
The 14th Amendment provides for equal protection of everyone. It was the basis of abolishing slavery and of the recent Supreme Court decision requiring gay marriage to be recognized. New York state is the only place in the US that I'm aware of that's applied this principle to nipples.
Mods: a more appropriate title is "Moxie Marlinspike and Trevor Perrin win 2017 RWC Levchin Prize for Signal", and a more appropriate link would be to pretty much anything but an individual Reddit comment; how about this one?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/2017-levchin-prize-real-world...
I really don't know what kind of argument you think you're having, but each new comment is making less and less sense. I also don't appreciate how you keep trying to put words in my mouth.

The whole point of my original comment was to just dispute the claim that Apple developed their own Maps out of spite. I don't know why you're trying so hard to pretend that the removal of Google Maps was entirely Apple's fault, and why you keep repeating the same claims that I've already debunked (e.g. "Apple was totally right demanding everything without giving more").
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It's surprising that there is no Wifi Direct or BT between the car and the phone. Someone on the Tesla sw team dropped the ball. That's a must have feature.
> I mean, we're still using IRC for open source projects. Matrix/Riot gives me a glimpse of the future.

Matrix/Riot does tend to break down in channels with 30k users all chatting, sending hundredthousands of messages per minute. (Which is a real use case of IRC).
lol, yeah. I don't think that if I was a founder I'd be at hacker meetups? I don't get great coding done there. I'd rather come home, have a simple dinner, and then put a few hours in after catching up with the fam. If I was trying to hire I would go to hacker meetups, but I think you can filter for meetups that have high-quality candidates and a good engineers::non-techies ratio. And of course, only stay for the first hour of networking, skip the presentation.
Neat, looks like newer versions detect and correct for it. TIL.
Comments and tips of all nature are welcomed as well!
Interesting, didn't know he was also involved with that one.

Has anyone seen a table comparing Noise, Axoltl & OTRv4?
I'm sad about how many literature teachers give Shakespeare's works a treatment as dry as unbuttered toast.

Some of the best teaching of Shakespeare I've seen used the actual lines mixed with a little extemporaneity to better get the intent across. "Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance. Come on, stop being so emo! There are like a million other girls out there."
It's thought to be part of a larger series of sound shifts that happened as Proto-Germanic branched off from Proto-Indo-European, called Grimm's Law[1]. Romance languages like French (along with other Indo-European languages, like Greek and Sanskrit), as far as we can tell, preserve more closely the original PIE sounds, with Germanic languages being the 'deviants'. It's also the reason why English has 'feather' and Romance languages have 'penna' or some derivative, and there are a bunch of other fun examples of cognates to be had.

---

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm's_law

Of the Grimm Brothers, the same responsible for Grimm's Fairy Tales. Jacob was a philologist in addition to a mythologist.
I accidentally pushed a what I thought to be a fix that turned out to break everything in v0.6.4. everything is fine now in v0.6.5.

Sorry about that.
HN mods, can we please reinstate the “no politics” rule?
Dear mods: can we reinstate the no politics rule, please? I know I could just ignore threads with political content, but for some idiotic reason I can't seem to help myself from peering into and contributing to these pointless debates where everyone essentially preaches to the choir and comes out feeling frustrated and angry at the other side's stupidity/ignorance/dishonesty/corruption.

So I propose we, as a community, all agree to talk -- and argue! -- about the stuff which we all genuinely love. We love tech. We love programming languages. We love hardware. We love philosophy, as long as it's not too political. We love physics, and science more generally. We love music theory. Our interests are deep and diverse.

We are hackers -- not politicos! I say let's rally around that, and prove to the wider world that in at least one online community, we can step above the puerile name calling. The hacker community has attained a certain status, through our immense collective success. The world now watches what we do. Let's not blow it.

So let's practice some self-restraint. You, the mods, are the guardians of this community, and to date you've done a damn fine job. Be brave, and nip these corrosive political threads in the bud.
And also hot dog. The 'dog' being the dough or bun, not the meat in the middle.
Great intro, I enjoyed it.
exactly. if you listen at a normal level there's nothing to suggest that there's any hearing damage at all.
It depends on dialect. In American English, the th in that is voiced;

/ðæt/

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dictionary/american/th...

In my dialect, the th in with is unvoiced, though it looks like it is voiced in others:

/wɪð/ /wɪθ/

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dictionary/american/wi...
Thanks! We've updated the link from https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/5m0zpo/moxie_marlin... and the title from “Moxie Marlinspike Receives RWC Levchin Prize 2017 for Signal Protocol Invention”.
The same can be provided by IRC with Quassel or IRCCloud, though.
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I wasn't talking about this particular compiler. I meant "in theory, a compiler would be able to see".
Some sort of automation tax perhaps?

Before machines, horses did the work and I think farmers also needed to pay a tax for their horses (citation needed).

Such a tax should strike such a balance that it's still worth to automate work but also earn enough tax an social security to help the displaced workers.
That's not entirely surprising. The ACA mandated more meaningful (less profitable) coverage.