skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would appear that the nature of their approach is first and foremost to ensure that any change they make is data-driven best practice for the situation at hand. In iceland, it included prohibition of purchase by minors and provision to minors by adults. More importantly, their changes created a situation where children were more likely to spend more of their time with adults who cared about them, in an active and engaged society. Curfews make me uncomfortable, but I can see that this encourages children to be in safe places overnight. Prohibition makes me uncomfortable, but it makes consumption more expensive and difficult, so child users will be less likely to become addicts. Widely available after-school classes and programs... have no downsides other than cost, which (it would seem) are clearly worth it.

Where does best practice lie? If I were to start a civilization from scratch, I think I would use this model as a strong data point when organizing how education and the laws pertaining to youth were concerned.

I have some more libertarian leanings than some of the implementations presented can accommodate, but perhaps if I were an Icelandic teen I would direct my frustrations on a hobby or class I picked up because my government mandated that I have access to it if I wanted to.
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Suppose I could show you a "Raphmedia" response that I calculated, held aside while you were making this post, then showed you my calculated responses (top-5). If we compared the corpus to what you wrote, would you think differently about determinism and who you are? Maybe right? This presuppose I know a lot about Raphmedia, I'm thinking brain scan type detail (Google does pretty well with the search bar autocomplete using a lot less info).

I sort of feel like Raphmedia could be encoded, same here as well. Still, I enjoy the chats :)
A population less than 3% the size of the US, a GDP per capita 50% higher than the US, and a physical size of about 0.5% of the US.

Switzerland has about the same physical area and population as the state of Virginia, only it's about 50% richer by raw GDP. Not exactly a good analog for the entire US.
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> Django ORM ... has numerous serious annoying bugs

Such as?

I've worked primarily with Django for years and I think if the ORM really had "numerous serious annoying bugs" I'd have a mental library of these things to watch out for. But I can't think of any ORM bugs off the top of my head, I don't really remember encountering any.

We all know SQL Alchemy is 'better' and there are things Django ORM can't do, but 99% of the time it's adequate.

Are you sure you didn't mean "features I wish it had"...?
Sorta. But it's not that I think we'd never get 52%. Or 66%. I'm not trying to set a higher bar just to stop political change, but to make it more inclusive when it happens.

To get those higher mandates we'd have to try to pass less-controversial things. Again, not that it's meant keep us here as if this is a special reference frame that I cherish, but that it would force us to reach out to both sides and find change everyone can support.

Both parties in the US election were looking to force their politician on everyone else. A healthier answer would be if we picked everyone's compromise president. But first-past-the-post is designed to produce all-or-nothing outcomes.
The rates dropped by 40%. The drivers remained the same. Why do you think a different driver demographic will not show a similar improvement?
This has to be one of the most corporate, wooden, buzzword-laden acquisition announcements I've ever read. Doesn't bode well for Apiary.

I wonder what will happen to the tools Apiary has open-sourced (the API Blueprint format and its ecosystem).
In other words, he believes in a just world, in providence, and you don't (in other words, he's religious and you're not). I think this is the crux of most of these arguments.
You're essentially arguing nothing more than personal preference; I don't think this holds much weight beyond that. You could essentially make the exact same statements about chess. "Every game starts exactly the same, the pieces never vary (without modding), and there hasn't been a new release for centuries. Yawn." Not everyone likes chess either, granted, but it's hard to deny that the variations that can arise from a simple set of rules can continue to compelling experiences for players.
no idea - but I too would love to have braille on my keyboard and display
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White people weren't excluded from the marketing campaign. There was a white man and a white woman there, which at 10% of the worlds population meant that they were over represented. Plenty of races were not represented at all. The guy wasn't upset about not being represented, he was upset that other races were also included so prominently, or in some cases were more prominent.

Did you also miss the part where he said that his race deserved to be the prominent race because it is genetically superior? Is it okay to express feelings like that?

I feel sick.
Ask HN: How can I learn about SSL/TLS through code?
I learned smtp via a mock email server implementation (in c#). Similarly is there something that can help me learn SSL/TLS. I have no previous knowledge of pki and encryption...
I really like a lot of the features of LastPass... works across devices, has groups with sharing options for teams, security audit and summary, auto updates (on some sites), 2FA, and the dead man's switch is nice...

I haven't found any other services that work as well for teams with features like this. I've tried 1Password and some others and found their team sharing options lacking.

Curious what other teams are using -- not just personal password managers but tools you can use successfully over an entire organization.
Well, it depends. I personally don't feel the need to self-promote to get a raise. I'll probably lose out on a few raises or promotions because of that, but I make a good amount of money and I'm good at what I do. That's enough for me.
I believe the argument, though, is that transportation is a commodity product and, therefore, pricing is a race to the bottom.

Say all cars are autonomous and on-demand. You need a car. Uber costs $20. Lyft costs $15. Who do you go with? What happens to overall pricing over time?
> But what tesla has on the road is far from a total eyes-closed autopilot.

It doesn't matter that it is not full autopilot. What matters is that whatever they have right now, as currently deployed in the real world, produced the numbers behind NHTSA's conclusions.
This seems pretty thin, as evidence. It is a little bit odd that the author comments on HN about Bitwarden referring to himself in the third person and sometimes not disclosing affiliation when his product is being discussed. But he's also on this thread so we can just ask him.
I didnt read the report, but is this measurement done on a a/b testing way? There is usually some data skew/bias when they are done on different time scale.
I've heard many bad things about LastPass - and this is just the cherry on top. I highly recommend 1Password to everyone. I've been using it for about 2-3 years now and it's been absolutely flawless. Yes, it doesn't have a Linux client, but that's literally the only "drawback" I can think of. As a developer who uses a Mac, the only time I'm on Linux is when I'm SSH'd into a server.
Can you explain what Amazon's end game will be?
> Making your employees too prosperous can really hurt your company, because everyone will quit when there is no longer a financial imperative to work together.

This is not a problem for law firms, medical practices, consultancies, investment firms, or management in any public company. Your argument is just that employees who are in shitty, exploitative jobs will take the money and run, so try to exploit them harder by paying them less. Are you really "not necessarily saying there's anything wrong with that per se"?
Can explain briefly how 18F relates to USDS? I guess I thought that 18F was the group behind healthcare.gov in the US and clearly I have that wrong. Thanks.
Don't you need that anyway?
The question section is great, with lots of helpful picture, but then the answer is just text - how about some pictures there too? If i tell my mum she needs a USB 2.0 A-Male to B-Male, that might help her order a cable from amazon but it doesn't help her find what she's looking for in the shoebox full of cables under the computer desk.
More fair comparison would be Phoenix [1] to node.js

Elixir is a programming language whereas node is a framework.

[1] http://www.phoenixframework.org/
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I think the primary issue many of us have is the name. the name implies far more capability than the system delivers. I have seen clear day demonstrations but am eagerly awaiting Tesla to show us a night time rainy video which I have seen references of testing having been done
I doubt even a monopoly dispatcher will get all $800 million of the revenue though.
Ask HN: How much Chinese is required to read Tech Documentation?
There's been an explosion of Chinese engineers entering in the last few years - more noticeably for me due to Vuejs. They provide Chinese documentations and I'm also seeing many third party github components being created only written in chinese.

A long assumption but I'm thinking it might be beneficial for me to learn some chinese to be able to take advantage of projects deriving from the Chinese community.

Anyone know how much Chinese I'll need to learn to be able to read tech documentations? 1 year? 5 years?
Yeah, they mentioned it exists (2mb/s iirc) but made no attempt to describe how it works.
I tend to look at it this way: hard work improves the probability of financial success, but it is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition. So yes, people benefit on average from hard work, but because of the uncertainty of the situation you can't take the contrapositive and say that poor people are lazy.
IIRC, if you've created an account from your IP address or use a VPN (which virtually guarantees that an account has been created from that VPN's exit node), they force you to go the SMS route. Apparently, there's also a requirement for Tor users.

It's unfortunate because it means there's no way that a ProtonMail account can't be tracked to some static identifier (actual IP or phone number).
My parents were not yet born and my grandparents were grade school children when the US interned Japanese-Americans but their tax money was still used to compensate those people for the injustice done to them.

You inherit everything, good and bad, from those who came before you. It's your choice of what to keep and what to drop.
Every time i am on battery i get an Edge popup telling me how much battery i could save by using edge instead of chrome.
Does Uber have a competitive advantage over its competitors?
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First, this is a good thing for the community. The ecosystem has been pretty well prepared for 3.x adoption for a while, but we just haven't done it. Still, when Django switched its default docs to use 3.x instead of 2.x, it noticeably increased adoption of 3.x. (Source: Kenneth Reitz on "Talk Python to Me" episode #6.) By pushing on with 3.x, Django is doing its part to drag the rest of us forward with it.

Second, this is necessary. Support for Python 2.x is supposed to end in 2020, per Guido's keynote at PyCon 2016, so Django is going to have to get in line in ~3 years one way or the other. A major version increment is a great time to introduce such a breaking change.

So ... "what this means" is that Django is doing what it has to do, which happens to coincide with the interests of the community at large. shrug I'm glad it's happening, but there shouldn't be a whole lot of drama or hand-wringing here.
Existing user base?
"In addition, your inbox is encrypted with AES-256 which is superior to RSA."

Ha!

https://blog.scryptmail.com/q-a/
In the United States, at least, poverty tends to be concentrated geographically in inner-cities and rural areas instead of being evenly spread out. This would seem to indicate fairly conclusively that location and environment affect opportunity and wealth more so than an individual willingness to work hard. In fact, being born into an environment of concentrated poverty like this molds your mental state and perception of the world, to the extent that the idea of breaking out of poverty may not always even appear as a possibility, thus discouraging you from even believing that hard work might pay off.
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Agreed that the vault blob almost certainly hides all of this, but the question still remains about how the logo is initially obtained. There still might be a leak to lastpass when the logo url is first requested.

And if the extension is pulling the logo from the web then there is also a leak to each site whenever it pulls (rather than to lastpass itself).

Best case scenario: the extension comes with a list of the most common logos baked into it. But if that's the case, why would it save a logo url. Hmm ...

I'm pretty sure we'll be hearing back from Lastpass on this one.
@aecorredor, there a bunch of things you should consider and that I could use to compare both, in general ppl tend to compare elixir with node because it also enables you to build concurrent apps, but you have to take into account the Erlang VM and OTP, the tools it brings to the table to build concurrent system surpass node.js capabilities of delivering the same thing IMHO. Also don't forget that Erlang and it's VM has 30+ years of intense exposure to different scenarios and apps, and put that together with 30 years worth of open source work and libraries. I'm not saying node.js is bad, or even worse, but maybe both shouldn't be compared because represent different tools for different jobs.
such as

1. multi-column primary key.

2. annotate several counts for some query correctly.

that what I remember for now.
I know depending on the use case some tools are better than others, but to clarify my original question, for someone who might just be getting into the back-end and looking towards the future, what would be a better choice to focus on, elixir or node.js? and say for example that the person has done both some Ruby and JavaScript programming, including some basic apps with Rails and Express.
on the other hand, i am easily 3 times safer than the average driver, so self driving vehicles would endanger me.
why are they interested in regulation?
(Alexander from Realm here) Yes, where this approach fits is very dependent on the use case. In our experience the key is to have a data model that is flexible enough to express many different use cases. There might be cases where updating a single field is enough, or you might need it to work as a counter, or maybe your data will be better modeled by ordered insertions into a list.

Having the flexibility to use the exact combination of data types that fits your specific requirements and allows you to express your intent in a way that makes it clear how you want the conflicts resolved is essential to make it work.

You can find a bit more info about our approach to conflict resolution here: https://realm.io/docs/realm-object-server/#conflict-resoluti...
I do use DRF; but it's quite painful to have to set up all the intermingling between the API urls and the actual form definitions. I don't use Django forms; you will generally want a single source of truth for the forms and it kind of has to live in the JS, but then that makes it inaccessible to Django...

For large apps it makes sense to do it this way. For smaller apps it really sucks.
100,000 laptops across 4 years is not a lot relative to Windows or Apple sales.

But it is a lot for laptops running Linux out of the box.

100,000 in sales is generating 10's of millions in revenue for Dell. Acer or another player now has evidence a Windows laptop can be made to also support Linux out of the box, and it will sell. Whether or not anyone else acts on it remains to be seen.

This could be a good time though. Apple is losing mindshare. Windows Bash is hardly good enough for daily driving.
check out this playlist[0]. This guy provides intuition behind major LA concepts. Have fun! :)
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I wonder what the effect is on AdWords bids for keywords Google is targeting. Does the average bid cost increase, effectively negating the cost of Google advertising on Google? (Thus due to economics, the ads become free, or reduced in cost).
Those aren't even purely consumption based. Also, the whole thing is an attempt to remove taxes on interest. The author talks a lot about how terrible it is to "tax savings" which we don't do - we tax interest. The problem is if you remove tax on dividends and interest you will split to world in short order into those who have savings and those that don't.

Typically people opposed to this will point out that everyone spends money, but only people with assets have extra income from their assets. So someone who spends 100 percent of his income is going to be taxed on 100 percent of his income, while someone who has the same income and spends the same amount but happens to have a million dollars collecting rents will pay tax on a substantially lower portion of his "income". To that the response is always that it needs to be a progressive tax or offer a rebate for those poor people. At that point it's just a way to fuck the middle class, keep the poor working paycheck to paycheck, and let the rich increase their fortunes through rents.

These guys need to run simulations to show how a closed system works - you'll quickly see a bifurcation under those circumstances and they know it.
Maybe you need to accept the segregation between people who care about these things and yourself?
Shimoneta and B-Gata H-Kei are just teen sex comedies. RIP Miyu Matsuki.

"Gate" (not the same thing) is an extreme Japanese right-wing military fetish[1] about how rebuilding your self-defense force into an army and invading fantasy kingdoms would be really cool.

[1] "extreme Japanese right-wing" = "American centrist" as far as guns go
It does depend on what you are doing - if you are making websites both are fine (although I've seen callback hell implemented in a Node/express website before).

If you have difficult scaling problems that need stateful servers and clever cross server web socket implementations like Phoenix.Presence or 2 million web socket connection on a single huge machine, Elixir with the OTP is more likely to give you tools to build this difficult to scale thing.
Assuming by education you mean formal schooling: Consider that wealth is accumulated over time. While outliers certainly exist, the older you get, the more wealthy you are apt to be, at least to the point when you retire and start to use those reserves to live on. Also consider that in 1970s, the time when the boomers started coming of age, having 'high school or more' was reserved for just 50% of the population. Only a mere 25% for the oldest segment of the population. It has steadily climbed to more than 80% for the youngest adults. But they, statistically, haven't had time to amass a large amount of wealth yet.
I wonder if this would encourage sighted people to learn braille?
The article (and some comments here) seem to conflate luck and what I will call lot. "Luck" I define as random happenstance during one's life. You can manage luck. Doing so is the central theme of many board games. You can increase your luck "surface area" by taking more chances. Entire industries (e.g. insurance) exist to manage luck.

Your "lot", on the other hand, I define as what you were born with. How you were raised, where you grew up, what kind of education you got -- everything you can't control that does have a significant impact on your life's outcomes. You can work to improve your lot, or minimize its impact on your life, but it's very difficult.

Of course there's some correlation: those with a good lot often learn early how to manage luck, and those who manage luck well can negate a poor lot.

Hence I begrudge no-one with seemingly good "luck": often (possibly more than not), their fortune is simply a byproduct of how they managed their luck. Good for them!

But those born into a good lot? They're the true "lucky" ones.
All the qualities they identify, here, are, in my mind, absolutely necessary (though not sufficient) for someone to be a good leader.

But, despite the title of the article, none of them are objectively quantifiable.
Cory Doctorow pointed to an interest article that described the subsidies that flow to wealthy households:

http://boingboing.net/2016/07/03/low-income-us-households-ge...

I wonder if your father thinks of his mortgage interest deduction as an example of receiving help he doesn't deserve?
It's very reasonable, when presented with data that doesn't pass a sniff check, to mentally bitbucket that data. Unfortunately, lots of people's noses are miscalibrated - And what's worse we're not sure which ones.
True, then in that scenario we should talk about comparing phoenix and express right?

edit: meant to say phoenix, not elixir.
It "stops" it within a margin of error. Of course, no system is perfect. Just because there's abuse doesn't mean that handing out cash is just as good. The same way murder is illegal but still happens, but no one wants to live somewhere where murder is legal.
Same cars pre/post OTA. There was a ~6 month peroid where AP HW was out in the wild but not used.
Node isn't really a framework, it's a runtime and is fairly close to a language. It's roughly analogous to Nashorn.
That conclusion is not supported by the data in the report. A supportable conclusion based on this report would be that Tesla automation with auto-steer produces 40% fewer air bag deployments than Tesla automation without auto-steer.
Tl;dr: Uber is using rule 1 of Monopoly 101: Subsidize your customers until you drive your competitors out of business. However, it does not appear they have a competitive advantage to prevent new competitors.

Edit: damn you, android keyboard!
I would guess emergency braking is the big difference. The only real stopper there is cost, there are multiple different implementations in vehicles on the road right now.
I'm not sure why a Level 3 needs to be a person in the vehicle?

Uber may time their IPO just before they start having growth problems. That seems to have a high probability.

The contrarian side of me thinks that the more negative people become about a tech company the more likely it is to succeed (assuming a real product and not elaborate fraud.) Markets become far more favorable when all of your competitors believe what you are doing is a joke. The paradox being, perhaps the more people become convinced Uber will fail, the more likely it is they can pull this off.

It definitely is not as clear cut as starting an airline -- and it is a dynamic game. Is Uber/Lyft the starting point for calling a car or is it Android/iOS ; or is it Google Maps/Apple Maps ; or may be it is Siri/Alexa/etc.

I've suggested in other posts a ride sharing company may be able to get exclusivity contracts for a large metro area. This would be a step towards a lock in/monopoly. Earlier gen self driving vehicles may actually even need this.

Whatever behaviors Uber has created, I think they are going to survive in some form for a long time. Whether Uber goes belly up may be more about how carefully they hedged their financial risks.
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Yeah, I have had the same experience. I always end up copying the generated password.
Now you're talking about UBI - universal basic income, in the form of that rebate. That model doesn't work either.
Node is not a framework though