skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry that I don't have the time to respond to all of your assertions, but I have done a reasonable amount of research on one of the points and figured I'd add my $0.02.

> Why Trump isn't good for poor working class America - Assuming there's a large tax on every good coming into the country, then the cost of groceries will increase dramatically.

The United States is a net exporter of agricultural goods[1], where a large portion of the expense and challenge is transportation without creating a high amount of spoilage (as many of the products require a maintained temperature range and are only considered fit for human consumption within a (compared to dry goods) tight time-tolerance). On a much smaller scale, if you've been to a farmer's market and you've noted that the goods may come from a number of smaller farms, this (along with normalizing product with slightly variadic crop-yield) is often the "why."

As is intuitive, the challenges of transporting (food) product become more complicated over greater distances and time. This very obviously translates to greater expense, which means that the economic choice to sell internationally is only made when less profit can be had if remaining in the domestic market. An exception to this pattern is if a product is unrealistic to turn a profit on if attempting to grow in a non-native climate (e.g. trying to grow bananas in Alaska or coffee).[2]

What this means is that the USA can handily supply its own food product, with its lands available for agriculture easily being enough for its population, opposed to high-density regions such as China, which are approaching the point of being dependent on globalization to feed its population or a foray into geopolitics to get more arable land.[3] Put another way, the USA is rich in food goods to the point that, unless Russia decides to make up for a major global deficit[4], the US can demand higher prices for its exports. Further, being the world's dominant market, the USA can demand more favorable prices on its imports, due to the fact that it is more than capable of domestic supply and, if the cost of international trade becomes unwieldy, will instead invest in domestic infrastructure and supply, which adds further challenges for international competition -- "the cost of groceries" will only increase to the point that it becomes logical to switch to domestic supply. Coffee and tropical foods may increase in price, but consumption rates are a marketing problem due to a wealth of substitute goods.

[0] https://www.ers.usda.gov/
[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery...
[2] https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery...
[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12285198
[4] https://www.ft.com/content/af66f51e-6515-11e6-8310-ecf0bddad...
Dope Discoveries – Issue 2
I was using "complex" in a way that should have been made tighter. I meant that the issue of property itself is very complex, in a way that makes their clear definition as a right at the same level as "basic human rights" at best very difficult, which is why it has not been done successfully.
Exactly. The second time is when the ultimatums start.

Plus, I'm always concerned when a developer ends their last job on Friday and starts Monday at our company.
Can you name a place that doesn't have that? I've lived in three different (Western) countries and felt the same thing in all of them.
Except not. You do have to deal with people not like you in 'real life', but the conditions are nothing like school, wherein you are forced to do so under disadvantageous conditions.

Maybe it's worth experiencing this once or twice, but to be put through it for years is nothing more than abuse.
ECMAScript regular expressions are getting better
That's what he's wanted his whole life?
isn't the entire point of this article the opposite?
If you're seriously convinced structure has already passed the point of no-return what are you doing commenting here on some internet site?
That gifted students will be bored and not develop to their fullest extent, and perhaps more importantly, not develop the discipline to work hard in their formative years, is an argument for tailoring education to the student's ability. Asserting the opposite doesn't make it so. You argument comes down to impairing the education of gifted children in favour of improving the education of ungifted children. That is an argument if your top priority is equality of outcome, but one can question how wise that is if you care about the well being of all of humanity given the fact that it was a handful of geniuses who were responsible for a hugely outsized amount of progress.
I've spent soo much time struggling with Python over the years, traveled across Europe for PyCon and tried to tune into the community. I really wanted it to be the good enough Lisp that Norvig claims it is. But in the end I always come out of it swearing to never touch the inconsistent, arbitrary, pile of exceptions again. Conceptually, it's C++ in scripting language clothes.
It's like one of the sayings in A Song of Ice and Fire: A swordsman receives conflicting orders from a king, merchant, and priest. Actual power lies with the swordsman, everything else is just an illusion brought about by societal convention.
Fair. Seems like it isn't 5 but 4 weeks that is mandatory in the EU.
Surprisingly, it says "true"
Can you give the approximate route? Just curious what this particular scenario looks like.

Of course the limited charging speed has an effect, but it's not gigantic, especially if you're going to be taking breaks anyway. If you're not taking breaks, the effect is larger.

I'm not trying to tell you not to care about this, mind! I see a lot of people thinking it's worse than it is, saying long trips require extreme patience, etc. Having done many thousand of miles of long trips in my car, it's not bad at all. But certainly there are cases where it really is just too much, and as long as the facts are out there, I don't mean to try to convince you to alter your priorities.

As far as battery swapping goes, Tesla did develop this, and built a station in between LA and SF. They originally showcased it as being twice as fast as filling up a tank of gas, but that was before they added the titanium shield under the battery, so the version they put into operation was more similar to gas filling time. It never got very popular, partly because it was expensive, partly because they never pushed it, and partly because most people didn't mind the Supercharger stops. I'm not sure if the station is still in operation or not, but it'll probably remain the only one.
As a child, I had a learning disability, my school's principal told my parents that I'd never do anything with my life. My parents disagree and so did I, they found a private school that specialized in teaching students like me. The school did some intellectual tests to make sure I could learn, and learn I did.

They spent tens of thousands of dollars so that I could be taught, in that environment I excelled.

I don't trust the government to be a good judge of students abilities, because someone like me would be labelled dumb and be left behind forever.
I have no idea how hard it is really but if it's true it is impossible, it is infuriating. People do research on substances that can kill a person with an invisible amount, blow up buildings, poison vast areas, all kinds of deadly things. But take a drug that any smart high-schooler can (and frequently does) access it - and it's impossible to research it! This is so infuriatingly insane.
California has a lot of rural areas that lack even AmTrak or Greyhound service, let alone full-blown public transportation networks. Applying this to all highways would put an undue burden on those living in such areas (including a significant chunk of California's immigrant population) without actually doing much good congestion-wise (since these rural stretches of I-5 and such aren't usually congested to nearly the same degree as, say, LA or San Francisco or Sacramento).

This might work in cities, though, but if the alternative (public transit) is not even slightly cheaper than paying the toll, folks are probably just going to pay the toll (especially with a system like FasTrack, where they just drive through a sensor rather than having to pay physical money).
> The cities are at rock bottom. Crime all over. Poverty. Horrendous disfunction.

You should read less Trump tweets and more facts. The GDP, salaries, etc in big cities is very impressive. There's a reason the tech innovations and big startups don't come from nowhere Wyoming and instead come from urban centers.
There's probably not that much code that is so unique and difficult that it could not be reimplemented quickly from a spec.
On the other hand, if the code happens to be part of a large system, it gets increasingly difficult to understand and use, from just a code dump without author support.

I submit that those two sets don't intersect much, and probably why this issue does not get much attention. Cython might be a solution.
Not knowing k, seems like the worst part of the edit.k examples is every variable has a one character name.

Or do those single character tokens have special meanings in k? Which would be even worse.
After a hundred years each blockchain's software would already have different hard coded checkpoints. They would effectively be 2 different coins and treated that way.

Ethereum has already forked on purpose and ETH and ETC are treated as two separate coins
"3x or 4x more expensive over the long term"

And that's where you're wrong. If done right, 3x to 4x more expensive up front and less TCO in the long run.
You should check out Vuelidate. It tries to avoid any extra fluff.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors
Even better: RUA 3000 hits all time high. A broad spectrum index covering ALL publicly traded companies in the US.
I don't disagree per se, but instead of this happening, it frequently does not. I suspect it is because we are massively under-serving these kids, and they are all essentially bullying refugees. They know exactly how bad it is. Maybe if the torturous experiences were less universal they'd fall into those patterns much quicker.
This sort of "prepper-ism" is just masturbatory self indulgence, it's adults playing with toys while getting to play out fantasies in their head every night before bed.
I thought this would be like a tool to build a styleguide for your application. Not an actual framework like Twitter Bootstrap. :(
If you're sufficiently rich/famous, you can probably afford a helicopter or some other aircraft to bypass road traffic entirely.

At the very least, rich/famous people can likely hire personal drivers to worry about that stress for them.
6 Strategie Di Growth Hacking Che Funzionano Sempre – Victor Motricala
I went to Stanford. I was poor. I think young people are bad at peeling through the layers of superficial bullshit that mask most human interactions.

Rich, Middle Class and Poor can all have screwed up (or awesome) lives in different ways...

If you get to the core of it we all struggle but yes the day to day is different. I think you can always find "pockets" of people in all classes that are curious free thinkers trying to relate to people from different backgrounds -- especially at Ivy League schools. Unfortunately kids who are young are also insecure about surface things.

We need to just push diversity in the dorms and fraternities/sororities because I don't think "economics" really has much to do with it unless you make your whole life about buying $200 shirts or going to fancy restaurants.

I also think the high end universities should give poorer kids a social stipend -- it is a really bad thing if all the rich kids hang out together and all the poor kids hang out together.
The whole point of the Ivy League is to put the best minds together and to build a bridge between old school wealth and talented youth.
They do, it's called college.
Self driving cars might actually make traffic worse because people can live farther away where houses are cheaper because now they can work or sleep during their commute. This means any given section of road will have more cars on it because people have to travel farther.
This makes no sense - you are proposing restricting the options of high performers so that they don't make self interested choices. Why not restrict the choices of low performers instead?
Tzara-A Virtual Personal Assistant
Any thoughts about M.C. Escher?
Could somebody help ameliorate my project?
Algorithms for Natural Language Understanding?
How to make the assistant learn by repetitions? What algorithms could be used?
I think you're applying a very ungenerous reading to the parent.

The parent's argument is exactly the same if we change "giving people food" to "giving people who have food that isn't suitable for them food that's more suitable for them".

Maybe you think that the parent's argument is flawed because you think that all people have the same basic educational needs. That's what TFA is arguing is not true, but maybe it's wrong; you could make that case. But quibbling over the exact formulation of an analogy is not the kind of concrete thinking that you're asking for.
Seems pretty neat so far.

Only imperial units though :(
What stops the "smart kid school" from developing the same administrative problems as regular ones? Are "smart teachers" actually better at managing behaviour of pupils? Personally, I feel that the bullying problem might be less about individual teachers, and more about how the whole system is constructed.
That's obviously unknowable, but I present evidence that the model has scaled. I see no reason why China couldn't become as wealthy as Switzerland if it followed the same models (but I doubt it will any time soon).
For an indicator, look at what Silvio Berlusconi did for Italy: pretty much nothing. The country stagnated while he was in power, mostly looking after his own interests.

He accomplished little in a country that really does need some "market friendly" reforms.

Also, be wary of the difference between being pro-business and pro-market:

https://promarket.org/donald-trumps-economic-policy-pro-busi...
Which one's the Kemalists?
Got the same on nexus 5
Trust me, when your Sec of State pick is an Exxon-Mobil executive, there's no energy independence in the cards. Those vultures want to ensure they get a monopoly on oil regardless of the country in question. That's just how they roll.
I think author got it from this book: https://www.amazon.com/Drive-Surprising-Truth-About-Motivate...

I haven't read it, but at least for me it seems like common sense that these 3 things have positive effect on motivation.

If you have autonomy over how you complete your tasks for example, you will do it in, according to you, most efficient way, and that will make you feel satisfied. Mastery is from the same desire to be as efficient as you can. Purpose is something different, but you can clearly imagine how much more willing to do your best you are when you know that the thing you do will be seen and used by other people and how it will make people's life easier, for a primitive and simple example.

Compare it to my job - software is bloated, something I myself would never use, our customers are actually forced to used, almost nobody, except the people who earn money from it at the management, likes it, and often you find out that some bug that existed for a year and that completely disabled some functionality was never noticed because no one, not even testers bothered to check those parts of the system. Combine that with heavy restrictions on what can be done, both by time restraints on tasks and by accumulated technical debt that makes any improvements economically not viable, and add the natural tendency of such systems to resist to anything new and you get individuals with gradual decline in motivation over time.

I understand why there's such an ageism "problem" in the industry - the only way to make these companies with these systems afloat is to hire only young people who aren't worn out from these things yet to keep it alive. From my experience, I don't know how it was a couple of decades ago, but it seems like younger and younger people are getting their motivation destroyed by such environments.

You don't often see occupations where people are already sick of their job in general by late twenties to the point of considering switching profession that would pay considerably less.
Ruby (and Python) likely get that from Perl, which has post conditionals, but with specific qualities to prevent them from too much abuse, and which also prevents them from being used in the way presented here (which is why I didn't trot them out earlier, as much as I was tempted by the "you write what you mean" line). The limitations are that there is no else branch, and it only applies to a single statement, so you can't have a block executed with a post conditional. It leads to usage like so:

die "Invalid param: please enter a positive number" unless $param1 > 0;

$param2 = 0 unless defined $param2;

return undef if $param1 and not $param2;

my $foo = 1 if $bar; # This unfortunately creates a closure around $foo and is a big source of bugs.

As much flak as Perl gets, quite a lot of thought went into making it flow similar to how people think and talk (which is no surprise if you know Larry Wall is a linguist by training). There were some missteps, but it was very early in this area, so that's expected.
> Not knowing k, seems like the worst part of the edit.k examples is every variable has a one character name. Or do those single character tokens have special meanings in k? Which would be even worse.

It can seem that way, but there is value in dense programs: They take up less room on the screen. This means you can see where you repeat yourself, and can often find bugs by just reading your code.

I can't count the number of times I scrolled over some code and missed a bug.
It reduces social mobility. Charles Murray talks about how there is a trade-off between social mobility and meritocracy due to the heredity of IQ.

In a meritocratic society, the smartest kids go to the best schools, then to the best colleges, then the most elite companies, then likely marry someone from school or work, and then have the smartest kids.

Socioeconomic classes become set due the stability of cognitive function across generations.

Is it ideal to have a cognitively and economically stratified america with a cognitive elite and cognitive under-class?

Is it ideal that this cognitive elite has little to no interaction with the rest of America, and little understanding of how the rest of the country lives?
I can't guarantee you that. I can't promise every person you pass on the street won't kill you by stabbing you in the eye with a pencil. I can't promise that no one will throw you into an oncoming bus.

As to fear about planes or fear in general, the foundation of fear, especially such that motivates policy, should be based on odds. I am terrified when I fly. I still fly. I know, deep down, that I have a higher chance of dying by driving. The fear is real in an abstract sense: this could kill me. It is not something that I should put much emotional/physical response in because it is so unlikely as to not be a problem. To put it another way, I should not let my fear of flying affect my personal travel policy.

Every day millions of Americans have guns and don't kill anyone. To try to ban guns because of the few bad actors is like trying to ban all Muslims. Statistically there are about 700k Muslims that lean with ISIS (at least wanting to establish a caliphate). I apply the same heuristic as above to the question, "should I fear Muslims?" My answer is that statically, no. Should I respect the possibility of one of those 700k going nuts glib? Sure. But I don't worry about Muslim co-workers or Muslims walking down the street.
I don't know enough about economics to know for sure one way or the other if the Swiss model scales. I suspect most people responding don't know enough about economics either. I do know it's worth trying and finding out.
I'm currently studying at the EPFL (one of the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology) and fees are actually almost half the amount you state -- I pay around 1250$ a year.
Well, I mean it is stolen money.

The Swiss I've known have been some of the most thoughtful and intelligent people I've had the pleasure of working with. Just saying that it's probably not the best country to use as an example even if they have done a lot recently to reform their economy away from the banking system.
Hah, I forgot about baiting the French in that WWII thread...

My wife works at a low socio-economic status school. They're not using directly, no they're not stoned to the 'whoa, dude' level, it's more of a general 'grogginess' that kind of goes away late in the morning. It's definitely 'anec-data' of the finest sort, but it's something the teachers notice and comment on.

What I don't understand is why no one ever thinks that suddenly 'legalizing' a drug that produces a docile population is somehow more ominous than the previous gov't action to suppress it.
Thank you. We need more of you. Keep trying!
I don't think that's a stupid question at all. Ionic uses Cordova [1], which basically launches a browser that runs your web page as an "app". That said, Cordova does give you access to native APIs, so you still have access to Bluetooth/camera/whatever. Phone processors and browsers are getting increasingly powerful, so it's totally possible to achieve native or near-native performance in a web view-based app - assuming you properly optimize your JS and HTML. I believe Ionic provides consistent styling, so it's definitely possible to make your app look and feel like a native one.

The real win using something like Ionic is that you can build your app using web tech that works equally well on the phone or in the browser, and that your developers already know. The trade-off is that it becomes more difficult (but certainly possible) to make your app look and feel native.

React Native gives you many of those benefits, but since it compiles to actual native code you can't reuse your code for a browser app.

[1] https://cordova.apache.com
> The very gifted kids are going to isolate themselves from the dumb people as quickly as they can as soon as they can no matter what you do.

This is quite an anecdote you've got there ... cause in my experience (gifted, and in gifted classes with many much brighter than me), all of us kept a pretty diverse (academically) social group.

But that's _my_ anecdote ... surely people will exist on the entire spectrum between self-seclusion to social butterfly.
Nope. The system is implicit that the credit card companies will take care of that. While both sides need an adjudicator, there is a system in place to spot/stop bad actors. Not a perfect system, fraud still happens. But a system none the less.
No, but their environmental record hasn't been great, either. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea for one particularly spectacular example.
1) I have a totally different experience ! When your are writting code which must have a certain degree of genericity you end up having a ton of interface{} …

2) wat ? How having a null pointer a non issue ?! Empirically it causes fewer bugs than in Java or JavaScript, but it's still a really common source of bugs in Go.

3) I've never run into this kind of problem myself since I dont use Go for performance-heavy code.
>society can make a comeback from pretty much any conceivable catastrophy

I agree. Where disaster preparation matters is in that period between "catastrophe" and "recovery". How long before things are normal again? Is that period a week? A month? A year? How bad will it get in between? That's what you need to survive.
This domain could be the current-day equivalent of the famous Red Paperclip of a decade ago. The opportunities for "value creation" are the stuff of movies. I'll watch with interest what happens to it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_red_paperclip