skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's always been with us, since independence.

One of the most important and difficult debates during the drafting of our Constitution was whether representation in the national government should be equal for all states, or proportional based on their populations. The makeup of our Congress (one house where every state is equal, one where they're proportionally represented), and the manner of electing the President are compromises introduced in the 1780s to assuage fears from smaller states that larger, more populous states would be able to tyrannize them.

There are also historical roots here in slavery: many southern states actually had large populations, but only when slaves were counted as part of the population. So those states wanted slaves to count at least partially, even though slaves were of course not allowed to vote (which is how we get the infamous compromise where a slave was counted as 3/5 of a person for proportional-representation purposes).

And the economies of the northern and southern states diverged very early on; northern states' economies were based more on trade and manufacture, southern states on agriculture and resource extraction (supported by slave labor until slavery was abolished, then by things which emulated slavery as closely as was legal, like exploitative sharecropping and debt slavery).

This naturally leads to a divide and a conflict of lifestyles and values, wherein there are basically two countries existing within the same set of borders. One of those countries has always had a larger (free) population and always been more urban, dense and globally connected. The other has always had a smaller (free) population and always been more rural, sparse and isolationist. The southern and now midwestern rural/sparse/isolationist faction has also consistently used the compromises of the 1780s to their advantage, since they are represented and wield power in the national government disproportionate to their percentage of the population, and can at times effectively reverse the original fear and tyrannize the majority northern and coastal urban/dense/globalist faction.

But so long as the Constitution of the United States continues to be based on those two-hundred-year-old compromises, this tension will continue to exist.
A rapist or mugger's dream. 'Middlemen' aren't always bogeymen.
If you're in Los Angeles, I strongly recommend googling LAPD Bandit Cab Enforcement before using this app to give rides. Also, other cities may have similar enforcement operations.
Toyota makes an immense number of vehicles in the US, with American labor. They'll easily dodge most of the effect of any tariffs.
What you wrote resonates with me. I have an espresso machine and grinder at home and I enjoy making coffee for guests and myself. I wish I could pull off even simple latte art.

In a post scarcity world, I imagine human work with its imperfections will have its own wabi sabi value. People already pay a hefty premium for artisan handmade products like pottery, furniture, even jeans.

“I could try composing wonderful musical works, or day-long entertainment epics, but what would that do? Give people pleasure? My wiping this table gives me pleasure. And people come to a clean table, which gives them pleasure. And anyway" - the man laughed - "people die; stars die; universes die. What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead? Of course, if all I did was wipe tables, then of course it would seem a mean and despicable waste of my huge intellectual potential. But because I choose to do it, it gives me pleasure. And," the man said with a smile, "it's a good way of meeting people. So where are you from, anyway?”
― Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons
Of course, I was talking about the fact that, this comment is the second on this thread and that many women act this way.

The best programming girls are usually the ones that don't waste their time with this representation of their gender.
Having a family is a choice, and it is OK that it costs money - it is worth something to have a family.

Privilege to run a startup - that should also be a choice. Convince somebody to give you money, everybody can try that.

What if I really struggled to get off the ground, lived on minimum income for years, with the threat of divorce hanging over my head because my wife can't take the economic situation any longer. How privileged am I really?
Which implies that we're perfectly safe without these systems.

CCTV does not provide safety, they are primarily used for evidence gathering in criminal investigations.
Things I like about rideshares:

- no payment friction

- easy gps integration

- safety

Things missing from this service:

- see above
Yeah, it only tells us known issues. Gee, thanks.

And I just checked for updates, none available. Some transparency into when exactly it's available for beta users would be nice. Is this kind of weirdness the new normal?
> this layout thingamajig would be delegated to libraries

This is actually happening. The major vendor libraries are working on API's to give JS library authors the ability to hook into the browser layout process and define their own layout mechanisms
There are venues like that: You need to buy tokens (from someone who will judge your sobriety, and at a maximum of five tokens at once) and you insert tokens for drinks.

I've not seen it done with cocktails, however, only draught beer taps.
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Because as anyone doing POSIX development across multiple OS learns, that is an implementation detail.

POSIX like any other paper standard implies write once debug everywhere.
> securely in the cloud

isn't this a contradiction? Given how the NSA and co have backdoors in the cloud and such, and can order the operators of said cloud service to release information from their users.

If you have sensitive stuff, best not to cross any borders I'd say. Stay away from the US.
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A huge number of emails plus attachments are large in size. It is that controversial because it is hard to make it perform on a mobile device over a crappy 3g connection.
Like this?

docker rmi -af

I'm a bit confused by the backticks as I use them all the time scripting, but also in Markdown.
I see what you're implying but there are lots of places in the world where it's common to hail a ride from a complete stranger and men and women alike do so.

There's always a risk of being a victim of a crime when hailing a ride from a stranger and while Uber/Lyft somewhat mitigate the risk, it's not completely safe either.
The "screen readers" argument is cargo cult in 2017.
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The projects listed here under "Web" try to achieve that: http://overconstrained.io/
I came here to say just that. This probably will be the biggest challenge for this app. I see that it promises future bitcoin integration, which will be a challenge by itself to be accepted by drivers and users both. I guess app could partner with an instant bitcoin to fiat processor.

Anyway, both a cool idea and a challenging one. Best wishes!
>No one is entitled to a slice of a tech company just cause they couldn't start one.

What makes one "deserve" the lion's share of a tech company?

The company I work for is split between two cofounders. One came from a very privileged background. The other didn't. Guess who got more?

As far as I can see the notion that one deserves wealth because one has wealth is baked into our society and legal system. Owning a rental property means receiving a stream of income from those who do not. Owning shares means receiving a stream of income from work done by others.

Likewise, if you earn a salary you're the one paying that rent and the work you do is generating those dividends.

Likewise, being rich (and being well connected to the wealthy) when you start a company gives you the leverage to take a larger share.

If that's what you believe is deserved then fine, I guess.

I've yet to hear anybody actually state the words "being richer entitles you to a larger unearned income than those who are not" though.
tldr: The author was excited about getting a working Tesla, for the price he paid for a supposedly working Tesla, which turned out to be false.
Yes. I've seen recent allegations that this weekend's airport protests are "terror-tied", which is obviously false and politically-motivated on its face. There was a neverending sea of false anti-Obama material throughout the election, asserting everything from "he's a secret Muslim" to "he wants all Americans under Sharia Law", to even older widely-discredited "birther" claims. These allegations IIRC mostly originated from Breitbart News, a site still under the control of Steven Bannon (who now has the IMO dangerous conflict of sitting on the National Security Committee while running a supposed news organization). They were widely shared in multiple closed groups on Facebook with memberships in the 20-50k range.

But further than that: I've seen persistent allegations and slurs against the Jewish faith (many in pre-prepared image form), advocation of literal genocide, celebration of alleged bills that would make it legal for people to use motor vehicles to strike and kill protestors, and calls for those protesting legally and peacefully to literally be rounded up and imprisoned by police because a small group of unrelated individuals committed acts of vandalism or violence. The excuse? "If they're not stopping them, they're supporting them". These were not isolated incidents. I personally witnessed hundreds of voices repeating the latter talking point on a single local news station's Facebook page, in a single night.

The current US National Security advisor Michael Flynn allegedly accidentally retweeted one of these. According to news reports, it read "Not anymore, Jews".

Further down the abyss, speaking more to rhetorical depravity: I've watched pro-Trump posters in private Facebook groups post pictures of themselves pointing firearms at the camera in response to disagreements over fact. There was also a disturbing pattern of posters sifting through the public profiles of others for pictures – essentially peoples' family photos – altering them to appear pornographic or otherwise offensive, and then reposting them in public. One even literally offered to sell a stranger's child in to slavery, on their personal Facebook page, using a picture of them, "because that's what the Muslims would do". I saw attempts to get people fired from their job due to a Facebook political disagreement.

I really believe that there are intrinsic issues with social media that are feeding this crisis: a demand for instantaneous engagement often at the expense of even a few minutes of thought, a "real names" policy on Facebook that sabotages efforts to deflect/prohibit personal attacks in discussion groups, a comically understaffed/underresourced reporting system that I've seen people on all sides try to weaponize against those that disagree with them, algorithmic news feeds that people have voluntarily handed over their information-seeking ability to, and notifications that allow asynchronous debate to escalate into what people perceive as intrusive interruptions. Many unfortunately don't know how to turn these off, and react in anger.

It's no way to communicate and no way to live.
On Linux, there is http://rr-project.org/

Or a commercial, more polished product http://undo.io/

Other environments, like JVM also have such tools (e.g. http://chrononsystems.com/).
Hint: Move to the backend. Building the APIs that crunch SQL into JSON for the react/angular/fad of the week folks to consume is much easier, and the half-life of your framework and language knowledge can be measured in years, not months.
Here's the related research, "Meiofaunal deuterostomes from the basal Cambrian of Shaanxi (China)":

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...
> Which of the above is the author advocating for?

Exactly.

The points were valid up until this point, but the question begged by the title "one percent stake" is never answered.
Based on your tone and use of sarcasm, I'd say your 20 year practice needs work.
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How to easily trick $FILE_MANAGER users to execute arbitrary code
Or when you have apps like Waze for real time traffic updates. I have yet to find a built-in car satnav that wasn't horrible and hella expensive but Waze is free and crazy accurate.
WASTE EDUCATION
Free software has been a political statement from day zero.
It's definitely not experts making these claims, and that's part of the problem. These are just masses of mindless reshares of unsourced "facts" from strangers. But people bite. People appear to comment by the hundreds indicating belief in them. Check out "Donald Trump American President" administered by "Jimmy Johnson" on Facebook if you really want to see the garbage first hand.

The echo chamber comments were prompted by the statement that "the neo-left is an [order of magnitude] worse". There is, in fact, staggering depravity on the right if you look in the right (cough) places.
You can do that second one already. Nothing requires that where you have a hire car drop you off be where you are actually going. Just, you know, tell the driver another place. (And don't let the app use background location data.)
India admits rupee withdrawal bad for economy
You just hear more about React because it's the "hot new thing".
Have you used Web Components as part of a large project? What has your experience been?

I'd love to start pushing them to my clients, especially non-tech companies who can't afford to rewrite all their code every time a new framework becomes the fad, but I'm still kinda unconvinced. I'd love to read some real-world case studies.
How long have you been meditating and how long do you meditate for in both of your daily sessions?
How do you do column based layout with tables?

I want to add a column to a table via ajax, how do I do it? I can't cleanly, I have to modify each tr.
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In that case the snark is justified, since those humanities graduates can see right through the misery of theirs and yours human condition.
The cool thing about being a founder is that you get to choose what to do with the equity in your company. So if Stephanie Hurlburt wants to offer a greater share to late employees for reasons of fairness or justice then more power to her. As a side benefit she may attract more talented, loyal employees.

On the other hand there are probably more effective forms of philanthropy than giving your employees more money and equity than the market-clearing amount.

In the end I think the talk about what people "deserve" is a red herring, on both sides. The way I'd look at it is that a business creates value, spends some of it to grow and keep the wheels turning, and the rest is surplus which the owners get to keep, spend or give away as they see fit.
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It's been on my list to read for while now, I'll take a look.
that makes The divided states of America (D.S.A.)
To the extent that that's true, I'm not sure what the standard for "relevant to the original issue" should be. Taxi drivers are disproportionally Muslim and Sikh and disproportionally immigrants. (noted here: http://democracynow.org/stories/17050 ) Does that count as relevant enough? If not, what would? If so, what else would?

I think that protestors should be careful about their tactics, but I don't think they should have to invent ways to tie a protest's theme to its objective. We protest when our moral values are offended, and that's enough of a reason.
> Screen readers assume the content inside a table is tabular

I'm curious to hear from screen reader users. I recall that the gap between "what web developers think screen readers do" and "what screen readers do" has always been sizable.
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My experience has been that it's great for local develoment, if your app is reasonably complex (ie Docker doesn't make sense if you only have an app worker and SQLite database), but I don't love it for production. In order for Docker to work well on production, you need something like Kubernetes, and that's a huge hassle for a small app.
How does Mithril play with TypeScript? I am tempted to give it a shot...
>Come on, rationality as a concept of the mind is unapplicable to reality. Reality just is.

That's exactly the kind of non-philosophical argument that takes for granted what it should investigate.

Reality barely "just is". And even if it is, we have no way of accessing reality-reality, just our perceptions of it (which is the message of Kant, and to a different degree, Hume).

And whether reality is rational, Hegel would also like to have a discussion with you. He'll agree on the "reality is rational" part, but not in the way you think it (e.g. he accepts reality as contradictory at the ontological level, and event accepts contradictions in his version of logic).

>Genetic patterns, for example, are not rational or irrational.

Philosophical inquiry needed (akin to "citation needed").
Or it's a child in charge, and it's time the parents assert control.
> This is absurd and adolescent.

That's an awfully emotional (dare I say, adolescent) way of saying "I disagree, here's why".

While I may not exactly agree with the author's position, I think it's fair to recognize the uncomfortable truth that in most startups, rewards for success are distributed according to a power law distribution.

Taking it a step further, I strongly suspect that it is the financial innumeracy of many engineers, designers, and other hard-working early stage employees that make the economics of many startup businesses possible.
This isn't yet decided. Microsoft and the DoJ are still arguing about this in the court system, which so far has ruled that the US government cannot compel Microsoft to release data it holds in Ireland. It's currently waiting for the DoJ to decide whether to take it to the Supreme Court: http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2017/01/micros...
Interesting. Where?
You know, I'm starting to think that multithreading may not be the best idea in an environment explicitly not designed for it, and we should be using other approaches, it the latency requirements of the application make that possible.

If only we had some sort of shared-nothing concurrency, like a syscall that forks your process and uses copy-on-write to make it efficient. But that's just crazy talk.
There was a particularly extreme trend back then (well - probably more during the 90s) where websites were mainly big Photoshop images sliced up into a lot of nested tables of dizzying complexity. Screen readers off course struggled with that as it was rather hard to determine the order of the content. I'm not sure how much trouble they have with more minimal use of tables for presentation.
I've had fun debugging this very problem in the past, as the root cause of a very puzzling intermittent failure.

The symptoms were intermittent segfaults in some high level scientific python code running on a large cluster in AWS. Given we had no custom C library extensions, this should be impossible, but there they were; the jobs would fail randomly for one in every several thousand runs, if memory serves.

We eventually tracked this to a call to getenv() in the OpenBLAS thread pool per-thread initialization code. This seems innocuous enough by itself, but couple it with some other unrelated python library which happened to call setenv() and you have a nice race condition accessing the internal glibc data structures. Ultimately this ended up with a segfault due to dereferencing some already freed memory.

Ah, good times. Here's the root cause analysis if anyone wants the gory details :-)
https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/issues/716#issuecomment-1...
Blue-Green Deployments with Docker Services Running Inside a Swarm Cluster
Or they're following a newsfeed algorithm that's determining their information-seeking proclivities for them. I honestly find that much more subtly disturbing and manipulatable than willful ignorance – people have ceded control over their information seeking behavior entirely.
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Just getting credit card details would be simpler. Works for Uber. Why fix it if it ain't broken?
True — which is why I said "works less well" and not "doesn't work". And you're absolutely right that safety is relative ;)

Author was also implying that they were visiting Russia. It's much harder to assess safety when you're not a resident, especially when you don't speak the language. And the fact that because many people in a culture engage in some behavior says little about its safety — e.g. riding scooters in Saigon, or smoking!
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Dupe, discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13522044
Not OP, but my advice would be to start small.

10 minutes is more than enough to start with. After doing it for awhile, you'll find yourself wanting to increase that time, but just do it gradually.. maybe work yourself up to 20 minutes, but if you ever feel like you don't have the time, just make sure you're doing at least 10 minutes.
If you want a straight AWS "cloud" replacement, there aren't many options. OVH and LeaseWeb are the most likely candidates but don't come close to the breadth of offerings.

There's a very large and competitive market for dedicated servers and colocation though and depending on your load, it might be worth a look at switching to dedicated or leased infrastructure.

Owning the hardware is the only way to truly control your destiny as far as I'm concerned.
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Ask HN: What could we use to manage access to databases?
We have 10+ Postgres databases, and 50+ people who need access to them.

What could we use to manage access to databases?
(add, delete, edit users, edit database access, ...)
I read both of your replies as admitting you form your opinions by attributing the actions of the minority extremes that I am arguing are deliberately promoted. Worse, you seem to realize it. I appreciate the tip on that URL, but I didn't save it fast enough and I don's see it now in your comment. I track similar sounding things and would like to dig into it.

On the flip, shouldn't we all be willing to accept that some of the things we think can't be true are true? History has all kinds of examples.

Arguing that's it's other people who are really making this mistake makes no sense because you made the arg.

Still looking for the cite on "the definition of per-capita".
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