skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about starting a new political party? Is that too crazy to consider? Maybe this is the time to do it.

I think one thing that happened recently is that we saw a desire for change. The number and enthusiasm of Sanders and Trump followers points to that. Maybe there is a place for a party to represent the views and values of those who followed Sanders.

Just thinking about it, there was a previously unknown, old, white, male politician who had such a tremendous following from so many people. What happened to that crowd? Those people are still out there, young, many in college, new graduates, minorities. It probably includes factory workers from Rust Belt and so on. There were so many followers despite media ignoring them in-large, despite the main DNC establishment disliking them and they still got so many votes.

I think doing the same thing over and over with the DNC as before, is probably not going to work. How feasible is to take all those invested billions and create a new movement instead of fighting fake news, why not generate good news. Instead of forgetting about the workers whose jobs are being automated away, perhaps talk about basic income in the way that would be accepted and not be seen as a humiliating hand-out.

What better to improve Democracy by creating a more parties to represent and replace the crusty old one with all their baggage and corruption.
An interesting introduction but the article unfortunately falls short without really answering its title question. IMO it could have continued to discussing the same dilemma faced by most conceptual art. Also surprising there is not a single mention of the contemporary Andy Goldsworthy [0], who has done a great deal to promote environmental art.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Goldsworthy
Having worked myself as a constituent contact in a Congressional office, I can tell you from experience that you are exactly right. Someone who's willing to hand-write a letter and pay for a stamp is seen as a more motivated constituent -- more likely to care enough about the issue to have it decide how they'll vote in November, in other words -- than someone who makes a call; and the caller is more motivated than someone who clicks "send" on an email; and the emailer is more motivated than someone who signs a Web petition.

For a long time, in fact, this mindset meant that a really effective way to "hack" the Congressional contact system was to send your message in a telegram -- because if you were willing to pay to have a messenger run your message across town and deliver it by hand, you were assumed to be very motivated indeed!

(I doubt that's true anymore, of course; not least because I'm not sure you can send telegrams anymore. But now I'm wondering if you could get the same effect these days by sending your message via FedEx's most expensive service...)
How dare I call out a power user like yourself, have fun with that.
What made you want to hire that person?
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More specifically, I think the NRA regards the GOP as extremely useful. They actually stooge for the gun manufacturers. If somehow the Republicans and the Democrats flipped sides, the NRA would flip, too. LaPierre and his crew would have to go, but that's business.
GC holders were included, then they weren't, and now they are on a "case by case basis". But good job prettying up the pig, though the stink is strong on this one.
Wouldn't the most relaxed form of breathing be whatever it is you do automatically? It seems weird to me that the autonomic nervous system would prefer to use a suboptimal muscle group.
Furthermore, I find that when I'm exercising I need to force myself to use my diaphragm because of the effort it takes to move my viscera out of the way.
Depends. Lots of people consider the EFF to be a political organization, but it has always enjoyed major social privileges here. Not sure about the specific financial relationships and don't feel like investing hours in compiling that information, but I'd be quite surprised if YC hadn't supported the EFF financially, directly or indirectly.
I've never understood why it is okay for outsourcing companies to "own" HIB visa people. A colleague told me long ago that it was like indentured servitude unless/until you could escape to a regular company that was willing to sponsor.
Almost none of the following APIs are available to web applications on Android:

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/marshmallow/and...

Edit: I'm getting down-voted, presumably because people think web apps should have different capabilities than native apps. To those responding this way: why? I can't imagine why you'd prefer the locked-down app distribution channel of the Play Store, in comparison to the open web..
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Didn't Microsoft lose a lawsuit for something similar?
The best technology we can apply to democracy is to have our elections be conducted entirely by pencil and paper with a completely open, public and full count of all votes.
In the superficially similar cases of many Banksy works across London, the answer is you chisel out entire sections of buildings and sell them to private collectors. eg:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7188387.stm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-3714847...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23461396

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-30242249
That the terms you usually see are "pro-choice" and "anti-choice" means nothing more than that your particular filter bubble is strongly pro-choice. Pro-lifers never call themselves "anti-choice"; they call themselves "pro-life." Conversely, pro-choice activists never call themselves "pro-life" (except maybe in rhetorical arguments such as the one you just provided).
more importantly go never calls getenv()
> People are like radios and broadcast their thoughts, and you'll be picking them up without knowing it.

I interpreted that sentence as stating that people absorb thoughts and ideas via communication with other people expressing their views. The process of adopting an idea can often be a subconscious one. On more than one occasion, I’ve had friends impart to me some useful piece of knowledge, an interesting piece of trivia or some observation about the world, only for me to point out to them that it was me that shared those thoughts with them in the first place.

It’s useful to understand the source of my thoughts but for my own part, if my memory works at all, it’s doing well to retain thoughts, knowledge or ideas. I’m doing very well if I can also remember the source of the thought. My interpretation of the quoted sentence was that meditation would help one achieve that awareness.
Thanks, that's what I found out until now. I'm looking for a solution without any enrollment at all, however.

Background: think of a group of freelancers, working together with one organization. The freelancers have each their own BYOD laptop and there are few servers, that provide services. Until now, each of these services had their own unique user database, so every user had to remember several passwords.

We want to change that and are currently experimenting with FreeIPA. In the lab, everything works as it should - with macOS and Linux. Even Windows machines, that are joined to a domain with the trust set up with FreeIPA domain work (that would be some of the servers). However, the standalone Windows machines are the problem. So far, only Firefox and Putty can use GSSAPI. Chrome uses SSPI, even PostgreSQL windows client supports only SSPI, and now I’m playing with the svn klient to figure out, whether it can use GSSAPI. For smb shares, Windows insist on NTLM (and on the Linux side, sssd doesn’t support NTLMSSP), so there I’m looking into plain LDAP backend for Samba. At least they could enter the password into the Explorer dialog and get to the files.

For webapps, it is actually quite simple - just use some IDP. Those who cannot obtain a tgt, will log-in using forms. It doesn’t really matter whether they put their password into web form or into kinit or ticket viewer. It’s the non-web services, that are the problem.

The other solution would be to let them RDP into terminal server and let them do everything there. This solution slightly complicates the work for the users, because they will have to use some locally installed apps anyway.
We can see how well that went, can't we?
As I understand, Firefox on iOS is simply a privacy-protecting wrapper around iOS's built-in browser.
I asked this elsewhere, but does being a donor matter at all for calls/letters? If so they check the dollar amount?
Bigger government works when the systems of checks and balances work. In this case the courts failed to uphold the constitution and strike down the expansions of unlawful surveillance powers.
So, it is a question of threshold. With Basecamp you know they are committed to your wellbeing, it is not a specific perk, it is the attitude where you are certain they are with you and then you obviously don't have to think much, you can give yourself to work.
Thanks for the offer, but my plate is full right now, sorry.
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This is only $13,000 more than $60,000 in 1989 inflation adjusted to 2016 - $116,132. (1989 is the year this minimum wage was mandated).

Assuming the past law was reasonable, this increase also seems reasonable.
EU regulations on algorithmic decision making and a “right to explanation”
Keep in mind that there are actually many ACLUs - the national body, and a lot of local chapters. The chapters are pretty independent, and occasionally do things that I personally disagree with.

The distinction is frequently omitted, and used to paint the national group with the sins of local ones, and vice-versa.

And that's not the view of the national ACLU, at all. Perhaps they don't place the emphasis on it you'd like to see, but that's quite different than considering the 2nd "outside the scope".
Autonomy is huge for us and being able to do work when you see fit tends to produce better code in our case. It also fits better into our daily lives and motivates us much more. I agree with unexpected bonuses and raises can be a good motivator too, but I have seen that the effect wears off faster than something that fits into your daily life and improves it.

I also agree with the above board approach! You are spot on there. Transparency through the good, the bad, and the ugly are really important to us. I think that with transparency comes strong trust and more respect in the work place.

We like to see and feel the motivation of each other "Owning it" or taking lead and pushing on a project emotionally and with Grit. If someone becomes a driving force for a project they think is important it creates a great sense of motivation for them and others around them. It is a core value that really pushes us to be better people and better developers.
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Technology provides massive amounts of consumer surplus and deflation.

What if we need less money and lower wages are actually fine?

Edit: Do the people down-voting this actually think technology doesn't provide consumer surplus and deflation? Or do you have a problem with my question?
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New parties are hard. Still, I've found it interesting to think about a group that was only active in 3-5 evenly contested states, that collectively controlled a few percentage of the vote in those states.

This small group might have tremendous power to set the agenda, either as a distinct party or one that influenced the presidential candidates.
The C integration aspect sounds really neat, especially for writing concurrent code on the Arduino!

Thanks for the detailed explanation.
And this means that the performance is not the first (or second) reason to use Ceu, right? In other words, is it somewhat slow?
So much stuff, so little time.

I think you should take a VPS, one of (Django || Rails), do a small project all by yourself, and decide if you want to go deeper on any of those things. The alternative is to learn Java and go quickly into an entry-level job, but you won't be able to choose what to learn by doing that, besides the small project will help you learning Java too (but may make it unbearable).
I mean, I ordered a few of these on Amazon for $5 apiece just a couple of weeks ago, so yeah, you can definitely get them that cheap.
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If employers had to pay employees from the time they left their front door, instead of externalizing the cost to the employees, we'd find out pretty quickly just how "inefficient" remote working really was. That, and/or salaries would start to compensate for real estate prices.
early rust looked a lot like an ocaml/erlang hybrid. green threads and immutability were the entire concurrency story for a long time, in my recollection. it wasn't until later that rust started to look like a safer c++
The set top box regulation was about embracing video marketplaces of the future by ensuring providers offered an API that all companies could draw from.
That's how I use my phone, for the most part.

It still stresses me out, though, because glass keyboards just suck. I miss my Blackberry.
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Could a cooperative effort to create a plausible body of work help in these situations? A journalist could keep a plausible number of canned stories on their machine and when the duress code is triggered everyone stops using them and more are written to take their place.

What level of quality in the writing is needed? Can some kind of news aggregating algorithm generate plausible stories? Some kind of propaganda bot that writes stories that are favorable to the regime for the purpose of creating a plausible cover?

Do I need to go get more coffee and watch fewer spy movies?
I agree that more, equally influential, parties are better for the health of US politics...but there are many systemic traits that I believe are prohibitive to new parties becoming equally influential.

To even begin addressing the multitude of these issues would require passing laws through our current political system and I am convinced that would be near impossible.
It's the most pragmatic move he could have made if he wants to disseminate Rust's ideas. Having the backing of the largest public company in the world does give you some fire power.
As far as I understand it the "1-minute hiring" is not something the people behind libretaxi are actually doing, it's something people running a libretaxi instance would do.

Or hopefully they would rather not, at least if they are serious about it and are not just running on a short-lived inspiration to play pretend-Kalanick.
Making a ton of assumptions on your situation, here is how I would go about it.

Record the IP addresses of your users (multiple per user), link these to user profiles and do a whois for each IP address.

Big companies like the ones you mention will sometime appear to have their own IP address and you can then deduct the employer of your users.

Additionally and assuming you have your users full names and email addresses, you can scrape the web and get their professional profile.

Alternatively, you can probably buy some kind of user data but I would not know where to start except by googling around.

All this can be build in a nice administrative UI for your application, from which good old human investigation can lead you to the specific people you are looking for to manually validate each user's employer.
I've had shower thoughts about "transparency as a service" before, but putting together the business case for this has proved difficult.
So we should just keep dismissing his obvious intentions because he hasn't fully executed on them at this precise moment? You can keep explaining away his actions based on technicalities all you want, but his intentions are clear to most people in the US and around the world.
> US/CIA does "extraordinary rendition" all the time

Then it's okay then!

> Law is irrelevant.

Commerce is extremely sensitive to rule-of-law. Instability vastly reduces investment.

> China will eventually subsume all of Hong Kong as they see fit.

That's pretty fatalistic; why get out of bed in the morning if you're just going to die someday?
To be perfectly semantically correct (which he was no doubt attempting, as I is a purely visual/appearance tag, and EM connotes some meaning), he should have used

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Its a great observation and one that I think has struck many people. I would be interested in hearing a sales person and development person put their views on the table about the subject so we could see both sides and compare motivators between the two roles.
Varies wildly: come a few km northwards to Denmark and you'll easily go on for months without seeing a single banknote while living here. Hell in the past couple years I've withdrawn euros many more times than I did dkk because of trips to Germany: I need it far more often there than anywhere else in western and southern Europe. It's incredibly annoying.
If you don't use Apple Webkit view apple doesn't even allow you put your browser on the appstore. All other browser engines are banned.

See section 2.5.6 of the Appstore guidelines

"2.5.6 Apps that browse the web must use the appropriate WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript."

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
It's the number of processes either running or waiting in the queue for CPU time. This is averaged over 5, 10, and 15 minutes.

Load of 0 means idle (nothing to run), load of 1 means e.g. one process running and nothing in the queue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_(computing)
I verified via the wayback machine and the page is the same today as it was when I made my donation. I'm fairly certain I would not have checked that box. I make it a point to read checkboxes very carefully as companies are so prone to anti-patterns to get you to agree to share your info or join mailing lists.
A possible semi-Marxian explanation is that what we call leftism has always consisted of two tendencies: a popular one and an elitist one. The alliance between the two is not natural per se but only held together while the elitist tendency did not have access to the capital. What happened during the late 20th and the early 21st century is that increased demand for intellectual labor due to informatization had given the elitist tendency access to capital, which then led to breaking apart of the old alliance.
That kind of thing is pretty unremarkable behavior for the wealthy in China.
I'm unfortunately otherwise occupied at the moment so I won't be jumping on the occasion right now, but I favourited your comment for further reference. There's lots of good thoughts you put into that post, and I'd love to help - time allowing - if someone is going to take responsibility for making this happen. Thank you for writing that post!
It would count as progress if the automated means of production were owned by the labor that is put out of work. Oh wait, that sounds like communism, and we could never ever have a reasonable discussion about that amongst a group of people who thrive off of a system that is the opposite.
The productivity gap is really an economics understanding gap.

The whole idea is that when productivity goes up, prices go down! To suggest wages should go up when productivity goes up is a complete misunderstanding of economics. It's stupid. You only need one! Prices going down is how the free market adjust for productivity.

If they wanted to make a fair comparison, chart a graph between productivity and the cost to buy a basket of goods in real money. You'll find wages have gone up! Roughly the rate of GDP growth per year! Shocking!!! /s
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No questions, but thanks for writing it and sharing that knowledge.
Why is this surprising?
1) Mac App Store (not the iOS App Store), so the volume of apps available and download counts is WAY lower.
2) A category where most apps are free, so by even existing as a paid app in this category you are going to stand out.

It is pretty sad that the math works out this way, but I think it is perfectly explainable.
We have an epistemological crisis. Tech can't fix that.
24 and 36 now..
Thanks, it was too long since I used filter and it wasn't that interesting. Seems much better now!
That's easy to say for someone with a good income. For a lot of people wages go down while cost of living goes up.
I used to work in mid-west tech and 130k was something a development manager would get which was was 4 levels above an entry level engineer.
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13533019.
Bit Twiddling Hacks [0] is also good. (HN discussion: [1])

[0] https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12026879
You raise a good point about liquidity.

The PDF linked by OP said "including cash bonuses and similar compensation", and the knee-jerk reaction was "it is a joke". Furthermore, it was explainted that "the value of private company stock can be hard to determine". I pointed out the 409A valuation as a response to this.

I do not know if equity will be counted against income.

But I think it is reasonable to count vested and exercised equity into the pay calculation. After all, IRS uses that to determine taxes.
Truecrypt didn't generate fake date, you (the user) did. E.g. put porn on "show to thugs" partition and "Death star plans" on "true" encrypted partition.
Take a look at my cable bill and you'll see the clear and immediate consumer benefit from having a TiVo with CableCard. Take a look at the superior interface, which, even after stagnating for 10+ years, blows away the usability of any cable box offer by the major providers. Or look at how incredibly terrible (crashing, buffering issues) and restrictive (no DVR, forced ads) the cable companies' own apps are, e.g. on Xbox, Roku, etc. By the way, how likely is it that we'd even have DVRs if the cable companies had not been forced to play nice with TiVo in the first place? Or if the broadcast flag went forward?

If there's one positive thing that Pai's FCC might accomplish with policies like these, it's that maybe we'll finally stop watching.
Yikes. The idea that any kind of news should be handled by a Ycombinator startup does not make me comfortable at all.
putting it on the blockchain provides a mathematical proof that entity X got score Y. That itself doesn't solve the problem of proving that entity X corresponds to person P. Although person P could tie something such as driver's license number to entity X. Of course that could be done with a centralized trust system as well. But with the centralized trust too, but also requires trusting the centralized trust, and makes everyone subservient to that centralized trust.
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> Later versions don't let you easily give the client full access. You instead have to do it through Cloud Code (another facet of Parse), so the key never leaves the server.

That's fantastic! I never kept track of which version(s) I worked on but I had transitioned one project from Parse to Parse Server and it was still able to work this way but I'm glad they made progress to try and force better security.