skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not possible to design a system that the participants themselves can't destroy if they decide to.

You can raise the bar arbitrarily high, though. Make the destruction of the system require lots of coordinated effort, and then make coordination difficult. Coordination is hard for humans as it is, even without a system that actively subverts it. That's why we have lots of issued labeled together as "tragedies of the commons".
Not that I know of. Traditionally it has been handled by attaching spending restrictions to the income assistance - e.g. food stamps, medicare, unemployment, student loans, etc.
I assume by "human interaction" they meant that customers don't hand money to a human, not that no humans were involved at any stage in the process.
Who else, then?
The problem is that as soon as a democrat gets elected to president, these "supporters" will disappear because it is "their" candidate bombing brown people or attacking your rights.
It's fun to pick on W, but it's pure fantasy that his anything has been our main problem. USA was a powerhouse from the late 1930s through the late 60s. Big important things got built and sold and used efficiently. Basically until the Baby Boomers entered the workforce. We've coasted ever since. The military spending you like so much has been more of a drag than a benefit, but perhaps only marginally since we export lots of weapons.

I'd like to believe that China will be the next nation to drag the rest of the world in the direction of progress, but they have so much standing in their way... USA might come to its senses before they get started...
> The vitality of American businesses depends critically on the availability of great talent at a reasonable cost.

You could just as easily say that the vitality of American businesses depend on a well paid consumer class. Aka the people we're raising wages for.

> But what shouldn't be missed is that the H1B gives American companies access to a market of the best talent in the world, to allow them to hire that talent for themselves.

It still does unless I'm missing something?
Flashover – The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Pretty much what these two posters said. Extremely tired all the time no matter the amount of sleep, went in for a sleep study and discovered I never fully entered deep REM so my brain was never fully rested. Got the Rx for the CPAP but haven't received it yet.
You have no idea if you think technology magically brings down prices. Tell that to the 100 million people living in/near poverty in the USA alone.

The "efficiency" increases in recent years have more often than not been various ways of cutting labor costs. It doesn't matter if things are cheaper in a nominal sense if your ability to earn a living is eroded.
> it'll be accepted at a greater value than the listed exchange rate.

Didn't realize how dire the listing situation was there

:-p
Google does this worse with ChromeOS.
You're committing the classic fallacy of castigating people for trying to fix a problem when they don't fix all problems.

Would you prefer that the wealthy tech companies didn't donate to the ACLU? That they refused to ever support any good causes?

This is a pernicious idea and should be put to death. Trying to step up and do something should not make you a target. Reserve your wrath for the many billionaires who don't do anything about any issue.

I read an article about this phenomenon a while ago, but I can't find the link. It's essentially the fallacy that trying to fix a problem makes you responsible for it—so if you can't completely fix it, you shouldn't try at all.
I wonder, what would the world be like today if the UK had refused to give back Hong Kong? Or, they could have refused to switch recognition from ROC to PRC, and then handed Hong Kong to ROC instead?

The US and the UK basically gave the PRC everything they wanted in switching the UN's China seat from ROC to PRC. They could have driven a much harder bargain – e.g. have two Chinas in the UN, just like it has two Koreas and used to have two Vietnams, two Germanys, two Yemens, etc; then HK and Macau could have been given back to ROC instead of PRC. But the US and UK were so obsessed with using PRC to spite the Soviets, they weren't thinking about what it would mean 20, 30, 40 years later when the Soviet Union was defunct.
Well now that it's open source you could in theory remove the things you don't want and keep only the good parts. In practice it's not realistic for a single person to do it and even if it was you'd still have to maintain it.
The end customer doesn't actually interact with anybody directly.
Temporal logic verification (via model checking, static analysis, test generation, runtime checks etc.)?
I guess by participants I was mostly referring to actual government participants. Trump can't pervert the system if Congress doesn't approve his nominees or pass legislation he wants, and federal agents don't follow his orders. A small group of people can control a large group of people, but one person can't really transform a government without its consent.
>I can't hire people who don't come in for interviews!

This. Many companies i know strive to hire them to maitain diversity, but again you find very few of them. This question goes back to STEM education in US.
> SF and NY because developers create more value in these locations

does my emacs suddenly start producing bitcoin if i move to NYC or SF?
I would haircut the number for RAID then probably half it if he uses a backup.
They also have Anders Hejlsberg who was the lead architect for C# right? Those are some tough names
Education is a great long-term solution, but we need a PSA/Marketing solution for rational thought today. Similar to the TRUTH anti-tobacco campaign. Make it 'cool' to use logic and base your decisions on rational thought. I'm not advocating any particular policy issues, but a lot of problems can arise if people can't tell the difference between real and fake news, and don't bother to. They don't bother because thinking rationally is not something we encourage.
In response to your second edit; the vast majority of black voters voted for Hillary, a significantly greater proportion than any other race. Hillary ended up with 88%[1] of the black vote. Furthermore turnout was down across all demographics in 2016.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/politics/e...
I agree with you in spirit, but I also realize this is a piece on the internet. If you want something completely definitive then you should be looking elsewhere.

As Emerson said "round every circle a larger can always be drawn" (paraphrase)
> You have no idea if you think technology magically brings down prices. Tell that to the 100 million people living in/near poverty in the USA alone.

I suggest you go do some basic math on the cost of producing consumer staples like rice, beans, milk, and meat. Technology has brought down the cost of all of them.

Similarly, efficiency gains in MPG and durability improvements have lowered the price of owning and maintaining a vehicle. Uber, Lyft, and other ride sharing apps have lowered the price of it even further to remove the capital outlay.

> The "efficiency" increases in recent years have more often than not been various ways of cutting labor costs.

Which is bad because why exactly? Is the purpose of the corporate sector to produce goods and services or to provide a place for people to go?

> It doesn't matter if things are cheaper in a nominal sense if your ability to earn a living is eroded.

Sure it is. That's the definition of makes things more efficient: being able to be produced more cheaply
"...how this will be gamed". Maybe just spin off little small business divisions that happen to be in the very same office they were in before?

It should have been made an across the board, minimum $150k adjusted for inflation and a default requirement of $200k.

I realize the following is not going to be popular here , but people don't take into account how much these programs and illegal immigration are destroying the fabric of America because it allows politicians and corporations to ignore our problems in education and the economy. With every foreign H1B worker you are depriving a child that could and should have been educated to have filled that position. But instead, politicians and corporations ignored the issue and left poor kids to fester amid Democrat and big business policies (including Google and Microsoft) of welfare and immigration that undermines their community's growth and development. They have been trapped in a welfare bubble by Democrats and establishment GOP by selling them and America out to foreigners.

I know that's not what foreign YC readers want to hear, but these H1B visas and illegal immigration, and even excessive legal immigration are wreaking havoc in our society. We will never sole the education problem and never progress if we keep living on credit by importing other people to make it look like we are still successful. The detritus is starting to pile up no matter how much you slap new paint on it.
I don't think this is going to be possible until the basic arguments over what information sources are factual is resolved. Over the past decade I've seen the social structures that I grew up bifurcate because discussion between the two sides is basically impossible.
Pyston 0.6.1 released, and future plans
Not that case for a local (SV) Taco Bell, at least. Good ol' list of items/prices and voice works well I guess, unless you love gimmicks.
> Curious why you'd want safari's content blockers to run inside chrome or firefox though?

Because WKWebView has such a limited API that it currently is impossible to implement content blocking.

WKWebView is both a blessing and a curse for browsers like Chrome and Firefox.

A blessing because tt works really well inside that square area where content is rendered. It is as fast as Safari, as responsive to touch gestures, supports web APIs pretty well.

A curse because the API that it exposes is completely lacking. No way to intercept network requests, no way to interact with the DOM, no way to interact with JavaScript, no way to customize it fully, no way to do proper session store/restore, no way to interact with its internal caches, no way to set the cookie policy, no way to customize the context menus that it exposes, no way to handle errors better, no way to set headers on requests, no way to use content filters ..

I can go on for a while. You can look at the Chrome and Firefox source code to understand the crazy workaround both browsers had to do to get some pretty basic functionality.

Search for WKWebView on https://bugz.webkit.org to see what people have been asking for, for the past three years.
> America is already crowded.

America isn't crowded. America is mostly pretty empty.
http://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/maps/thematic/us_p...
At this point I'd call this not just overreaction, but an acute case of autoimmune disease.
>Last year, the vetting process somehow managed to grant visas to 9500 terror linked individuals, all of whom are missing. When the visas were revoked, there was no way to locate them. (Source: House oversight committee hearings & Mainstream media ~ 2015 / 2016)

No, since 2001, 9500 "terror linked individuals" were given visas. Unfortunately, I can't find any explanation of what "terror linked" means in this context. Each year, the US grants approximately 8-9 million visas. So, in 15 years, across over 100 million issued visas, approximately 10,000 may have been given to individuals who were "terror linked", where that could mean "confirmed terrorist", or it could mean "their uncle once went to a market that we believe is a known terrorist hotspot". Again, there's no explanation, anywhere, of what "terror linked individual" means in this context.

Please stop editorializing.
This was the role that XSL tried to fill but it never caught on. Part of the reason is that it's still very dependent on what information is in the source document; if it's not there you can't lay it out, and if you don't need it then it was a big waste of database time. This ends up reversing the dependency, so the contents of your "pure information" layer end up depending on what your "layout" layer needs, and in the end the difference between the layers is only nominal.
Strava CEO Leaves GPS Message in Solidarity with Immigrants
Uber Partners with Daimler in a Step Toward a Driverless Future
I know that $5 isn't going to get you "real access". It's a token amount so that you can truthfully say you're a donor. My thought was along the lines of "Hi, I'm a donor to XXXX's campaign, and I feel YYYY about ZZZZZ". Make a difference, or not?
Thanks for hints. The Caddy server looks nice.

The default and simplest scenarios is that our domain is used, so that the user is not forced to setup DNS, but they can if they wish. But of course having a set of domains is an option. The problem with that is, that there is still a limited set of domains that we could use and still easily matches with the product.
> Sites like the Pirate Bay have been repeatedly subject to take-downs and legal action for simply facilitating peer-to-peer sharing despite not hosting any infringing content on their own servers. It's hard to see why Uber or Airbnb are any different.

I think Hollywood has been combating the pirates for a long time, and has used the law to try and get their way. Maybe if massive hotel chains start to see a severe hit to their revenue they might take legal action similar to what the entertainment industry has done.
> F1 students are not American citizens and are not entitled to an immigration pathway through employment

American citizens would be entitled to an immigration pathway?
I racked up $25K of credit card debt by not tracking my spending and then building up so much fear around my finances that I was afraid to check my accounts.

While the tips mentioned are solid, some people need more extreme options.

My "diet" involved four months of sleeping in the woods, naming porn flicks for cash, selling other people's restaurants (no license necessary), and giving up alcohol and eating out.

Too extreme for most? Yes. But if you're single / have few responsibilities (i.e., young millennials) it might work for you.

I wrote a step by step book on this subject called Debt Destroyer: https://www.amazon.com/Debt-Destroyer-Achieve-Financial-Free...
Although it seems like there are endless start ups with 22 year old CEOs and executive, it's still easier to do business as a C level executive if you're a bit older.

Of course it's somewhat useless to tell you just become a C level executive. But building on top of what was already suggested, I think if you start your own company, you'd have better chance of closing deals, making connections or have people trust you because of your age.

With age comes trusts and experience, and you can use that your benefit.

You may have a harder time convincing venture capitalists to invest in your company, I mean at 50 years, 80 hour work weeks and ramen noodle diets are not viable options. But if you set up a consulting shop you'd probably close contracts much quicker, expand your network much easier and succeed much faster than a typical 22 year old. It's one thing to build an app and get all kids to download it, it's another to be able to sit down with a client and understand their needs and make them trust you with their money.

Experience and trust, use it your advantage.
I have expounded this viewpoint before to similar comments from friends only to get a 'you're one of them' comment in return. I cannot recall a time in my life where I felt so much division. Please if you disagree with the post above, think about why, and post a thought out response. Because I honestly don't get it and want to. I feel both sides pulling away from reason and open discussion, and it frankly scares the humor out of me. There is no way to solve any of this by attacking each other and refusing meaningful dialog.
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Using public education for any form of job training is one of the gravest mistakes that has put us in the current position.

The reason for public education is to have an informed citizenry able to participate fully in society. Using it as job training is just corporate welfare, that is using tax money to pay for something businesses should do themselves.

There is often overlap in the skills needed in an informed citizenry and employees (e.g. reading, computer skills, etc.), but not always.

Trying to chase what business or the marketplace wants is a fools journey that create citizens poorly prepared to be fully empowered citizens with a solid understanding of the world.

I suspect entrepreneurial skills would be well covered by this approach as it should emphasis skills of leadership, self-reliance, consensus, and creative thinking.
Afaik anders ist still at Microsoft doing typescript
It’s better to try and fail than never try at all.
Sums it up.
Thanks for the great article.
Huh. I wrote this code back in 2000 or so. Didnt realize someone had ripped it.

https://github.com/a1k0n/gsynth/blob/master/modules/tb303/tb...

It doesn't sound very much like a real tb303 whatsoever. I'm working on a JavaScript one based on an x0xb0x I built, but it has a long way to go.

https://www.a1k0n.net/code/x0x/
There was some documentary about the Swedish citizen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gui_Minhai that was shown on Swedish national TV recently.

"After the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, he obtained Swedish residency, and later became a naturalised citizen of Sweden, upon which he renounced his Chinese citizenship."

He has a teenage daughter in Sweden today.

He was holidaying in Thailand when he was kidnapped by Chinese agents. (Thailand obeys China...)

The "offical" Sweden is scared about negative trade consequences (China punished Norway quite thoroughly just because the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a Chinese citizen) so they pretend like nothing has happened.

Gui Minhai eventually showed up in an obviously staged segment in Chinese state TV where he confessed to some crime he hadn't committed, and then begged Sweden to leave him alone, since he was now back in China "ready to answer to his crimes".

This is one of the most shameful aspects of Sweden that I know today, as a Swede. There is no way we would accept this unless there was quite a lot of trade at risk... and even considering this, it feels so wrong to give into them this easily.

This is a man who when he escaped to Sweden in the 80s trusted that Sweden would stand up for him.. Little did he know that the social democratic government (this is the same party that the assasinated Olof Palme used to run) would let him down so badly. :/
Is there a good way to preserve and run flash content as we move into this brave new flash-free world, with good long-term prospects? At least the stuff that doesn't require a server component?

Lots of cool stuff from the mid-period Web was flash. All of Homestarrunner, obviously. Thousands of games. JibJab was (is?) big, and IIRC their early stuff was Flash. Various animated shorts of varying character and quality (remember when Stickperson Fight animations were big? The best were usually in Flash)
Andrew Ng posted a comment about this on facebook: "I'm thrilled about Libratus' Poker triumph--this is a huge step for AI. Othello/Checkers/Chess/Go were theoretically solvable with minimax tree search and sheer computation; but poker, which requires bluffing, needs sophisticated modeling of your opponents and new algorithmic principles. CMU's Tuomas Sandholm has also (in a private email) promised to publish their algorithms, which I look forward to. Congrats CMU!!!"
https://www.facebook.com/andrew.ng.96/posts/1260889373966967
1Password only works in non-Safari browsers if those apps include a less optimal SDK that provides a generic password filling conduit.

It is not something that WKWebView automagically does.

See https://github.com/AgileBits/onepassword-app-extension
As you said, this seems to penalize the Infosys-type companies, and seems to give favorable treatment to Silicon Valley firms. Given that's her district, this should not be surprising.

Regardless of the merits of this particular bill, at least we now have a conversation going with both political sides weighing in.

Here's hoping that they end up somewhere rational.
Surely nobody is surprised? Perfect knowledge of probabilities, no emotion and immune to bluffing.
Authoritarians associated (at least by rhetoric) with both the left (e.g., Leninist) and right (e.g., Fascist) aren't exactly new, and they look pretty similar in practice whatever the distinctions in their rhetoric.

But, even so, the left and right opposition to neoliberal trade is not the same (the opponents on the left tends to favor trade, but oppose trade without common labor and environmental protections, those on the right tend to oppose both trade and labor and environmental protections.)

Similarly, while almost everyone opposes "open borders" (an idea with narrow support which is mostly heard as a right-wing label for any immigration that they oppose), the left and right tend to be very far apart on what they prefer as the direction of change from status quo immigration policies.
I don't think this is the right approach. IMO, what we need a platform for regional driver co-ops. You obviously wouldn't have the consistency of Uber and Lyft, but the service would take only a tiny cut since they don't have to provide anything other than the app. When you want to hail a car, you'd be able to choose from any local services, which are responsible for the vetting and insurance of drivers. It has its flaws, obviously, but such driver co-ops already exist in some places, so I think it could work.
Sounds like this:
https://www.a1k0n.net/code/webkitsynth/

Basically, not at all like a 303 except in spirit
As I read this, I imagined you as one of those flailing tube people car dealerships put out.
I think so too, the age bands will shift with Mark Zuckerberg.
Depends on your definition of 'liberalism'.

Classical liberalism was synonymous with libertarianism, minarchy, etc.

The modern colloquial usage is closer to meaning left-wing statism (as distinguished from 'conservative' or right-wing statism).
It will be interesting to see the old v new businesses powerplay with technologies like these coming up so fast.
Raccoon (3d party Google Play desktop client) just got a total make over
Authorized Resources and Database Migrations with Strongloop's Loopback
Awww, poor dumb americans can't keep with the immigrants. I feel so sorry for them.

That's pretty much the argument you are making. No one is defending H-1B abusing companies like Tata and Infosys. People are saying google and others use the program to hire skilled people for reasonable salaries.

So if American grads can't get hired, maybe they should study more instead of whining about fucking immigrants.
Android has a system level back button.
Exactly - what motive could OP's comment have other than self-aggrandizement.

Look at me everyone, in the face of something really good happening, I still complain about all our other shortcomings because I am morally superior.

This is a good thing that is happening, get off your high horse.
It is more exit culture than founders culture. SV may not be the best place for a company with less than $500k in funding (say you want to start Twitter) but it probably is the best place if you need to scale up fast and seek progressively larger rounds or get acquired by a big player.
I have never used it, but “Apple Configurator 2”, a free Mac app from Apple, may be useful.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/apple-configurator-2/id10371...:

“Apple Configurator 2 makes it easy to deploy iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Apple TV devices in your school or business.

Use Apple Configurator 2 to quickly configure large numbers of devices connected to your Mac via USB with the settings, apps, and data you specify for your students, employees, or customers.

[…]
If you’re configuring devices in an environment where consistency is critical, Blueprints allow you to create a custom configuration for your devices that can be applied with one click”