skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Leaving things in the hands of the people will always be a better outcome than letting political hacks decide.

In most parliamentary countries this is not the case.

In Australia, specifically the state of NSW, the judges are appointed by the Governor who goes with the suggestion of the Attorney General (by convention, not requirement), and while the position of Attorney General is not directly elected each member of cabinet has to be elected by the public.

To make sure allegations of corruption are independently assessed, there is an Independent Commission Against Corruption, or ICAC, that can investigate individuals for corruption in a public office.

The checks and balances are pretty broad in that model, and there's no risk of appealing to fallacies which can happen in the direct election model e.g. appealing to 'common sense'.
>Once content has reached my computer, it is mine to do with as I wish and consume as I wish.

Is it that simple? Morally and ignorantly I agree but I'm not so sure the law and more sophisticated understandings of morality agree.

I mean, I'm happy to pay for & watch Netflix but I understand that (edit: for most titles) I never paid for download rights, only streaming rights.
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There was a remote dial-up modem service in the 80's called PC Pursuit [1] that let you make local phone calls with modems in other cities through Telenet's packet switching network.

You could play a fun game called "PC Roulette" by connecting to a modem and typing the Hayes modem command "A/" to dial the last number somebody called.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet#PC_Pursuit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14118052
Don’t document your code. Code your documentation
How do they estimate the domestic GDP contribution of a company to then compute its effective tax rate? Or are they just taking total GDP divided by total tax collected for an overall tax burden? In that case, do these numbers say anything specifically about corporate taxation at all?
Yes, it's the only positive thing about Chrome and HTML5, really.
He probably means that the Kazakh language belongs to the family of Turkic languages.
But I wasn't complaining at all! I was just curious about who was behind it so pointing it out just in case it was an error in the code or in my browser.

And sure, I am passionate about minimal programming so I've done quite a few projects and point them out as relevant examples. Though I agree I got a bit carried away (3 comment threads with external links) in this thread, my apologies (cannot change it now). See my submission history ( https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=franciscop ) for a full picture, I don't link to my projects nearly as much as I did in here and I'll just comment relevant info without so many external links in the future.
Before they turned on red packets they had only 300M MAUs. They do claim that red packets was a critical growth lever for them for new users
Streaming is downloading. The information is on your PC; you should have the right to do with it as you please forever.
Brain in a Jar
Design is all about solving user problems, not producing beautiful interfaces. If fact, if you tried to tell a UX designer that their job was to produce beautiful designs that didn't solve user problems they'd quit on the spot.

The Mac Pro is not a simple nor minimal design. It's actually quite a complex design that is optimized for space over flexibility, arguably not good UX. The old Mac Pro, on the other hand, was a great design. It could be criticized as being too expensive, but it was configurable, and very easy to configure to boot. It perfectly met it's target audience.

In summary, I don't think you understand the goals modern UX design and are wrongly assigning blame.
Well, being removed from Google surely doesn't help, but it's still one of the 5k top visited sites in the US according to Alexa: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/8ch.net
SpaceX's launches weren't under constant US cyberattack and sabotage through the "free markets".[1]

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/world/asia/north-korea-mi...
He did not compare them.
There are a lot of semis (with no sleeper) used for intra urban delivery such as from a major grocery warehouse to your local grocery store. Last 40 miles.
Is this a form of rebranding? Has a nation ever undergone a significant attempt at rebranding?

I was joking with my colleague about how Russia probably just wants Ukraine to add a buffer between the West and Moscow. He educated me on the meaning of "Ukraine" being essentially "borderland." Got me thinking about the seemingly absurd concept of disregarding all national history and focusing exclusively on "brand". Find a great sounding country name, a cool memorable flag, a catchy national anthem, a relatable alphabet.

If you look at nations as brands, many (most?) are pretty forgettable. Countless flags that look randomly generated and lots of anthems that don't linger in your ear.
I think we will see more of centurians as health keeps on getting better and natural and artificial selections do their things.
Apple reminds me a bit of B&O audio. B&O makes beautiful products for fans of a certain aesthetic, but not necessarily products that perform well. Their flag-ship products look amazing but are aimed more at interior designers than audiophiles.

Apple may have, at times, served the pro market well, but not lately. They used to view high-end consumers as a means to the end of getting more market share. Get the people who give advice that's listened to into your ecosystem and others will follow. The same thinking is why they used to aggressively market to schools and universities. Apple doesn't really need to do that anymore. Now they just need something that looks really cool sitting in their stores and people will lust after it, talk endlessly about it, and that will bring in more customers.

Apple might go back to a boring, rectangular box that's upgradeable and uses non-proprietary parts, but this would be a remarkable reversal of their trend towards more and more disposable products with proprietary everything, right down to connectors, interfaces, and screws. It's more likely the next pros will be gorgeous but designed to be as unfriendly to DIY upgrades as possible. Proprietary SSD connectors. Soldered on memory. You name it.

In short, while you may love Apple phones and laptops, maybe you don't really want a dev machine built by today's Apple.
I have always wondered if Steve Jobs hated Gaming. There are simply no body in Apple who are gamers, and cares about the market. iPhone Gaming revenue was a pure coincidence. Even Gaming on Apple TV sucks.

As a matter of fact Gaming Desktop / Laptop is now the fastest growing! market despite the general decline in PC market as a whole.

Apple wanted to leverage the games and Metal API on iOS to be used in Mac, but the driver performance and support were appalling. No to mention the games on iOS are completely different to how games are played on Desktop and laptop. This just shows they dont actually understand gaming.

It is no wonder even John Carmack couldn't be bothered with them any more.

Yes, I am sure there are huge market for people to buy a Mac and run Windows for gaming, but that is unlikely in Apple's DNA to care.
Can you cite some of those studies? The effective incidence of corporate income tax is controversial. With internationally mobile capital and immobile labour, a source-based corporate income tax theoretically has no impact on shareholders and results in lower wages for domestic workers, an observation supported by some empirical studies [1].

[1] Mirrlees et al, Tax by Design (2011), p 438, citing Hassett and Mathur (2006) and Arulampalam, Devereux, and Maffini (2007). You can get a PDF at http://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/5353.
And to add ...

Free markets and capitalism is vastly superior when the bicycle is rolling and society can hit a balance. Until then, you need a single concentrated effort at just one thing. And if you look at the evolution of free markets, you had that in nearly every industry, every emerging technology to some degree.

When the pinata breaks, new technologies and competing industries emerge. SpaceX, Boeing, Blue Labs are an emergence of a sustained governmental push with some reliance on private partnerships. Otherwise, we would still be trying to get to the moon.
Well yes, but the reference to Turkey is intentional. Kazakhstan is a founding member of the Turkic Council [1][2], and a sort of pan-Turkic alignment helped by sharing a language family is a strategic goal, to create a camaraderie of states along an oblique axis to the economic union Kazakhstan enjoys with Russia, Belarus, and friends [3]. Russia tends to treat Kazakhstan as a sure ally, but no vastly outnumbered sure ally wants to appear like a pushover with no other friends.

Definitely, though, the fact that the Latin alphabet eases the consumption of culture, science, commerce from a variety of Latin alphabet countries is a huge plus, but it helps to also understand the local context.

[1] http://www.turkkon.org/en-US/general-information/299/308
[2] http://www.turkkon.org/en-US/message-of-the-president-of-the...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Economic_Union
There were quite a few local Chinese competitors to WeChat when it originally launched. It took them almost a year to surpass Xiaomi's MiTalk user numbers.
It is equally logical to say that your name appeared in my computer just now by virtue of your comment; therefore, I can now impersonate you forever.
Distinctive tool design is great, but only to the extent that it doesn't hamper its intended use as a tool. A company that only says 'No' to its users will end up running out of users, eventually. They'll buy the "milquetoast" that gets the job done.
This is best idea!

Throw Cyrillic down the well.
So Kazakhstan can be free.

Use the Latin alphabet.
And we will have a big party.
Color EInk displays built using a grayscale display and color filter are already available, but sport lower contrast and a bit washed out colors. [1]

True color E Ink displays with multiple colors in each pixel were thought physically impossible, but first prototypes were shown last year. I suspect we're relatively close to a production version.

1 I'm a cofounder of a company that develops and helps develop e paper products and we sell color E Ink development kits. https://www.visionect.com
When I buy a book, I'm allowed to do a lot of things with it (read it, sell it, burn it) but I'm not allowed to do anything I please. Copyright limitations are a reasonable thing for society to extend to content producers. What protections should exist digitally, and how should they be enforced by software tools, is a reasonable thing to debate.
Basically, one person's bloat is another person's necessary features.

And that is why I like modules.
As I hit my mid 30s, I look back at all of this and I find myself missing it terribly. It's not like today is bad. But back then, it was really neat.

I was too young to experience BBS and Usenet; I grew up with AOL and Geocities, and when the 2000s hit and I could convince my parents to get a cable modem, things were just off the wall.

I spent a lot of time on forums too, overclocking this or that, or waking up for alarm clock-ops in EVE. I met people at LAN parties who I ended up working for later; set up servers to host our Unreal Tournament matches and learned to edit and repackage files so I could run around Jedi Knight as Deadpool with a lightsaber.

I cringe thinking about some of the stupid arguments I got in, things I wrote on my blog, my livejournal, on the forum. I like to think I learned a lot about how people feel their way through an argument, and how a flame war gets started.

One evening, when I'm not trolling HN at 1AM, I'll sit down and write how the early 2000s affected us all and set us up for today. I wish it was so fresh and new like it felt to me then. But I don't feel like today isn't as fun...but it definitely is different. I'm inclined to think that it's on us now to determine what the next chapter will be, what we will create that is fun that the next 18 year old will experience tomorrow and go "this is f&@#ing awesome."

Gonna go play some Descent. =)
I would buy a bunch of startups and diversify business. Kinda like Alphabet did. Let there be smaller startups within Apple with funding from Apple. Not sure if they are already doing it.
I remember that well, because I was playing Starseige:Tribes and there were some Mac fans (and probably a few trolls) in the forums who were very excited... Predicting that Halo (Mac) would be the downfall of PC gaming.
I actually wondered if it had to do with eating an odd number of foods (3 eggs). Seems like it worked for her!
Content creators (and their publishers) should have the right to specify licenses for their content.

You should have the right to enter into license agreements with them.

Including limiting what you're allowed to do with that content.

Under your regime there would be nothing wrong with me claiming I am Aviral Dasgupta and that everything you've posted at https://github.com/aviraldg and http://www.aviraldg.com/ are actually my work and you are the impostor.
I remember this appearing, and I recall other contemporaneous threads asking how to make it go away, but I can't find the reference in the Chrome 55 release notes that this would show up: not in this friendly blog post [1], not in this release blog post [2], and the source control log [3] is still loading....

[1] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/11/nic55
[2] https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/12/stable-channel...
[3] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+log/54.0.284...
also would like to point out that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_recursion#Accommodating_l...
And the ability to play video without being exploited by Flash vulnerabilities is not a positive thing?
>He educated me on the meaning of "Ukraine" being essentially "borderland."

Incidentally, this is why they've been getting people to stop calling it The Ukraine - because Ukraine is more like a normal country name, while "The Ukraine" is like saying "The Borderland (of Russia)"
Reading this bug report makes me feel uneasy.
...ten-year-old notebooks...

Presumably that requirement rules out using any of these frameworks because they're all optimized for download size rather than browser support or rendering speed.
How is returning money to investors so investors can invest somewhere else be productive in the Apple sense? If they acted on that reasoning they would do donations
The Liana Vine and Its Role in Global Warming
That doesn't fit the main topic. However, I'm glad you shared it because it's awesome. Even the subset of hardware people that are mainly tinkerers should appreciate it.
> In short, while you may love Apple phones and laptops, maybe you don't really want a dev machine built by today's Apple.

When this happens to the next Mac Pro, they're not going to have as much content for their app stores when pros inevitably move to another platform. Windows still isn't ideal to a lot of people but it's starting to get good enough: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about
Startup idea: Create a country. Setup tax laws so that huge corporations, politicians, business folks can hoard money. Profit.
I can appreciate where you're coming from. It's now in my computer and you don't get to reach in and control things on me.

But I'm not so sure that's actually fair and reasonable. If I rent you a VHS, once it's in your house, is it your right to consume as you wish? Do you get to make a copy to watch at a future date? Maybe I don't want that. Maybe the contract I make with you is that you can purchase a loan of this VHS to watch over the next few days.

Maybe when I host your favourite music videos, I don't want you copying to your disk to watch hundreds of times without seeing any ads.
I'm honestly surprised that no-one seems to have tried to sue Google over this one yet.

As I recall, people tried to sue Xerox on similar grounds when they introduced the photocopier.

It didn't work.
And there is Emacs implemented in Common Lisp.

There are so many things,made just "because we can"!
The upper stages are also mostly fuel, and the cargo is almost nothing as a percentage of the total weight.
Interesting! That certainly seems like an act of branding to me, eh?
$6 on GOG ;-)
"Reprintable cards" products do exist already - just far less refined. I think the existing products are based on thermal printing? The bike parking lot I use when I ride into town uses something similar on their parking tickets http://imgur.com/a/GO9gw
I wish I could see people's reactions to my links. There should be some kind of rseponse form that lets you send a note back to the original sharer.
Fun fact: The population of the world grew ~5x in her lifetime, from ~1.6B to ~7.5B.
It's because your site responds to HEAD requests with a 405.

They are doing a HEAD request to see if the url is valid, and if it returns anything other than 200 OK, they reject the url.

$ curl -IX HEAD https://dmitri.shuralyov.com/
HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed
Hah! Yes, Membership Rewards. Sorry, it's the jargon.
Great idea, I wonder of they took some inspiration from the sunglasses of Zaphod Beeblebrox.

http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Joo_Janta_200_Super-Chroma...
Has a nation ever undergone a significant attempt at rebranding?

Siam? Turkey?
I see the argument again and again that money should only be taxed once. I don't understand it. It seems like such an arbitrary principle. Why should money not be taxed more than once, if the result would be a wealthier and fairer society?
I've been struggling to find a good loaf of bread ever since the Chinese bakery in San Jose we used to go to shut down...
It seems to me that if a country has nuclear weapons and they are used in an attack, then one should desire them to be delivered by ICBM. Then there is no doubt where it came from and who attacked who. Living on the US Pacific coast, I sure do not like the idea of a North Korea with long range missiles, but they do have many submarines and a few nuclear weapons stealthily delivered by a few of those would have much worse long term consequences for civilization. The re-abandonment of American cities could happen just as they are starting to bloom once again after a long hiatus.
Just realizing the paper is not the change might be a cheaper solution to what amounts to a psychologocal issue.
Textbook tech depression, often alluded to by industry watchers like Marc Andreessen. $246B in the bank and not able to use it for good.
What does the population of Kazakhstan think about that?
Arturo Di Modica has a point
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Where Bezos asks 'will you take a gamble with me on this?' If you're not seeing it that's because it's already fallen below your language-processing radar and you're not actually evaluating the words coming out of his mouth, but rather the subtext you feel is being communicated. This isn't an accident.
"Apparently US doesn't have NFC everywhere and you still have that old magnetic swipe thing? I'm assuming that will change soon though, when you guys upgrade. But yeah, definitely easier/faster."

I had a MasterCard with NFC, which was a pleasure to use at the few stores that supported it. But most stores only had swipe-type terminals at the time. (I have three other credit cards, none of which ever had NFC.)

The current version of this card has a chip, and the NFC was removed. The US is standardizing on chips (but without the PINs that make them secure), not on NFC. The chip transactions are horribly slow, much slower than a swipe. From a usability standpoint, it's a step backwards.
IEEE Collabratec is a weird social networking thing that they have. I think it is trying a little bit too hard to be LinkedIn except LinkedIn is already LinkedIn.

vTools Events is really great but it is obviously intended for organizing face-to-face meetings, workshops, etc.

I do agree that IEEE should just host a phpBB forum (or similar) on their site. Perhaps have a subforum for each Society and Affinity Group and also subfora for various Regions/Sections.
If you have to change the terms of the question to give an answer, then I think I've made my point.
So if you earn 1.5 UR per dollar with the Freedom Unlimited then use their Combine Points feature to move it to the Sapphire Reserve's UR balance, each one becomes worth 1.5c towards travel, netting 2.25% :) or transferable to Korean, Singapore, United, BA, Hyatt or a couple of less interesting other options.
It never really occurred to me that that money would be more useful paying for things outside the US. In my mind I thought 'tax free but useless vs taxed and useful'.

So this essentially means that building anything outside the US (factories, research, whatever) comes at a 30%~ discount, since doing the same thing in the US would result in a tax payment.

So tax loopholes like this, Double Dutch, etc, are explicitly putting a premium on further production/investment in the US (and other areas whose taxes are being avoided).

That there exists a certain political lean in the US that explicitly is against fixing these tax loopholes is absurd to me.
Glad to see this finally got dismissed. I was a Ph.D student in the department when this happened and it caused a lot of discontent among the faculty. Perhaps related, GT's royalty agreement is quite a bit less generous than other schools known for their entrepreneurship, such as Stanford and MIT. This and issues like Prof. Laskar's have had a negative impact on the rate at which companies are started at the school.
> It is not a fringe practice or a weird setup - almost every business you transact with is set up as a passthrough entity.

Citation needed. S-Corps are almost exclusively small and medium businesses.
The parade they mention was Saturday, and Day of Sun is a three day holiday. Saying a test on day two suggests defiance still seems like a stretch.
No browsers ever actually parsed HTML using SGML. It is still possible to edit current HTML with SGML editors with some limitations.
Exactly how large of a safe space does Di Modica need for his art?
Oddly, the standards for the GED are almost always much higher than those for a hs degree. The real issues are the 'christian homeschool' degree mills. I understand many states still make their graduates take the GED for that reason.
Delta was always hard because they didn't sell gift cards online -- only at the airport! As far as I know that still works, but as always with this stuff, check the thread on FlyerTalk. United and American sell gift cards online ^_^
We could always raise property taxes and enact laws that encourage the treatment of homes as the necessity of life they are, rather than as investments to be bid up in the hopes that a greater fool will come.
> Later all that was canceled and Cyrillic was used instead.

Was something else used for Russian prior to Cyrillic?

Also here is an English language version of your Wikipedia link:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latinisation_in_the_Soviet_U...
Erdoğan must be delighted at this move towards Pan-Turkism
Renouncing citizenship is expensive and non-trivial. The US global taxation regime is a trap.
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Problem is, like used car salesmen, lawyers and mechanics, they are a useful, if not nessarry people in many cases, but are also in a unique position to fuck you. A good one is worth their weight and then some. The extremes make for most public perception, and here we are.
> Has a nation ever undergone a significant attempt at rebranding?

Estonia comes to mind, which has invested in a high-tech profile, see for example their e-residency program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-residency_of_Estonia
I'm glad to see Kasparov's views on AI are now reasonable. Eight years or so ago he had the opinion that poker AI would always be impossible (because of bluffing, I think).
It's sad when so much money is hoarded by such a nasty company.