skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm seeing many things (if this data is accurate, which assuming it is as it's from all government sources) and trends that go against a large percentage of what the media on both sides are perpetuating. That is my first takeaway at a glance.

My second takeaway at a glance is the giant problem that is Social Security. It's been said over and over, and the aggregation of more data into charts comes to the same conclusion. The way Social Security works is not sustainable. Period. Something has to give. A $405 B shortfall on SS in 2015. If that was at least half, we would actually not be running a deficit. We would have a budget surplus if we actually made Social Security/other Gov. retirement program replacement actually sustain itself perpetually. What. A. Concept.

A quick third take away seems to be the unprecedented rise in non-cash government aid (food stamps) during the Obama administration. The data is there, needs more analyzing of course.

Lastly, it seems that Government revenue for Federal and State/Local has actually increased pretty linearly with the population. Despite all the different changes in the income tax rate/other progressive taxes. This supports an overhaul to the tax code to a more simple, flat tax system. From another data source outside this report, I'd have to find it, but historically, no matter the top bracket tax rate, the Federal government collects about 15-17 % income tax. Including when the top rate was 90%+.

As far as the presentation, my favorite part is each piece of government data is tied to 4 distinct duties of government outlined in the Constitution. That's pretty brilliant.
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https://what-if.xkcd.com/32/
You know what. Ignore whatever I wrote. I was watching match and don't know where I came up with the numbers, lol.
Does it matter?

What difference does it make if someone who's been a vegan for 3 months calls themself a vegan? Are they "harming the movement" by doing so? If partaking in the diet doesn't require you to subscribe to the ethics, as you say, then the label should just be a label: someone who doesn't eat animal products. No time frame or reasoning attached.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14137867
being plant based these days is way easier and simpler than it's ever been (at least in North America), there are so many plant-based alternative foods one can buy in stores which makes it extremely easy to do so.

The main, major issue being plant based full time is eating out with others: if you are plant based every single meal there will be comments and discussions about how you eat, why you eat something vs something else, how your interlocutor could be eating better but they don't have time/money/... to do so and on and on.

Some former plant-based people will tell you that one of the best side-effects of not being plant based anymore is that during means you can talk about "something else".

This is magnified if you have to regularly eat out for work / with clients, where you can easily be put in the situation that you have to decide if you want to be plant based full time or plant based in private only.

To me this is the main difficulty with transitioning to a full time plant based diet: unless your circle of friends is ok with that (even better if they are plant based themselves) and unless your work situation is compatible with that and unless your coworkers are ok with that, it is very likely that in the long run you will fail due to having to decide between eating how you want, and having an easy time in your social/work life.

In my opinion this is why health-based plant based folks stick with the diet less, because unless you truly have a deep belief in what you are doing, it is really easy to say "it's not worth it" and it's a lot more likely you can have a strong belief in the ethics of being plant based than in an abstract concept of healthy eating
Same here. Apparently, it is historically "false" because there is no documented explanation of how Maxwell found his way to the result. The author quotes Paul Nahin: "I like the direct, simple (and probably simplistic, I'll admit) explanation -- Maxwell was a genius and maybe it is a bit too much to hope to rationalize why he did what he did.", which is not an explanation at all.

I would be interested to know how likely it is that Maxwell found, and was influenced by, this derivation.
JustinTV was winter 07. Dropbox and Disqus were summer 07

The cloundant you are thinking of was much later. The S07 cloudant sold their domain

(I was in S07)
SDF is a bizarre part of the internet / well-kept gem of a secret. Bob Odenkirk hosts his website there, which is something I wouldn't have expected.
I recently drove down to Minneapolis, MN for Systems We Love. I'm not sure if that counts as a meet-up. I went because the first one was interesting and it looked like the type of thing I am up for.

It was interesting with the AV presentation being a bit of a unexpected surprise. I guess I didn't expect hard core learning (nor should you given the items covered), but I did get a lot of food for thought and strange ideas. I'm always happy for the sparks these days.

It had plenty or opportunity to network[1], but I get the feeling the main networking occurred after the event at the bar. That is to be expected and frankly I have no problem with that, but I was a bit tired from the drive and didn't feel up to it so I cannot really say.

The food and beer were good as was the facility. I enjoyed myself and its nice to be around people who like technology.

I got to wonder about the nature of meet-ups in a world with YouTube. I get the feeling that the social side of the event really needs be a draw to pull people out of their lives. I get the whole unconference thing, but I wonder if it even goes beyond that. What makes you say "I need to be there" as opposed to I'll DVR (YouTube) it? I felt compelled to go because it was something national in MN and the first one looked like it rocked. If it wasn't already a thing, I'm pretty sure I would have ignored it. I really don't have an answer on this one. Although, for me it was a chance to be around technological people again. Maybe if you day job has a rich environment, meetups just don't have the compulsion.

2) Strangely, I did not run into one person I knew from working as a consultant in the cities in the later half of the 90's or as an employee in the 00's. Maybe it was the nature of where I worked or maybe its age.
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I tried to look for subscription costs, €1 to €15 per device per year according to:
https://novemberfive.co/blog/internet-of-things-lora-vs-sigf...
I think I agree with your diagnosis. A counterpoint: when I went to Singapore I heard that the Chinese community distinguished "temporary" vegetarianism from "full-time" vegetarianism, both normally for religious reasons. (I imagine these are translations of Chinese terms.)

From what I understand, many people may make a religious vow or commitment to eat vegetarian for a specific period of time (for good luck or out of gratitude for a benefit they received) and then commonly eat meat again after that period of time has expired. I wouldn't be inclined to say that these people "are vegetarians" in my western sense, any more than I would say Eastern Orthodox Christians "are vegetarians" when meeting them during their fasting days or seasons.
I would think that LoRa, with similar footprint and bandwidth, would be a better adder for hobby boards, as you could own both ends of the system and not have to interface with a third-party (SigFox), 2-years subscription included not withstanding.
I agree mostly, but you specifically mention veggie bacon (theres probably many kinds but what I like is rice paper cut and seasoned like bacon) and that thing specifically rock! I have more non-vegan family members and friends that have asked for the recipe after tasting it than anything else. It's also a lot cheaper, a lot healthier and as crunchy as you'd like it.
> I once read it estimated that the average Jew in first-century Palestine would have probably eaten less than a pound of beef per year.

Which makes sense, in a region that was profoundly ill-suited for cattle farming...

If you want to talk about staggering quantities of low-quality meat, look at European military/naval rations from the early modern period. At least a pound a day of salt beef, pork, or fish.

https://csphistorical.com/2016/01/24/salt-pork-ships-biscuit...
These guys have given you excellent market information. The piece of your project with value is the mls integration you are about to write. I think you should continue working on the open source part and keep the mls plugin closed source and sell the plugin for the mls integration to the realtors. imo this plugin will be worth more than $10k and the guys contacting you know that.
The site claims that 100% of payroll taxes are Federal.

It looks like they missed San Francisco's Payroll Expense tax http://sftreasurer.org/2016-gross-receipts-tax-payroll-expen...

Maybe I am misunderstanding how this tax works though.
That's the whole point, though, isn't it? It's a vehicle for people's fantasies. Like that genre of porn that's shot as though from the viewpoint of one of the participants, except that the illusory fulfillment on offer here is of a different and more socially acceptable urge.
> To be clear, you think it's "easy" to live on a diet without any animal products, and also without soy or gluten, and that I'm "weak" for not doing so, despite other health issues I had on the diet?
This is another aspect of veganism that completely turns me off, the pervasive self-righteousness within the community at large.
Please tell me what restaurants I could visit with those dietary restrictions? And what quick lunches / fast food I can buy on that diet, on say a 30 minute lunch break, for instance...?

People don't really realize what they eat, especially when it comes to gluten and soy. I developed a wheat allergy after college (which my doctor said was caused by stress and working in a pizzaria full of wheat) which caused me to have to switch to a gluten free diet. That means your prepared meal options are massively reduced, more of your time is spend cooking (which imo is a good thing, I'm conscious about what I eat now), and if you do eat out, take on a "gluten-free tax".

People who go on these holier-than-though fad diets don't understand what people who actually have dietary needs go through. There is no wiggle room for us. If we don't follow our diets there are real and serious medical consequences. We don't just "feel down on ourselves" for not following the diet and the strictness with which we must follow our diets cause real inconveniences.
Yes. Or, as they mention, on metal. Though I imagine they're focused on being a good guest OS for the moment. :-)
This is the best summary of the debate about climate change I've seen -

Unfortunately, some experts believe such tough decisions exceed our political and psychological capabilities. “The world will not rise to the occasion of solving the climate problem during this century, simply because it is more expensive in the short term to solve the problem than it is to just keep acting as usual,” says Jorgen Randers
Oh, wow! That's a lot of stuff he wrote.

Thanks, I'll try to take a look.
An important part too is that it all has to appear effortless. So we see in the article how much work went into getting that deal with Outsiders where 70 emails, a half hour photo session, which is then photoshopped all go into making a single post where they talk about how the whole experience has made them reconsider what work means. And of course it has to be published at 11:00 AM, since thats when engagement is the highest.
What about NW.js, It's the real hero here. They spent 5 years building up the platform, being used by thousands of companies and apps, basically inventing this technology; just to have GitHub buy up their intern and pay him to make a shitty knockoff called "atom-shell". You're excited because someone tossed a marketing department at a shitty knockoff?

NW.js uses less resources (less ram, smaller distribution sizes).

It is updated more often (within 24 hours of every Chromium and Node.js release, ensuring access to latest technology).

It supports about twice as many OS's (XP+, OSX 10.6+, Debian 8, Ubuntu 10+). Electron doesn't even care enough about Linux to merge in simple bug fixes.

It's much easier to get started with and takes a no-nonsense approach to everything. (thejaredwilcurt.github.io/website/quickstart.html)

Allows for HTML or JS entry for apps.

It offers actual source code protection, and even recently updated this so that there is no longer a performance hit when using it. Which is a pretty serious technical achievement.

The only thing wrong with it is that it's got a shitty name/logo, and has a smaller ecosystem. If you can get passed that you will have a much nicer experience.
Hey everyone! My name is Peter, and I'm the creator of WrapAPI. We recently launched a new version (thanks in large part to the feedback from the HN community from our launch last year [1]), and would love your thoughts.

In short, we've:

1) Improved the Chrome extension to guess what parts of your requests are important.

2) Made a new browser-like "builder" that should be much more intuitive to use compared to the old system.

Let us know what you think!
Bear in mind that we have this thing known as a "constitution" , which such harassment definitely contravenes in spirit (and most likely the letter of as well).

Being as this constitution, as you will recall, was specifically designed to elevate due process and rule of law generally above the whims of public sentiment, and the flames of transient passions.
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I used to feel the same way before I went vegan. I don't try to push substitutes on non-vegans because I know their palettes aren't adjusted, but if I want to make a BLT, I have no choice but to use veggie-bacon. The rest of the sandwich is already vegan.

Most vegans aren't really trying to distance themselves from non-vegan foods, just the unfortunate consequences of producing those foods. Most vegans don't have a problem with pepperoni pizza, for example. Just the source of the pepperoni (and cheese.)
Using it as a storage backend for PrestoDB analytics, storing Orc files. Works well.
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I don't know why there weren't more competitors. Apparently part of it is that it is difficult to get right. Adrenaclick generics have been on the market much of that time for $150 or less.

One thing though, they would be epinephrine auto injectors, not Epipens, that's one of the things the patent did, it made it so that a prescription for Epipen could only be filled with Mylan's product.
for those of you so inclined: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_station-keeping
Seems very similar to http://datausa.io
That actually seems like a pretty good metaphor, because the motorcycle is probably only legal due to historical inertia, not modern analysis.

If the motorcycle were invented today, do you think it would ever be legal? In America, perhaps, but probably not in countries that are more heavy-handed with regulation and bear the costs of public healthcare. It's an insane and dangerous vehicle.

I have several friends who have survived nasty car crashes and fully recovered. The only one who had a nasty motorcycle accident... well, his heart's still beating, but I'd hardly call it life.
I don't really understand this, but I think the special feature from Dockercon will help explain.
Agreed to all your points. I'll add that I have no interest in going drinking.

A number of tech meetups (no necessarily programming) are held at loud venues and involve alcohol. In other words, getting drunk under loud music while yelling at each other 'cause you can't hear and not hearing half of what other people say.

Exactly what I need after a twelve hour day. I never understood how this can be considered "networking". It's shallow, ineffectual and mostly useless.
I still have an independent openid server, but the only sites that still take OpenID are StackOverflow and Python's Pypi. Slashdot and Woot use to support it, but have since removed it. Freecode.com used it, but it's gone now.

My suggestion is as follow: always allow signups via e-mail/registration. If I go to a site and the only options are "Login with Facebook/Google/Twitter," it's not worth my time. I never used those walled gardens as identity providers.

There are a number of people who do login with their social network, so if you want to get that segment of the population to try your app, you do need to support login via 3rd party providers. Usually two should be enough (Facebook, Twitter, Google).

Under the surface, most providers use either OAuth or OpenID. Most web frameworks have plugins that support a variety of authentication types. Pick a framework with a good auth plugin that shows frequent commits and a large userbase. You want something that is actively developed, so if security problems are found, they can be patched quickly.

I totally understand not wanting to allow FB logins. If your audience is mostly the HackerNews types, then you could authenticate with GitHub as well.
By your definition weight classes in fighting is discrimination. That is clearly not usable for the discussion.
Bad news

> Mozilla's Christopher Blizzard criticized NaCl, claiming that native code cannot evolve in the same way that the source code-driven web can. He also compared NaCl to Microsoft's ActiveX technology, plagued with DLL Hell.
>> Otherwise people tend to accumulate their own set of convenient facts.

>I think people will do this anyway...are we not human?

Be careful with this sentiment. It is defeatist cynicism masquerading as self-deprecation. As such it undermines the truly well-meaning among us, conflating their intellectual humility with another's willful ignorance.
It is in a few tournaments. The Wendy's 3-tour Challenge and the JCPenney Classic were two with mixed gender, players teeing off from different tees. (Seniors in the 3-tour Challenge had a closer tee, women even closer.)
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Side note I think if you are going to eat meat its of value to actually kill an animal yourself for food a few times (legally). Specially something large like a deer etc. I found it sad and sobering but in a personal growth sort of way. I find its helpful to grasp the reality of animals dying so you can live. Even something like raising chickens then having to kill one can make you think.

I enjoy meat and eat it but do so less now. Actually harvesting my own meat sometimes keeps the sobering practice in mind and also keeps me very cognizant of their lives etc. I dont take the practice for granted at all and I find it helps my perspective.

Also I find I want to use every part of the animal when I do that. Keep skin if applicable for leather etc, learn to cook the organs that you may not buy from store. Even cook marrow and carve bones etc. I find it sort of the respectful thing to do if I am going to kill something so I can eat.
It's also possible that they couldn't collect the data from SF. Although, that is probably just a FOIA request away.
There's some interesting theories that the popularity of vans and tiny houses aren't just a hipster trend, but an actual reaction to diminishing opportunities. I don't know if they are true.

When life gives you lemons and you can't afford a home, you make lemonade out of the fact that you're living in your car or in an illegal shed.
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Received an invite last year at 8:15 pm est so looks like we have around seven hours to go if we're judging by that.
It can be, but I would assume from the organic movement that for others it is a belief in healthiness of unprocessed food.
The chart isn't wrong. It's just measuring something different than the metric str4d is referring to.

Underneath that pie chart, there is a caption: "Transparent value (stored in t-addresses) vs shielded value (stored in z-addresses), in ZEC." In other words, that pie chart shows the number of ZEC that are currently residing in transparent vs shielded addresses at the specific point in time that you load that page.

The Advanced Network Stats page - https://explorer.zcha.in/statistics/network - has a box labelled "Shielded Transaction Percentage", which indicates what percentage of transactions involve a shielded value. You can see more details for different amounts of time on https://explorer.zcha.in/statistics/usage
It's like the difference between a long-term member and someone on a trial membership. There is a difference.
Really shocking that 95% of people can't distinguish the diet preferences of the other 5% of people. Shame on them..
Thinking marketing split? Docker is the product you pay for and Moby is "may break, use at own risk".
Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for.

Great points.
My interest in pitching this so often is my desire to play my little part in sticking a stake in the idea that getting advertising money is the default path to monetization.

If Google and Facebook are The Internet (and for some large number of people, this is likely more than half true, in an empirical time-measurement sense) then The Internet is driven by advertisement. It's just become Cable TV 2.0.

I'd rather move to a world where it's either merely one option among many, or even, dare I dream, a last resort considered vaguely déclassé.

This was presaged by Scott McCloud. http://scottmccloud.com/ http://www.scottmccloud.com/3-home/essays/2003-09-micros/mic...

And it was rejected by the mainstream, led by those with a vested interest in the new status quo. https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/06/22
If the entire page is being rendered in a simulated browser, much like how to block content on a full page Flash app (which we were on the verge of seeing a lot of had Apple not decided to destroy Flash by not supporting it on the iPhone) requires Flash-level introspection, blocking content then requires you to build a content blocker that lives at the level of the simulated browser, not the real one, only every web page could come with its own slightly-different and obfuscated engine (even if just due to an optimizing compiler and not on purpose). I think you are still thinking of "islands of canvas in a world full of HTML", and that is not the thought experiment in play here.
Our group was used to about a 66% showup rate, with a top end of probably about 80%.

Showup rates started declining, probably due to people thinking it didn't matter if they didn't make it, and not canceling their "Yes". We started discussing the problem when we had a 40% showup with a large waitlist.

We considered tracking no-shows for suspension, but before we even started that, I started mentioning the fact that we were thinking about the problem to members, and making statements on meetup pages about us looking at no-shows.

We didn't have to actually change policy, but thanks to some simple communication, we got showup rates back to their average 66%.

As a best practice, we should probably continue to mention it from time to time to ensure we don't get back to those kinds of lows.
Your reply is disgusting. It annoys you that people ask you to try plant-based foods which taste as good or almost as good, but don't require 10x as many resources to produce or require killing a sentient creature? Take a good, long, hard look at yourself and your lack of values.
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I suspect the most powerful are classified NRO satellites. The public's knowledge is likely a decade or two behind actual capabilities.

I recall reading somewhere about satellites being able to see license plate numbers from space but I have no idea where I read that or if it's true.