skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. This isn't even a question. The answer is yes. The ubiquitous 'clean, modern, "Tech is neat! :D Business and advertising! :D Everything is safe! :D" aesthetic' is wrong. It's a monolithic lie, and we all know it.

The biggest contributing factor to the decline of the cyberpunk aesthetic in the 80's-90's was how quickly it became realism. If you read a William Gibson novel now, it would be like reading William Faulkner in the 1800's.

(I know Faulkner didn't publish in the 1800's. don't go there, this is my reply and that means I decide how time works here.)

The implications of the use of the advanced tools we build on the individual, and the species as a whole, is rarely considered with the gravity it deserves, at least by the vast majority of end users, I believe, in large part, because capitalism is predatory, and subsequently the tools it uses to accomplish it's end must be uniformly masked, behind a layer of safe aesthetics. A revival of the cyberpunk aesthetic in general, which paints technology as dangerous, empowering, and hints that the deeper into the technical details you get, the more empowered you become, would be a welcome return to realism from the magazine glossy, UI/UX of modern services. I mean seriously, this "Mumblecore" jargon and friendly faces on services which, let's be frank here, are simply the injections of profit and information siphoning mechanisms (the successful ones anyway) into monetary transactions for goods and services, and exchanges of information, between people, which already existed, in exchange for a razor-thin layer of convenience, and a gross distortion to their psychological faculties for perceiving value, to the end of contributing to the centralization of money, thus access to resources, and data, thus the ability to derive information, into the hands of a few, and creating (I'm trying my best to tone down the hyperbole here) impermeable veil of branding, that obfuscates as completely as possible, what anything actually is, or does.

(Don't go there. It's my reply, that means I can nest as many clauses in a statement as I want.)

If your blog even piques someone's curiosity, or contributes peripherally to a compulsion to dig deeper into how the layers of complex systems underlying the mechanisms we use to interact with the world now work, it was worth every minute you spent on it up to that point. Seriously, do it.

Speaking from personal experience, if you had shown me an ad for a "coding bootcamp" when I was 10, I would have chosen.. literally anything else to get into. Fortunately, I got my hands on a copies "Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller", and "Shadowrun" instead. The sentiment of that art, the feeling of those ideas, with regards to technology, has kept my interest alive through day after day of questioning whether or not this specific impending bout of 'meeting business requirements' in which I am about to engage means I am a terrible person.

Just do it dude. You know you want to.
Reverse engineering the 76477 “Space Invaders” sound effect chip from die photos
Running software is different than distributing it, and this is from a QNX engineer so I'm assuming this is being distributed by QNX.
China is about the last nation that is going to attempt to create a gold-backed currency.

They've accumulated an extraordinary amount of debt in a very short amount of time. Easily the greatest debt boom in world history. $40 to $50 trillion in new debt in about 13 years. Their combined debt to GDP ratio is now among the worst; counting the low estimates on shadow banking, it is the worst.

China needs to be able to abuse its currency going forward, for the exact same reason Japan is down to devaluing the Yen to keep the budget lights on. Low debt nations don't need to debase their currencies for such reasons - China will never be a low debt nation again (at least not this century); high debt nations get strangled to death by affixing their currencies to eg gold.
The division certainly exists, but most of the rest of the world uses the concepts of primary, secondary, and tertiary education.

The US tends to distinguish between before high school, high school, and college. Which puts the demarcation lines in different places.

International comparisons are further complicated by the different focii that exist in different countries. For example, my final two years of secondary education in the U.K. were entirely focused on a very academic approach to Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry. While the school payed lip service to the idea of well-rounded students, that was really left to the kids. At university, my first mathematics lecture was on surface integrals — if you weren't ready for that there had been a catch-up summer class, but the implication was that you'd be ready.
Bettina Warburg: How the blockchain will radically transform the economy
I have been using this feature for a year+. It is an easy way to pay back family members who don't know what Venmo is, but have a gmail account.
I think that of course most people here would be generally interested in reading such content, and if you can make a compelling case that there is a niche or intersection of interests that isn't well represented at a level of depth/complexity, then you have an interesting proposal.

However, you are describing two very different things. With a blog, one simply begins to write blog posts. There is no other approach to take, as you must before anything else establish your credibility as a writer within a domain of knowledge.

A news site is a far different proposal. Before you put a lot of effort into it, you need to figure out what might be crassly termed a 'business model', which in more general terms is simply, "here is my vision: what work is required to make it a reality; how will that work be done; who will do that work; why will they chose to do that work; how do I expect to benefit from this; do I still like what I am envisioning."

I think there's still lots to be dissatisfied with in the current landscape of content providers and aggregators.

For instance, a lot of nominal 'content providers' bulk up their content flow with hasty recapitulations of content elsewhere; that this activity avails them at all is, I believe, in particular, indicative of an unfilled niche in content aggregation. One frequently sees, out in the boonies of the not-directly-for-profit internet, knowledgable and useful summaries and introductions of content hosted elsewhere. Fleshed out more thoroughly with a contextualization of what something means, how and why it matters, and what it should lead the reader to anticipate, such material could facilitate reader access to expert opinion and information that would otherwise be beyond them.

As another example, editorial oversight, in particular, is in a state of near-crisis, everywhere. This is crucial, as it is the lynchpin of journalism. A different model of quality assurance would be transformative.
people need to run for local office. if "there's more of us than them", then it should be easy to get sympathetic people into local office and then state office.
since you're reading HN... Thx!!

suggestion: under 'Much More' it would be useful to link to articles or docs about each of the features listed.
Nice list! Always wondered how I could dive into Ethereum.
Yes, among other things there are a lot more NFs than NPs! Keep up the good work regardless - this is a public service you're doing. Hey maybe we should all crowdfund you to work full-time on the site for a year!
Interesting, thanks. That makes sense in retrospect and fits well with other research I'd heard of.

(tl;dr a wandering mind is good for creativity. Caffeine stimulates focus and inhibits mind wandering)

It's not quite a slam dunk though - the mind wandering is supposed to happen before the creative act. So I see no reason why going for a walk, then sitting down to write with a cup of coffee, should have any negative effects whatsoever.
Merriam-Webster adds “sheeple” to dictionary, cites Apple users as an example
Capitalism is all about competition.

The magic of capitalism is happening in China right now. You have hundreds of manufacturers making everything, driving prices down.

In the US, we're more like a command economy in many ways. We have these huge sectors like healthcare and defense that are 100% top down procurement and probably represent 30% of the economy. Another 8% of the economy is financial services, which is mostly a small cartel with direct government supports.

The telecom situation is the same thing. The corporate idiots bake out risks and the US turns into a dinosaur. Lots of real innovation will start happening in Asia.
I'm amazed by how much MS messed up Windows Phone. At a certain point they were right to give up, but only because of their own incompetence.

I bought a Windows Phone 7 device. Loved it. Still the best mobile UI I've experienced. It had a ton of smart ideas too, like integrating different messaging services into a central app - totally breaking up the app-centric model of iOS and Android.

...except they didn't provide any hooks for third party apps to integrate. Said it was coming. Along with multitasking and other stuff that was already common in other OSes. It never did. Instead they announced Windows Phone 8, and stated that almost all WP7 devices would be ineligible for an upgrade, thus burning their relationship with early adopters. I believe they did the same with some devices from WP8 to 10. Nowadays they've given up everything that made WP unique, so there's no need to use it.

Sad thing is, their initial timing was great. Google had dropped the ball on Android - developing an entire version specifically for tablets (3.0) while the phone OS floundered. Compared to Android 2.3, Windows Phone was a breath of fresh air. But by the time they'd decided my phone was EOL less than a year later, Android 4 was out. I switched back with no regrets. Don't get me wrong, it would have been an insane uphill climb for anyone, but MS, with their resources and XBox etc., if anyone could have entered the market, it could have been them.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/rangetypes.html

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/functions-range.h...

Holy shit. Why hasn't anyone talked about it sooner? I've seen literally dozens of tables with

begin TIMESTAMP,
end TIMESTAMP,

and with handmade validation against intersection. And there is even a union operation! Seriously, my mind is blown.

Rails even supports it!

http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_postgresql.h...
...except for the "About" page right up there on his personal blog.
Haha you must be joking =)

Much as we like to decry the high cost of university, there is still a lot of value there for some. Others don't need it and can study law, or computer programming, on their own. Good on them. They prove themselves in other ways, like the bankrobber who later became a Georgetown law professor [1]

More bribes aren't going to make life any easier and definitely are not the solution to the high cost of university ;-)

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/04/2...
The US would be more than happy to pay back the Germans through exports of machine tools and cars and other goodies. I believe that German structural trade surpluses are an issue both inside and outside the Eurozone.

Also after WWII the US had accumulated essentially all the worlds gold reserves leaving their currencies without backing. The alternative to the Bretton Woods agreement was the US gifting gold reserves.
> But does "real work" just mean whatever device you like best?

I would say it's whatever device allows you to perform your job functions in the way that best suits your lifestyle.
Yes; my life isn't as exciting as I let on though so you might be disappointed..

TBH most of the content on theintercept feels pretty cyberpunk to me though...
Even with the inclusion of JSONB, I think Postgres is still lagging behind MongoDB by enforcing schema. After so many years doing web apps, I am seeing very little interest to have to enforce 2 times the schema: one time in the DB via migtations and one time in the app itself via ORMs. Maybe I am missing something really obvious.

ps: I don't mind the downvoting. I am truly looking for answers.
That's still a generally good description of science. Can I depress you more? The structure of funding still incentivises fictional work.
A few years ago, I got a deal on a cabinet at a colo, and then when one of the research labs at USC dumped their servers for the cloud, and they gave me 17 servers. I'd previously custom built a 32 core, 32 gig server just out of hacker interest, and between the USC servers and my previously owned hardware I put together a 196 core cluster with 3 redundant ( dev, staging, live ) environments for my own playground, and similar setups for hosting clients. Adding to and modifying the system for a few years, I had what would have cost $96K a month at AWS, but was only $600 a month to me.
Also a greying bearded software developer.....
This hasn't always been so, as historically a kernel patched to support aufs was a requirement. It's easier to install docker in 2017 as much of the plumbing shared by the container ecosystem (including nspawn) has become ubiquitous.
Probably just you. This is a fantastic well written and well researched article.

Are you just looking for a tldr?
I always wish they used the term "liberated" rather then "free". "Liberated software" detaches from prices, detaches from licensing, keeps the desired political associations, and translates fairly well internationally.
I found it interesting in a meta sort of way that the paper's first pass ctechnique can't be applied to itself (there's no conclusion).
I've never seen linked in as anything except a way to find out if I know someone at a given company...
Actually mice/touchpad are a direct replacement that doesn't require you to hold your hand up awkwardly or get nasty fingerprints on your screen. The only things touch does better is allow gestures which could be input on your touchpad instead of directly on the screen.

Of course its useful on convertable tablets that can be used in tablet orientation.
I think it depends on the author. They have a lot of good, thoughtful pieces, and most of their longform articles are great.

But they definitely have a few writers who have axes to grind. If you read their day-to-day articles often enough, probably half of the stories on their front page will be predictable enough to ignore.

But on the other hand, what media site is that not true of? Maybe The Economist? They don't list authors, but their stance is still pretty predictable.
which book?
Thanks. Not a pixel
. I too need a simple netbook equivalent. Any store names from sweden please?
> I mostly use commercial software,

You probably meant "proprietary software". Please say so.

Much free software is also commercial. A famous example is RedHat. A less famous, but much more common example is custom software: written for a fee, it is definitely commercial. And it's Free too much of the time: customers often have access to the source code, and the right to do whatever they want with it.

"Free" and "commercial" are not mutually exclusive.
The precursor to the EU was the European Coal and Steel Community, a treaty organization proposed by the French not to give Germany power over Europe but to integrate Germany so that its interests aligned with those of France and the rest of Europe.

The choice was simple: post-war Germany could be subjugated either militarily or economically. France could continue the occupation, leaving Germany without sovereignty and repeating the mistakes of the Treaty of Versailles, or France could try something different this time around.

Millions were dead. The post-war governments of Europe actually did a pretty good job of not repeating their past mistakes.

The idea that Germany kicked off European integration to dominate the continent is factually wrong (the French started it) and even if it was true, it's clear they failed given how Germany has effectively become the lender-of-last-resort, bailing out the rest of the continent. The EU isn't perfect but it's a hell of a lot better than the pre-war status quo.

But hey, don't let facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory.
"The pop culture is five chord pop that all sounds the same and endless remakes of the same film"

Hahaha. I remember lamenting about the same thing back in the early 90's.

Most of everything is always dull and vapid and so are most people who at best are imitators. When you are there anyway. Looking back it always seems the past was so groundbreaking and exciting. In my late teens/early 20's I wished I could have lived through the 60's (this was in the late 80's- early 90's). Because that was such a truly great and groundbreaking time according to the books. Now I realize it was probably a general stifled societies with a bunch of copycat posers growing their hair out and saying silly things they thought were cool and taking LSD. I laugh my ass off whenever I see 90's idolizing millennials.

Old man rant aside, there has been a pretty big cultural movement in the last 6 or 8 years. I guess a big part of it is the internet. In a way I'm glad I'm not 23 again, what a confusing age, but in some ways I'm a bit jealous. Ah well, I got the 90's. There were some cool times.
There are network effects this search limitation creates over time. We can probably even predict some of them. Here are a couple of superficial guesses:

- less creative titles

- longer titles to cram keywords in (ie. an academic form of clickbait)

The point is artificial limitations will produce unknown effects on the system being limited. Offering premium search is an uninspired approach that will have an unpredictable impact should Academia.edu become the status quo.

I'm neither condemning nor condoning premium search. Merely warning against accepting arbitrary limitations simply because it's better than what you've currently got.
"Libre software" and FLOSS immediately sound politicized to my ear.

As in, such projects carry baggage, in the form of conflict and infighting among developers, and one can expect irritating pedantry when discussing use and preferences.

Usually, you'll encounter something akin to fanatical fans, expressing highly opinionated views about minor details. Sometimes it's because lawyers have been involved. It's not necessarily toxic, but often reflects splintered cellular activity, among groups seeking to distinguish themselves from one another for some reason.
Somewhere there is a part that has cycled forever ;)
To the overall premise of the article, I do agree- land use regulations have played a huge role in the decrease in supply to real estate, increasing housing prices in the places where it's most needed.

But (if there was no 'but' why even comment?) I think it's also important to not throw the baby out with the bathwater. There's a case[0] ongoing in Ontario wherein the premise is basically "conservation authorities don't have the right to tell me what to do with my land". But those same regulations are the ones that have helped prevent major flooding throughout the province for the last 60 years. Some regulations aren't just there for NIMBYism- some are there to prevent the tragedy of the commons.

It's important to recognize the difference.

[0] - http://canadianjusticereviewboard.ca/articles-caselaw/case-l...
Agreed. I use my girlfriend's iPad for watching stuff in bed/couch. It is way comfier than a laptop, but I can't really use it for writing anything longer than a Google search.
Not a worthwhile article. Complains that it's unfair to call anyone "arguably the greatest" at something (Einstein for physics) because the author prefers unconventional choices (Kepler), that history of physics is dominated by history of mathematical physics, that the philosophy of science is dominated by the philosophy of physics, and that even having the discussion perpetuates the myth of the lone genius. He doesn't actually argue for or against these, just bemoans them.
I remember a similar previous discussion but I can't find it. IRC it's not so easy. If they don't make something, they can get in trouble in spite of the disclaimers.
Always wondering about constraints, relationships, entity/data reusablity and things like calculations, aggregations, ...; typical "SQL tasks" - how does one handle these in a document-oriented schemaless database like mongodb?
would have
Nope. Fruit juice is mostly water. Even raw sugar is only 380 kcal/g, just a bit more than French fries (310 kcal/g).

If you're underweight, you should eat food.
The actual default for Rails is SQLite [1], though a lot of people (perhaps a majority) use PostgreSQL. You certainly can use MongoDB with Rails via Mongoid, though I'm not sure vast numbers of people do, comparatively.

For Node, well, it varies, but at least once upon a time, people used to talk about the "MEAN" stack (MongoDB, Express, Angular, Node) - MongoDB and Node are certainly often used together.

[1] Not MySQL - edited as per the below correction.
[quoted as in article]
>>DRM is great because it stops people pirating movies.

>It's like saying police brutality is good because it deters bad dudes. If we have to do despicable things to force people to pay for things then our society is broken.

lmao
Suggestion: range types link should lead directly to the docs. Some people really dislike PDFs and Postgres docs are awesome.
I wouldn't be surprised to hear this is also the case for small businesses (excluding software devs).

We provision all new employees at our small manufacturing company with Chromebooks.
Social media has turned UK midwives into killers
The schema in the database can generate most of the ORM layer. If you're using a strongly typed language and ORM like Slick/Scala or C#/LINQ the compiler will actually prevent you from writing invalid queries or putting invalid data into the database. This will eliminate most runtime database errors. This can make development go really fast once you get the hang of it all.
My thoughts exactly. To a lot of people (if I'd guess, I'd say a vast majority indeed) it just means 'free' as opposed to 'paying money for it'. Especially because used in combination with 'software' of which most people know there is also a paid-monney-for-it version. So no they won't ask what it means. If you want to express something means 'free' as in 'freedom' (and other meanings the article gives to it) then a more effective way to communicate that might be coming up with a term better epxressing that than just 'free'. Thinking of it from that angle, maybe 'open' isn't even that bad.
If you live in Raleigh, NC. have 4 people family and make 101K. you are squarely in the middle class, according to this calculator

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/05/11/are-you-in-t...

"Based on your household income and the number of people in your household, you are in the middle income tier, along with 50% of adults in Raleigh. "

Following the article, however, you would be classified as 'high income'.
"...In inflation-adjusted dollars, the share of U.S. households making $100,000 or more has more than tripled between 1967 and 2017, from 8% to 26%, according to U.S. Census data, while the percentage of middle income ($35,000 to $100,000 a year) has fallen. "

Something is not right.
DRM is headed for the historical dustbin, says Cory Doctorow
> but the next step up in challenging, brand-neutral sets are around AU$400 which is hefty.

Do you have any specific set in mind?
That's not true anymore. Though, the law is still on the books, it cannot be enforced due to Texas v Johnson.[1]

Though, the author says that this is during WW2, so I wanted to clarify to any foreign readers that this isn't the case anymore in our modern judicial system.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._Johnson
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