skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rich can win trials... "Before a trial, attorneys for both sides routinely obtain the names of potential jurors on the day of jury selection. It’s now possible using big-data sources to flag or score potential jurors on certain factors—fiscal and social ideology, for examply, or on attitudes relevant to liability or damages—enabling lawyers to make exceedingly nuanced strikes.
> What's the difference?

The difference is that you didn't spend lots of money researching a better type of floor-laying and then have the flooring company come in to lay the hardwood according to your specs. If you had, you might want to protect that secret.
As far as I can tell (I ran out of patience about halfway through), this is less a review of Capital than it is an attempt to brand Piketty part of a particular ideological lineage. It seems like for every sentence quoted from the book there's a couple of paragraphs name-dropping Marx, Aristotle, Malthus et. al..

Also:

> One begins to suspect that the typical leftist—most of the graver worries have come from there abouts, naturally, though not so very naturally considering the great payoff of “capitalism” for the working class—starts with a root conviction that capitalism is seriously defective. The conviction is acquired at age 16 years when the proto-leftist discovers poverty but has no intellectual tools to understand its source.

Seriously?
This is the same reason I left Crashplan. If they could get the Java client under control it would be a worthy contender, probably even the best consumer-friendly option.
Cool post on optimization but Why use SQL for Redis when the query execution is entirely different? Seems like this would promote O(N) queries
Ransomware Offers New Frontier for Excuses from Homework-Avoiding Schoolchildren
Yep, or just use a PDF editor, which is even simpler. Just cross out lines or whatever.
China has 1.1 billion more people than the US. They have bet big on megalopolis ( the bejing centered, shanghai centered and the chonging centered ). Combined, these 3 megalopolis will have a population larger than the US. China has 110 cities with 1 million people. The US has 10. And china is at 55% urbanization while the US is 80%+ urban so china still has hundreds of millions of people to urbanize.

Also, some economists say that data is the new "resource" of wealth ( the next oil ). If that is true, then china is the saudi arabia of data. Given their smartphone penetration and the size of the population and the continued urbanization.

Also, china is now building a hundred colleges every year. This is reminiscent of the US in the 1850-1900 when we went on a college building spree ( stanford, MIT, stevens, purdue, michigan state, cornell, UC, UT, endless list ) as a result of our economic growth. And it wasn't too long before we outstripped the british empire as the largest economy in the world and kept growing.

There are tons of reasons to expect that china will continue to grow and outstrip the US in the near future. But there are stark differences as well. China's growth isn't in a "asian-centric" world like the US growth was in a "western-centric" world. US overtaking britain wasn't as traumatic and/nor resisted event. The US has the most farmland, diverse territories stretching from the arctic to the caribbean to the western pacific. We had allies/etc that china lacks. We had the resources/oil/etc that china doesn't. So there are a lot of headwinds for china.

It should be interesting how things pan out. Considering our position in the western pacific ( a bazillion bases surrounding china ), I don't see how eventually, there won't be a war between china and the US. I don't see how china doesn't push us out of their 'backyard' sooner or later.
Was the Crashplan client performance better when backing up to your own server vs to theirs?
My eyes were starting to glaze over until I came to this wonderful H. G. Wells quote:

"Every species is vague, every term goes cloudy at its edges, and so in my way of thinking, relentless logic is only another name for stupidity — for a sort of intellectual pigheadedness. If you push a philosophical or metaphysical enquiry through a series of valid syllogisms — never committing any generally recognized fallacy — you nevertheless leave behind you at each step a certain rubbing and marginal loss of objective truth and you get deflections that are difficult to trace, at each phase in the process. Every species waggles about in its definition, every tool is a little loose in its handle, every scale has its individual. — First and Last Things (1908)"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-24/bundesban...

http://www.cftc.gov/idc/groups/public/@economicanalysis/docu...

http://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2010/10/what_caused_...
In France, the clause has to have a salary included in the non-compete. The former employer pays you for all the time they prevented you from working at your new job. I have never heard of any company asserting a non-compete.
You can always put extra secure documents inside password protected encrypted disk images.
The danish center for cyber security issued a threat assessment, but there was not too many git in denmark because friday was a public holiday.
> A replacement book could cost more than a new cover.

Right. The language above was an attempt to force libraries to buy a brand new copy anyway, and make reselling used books more difficult. In case it isn't obvious, replacing covers is much more common, and gives excellent results, with hardcovers (look up book rebinding).

Also related is the practice of retailers "stripping" a paperback book of it's cover rather than returning it to the publisher. Publishers would therefore like it to be illegal to buy and sell books without covers, or with replacement covers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripped_book
No. Most of the TPP members aren't involved in the Belt and Road Initiative.
"Humanity moves towards a space faring civilization..."

What a bubble. We can't even get clean water to all of the citizens in the wealthiest country on the planet.

Space faring civilization guy has his head so far up his ass.
A Weird Time for Drone Operators
There is a live chatroom for this kind of stuff on IRC

##passiveincome on Freenode

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23%23passiveincome&ui...
Apple acquires Lattice, an A.I company specializing in 'dark data'
Those bugs would be zero-days and patched before viruses using them are widespread.
Related previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12660253
> The "China vs America" narrative is unnecessary.

It's central to the current world event. The major theme of the 21st century is going to be china's growth in power vs the US.

Power is a zero sum game after all. If china's power increases, it's going to come at the expense of the lone superpower.

> If China wants to spend a trillion dollars on infrastructure to develop their region that's a great thing for America too.

A china-centered economic order isn't a "great thing for America".

> Eventually the demand for low-margin, subsidized, Chinese steel will flatten, while the demand for high-margin American technology and cultural products will grow.

What makes you think that china isn't going to take over the high-end steel market too?

Unless you think chinese are intellectually incapable of developing high-end steel...
Pillows help to keep the head elevated when lying on the back or on the shoulder. Since the astronauts are in zero-G, there's probably no real need for that.
Of course. Windows has also had RCE vulnerabilities just by being connected to the internet. Hence the need to keep it updated.
You are correct. And naive. Most people (and also myself, for most of my career) are very weak when confronted with these things. The world doesn't work the way you describe it.

Imagine you are getting your dream job at Amazon.com and someone is telling you to negotiate or discuss this part. Large companies are much less willing to accept anything like this.

However, in your defense, I am pretty sure that negotiating in itself doesn't cause any harm to your opportunity to be hired.
Getting the newspaper online had clear advantages even before the web took off: news junkies were one of the first adopters since e.g. it beat driving to the one place nearby which carried the NYT if you didn't live in NY.

In contrast, BitCoin offers nothing other that risk and uncertainty vs. using a credit card to buy online unless you're hoping to avoid law enforcement.
You likely preserved your own sanity and theirs.
> What a bubble. We can't even get clean water to all of the citizens in the wealthiest country on the planet.

You can be space faring while ignoring people. It won't help and it's unethical, but not a showstopper. Still, having people in need is not an argument against space exploration: If we figure out for example how to provide cheap water on Mars, we'll probably be able to convert undrinkable water on Earth to drinkable water much more easily.
WW3 IS SOON ACCORDING TO PSYCHIC
They should also study the history of Communist thinkers during these regimes. I mentioned in another comment a while ago:

>Socialist critics [during the time of the USSR and others] include George Orwell (known for his criticism of totalitarian Socialism in Animal Farm), economist I.I Rubin, the anarchists which the USSR suppressed, Luxemburg, Bordiga, Bookchin, and later on Hobsbawm, Trotsky (to some extent), Sylvia Pankhurt (and various other feminists) etc.

Furthermore, Communism does not necessarily entail Marxism-Leninism or even Marxism. Do you not think it should be the responsibility of modern day Marxists to find problems with previous attempted implementations, and find ways to fix those problems? Marxism is after all a method of analysis, and can be recursively applied to itself.

Mises is an interesting choice for a 'moral' theory, given the theory of primitive accumulation, property acquired through barbarism, and the exploitative and environmentally damaging nature of capitalism itself, regardless of application. Marx's theory does not rely upon notions of morality, though - it posits merely what is in the interest of the workers themselves. This is why Marx and Engels hoped to advance a scientific theory of Socialism.

Edit: it's also rather comical that the term 'libertarian' was transformed to be about some narrow form of property ownership rather than freedom itself, ironically not realising the tyranny of property and its contrast with the ideas of equality, freedom and justice (Proudhon talks about this in the link in my previous comment). Bookchin and Chomsky have talked about this change, too.
>The malware obtains the time and date by creating a new environment variable called $hcresult that contains what’s being returned by sending an HTTP request to the Google hosted link by executing this command:

>curl -sL https://script.google.com/macros/s/AKfycbyd5AcbAnWi2Yn0xhFRb...

What the hell, Google? Your domain name is one of the most trusted on the internet and yet you're hosting random user submitted scripts on there? What happened to googleusercontent.com?
The standard macOS password prompt surely needs to change. It's become too familiar and I'm sure I've filled it in hastily before without wondering why or what for. It needs to be implemented in a way that is impossible for nefarious apps to replicate.
From about 2005-2008 I used to live and own a house on the Laos and Burma borders of far south-western China and still often travel in the area. Laos is simply poor, being a landlocked mountainous country with minimal infrastructure or education surrounded by larger and more powerful neighbors. In the last 16 years, Laos has begun to get some better roads (largely with foreign investment), mobile telecommunications, a larger tourist industry, some dams and a great deal more rubber plantations. Otherwise, it is still a sleepy, mountainous, jungled backwater.

China has committed to building infrastructure to connect Laos and Thailand to Chinese rail and road networks. Relatively tiny Vietnam apparently made an expensive and partly abortive attempt to sponsor a road from Dien Bien Phu to Udomxai in the north, perhaps in a bid to counter growing Chinese influence, but China ran rings around them and the strategic significance or benefit of such a road is now negligible.

From an economic rationalist perspective, I think China just wants more markets. If you were a massive manufacturer with 14(?) land borders and awesome infrastructure expertise, you'd be building infrastructure to connect new markets too. I don't think there's any kind of evil Beijing geostrategic scheme at play here ... there's very little to gain by controlling Laos (which economically China already does in the north of the country) ... it just makes sense.

Some images of the northern Laos road to Dien Bien Phu in 2012 (dunno if this new non-Picasa Google Photo link works) @ https://get.google.com/albumarchive/106883718971909092529/al... or https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipOJtgKiJZdgruRyZhNTUk2b...
The Surprising Truth About Why We Sleep and How Much We Need
Not a parent, but I greatly enjoyed the computerCraft mod for minecraft. It adds computers and robots to the game, that are programmable with lua.
Speaking as someone who can't name a single ancestor from that long ago (but who presumes most of them were seeing enough of the harsh realities of life in Ireland and Scotland to inspire them to make a move), get over it. You're doing the next generation no favors, allowing your misunderstanding of eight or nine generations back to rule their lives.
It seems entirely possible to have a space-faring civilization that tolerates inequality and mistreatment of its citizens. Star Trek's utopian ideal isn't the only model available.
Although I'd have to poke around for the specific sources, I've read papers that showed that, in fact, subjective well-being increases continuously with wealth (per capita GDP). However, the increase is not linear, but rather logistic--which makes intuitive sense, since a $5,000 pay raise for an employee making $25,000 a year isn't the same as for one making $100,000. On the other hand, I've also read that the increase in wealth past the much-referenced $75,000 level doesn't significantly increase emotional well-being (unconscious positive/negative feelings).
The distance is bound to be smaller and offset some of that, no?
Interesting. I didn't know that one. I use HN firebase API to feed an Elasticsearch cluster.
U.S Mills expanding carry-on laptop and tablet to all flights
China doesn't have to deal with hostile entities like Iran and Wahabi arabs. I bet Chinese are proud to be Chinese, I am a naturalised US citizen and being proud of being American is seen as racist.
Yes, should show the users login photo at the very least...
32K of storage for only $299? Wow, just what my color computer needed.
Trains can also run on electricity. Ships are far away from that.
Ecological City Simulator Block'hood Launches on Steam
It's a shame that it isnt easier to check for the correct hash on downloaded software. I know it's a one liner in the terminal, but that scares prople.
Thanks, but no.

It's a popular commercial press article. Might have been a long-form newspaper report, but I think it was within a fairly mainstream magazine. Not Time or Newsweek, but more like a Harpers or Atlantic piece.

I'm pretty sure I've commented on this ... somewhere, sometime, so it may be at one of my usual haunts: here, G+, possibly Reddit, under my usual handles. I'm poking through those.
You Are My Angel Investor
I am a naturalised US citizen and being proud of being American is seen as racist.

This certainly isn't a universally held belief.

I think it probably isn't a widely held belief.
Mike Basich's tiny off-grid mountaintop house
Why? What's the upside?
> At some point, the exchange HAS to say that it received the orders at the same time.

This part of the GP's view is definitely correct: at some (theoretical) point, the exchange will be operating in Planck-time units, which are quantized.
>The profile built up on people by ad brokers and spy agencies is a relationship? I don't think that's how most people would describe it.

Most people use language woefully imprecisely. The relationship I have with the barista at the cafe near my office isn't the same as the relationship I have with my sister but it is a relationship of the kind that's relevant here. Knowing what I order and when, recognizing me, etc.

>Uh, a core part of the problem is this information being coupled with the ability to lock people in cages (or exert power in other ways). Obviously the data by itself is inert and useless. It's what people might do with it that matters.

A nice thought, but in practice, when we try to fragment this power by privatizing police, prisons, military, firefighting, etc, all of which have many modern examples, things do not turn out well. As unreasonable as it may sound, the evidence suggests it's better to put all the eggs into one poorly run basket.

>Imagine something like a credit score 2.0, created by analyzing a lifetime of private communication, online activity, and transactional data....

Oh, I imagine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12499525
Adelaide, Australia has a similar story “Somerton Man”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamam_Shud_case
That patch was not generally available months ago

It was reportedly available to those who were still officially supported, though, possibly as far back as February.

As others have suggested, Microsoft has historically offered support (in the sense of at least security patches) for each generation of Windows for much longer than any of the major FOSS operating systems. Obviously you don't get free, unlimited, eternal support with any version of any OS, but even then Microsoft has apparently made arrangements with those who really didn't want to update to a more recent one than XP to continue offering support in return for additional funding.

As I said before, the real problem here is how to deal with the conflict between wanting to keep connected systems up-to-date with security patches, while at the same time not breaking their essential functionality. Medical systems used in regulated environments where failures may literally be a matter of life or death are pretty much the ultimate example of this difficulty.
Do you live in a big city? If so, the key is to get out of the crowd/competition. I'd recommend you search at a 50-100 mile radius from where you live. Drive away, make friends outside of town and go hang out with them. Girls are so much better outside of the cities, less buddy-like, less self-centric. More family oriented and also they won't play any game. Plenty of pretty chicks in the middle of nowhere you'll be surprised. Also, you'll be the outsider in the group. The guy who comes once in a while which will make you more attractive and more desirable. Put your self in the right spot, it's that simple.
Then they should protect that with non-disclosure agreements, or realise that they can't survive as a business (or don't want to) without restricting the freedom of the workers to do what they want to outside of the time paid to the employee in the form of wage.

I have little or no sympathy for businesses which insist on restricting freedom outside of those hours for which it pays me wage.
That's not exactly high praise. A tuft of grass is more profitable than 90% of the startups in SV.
Fractals – Iterative Function System with JavaScript on Canvas
That's somewhat misleading in 1800 the US population hit ~5.24 million vs England's ~9.2 million, it had more than doubled over the prior 30 years. Economically and Militarily England was much further ahead. But, unlike Europe the US's wars of conquest and genocide where mostly vs the Native Americans. Consider, Ohio only joined the Union in 1803.

By 1870 the US GDP PPP(98,374) was at near parity with the UK (100,180). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(P... and had a slightly larger population.

Around the mid 1800's the US was clearly a world power, but in the way Germany is today. Big enough to have real impact, but not a super power.
> "increas[ing] the efficiency of behavior by regulating its timing and by reducing energy use when activity is not beneficial."

I assume this is why animals like cats sleep a lot (if you're in a safe place and don't move around you're likely not to be found and eaten).
True of this attack, but ransomware attacks targeted specifically against hospitals have been booming over the past year or two. Aside from poor IT, hospitals often need immediate access to that data to treat patients, which makes them much more likely to pay. Which also means they generally ask for more than 300 dollars - that's the real proof that NHS was just collateral damage.
In KDE / Dolphin you can right click on a file, select 'properties' and then there is a tab for different checksums.
Completely agreed.

Dating and relationships are not problems to be solved. There is a fair amount of serendipity in life that comes when you allow for experiences that you would otherwise write off because of their outcomes. I am around @valueprop's age and I know that as we get older, we get more set in our ways. We start to trust in our ways and eschew other ways because, well, we are here and alive. I know change is hard. And the world can be overwhelming for the introverted.

To make a new life, break out of your ways. Life can be absolutely exhilarating when you do. And stop using the "lonely programmer" narrative. There is someone out there in the world to whom that description appeals, but those people are few and far between. Adopt a different label or two. Passionate thinker. Great listener. Music lover. Avid swimmer. Rogue biker. Uno strategist extraordinaire.
Sigh, we need to fix the software economy. Imagine if the software being used by hospitals and other public institutions was open source as a rule. Then maybe it could actually be reused and collaborated on instead of rotting away with the need of replacing it all when it's just not usable any more.
Phones ‘Made in India’, cash registers ringing in China
Or listening to the radio, I just say play NPR in the morning. And the skills are becoming more useful. Plus I like the Flash Briefing.
> When do people not just have their phone on them?

Even in modern Western society, not every human being has a mobile phone. Home phone lines have long been a way to reach the young children and the elderly/infirm in your family—that is, the human beings who rarely ever leave home unescorted—when you're out and they're not.
Nah, let's not jeopardize the fungibility of bitcoins please. Besides, with anon-coins like zcash, what you're proposing would not be possible.
With a business like this it's more important to make it easy on the content providers than optimizing the user experience for consumers.

At some mass the algebra changes and it's all about making consumption seamless.

This is the right direction. I encourage the author of this to really think about the experience of making the tutorial for the next few months as the business grows.
I use a 43" TV @ 1.7m plugged into my x230. Bigger the better. 1080p is fine but 4k is probably a bit nicer. It's great, I can work all day, eye strain due to focussing stress is not longer a problem. I really wonder why I don't see more people using this kind of setup, especially if you are under 28 or so, using a laptop all day can contribute to myopia.