skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know, I don't think this is necessarily about socialism. It may just be about capitalism, with rules. I personally do believe that some measure of antitrust regulation is necessary to preserve a market economy. Similarly, other measures may be necessary to insure that a competitive marketplace prevails.

Non-competes, for instance, are largely unenforceable in California, and it would be hard to argue that it has hurt the tech economy out here. In fact, the absence of non-competes may be so important that California can make a muck of almost everything else and still beat out other states that enforce non-competes.

Beyond that, I do agree that factors that limit the mobility of the workforce probably do harm the economy. Interestingly, the issues can move from the political left to the political right - mortgages that are underwater, health care, occupational licensing that makes it difficult to move from state to state, visa restrictions that make it difficult to change employers (or, perhaps more importantly, change fields), no-hire collusions like the one between Jobs and Brin, it runs the gamut.

I think that because large corporations and wealthy individuals are often such beneficiaries of capitalism and market economies, people sometimes think of them as being innately "pro-market". The truth is a lot more murky. Wealthy people and corporations will absolutely undermine free markets if it suits their interests, and because they are powerful, they often succeed. Keep in mind, skilled immigration may be something we should expand in the US, but the approach pushed by US tech companies essentially puts their HR departments in charge of who gets to live in the US, and the conditions under which they are allowed to remain. The no-hire collusion between apple, google, and so forth was an unusually brazen and galling abuse of free labor markets.

I'm ok with a fairly activist government where it comes to making sure large corporations can't use their power, especially where it comes to collusion, to undermining labor markets. This is a moral issue to me, but it's an economic one as well - a more free and open labor market will absolutely generate more economic growth.

The thing to me is, it's not a left vs right issue - some of the issues that free workers up appeal tremendously to the left (job protections, health care), others tremendously to the right (at will employment). The problem is that you get strange contradictions (someone who argues that employment should be at-will where it comes to firing people without notice or severance, but that the employee should not be free to change employers to get a higher salary).
Thailand's nefarious island paradise
> Edit: Original article title: "Google Assistant will use more than one device to decipher the exact voice commands"

FYI, that's _still_ the article title; it hasn't changed. The HN post title is currently "Google Assistant now can use two devices at same time for a voice command", which is even more misleading to the point of being just flat-out wrong.
Most of the porn is illegal because it violates copyrights, the 10 times reencoded scenerips on PornTUBE are not exactly official.

Most places have no solicitation laws and other privacy laws that do make spam illegal.

You also neee to count in piracy and general violations of copyright laws; you'll be surprised just how much content on youTube is illegal search for "full movie" or "last week tonight full show" and you'll gea quite a few legitimate hits.

Like it or not from a logistical point of view illegal content makes up the bulk of the traffic, that said it isn't any different in any other field if we take global shipping then illegal arms and drugs probably make a nice chunk of global shipping (revenue wise) there also it doesn't mean we need halt all global and local logistics operations.
Time Crystals a new state of matter - and now we can create them
This statement is getting closer... but the numbers are still off... At this point green solutions are probably only about 30% more expensive than non-green(and getting cheaper every year).
Frontend: definitively Elm.

Backend: Node for popularity, Elixir or Haskell to try something new, or Python Flask which I already know.
This already exists for Google Assistant devices, but is not what the article is talking about.

The article implies that it will fuse voice data from multiple devices which both only heard part of the query into a single query, which is a lot easier to write down in a patent than to actually make work.
Does this mean perpetual motion machines are possible after all?
Software Engineer (Web / API)
Elsewhere. The Bay Area suffers a number of problems for people in my position and with an interest in real estate. Firstly there is the moral issue one commenter noted above: the artificially scarce housing here makes it so that the landlord class is effectively fomenting homelessness for all but the affluent and wealthy. Second there is the issue of ROI. I'm not in a position to purchase an apartment building or capital real estate, and anything smaller in scale is, frankly, a dumb use of money. I can get 5-7 times the house for my capital in plenty of places outside the Bay Area with better cash flow and without engaging the moral issue.
Most outdoor security cameras would fall under this classification as well.
How about not being an exploited asset at all? That's a better option to strive for as a culture, surely?
ToolMates Hire
Maybe I want to see something that allows me to tick boxes for the boilerplate I want?

So I could pick and choose which of those features I wanted, plus stuff like SSO... maybe add a front-end, and support multiple providers for stuff like transactional email - and then the tool goes away and generates a custom starter project for me.

Of course the complexity comes in the interaction of all the optional pieces. But if it was easy someone would have done it already!
If you are a long time "vi" user, put `set -o vi` in "~/.bashrc": the sequence to issue the previous command with sudo prepended will be <esc>0isudo<enter>, probably something that is in your muscle memory already.
Can we update the title to the article's actual title? It is currently quite misleading.

"Google Assistant will use more than one device to decipher the exact voice commands"
You're right, I did misunderstand you. Thanks for clarifying.
Its only reasonable if its limited duration and does not stop you plying your trade and she is paid for it
The open source Barcode Scanner app by ZXing can do the SSID thing. The text translation feature is actually lifted straight from Word Lens, a company they bought and absorbed a couple years ago. And Google Goggles did most of the rest.
This was about sea level rise. Glacier melting takes decades. There are potential very nonlinear effects with that too, so at some point, much later, sea level rise can be very fast, and it's too late to do much by then anymore.

This is a very rough sketch and going by memory so best to check for yourself: on Antarctica, there are certain "gatekeeper" glaciers in valleys between the sea and large lowlands with multikilometer thick ice. If the gatekeeper glacier is lost, then the sea will flow into the big basin, and the large area will melt rapidly / float away as ice bergs etc.

Eric Rignot has some interesting presentations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ivlofypzE
> Which do you want more: non-partisan cooperation or absolute-transparency?

Except you can have both as long as you ensure factual standards for news reporting.
In my opinion Facebook does much more damage, that's why I selected them first. Apple was my second choice.
Nothing like existential contemplation to get the juices flowing on a Monday morning. I think I need another coffee before giving this a second read. This looks like a promising model to build true AI off of.
Planning for Unpredictable Costs During Your Software Project’s Grow Phase
or HR have been applying NC to a wider range of jobs for which they are not intended for ie blue collar semi skilled jobs
Finally Netflix Getting It Right House of Cards Alok Nath and Biswa Kalyan Rath
He seems to have missed the health care portability act signed during the Clinton administration. That fixed the "health insurance ties you to a single job" problem. As I understand it, even the current crowd isn't trying to mess with that particular protection.
Serfs chose to be serfs too. Better than starving.
Ethereum Alliance Expands Dramatically [pdf]
Capitalism is great because it divides decision-making authority in resource distribution to many people who can't distort the market on their own.

The disturbing trend I see is more and more decision-making power collecting to relatively few people, whose power is enough to change the market environment rather than reacting to it.

Our democratized political environment is far from perfect, but I'll certainly choose that over Communist despotism, and I fear if we don't do something we'll continue our slide to privatized oligarchy/despotism.
Input Validation Cheat Sheet
you can still be fired easily for cause or via redundancy one would assume
> The housing market here is insane.

This is sort of the problem -- the housing market is insane literally everywhere.

You mention that houses in Amsterdam sell in 2 weeks. Houses in bumblefuck Michigan are selling the same day. It's common here for sellers to do no showings at all, simply throw an open house on Sunday and say "best offer by 9am Monday wins". These houses all have multiple offers, $20k+ over asking prices. We're not London, or NYC, or SF, or Boston, or Paris, or Amsterdam. Bumblefuck Michigan can't even keep their housing market sane.

Pick any city with any half-functional economy. Yes any city. The housing market is insane there. Big city? small city? Popular city? Unknown city? It doesn't matter -- the housing market is insane there too.

Literally everywhere the housing market is broken. Literally everywhere.
I just keep a little document in the same directory.

echo 9 > last-episode
mpv s01e09.mkv
Why 3 articles?
I'm Tomek, CEO at codebeat [1] - automated code review for the web & mobile and one of the launch partners for the GitHub Marketplace. For us and probably for many tools that integrate with Github, an announcement about Github Apps is great news because we won't need to ask users for so many permissions.

GraphQL also seems to be an interesting way to combine more data available on Github with results of our code analysis.

I think Github Marketplace is a right fit for Github and community because it lowers the barrier to use third-party tools. Github puts them in one place, and it is super easy to add or remove each of them.

[1] http://github.com/marketplace/codebeat
Given those options I'd rather be a shareholder.
> Android TV seems to lack integration with Photos (which I assume is because of my G Suite account but maybe it's just crappy).

That's not your account, the google photos app doesn't support AndroidTV natively, only casting is supported.
yes you are wrong to think this
> Basically Antartica has been losing land ice while sea ice has been growing.

The Nasa article says the reverse, land ice is growing and sea ice melting. Also the NYT article states that it is especially the Antarctic sea ice that is vulnerable because of the rising ocean water temperature.

But I've read your link and learned that the Nasa article is controversial. Well what do I know ..
It's a standard part of the developer tools.
I used to believe in "free markets" until the financial crisis of 2008 . Then it became clear that the people who shouted "free market" the loudest didn't like it when market forces hit themselves. And they changed the market rules to their benefit. It's a rigged game.

We should replace "free market" with " functioning market". It's pretty clear that a lot of markets are dysfunctional and benefit only a few.
Revisiting the Game of Life in Elm
What's the point in GitHub creating yet-another-CI-tool? Travis and Circle CI have had good integrations for years and work very well.
That's marvelous. The point is that many companies don't allow that, and should.
ReactNative isn’t exactly native, and the patent situation isn’t ideal either.

Kotlin is a language that is like a "better Java", just like C# is a better Java.

It happens to provide extension methods, it allows easy creation of domain specific languages, it fixes the Billion Dollar Mistake (no more problems with null!), etc. It’s basically Java, without all the boilerplate, and a lot more modern.

Which means any Android dev can easily use it, and be more productive, and create less bugs.
France has responded by calling Euro cents "centimes".
My problem with that approach is that it provides financial support to companies that are using DRM. There's no incentive to change.
I've been seen a lot of "reasonable sounding" climate skeptics on HN lately.

What's going on? I struggle to believe this community is _that_ ignorant; either I'm wrong or there's a fairly intentional and sophisticated astroturfing campaign going on.
I had a look at the video, a couple of comments. Firstly, he is not looking at the energy requirements for water solid/liquid phase change. Secondly, he is making blanket assertions about what is happening regarding energy absorption without taking into consideration the effects of energy transmission into space. Considering the recent publication of research into the effects of CO2 on energy transmission, I have some concerns on the accuracy of his stated figures (regardless of anything IPCC).

The energy requirements needed for ice melt are locked in physically. The figures suggested for additional energy absorption are not. In addition, energy flow rates are not considered in the video.

There is a great deal lacking in that video which does not match published research.
If you work in the Financial District and live in Pittsburgh, then you have to be on BART no later than 10:30pm to get home. Assuming a 45min clean-up and some slow diners keeping the floor occupied until 9:30, I would arrange for a 9pm closing time.

With the same situation, but a 30 minute commute and a 24h transport system and staff happy to get home around the same time, you could set the closing time at 10:30-11pm.

> tons of US cities that shutdown fairly early have low housing prices

Ah, are they low-density? I have lived places with very fast commutes and low property prices that would shut down by 7pm, since it was deep in the country and thus there was stuff-all foot traffic once people stopped working.
Luckily, Kotlin isn’t actually a Google product, but a product of JetBrains, which is independent. If Google drops support, Kotlin will continue existing.
Probably a PR firm or similar. Much of the news is manufactured. Like "the suit is back" [0].

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Microsoft's scale and early dominance gives them incredible staying power. Apple, at this point, too. Huge companies have the money to coast by in mediocrity for years, and can simply buy assets to fill in gaps in their product line.

Don't have a chat app? Buy one. Don't have machine learning yet? Buy a couple of those too.

Even if a company like Google lost most of it's income overnight, it could coast for years on pure cash reserves. The amount of money these big tech behemoths have to work with is incredible. As long as they strike gold once or twice every several years, they'll be fine.
> First, non-competes are rarely so airtight that a person can't work in their field for another employer.

I assume you've based this conclusion on your extensive experience reading noncompetes from many different verticals in many different markets, and not just what the average tech worker sees.

> The whole "pre-existing" condition FUD is crap, too, since the new healthcare bill doesn't do away with that "protection".

No, it simply makes it impossible to take advantage of any protections by allowing insurance companies to charge any price they deem fit to the most vulnerable patients.

> Americans badly need any replacement that might control costs better.

I don't disagree with you here, but neither does the AHCA. And its glaringly obvious to anyone that knows healthcare policy well that the ACA has plenty of room to be adjusted to correct inadequacies. The "Repeal and Replace" mantra on the far right is just political gamesmanship. If Republicans really cared about free markets, they would have brought to the table measures that helped create an educated market, like pricing transparency and enforcing laws against anticompetitive behavior.

> I should add that I don't think it is fair that un-insurable people push their problems onto the rest of us because all that does is bring everyone down! It's nice to think we can look out for our nation's most vulnerable people, but what if we can't do that and maintain viable economic growth? What then?

Man, I gotta hand it to you, this is some Grade A supertrolling here. In the span of just a few sentences you've managed to combine fear, a begrudged sympathy, and a false dichotomy into what passes for an argument, flimsy though it is.

Maybe read up on the idea of the veil of ignorance[1] for that first point. Had you put it a different way I might agree with you in principle—we should stop talking about healthcare as insurance and start talking about how to provision healthcare for everyone. Its not insurance when everyone is guaranteed to need it at some point in their lives. There's nothing in doing so that demands we limit economic growth—the US is for all intents and purposes the only developed country in the world that fails achieve this.

[1] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Veil_of_ignorance
Enhancing Visual Studio with Visual Assist
We can try again on January 19th 2038 if we're inclined when the unix 32-bit timestamp runs out.
When combined with stories about the average american having roughly zero savings and negative net worth, the strategy is very SLAPP in that very few americans can financially afford to respond to a letter from a lawyer or a lawsuit even if a win is guaranteed.

There is also synergy where even a miracle free lawyer none the less requires time off from work. "I need time off on Monday for court, previous employer problem" "Oh OK you're fired take all the time you want".

Finally like many legal agreements they're primarily CYA.
It's a lot harder to navigate that one might think, and FMLA is for serious illnesses, not "one kid got the flu this week and another got the runs last week and before that it was stomach upset and before that..." etc.
> In the late 70's, I can remember a rash of stories on the nightly news, telling us that scientists were predicting that half of Florida was going to be underwater by the 2000's. Perhaps, even as a kid, I was sensitized to reporting on science, since my 4th-grade science text book was also predicting we'd be in a mini ice age in the 80's, and completely out of oil by 2000. And, dang it, I was looking forward to driving.

Isn't the difference with today the consensus among scientist. In any time period you can probably find some scientist making exaggerated claims about X. It feels a lot different when you have hundreds of scientist coming together to write things like IPCC reports. This isn't just some scientist says X. This is the vast majority of scientist more or less agree that X is a major problem.
> I think you're reading it too literally: the iPod didn't make you a "better person", but it made your life better by allowing you to take all your music with you anywhere.

Ok, but how is this different from the value-proposition of other music-device vendors?
How is GraphQL related to the marketplace?
"results suffer while the ideological conflict is enhanced"

exactly. The most disconcerting part about the state of American politics is the focus on a predecided ideology of the other party being wrong.

proving the other party wrong is apparently worth everyone suffering over.

When each party is increasingly controlled by less people, then we now have a country where 300million people are willing to shoot themselves in the foot in the name of their party, with the ruling groups of each party having the interests of neither in mind.

Now youve just created an ideology of sacrificial progress in the name of a party.

There is more loyalty in this country to ones party than there is to the country and the progress of the country. The emotions and irrationality of attachment, and continual degredation of the other party just to be in the right, approaches religion.

The only thing more demoralizing than this is the fact that this conversation is continually broadcast on two news stations each owned by billionaires, who curate the "news" themselves. The biggest progress I've seen in news lately is Bill Oreily being fired for 11 pending and accumulating harrassment lawsuits. Must be nice to get paid $75million to be fired. True journalism shines through again.

It's extremely....disconcerting.
In some countries you'd still probably be sent an invoice to pay a fine for pirating anyway.
Corporations of a certain size start looking and acting awfully Soviet. An economy dominated by mega-corps is almost indistinguishable from the Soviet economy. Over time due to regulatory capture and revolving doors it becomes a fully socialized planned economy, but one whose socialism only benefits the rich and the connected.
HTTPS on Stack Overflow: The End of a Long Road
If you follow the link from Krugman's column to the NY Times series [0] you'll find a wealth of details with specific examples of harm to employees.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/business/noncompete-claus...
Sorry guys, I am unable to change that title.
That's nice for those who can afford to be shareholders. Most Americans can't.
But the fact remains that the income advantage only remains an advantage so long as the costs remain low. The expense side of the equation can only rise so high before income becomes zero, or even a negative value. NYC and SV are able to thrive because housing is still cheap, but the market is quickly correcting that fact. At some point, if the trend continues indefinitely, one's income in these cities will leave them with a lower income than someone working at a minimum wage job in a low-cost area. If the income advantage shifts to these other locations, people will follow.
This reminded me of Phil Roberts' excellent talk a couple of years ago at ScotlandJS: "Help, I'm stuck in an event loop". Well worth the 20 minute watch. https://vimeo.com/96425312
I don't think it's that people love sky scrapers so much as they are willing to tolerate them in order to avoid paying half their salary in rent every month. In any event, we don't need skyscrapers to solve the housing problem, we need more 5-story buildings, which are currently a pain to push through the Planning Commission and BoS in SF, even along transit corridors.
> No one is really competing with Apple on quality.

I would dare say that Microsoft is encroaching on this slowly but surely. Between the Surface, Surface book, the upcoming niche desktop PC, and air-esque laptop, they are steadily coming up with compelling offerings that are eating into Apple's space.

Google's Pixel devices are also squeezing Apple, though mostly in the mobile market.
Imagine?
Well there are still problems there too. Try making a default interface method in Kotlin or invoke MethodHandle's invoke with a specific return type sans casting in Kotlin.
Richat Structure
The Libre only gives you a reading when you manually check it, right? Or did I misunderstand that? I wouldn't want to lose the low/high/rate of change alerts the Dexcom gives. Even if you're sleeping, it'll wake you up if the blood sugar starts getting low.
Show HN: Meta Almanac – Reddit for programmers
If you don't mind using a web client (and you shouldn't, it's pretty good), you can install the Plex server on your machine and then open the web client on the same machine.
7 years ago someone bought 2 pizzas with 10K Bitcoins which as now worth $20M
Refreshing Harvest: Thinking about the Visual Design of an 11-Year-Old App
Nigerian tech companies to get procurement preference