skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Aside from that, I always wonder why we have never had a "Great Economic Project."'

The nature of politics is such that if the government funded such a thing, the only acceptable outcome for it to come to is that the people funding it already had the correct model. The alternative is that the politicians funding it would have spent a lot of political capital to get that funding only to be told that they're wrong, probably wrong about everything.

On one level or another, even politicians realize that they might as well just cut out the middleman here and operate on the vigorous and loud assumption that they are already correct about economics and anyone who disagrees is the literal embodiment of evil.
> what is the alternative?

To not commit an entire society to a single economic theory. Which means getting rid of a lot of the centralized control mechanisms that currently require just such a commitment.

> whose theories do we want to pay attention to?

Since no one has a theory that is good enough to make useful predictions, as far as public policy is concerned, the answer is "none of them".

> There's also the difficult problem of identifying when any theories have really been tested well.

This isn't a difficult problem. You test theories by comparing their predictions to what actually happens. (Note that a "theory" that makes no testable predictions fails this test.) As the article notes, economics does not do well on this test. But that's not a "difficult problem" of how to test economics; it's just that economists, and politicians who want to use economics to justify their pet policies, don't want to admit that the result of the test is that economics doesn't make good predictions.

> It's not any different from physics theory or chemistry theory in that regard.

Yes, it is, because, as you note, you can run controlled experiments in physics and chemistry, but you can't in economics.
Sounds ripe for a lawsuit
Missed Connections – Order Confirmation Emails – E-book
Hubble resolved this start to a disc 20 years ago.
The guest on that article and the blog author are the same person.

How can you "understand that mcmansions are bad architecture" and also say "the whole thing stank of classist elitism"? The blog points fun at clearly bad buildings. Fake columns, unnecessary rooms, poor placement of re-used furniture, etc. Sarcasm is funny. The blog is sarcastic in nature. What's wrong with that?
slightly related, am I the only one getting annoyed by links first circulating under the authors medium account and then suddenly moving to hackernoon for a second round?
Ask HN: DDos app layer attack, how to protect my site?
I have a temporary email web site and someone is running a coordinated attack / fraud from 15,000+ ips. What they do is run a script that creates an inbox, registers on Facebook and read the auth code. My questions are

1. How can they pull this off? 15K+ ips ??? what are they running to coordinate all of this. and

2. How can I best detect and avoid these ips? Any useful SaaS services / open source libs to identify such attacks. Most of the ips are on exotic places like India, Vietnam, Syria etc
That's true but with this controlled environment the amount needed could be highly targeted...think drip irrigation.
Someone should reach out to Popehat for a PSA to see if there are lawyers in Minnesota willing to consult.
> NAT is terrible from a network engineering perspective, it was mostly a patchwork to deal with the rapid expansion of the internet and the shortage of IPv4 space

NAT is very useful to the network engineer. NAT lets you turn one network into a different one on a simple one-to-one translations basis.

However NAP got mixed up with masquerading to the point where when someone says NAT they assume you also mean masquerading when in fact the two are different concepts. NAT when you are doing a many-to-one translations is a disaster in many ways, but it works just well enough (and face it, the alternatives don't exist)
Oh he's going long ... and queue music.
Right. Just like there are left-leaning scientists who like left-leaning science popularizers.
I am an employer. Sharpen your pencil and work it out from the other side. You’d probably be a generous boss. See what you can do.

There lies enlightenment.
How I Built a Reverse Image Search with Machine Learning and TensorFlow: Part 3
Right but the underlying design pattern is the same. This is all I'm saying. Redux can almost be thought of as an Elm pattern implementation with "familiar" imperative syntax.
Can you measure or prove the impact the domain would have on the business? If not, you'll end up spending a great deal of money on something you don't know if it matters or not.

IMO, domains are growing less and less important as more people find sites by clicking on links, not by typing in the domain name.

So many successful companies start with getMyApp.com instead of MyApp.com.
As per the other response thread, SSH already compensates for closed TCP connections, so long as it's configured appropriately.

WRT the lag compensation - this is something mosh does, so if ET does not, it's worth pointing out.

So, as it stands, persistence of the session across IP changes seems to be the primary differentiating feature. Good to know.
Anonymous YouTube video claims NASA discovered ‘extraterrestrial life’
I wonder if she could use this momentum to crowdsource an initiative to send locals out to retake the photos for her...
Be that as it may, it's kind of weak to say that it's hosted on ipfs if the majority of the content is actually not on ipfs and on tumblr.
Wielding 3D items in WebGL (Tutorial)
I'm curious how just using a photo makes it "transformative". Those photos look straight up taken from one site and used on the next.

(I ask as someones who's flickr photos ended up on the front page of a local paper... and was mildly annoyed, but it was promoting an event I work on.. had they just asked....)

News organizations and documentaries pay lots of money to clear and use old stock news photos.

I do enjoy the critique though...
They don't claim to own the copyright to the images. They just complain that it's a ToS violation, and also threaten her with the CFAA! https://twitter.com/mcmansionhell/status/879429709251137537
Digital advertising dashboards in the age of digital ad blocking
She does have a Patreon. As much as I hate the fact that we now need to crowsource these things, I think this is one avenue for us non-lawyer-adjacent folks.
Just an observation but at this pace which will happen quicker to market -- mouse integration on iOS or Windows 10 ARM?

And of those two which has a bigger impact?
Mobile. I have a Nexus 5X. I was using the default Chrome browser.
"url is down temporarily do not be alarmed" https://twitter.com/mcmansionhell/status/879437570471587844
I sort of see where you're coming from here, but the way you phrase it, you could say exactly the same thing about theology.
The key here is UBI, Universal Health Care, or affordable private insurance is still talk.

Its a similar situation to those in London refusing to move out of the towers currently failing fire inspection code. The improvements won't be done and the city isn't going to replace the affordable housing. They'd rather live in a death trap than live on the streets.

The state of labor is bad, but you're not helping. It seems you're selling snake oil unless you've already got plans in the pipeline to transition your contractors to salaried with health insurance options once they meet certain criteria.

I really hope that (like Uber) you're just abusing the 1099 designation long enough that you get to an IPO. I can see this being fine for "moonlighting" but I truly hope this isn't the model of the future for all employment.
I have no idea why Stalin decided Bulgakov was cool, but we're all better for it.

I highly recommend the Burgin and O'Connor translation into english of "The Master and Margarita", since it comes with very useful chapter footnotes, which explain some of the jokes. The language is good, too.
If you are suggesting that a nuclear power plant can detonate like a nuclear bomb, you are wrong, they are a completely different design. Sure they can melt down in rare cases, but that's hardly anything on the scale of a nuke. I would suggest you look at some of the stats for death rates of different power sources. Nuclear is near the bottom, coal kills thousands every year through air pollution. If you want to find a truly dangerous power source, look at hydroelectric, when a dam collapses it is more damaging than a power plant meltdown in some cases.
Depends on what I'm trying to learn, but for things like Math and other technical topics, I'll try to find textbooks/video lectures, go through them, while adding them to Anki.

If you don't use Anki - you really, really should. I'd be lost without it - it's one of the greatest life-hacks I have. Without it, I don't really feel like I've learned something "for life", only just for a moment.

Also, reading multiple textbooks on the same topic is in general much better than just reading one, preferably in slightly increasing complexity.
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> there is no defending that.

There is a lot of space between defending bad ideas and putting up a website to mock them.
Neat. But a friendly word of warning.

You've got DHT11's pictured in you product photos. Don't use DHT11's for, well, anything.

I deployed ~ 100. After 8 months, only 35 still work. Even when they worked, the data was so variable they were constant trouble. Of the 35 that still work, about half are now giving useless humidity readings.

Caveat emptor and all that yap.
It was hosted on Tumblr all along. She says it's only down temporarily. https://twitter.com/mcmansionhell/status/879437570471587844
She has a Patreon.
Entirely empty once again. :(
I propose an experiement to test the elitism hypothesis: Ask a random selection of people to rate various types of houses. If McMansions are rated poorly only by "elites", then the hypothesis is true. If they're rated poorly by everyone, it's false.
This is going off-topic, apologies.

Yes, of course, re using TypeScript or Flow. However ... I'm not a fan of TypeScript -- if I'm going to use a different "language" (albeit one that's a transpile-able thin veneer over JS) I may as well switch to a language w/ an even better type system.

Flow, from the little I know, is closer to what I want -- still JS, but an annotation or "compilation switch" makes everything typecheck.
The "SSL" cryptographic operator is generally secure when used with 128-bit keys.
I think you're overestimating the power of economists and putting too much blame on them. The 2008 crisis was not cased by economists; rather, it was caused by MBAs who approved mortgages that should have never been approved in the first place. This generated short-term gains for these financial institutions that paid the price years later.
I fixed it. I thought when Firefox saved the Web Page complete, it was doing inline uuencoded binary as part of the the image tag. I was wrong.

There's still a few hits to the 2 sites I updated, but no real content. The text and images (what actually matters here) is all IPFSified.
> To not commit an entire society to a single economic theory. Which means getting rid of a lot of the centralized control mechanisms that currently require just such a commitment.

Isn't that just another economic theory?
What resource was that?
Shout to React's Styled Components: https://github.com/styled-components/styled-components

Very nice to work with.
the part of being able to measure items "AR" style is going to be amazing for businesses, both in direct in the home work and allowing customers to do their own measurements and such
Nah, her blog includes interior photos as well. Streetview won't help with that.
I didn't read the whole thing. Does it do anything better than other operating systems, or just bring desktop features to the iPad?

I'm not saying bringing desktop features to a tablet is a problem, just curious.
Then you should stay away from sales.

I have had people fall asleep in the middle of my presentation (after lunch-heart medication). I have had people throw up in the middle of my presentation. I have had people cry in the middle of my presentation.

At that point, I stop politely. I'm not in sales mode anymore; I'm in human being mode. Maybe they need an ear. Maybe they need a beer. Maybe their staff understands that they fall asleep after lunch and that you can continue on.

Sales is mostly empathy and education. I'm selling to you because I believe that I'm going to make your situation better. If I reach a point where I believe that is not true, I'm going to stop selling to you, refer you to someone else, etc.

Occasionally, this loses me a sale. Oh, well. I generally engender so much good will when it happens that it almost always rebounds back to me later.
China has deployed facial-recognition systems across the country
How to Use Your Emotional Intelligence to Better PM
Well done. The puml script was a nice addition!
I don't disagree that something about the equation has to change. I think that "thing" is the 0.17 acres. According to this webpage[1], the productivity of a vertical farm is 11x greater than a horizontal farm.

But, that said, I don't think a complete replacement is necessary for this to be significantly beneficial even on a subset of grown plants.

[1] http://stateofindoorfarming.agrilyst.com/
I understand the concern over elitism, and many of the good examples shown on the blog are very nice houses, but in my experience there are many humbler homes that are better than mcMansions.

You can have homes that are 1200-1800 sqft. that are very easy to live in, aesthetically pleasing and (in non-metropolitan areas) quite affordable for a middle-class family.

For me, it's about homes that are easy to sell (because they check off all the boxes on some generic list) vs. homes that are a joy to live in. My impression is that there was some wisdom regarding the latter that has been lost in the last 40 years.
You might try www.koreanlevelup.com - it's not flashcards, but is another lang. learning resource. There are a couple free lessons available.
Decoupling Drupal with Waterwheel for Ember and React
Example of low repetition from his page:

view-source:https://meiert.com/setup/default.css

If this is worthwhile doing, a source tool to transform it would make more sense IMO.
Mouse integration on the iPad would be a disastrous blunder. It just wouldn't fit with any aspect of the interaction model and would represent a dire loss of the plot on Apple's part. So I think that would have the greater impact.
For one, she frequently marks up the photos with arrows and text, most of which is uniquely humorous while also being educational. No one would mistake her images for a promotional piece, or anything other than satire, comedy, and education.
It seems like so much core functionality is hidden behind gestures and 3D-touch. What a change for the company that shunned even the right click for many years because it hid functionality.
But what if the store could produce its own plants at 1/10th the cost of purchasing them elsewhere (just light and water)? It's not like they don't already have floor space taken up with plants today - they just buy them from elsewhere.
There is something going on with academics being told to maximize their impact factor.

Impact Factor is a score derived from how often the average article in the journal is cited over the last 5 years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor

Deriving then from this an academic is then encouraged to maximize their own score and new academics have only a few years to get their score up if they want to compete for tenure.

I'm not sure but there seems to be something in the way your score is calculated to make academics want to publish in certain journals to increase their score.

http://researchguides.uic.edu/if

It sounds like a glorified page rank system, with people wanting to keep getting their own page rank up by getting links from the historically highest page rank sites.

I wonder is there a way to hack the system to shift the scoring in favor of open access?
> I'm curious how just using a photo makes it "transformative". Those photos look straight up taken from one site and used on the next.

The photos are annotated for the article. That's not a straight rip, definitely some transformation going on.
By units sold or overall revenue? Apple tends to make up a lot of ground with high prices :)
There are a bunch of emulation machines from China. Many of them are handhelds. The build quality tends to be low; the specs are weird; the emulation is poor.

So I wouldn't be too hopeful for a decent clone.

If you want Nintendo build quality you can buy a Wii (dirt cheap) and a classic controller and set it up to run homebrew.
> Try to find a popular website without JS. Even HN uses it, so this is a moot point.

There's a big difference between not using JavaScript at all and doing it correctly with progressive enhancement. Any site which doesn't depend on a ton of JavaScript to render and uses lazy-loading where appropriate will see the same benefits and will be significantly more robust as well.
This is actually a huge reason that food costs as much as it does. The seeds are free, water's cheap, Sun's free, fertilizer is plentiful (and overused), and machines do all the heavy lifting. You don't need a lot of manpower, and farmers don't make a ton of money. All that money that we pay for food is going into three things:

1. Transportation costs: when everything grows in Ohio (and/or South America), it's going to cost a lot more to get it in front of consumers in Seattle or New York. To make matters worse, there's a built in timer on the goods.
2. Waste: something like 12% of America's food supply goes bad in transit. Then after that, some more rots on the shelf. That which doesn't is brought home, or to a restaurant and is wasted there. There's not much we can do about the last part of the equation, but having the food fresh in the store is a big step for the first two prongs.
3. Aesthetics: This one I don't fully understand, but apparently people turn down perfectly good produce because it doesn't look normal, despite being perfectly healthy and nutritious. I've always had a taste for mutant carrots, myself. It's possible (not guaranteed) that selling this produce at reduced costs and directly from the dirt where it was grown might help that.

It'll all come down to whether or not grocers sign on - my guess is that the price point on something like this will ultimately be pretty good, but it might take 10 years for the technology to develop enough to be useful out in the wild.
To replace the entire food chain, sure.
The only really important question is whether it does anything better than other tablet operating systems. For the iPad, that's what really matters - becoming the best tablet OS it can be. Anything else would be a distraction.
That is staggeringly expensive. In the UK you can buy a pot of basil for about $2 in most of the big supermarkets. Often it's more economical to buy a large plant than it is to buy a small bag of cut basil...
> minimum amount of farmland per person assuming a vegetarian diet is about 0.17 acres

Why assume a vegetarian diet? And why assume that 100% of farming would be done at the grocery store?

Do you really need the vertical farm in the grocery store to grow the wheat to bake your bread or the silage to feed cattle?

The vast majority of farmland is dedicated to grains and animal feed, and that can remain.

But the vertical farm in the grocery store can take care of the fresh stuff, like herbs, lettuce and some veggies.
Proper licensing and giving money to a company that makes good games.
Windows 10 ARM would certainly happen quicker, not sure that mouse on iOS will ever happen. As far as impact - x86 emulation on ARM, if good enough, can significantly undercut Intel, which may end x86 dominance on the desktop eventually.
The Seattle Minimum Wage Study
Next Generation of Space Explorers
You mean the company that has you dragging disks into the trash for about three decades now?
Many states have SLAPP laws that allow frivolous claims like this to be quickly shot down. It still costs money to defend against them, but it's a lot cheaper and the victim can win it back. Unfortunately, there's no Federal equivalent, so all it takes to get around it would be to sue in Federal court. A Federal SLAPP law would really help.
There's a long ways to go, but I wonder if we're headed for an eventual unification of iOS and macOS?
On VidCon, Harassment and Garbage Humans
> quicker to market

I'd say Windows 10 on ARM. [0]

[0] https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2017/P4171
The "incompetent" economic behavior you speak of is also based upon theory.
They "only" cost "light and water" elsewhere, too (actually, obviously, far more than just light and water).

Do you think that 90% of the wholesale cost of produce is transportation costs? If so, why do you think that?
That's not the easiest thing to just pick up at 78.
I agree. People should have the right to build ugly (in the eye of the beholder) houses. This is just petty jealousy.
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The hypothesis has already been tested: these houses sell very briskly.

Edit: the points below are all fair.
Think of it this way: If we knew that star is going to go nova within the next 100 years, could we (science-fiction hat and faster-than-light travel on) send help?

No, because it already went nova a long time ago.
If your goal is to send a strong message not to reuse photos, then this isn't even bad publicity.
If you're looking to read the article you can go to http://mcmansionhell.tumblr.com/ - it has been unlinked from the domain name.
Is the posting of a book chapter different from a blog post? The Show HN rules say blog posts can't be Show HNs. And the reason given is they "can't be tried out".
Like Ron and Reggie Kray?
I would disagree. Founders Fund (Peter Thiel one of 3 founding partners) was the first major outside funder of SpaceX with a $20 million investment after the 3rd Falcon 1 failure and before the successful fourth launch. This investment was critical and risky for Founders Fund. It would have allowed SpaceX try few more launches, if the fourth had failed.
Win10 on ARM devices are already announced for Q4 this year, assuming Intel doesn't sue Microsoft and get a stay on the Win10 x86 translation layer.

Pretty easy to conceive of scenarios where these devices would have real impact, if the translation is fast enough. Imagine a $300 10" windows laptop with a 10 hour battery life and roughly ivy bridge i3 level performance.

In comparison, Apple hasn't even hinted they'd allow mouse input on iOS. If you need that level of precision, they want you to use their stylus.
Autotalks brings motorcycles into the conversation
Speaking of hidden features.. you can just use Cmd-e to eject a disk in finder.
FEATURE: A struggle within MIT’s IT department over its future (2016)
Ride Sharing Subsidies Survey (Startup Idea)
EpiPen’s 400 percent price hike tells what’s wrong with American health care
I'd like a desktop app that, when engaged, would monitor browser usage and lightbox my screen after 3 minute of browser use with a simple question "Are you solving a problem or taking a break?". If I choose "taking a break", I'd like a 1 minute countdown timer engaged with a suggestion to focus on breathing instead.

Please? Pretty please? :)
It's not even known whether the subprime crisis even caused the great recession. Causality is very hard to prove when we only have one reality. Some think the crisis was caused most by cautiousness by the Fed; in this case, the 2008 crisis may indeed have been caused by economists.

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/09/how_the_subprim....
We'll look at this a couple of years from now and will laugh at the yet another example how greed makes people ignore history!