skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Likewise in prisons the solution is to abolish slave labour and instead give the same work rights to prisoners as to the rest of the population, including minimum wage.

Why should we do that though? It costs a lot of money to keep people in prisons, the prisoners should help pay for that through their work. I think that they should get paid something, but since their food and housing is taken care of getting paid minimum wage seems excessive to me, and no one will hire a prisoner for minimum wage anyways.

> For some perverse reason there is the general idea floating in people's minds that prisoners should be subjected to as much suffering as possible. Being deprived of their freedoms is not enough, they should also sleep in unhealthy conditions, be raped, and be forced to work for next to nothing.

Do you actually know many people who think that? I've never heard anyone say that 'prisoners should be subjected to as much suffering as possible,' or anything along those lines.
Wow... what school is this, where everyone is years ahead?
First of all, this is brilliant! No ifs or buts.
Thank you NASA, thank you Google!

However, "walking" around a bit does not so much inspire awe and wonder as claustrophobia.
Here in Atlanta we have single stream recycling and we have the opposite problem: cross contamination between streams. Yes there's a separation but that plastic yogurt pot with leftover yogurt on it, or that olive oil steel jug with leftover oil on it ends up contaminating paper, diminishing the value of that fibre.
MPV is incredible.

The subtitle syncing hotkeys alone are a godsend. It blows all over players out of the water when playing streams under non perfect network conditions. Not to mention the best fast forward / rewind experience, something I only had experienced with the original XBMC.
NTLM was deprecated in 1999, when Windows 2000 came out. You have been supposed to use krb5 since then, and disabled the NTLM. Why is anything about NTLM still news? You have to specifically enable it on newest Windows platforms, because afaik it has been disabled by default for some 5+ years now.
I see you've had some relationship with the Stellar[1] currency. Why didn't you use it to implement Settle, since it has innate capabilities of personal asset generation that would very much fit the model of issuing personal GBPs, USDs and so what and then trusting others? (In fact the API is quite the same.)

[1]: https://stellar.org/
I keep offline notebooks where I basically take notes of hopefully most things, that I read or think about. Ideas for programs, proofs of theorems, lecture notes and so on.

I also start small git repos with projects, e.g. for a set of algorithms I explore.

Haven't found a good system though, a hierarchy or learn graph or mind map (mind map programs kind of bore me).

My hope is that most of what I write down will compile (so to speak) into my brain, at least a little bit. And that the mind map will emerge actually in my mind as I move along.

This system is not perfect, but I haven't started to optimize it (maybe I should).

One next step that I think about is to product short texts in a top-down fashion. That is, start with some high-level idea to express or illustrate. Then descend into special concepts and so on. Writing is to thinking, what walking is to a map.
I've never worked at a McDonalds, but I've done my time out in the hot sun and honestly when I look at these poor bastards standing in front of a pot of boiling grease all day I wonder if I wouldn't go back to the farm.

Unless the work was picking onions or strawberries or some other crop which involves spending all day in a terrible bent-over posture. If the pay was the same, though, I'd rather spend the day harvesting apples than spend it making burgers for assholes.
Web Browser: Chrome non-free, Emacs

Email Client: Gmail web, Emacs

Terminal: xterm, fish shell, Emacs

IDE: Emacs

File manager: default, Emacs

Basic Text Editor: Emacs

IRC/Messaging Client: Emacs

PDF Reader: whatever that default one is, Emacs

Office Suite: LibreOffice

Calendar: Emacs

Video Player: VLC

Music Player: Spotify non-free

Photo Viewer: whatever the default is

Screen recording: OBS

I'm not joking with that Emacs thing. Please, oh please, ensure Ubuntu has always a recent Emacs version.
In my opinion:

1. Seattle
2. Boulder
3. Minneapolis
4. Austin

In each city, you have amazingly talented folks and wonderful opportunities to build against common everyday problems without a ton of competition. You can net the same amount that you would in Silicon Valley or San Fransisco if you play your cards right.
You're explicitly wrong about downvoting being a mark of disagreement. That's been black-letter HN culture since forever. I don't entirely like it either (though I'll admit that I do it, too), but 'pg repeatedly went on record, saying he meant for it to be that way.

That said, I can't stand it when people downvote comments pointing out objective, verifiable facts that they don't like. It happens all the time, and I despair a bit for the quality of discourse even possible in a community where that's a thing that people do.
Creating the new ethical machine economy
"Neighborhood character is what they cited when they kicked out Willy Mayes."

I see. Because people have used this complaint to do bad things, it is therefore always incorrect. Got it.
> turning off JS by default for a browser

Year of the Linux laptop would never come
Additionally, does HN keep track of how effective these postings are? I mean, as in, how many quality hits do YC startups get from being on the front page of HN?
Most exploits don't actually need to be all that crafty. They just ask someone to click a link and run some javascript. Could someone use this to pivot in a network? Yes. Almost every large enterprise has bigger problems than this.
People need to be looking at the new model that they came up with for Windows 10 and Azure AD join if they want to stay on Windows clients. The traditional domain model makes the potential impact of breach far too widespread. Windows Server AD should be used as a server management technology with resources being in resource domains that are just big enough to manage things that are related as a unit. Everybody and everything in the same domain is an antipattern now a days because of credential theft techniques. Most places don't have the expertise to maintain AD. It's too complicated and the loss of a single domain admin cred means that you have to rebuild it if you want to get back to a trustworthy state.

Ehh. It's Friday and I want some cake.
One of the things I love about DejaVu Sans Mono is that it has a human-designed oblique version and doesn't rely on my editor to automatically distort the font. I'd love to try Fira Code, but what do the ligatures look like auto-slanted?

(Oblique and italic are both slanted styles of font; the difference is that a true italic has some cursive features and an oblique does not.)
> For example: the biggest "Technology" company recently in Seattle is Amazon, a store first - that leverages technoloy.

Amazon is most definitely a technology (or, at least, a logistics) company with a store, not the other way around.
They mention raising wages and paying benefits several times in the article.
@Dang--can you remove this user who doesn't read the articles and then makes inflammatory misinformed comments.
> To me that's like going to a state fair 150 years ago, seeing the vendors of snake oil, and concluding that the most valuable companies in the future will be selling bottles of secret potions.

That actually would've been a good investment hypothesis though, and continues to be:

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ABC/

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CVS/

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/Ko/

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BAS.DE/

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DOW/

Fully agree with your point about AI though. People always gloss over the transition from "can be made good at things, with effort" to "general purpose intelligent" as if there's not actual magic required there.
That's a great start! A hyperloop would be half that (or more), so obviously it's more attractive for that reason.
For packing that much information into a pleasantly readable paragraph? You deserve cake.
Well i guess that is more confirmation that my best bet is to buy AMD components when possible.
Matias actually has a sound comparison on their website [1].

I had a keyboard with Matias quiet pro switches and I really loved them. Very tactile, about as much as Cherry blue. But with less snooze than browns.

Too bad that keyboard was the KBP V60 which after a few weeks gained lots of key chatter. I read that many more people suffered from that, their firmware is bad at preventing it.

[1] http://matias.ca/switches/quiet/
I am glad -> was included, but why not ==. Isn't that a comparison operator in many languages?
The path, or quirks, of being a genius is getting kinda tedious. People have been fascinated with true geniuses for awhile now. As a kid, I always remembered Einstein's wardrobe story.

That said, Einstein and Jobs shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath.

Steve Jobs edge was knowing just how the average person thinks. Don't give them more than three ideas, or balls to keep track of. Make it simple, so the masses can understand it.

I sometimes think Jobs might have slowed down the some of the really neat aspects of computing. What would have happened I Wos was in charge? We will never know?

I recently needed to buy a Rasbery pi to control my heating boiler. If I had an Apple II, with all those extra pins to send data through, I could have programed my condensing boiler to work with my boiler--maybe? In all reality, I wouldn't leave a multi-purpose, expensive computer in the garage. It would be nice to have the option though.

He put a computer in every home. A computer most poeople use as a typewriter. People act as if he invented the Internet. Windows did the same thing Apple did in the bigger picture. And even today, the cutting edge stuff is first done on a PC, or the stuff I'm into.

I just don't think he's a genius.

If making money is genius, then he's a genius. Trump is a genius, along with those two boys, and his two girls? The First Lady is a genius. All wealthy people are geniuses? The Kardashians are geniuses?

I like Jobs, and his products. One of the saddest days of my life is when I heard he had pancreatic cancer.

I just don't like equating making money with true genius.
> Why did you format the code snippets in your comment in a monospace font?

Because I don't know of a way to get HN to format text in a proportional font without losing the line breaks. Believe me, I've tried. :-)

> Also, I'm curious. I want to see how the code looks like.

I am glad you are curious about it!

> I want to know what are the downsides of monospace and the benefits of proportional. The one you cited isn't too much of a deal, since it is just a habit you can create using monospace still.

Indeed, and now that you mention it, I'm not entirely sure which happened first. I may have switched to the second style with indentation instead of column alignment before I started using a proportional font, just because I was tired of the excessive line lengths and always having to fiddle with the spaces.

Regarding the downsides and benefits, will it sound like a cop-out if I say it's just something you have to try for yourself?

Part of my preference for proportional fonts isn't even tied to any rational reasons. I spend much of my day looking at code, and I just find proportional fonts easier to read, more beautiful and pleasant to look at. But beauty, of course, is in the eye of the beholder.
I want more information and/or examples of bills of exchange having created booms and busts.

I think the major boom/bust problem arises actually from the existence and power of central banks and its affiliated commercial banks. I don't think that credit generated by people is capable of creating these cycles alone, because there are so many checks against it.
One thing I'm noticing in the article and the comments is the disconnect between daily commute hours and weekly commute hours. Both are high, but the weekly time seems to be holding much more steady as people work from home one or two days.

So yes, you may commute for 4 hours a day, but only commuting 60% as often means you're in the ballpark of a 1 hour commute (each way). Average 'commute tolerance' isn't drastically changing.
Please build it around a standard (FHIR).
One of my greatest frustrations is the default email client. It's caused a lot of headaches with mailto links. I would prefer if Ubuntu did not ship with one.
I am much less interested in what "should" happen in a macroeconomic sense than what is happening: lots of people need to live here right now. It's worth remembering that the people most hurt by NIMBY policies are not, by and large, the tech workers making six-figure salaries. The victims are the teachers, firefighters, artists, nurses, secretaries, and everyone else who isn't a programmer.

Yeah, it might be nice if the US tech industry were more geographically distributed throughout the country (though that would also potentially have negative consequences due to constant relocation necessary when switching jobs). But NIMBY policies have broadly failed at getting people to move away. They have, in fact, just made the situation worse.
I still Love my Avant Stellar, but since they're long out of production, this is an excellent intro to what's available today and not hidden away on eBay.
Wear and tear and cleaning up isn't some binary budgeted-or-not thing. You can expect a certain flow and behaviour, and something can radically change that. If some popular band said they were doing a goodbye concert and it was only available in AR at a park, you can bet it'd cause far more wear and tear in one day than they budgeted for a long time.

But trying to block the AR game is the wrong approach. They should instead implement a generic way to handle such things. Either fine people, or have some maximum occupancy rules.
> Robots for labor are coming, and when they do it is time to take agriculturally productive land away from the profiteers. They serve no rational function in the economy and are merely monopolizing a resource.

This is one of the big questions we'll have to ask in the next 20 or so years, and it just isn't farms. We are going to have to deal with plenty of industries that will merely consume resources and produce without providing any other benefits to society.
This is an article written by someone who never heard of Graph Databases. The publish year was 2011, so that makes sense. They were not as well known 6 years ago.
> And the fact that so many normally sedentary people were getting up and going out and doing shit and getting exercise

A minor nit, but Pokemon go did not increase activity levels for most players.

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2016/12December/Pages/Pok%C3%A9mon-no...

http://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i6270
That's not entirely accurate. Authentication in Windows can fall back to NTLM for a variety of reasons, including a malicious endpoint purposefully "downshifting" the version of NTLM it wants to use during a negotiation. There are tools to let you control the version of NTLM and group policy and what not...but that can break things that you have had for a long time.

Windows will do Kerberos by default and avoid NTLM in lots of situations, but it's hard to keep it from being used at all if that's your goal.
I'm not sure you could get a line into SF. CalTrain has been trying to electrify their line, and even that appears to have been a mini-nightmare, e.g., with Atherton suing.
I know :) That's why I said "too bad". We can't fix the cost of living in cities problem if the only place it's convenient to live is already-big cities.
Has AnkiApp made any improvements to Anki, or it it pretty much just a flashier UI?
Is 4 a random number?
>> City officials were aghast at large numbers of individuals playing Pokemon Go who visited parks, littered, trampled grass and flowers, and stayed past park hours.

This seems like a legitimate issue though. How do you propose it be solved?
To each their own. Personally I dislike nested function calls in general and would use intermediate variables with descriptive names.

var calculatedOne = andthisCalculatedOne(anArgumentThatMeansSomething,
anotherWordyName);

myFunctionThatDoesStuff(someArgument, calculatedOne);

Edit: That "anotherWordyName" is supposed to be column justified, HN really needs <code> tags instead of this indentation nonsense.

The extra vertical space is easily worth the increase in readability IMO.

I've never touched proportional formatted code beyond a day or two when I was forced to by my environment, and all I encountered was more annoyances in getting my code to align properly. I'm glad you found some benefit, but I'd argue those benefits could be achieved any number of other ways.
Ok, here's a strange analogy, but hear me out. Think of a company as a hostel rather than a family or a sports team.

For example:

The owner is trying to make a profit (rather than a hard salary) and it's probably best if they're fairly detached or things go haywire, but a good hostel owner wants the hostel to be beneficial and enjoyable for the guests (regular employees) because it benefits everyone.

The hostel staff are management. They are much more involved with everyone, but still try to remain detached somewhat, since they might have to kick a guest out for bad behavior. Often they were previous guests, and those people often make the best staff (managers) because they know all sides of it. They get direct orders from the owners and try to make that work.

Guests are the equivalent of a company's employees. They are all there for different reasons and get all different kinds of things out of it. Some want to spend most of their day hanging out with other guests and staff. They're not in a hurry to leave and they get a lot of their satisfaction from the comfort of the hostel and the people they're with. Seeing the area is sort of tangential to them. Others are trying to see everything they can, they don't care about making friends, they have a plan and goals. On the extreme end, they might do something like cut in line to make sure they make the list for the next tour. In fact if they can't, they're probably going to another hostel.

Anyways it's a loose analogy, but everyone is there for different reasons that overlap at different points. They're not really all working towards the same goal, but again, their goals likely overlap. Nobody bats an eye that the goal of a guest isn't to make the owner the most profit, or vice versa. You can reasonably expect that most people are going to move on sooner or later. People may or may not become really socially involved, depending on what they want. Some hostels are large and less sociable, others are tightly knit and cozy. I can draw parallels for days.

I mean, obviously a hostel _is_ a type of company, but I still think it works as a helpful analogy. Most of the things I roll my eyes at or that people don't like about companies, you could try to apply to the hostel analogy and it will break the illusion of that thing being good. If people thought of their work more in that context, there might be a little less company koolaid being pushed around these days and a little more satisfaction for everyone.
Lets say I am a farmer and I take eleven pigs to market. I start with XI pigs and sell three III. I know X = VV and I know V = IIIII so I expand XI = VVI = V IIIII I, then take way III sticks and am left with VIII. It is easier for simple primitive thing because the stick I represents a thing and the V represents 5 I's and X represents 2 V's. It is perhaps easier for someone like a farmer in Roman times to use than remembering arithmetic rules. It is more directly related to the physical world. At least that was my hypothesis.
because I know several "security" appliances where their http/https proxy only allows authentication via NTLM.
And SPA (Exchange) still uses NTLM.
And also Windows AD falls back to NTLM if krb is not available.
HN is a web page, and HTML swallows multiple-spaces into a single space.
All of those countries you listed have horrible internet infrastructure and in some cases massive amounts of censorship (particularly China). I have been working in China for over a decade - wouldn't recommend it for software engineers at all.
If you use Vim, you can `set list` and set the `listchars` to something useful for you.
I think you're maybe confusing monospace ligatures with something else (though I'm not sure what.) In all of these programming ligature fonts, it's quite apparent how many characters a given ligature is composed of, because a ligature still consumes the horizontal width of the characters it's composed of.

Look at the "!=" ligature in the Fira Code example: it's a ≠, but it clearly takes up 2em of width.
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From Darwin himself: https://archive.org/stream/originofspecies00darwuoft/origino...

My work is now (1859) nearly finished; but as it will take me
many more years to complete it, and as my health is far from
strong, I have been urged to publish this Abstract.

I remembered this quote, yet failed to recall the very next sentence:

I have more
especially been induced to do this, as Mr. Wallace, who is now
studying the natural history of the Malay archipelago, has arrived
at almost exactly the same general conclusions that I have on the
origin of species.

Whoops. That's some impressive integrity!
This was done some 5 years ago. In the end, undocumented immigrants were more accurate sorters, with a lower TCO. The company made neat videos though: https://youtu.be/R-HLwHHtDT8
“Build things that don't scale” advice. What is your experience on this?
Or... we place the blame on being in bad places where the blame belongs.

If I throw $10,000 over the white house fence and you jump the fence to get to it, its still YOUR problem and YOU are the one at fault for being where you arent supposed to be.

Place the blame on the people who disregard the rules, the game isnt responsible because it placed something there.

This would be like... "Hey, you shot a deer in the middle of the street downtown during deer season, i guess its not your fault that you were hunting deer in the middle of the street, there was a deer here afterall..."
It's crowded, there are way too many things I don't need. I prefer getting the flavor of feature I need by choosing an extension.
Take a look at https://servicebot.io if you want an easy open-source way to manage all the different side gigs you may have going on.

Platform lets you list the services you provide and receive payments so all you need to worry about is the marketing aspect.

Disclaimer - I am one of the creators
Using BGP to Acquire Bogus TLS Certificates [pdf]
Music Player: Clementine
It isn't about you, it is developmentally harmful to children to only ever see one of their parents. Even just seeing the father at breakfast and dinner for 10 minutes of chatting is magnitudes better. Even if your routine gives you extra days, the younger the children the more consistency is important. Having 3 days to see your children and 4 where you are missing from their lives can cause developmental complications even if it is done for noble causes.
King's Canterbury. Out of 700 pupils, there were about 20 one or more years ahead - I was skipped a few years when I was six, at a previous school, so just continued from there - similar for him, I believe. No idea how it is there now, I left 15 years ago.

I had the advantage of having always been tall for my age, so mostly hid the fact that I was young - Alex, however, was a fairly small chap and I think suffered for it.

Fond memories of celebrating my 18th at university, and the college bar being like "lol what, we've been serving you for a year".