skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Pensions are underfunded

That contrast issue is very weak. GM's pension was underfunded by $7.2 billion at the end of 2016. They had $24.7 billion in cash at that point. It's around 7% underfunded. It's a non-issue, particularly since GM has continued to successfully work at reducing it and has been solidly profitable since the great recession.
Trestle: A modern, responsive admin framework for Ruby on Rails
Terrific idea. Long overdue
I asked this before, but it wasn't really the place:

1.
To those who donate to Patreons, how do you budget/think about/justify your donations?

2.
Do you have a set budget? What if you really want to support someone suddenly, do you stop supporting someone else to do so, or reduce how much you give them?

3.
When do you stop/reduce Patreon support? How long do you typically support someone? Until you feel they no longer need it?
Then I'll go pay someone who voted 'yes' 1/2X for their UUID receipt and everyone is happy.
I've sailed in the past and I'm quite outdoorsy so cold and crampedness really doesn't bother me.
They work, but aren't as comfortable as in drier climes. Humidity is tough to control with low-energy, low-maintenance solutions. Unfortunately, many people's discomfort perceptions are heavily influenced by humidity.
I am not saying it is legal-- just harder to prosecute
> Lots of artists are essentially charging for interaction with them

It's just marketing. Not all artists on Patreon provide this kind of interaction, and a number of artists on YouTube do. Peter Hollens' opinions are amplified because of his popularity, but his is not the only model of operation.

And ultimately, if a personal interaction is what the audience wants, aren't those artists simply playing to those desires? If I'm paying for a ticket to a rock festival, I'd like to hear rock, not country.
Babies are not born with beliefs they can't change. But they are born with a race they can't change.

It's not the same.
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"plus it's incongruent to diss a community while you're participating in it."

No. Your attitude here is the crappy one. Without being called out, a community will never grow. It's entirely appropriate to call out a community for the issues it has. And yes, the HN community has a HUGE problem with not recognizing sexism and racism in the industry. Far too many are willing to take the, "I don't see it, so it doesn't exist" point of view, which not only means that things won't improve, but means that they will likely get worse, as those who are doing the bad things are noticing that they can get away with it.

If you don't want people to take snipes at your community, maybe you should look at why people are taking snipes at it, and work to be better.
> I promise to continue working to stop

A general campaign to stop non-natively-Anglophone Europeans from using "funny" to mean "lots of fun" would also be appreicated.
The Rise and Fall of the ‘Freest Little City in Texas’
What does that mean for things like Vanguard's retirement fund strategy? Isn't that based entirely on long-term improvement in the market?
I don't see the jump from noting that the same enthusiastic fanboy is in the HN thread and the TSLA thread to "It's like a TSLA/Elon cult meeting in this thread." If you just note the connection without the inflammatory language, it's much more productive.
Could have done what Serbian (and formerly Serbo-Croat) does: freely added letters to the Latin alphabet to match the required set of phonemes, so that there's a one-to-one correspondence between the Latin orthography and the Cyrillic orthography.

(It doesn't solve the problem of missing letters and missing diacritics when trying to write your language using English letters only — but Serbs, Ukrainians etc. can't write their language correctly using only Russian letters either.)
> In 2012 there were 2712 voting precincts in Virginia... So to sway one state, you'd need most likely thousands of people working together and not one of them can reveal the whole plan.
> tl;dr, it's not hard to hack paper!

True, but it is significantly (as in several orders of magnitude) harder to hack paper at a national scale than it is to hack an electronic voting record at a national scale.

Hacking paper requires people physically interacting with that paper to subvert it. That amounts to 1+ person per box of paper votes.

Electronics just needs the one person who discovered and exploited the vulnerability.
A bunch of poisoned waterholes: HN, reddit, Facebook.

I need to reevaluate my habits...
But don't they all already have a uuid - called driver's license? And they are verified against some database if they are allowed to vote. Could not you encrypt the actual vote itself but make the rest transparent?
Another Polish-speaker who read this article said she was delighted by my use of “ogoneks” instead of “ogoneki”.
"Leverage can be used for good, and sometimes it's used irresponsibly. As this thread's article demonstrates, short selling also creates systemic risk."

What critics of short selling are often unaware of is the role that short holdings play in dampening a market crash.

The act of unwinding your short position involves buying the stock which means that for every tick downward in stock price there is new upward pressure on the price as buyers step in to cover their short position.

Were these constant, ready buyers not extant, market downturns can turn into precipitous crashes very quickly.
I have seen so many content creators go full time and create awesome work because Patreon gives them a format to incentivize their followers to pay them. The economics are beautiful — turns out just 1,000 people (a pittance on internet mass media websites) donating $5 a month will totally change the way you run your life. And even better, these artists are independent in a way no artist has ever been before. You’re not beholden to advertizers. You’re not beholden to the whims of a few patrons (church or people). You only need the loyalty of people who value your work.

Before Patreon, internet content creators (from the BBC to a little indie band) were in a dangerous place. Paygates couldn't sustain growth but ad-supported free media couldn't sustain revenue (now more than ever with ad-blockers). Now there is an answer.

I am totally convinced Patreon (or the patreon model) is the future of content creation. Ethical, decentralized, economically viable flourishing of the arts.

If anyone at Patreon reads this, I would love to come work for you, please contact me sparrowmaxx at google’s email service. :)
Basically this is an app for "orthodox Muslims". As soon as other, more secular Muslims join the site, there may be more than just "halfway there".

"I think some people think it’s just like JCrush for Jews. But it’s totally not about that from where we stand."

I think they are implying Muslims are proportionally less promiscuous than Jews. I wonder if this is so :)

Orthodox Jews don't even touch ther dates until marriage!
It's a pull architecture. Pull architecture is wrong, push architecture is right.
Are you really sure you want to live on a boat?

First of all it might be more expensive than an apartment, mooring(slip?) fees are quite expensive.

Second, boat maintanance can be expensive too.

I recently spent a week on a reasonable 50 foot sailboat in a nice Mediterranean location and despite amenities (3 bathrooms for 10 people, nice kitchen etc etc) I was quite happy to get back to sleeping on the ground.

This was with good sailing weather and walking on ground every day.

The pluses for sailing are the community, every port you feel at home. I suppose it is somewhat similar to RV community.

So if sailing is in your blood then go for it

If you are a casual sailor I'd say this is idea will show its negatives soon enough.
The important difference is that paper "hacking" scales as O(n) while computer hacking scales as O(1).

If you hack election software, you can change thousands or millions of votes as easily as one. The physical nature of paper means you have to work for each ballot.
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Stellar is not centralized. Anyone can spin up a node. Any node can be a validator node.

You may be confusing Stellar's technology with Ripple's -- Ripple is definitely centralized.
ask an innocent party to cash out for them.

or sell the bitcoin for another cryptocurrency
Do it! I have a few friends that have lived on boats before, and it is cool. N.B. you'll need to develop clean habits, and some maintenance skills. Avoid a wooden boat for a first timer that isn't also a master carpenter.
1) Entertainment - just like cable, Netflix, movies, etc.

2) The amounts I donate are so small on a monthly basis - around $3 per artist - that adding a new artist isn't a pain point in my entertainment budget.

3) When I stop consuming the content. Usually after getting the monthly breakdown of my contributions in my email, I say "I'm not listening to/watching this anymore, so I'll go ahead and cancel it."
For example it took me about 15 min to publish the links today. Just done, have a look :)
We could also use open source hardware that isn't pen and paper. We just need the open source part.
Yes. From all sides. It's sad thing to witness because my naive young self viewed social media as the promise of free information flow, honest interaction and entertainment. I guess that was wishful thinking.
*"ogonki"
This is a fantastic example of how to not write a blog post. Putting aside the ridiculous self quotes, the author has missed the point and value prop of linting entirely and set up a perfectly silly straw man in it's place.

Linting exists for two reasons:
1. To catch silly mistakes (unused variables)
2. To provide a standard style

In most code bases, and I imagine this is probably true for Invision, code is read much more frequently then it's written. Someone reading my code shouldn't struggle because I prefer tabs or spaces, or because I happen to appreciate an odd spacing scheme. Code should be relatively consistent, expected and non-magical.

Instead this blog post reads like a school kid mad that they have a dress code. There are valid concerns around linting:

+ linting rules can hurt good practices (what makes sense for one codebase may not make sense for all code bases)

+ they require regular review (is this pattern still the best one for the team?)

+ they may be overly designed (and require developers to spend more time fighting whitespace alignment then actually helping readability)

Of course, all of the above are fixable problems. There's no sense in throwing linting out with a ruleset. For most developers linting provides a lot of value in the form of immediate feedback, even if the rulesets used can be flawed.
Heh in a roundabout way Russell's teapot came back to haunt him for the same reason as my earlier comment. His goal in attempting to create an internally consistent body of mathematics with Whitehead was proven impossible by Godel--Russel's teapot was mathematics as he could not meet the burden of proof at the axiomatic level, yet we still believe it to be true.

This is not to say that mathematics is wrong, of course, just that since it is not internally consistent -- and since nothing is -- everything becomes an object of belief at some level. Therefore relying on notions like "the burden of proof lies upon the person making an assertion or claim" is turtles all the way down -- NOTHING is provable and EVERYTHING is a belief.
There are no outside tribes today. Unless somehow space aliens show up.
Messenger = MSN Messenger in this context, sorry if it was misleading.
In this context, though, it means the minimum you need to play the game.
I think you've read your numbers wrong. There's a total of 10 million illegal immigrants in the US. Inflow is about 200K.
You could easily see something you shouldn't want to see. Not cool.
But you are still talking about thousands of people, MAYBE hundreds if it's a close election and you are really really strategic.

With something electronic, at the very best you end up needing the same number of people at the same amount of locations. But this time instead of having to stuff a bunch of ballots into a box without anyone seeing you, you just need time alone with a machine at any point before voting or even during voting. (and I'll honestly admit I don't know which of those is easier, but that's before we get into all the other issues with electronic voting)

I think there is a possibility that electronic voting could be better at some point in the far off future, but in reality and right now, the benefits don't even begin to outweigh the negatives.
EDIT: Rereading parent comment I realize you already know all the below, but maybe parent doesn't quite??
Original comment:
That's kind of fundamental expectation within JavaScript, though: 0 is a falsy value. The || doesn't check for null, it coerces the first expression to a boolean, and if it is true, returns the first expression. If it is false, then it returns the second expression (if I recall correctly!). If 0 being falsy is a problem, then the || might not be the easiest/clearest way to do what you need. Since you'd end up needing to nest some separate check for zero on the first expression. In which case you could just handle all your logic in that check.
Fwiw I live in sf (in an apt) and between uberpool and transit, it's waayyyy cheaper not to own a car
This is the same guy who did a great blog post about finding his friends tinder accounts by spoofing a new tinder service. They're absolutely hysterical, and I hope he keeps doing more.
Otherwise technically illiterate people used to be able to do this with AIM direct connect over 15 years ago. It still blows my mind that AOL had a near monopoly in this space, and lost it by continually making the user experience worse.
I've been living aboard a sailboat just outside NYC for about two years now, happy to answer questions.

Addressing a few things:

* buying a boat that is reasonable to live on with less than a month to do so will be difficult. You need to figure out your basic criteria and find a vessel that matches, then get it surveyed by a professional. My boat is 30 years old and was relatively cheap, but it's still a large purchase that you don't want to get screwed on. You may need to sleep on someone's couch for a bit while sorting all this out.

* Boats are depreciating assets, unlike most real estate. Something to consider about buying something that won't impact your quality of life too much.

* Off the grid entirely is difficult, especially from the get go. If you are retired or otherwise able to not worry about being somewhere at a specific time, you may be able to find somewhere to anchor out and take a dinghy in to shore, but I still commute to the office and that sounds like an enormous pain in the ass. I live in a marina, and still connect to shore power to charge my laptop and have WiFi.

* My social life hasn't suffered for the boat, people generally find it an interesting curiosity, even though I gave up a lot of comforts. I don't have a refrigerator, I have an ice box. I don't have air conditioning, I open windows. I can use the head (restroom) aboard the boat, but I usually go to the marina restrooms to avoid having to get the holding tank pumped out. In the middle of winter, having to walk 100ft outside to take a shower before going to work isn't fun.

All that said, it's the cheapest waterfront property I could possibly find in my area, and I wake up every day to a gently rocking bed and usually a nice breeze. It's worth it to me for now.
Texas also produces the most wind power of any U.S. state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Texas

The source in wikipedia is out of date, but it's still true as of Q3 2016:

http://www.awea.org/Resources/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=9488
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Sounds to me like you have been brainwashed.

The "poor children and mother escaping their dangeorus homeland" is a myth.

This is the reality:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPKqM-TV2i8&t=7m44s

The condition of a homeland is the byproduct of the people living there. Wherever the people go, the conditions follow.
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> I don't see the jump from noting that the same enthusiastic fanboy is in the HN thread and the TSLA thread to "It's like a TSLA/Elon cult meeting in this thread."

Have you read the comments and the replies?
I'm curious what charges are being brought against him. For all we know, this detention is completely unrelated to WannaCry. We shall see.
I wouldn't take that bet either as I agree that is a very unlikely thing to happen.

Note, though, that you are using the specific word 'algorithm', where as I am talking about 'methods'. Most cryptographic failures are in how the algorithms are implemented or applied, not a problem in the underlying maths.

I would not be nearly so confident about a similar bet that applied to the actual code being widely used for encryption.
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Right - it seemed like they supported "the people" in the early days. They exposed Bush and Obama when they had things worth exposing.

Then came the promises of damning Bank of America leaks that never materialized, holding on to Guantanamo docs until NYT scooped them, the 2010 insurance file that was never cracked, the 2016 insurance file that was never cracked, ...
Agreed. Clickspring is my goto example. Stupidly high quality videos with full subtitles, good filming, and a well narrated explanation of a really niche activity. There just aren't a lot of detailed videos about clock building from end-to-end out there.

And it's all effectively funded by Patreon. $3 a video is well worth it.
Standard treatment of contract employees?
Horribly broken url management.... selecting a city replaces the home page in history so you can't use the browser back button.

Plus the search recommends locations nowhere close to the search term... and has like 15 total destinations.
The comment you are quoting is a snippet out of context. I'm not sure why you're so upset.

'Whether Tesla survives or not, these billions are some of the best spent money on the planet in the last 50 years.
What are the accumulated losses so far? $5-10B? Even if Tesla were to spend another $50B and go bankrupt, I would still maintain it's great.
What Tesla has achieved is so important in the long run for the environment, for ending the strategic dependence on oil dictatorships, and for renewing the belief in technology. And the cars are really nice too.
Speculating, as some do, that the EV revolution would end with a Tesla bankruptcy is silly, not just because Google and Apple (and probably other companies) would be more than happy to take over before or after a bankruptcy, but also because consumers and the the auto industry have now been shown where to go. None of us can unlearn what Tesla has taught us. There is no way back now. Tesla has already won.'
You can just build from scratch too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfVWFe-0UxM
If I test my passwords, aren't they also now pwned?
Jesus. Seriously? Seriously? <- Seems desperate.
I think we can assume quite a long chain of people per box.

And it quickly becomes unmaintenable, "three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead".
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The sea is pretty harsh to equipment. I hope you're handy. :)

> Does anyone have experience of living in a way that's looked down upon by the rest of society?

I was homeless once for a time. I used to play in bands. I met some punks I housed up with for a while. It was cramped but it was good times. You'll meet people if you make the effort to.

update: I'd also recommend looking into "off the grid" protocols like scuttlebut ;)
Can I do functional programming in my language?
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Except we aren't talking about independent or private actors. We are talking about the Russian government. Infiltrating and manipulating nationwide votes becomes a real possibility with resources of that scale.

It would take an immense amount of reorganization of trust, but open hardware verifiable (both in person and on some kind of trustless ledger akin to a blockchain) voting systems would be more secure against such national actors, because there would be no back room to burn the paper in. If the machine is public and you can trust it, and you can trace the results nationally to insure the results were accurate, you have more security than you have now.
> there's no real value in [linting]. Because, the choices that can be controlled by a linter are, ultimately, not the choices that matter.

Interesting. He says there is no value in linting and then follows it up with the main value of linting. You're right, they aren't the choices that matter. That's why I don't want to waste time thinking about them.
Germany has severe wage compression going on for more than a decade. Companies are making more money every year, but instead of sharing that by increasing wages or sharing equity, they invest the profits (mostly abroad).

The only reason it hasn't blown up yet is that the value of € is kept low by southern European countries that are struggling to stay afloat. Since the living costs remain relatively low, employees don't have to ask for more.

Source: recruiters trying to convince me that €60k is what senior software engineers make in Germany. If you are wondering, that leaves you with €2900/month after taxes and insurance. The wonders of progressive income tax.
So me and a friend recently launched this MVP to gauge intrest for a platform that makes it easy to check your site's performance on social media. Or to make it easy to analyse your clients' site and use our report to pitch to them.

Currenly we provide the following data points:

* latest twitter post analysis + guidelines to improve interaction

* visitor gender distribution

* Facebook page like evolution

* Twitter hashtag cloud and performance per hashtag

* Twitter post advice based on research by Twitter

* number of shares on 9 social media platforms

We just reached our first 55 verified free signups and will soon start checking if we will still convert when offering a paid plan.

We're currently looking for Beta Testers, Partnership, Advice and Mentoring. Anything that could point us in the right direction really.

Special Offer: Create a free account whilst we are in Beta and we'll give you a free six months enterprise account once they become available. All registered users get to vote on which feature we should develop next and steer the product with suggestions. (we implemented this feature voting with a simple typeform which works great)

Current hardest issue: getting real life feedback from small business owners and social media marketeers to make the product more valueable to them.

[edit: markup improved]
Sometimes off-season exists for a reason (ie: Rainy/Hurricane season)
Thanks for your reply. Luckily in Sweden it's a buyers market for boats right now, and if I don't get cold feet I'm going to look at a boat this weekend. How many feets is your boat?
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Great read. Includes plot twists.
IM and text in general is terrible at conveying emotions. Part of the reason why platforms for sharing pictures went so popular lately.
Duncan Mcleod of the clan Mcleod lived on a boat in Paris and he pulled lots of chicks. I say go for it!
Richard Branson famously lived on a houseboat in the early days of Virgin > https://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/5-places-i-have-worke...
Wrt winter, the one I spent on a boat was the warmest I've ever experienced. It was less hassle to just keep the boat heated than to keep relighting the burner, and also good to keep damp at bay. It's a small space so relatively easy to heat.
Bitcoin wallets associated with WannaCry have been emptied: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/wannacry-operator-em...
Verifying hardware more complicated than a pen and paper is prohibitively difficult.