skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you make them a utility, you're giving them recognition and connecting the to government in ways specific to them.

The government could arguably do two things here:

1. Tell them that they have to comply with common carrier style rules for any infrastructure that is deemed utility like

2. Nationalize the services which are utility like

Both are politically hard to do with #2 being arguably impossible in the US. Hell, even the railroads are still privately owned - despite the monopoly hell they went through with Roosevelt.

If anything would happen though it would be #1 as it's fairly straight forward like the FCC did with ISPs under Title II - now repealed. Again, politically difficult.
Those goods are also cheaper than in most developing countries as well. As in, the pair of Levi's that cost you $40 in Amazon will run you much higher in developing countries. Sure, you can get cheaper jeans from other local brands, but Levi's is seen as premium quality
Time to revisit this theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiregional_origin_of_modern...
Even the FBI had trouble getting into an iPhone. 3D printing a face might be a real solution in situations like that. Of course, for the average person, face id is probably just as secure as touch.
I think that's the main goal (charging phone+tablet+laptop). He's talking about that in one of the other posts on the site.
Well, we don't want the drones getting high now do we?

I'm so so sorry, I just couldn't resist
Optimizing for cost is not always the top priority.

For example, when you're camping or at another event with lots of people around. There's nothing quite as abominable as a fleet of autos chugging along in a loud cacophony.
For comparison, if you choose not to go for the free, public distribution of SQLite, the commercial license and warranty for it is $6000.
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I work for a startup that specializes in data matching (usually called reconciliation in banking / finance industry). Some core matching algorithms rely on comparing sorted input using sliding windows; others rely on bucketing of some kind; anything to avoid O(m*n) when comparing two lists.

The lists involved can easily run into the millions, depending on the domain.
This is pretty much it they have developed a way to take credit for whatever good thing that happens to any member of their congregation while effectively blaming those with misfortune as the creators of their misfortune as they either did not pray enough or give their tithes to god.
My data point would be Borg Backup, which, if you were to consider Bountysource to be payment for development, is under-financed by perhaps a factor of 40. 80+ % of funding came from three organizations.

And what I've heard from other maintainers is that Borg seems to do comparatively well.

So no, if you think in terms of payment, donations do not work in the open source ecosystem.
> we no longer worry about food, safety and survival

Do "we"? You are denying the existence of millions or billions of people who worry about food, safety and survival.

Including the ones that work very hard at manufacturing phones so powerful that you don't care about the size of that 40MB app.
"everybody can learn to code"

Interesting, completely different from my teaching and CTO experience. Also interesting it looks very different from German universities, where e.g. in Berlin the majority of students I've interviewed can't do FizzBuzz in an online interview.

How would you assess "good programmer"?

From a very practical point of view, mine would be something like can write a feature on his/her own, gets transactions correct, doesn't create performance bugs that show in live systems, good maintainable, readable, understandable architecture. We definetly could not get everybody on that level even with a lot of mentoring.

We had a CTO meetup recently and mostly everyone shared the same experience.

Coming back, would be interested in "How would you assess good programmer"?
True. I spent around $1000 for my iPhone few months back. This was for the 32GB one and it was on special.Prices for the 128GB were just ridiculous. I was a bit surprised when I saw headline of this article because we have been paying over $1000 for ages now.
Coding is such a nice example to go with. Imagine if gene A showed a 3% higher chance of having some socially extremely taboo sexual attraction? Imagine how a child would be treated, growing up with everyone knowing this about them?
Plus a phone has a much shorter life, batteries you can't change on your own, accidental destruction, a laptop will last longer than a phone.
HS dropout. I used to build windows and doors when i was nineteen at an industrial park for wage. I wrote poetry and prose, d&d adventures and designed games + drew maps. Later I fixed cars on the side but wasn't very good at it. Studied philosophy in comm college and on my own.

Eventually I started coding and building/modding PCs and became a TKD instructor and international FC fighter. I've since become an experienced SA and systems programmer.

Where is the alike progression to be found now?
Completely spitballing this one, but I can imagine that a bike might be argued to not be a safe way to transport drugs or any sort of high-value delivery, since they are less easily secured and more easily stolen than a locked motor vehicle when it's parked outside an apartment building (for example).
This is an awesome dual license. I like it.
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With a quick glance, I learnt about the intrincate details of the license. However, I have no idea of the technical details behind the library or how the relevant code may look like (note that I can go to the sample sources, but without a proper introduction it takes some work to follow).

I'd suggest putting more emphasis in the library details, and why it is good (not just how good it is) especially before all that licensing information.
Yeah, I think that's just comparing current top to new top.

My guess is we get a 7 replacement (named 7S or 8) and an ultra-premium (named 8 or iPhone Edition).

Or, maybe not, and there is no real 7 replacement. Just the ultra-premium, and the 7 stays on as the mid-level, maybe with $100 price reduction (and the 6S is retired).
False dichotomy. I just bought an Android phone over the weekend for $35 (on sale from $50) -- the LG K3. It has an older Android OS (Marshmellow) a little slow, the screen resolution isn't great, and the keyboard input is a little more fiddly than my Nexus 5X (which bricked, which is why I needed to get a new temp phone), but otherwise it works just fine.

Six years ago I paid $170 for an equivalent phone (older version of android than current, slower, less ram, space, etc). On sale. And used it for almost a year and a half. So the low-end has really gone down in price.
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> And there could be other usage of that card. Like if you make it a chip & pin so the card could become an unforgeable digital signature (physical signatures are absurdly unsecure too).

Digital signatures are this just as much as any other cryptography:

https://xkcd.com/538/

You can put a gun to someone's head and force them to sign something, or observe their PIN and borrow their card while they're not looking, and the signature will match. Which means it is no solution to the problem where you claim there is a valid signature and they claim it isn't legitimate and the signature can't tell you who is telling the truth.
Hasn't Google Fiber stopped expanding? Many people in America are still stuck with Frontier, Century Link, etc.
The Zcash trusted setup was decentralized: multiple persons/entities/third-parties participated, including Peter Todd who generated his part of the parameters while driving across Canada with a laptop that was destroyed after the process... http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/the-cr...
> people in the US have much less disposable income than people in other developed countries

Is this true? I always heard it was the other way around:

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

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets-economy/090616/...

And median: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income
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"Extended" ? If I look back 20 years, there was certainly a component of university life that was ... a bit less than adult.

Remembering some Latin texts from in high school, I get the distinct impression the same could be said of Grammar schools in ancient Rome. Having (quite a bit of) wine with colleagues and even with the teachers on occasion was pretty normal. Living together was a necessity in many places, even for the rich.

Biggest difference with High School being that having good grades was pretty much rewarded, even socially. Not everywhere, but more than a bit.
> welcoming nature of the locals

I think that only comes off if you can pass for a local. At least here in Ohio, the better part of rural people are raging xenophobes, who live in the boonies to get away from Those People. It may be different where you live.

The National Parks and other attractions are better though, and they do expect Others to come down on occasion, so their presence isn't met with as much resentment as you would have going to a non-chain diner.

Source: I'm from quasi-rural Ohio.
Seeking CTO for disruptive Toronto startup
We're looking for a senior NodeJS/ReactJS developer to take on a CTO role in our company. We're based in Toronto, and are looking for someone who has 5+ years experience developing web and mobile apps.

If this sounds like you, and available would be happy to discuss more over a call.

You don't have to be in Toronto, or Canada although that would preferable but happy to talk either way if you're the right person.

P.s. Do you think that you would be able to architect a scalable web & hybrid mobile app from scratch to launch by yourself (maybe with the help of one other dev), within 2-3 months? Front-end / clientside is already designed and coded.

Email me at justbookedyyz@gmail.com to learn more :)
A little side project we've built in a few days that will hopefully be useful to some of you.

After speaking with clients, we found it cumbersome to keep visiting each of the developer sites when we wanted to know what the latest version of a CMS or Framework was, and when it had been released. So, we decided to build Verstroy so that everything is accessible quick and easy in a single place.

There's still a lot of tools we need to add but we would love some feedback. Let us know if you feel there are any entries that you think should be added as a priority.
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So you are one of these "current year" people?

Also I want to point out that your assumption of gender from pure appearance is abhorrent.
E.g., Linux and GNOME
I'm also a user of both Windows 10 and Mac OS X. In no particular order, here's why I prefer OS X:

No advertising built into OS X on a fresh install. No default collection of usage. Faster boot times, faster wake up from sleep and faster shut down (ever been stuck on shutdown?). Forced updates, with a count down to save my work before a forced reboot (seriously, what decade is this?!). Windows Trackpads suck compared to Mac (even with the Precision Touchpad enabled laptops... and so much more.
> Code style

How is that an issue in this day and age? Just run astyle or indent.
My sentiment has been that this high school-level authoritarianism seems to be in vogue on a larger cultural level than just educational settings. Largely, status quo maintenance is seen as a positive, so don't rock the boat, don't get out of line. In another era, I would have referred to this as "conservatism" but the silly political posturing makes this term less useful (since this authoritarianism has no political boundaries it seems).

Even now, I'm hesitant to discuss this here (or most places) because, despite the best intentions in arguing a position (even out of pure rhetoric), I face the high probability of being punished for going against "the collective's" thoughts. Because disagreement means punishment is in order. You're wrong, I know it, fuck you, downvote, whatever. And, if the collective severely disagrees with you, it is, apparently, acceptable to let it be known to your employer, spouse, parents, local pizza shop, etc.
Almost everyone is politically motivated in some way to slam the healthcare system; nobody is politically motivated to defend it.

Personally I'd offer the somewhat-feeble defense that it isn't as bad as people say it is, but I'd stop far short of calling it good... because I've got my own political axes to grind too, even if they are nearly diametrically opposed to the local consensus. But it isn't actually true that the American health system requires you to sign into indentured servitude the moment you walk in the emergency room door, and injects you with strychnine and tosses you out the door if you can't pay enough to satisfy the bureaucracy this week. Ambulance crews do not prowl the street and abduct unsuspecting European tourists and force them to donate blood before they're allowed to escape. Doctors do not actually giggle with glee and make "chaching!" noises when giving you bad diagnoses.
This is actually a) not true and b) not relevant to the original argument. I was amazed by how many people I met in Thailand and Korea who were struggling to meet $500 rent that had iPhones. More importantly, the original post argued that price of iPhone was directly correlated with disposable income.
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Really? To me it seems like the US has a higher disposable income per household (after taxes) [1]:

US ~41k, Switzerland ~36k, France ~30k and Germany ~32k

[1]: http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/topics/income/
That's not really the threat, though. We're worried about what happens when someone has an 80% chance of having a disease that requires expensive treatment for the sufferer's whole life. At that point, insurance is either too expensive to buy or amounts to giving money away.
Equifax blames open-source software for its massive security breach, Really?
3rd party sales make up more than half of amazon sales to my knowledge.
How can decentralised storage models prevent massive data breaches?
I don't think it would have been a big problem if you are allowed to put your own secureboot public key.
Facebook app on iPhone is reporting at 1.02 GB for me. Most space used with the exception of storage-based applications like photos/music.
The article mentions nothing of the most important problem we have yet to solve. Who is liable for protecting private data?

The way it works right now is that everyone is basically agreeing to publish any information when they use these platforms. If Facebook, Apple or Google leaks this information they are not legally liable. For the ad-based revenue models they couldn't be, their entire business model is selling this information!
You could easily argue disruption is likely to result in worse rent-seeking.

Premise: The main way you disrupt an industry is by radically increasing financial efficiency.

You increase profit margins by finding innovative ways to decrease spending on e.g. workforce, letting you shift a larger percentage of your revenue to funders, i.e. the owner class. Those profits are used to further innovate in ways that increase profits, decreasing the working population's share of profits and increasingly centralizing wealth.

How does that not happen?
The issue I was discussing was the allegation that firms were calling around in a wage suppression conspiracy. Like Google/Apple/etc got caught doing.
The story is the administration was looking for a reason to shut it down.
Right, and an iPhone can get you to the grocery store once you plug a car into it's charging port.
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This is why no institutional embrace of weirdness or "diversity" will ever be sufficient. Institutions don't value difference; they see it as a threat. What we've accomplished by celebrating weirdness and diversity is that our institutions see it as a positive threat, like a company sees another company's cool product as a threat. Instead of stamping it out, they copy it or acquire it. And of course once it's in house, it gets controlled, improved, enhanced with the "competitive advantages" of the institution, etc. Stunted and erased, in other words.

The irony of today's institutional elites patting themselves on the backs for bringing the counterculture into boardrooms and college administrations is such a cliché that even David Brooks has written about it, but somehow it's impossible to see when you are part of it. We are easily fooled by the fact that we are all intellectual and spiritual heirs of the counterculture. Unfortunately, this doesn't tell us very much about ourselves. Elites can't regard themselves as permanent revolutionaries simply because they employ the same tools and rhetoric to maintain order as they did to create change. But just like successful revolutionaries patrolling the streets of a police state who can't help seeing their guns and spies as tools of liberation, college administrators can't help seeing their administrative initiatives as caring and supportive. They think they are helping these students by erasing an environment that is associated with self-destructive behavior and lower metrics of student success. Their suffocating, stodgy oppression is phrased in the progressive language of their hopeful youth. Instead of seeing "alternative" students as a source of evil, they see them as providing great value to the institution and deserving the greatest support and care, which just happens to be exactly the same action that scratches their administrative itch to snuff out difference. They took the lesson of their revolution -- care for vulnerable people and nurture change -- and they systematized it and made it part of their institutions. Now, in order to safeguard that change, they have to guard their system against threat. Appreciation for difference and capacity for change are baked into the system, so anything that doesn't fit must be something else.

I'm not saying this kind of thinking is always bad. It is necessary for democracy, for example: you institutionalize one kind of change (transfer of power via elections) and delegitimize others (coups, for example.) I'm just saying that perhaps they should be a little more honest about who they are. They're the wielders of institutional power, looking to improve the world by pushing their control from 90% to 95%, 95% to 98%, erasing one island of nonconformity after another.

But this sounds contradictory to them. They are the champions of nonconformity. They are going to rescue nonconformity from these harmful conditions and help it thrive. Plus ça change....
How would you like it if a car mechanic left extra garbage in your car because he has no time to clean it and you don't know what's underneath the hood anyway so who cares!

It's kind of hard to trust someone with that attitude, don't you think?

Yet we waste CPU/RAM/Disk space on consumer's devices without hardly giving it a second thought.
The OP is referring to the OP-linked 18F writeup (you might want to read it), which says "Based on consultation with NIST we follow these steps..."
Genuinely ignorant question: couldn't a company file for a patent, and then open-source it? (not sure if open-source is even the right terminology)

I'm picturing a scenario where the idea is patented, but the patent holder reserves no rights on it, de-weaponizing the patent.

Thus no one else can patent the idea and use it offensively nor is there a question of the original patent holder "turning evil" and using the patent as a weapon.
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Daddy/mummy/auntie/uncle/cousin/sister/brother pretty much indicate age/seniority/importance/familiarity in Nigeria without necessarily saying much about actual blood relation.

So the use of "daddy" in itself is just cultural and nothing specifically to do with the church.
That's very generous of you. When my parents got married, my grandparents paid for their honeymoon. Had the resort where they were staying reported to their parents what they did there, they would have been outraged. Would something like this also be accepted in America?
I think it's common for us engineers- we care about the problem, the details. So that's what we focus on. And that can actually help in interviews- we can rely on our knowledge to give us the confidence we need. That sort of quiet confidence shows the interviewer that you can do the job. The rest of it is just treating the interviewer how you would want to be treated- with respect and kindness. That shows that you can get along with him and the rest of the team. That's it! That's all they're looking for.
Right. Why?
like a gold iwatch?
An opposing data point: I can't recall the last time I used a physical programming book for anything other than a monitor riser (being so thick, they're fantastic for this). And I am from the generation where those books were how you learned to program.

Every resource I consume today is either in HTML or PDF form.
Perhaps because we now see childhood as extending much further, and college as more an extension of highschool? I mean, you stay on your parents health insurance until 26, and most students are having the bills largely paid by parents. According to this report, its 41% parents/relatives (savings+loans), 34% scholarships, 25% students (income/loans). So 75% of the tuition is the University and the Parents, and that's not even counting all the other sundry expenses.

http://news.salliemae.com/files/doc_library/file/HowAmericaP...

That and we now are emphasizing college as a must-have entry to getting a legitimate career, so we have to make it prettier and more mainstream since huge masses of people are willing to spend large amounts of money. Decades ago, it was for the few who wanted to pursue higher education out of genuine pursuit of knowledge, and was much less expensive.
Right, So I am doing a research project and If I want to use this library in that project, does that mean I have to pay to use it. My project is currently closed source , because don't want anyone to steal stuff before I publish my paper. After that the code goes public.
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> Some 45 percent of American adults get news from Facebook. Google's search market share in the U.S. approaches 86 percent. About 43 percent of all online retail sales in the U.S. last year went through Amazon.

Why is this a problem? No one forces people to get news from Facebook, search results from Google, or online purchases from Amazon. If any of these companies does or starts doing something that is truly detrimental to consumers, the switching costs are low for all of those products, and there are plenty of competitors ready and able to steal marketshare if they can offer better alternatives.

Some people worry about monopolies, but I don't - they only have power when I choose to give them my money (unlike governments who keep power by force). I worry about society being lulled into the enticing-but-false narrative that we need more regulation in every corner of our lives.
Everyone is proud of themselves for not literally using a whiteboard these days, but they still want you to write code while someone watches. I think for a lot of people, in spirit that is not so different from whiteboards.
Reminds me of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2XQ97XHjVw
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