skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's disingenuous to be thinking of how quickly you could terminate non-essential services and staff, and in what order they are cut. You can spend your size, you'd just better be able to downsize quick, whether the economic downturn is global or local, artificial or natural.

City councils seem to think they're in the business of employing people permanently, but they really shouldn't need to be concerned about that, given that the citizens are left to foot the bill, and the majority of them do not work for the local government.
It's nice being one of those people who wasn't using React because of its strange licensing. Facebook has its history. Now I can say it's really good to see that Facebook make the right call.

I will still not be using React. It's just too heavy, same order of magnitude as jQuery.
Here's the full text, it's very short. The first part is a blockquote incase that's not clear...

Alan Kay says,

"...this was just like two years before going to PARC. I finished my PhD. I started thinking about this. I said, “If we’re gonna do a personal computer”—and that’s what I wanted PARC to do and that’s what we wound up doing [with the Alto]—”the children have to be completely full-fledged users of this thing.”

Think about what this means in the context of say, a Mac, an iPhone, an iPad. They aren’t full-fledged users. They’re just television watchers of different kinds.

…how successful is the iPhone? It’s about as successful as you can get, so that matches you up with something that is the logical equivalent of television in our time.

Around 1995, the Suits discovered the World Wide Web. Their reaction: this is going to be television on steroids! Media giants will rule the earth, as the Internet becomes a vehicle for mass entertainment.
At that time, the Geeks thought differently. The architecture of the Net was peer-to-peer. You did not need large amounts of capital to build a business. Instead, personal computers, with access to the Net, were putting the means of production in the hands of the individual. Government would be powerless to control or censor the Net.
As of now, doesn’t it seem like the Suits were right? Maybe they thought that some of the old media powerhouses would do better than they have done, and maybe they didn’t foresee upstarts like Facebook. But the industry structure seems much more oriented to mass entertainment than those of us on the Geek side would have expected.
Are there any non-personal wikis (a wiki with user login and web-based editing) that use org-mode ?
For those worried about ownership of the internet and its platforms, do check out https://ioo.coop/

> If users owned their own social media, they could set terms of service in which they keep control over personal data.

I would like to mention it is not about the individual but collective/cooperative ownership of internet platforms. For example, https://social.coop
Well put. I agree with all of that essentially.
Looks pretty nice. One nit:

: Simple pre-formatted text such as for source code.
: This also respects the line breaks. *bold* is not bold here.

This makes it annoying to cut/paste code in and out of the markup text. It's better to use a block syntax for that, like:

```
Simple pre-formatted text such as for source code.
This also respects the line breaks. *bold* is not bold here.
```
I'm just a lowly grad student, but for my Master's thesis, I decided to sit down and learn TeX which just means reading through the TeXBook for a start. Know thy tools, and all that.

In fact, I ended up writing my thesis in plain TeX, and was able to write some nifty macros to solve exactly the kinds of "code reuse" problems you mention.

Anyway, the whole exercise turned TeX from "arcane and painful" to "quirky but powerful" for me. I kind of enjoy hacking around on TeX now.

Plain TeX library support is also surprisingly good. I used amstex for the document style and eplain for some commutative diagram and indexing stuff.
>our salary info

Now they have my attention! If the hackers got that data, I really hope they make it public. Imagine the shit storm that would follow. Those women who are "bad negotiators" would know EXACTLY how much less they were making for the same work. Please please please, dump that specific info! It would also teach all our companies a lesson about selling that private data too, wouldn't it?
How can I explain to people that a programmer isn't a computer technician?
> You don't really require to give the source code unless the purchased person asks for the source.

I think you're mixing mutually exclusive options. As I understand it, GPL requires you to either provide source code up-front on the same terms as the binaries (I think the relevant phrase in GPLv3 is "equivalent access"), or alternatively provide a written offer to provide the source code to anyone who requests it. The reason the offer must be to anyone is that your customers can distribute that offer with the binaries in lieu of source code. That way, they have the ability to redistribute/"convey" the software in a compliant way even though they don't have source code.

> GPL v2 requires you to produce the source code in CD/Floppy (or like media)

Unless I'm missing something, GPLv2 just says "a medium customarily used for software interchange", not specifying that it must be any sort of disk/tape.
What happens if local regulators ban or limit AirBnB use of that property?
wow. That is one of the most hassling return process i've ever heard about.
My wife and I also love our king sized purple.
For those customers, I gave them an ‘application’ version that was just nw.js (basically chrome). Worked reasonably well for the customers that had somewhat recent OS on their desktops or terminal server.
No? The exact same reasoning works regardless of what kind of oracle the labeler is; it's not at all affected by increases in labeler accuracy over ordinary human accuracy.
Yeah, to me it sounds like a case of "grass is greener" syndrome.
According to the IRS the maximim contribution to a Roth IRA is far less: $5,500.

https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/plan-participant-employ...
Great article. It's such an obvious product. I'm also baffled why it has taken so long to catch on.
Absolutely. I could live off the average Hacker News user's annual salary for like 15 years. Even if I still lived in the US I would work one or two years, spend 10k / year on living expenses (I have done it before) and take the remainder of my salary to a country with low cost of living and live exactly as I do now -- no car or moto, no big house or fancy apartment, no phone, etc. Is all that stuff really worth years and years of total freedom? I wouldn't change anything about how I live now even if I were a millionaire.
Skip reading this article and go straight to one referenced within it https://medium.com/@awilkinson/the-power-of-anti-goals-c38f5...
I wouldn't trust my crypto savings to any kind of flash memory device especially MicroSD cards those things, are super unreliable for long term storage. I don't trade at all buy and hold only.
Cool, I've been looking for exactly this tool.
I'm working on a project I hope to make multiplayer eventually, but the issues surrounding it scares me a bit. I wish more companies doing the hard multiplayer work (fps's mostly) would reveal more of their back end and how they do things.

I don't think anyone has really done it well yet but everyone is hiding what they have figured out so far. I have noticed that certain engines tend to have better success at this, for example source engine seems to have drastically improved, allowing games working on this issue like Insurgency to make some noticeable strides towards being better.

This has me remembering UT over dialup lag...
Yep, though once you reach a certain age it goes up to $6,000/year.

The $18,000 number sounds familiar. I think that's the maximum annual contributon to a 401(k) but don't quote me on that.
It absolutely affects their business; they are paid by companies that want to check your credit, and freezing means they can't get paid by all those credit card companies that send you random offers after seeing that your credit is good.
And for those who think the reference is so well known it doesn't need citing: https://xkcd.com/1053/
Popular Chrome extension embedded a CPU-draining cryptocurrency miner
This is true -- I feel like the author has forgotten just how expensive it was to acquire hardware and software back in those days. You could easily blow half a million to a million on gear and licenses for a solution that today we would implement for pennies on the compute hour with open-source software. Even a low-end dev server would set you back north of $25K, to say nothing of other costs, such as provisioning T3s for the office when dialup was still the norm. (And traffic costs for sites of even modest size were a real concern.)

While it was cheap to get into the game at an individual level (a PC, Notepad, and a couple of O'Reilly books sufficed), the costs to stand up a professional, scalable operation with the necessary tools and talent took meaningful CAP/OPEX investment. (Which is why we also were able to institute the less-laudable norm of blowing massive stacks of cash on meaningless toys and parties -- they were a relatively minor line item next to everything else.)

So, yeah, the suits were running stuff from the beginning -- they may have been government, military, academia, or corporate, but someone had to front that cash. While I certainly buy into the belief that platform monopolies and morally-murky business models are of grave concern, I love the fact that a kid can stand up a SaaS business in a weekend on a DO droplet and never have to beg for a seed investment.
It really doesn't. I'm not arguing there aren't inherent differences in the sexes, I'm asking you why you think the current representation of gender in the workforce is correct. As far as I'm aware there's no evidence to suggest the current state of representation is the most natural. I skimmed through the video you linked and saw no convincing evidence, but if there's something I missed please link me to it.
I guess we shouldn't drive cars anymore because the auto-fatality rate is still greater than zero.
Let's have a struggle session and find out?
Wouldn't meeting only with people that one likes lead to reinforcing one's echo chamber?
And yet RTL languages ...
I happened to catch a few minutes of one of those border/customs reality shows a couple of weeks ago. A young German couple were trying to enter the US from Canada as tourists. They had very little in the way of funds and claimed that they planned on sleeping in their van while travelling.

The official at the border asked them if they planned on working. They both said "no". He asked them again but warned them that their computers and phones had been searched. Again they said "no". The official then showed them correspondence that showed they were expected at a farm were they were expected to work as wwoofers.

They were denied entry.

Personally I don't agree that their correspondence should have been checked in the first case but I can see that this is an example of how this type of privacy invasion might be argued for by government.
Although possible I guess, but it seems weird they are so accurate on tooth age but don't even know the sex of the child.

"bone robusticity strongly suggests that it was male "
I have some thoughts about this. If we think about the strengths of the U.S. economy, it's the transparency, rule of law, and easy access to capital that U.S. companies have. We should encourage all companies to be formed here.

I would drop corporate taxes as much as possible. Now, let's say we've done this. What next? In this age of the global economy, I think the problem with trickle down economics is that while companies are localized, the trickle down is globalized. Investors from overseas take their gains and re-invest it into their own economies at a much higher rate than the U.S. economy.

So, I would tax them on the way out. Make corporate tax rate low, but capital gains higher. This encourages companies to stay here, re-invest their profits here, and investors "pay their fair share" when they take their profits out.
I think that's a solid argument, but shouldn't the goal be to hire based on merit, not "hire people like ourselves" or "try to avoid hiring people like ourselves by erring towards hiring people not like ourselves"? I think blinding as much as possible in the interview process is fairer and, in the long run, simpler for everyone involved.
The article already makes a blanket assertion that happiness doesn't derive from stuff, which isn't true for a lot of people. Plenty of people derive their happiness from material things.
> This makes it annoying to cut/paste code in and out of the markup text.

Well, not that annoying because you're inside Emacs and operating on rectangles of text is a doddle. But the preferred syntax is to enclose the source code in #+BEGIN_SRC/#+END_SRC blocks anyway.

Using this method also enables neat features, such as activating the appropriate major mode for each block of text and doing literate programming.
Meditation advice, clear your working memory first
I was thinking along those lines, but don't you still make it easier by giving away some details about Waldo's facial expression, the relative size of his head, etc.? Still a pretty illustrative analogy though.

How about get the coordinates of Waldo's position in the image and hash them?
Credit reporting agencies make the VAST amount of their money by giving your reports to companies that ask for it, even if unsolicited by you. Putting a credit freeze kills this ability to make money off you without your knowledge.

In fact, I think one way to do more consumer-safe credit reporting is to make it so that agencies are ONLY allowed to give a person's report to that particular person. When a person applies somewhere for credit, they would need to ask a credit agency for their report, and then give it to a prospective lender (the report would be cryptographically signed). That way you at least control who has access to your information.
Any idea on how I might go about implementing this in Django?
Ask HN: What is the best way to spend my time as a 17-year-old who can code?
I'm 17 and I can code at a relatively high level. I'm not really sure what I should be doing. I would like to make some money, but is it more useful to me to contribute to open-source software to add to my portfolio or to find people who will hire me? Even most internships require you to be enrolled as a CS major at a college. I've also tried things like Upwork, but generally people aren't willing to hire a 17-year-old and the pay is very bad. Thanks for any advice!

My GitHub is: https://github.com/meyer9
I've come to believe that some number of developers actually like it the hard way. It's the only explanation that makes sense. We have gone so far backward in GUI development tools.
> Shallow one-sided drivel.

Found the Spaniard.
Performance is the same if not better than database level replication. The database level replication is synchronous too and have to wait for the standby db to finish writing. If it's async, it has a worse data loss problem.

The DRBD replication is fast because it intercepts the write call and then issues the network send and writing to the underlying disk in parallel. Gigabit or 10G network IO are magnitudes faster than disk seek/write. The write to disk on the standby server can happen in parallel as the primary's write to underlying disk.
One of the reasons I trust the reviews on The Wirecutter/Sweethome is because they are pretty up front with disclosing they get paid via affiliate links. I don't know how these sites built up enough trust to influence people's purchasing decisions.
This must be a troll, and it's a pretty bad one...
Not all abnormal signs of stress are indicative of terrorist tendencies.
I don't understand the first point, could you clarify? Do you mean you wish to define your own CSS properties? You may find it exciting to learn that there's ongoing work to enable this functionality and more through Houdini [0]. You can check out a few examples at this houdini-samples [1] repo.

I'm unclear on what you mean by wrapping limits and non-linear image scaling. Could you provide an example of what you'd like to achieve?

As for having to optimize for width or height. Have you looked into display: grid? I believe it may help enable the kind of layout you're interesting in achieving.

[0] https://drafts.css-houdini.org

[1] https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/houdini-samples
Is that always bad? People often advise to be around people with the same goals and ambitions as you to keep you motivated and on the right path.

It's that echo chamber of "you can do it" that often leads to people actually doing it.
This might be the biggest dichotomy I've yet seen on HN. An opinion piece voted all the way to the top of the front page (with a clickbaity title, might I add), yet the top comment soundly debunks the article's arguments.

Yeah, this is why everybody clicks on the comments link first.
Given the lower labor costs and people consider drugs to be so profitable, I don't know why other countries don't do as much research and drug development. Just a few countries carry the lion share of this effort.
Why wouldn't they? Any reduction in cost is pure profit for them.
The reason why Markdown has so many versions is that its original author was aggressively against the idea of trying to produce a spec for it, so several re-implementations went on to become their own thing.

While dialects probably would have sprouted they probably all would have supported the same core, at least, and there quite likely would be fewer of them.
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>> By law, corporations are people.
>This is a commonly held belief, but it is not true.

"Are corporations people? The U.S. Supreme Court says they are, at least for some purposes. And in the past four years, the high court has dramatically expanded corporate rights.

It ruled that corporations have the right to spend money in candidate elections, and that some for-profit corporations may, on religious grounds, refuse to comply with a federal mandate to cover birth control in their employee health plans.

These are personal rights accorded to corporations. To many, the concept of corporations as people seems odd, to say the least. But it is not new."

http://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335288388/when-did-companies-b...
The philosophy and semantics are an interesting side issue, but I'd say the default meaning of those words is that your data, in the SQL system, is not treated as SQL code.
and then raise the price of the drug to $1200

It doesn't work like that unless you're the only drug in class. If there are alternatives, then you'll get kicked off the formulary for a 20% price increase.
Nice. My suggestion would be to give people more incentive to contribute. A byline for the photographer (with the option of going anonymous), karma points, a profile page showing all of their contributions and ideally even a map of them. This profile page could then have a bio, a link to their site, social media, etc.
Actually, that isn't shown by your link. Your link's Table 1 shows Wealth Shares by percentiles in 10% intervals. This shows a gap of 39% for the US and 53% for Denmark, between the lowest 90% and the top 10% by wealth. Comparing the top 10% to the bottom 10% shows an 82% difference for Denmark and a 70% delta for the US.

The OP wrote, "the wealth gap in the US seems so much bigger than any other country," which is not supported by your link.
I love orgmode, but what's the advantage over asciidoc? asciidoc looks cleaner to me

the other small disadvantage is that text isn't really bound to headers. So headers and text just kinda float around meaninglessly. So you can't have:

* Header topic1

introductory text

* * Subheader

some descriptive text related to the subheader

more text to wrap up topic1
Oh god so much cringe. If you don't mind me asking, what company was this?
It won't take an authoritarian regime to force people to alter their embryonic children. I'm certain people will be willingly lining up at the clinics.
Show HN: "React" in 50 lines of vanilla JS
> TrustZone doesn't give apps extra privileges, it just isolates code and data so things can't leak out of it into the reach of untrusted programs.

Right, which is why you might want to use it for handling key material or other sensitive things. Except you now have some gigantic DRM blob (the Widevine trustlet is huge compared to most saner ones) running in your "trusted" environment, able to access your actual sensitive data. That privilege should not be given out like candy (and generally isn't, except when DRM is involved).

> "Cooperating device drivers" isn't really the right way to look at it.

At least video vendors used to claim that DRM-related obligations prevent them from publishing specs for and/or open-sourcing those parts of their driver code that deal with video decoding/output.

> Any application can make use of TrustZone and the trusted output path; it's not something special only EME can access.

So, I've just finished writing my trustlet. How do I get it to load on common consumer devices? The ones I have all seem to require that I get it signed by the vendor which doesn't reply to my mails. How should I proceed?
Conspiracy just means multiple people working together in secret toward some common goal. People do that all the time. Why just last week we had a closed door meeting at my company about how we might conspire to create more interest in the user community for our product. That's a conspiracy.

Of course there are nutty conspiracy theories but there are nutty math and physics papers too. I feel like the blanket ridicule of any notion of conspiratorial action is meant to discourage any form of investigative journalism or deeper probing below the surface of the narrative.

Your hypothesis is reasonable and plausible.
Kinda ironic that BBC Desing and Engineering team would publish their blog on Medium!
Generate random names in iPhone with new app
Take the pain out of Git conflict resolution: use diff3
Water Atomization by High Magnitude Electrical Impulses
I guess the people of Catalonia could vote on it and everybody would see which side has the most people in favour. They could do a referendum, or something.
The system is awful (design, resiliency, referential consistency), but the telephone help staff has been surprisingly first-rate in my experience.
See also http://catern.com/posts/pipes.html
God I wish this myth would die.

First off, that's not sales and marketing expense. It's what accountants called "sales and general administration" which yes, marketing falls into, but so do a number of other items. It's not 100% marketing.

Second, the only reason why a company would spend money on promotion is if the return is >100%. So, if drug companies were to stop all promotion, their profit would actually fall, not go up. So it's not going to reduce the cost of drugs.

Third, I've talked to a number of physicians would appreciate the marketing that drug companies do. They don't have time to keep up on the latest, so a 15 minute chat with a drug rep might save them a lot of time. Of course, they know the marketing is biased, but it at least gives them a sense as to what's out there.