skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Difficult or not, you don't seem to be trying very hard. You didn't address the concrete argument you were presented with.
I'm not sure if any of this will help or not:

- You can add `mouse:off` to your config to disable the mouse

- I use `cursorline:off` to help on slower connections. This prevents having to redraw an entire line when the cursor moves up or down.

Feel free to open issues for anything that can be improved if you haven't already.
Don't Give Hugh Hefner All the Credit. Helen Gurley Brown Changed Sex in America
in other news, bourgeois-liberal publication takes issue with other media promoting traditionalist collectivism
You probably would like Iain Banks' series of novels about The Culture. Some of it described the shenanigans some people got up to after getting bored of such a life.
A Free-Falling Camera Robot for Filming Skydivers
you forgot the down-spinning of corporate and government press releases to make them seem like legitimate reportage..
Eh. Having worked at a Defense Company, a unicorn and then a Big 5 tech company I can honestly say the work life balance is probably the best at the the Big 5.

At Defense companies you're both clearly a cost center and a cog in an unfathomably large machine. Imagine a combination of Kafkaesque and Chtulhu.

At a Unicorn. You learn a lot but only because you work insane hours. Also you're paid under market wages because your job is sexy.
I did not read the article. However with the rise of denser technologies and mass assembly by machines in order to achieve a price point and manufacturing volume it is inevitable that we won't be able to repair items ourselves. That is just the way it is. I wouldn't want to overanalyse it.

You might want to repair something yourself but you are in a minority and the market wants to buy products for cheap and throw them away at end of life.
> This is in part because the risk was not shared equally.

Developer joining a startup risks almost as much as a founder. He leaves his existing job for a promise of a salary, and if this startup fails - is left without a job, and possibly, without a salary either. This happened to me, and I was paid for first 2 months out of 6 I worked there.

> The investors and others who put in money or time and energy for little or not pay

Investors still have most of their money, I am left without a job, unable to pay my mortgage and possibly buy food.

Imagine this: I put $X, you put $Y into an investment. If investment is successful, I get a 100$, you get $Y+$X-$100. If it is not, we both get nothing. Would you consider this investment fair? No sane person would put a money into an investment fund, expecting a fixed value in return, but employer-employee relations are exactly that.
"It would be super nice if your future hypothetical examples do not implicitly suggest I was just an idiot and if you had been there to advise me, all of my marital problems could have been readily solved with some little hack or other"

Thank you for pointing that out -- I hadn't realized I had done that. Brainstorming solutions is useless if my communication makes someone feel like an idiot.
That's a very good solution for accessing files remotely. However there are some environments where only a terminal and ssh client is available or useable (eg. Embedded devices). In addition sometimes you need to run things from the server.
Thank you for your comment. What you said is the best balance I’ve found of how bitcoin (and in my opinion also AI) is a really really really cool technology with a lot of potential, but also a complete scam.
Obviously some resolvers are misconfigured and a depressingly large number of production DNS servers around the internet will be running remarkably outdated software that couldn't handle the KSK rollover via the RFC 5011 method properly (though how many of these actually have DNSSEC enabled is an open question). For example, I've heard of resolvers breaking because they mishandled the transition and replaced KSK-2010 with KSK-2017 as soon as they got it.

I saw the postponement late last night, and my immediate but completely untested pet theory is that the reason they're getting so many 'broken' resolvers running such new software (RFC 8145 was published in April 2017, unbound 1.6.4 was released June 27, 2017) is short-lived container instances that only have the old root trust anchor reporting in before they've had a chance to obtain the new KSK - if they even stay up long enough to get it.

From the root-dnssec-announce mailing list, it sounds like more information is due Friday:

"Duane Wessels started the research on this and has done a great job. He's presenting it at DNS-OARC in San Jose on Friday."
I always mention https://github.com/tombh/novim-mode when this topic of 'normal' terminal-based editors come up.

I very much agree with the sentiment of Micro here - I'm very much of the Sublime/Atom ilk, but I also love living in tmux and my editor taking up minimal resources. So in the same way that you can introduce `vim-mode` into browsers (a la Vimium), you can introduce conventional `non-vim-mode` into Vim. Vim already has so much support for plugins, perhaps unprecedently so, then we can take advantage of that without creating a whole new editor.
Turning hard disk drives into accidental microphones
> This looks like it's aimed at being a better nano, not a better vim

I think that's the point. Seeing as nano replaced pico, and micro seems aimed at replacing nano. Also putting the SI prefixes in order of increasing size goes:

pico => nano => micro

If someone eventually writes a replacement for micro, it will be called milli, I imagine.
> The thing to look at isn't the after-the-fact windfall profits of successfully getting through community review, but the forward-looking expected profits of trying to get through community review.

I'll concede that lower profits from developer-subsidized housing my drive fewer attempted community reviews, and I'll also concede that it's possible that more attempted community reviews could result in more housing being built.

However, I still believe that the loss of profit from subsidized housing is not the significant factor holding back new construction; at least not when 3 bedrooms goes for 7 figures. Land costs and political friction currently dominate the equation; if you could easily buy a half acre and toss up 100 condos on it, the sale prices of those new condos would drop, and construction profits would become a pressing concern. (of course at that point housing would be affordable, so it's a moot point)
Hackaday Prize Entry: Visioneer Sensor HUD
Amazon developing three new sci-fi series: Lazarus, Snow Crash and Ringworld
When working over ssh, its handy to have a text editor for making small edits here and there. I'm very excited about this editor!
do not worry, central committee will fix it in the next 5 year plan.
trouble is, academic performance is (strongly?) correlated with wealth.
Seems kind of pricey. Why not just live in a vehicle of some sort?
I'm curious about the claim that nano is "best editor for slow connections." What features make that the case? Genuinely curious as it's not a factor I've considered.
«I doubt you could liquidate millions of dollars of bitcoin in a day and not make the market plummet.»

Wrong. 1.5+ BILLION dollars' worth of bitcoins are sold and bought in aggregate daily on 100+ exchanges: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/#markets
> Vanguard is a mutual company. Whatever savings that they can extract from efficiency gains they pass along to their customer base.

That's irrelevant if they those gains are less than a competitor's discounts.

> Also, Fidelity's index funds are loss leaders to retain funds that were flowing out to Vanguard.

So?
How is "reasonably expected life time" defined?
I can do you one better because I made 200x ROI investing in the roulette wheel in just a single day.

Some people told me that I'm confusing good investment decisions with high volatility ones, but what do they know? They're just stupid investors! /s
I'm looking forward to the talk on Friday (and the easy conversation starter at NANOG... we can't keep talking about dying clock silicon forever)... but I absolutely agree with tptacek on this one, DNSSEC is worse than useless (solves no actual security problems; introduces many new problems; absurdly complex and poorly implemented across the board), and this doesn't help the optics one bit. I've gotten myself down to one DNSSEC zone I have to run (a .gov, lord help us all) and have been trying to get the resign going since the new key became available with literally zero forward movement. Lots of fun.

(Aside: this was submitted previously but got no traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15362516
Is this the dupe-detector-avoider in action?)
Agree. Though micro looks very good as a light weight editor for programmers, arguably better than vim in some way, it cannot move (neo)vim users like me away. Borrowing Linus Torvalds words on why he is using micro-emacs,

"My fingers cannot be retrained."
Van Gogh's Sketchbooks
Welcome to 2017
You’re a really useful engineer
I used to think this was annoying and snobby, but after seeing the New Yorker deëvolve into a less funny BuzzFeed over the past couple of years, I long for the over-the-top snobbiness of the old New Yorker. At least it was a distinct identity.
Arclanstra?
Most of the major players have funds with expense ratios within a couple basis points of each other. When they're that close, picking the fund with the lowest expense ratio may not result in the best performance and other factors can dominate:

- How well the fund is run, and how representative it is of the index. A fund with high trading costs may underperform.

- Securities Lending policy, how risky it is and how much of the income is returned to the fund

- (In taxable accounts) Tax efficiency. Some funds from some vendors return a significant amount of capital gains and short-term dividends, which can cost several basis points in taxes a year.

In general, the first two elements can be approximated by comparing the performance of the fund to its benchmark over the same time period, and tax efficiency can be estimated by looking at details of past distributions.

In most cases, it wouldn't make sense to switch existing funds to another provider in a taxable account if switching would result in a large capital gain.

I'd expect all providers to get better at indexing over time and their performance after taxes to converge.
I agree. On the whole, with a service economy and comparative advantage, we should be better off as a result. Automation, however, is redistributing a greater share of wealth to those with capital. The adverse side effects of that phenomenon, which is unstoppable, are being conflated with outsourcing, which can be disincentivized. People know as a fact that things used to be better when there were more manufacturing jobs around. They are simply acting on what they know instead of confronting a novel problem with a novel solution. Rethinking education and the cost thereof would be a good place to start.
Have you considered that universities might be able to operate more cost efficiently? Purdue University has manged to freeze tuition for the past 5 years for example.

https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2016/Q2/purdue-plan...
I think what he meant is that the theory can explain what we observe without having to make that very strange assumption.
I think the New Testament disagrees with your characterization of the Old Testament. Pretty much the entire New Testament goes on about how the Old Testament is a series of stories about how cycles of rule making and rule breaking do not lead to real justice, peace, or life. In particular, both Romans and Hebrews (though not exclusively those books) cite Old Testament stories to make the case that the Old Testament (a.k.a. the law and the prophets) is largely misunderstood to be about a world full of crime and punishment.

For example, Romans 1 talks about how people (not a vengeful God) set up the worst consequences for themselves. God's "wrath" is unfiltered humanity. Romans 2 goes on about how there's plenty of blame to pass around (so there's no room for "good people" to blame "bad" ones). And Romans 4 holds up Abraham, an Old Testament character, as an example of how life should be lived, in faithfulness to a forgiving God. All through this passage, and in the rest of the book, a case is built from the Old Testament itself.

Anyway, I don't have strong feelings about Shining Time Station, but I think the Old Testament is more humane, sensible, and subtle than people seem to appreciate. At least the apostle Paul seemed to think so.
Seems like you're asking for trouble from the IRS if you lease a car for personal use and call it a business expense no?
PISA... Tofino... Capilano... I detect a theme.
Once Again, “Three Star Programmer”
I've heard that old PCs can be turned into the equivalent of a Chromebook without too much trouble. Haven't had the opportunity to try it myself.
New podcast for non techies thinking about getting an app built
Daren David Taylor and Francis Beasley take you through the pitfalls and triumphs of getting a developer to build your app.

Search for “the app secrets” in your podcatcher
I'm amazed there's no mention of GitLab's Pages. They seem to be quite superior in this aspect.

You can just configure CI to run any arbitrary script(s), and publish the resulting files. This also includes Jekyll (which is trivial to set up), but also other much complex scenarios.
My personal issue with TR was price. Not that it was priced outside my ability to afford, but that it was priced out of the range of what is reasonable for the tasks that I would entrust to a never-met-before contractor. Eg, in a time-critical emergency I once paid a TR $45 to pick up a book from a store and bring it to a relative nearby, once (lots of context, just go with it.)

But let's be honest: it's a rare, rare event that someone is going to pay $45 for non-skilled, essentially un-fuckup-able jobs.

If TR was "hire a spare set of hands for minimum wage when needed, with quality reviews", sure, I could think of lots of use cases. But paying more than triple minimum wage for a minimum wage task? It's just rare that the situation merits that sort of over-spending.
PRISM is an endpoint for companies to upload data in response to court orders. The alternative would be that they have to provide the same data but employ an army of engineers to manually scrape the results together.

I’m not convinced this is somehow more virtuous than doing it automatically. The warrant was signed, Apples hands are tied either way.
React switches from BSD+patent to MIT license
Thank you for being a voice of reason in a domain that has increasingly become overrun by frauds and zealots.

As someone who has been involved in blockchain research since 2011, it’s sad to see a promising technology (in limited use cases) turn into a buzzword thrown around by the many speculators and scam artists peddling vaporware and pumping crypto prices.
A big win for open source community considering the fact that ReactJs is super popular, and this license was stopping people from adopting it wholeheartedly.
I feel like the trick in modern piracy isn't finding a ship, rather knowing how to survive once the US Navy shows up.
Is it possible even in principle to calculate things like CPI-U from publicly available raw data? It would be really cool to have access to time series prices for broad swathes of goods amd from various locations across the country/world.

I'd be interested in playing with that data to see if the official numbers are reproducible. Also, it'd be cool to see how well one could predict future prices of certain goods, like toilet paper.

We probably also want data on the spending habits of various locations and demographics.
Or Tom and Jerry.
A little odd, yes. It is set in an earlier time.

Nobility, top hats, steam engines.
Termius.com I've come to enjoy, it is an electron app but has been reliable on Android, Ubuntu, Win7 & chrome (although chrome app is going away) on Ubuntu it does leverage snap like this editor.
Water: Do you drink enough?
Beej's guide is the best I've ever read (http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/)
I'd be willing to replace my one-off expensive tech purchases with a subscription model for a specific hardware manufacturer instead. The subscription would get you your device (smartphone, car, fridge etc.) and ongoing support & servicing. You'd be entitled to an upgrade at a predetermined interval.

I'd hope this scheme would be good for the consumer as they'd find it easier to budget (spread out regular payments), good for the environment as manufacturers would no longer have any incentive to make things hard to repair (forced upgrade cycles, ecosystem lock-in), and good for the manufacturer as they could focus less on forced upgrade cycles and more on a quality product to keep the consumer subscribed.
Here's a sample of Shadowstats:
http://www.shadowstats.com/imgs/sgs-gdp.gif?hl=ad&t=

Shadowstats claims that real GDP growth has been negative for every year since 2000 with the exception of 2004. Nearly 2 decades of GDP contraction. Seriously?

It's better known as being completely unreliable. It's the post-truth version of econ stats. It builds its own reality, selectively choosing and omitting facts.

There are a lot of detailed and nuanced articles/posts on the Internet that debunk this site and point out serious flaws. I can't compete with the quality out there, but you must read more before feeling so confident in this site.
> for example, they don't run into walls afterward, they pick up their trains and crash them together.

Oh, mine do both.

Crash into the couch.

"Bust my buffers!"
The article says the FCC must test all radio devices, but that's not true at all. The manufacturer is responsible for testing the device to ensure it meets FCC regulations.
It was wikipedia, but I chased the references down to the source material in Science: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/11/just-nudge-could-coll...
AFAIK Comcast has about 0.8% of all Internet users.
The same way 'reasonable' is defined everywhere in the law: it's up to the interpretation of the court.
It seems like an even better solution then would be if there were no private or government lenders and the universities themselves had to write the loan. There would certainly be an incentive to only give loans that would be repayed. Also if loans were not repayed the university could simply rescind the degree.
They're on Netflix.

I watched a couple recently. I've gotten way too used to HD :)
When people can buy necessities and luxury items but depression is at an all-time high, they aren't doing well either.
Automation for dummies
Textadept – A fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-platform text editor
See also this 1996 NSA paper "How to Make a Mint: The Cryptography of Anonymous Electronic Cash", predating both Hashcash and Bit gold.

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/money...

(and OP seems factually correct: Satoshi was the inventor of Bitcoin).
For learning? Absolutely, particularly compared with something like aws.
I get the security of one time pads but don't they rely on randonmess at the very start (e.g printing)? So as in many cases the randomness generator is the risk?
The ikea in Beijing is just next to 4th ring, and delivery is only like 1 or 2 hundred rmb, assembly is just another hundred RMB.

In the states, it is $49-$99, but don't even ask about assembly.
Yes, but is there something that Ripple is doing here that could not be done by any non-blockchain distributed system?

The chief value in blockchain seems to be in getting people to agree to do something at all.
@justabystander wow your reply was long and very detailed and you put a lot of effort into it.

Let me add one more point, and see if what I said merges with what you said. If not I'm completely wrong.

A lot of books, like The Idea Industry by Daniel Drezner and also Science-Mart by Philip Mirowski say that the cutting of university budgets since the late 60's has led to such an undermining of their stability that Academics have had to engage in a stupid, pointless, survival battle of numbers, conformity, and politics. I'm sure the politics was there beforehand, but they make a convincing case that critical thinking and independent research is much more possible when you're not afraid of losing your funding all the time / scared in general about your job.

An additional point to this is that a lot of individuals see the cutting in college funding as the GOP's revenge for the 1960's, because a lot of the behavior of that era was seen as coming from college campuses. UCLA was actually free up until 1967 when Governor Ronald Reagan began the process of charging tuition.

So in conclusion, academia does have a lot of terrible things about it, but I think say 60% of it is fixable simply with a better relationship and funding style between universities and the government.
Consider reading "Early Retirement Extreme" but s/Retirement/Financial Independence/g. Working towards financial independence can bring a wealth of benefits even before you reach it. There is also an active forum for the book.
sorry if this is a bit ranty:

We should be able to freely sharing digital media as virtual-goods are immediate to duplicate. Instead we've created artificial barriers (drm, paywalls, streaming services, etc).

The only reason these barriers are allowed, is a dying industry is trying to stay relevant. The economic impact of the media industry loss would be great, and the media industry does still have a place in our system, but they need to let go of distribution.

It no longer makes sense to have laws protecting the sharing of media, but we are propping up a false representation of our economic system by trying to do so.
I thought I was the only one who wasn't allowed to watch rugrats! For the same reason!
> There's another kind of person - and there's a lot of them - who thinks those things are important by themselves, and that putting those things ahead of what I think are rule one is ever acceptable.

I think you totally understood my humor. Thanks!

I saw a good blog in 2011 about how it is a waste of time to overbuild things since mostly you are only ever going to use that code for the specific purpose you are writing it, and you'll likely never need to generalize and you'll probably chuck it out anyway and start from scratch.

Obviously there are a bunch of caveats to that and it's not always true that's the case but I think it's a very useful counterpoint to the profession's current best-practice obsession. If you keep it in mind, alongside all the best practices, and you make a choice about approach in any given situation based on appropriateness, rather than just robotically applying best practices or giving into that common Engineer's temptation to overbuild, this counterpoint can help you build quickly just what's needed, which is effective, exactly like you said.
We're an early stage startup, so some of our claims are aspirational. We're definitely not on the same level as Fastly today.

At present, we have one point of presence (California). We used to have another in Europe but we shut it down to save money. However we'll be reinstating it again next month. We're bootstrapped, so justifying the costs of expansion takes time. Long term we hope to have POPs everywhere.

We use cloud providers for our servers. Most of our workload is on Digital Ocean.

If you find the Fanout concept compelling, but have particular regional/latency requirements, it would be great to chat. Understanding demand may help us on the investment side, which may help us expand faster.
On the other hand, I had a bathroom project through Lowe’s and they did very little managing. The contractor did a mostly decent job but he was impossible to reach and had a positive aversion to communicating his plans.