skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's part of the problem. Bureaucracy. If we can streamline all handouts to UBI, replace the IRS and income taxes with a flat sales tax on all money out including business expenses, groceries, investments, etc.

Replace ACA with single-payer or something similar, with government bidding on drugs and forcing drug companies to lower their prices.

We could save a shit ton of money. We need to run government like a lean business, and we need some framework for bills that make them more like git branches, where you can't just push everything to master (i.e. an omnibus) but you need to break everything out into smaller removable parts. No more grouping things together.

Make Congress work 40 hours per week ON voting and writing new bills, make them so busy doing their job they don't have time to go out and work on getting re-elected, the people will vote on them because they do a good job and like their voting history.

Government is broken and bleeds money. $8 per ounce for a cup of coffee and $15 bagels from a caterer at a DoD outing is insane. How about we just make it bring your own coffee, or use a Keurig?
Interestingly, the new deeper HockeyApp integration recognized that my apps were built with Cordova, but then just shows a "Cordova support coming soon" page for Android and iOS. (The Windows Cordova app was recognized as UWP rather than Cordova. The Windows Electron app I have wasn't recognized at all, but that is unsurprising.)
We Knew Julian Assange Hated ClintonDidn’t Know..Was Secretly Advising Trump
This uses the CPU, not the GPU.

At current prices (depending on electricity price) it is more efficient to mine Monero than buy it outright, especially off an exchange (which incurs tx and trading costs).
The counterexample to both these points is a union like the Screen Actors Guild, which allows superstars to be compensated accordingly and does not depend on something like objective measures of achievement. If I were a tech worker in a union I'd want it to go in that direction, as opposed to something like the traditional UAW.
Electron isn't great just because it runs javascript, it's great because you get to use the HTML/CSS you're used to making pretty UIs with to make pretty desktop UIs. HTML/CSS have their warts, but they're a fantastically efficient way to build out UIs.
It is sad to see them go so completely (chapter 7 is liquidation not reorganization) but I also think they informed a lot of questions about what it takes to run such an operation.
> No surprise but looks like standalone users are left out in the cold. Again.

There is no money there, without a MRR companies won't do it.
C is primitive but powerful. Go is primitive and safe. I would classify the Wirth-family of languages as safe but powerful. It all comes down to power; Go was explicitly designed to enable armies of lesser code monkeys to work together without anyone getting hurt.
A command line app to check live scores and games
4Clojure Medium Problems Added on Clojurecademy
Keep on coding in Java then old man. I'd like to see your AWS EC2 bill for running a 64gb RAM instance to keep your legacy app running (if you even are a developer, which is not likely).
There are times when someone wants to cause pain to another, and chooses a response to inflict maximum harm. This could be a racial slur, but it could also refer to a death of a loved one or something else. Imagine someone telling another "I see why your son killed himself." It is meant to cause maximum damage, not meant to be racist/sexist/etc.

In these cases, I don't think there should be any difference in forgiveness between those who used discriminatory language and those who picked another means to attack. I'm not saying people should accept a sincere apology. I see such an attack as very bad regardless if it used discriminatory language. The intent, to cause maximum pain, is unjustifiable regardless of the tool used to carry it out.
The Swedish system sounds closer to a strata system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strata_title
Over time I have settled into the following "personal best practices" of sorts to track my research:

1. I add papers that I read to Mendeley. This makes them accessible across devices. Also makes them searchable. Before: Used to keep them in a Dropbox folder, with a specific naming scheme that has the title and the author names (some if not all) in the title.

2. Notes go into a LaTex document. Either I maintain the document in its own Git repo or have it on ShareLaTex. Before: Used to maintain a MarkDown document, but I realized that to submit technical reports (PDF documents with tables, formulae, graphs and citations) I can now simply copy-paste from my LaTex "notebook".

3. Codes go into a Git repo.

4. For the stuff I am currently reading, I usually print out some of it and carry them around in a folder. Which also has some blank sheets and a pen. But long term conclusions make it back to my LaTeX notes. This folder is like my a materialized working memory.

FYI: if it matters, area of research: ML
What happens if you hit dust going that fast?
The Fight to Mine Your Data and Sell It to Your Boss
which one is that?
I associate him more with his interview with Jon Stewart. To this day I can’t figure out if he knew what he was walking into and just has big balls of iron ore, or if he stupidly thought he was going to get softballs tossed at him.
There's been a number of great bits of research over the past few years arguing that our "strong" housing market is a primary cause of economic stagnation.

Let me count the ways:

(1) reduced labor force agility as you say

(2) high rent and mortgage cost soaks up money that could otherwise fuel consumer spending, creating a demand constrained economy

(3) high housing costs in major cities also contribute to poverty elsewhere by preventing people from circulating between high priced urban and lower priced rural areas

(4) high housing costs risk actually destroying centers of excellence like the SF Bay Area and New York by making it impractical for new talent to move there
It's not horse trading if the very first thing you try to do is try to help out other groups. That's not forming alliances, that's selling your organization into chattel slavery.

Find the points where some dedicated work can help out tech workers as a class and push on them. Then once you have something worth trading for, sell it dearly and hold out for something worthwhile. IMO something like a volunteer writer to put out educational material relevant to working conditions in tech is probably the best bang-for-buck. Teach people how and why to job-hop and negotiate, make it concise, informative, and helpful, and put up a standard link to organization and request to sign up for the mailing list. Bog-standard growth-hacking, except peddling a professional organization rather than some startup's SaaS product.
I'm not sure what UI changes are in GitLab 10 but something that seems a little off for me is that when you're on a repo homepage, there can be quite a bit of scrolling before you get to the readme. For example:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/

Perhaps this is by design, to emphasise the code rather than the description of the code, but in my opinion the repo homepage is mostly for those new to the code to start becoming acquainted with it (other pages are more focused on the needs of regular contributors, as they should be), so it makes sense (to me at least) to make the readme more prominent.

I'm not going to suggest how to change it, as it's a decision that should be driven by the UI design team, but just flagging it as something to consider.
> If they really want to slow it down, start with an environmental impact study.

People who care about the environment should care that environmental impact studies are what they claim to be and not red tape bombs. People are supposed to be concerned about the outcome of them, not using them as a means to an unrelated end.
Getting a degree in liberal arts does not make you "unemployable," as argued in the article this discussion is about.
You see a few replies mentioning 0.1c... I suppose that's as good a fantasy as any. Given a 0.1c peek velocity you need about 150 years to traverse 11ly assuming a linear acceleration/deceleration curve with some sort of high efficiency electric propulsion. How one powers such a drive for a century is a problem. Another is dealing with interstellar dust you collide with at 30,000 km/s. Just engineering a complex machine reliable enough to continue functioning that long is seriously tough problem. It's not feasible at this point.
since when is atom a top open source editor? by what metric? notability on HN?
It's very much the opposite of "Walmart wants to keep people on food stamps so they spend their food stamps at Walmart" because they're getting cash they can spend anywhere.
I use Quo Vadis notebooks with unlined creamy French-milled thick paper that is absolutely wonderful to write upon with a fountain pen.
They can outlaw exchanges and then cryptocurrencies would "simply" become a black market or "shadow" economy. But they can't stop it.
They are also retaining a law firm that specializes in eminent domain cases. Eminent domain doesn't mean the government could do whatever he wants. You are still entitled to due process. They explain it in a very clear way:

> So we’ve purchased a plot of vacant land on the border and retained a law firm specializing in eminent domain to make it as time-consuming and expensive as possible for the wall to get built.

Also, CAH founder has said in interviews in the past that:

> What I see getting results are back-to-basics material engagement with politics, like showing up at a Congress member’s office, calling, going to a protest. I think that’s more valuable than all of our clever liberal comedy right now. [0]

This is their way to give Americans a way to do an action with political weight and to funnel their marketing/comedic abilities into political action.

Will it stop the wall? No. Will it slow it down and make it a pain for the Trump administration? Yes. This is the equivalent of filibustering for normal citizens. Is it a way to do a political action? Yes

[0] https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/2/9/14532050/cards-against-...
I can almost spell the Old Spice in this thread.
>Then you'd better organize your workplace so you can tell your colleagues what they can and can't talk about, or believe is an important aspect of their work.

To clarify I'm only talking about my personal strategy, everyone else can do as they see fit.
> if house 1 gained 2 million and house 2 gained 2 million your better off than if house 1 gained 4 million.

No, that's not true because the $500k cap gains exemption is per-transaction.
You missed step 0: disarm the population.
Link to Lomography, where you can buy a Holga and many other vintage inspired cameras: https://shop.lomography.com/en/cameras/holga-cameras/holga-j...
Looks like this has been fixed now: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1353319

If you grab Nightly (I've been using it for a year now for frontend development and my normal browsing and it's just fine) you can test it.
I had a recurring nightmare in which I registered for a class at the beginning of the semester (generally a summer semester) and I somehow forgot about it the very end of the semester. I've know others to also have this exact same nightmare.
They found an innovative way of raising money for a specific social issue, which is great. Now, this idea can inspire a lot of charities, but your comment may be interpreted as you don't care about the cause discussed here. Like the people replacing #BlackLivesMatter with #AllLivesMatter.
Read the article. Noob Q. Surely not ALL the browser tabs are vulnerable to the getting recorded? In other words only the tabs that are connected to websites that contain these recording JS scripts are vunerable, correct?
> Right; it seems desirable for housing costs to keep even pace with the rest of the market, and ideally stay close to depreciated replacement cost

In markets where there is enough housing supply, do we see people change housing ownership more often? E.g. buy a bigger apartment when they get kids or downsize when they are empty nesters.

In markets with enough housing supply, do we see higher expectations for housing being modernized and up to code instead of being resold with only cosmetic changes? E.g. most bay area housing is very drafty and energy inefficient since it was built in the 60s/70s.
Sweden might be for you then
Y'all don't have access to Wikipedia up north?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States_literat...
Yes, that's an argument I'd characterize as moralizing.
It seems it would be hard to make Oberon the language to play well with "foreign" environments, such as the Java VM and the library. How does one implement interfaces, for example?
How did "Blockchain" and "Cryptocurrency" become mass nouns? It's interesting.

http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/parts-of-speech/nouns/Coll...
> UBI in America would calcify a class system where one group of people works and another lives off their work

Turns out this already exists, it's just that most people, presumably you as well by the tone of your post, thinks that the people who are parasites on the working class is the poor and needy instead of the rich and powerful.

need proof? read the paradise papers or panama papers. the rich are making off like bandits without paying their fair share orders of magnitude beyond what the impoverished are consuming.
ES6 and React :)
I could see it being done generically enough that a person who was wronged sees something being done, a person who did something wrong sees an admonishment, but also someone who didn't actually do anything wrong sees it as a general 'don't be bad' message or thinks it is meant for someone else.
I find the same issue with working on Python.
As of right now: Kpop.

Last week I watched a video called 'Likey' by a Kpop group called Twice because a channel I'm subscribed to was reacting to it, and now I'm hooked.

I thougth I wouldn't like it, but they seem so cute and happy, and I've found that watching their videos is (in my case) a good way to relieve stress after a long day of programming.
I don't blame you for defending a nation that, in my experience, is the victim of a lot of ugly stereotypes in the United States (and probably much of western Europe) in the face of an unflattering article. But I think you're being a little harsh--to me the author seemed to be going out of her way to make clear she was describing only a limited part of the country.

For example, the article makes crystal clear that, that, as you say, the feuds are limited to a small portion of Albania:

> The killing is concentrated in northern Albania—in the rural, often unreachable villages of the Accursed Mountains, and in the modern city of Shkodër, one of the oldest municipalities in southeastern Europe.

Similarly, the author's comments about the road, etc., are specifically about "northern Albania." I'm in no position to determine whether or not this addresses the substance of your comment but, at the very least, it is clear that this description is not about the country as a whole.

And finally, about the language: I'm again in no position to judge (though it does seem likely that written Albanian would be challenging for an English speaker simply due to the much larger number alphabet), but I'll just note that the quote you reproduce is, I suspect, intended to be written phonetically, not using standard Albanian orthography.
and cleavage is extremely effective
The 'send me the PDF' pop-up can not be closed on my iPhone. Had to close the page.
Sorry, but no. You've gone off track. And their post applies to far, far, far more people than your would apply to. This talk of 10,000x-ers is just ludicrous.
Privacy Badger can do this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8wrqe72YG4
Ballmer's Law: "Developers, developers, developers." If you want to be a platform vendor, you need to have developers. Lose the developers and you lose the business.

Microsoft has been a platform vendor for a long time. VSCode is part of their argument for why they should continue to be one.
I haven’t tracked his predictions, but he has proven to be a shill for Wall Street (see aforementioned Jon Stewart interview). If he’s going to throw out the occasional Bear Sternes, knowing full well what the story is, I don’t care what his success rate is.
The Bitcoin story has been confirmed by the BBC http://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-africa-41994362#post_5a0c...
I think you should open a bug report about this at bugzilla.mozilla.org I did the same for several feature requests or ideas and the firefox developers and community is very nice and responsive (I'd say most of my bug reports were fixed within days/weeks whereas feature request usuallly takes longer - but is always consider).

They are very open to feedback!
To accommodate the apparent desire for sports analogies, my intention was to play the ball, not the man from the parent into it's own very deliberately planted goal posts.

WRT the discussion above the parent, I'd say that the two opposing posts are are actually in agreement:

> "Not being political" in the workplace is a political stance in itself - it's taking the position that the current state of politics is perfectly agreeable to you.

> ... not being political in the workplace means someone values their stable income more than they value the need to talk about their opinions.

If you accept that we have power to impact the real world in our professional lives as technologists, then these are perfectly compatible descriptions of the same stance.

I should say, I myself am at least partially in this camp. I firmly re-orient many discussions at work when I deem them to be unproductive, and pretty often this is because they drift into partisan 'badge-flashing'.

But, I'm not shy about speaking up about things at work where the actions of the company affect the balance of power out there in the real world and real people's lives. These decisions are important, if if they're going to be made, the impact of them should be discussed explicitly. This often means breaking the (political!) spell that user and investor interests are inherently aligned, for example.

Admittedly, this may be something which is probably felt more by people at large consumer Internet companies, as opposed to the technology/software industry as a whole.
Examples?

What does shoving Hot Wheels up your bum have to do with social class?
it was wildly successful, had better filters, but really never got the social aspect. Today, its notable to point out that people like Teru [1,2], who shot with hipstimatic in Afghanistan on assignment now work for instagram.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2011/07/27/138746071/foreign-policy-heav...

[2] http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/04/27/teru-kuwayama-...
Also on Safari 11. WebCrypto is widely available now.
I think everything was beta-quality until 2.0 - so yeah it wasn't easy. Nowadays it's smooth sailing.
Square announces pilot program to accept Bitcoin
You need golang on that toolchain. It is arguably the language of the cloud at this point.
You could use Xvfb even if it doesn't support headless mode :)
Is there an actual difference in the US? The right of action in a PBC isn’t different than any other corporation.

And considering that Kickstarter is a fund raising platform it puts its defined purpose in quite a murky zone to begin with.
Vox music app developer puts advanced setting behind 16$ monthly subscription
Facebook only turned into such a hostile entity because it got big enough to exert real political influence. I'm not a fan of putting the future of content creation into the hands of the founders or eventual investors when Patreon inevitably goes public because they are just as likely to turn just as evil as Facebook if you gave them the same colossal war chest Facebook has, and Patreon has a much more reliable revenue stream to fund such endeavors - their whole platform is about transferring money and they just take a cut. By comparison Twitter could easily have turned out as hostile to personal privacy as Facebook if they had won the advertising lottery that Facebook did to become so valuable.

In general you simply don't get ethical corporations. They have no reason to be, and ethics hurts profits and produces vectors for competition to capture your market through predatory behavior. That is why I said I only like this because of the PBC - it is barely better than Patreon, but it is better than Patreon, and we don't have a viable freedom respecting alternative yet and going forward its going to just get harder and harder if Patreon is allowed to amass network effects the way it has in the last few years.
Posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13913962 8 months ago by @Katydid but got zero traction.

I think we're perhaps at peak NN :/
> It's a lot easier for the food cops to find a backyard chicken coop than an indoor beetle-raising operation.

Wasn't so hard in the new Blade Runner
> Maybe it's because I've never been a webdev but I just don't understand the fascination with JavaScript.

1) It's the only true "write once, run everywhere" language out there (along with languages that transpile to JS).

2) npm

3) Asynchronous I/O
Tracing back through the code, this is only triggered with a URL by the RemotePages watcher, which notifies when the URL matches one of a whitelist. The only whitelisted URLs currently are about:home, about:newtab, and about:tabcrashed.

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/modules...

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=symbol:%23Rem...
BDSM. Yeah this'll get flagged but its true.
In principle, yes, but there's a huge empathy gap from most people involved in pushing progressive causes. Like, I'd expect a lot of those folks to straight-up mock us for bringing up open offices as an issue while being white men with six figure salaries.
The Splashiest Experiment in the Modern History of Pro Tennis
Fair enough on the lack of historical/socioeconomic background. That would have been interesting--though it's not clear to me why such a discussion is actually necessary here, as you suggest. (And it strikes me as a bit odd to describe this sort of article, based on apparently extensive first-person reportage, as "not well researched".)

But note that the author does not extrapolate to the rest of the country.

> The killing is concentrated in northern Albania—in the rural, often unreachable villages of the Accursed Mountains, and in the modern city of Shkodër, one of the oldest municipalities in southeastern Europe.

To me, it is significantly more problematic to suggest that the article is the product of some sort of bias against Albanians merely because the author--who is a professional author/journalist and Guggenheim fellow--has Croatian grandparents
CAF (C++ Actor Framework). I plan to use it to compete against Facebook.
> Curious, how can it be patently false when "Visual Studio Code is based on technology from Github’s Atom editor".

That would be electron. Electron was originally made for Atom and is now being used as a framework for many other desktop apps. All the guts and internals of VSCode are completely different than Atom's.
It's far, far more than that. It's who has the wealth and how we divide wealth we create. It's the rules we make together, and the rules we follow without ever explicitly making them. It's who we hear from and who we don't. Who we trust and who we don't. It's how we frame these topics we're discussing.

Humans are social animals. We exist within a power structure that we help shape. We can't escape that. But we should be honest about it.
I recently heard of user profile resets being touted as a solution to various issues. I found it interesting because I’ve been using the same set of user profiles for the past 10 years without issue.

Perhaps it’s a solution for problems caused by too many installed add-ons (that may conflict with each other). I’m fairly conservative about what add-ons I install and don’t have more than 10 installed at any one time.