skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you are describing is inequality, not wealth. A nation can be unequal and still be rich.

To be less pedantic, I agree with what I think is your implicit argument that wealth alone is not worth much if it doesn't reach everyone in the nation. I just think it's intellectually imprecise when I see folks on HN take potshots and zingers at the USA for things like having an overwhelmingly nonsocialist culture, when in real terms it is both a fairly wealthy nation and also a fairly equal one. Not to mention that many states in the United States actually do offer healthcare programs and other benefits that level the playing field for citizens.

I feel it's good to say something on HN because otherwise you just get a bunch of folks thinking they're right without having to consider the opposing view.

Some of the folks around here should go spend a few months in South America. Even the socialist nations in South America are often highly unequal and very corrupt. Some can't afford medicine. Others have decent state-funded healthcare but the programs are so large and expensive that they leave lots of room for corruption. In either case, it would be healthier to receive healthcare in the expensive and price-inflated system of the USA, where doctors are first-rate, hospitals take cleanliness seriously, and there is better access to modern pharmaceuticals.

Lastly, many of the shining stars among the socialist nations are far smaller than the USA. Norway has some wonderful government programs, and a low Gini income inequality coefficient. It's also a nation of around 5 million people, whereas the USA is a nation of 326 million. Those 326 million live in places with vastly different prices for rent, food, healthcare, and transportation. So some inequality in income is healthy -- lest you think people in Manhattan can live on the same wage as people in Kansas.
What's the difference between that and https://github.com/darkk/redsocks ?

Edit: why the downvote? I thought I asked a legit question...?
Though it may not be a core tenet of libertarianism, much of it seems to rely on an assumption that people are rational actors with access to good information who compete on a level playing field and seek to maximize their own utility in each individual transaction.

This can boil down to something like the big boy principal, which does seem to advocate acting like a jerk, or acting in bad faith and then blaming your victim with a "He should have known better, so it's his fault I took advantage of him."
NYSE isn't protected because it's important. NYSE is protected because it's perceived to be important; i.e., it's a high-profile terror target. Whether or not NYSE is actually important, is of secondary importance.

The same reason that public-facing corporate websites often receive more security attention than the actually-important internal network.

(e. conclusion: the recent trend of weaponizing automobiles may be a huge win for pedestrian/cyclist safety... :-\)
if 1 and 2? or 1 or 2?
As much as I like Kubrick, do you mind commenting substantively instead?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
To be fair: that's largely because shampoo and conditioner are largely fake products to begin with, differentiating themselves on the basis of color and scent instead of performance.
Sure... and it's also so advanced that even double-blind researchers can't reproduce it.

I'm sorry that asking for rigorous science sounds like being righteous to you. I am not taking anybody's hard earned money with empty promises. You are.

If money’s not the issue, then stop charging people and give back the money you have received. That will prove to me that money’s not the issue.
I don't know about Costco, but...

The MBA was originally designed for people who had worked their way up from the bottom, and needed to backfill the theory.
Unless they’re among the top 500 YouTubers I bet they make more selling fresh basil than YouTube ads.
Behind Jaggi Lines! was actually a development version that was pirated heavily amongst Atari owners. I played it on my Atari 800. It was the first game that actually made me jump out of my chair, scaring me. I can remember the moment vividly. Great game!
Learning to Think and Argue: a path to automated theorem proving
> A (not-by-much-)sub-$1000 conventional bike will still tend to have low-end components.

Not low-end, just not top-of-the-line. My $900 msrp aluminum frame road bike is a decade old, I ride it every day, and I haven't had to replace anything except brake pads and tires. And I'm not even a maintenance freak.

I could easily imagine a high-quality, sub-$1000 assisted bike. Especially because you don't need light components with an assist, which makes the quality/cost trade-offs easier.
I also won't shop for a lot of electrical-related products on Amazon ever since Apple bought a bunch of (sold and fulfilled by Amazon) counterfeit "Apple" macbook power adapters.
This is the first time I've seen IPFS-hosted content on HN for a reason other than that it is IPFS-hosted.
To make a long one without breaking it into multiple objects is very unlikely. This thing isn't composed of silly putty -- rocks and metals tend to be brittle and break rather than "stretch out".
I sell crypto market intelligence; I've never put any effort in sales. Good work simply markets itself in the right scenarios. Yes what I do is very niche, but simply pointing out that in the right market conditions (huge demand low supply) you don't need sales.
Belgium denounces loot boxes as gambling
Guberniya? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yei3mJm33SQ
The American idea of meritocracy is, "I earned the money, I should keep it. If you want money, go make some."

The socialist idea of meritocracy is, "we should provide basic necessities to people so that they can work, study, and perform to the fullest of their ability, and ultimately earn and achieve beyond the traps and limitations of poverty."

I don't see anything wrong with either view. Nor do I see either as superior to the other.

Lastly, it's irrelevant that people from Europe are not fleeing to the USA, or vice versa. People have ties to friends and family, so you can't judge the momentary health of an economy based on egress and ingress.
It's nothing special about the simulation idea, there are many similar things. Solipsism, only your mind is real and the outside world may or does not exist. Last Thursdayism, the universe came into existence last Thursday in the exact state of last Thursday, before that there was nothing or something very different.

They all share roughly the same idea, there is some reality but by some perfect arrangement of smoke and mirrors you are by definition unable to ever learn something about that reality. There is certainly some value in discussing those ideas on a meta level, finding common characteristics, figuring out limits, but beyond this the individual ideas are, at least in my opinion, mostly a waste of time. What is the point of analyzing something that by definition leaves you stuck?

And as far as I can tell philosophy has long ago mostly accepted this and made it something like an axiom that there is an reality and we can learn about it and doesn't concern itself much anymore with ideas that would, if true, block any possible progress.
Are you sure it's not because of "this one weird trick..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_weird_trick_advertisements
Buying tomatoes even from wholefoods vs literally getting them freshly picked is a world of a difference. Carrots that come from Costco vs. carrots that were picked yesterday make a world of a difference. Onions look, and taste better than the ones you get in bulk. And I can go on. I've made side by side comparisons of both, and regardless of how you feel, I know personally that buying even the "organic" wholefoods variety of produce is a lot worse than freshly delivered CSA from a farm.
I’ve been working on something along these lines. What is your data source and where are you planning on taking things if I may ask? We might have overlapping interests. :)
fwiw OpenVPN has had more consistent performance over the years than SSH for me. my servers have always been half a world away tho. i can reliably saturate my 100mbit home connection over SSH now, so I'm happy.
Ever wanted to spin up a horizontally scalable auto-dialer or roll your own twilio? With this snake controlled soft switch you can prank call the world.
> Governments regularly use accounting methods that would land any private company in jail, for example.

Genuinely curious, could you give examples of these? Maybe it's time to start a country for tax reasons :)
No, this one was detected well after perihelion, and even after its closest approach to the Earth too (so if it'd been on a collision course we wouldn't have detected it in time even). See here: http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/interstellar/i...
https://github.com/goldsborough/clang-expand (not perfect because of name conflicts that may occur, but usable)

Can be used in atom: https://atom.io/packages/atom-clang-expand
Buuuut Ethics is a lifestyle choice...
Planet X2, the real-time-strategy game for the Commodore 64 (2017)
Due to the endless complaints from environmentalists, the hyperspace express route crossing through Earth's solar system, as planned by the Vogons, has be postponed indefinitely. Travelers are advised to avoid the rather patchy B roads in the sector.
>Since science is now establishing a connection between drilling and quakes

Science funded by middle eastern princes trying to stop their competition with manufactured environmental outrage?
> One class was about strategy. It focused on how corporate mottos and logos could inspire employees.

Probably not intended as such, but I'll take it as a hilarious send up of "strategy" and will recall it whenever I witness "strategy" being used vacuously.
I love it!

How's the rolling in comanche done? The lines are no longer vertical then, so seems trickier.

Roll means the horizon is no longer horizontal by the way, what is labeled roll in the demo is actually pitch :)
Tom Cahill, in his book "Mysteries of the Middle Ages" [1] explains explains how in ancient times, people had very different attitudes towards hermits, stylites, and anchorites:

"Though often represented as a period of repression... the Middle Ages offered - at least in religious roles - more options than now allowed. ...in the Middle Ages such social oddities were welcomed and assigned a place of honor. While the rest of us went about our worried lives, they prayed for us continually, speaking to God on our behalf."

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=_vikHFhqIwIC&source=gbs_na...
They can still compete on privacy (Chrome won't do that), aggressive anti-ad stance (same), future improvements in security (if they manage to move more elements like JS runtime to Rust and improve sandboxing).

For the first one they need to stop undermining their own message though (by adding weird extensions people don't want). For the last one, it will take years to complete and some more time for the trend to be noticed.
Link to the working system: https://learn-anything.xyz/

It still has gaps, naturally, but it presents some interesting ways to start learning.
Should you bother with design sprints? A skeptic’s experience
Mathematica is a great prototyping language for people who know mathematics. It is the equivalent of Microsoft Excel. The problem is when you want to do something beyond that you will probably rewrite it in something else. And that something else is increasingly being Python.

I do like the term "computational essay". It describes a way of presenting information. While "notebook" feels more to me a set of calculations that may or may not be commented and don't have a set structure.

It would be neat if we had a standard notebook notation or system that would subsume all of these competing standards. Unfortunately it would probably end up like this https://xkcd.com/927/
What's illegal in this resale? The item is in the same condition as before shipping, it's unpacked, and the only issue is proper accounting/tax treatment of the purchase payment.
The password is for encrypting the whole browser sync, bookmarks and history included.

You’re not required to set one (this is in addition to your google account credentials), but it’s available as an option.
I just tried salt and pepper on my leftover turkey sandwich. You just changed my life.
Really? Most people I know use them when they have a long or a very hilly commute so they can still bike without spending too much time it getting sweaty. Most of them make 6 figures.
Framatube – De-googl-ify YouTube
Is editing purely through source files?

Are there examples of good JS-based graphically editable mind maps out there?
The sad news for Elm/Clojure/Haskell developers is that most of the dev managers are old java/c# folks -- not the sharpest or the most curious folks and they are unlikely to try out functional languages or any new languages for that matter.
I would disagree with this, my small YouTube channel ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6WpEeF48A7r032N486j1cQ ) generates a couple hundred a week at which point I rotate videos for newer fresh ones. And this channel is literally about saving money by buying things at thrift stores.
Ask HN: Considering State Vocational Program for Network Administration
I currently work in an unrelated blue collar field. I'm wondering what your experience has been, and whether you would recommend /not/ entering it (if so, why not?).

I understand the choice is a personal decision, etc, etc. I'm only looking for resources to help me make my decision.

Any input is greatly appreciated.
A space telescope isn’t fast enough. That’s why there is LSST.
I briefly worked with members of the planetary defense scientific community, the folk thinking up ideas to defend the Earth from asteroids. This would be great opportunity for them to demonstrate their technology, if they had ever received any funding.
Well-known unpredictable TCP-over-TCP performance would only explain OpenVPN/TCP results.

But OP has posed also OpenVPN/UDP performance that is 2x...3x slower than SSH port forwarding, so I'd guess there is more to this story (see also andmarios's impromtu test results above).
I’d describe Bitcoin as the AltaVista of cryptocurrencies: an early lead, people will remember it, but not fundamentally all that great and liable to be replaced as soon as someone invents a good (and trusted) alternative.

It might survive… but there’s no way I’d risk money I couldn’t afford to lose the way I would with any G20 economy’s fiat currency.
http://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/state-electric-b... Covers the laws. Importantly:
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At the federal level, a 2002 law enacted by Congress, HB 727, amended the Consumer Product Safety Commission definition of e-bikes. The law defined a low-speed electric bicycle as “A two- or three-wheeled vehicle with fully operable pedals and an electric motor of less than 750 watts (1 h.p.), whose maximum speed on a paved level surface, when powered solely by such a motor while ridden by an operator who weighs 170 pounds, is less than 20 mph.” The federal law permits e-bikes to be powered by the motor alone (a “throttle-assist” e-bike), or by a combination of motor and human power (a “pedal-assist” e-bike).
“””

However, it’s very easy to buy a wheel with a built-in motor that is more than that:

http://www.hi-powercycles.com/hpc-5000w-hub-motor-complete-k...

Get two of those and you’ve got a 10KW electric motorcycle that could probably hit 70+MPH easily.

There are also kits in the 2KW-4KW range that are much cheaper (~$500). If you ban these, you’d have to ban all electric motors, and “winding wire around spinning apparatus”...it’d be very untenable, and there are already laws in place governing max speed and power. We have the same thing for emissions in some states, and enforcement is slim to none. Basically, you have to just count on people using it responsible, just like with motorcycles / electric skateboards / electric wheelchairs / snowmobiles / dirt bikes / gopeds / mini bikes / pit bikes / go karts / pocket bikes / powered paragliders / RC cars etc etc.

How will EBikes be significantly different? All of these have legal uses and a small percentage of owners using them outside of their legally allowed scope.

I don’t think it’s a big enough problem to warrant more regulation. Also, more regulation != more enforcement. Will police carry portable dynos or ammeters and measure the output of your ebike? More likely is that idiots keeping up with traffic at 50MPH will get ticketed by police who notice. It’d actually be great IMO if you COULD have a light electric motorcycle that could go ~35-40, plate it like a motorcycle, and be allowed to ride on normal bike lanes and trails as long as you keep it under 15MPH or whatever the trail speed limit is.

Just like with “drones”, these have existed for decades, but now they’re a “problem” because any punter with a few hundred bucks can buy one ready to do stupid things with at a local shop or off Amazon.
I don't know if these exist in other countries, but some banks in the UK offer an 'offset mortgage', where any balance in a specific current account at the same bank deducted from the loan amount when calculating interest. The last time I looked, they were a little more expensive than regular mortgages, but would be worthwhile for someone who keeps 6 months or more of mortgage payments in their current account.
Banning all electric bikes seems a little over the top though, surely? The same argument can be made that all trucks should be banned because some have been tampered with to exceed the max speed limit.
Shopify's Black Friday Cyber Monday Numbers Live Stream
As the Loom of Physics Expands
But the goal here really isn’t to minimize the number of pieces used. It is to minimize total cost of covering the space. This makes things much more complex as it turns into some weird variant of a knapsack problem.
Imgur confirms email addresses, passwords stolen in 2014 hack
Hey white-flame.

Developers of Learn Anything here. The current version that is live on the website only allows users to edit content through JSON.

However, we are working hard on releasing a brand new version of the website that allows editing and adding things to the maps from the website itself. And that process should be as simple as adding links to Reddit or making a FB post.

The most up-to-date version of our new release can be seen here:

http://dev.learn-anything.xyz

Would really love to hear your thoughts on it. We hope to release it this Sunday to the world. Our main focus is however to bring as many interesting people in to contribute to the code base. Everything is Open Source and built with React.js.
A Revolution in Custom ROMs How Project Treble Makes Porting Android a 1 Day Job
Hiking and camping can be part of a modern life. It is for me.
>Who's to say 3rd party merchants aren't reselling the fake Alibaba ones on Amazon for tidy profits?

Hmmm. Have you looked at Amazon? A lot - or most IMHO - of the products ARE Chinese (So you get the famous "Made in China Quality Control"). Sellers usually add $10-$20 markup over Alibaba/Aliexpress.

(Don't know how Aliexpress is so profitable since their website is worse than Amazon (yes, that is possible); they couldn't even hire a native English speaker to copyedit it.)

Depending on the product $10 markup is probably a good deal, since you get Amazon-quality shipping as opposed to the Chinese sellers stuffing your purchase into a trashbag with zero padding.
I'm fascinated how far we can take SaaS solutions to build something you would usually deploy on PaaS before (i.e. a CMS).

While a slightly unrelated question, I was wondering: is there a PaaS platform which really replaces AWS ec2 instance by flexibility/capabilities? EC2 has great ecosystem (RDS+Elastic Cache+S3) and great flexibility of just setting up some extras on the side (App specific cron jobs+Letsencrypt cron jobs). Is there an offering which could really provide all that without going onto IaaS (which is what ec2 is) level?
The word "e-bike", in my experience, has been used to refer to a lot of things.

I've seen the pedal-assist bikes called e-bikes, as well as ones that look more similar to mopeds. The moped-style e-bikes are generally what get called "DUI-bikes".
These are probably the kind that you have seen:

https://www.fietsenwinkel.nl/fietsen/-/elektrische_fietsen/s...

They're quick of the mark too, and with the limiter disabled they'll be a lot quicker than the stock 45 km/h.
Hehe you're going to laugh at me - I just played the game, exited back to DOS and dumped all RAM to a file. I had already written a relatively popular tool to explore files visually (dump every N bytes to a pixel, with W pixels per line and S stride), so it was trivial to find the raw maps. :)
Literate programing is used to tangle text and code. You tangle the document and the code blocks are pulled out to create a working program. But Orgmode's Babel, iPython and Wolfram's Computational Essays are literate computing, with code being executed in the document. Howard Abrams has extended the concept to create literate devops (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dljNabciEGg) using orgmode babel where the code in the document is used to configure software running on local or remote servers.

I use Babel as part of my daily workflow. Very cool stuff.
I don't know the answer but I guess one could at least put limits on that with information theoretical or thermodynamical methods. My intuition is that you can trade size for execution speed, i.e. you can simulate the entire universe with a small computer if you are willing to wait long enough. On the other hand storing the configuration of the simulated universe would probably take up the entire universe, or at least to me it is not obvious how you could compress the state of the universe in the general case. There are certainly low entropy states that would require less memory than the system provides but they are extremely rare. The only way out I can imagine is storing a low entropy state and spending even more time to calculate parts of higher entropy states on demand but never trying to store those high entropy states. But it is again not obvious to me that this would actually work because it would require rather strong bounds on possible intermediate states.

And I don't think it would be meaningful to say the universe is the simulation. A processor executing some code is not a simulation of a processor executing some code, an electron flying across the room is not a simulation of an electron flying across the room, a dog walking down the sidewalk is not a simulation of a dog walking down the sidewalk. A simulation requires, at least that would be my ad hoc definition, one system recreating the states and behaviors of a different system, they can not be the same system.
> why is what someone "sounds like" relevant?

Because we live in a world where women are treated as less important/intelligent than men. And we must try not to promote that stereotype with lies.

> Claims about a population of people, brought up in a relevant context is not disrespectful

So things like "people is stupid", "most people here are male chauvinist", are ok to say? The context is that the author of the article makes some claim about how women are treated worse than men in tech.

> Who says it's false?

All the articles posted in HN about salaries. Every year stackoverflow makes a survey for developers where they analyze among other things the salaries (for example: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2016#salary-gender) There is almost no gap in salary by gender with same years of expertise, the gap only happens with age, >35, where the position is important (it means less women in top positions). But this topic has been brought here over and over, it doesn't need to cite it all the time.

I repeat the question again: How "That is not why women earn 20% less than men. It is because men work longer hours over longer periods of time than women do." is not disrespectful and how it was backed?