skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Mobility at every level has never been greater" is a completely unfamiliar claim to me. I literally can't find a single plausible source saying that about socioeconomic mobility - they all say it's been flat or falling for at least 20 years.

Are we maybe talking about different forms of mobility?

From Wikipedia:

"In recent years, several studies have found that vertical intergenerational mobility is lower in the US than in some European countries.[1] US social mobility has either remained unchanged or decreased since the 1970s.[2]"

"A study published in 2008 showed that economic mobility in the U.S. increased from 1950 to 1980, but has declined sharply since 1980.[3]"

"A 2013 Brookings Institution study found income inequality was increasing and becoming more permanent, sharply reducing social mobility.[4]"

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/us/harder-for-americans-t...

[2] http://www.economist.com/node/3518560?story_id=3518560

[3] http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/43/1/139.refs

[4] http://www.brookings.edu/about/projects/bpea/latest-conferen...
I would recommend Red Rising. A very good read!
Facebook made a commitment they wouldn't connect the data in order to get permission from competition authorities for the merger. I don't know how legally binding that is.
Short Seller Says Naive Bitcoin Traders Open a Pathway to Profit
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Node.js uses javascript as its default language interface, and considering it is software intended for server-side, with a userbase ranging from Microsoft, IBM, Netflix, Yahoo and Paypal (to name a few) in production environments, I would assert without doubt that it is in fact critical.
Advertisement or not, it is software created for the purpose of marketing, increasing brand awareness/engagement.

More importantly, it is software that has nothing to do with improving FireFox, collecting telemetry, error reports, running tests, experimental features, or anything else the Shield Studies program is ostensibly to be used for.
There isn't one, it's just not built in.

I added it as a feature to my package kubert[0] but that needs a little love/work I haven't had time or motivation to do recently, and there's upstream work in Kubeclient needed to make it work with GKE (when I started work was doing kube on AWS but since moved to GKE, and helm instead of ky for templating/deploy). But I really wish there was a fairly cnanonical tool a bit like this but working with helm and more or less adaptable or most kube deployments, maybe via a few adapters or something. If anyone knows of one, or wants to help to turn kubert into that, let me know.

[0] https://github.com/stellaservice/kubert
The future is frozen
Learn PostgreSQL on the Job at Red:4
When I was young, iq was calculated as intelligence devide by average intelligence multiplied by 100. By that logic, world's iq could never increase. So, what's new definition ?
> I think 5-7 years is much more normal

Given the trend (in Germany) to crack down on ICE cars, you're looking at a way shorter timeframe. Once the first court OKs ICE bans, stuff is going to get nasty.
It's still openly debated, but the generally accepted Best Order to read the Dune Novels is as follows:

Dune, followed by a 1-5 year pause, followed by Dune. Repeat until death.

You may, if you wish, throw in the first hundred pages of a different Dune novel every ten years or so, just to remind you of the correct sequence.
The Best Books on the Napoleonic Wars
Judging by the readily quantifiable responses on HN expressing disapproval, I definitely don't believe it's "just you". As far as "cognitive validity" is concerned, the closest you'll get to an answer from the author is their "Why Screenless" section. But you may still be left in "agree to disagree" territory with them.
- The Innovator's Dilemma by Clay Christensen

- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

- A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking

- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

- The Industries of the Future by Alec Ross

- Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss

- Start with No by Jim Camp

- How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg

- The Everything Store by Brad Stone

- The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly
TCC (Tiny C Compiler) is very underrated in my opinion. It is so fast that almost anything compiles instantly, and it is so simple, that it is a great way to start with C.
they share all location information
I think there is a frequent problem where blog posts are written by people who went down a rabbit hole they maybe shouldn't even be down.
Yeah it's all so simple until you realize that means every house running a clothes dryer all at the same time between 5pm and whatever time in the evening everyone is done charging.

Los Angeles and parts of the Bay Area have had nearly annual brownouts for the last 20 years just from air conditioners during heat waves. How in the world do you expect that aging power grid (in the fifth/sixth largest economy no less...) to handle a clothes dryers in every house running 4+ hours a day?
There is no "war against Javascript" as the author suggests. It just happens to be the chosen language of the now insidious ad-driven corporate-sponsored web browser.

It is not Javascript per se, but the so-called "modern" browser that creates problems for so many users. The problem is not even that this program exists. The problem is that users are coerced to use it and it is controlled by a third party that needs to sell something, either to advertisers or to users.

Again, there is nothing inherently threatening about Javascript. There are many languages to choose from and anyone can choose not to use it. It is not tied to the web browser anymore. Unfortunately it is from that association that it gains a stigma like the one the author suggests with his "war on Javascript" comment.

Today, there are a variety of standlone JS interpreters, of all sizes, and the language is routinely used outside of the browser. Peer-to-peer projects use it. Tiny interpreters for microcontrollers use it. Javascript can live on without the corporate web browser.

The problem is the irrational assumption one must use a corporate sponsored web browser to do anything interesting with a computer. This program automatically runs code from "anonymous", commercial third parties, which today happens to be JS, using the user's computer resources. The user today does not get to choose the language, but more importantly, given the level of coercion and absence of alternatives, she does not get to choose whether or not to run the third party code.
You’re ignoring conversion/storage losses when charging, which are on the order of 20%. And I think actual EVs are much closer to the less efficient end of your range (with the heat on, I barely get 3 miles / kWh on my Bolt, with no environmental controls, it’s about 4 miles / kWh, which is already the least efficient end of your range).
Off-topic, but I am curious what you are using for your OS X laptop. I'm assuming from your choice of wording that it isn't Apple hardware and am interested in your experience with what is working well for a non-Apple OS X machine and how happy you are with it.
> Heck, when I bought my current house I didn't need to do anything since the previous owner already had a NEMA 14-50 outlet for their welder.

Let me guess you're countryside? Friend of mine has a relatively new house in Munich, biggest thing he has is a 3x16A CEE outlet.
This piece is a nice argument for what FB/WA did wrong: https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/27/privacy-groups-call-foul...
Since Microsoft appears to phasing out Windows Phone...or rather Windows 10 Mobile, I don't see that there's much reason in trying. As much as I wanted Windows Phone to succeed, it's a dying ecosystem.
One thought I had is this: Put superconducting cables around the planet at say 20-30deg north and south. Apply a huge current to provide a magnetic field to protect the atmosphere so that is may come back over time. We did the rough calculation and came up with something like 1 million Amp-Turns to get a decent planetary field but that seemed low to me and we never rechecked our work.
saaame... A solution looking for a problem perhaps?
I see a lot of articles that are dupes, but nobody ever says anything. Just curious - Are we all allowed to talk about something twice or not? Looks like plenty of people commented on this posting of the story, so I'm left wondering - what's the intention of this comment?

I don't see anything in the guidelines about duplicates here - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Are moderators responsible for pointing this out or just regular users? Who eventually marks something as a dupe? Is it in response to a comment like this?

Is this actually the most highly rated comment or did mods put it there?

(Again - just curious!)
It looks to be the same situation with Apple's Irish Taxes, finally Apple had to comply.
Very cool. I love all of rebol's descendent languages (red, ren-c), and this is a great article to introduce Red. Well done!
I was trying to think of a noise that could replace broom-broom that would be less annoying but non-natural but couldn't think of one.
You do have to get specific permission to use data for a specific purpose under the GDPR. For instance, there are approved forms to ask customers for permission to add them to a mailing list. In that case, whether or not the company has the data stored somewhere is immaterial if it does not have the correct permission to use it for mailing.
>Again, by that logic, you could justify anything.

Nope, you could justify very specific pragmatic approaches, just like the parent did.
Not if this data is data about persons according to french law. You need consent from those persons to use the data for any purpose beyond the original purpose you mentioned when you collected the data.

sadly this is only in the french wikipedia

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loi_informatique_et_libert%C3%...
yup, yes, definitely going to. Even the secureit.io is not very clear on it. If you have any more insights let me know.
Cheers
I agree 100%. So glad someone's finally bucking the prevailing hipster trends these days.
The Death of Flash and Rewriting 1.4M Lines of Code
Wikipedia Editors Have Been Fighting Over Corn for at Least a Decade
You could but you'd have to tell the users in the terms of service. If you tell them that you won't query the database and then go on and decide to do so anyways you'd get sued. With WhatsApp having a quasi monopoly on messaging it's difficult for the to change the terms of service without giving their opponents the argument that the change was forced.
Validation of density separation for the rapid recovery of microplastics from sediment	?

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2017/ay/c6ay02...
That's actually a great step forward.

It needs some user-experience upgrades - currently its default is to not omit anything, should be a default in settings. It is also trying to re-write my search as I type and often causing spelling errors. But yes I agree this is what I am looking for.
Stretch Your Writing Muscles: Give Your Blog a Complete Workout
Have Disney Strike Star Wars Episode VIII from the Official Canon
How to design a drop down menu
I've tried out Red a bit recently and REBOL more earlier, both are good. But IIRC, the GUI support (for Red) is not there equally on all the 3 major OS platforms (Win/Lin/MacOS) yet, last I checked. Hope it gets there, though.

Edited to add: (for Red)
> rich, ubiquitous, standardised application delivery platform

Lots of fancy words for bloat. Oftentimes malicious bloat at that.
Also as an anecdote, I had a similar situation with a local hackerspace. Made long-lasting friendships, solved the loneliness issue.

We're social beings. Nevertheless I think that finding meaning in life should be separate from a decision to belong to any group. Be it of interest or religious. All a group can provide is opportunities.
There is nothing that would stop this legally (what authority should hinder them?). Things that can be enforced are only limited by practicality.

Any non-EU business worth enforcing such a law against will very likely do business inside the EU (e.g. selling ads to local companies). Any money transferred can then be froozen to enforce this law.

Facebook in particular does business as an Irish company for its EU users, so no problem at all here.
Rooftopping
> up to €10 million or 2% of your company’s annual revenue, whichever is higher

They might care about a €10 million fine if they only have, say, €2 million in annual revenue.

I remember when I first heard about this thinking "why even bother doing business in the EU?"

--edit--

Which is exactly what you were saying in retrospect...
Whenever I run into an argument for something society-wide like this I do a little though experiment: Imagine the world as the argument suggests - in this case that public transportation is the norm. Now imagine I came to you and said, hey, what would you say to a personal conveyance device? Small and cheap enough to park at your residence, can carry you and all your friends/family/churchmembers/whatever as well as their cargo, and there's an existing, nationwide system (highways) they can use to literally get anywhere in the entire continental US, door-to-door, with the only requirement that you pay a little more.

Virtually everyone would dash off their shitty trains and busses in a moment and hop into cars. Even if you told them it would lead to mass congestion they'd point to people whose job it is to stuff people onto trains when they get too full. If you told them it would lead to pollution they might be swayed, but then if you told them electric cars were basically right on the horizon that would seem like an acceptable trade off.

You are arguing for a world that for most of the US would be considered objectively, demonstrably worse than the status quo. Just because you and your personal social circle lives in urban areas and doesn't need or want cars is virtually irrelevant to the national conversation because you are a tiny fraction of a minority that is not going to get any traction as self-driving and electric vehicles become the norm.

Public transportation in the US has already hit its apogee. Nobody wants it outside of dense urban cores, and the nation is largely not urban cores, nor will it be just because you wish it was.
You forgot about the lack of standarization in the pseudo-VM, each javascript engine supports a specific set of ECMAScript.
Why do we not add other vitamins/minerals to salt?
Best book I read this year hands down was The Righteous Mind: Why good people are divided by politics and religion, by Jonathan Haidt.

It's a really lucid and eye opening introduction to moral psychology, and as a left-leaning person politically has made me understand my right-leaning friends more than anything else. Truly enlightening.
Don’t understand the downvote you’re facing. Whatsapp is operating in France so it must comply with the ruling here. Moreover the fact that they hide from the CNIL the data they are sharing probably mean they do not comply to the regulations (which are here to protect people). Too bad the sanctions are not dissuasive enough to force compliance. Politicians are allowing this situation from too long (same with taxes avoidance schemes).
Beware the Hex-Men
Gerrymandering is a very old idea. The term itself was coined in 1810, and was in practice well before then. The 1788 election in Virginia was gerrymandered, the same year the Constitution was ratified. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/10/the-lea...

There's a significant difference in the modern era in that gerrymandering can be much more precise. The 2010 districts the Republicans drew in several states are very sophisticated works of statistics, GIS, and political science. I fear what machine learning techniques are going to do in 2020.
Its existence is fine, in fact I wouldn't even mind seeing more collaborations of its kind.

The problem is that auto-deploying marketing software (inert or not) over a channel expressly described as being a tool for development, debugging, and testing, is a breach of trust, and/or an indicator of massive process failure within the Mozilla organization.
I am glad as an US company we don't have to comply to the dumb EU cookie laws. Yeah, we know every websites in the world uses cookies. Don't need a modal everywhere.
I've been wondering about alternatives, do you find Signal to work well? Can non-technical people install and use it without problems?
Can someone enlighten me in what way disparate digital currencies, like EstCoin, UsCoin, SwissCoin, ChinaCoin, etc etc would be an improvement compared to status quo?
>This seems to be a one man show by the author of the article. ICO-s are popular so lets do one of our own! kind of attitude.

Said by an Estonian this is preoccupying, Kaspar Korjus is usually presented as an official speaker for the Estonian Government for the e-residency program:

https://cybersecforum.eu/en/speaker/kaspar-korjus/

https://europe.money2020.com/speakers/kaspar-korjus
This fact is very easy to forget for most of us here, given the salaries in tech. When you're working multiple jobs or are underemployed and trying to support a family, each dollar is some suffering you can alleviate or a problem you can solve now and that is much more important than long term investment. You can't invest if you can't even guarantee that you can feed yourself for long enough to benefit from it.
I think you greatly underestimate how little unskilled workers generally make.
I do something similar, but we only use helm to render the templates - we do not utilize any of its deployment processes. Instead we use gitlab to render and deploy a template as a normal k8s object.
Here's quite a few, but they might be of interest to others.

1. You Have the Right to Remain Innocent: great advice that I had never seen anywhere else (except his video that started the whole thing).

2. The Vital Question: good overview of origin of life research.

3. Fragment: hard science fiction (is that the term?) that delved into evolution and dovetailed with some of the reading I had been doing around that subject.

4. The Science of Navigation: delved into the wonder of current navigational technology and how we got to here.

5. The Lost City of the Monkey God: bought on a lark, made me realize that archaeology can still find new things nowadays.

6. Island of the Lost: historical account of two shipwrecks on the same island at the same time that knew nothing of each other.

7. Protecting the Gift: another eye-opener about being more aware of the ways people _can_ prey on children.

8. Wondrous Contrivances: how people reacted to new techologies in the past.

9. Rig Ship for Ultra Quiet: submariner's account of life during a Cold War operation.
A 15 year old’s first hack (of GitHub)
Don't forget other modalities. E.g.

Size: effort estimate
Number of edges to the shape: depth of dependencies.
Brightness: size of dependencies.
Hue: ...tbd...
Border (double/triple/dashed): ...tbd...
Font size: ...tbd...
Recruiting software engineers
A Glimpse of American History Through the Process of Becoming a Citizen
It is re-normalized over time. See Flynn Effect.
Reproducible machine learning with Quilt and Jupyter
Yes! Don't even ask unless you're WhatsApp web.
Actually the browser should auto-deny all requests.
You need to take some introductory chemistry and human nutrition classes.
Yeah, finally :)
Simplistic ricardian arguments for free trade ignore production dynamics over time, the asymmetry between the mobility of labor and capital, productivity infrastructure, global externalities such as ocean and atmospheric poisoning, asymmetries in labor and environmental standards, etc.

I think at this point everyone capable of doing so understands that international trade has benefits. I would prefer if the intellectual class in the west recognized and reflected on the costs that the middle and lower classes in the west, in particular, have paid for it.
> If one newspaper acquired another, couldn't the parent then market to the subsidiary's subscribers even if they continued to operate separately? The parent now owns everything anyway.

Not in France, personal data is collected with a specified purpose (and bullshit/overly broad "purpose" can get you sued), using said data for other purposes is illegal.

You (as a company) never own personal data per-se, you are lent that data by the subject, if you will.
I thought NewtonScript took Dylan’s place in Newton development?
There is a european directive which addresses the same problems, though i do believe the french law is more explicit, and the french government has been enforcing it.
So, if you sell products or services in China, you have to comply to all China regulations, not just exports? That doesn't make any sense.
> It definitely sucks, but I don't see how it was anti-privacy at all.

It definitely increased the attack surface area[1] with no upside for 99.9%[2] of Firefox users.

1. It's a juicy target: an addon that can modify the content of any page a user visits? It doesn't take much of an imagination to think of how this could be subverted.

2. My conservertive guess of the fraction of Fx users not interested in Mr Robot easter eggs; I probably ought to add a couple more "9"s
Redistricting commissions should recruit go players.

There can be an amusing side-effect to aggressive gerrymandering. Let's say a state has a small majority of party A, but districts that are strongly partisan (let's say 80%) for A or B. You only need 50% to win your district -- that extra 30% is "wasted" and would be more valuable if those voters were pushed into one of B's districts.

Which is one of the things partisan redistricters do. Now they have more districts with a comfortable 55% margin and an assured lock on more districts, right? Umm, well, now they've made it easier for the other side to capture districts too...and it happens.

There's no magic way to avoid bizarre results (check out the wikipedia pages on the districting, and on voting methods, for some eye-opening problems), but something close to algorithmic probably ends up the least controversial and most comprehensible in the long run.
I'm not convinced it was good advice for most people. I'm pretty sure the guy meant it for his company, but I would definitely have worried about ending up locked into a small pool of employers.

What made it memorable for me was mostly watching people freeze up and basically try to avoid the suggestion. I certainly think there are people for whom dropping out of college to work at a startup is sensible, and yet no one was going to even discuss the merits of the comment.
I'm not sure, but I'm pretty excited to see private companies trying to tackle the issue. Plus, when you look at the relative amounts of funds being spent right now (the linked article mentions Virgin Hyperloop One raising $50 million), it's still a relatively small number compared to the billions spent on social media and advertising companies and the defense industry.

If these private early companies can prove the concept is viable, there's plenty of money out there to implement it and work through the problems.
Ah sorry I didn't realize it was that easy. I thought because my account is still young and low on points I couldn't flag yet.
Actually one of the attendees at the Constitutional Convention, Elbridge Gerry was partially responsible for the first Gerrymandered voting districts and the concept is named for him (and the fact that one of the districts was depicted shaped like a Salamander in a cartoon.)
Your comments seems a bit tongue in cheek, but the answer is probably not.

This law doesn't protect works made for hire--and presumably the monuments would have been. It also only gives standing to sue to the author of a work, so the general public couldn't rely on it and if the author is dead the right to sue likely died with him/her. Finally, it doesn't prevent taking something down--only mutilation or destruction, etc. of an artist's work.