skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were successful by the late 30s (after lots of misery), but the Russian economy had been growing for a long time. I'm not sure the imperials or republicans couldn't have pulled it off, Russia had lots of natural advantages, especially after winning WW2.

GNP:

Country	1890	1900	1913	1925	1938
Russia/USSR 21 180	32 000	52 420	32 600	75 964
Germany	26 454	35 800	49 760	45 002	77 178
Britain	29 441	36 273	44 074	43 700	56 103
France	19 758	23 500	27 401	36 262	39 284

They went from the second smallest economy in 1890 to the biggest in 1913 (imperials). The economy crashed after the revolution and bad economic experiments and then rebounded. Russia was late to the industrial revolution so a lot of that growth was just it kicking in, along with the Soviets removing anyone that got in the way. Hard to say how much can be attributed to either.

They were holding their own late into WWI and actually had an agreement to obtain Istanbul, which the Bolsheviks revoked (hard to fault them) along with all that they gave up in the separate treaty with the Germans. Imagine them sticking it out to 1918 with gains from being on the allies and the revolution averted. They would have been as well positioned as anyone in Europe.
Googles explicit goal is to collect data about you to make money with advertizing. It works so well, Google even gives you stuff for free so you stay with them.

A privacy oriented VPN providers explicit goal is to give you some privacy, and you pay them for it.

Sure, a VPN can turn on you, but then they bite the hand that feeds them. Also, it would contradict what they explicitly say, completely unlike the situation with Google.

A Debian developer might also try to bring a backdoored package to your machine. Is therefore trusting Debian and trusting Apple the same? They are not, as Debians structure is transparent, the developers carry individual responsibility not just towards the Debian project, but towards every body that can see it, i.e. the whole world.

The theoretical possibility of multiple things being equally bad is irrelevant as long as other significant aspects are ignored.
Thanks, this looks great.

For anyone else reading - doesn't look like it'll be available for purchase easily for another few months, though.
For anyone wondering: It's also available for purchase on walmart.com (seemingly with free shipping)
It hasn't happened probably because most of the aid to us in developing countries go to treating the symptoms of our real problems. Also aid business is a huge business for Western NGOs and most of the money find their way back to the west anyway.
The positive I can see is that aid buys a lot of influence in a much cheaper way than war.
I go back and forth on this.

On the one hand, you're right in that you need both a line feed and a carriage return to actually "start a new line" (+1 to Windows). On the other, it seems wasteful to have two characters do a job that, in text files, could be just as easily done by one; editing and storing text is not the same as printing it, especially when the print incantation is a vestige of mostly-obsolete hardware (+1 to Unix).
> .. the cash in hand doesn't account for all the money you have.

Yes, but your original point I was addressing wasn't about all the money you have but specifically income.

My point is that income is coming from some transactions and 95% of transactions were cash based pre Nov 2017. And only 1% of cash outstanding was unaccounted for after demonetization.

> My point is by totalling out just the amount of cash maybe 5-10k rupees the income cannot be accounted.

Sorry don't understand what this means.

But this is probably moot now.
:-) I must say though, that for a non-native English speaker, Aussie sounds indeed much more British than American.
Seems like someone has low testosterone.
Sheriffs literally get to keep the money left over from the prison food budget in Alabama.

https://thinkprogress.org/in-alabama-prisons-the-less-sherif...
No obvious explosions, but it doesn't know what to make of it. First submission: 18% American, 82% British, second submission: 68% American, 32% British.

I tried putting on American and British accents and could easily get it over 90% either direction, so at least it's working for those.
Keep in mind that, while Mike (the chicken) did have most of his head cut off, some of his brain—and indeed most likely his cerebellum—was left intact.

"If the bird still has a bottom beak, the cerebellum and brain stem are likely still intact, which makes the chicken’s basic motor functions and ability to breathe quite likely." - Dr. Wayne J. Kuenzel (a poultry physiologist and neurobiologist) [1]

[1] https://modernfarmer.com/2014/08/heres-chicken-can-live-with...
The purpose of the change is government to have physical access to that data. They have no problem getting iCloud password from any user.
I hated Chocolatey. Those binary shims seemed to produce slow, unstable binaries. There also still isn't a fully-usable Chocolatey backend for the PowerShell package manager.

The Programs & Features pane works just fine for me as a package manager.
Fappening – 4 man charged with hacking into over 250 Celebrities iCloud accounts
I'd spoken with Rob Hall of the Watson project during my freshman year of college at a technical talk having seen it Jeopardy! but not knowing much about the technical aspects of what goes into generating an answer based on natural language processing. He took the time to explain to me and a small group of students who stayed for about an hour afterwards about how to go about attacking problems that require both expertise and parallelization on a scale such that confidence levels could be established for each logical answer generated from a tree of possibilities. A great man and team who know the value of educating potential future employees and sharing the knowledge that went into solving a hard problem. I'd typed this up before realizing you were talking about the former CEO rather than the project so I'd thought to post it anyway.
> The chickens pecked more at screens showing symmetrical faces—revealing the same preferences as the 14 people who had done the same experiment.

Basically, a tiny study claims that chickens like symmetrical faces.
There are substances that block voluntary muscle movements. Pancuronium bromide, for example.
Huh? Why would you expect your accent to be more American if you grew up in a Commonwealth county?
There's a huge gap between the current situation and a system where people on welfare who choose not to work are able to live "comfortably" in perpetuity.

Somewhere within that gap is a decent system where poor people don't starve but are still incentivized to improve their situation.

I also don't really see how having children relates to any of this.

On the other hand, automation will probably force us into a welfare state one way or another.
This was Trump he needs to be in peached
All that a blockchain does is establish a sequence of events. It doesn't have to be a sequence of state transitions, it just usually has been.
To this Canadian as well!
Why would anyone give X money to a new venture if there’s no mechanism by which they get Y*X money back?

Wouldn’t it make more sense to dispurse new funds in tranches only after the first tranch has been repaid with interest?
> Only 8M Indians earn over $20K a year

This is the most underreported thing about India.

> The Chinese are less likely to put up with long wait times for permanent residency in the USA, and simply return home as opportunities and life back home can be just as lucrative.

In my experience, wealthy Chinese are willing to put up with nearly anything to obtain residency in a western country without deadly levels of smog or poisoned baby formula.
Apparently my british accent is fail
More evidence that memories are at least partially epigenetic.
Can you name one good reason for having it be 10 minutes rather than 30 seconds?

If you can't then you are going to lose this argument.
interesting, I wasn't familiar with clarity.fm, will check them out for sure. And great advice on picking founders brains. Brings up another point too which is a coach different from a consultant? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I did do mainframe programming and I do webapps and phone apps these days, so I've kept up.

It's gotta be both approaches (yours and the articles) but the real problem is the demand for programmers is so high and the barrier to entry is so low that the quality has suffered; the quality of the libraries, build systems, documentation, designs, interfaces, all of it.

You can't magically drag all modern programmers through the mud using line editors and 16 bit processors for 2 years to learn everything the painful way.

I honestly don't see a way out. We're in the eternal September of software development and it's all down hill from here unless we make some commitment to raising the barrier to entry and decreasing the incentives, making it hard again.
Depending where in northeast New York one is, one can end up with something close to the Northwest New England accent (which shares a lot more with an English accent than most of America).
At the state level it is still true in some cases. China is dumping loads of less-strings-attached (than the international development fund) cash into the developing world, and one argument is that they are developing new markets for their goods. A more sinister twist would be that they are laying the infrastructure for future all-Chinese enclaves in those countries.

On the other hand the US's failed state building exercises in the middle east is an example of the complete opposite. The US was/is literally burning money in an attempt to 'improve' another country. None of the nonsense about 'went for the oil' makes any sense when you look at the total cost, the destruction of a potential trading partner, etc. It is the 'oh no he is killing his own people/keeping his own people in poverty/pillaging his country for personal gain' type of mentality that enables the kind of self determination rejecting behavior that the US has been engaged in for a very long time. There are things that we can and should do to prevent atrocity, but we have consistently failed to strike a balance with helping states develop and have instead repeatedly opted to overthrow governments and destabilize regions, often in the name of improving the lives of their citizens. (Just look at the humanitarian disaster that has been the Arab Spring.)
True, it is a de-facto outcome that constitutes a punishment.

Still totally understandable from an employer's point of view. e.g. How much of a discount would you need to hire a nanny previously convicted or domestic abuse?

But, it still functions as a de-facto punishment. But the rationality of it is what makes it difficult to address, without taking away the freedom of free people.

Perhaps a solution would be to make judges explicitly state that part of the punishment is to have a really hard time finding work, to make them acknowledge what's being done. Then, if the judge doesn't wish to make this part of the punishment, he can order that the criminal's future employers be subsidized, or that the record be hidden.

The thing is, these are political non-starters. Even if the overall result is better, we know what'd happen the first time a felon with a hidden record or whose paycheck is government subsidized does something awful on the job. And that will happen, fast.

Former criminals are far more likely to commit crimes than random citizens. So it's rational to discriminate against people with records. This fact has to get acknowledged, and my sense is that a lot of people don't want to because it makes the problem seem really hard to solve.

Overall, given that employers should have the right to choose their employees with knowledge intact (see: nanny example), but criminals shouldn't be receiving life-long extrajudicial punishments, I think subsidizing their wages to some degree, if they find work, seems like a good policy option. I wonder if it's ever been tried.
> Actually if you look at where they started and where they got, they did a pretty good job in raising the very poorest our of poverty

Depends on in what column you put the ~10% of the population they murdered.

I would think of them as "not raised out of poverty".
I'm sure, although there's no way to prove it, that it's a wrong approach to life. Working every minute for higher and higher salary and forgetting about small things that make person happy. What's the purpose of such life? To have the biggest number of $$$/bitcoins/stocks/whatever? We live only once, why people try so hard to waste this life in pursuit of arbitrary numbers, some stupid metrics (more productive, more rich, have bigger houses, bigger car, etc)?..
>One argument against such programs is that they could allow people to have a lifestyle where they choose to never work, yet live a comfortable life and have lots of children. It seems like this could cause extreme population growth, but in a very bad way. Am I missing something, or is there a solution to address that problem?

So, I'm talking largely about rich nations like the USA. Here? it has been a long time since the population was restricted by food, so we can neatly sidestep that problem without resorting to Swift.

I do think it's important to design welfare programs to aid people who are leaving poverty. I personally don't think this should be done by cutting off the support if they don't work... But I do think programs like the Earned Income Tax Credit which help smooth the transition from being dependent on welfare to supporting yourself are super important...

(And I think the Earned Income Tax Credit is generally considered a good model of this; the idea is that instead of cutting out benefits as soon as a person gets a job, the government continues to supplement the income until they are doing well.

a basic income that everyone gets addresses a similar problem, and a basic income + a strongly progressive income tax could probably do something similar.
Maybe according to the defined behavior of those characters, but that can't be why notepad doesn't support Unix line endings, as it still doesn't actually line feed when it sees a line feed character. I have never tried but I also suspect it won't do a carriage return for just a carriage return character (to be fair, that wouldn't really makes sense in a text editor anyway).
I'm American and to me, Aussie sounds Aussie, not at all British. I reckon I'd be insulted too.
Behind New York's amazing crime numbers
Thin resume? She's literally got a Nelson Mandela-style resume for the position now...
Fire and Fury book review for each chapter
That's probably more generous than necessary.

I just installed Ubuntu 16.04 a month ago (new laptop), and with /home/ on its own partition, after installing everything I use regularly, root is only using 9.3G
There were however plans to move from 5 year plans to realtime planning with the help of computers, which would have probably worked a bit better as the planning could have been automated, made better use of optimization and react to changes much faster.
Sex is fun, it’s free, and procreation is a biologically driven part of being human.

The argument is that if we give people a basic sustainable way to live and the least motivated to improve their condition will likely fall back to the basics.
"My voice is my passport, verify me."
I wonder how much of an effect nutrition has on causing people to become criminals (and other anti-social behavior) in the first place.

I remember reading an article here a few years ago saying that in a lot of low-income neighbourhoods in the US, the only food options are relatively unhealthy. There are no proper grocery stores nearby, and the residents can’t afford to travel further to them, so they are stuck eating whatever unhealthy and low nutrition food the local corner store has (e.g. frozen fries and pasta instead of fresh fruit and vegetables).
There's nothing in any of the graphs that screams “eight dimensions” to me. Am I missing something?
I found a study on that: http://www.genetics.org/content/genetics/13/6/470.full.pdf

Last sentence: "7.
There
was
no
evidence
of
any
linkage
between
the
factors
for
earlobe
color
and
egg color."

My guess is that having an association between earlobe color and egg color is convenient for breeders, so they prefer chickens with corresponding colors.
Weekend Challenge MarriedEdition
As an applied mathematician (and one that put himself through the paces of the mental contortions necessary to understand Penrose's twistor theory) I reckon I'm one of the few people here that actually know what “cohomological” means, and agree with you.
>Small ideological sects with large families historically don't seem to take over the world.

It only seems that way because pre-1960, the world was entirely dominated by sects (e.g. religions) with large families. All the old religions are very traditionally pro-natalist for a reason. Go forth and multiply!

If the population didn't grow, it was only because there was just no more food to feed more mouths. So it was for all of human history until recently.

It's only now that there is a significant group of people who choose not to have large families, and who have the birth control technology to make it happen. As with past sects who followed this path, they will dwindle as a proportion of the population. We are in nothing like a steady state, and high-fertility groups absolutely will own the future, just as they owned the past.

Topical here is The Most Important Graph In The World:

https://www.unzcloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Populati...
>Actually if you look at where they started and where they got, they did a pretty good job in raising the very poorest our of poverty, electrifying the country, and really eliminating a lot of the abject poverty that was most of the country at the time of the revolution.

That's the funny part about it. USSR was basically an engineered society with eliminated "overhead" of debating, negotiating, marketing, private risk-taking, etc. It worked extremely well while the goals to achieve were basic and everyone agreed on them. If you're living in a glorified mud hut in the 20th century, it's a no-brainer that the goal #1 is to build industry, powerlines, etc.

Except once the common needs were satisfied, the system ran into stagnation. How this would be resolved in the West is a risk-taking individual starting a company, organically growing it into a bigger business, eventually creating workplaces, and in some cases - entire industries. Planned economy can't have that - the only way to create something new would be through getting state funding, i.e. being in good terms with the inner party circle. It's the same reason why big corporations often can't quickly adapt to changes lose to lean startups despite unimaginable resources available to them. Except when your entire country is one inefficient corporation, you're really fucked.

IMO, Russia is still greatly suffering from the lack of the "overhead" removed by the USSR. The majority of people expect someone else to plan and decide for them, they don't get the concept of watching for your own interests, they alienate and despise hustling and blame others for their misfortune. I really hope that's not the way U.S. is heading, because I'm not sure there is an easy way out of this kind of a trap.
Have you ever had the feeling like "Uhm, I better not share this article even though I like it" or "I'm curious about a topic but I better not google it" or "I shouldn't have these files on my machine for somebody could find them".

These thoughts often come out of social pressure to conform, an invisible ever-present behaviour regulation, that we never explicitly agreed upon.

Social pressure is harmful to minorities, which is a problem, because we develop by minorities becoming the majorities.

Feeling watched builds up social pressure immensely.

Google and Facebook multiply social pressure, because watching is a fundamental and essential part of their business.
Fascinating story, terrifying situation... and much nostalgia for how great WIRED was before they made it into just yet another general-interest lad's magazine.
Yeah you go to all the manufacturers websites and they promise everything but offer nothing. Yeh yeh I know about your technology that's why I came to your website.
I'm going to develop with Memory LCD instead, I prefer a company like Sharp anyway.
1) Higher income is already associated with lower fertility. Only people who are already pretty rich decide that they’re not rich enough to procreate.

2) If the market honestly has nothing for someone to do (or it’s of such low value that it falls below minimum wage), is it really a tragedy if they don’t work?
I worked with someone who had 16 assault charges. To be totally honest I'd prefer working with someone convicted of murder than that guy.

The thing with 16 charges of anything is that you know there's going to be a 17th, an 18th... and so on.

Some people can be rehabilitated, some people can't. Severity of the crime isn't necessarily indicative of that.
I would rather not equate home cooking to a "job". Sure if you consider pure economics it's probably 5x lower. But if you factor in health, then it is 100x your first job. The reason being that it takes just one badly cooked meal to make you sick enough to lose a week or month of your first job. However good the restaurant maybe, you can never know when it may have a bad day.
Screw Skype. That is all
You are forgetting that the user of the drone can set the transmission protocol beforehand, and thus is still an important part of the process.

Given that you have a channel between A and B and an eavesdropper C:

Transmission between A and B can be done by any of several obfuscatory protocols, where (for example) a certain flag sent by A tells B to ignore some component of the transmission, to do no error correction on that part, etc. That flag is sent when updates are sparse, and filler (which is to be ignored) is added by B. Without determining how to identify between filler and data, C sees no variations in traffic volume.

Overcoming real-time spikes is easy with this protocol. Just keep a buffer of a few seconds before you begin transmitting.

This approach is a common answer to any sort of traffic analysis. There's actually a Tor alternative that operates on this principle of constant traffic between nodes (traffic analysis is an effective attack versus Tor), but the name escapes me at the moment.
I'm from St. Louis and it guessed 65% American. I then tried a fake British accent and it thought I was 63% British. I guess I need to work on my British accent.
I'll read what Dan John says about that.
Socialism is state (in some sense the public if it is also a democracy) owning the means of production. Capitalism is private ownership of the means of production. Workers owning the means of production is syndicalism.
Regarding UI changes, minimalist Window Managers and Desktop Environments for *nix tend to work like that. They stick to their base paradigms and rarely, if ever change, once considered stable.

XFCE has been already been mentioned. But Openbox, dwm, awesome, etc... all could fit.

Note that it's expected, and assumed, that the user can switch to these more conservative UIs if they prefer, even if the base distro defaults to only one.
> They even go as far as verifying attendance dates at my University, etc.

My goodness thats terrifying.
I live in a post-Soviet country and here the average wage is €500/mo. However compared to the US you don’t need to pay healthcare or education, a lot of people own their homes (without large debts, as the ownership was transferred to them or their parents after the USSR fell), people are a lot happier taking public transport, and they get 4 weeks paid holiday a year.

So it’s not quite that simple... but yes there is probably a better way to spend the money than it is now.