skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did this before moving to putting my phone on silent and also installing an app which prevents any number not in my contacts list from ringing my phone or even going to voicemail. Just drops the call silently with no ring on their end, either. Everything on my phone is silent except for a very short list of contacts (two people, my wife and my best friend) and a single pipeline for work alerting which is tightly-regulated.

It is the single most effective countermeasure I've taken to reclaim my own thoughts, though slowly phasing out my use of all the shitty social media is a close second.
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I am an Esperanto speaker. Before I started learning Esperanto, I read that document. Now, I can say that a lot, if not most, of that document is FUD.
> Tax credits are not costs. If Foxconn didn't come to Wisconsin none of that money wouldn't be realized.

That's a "pushing the dirt around" argument. Someone else has to pay for the state controlled resources used by Foxconn when the facility is built.
If you're living in Hong Kong and you've been paid to oust US spies, why on Earth would you ever set foot in America again? Especially after you've already been investigated by the FBI for what you were doing.
People who claim that Esperanto is the worse-is-better do not really understand what is it. They merely see Esperanto from a strictly outsider’s view. Esperanto is the better-is-better.
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So that is a compelling argument! Thank you.
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Nothing. Scott Walker is one of the most openly corrupt politicians to ever stay in office. He probably has a back end deal with a"family friend" to make this happen.
The plan just creates another near empty red state, while the highly populated coast stays one blue state. Bah. Show me a plan to split the coast into three well populated blue states, then the Central valley can go red.
Silverlight is the proof that wpf isn't and wasn't meant as a platform lock-in. And Microsoft went big on silverlight, until they realised it was about to be booted from the browser. I think webassembly will give a chance to the return of a silverlight.
> But you can always use DSP, cable, satellite, or even tether off a wireless if you don't like your home ISP.

You can, if you're willing to accept a second-rate experience. But avoiding that is the whole point of net neutrality enforcement.

ADSL is fundamentally unable to compete with DOCSIS or fiber; phone lines simply do not have sufficient bandwidth except over impractically short distances. Satellite can never offer acceptable latency. Cellular radio solutions exist on a spectrum where at one end they have broad coverage but horrible latency and throughput, and at the other end they can outperform DSL but only by deploying a dense enough wired backhaul network that you aren't saving much money over building out a pure wired network.

If you want 50+ MBps with low latency, there are only three viable technologies: DOCSIS over coax, short-range xDSL, or fiber. Only one of those three is currently widely deployed in the US. The latter two are available only where it is most convenient and profitable for ISPs to deploy.
This looks very cool.

It would be interesting if we can construct software with a UI like this but based on an SSA IR or downright CPU instructions instead of another high-level language.
What? The L-shaped magsafe is ideal for sitting cross legged. All other power connectors jab into the side of my leg. And I've never had the magnet disengage
I understand what you're saying, but I think you're wrong, for two reasons.

1. There's a reason that foxconn wants to manufacture in the USA, and there's a reason they're courting states in the great lakes region. Resolving the Prisoner's dilemma becomes much easier when there are ~3 states with viable sites as opposed to 50.

2. See guelo's comment.

Your point is well-taken in general, but in this particular case, IMO, it really is a stupid giveaway.
Or do a tour. Or cycle. It feels good enjoying those areas and not polluting them.
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I just pointed out that part as being one that could go into any computer.

Sold the parts on everyone's favourite auction house. Lots of repair guides out there, I used ifixit's.

Even though it's a 2011, lots of bricked systems out there that you can get functioning again for $0-$200 dollars in spare parts and a few hours of your time.
> I shall use the word programming to denote the whole activity of design and implementation of programmed solutions.

Isn't this definition circular, using "programmed" in defining "programming"?
or just php in general. just a thought.
- Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman by RPF.

- The book of secrets by Osho.

- Big Data Baseball by T. Sawchik.

- The Intelligent Investor by B. Graham.
The problem of WPF in my opinion is the absence of strong typing (all binding is based on magic strings) and the fact that if you want to customise a little bit a control you are left rewriting it from scratch. WPF could be a lot better and easier to use than it is.
If the lack of joy is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain it absolutely can be prescribed.

Cliche nonsense or outdated Biblical advice actively hurts people in this case.
Probably about $2.5K/year all-in, once depreciation and maintenance are included. Maybe $25K total. I don't consider that to be all that bad. My car has about 30K miles on it, which is ridiculously low for a 9-year-old car, but that's the virtue of living 2 miles away from work, biking in the summer, and walking to the grocery store.

Lyft prices in the SF/BayArea are $1.21/mile, so just on mileage, I would've paid $36K. Add in the $2/trip base fair, $5 minimum, and any surge pricing or time waiting, and it could add up to $50K very easily, double what I've spent on my car.

People look at $16K for a car or $3k/year and think "those are big numbers", but it turns out that spending $10/day on individual transportation rides adds up very quickly, such that you end up paying way over what the large capital expense would've cost. When I was working in downtown Boston, I did a hybrid car/train commute, and it easily added up to that ($5 parking at Alewife + $2.50 for the train each way) - it was still cheaper than driving, but only because parking in downtown Boston is ridiculous.
Out of curiosity, do you feel the same way when the countries are switched?
Cycle. It is free once you have a bike, and they can be had very cheap.
I have once or twice embarked on what I was sure was a well-thought-out, solid refactoring job, only to find that after a long process of cleaning, pulling out common code, and adding the special-case logic, I had refactored myself in a giant circle.

Every step of the process seemed like a local improvement, and yet I ended up where I started. It was like the programming equivalent of the Escher staircase: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UCtTbdWdyOs/hqdefault.jpg.
For reference, they’re saying it’s worse than anything that occurred during the Cold War in terms of informants lost/killed, including more than lost via Aldrich Ames (he was eventually arrested in 1994).
> You still have a house to live in, no matter what it's worth.

Maybe. If you actually own the house, sure. But many people had a mortgage, lost their jobs, and they couldn't afford the mortgage any longer. Additionally you can borrow against the value of your house. But since that house was practically worthless, they couldn't borrow to get through the job loss.
And you can download everything from Google with Takeout:

https://takeout.google.com
System and method for extracting value from a portfolio of assets
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I don't think you can underestimate how important immutability and trustlessness are in cases like these. Don't get me wrong, your setup would be an improvement over many manually curated processes (and in my own business, I use ledger-cli.org with the files under version control), but the lack of the two aforementioned attributes makes it a technological change that doesn't change the underlying politics.

In the end, you're just moving the third party elsewhere, and you'd still need staff to verify that people are committing their finances regularly and aren't trying to sneak in retroactive changes in large commits. If someone ever decides to try to get away with rewriting their git history and arguing that the SEC accepted an erroneous pull request that contains the wrong history, that would need to be audited/litigated out to resolve whose tree was correct (just because the SEC owns the master repo doesn't necessarily mean that their custodians of it haven't rewritten history themselves). Also, the fact that the "authority" repo is centralized means you may have issues if for some reason it's inaccessible (these issues arise in reality when GitHub goes down).
Thank you for the feedback! To answer your concerns:

1. Studio is actually a set of plugins for Atom, not a fork. It's just that we are shipping an Atom binary and make sure that it can work alongside a standard Atom installation, for a smoother experience. We understand how many people use Atom for their daily work and we'd rather not mess with that.

2. That's a perfectly valid point! We'll prepare a CLI distribution, but for the first release we wanted to make sure that Studio works well (the visuality is one of the strongest points we're trying to make after all). For now there's an option to build a command line client from sources, but a bundled version is coming soon :)
It's interesting that you've mentioned "America" twice in this sentence. What are your thoughts on this if it was another country?
Why would this person hire a car on a holiday? What a ridiculous proposition.
> AOL was a company, not a class of technology like cryptocurrency.

You know this, but many users of AOL didn't. To them, AOL was equal to the internet, like many people believe that cryptocurrency is the only application of blockchains as a data structure.

> Cryptocurrency is a vital component of the distributed blockchain architecture.

It is now, but that doesn't necessarily have to be the case. Cryptocurrency is one of many applications that can be built on top of a distributed ledger. There are many applications that have nothing to do with payment processing.
Direct link to the author's price breakdown: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jjUYOQMuZ4cRyTv1M5X8...
> There is so much in the United States that a car gives you access to (most National Parks or wilderness in general are not accessible by public transport).

They are accessible by tours, and friends, and cycling, and many other ways. You car people really seem to have a limited understanding of the real world, everything revolves around cars. You can't imagine doing something without a car.
> Former intelligence officials said that the F.B.I. lured Mr. Lee back to the United States as part of a ruse

It's not mentioned what happened here, but it looks like he was tricked into coming.
So instead buy a car and add to pollution, thus helping to destroy the nature you covet so much? And that makes sense to you?
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anywhere.

i always bring up the examples of thak thak gangs in delhi to show actual threats which become worse with autonomous cars.

i suspect people in the first world who believe in autonomous cars are exposed to a very limited set of uses for roads and cars.

India is the place where the autonomous car dream goes to die.

after that every downgrades the idea to lower than level 5 driving.
That's the big difference here. Is the Wisconsin legislature qualified to say that the semiconductor industry is going to be stable for the next decade? The outcome of this plan is dependent on the continued growth of this targeted industry-- continued growth that the Wisconsin legislature has no way to predict and no place predicting.

As a model of government, this type of activity is unsustainable. They might not be wrong to bet on Foxconn, but they'll make bets in the future that won't pay off. Let the invisible hand work.
What has been your biggest hang up so far? Have you worked out a viable business plan?
Hi Scott, thanks for all the great efforts. This is a good start, and baseline but security is so much harder once you get past these basics. Once you get into the realm of timing attacks and all the ways to fuck up password recovery for example, it becomes a mine field.

What can we do about that, short of “use framework X or Y” as they are the only ones peer reviewed?
Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott, Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, and the Haskell Book.
From that perspective, I can see what he meant. Fair enough.

The ethics of profiting off the act might need to be truncated off it though, that is a genuine moral discussion that has so many shades of grey I feel.
That's a great story and incidentally a similar one to another Nebraska ISP I'm familiar with (KDSI). I think they got started when a larger industrial company had excess bandwidth. Sounds like your story was a lot of fun for a high schooler. Who did you sell it to and why?
UWP apps can run on desktop, mobile even consoles.

Windows Mobile is dead, so UWP is really just for desktops and Xbox (and Hololens, but no one cares). How many apps are going to be used on both desktops and Xbox? Maybe some trivial ones, like a weather app. So, realistically, UWP is for desktop apps, and it's just not as good as WPF for that. It doesn't even come with a multi-column list control!
Personally I use a text editor. Doesn't matter which one, Word, Open Office, Bean, Simpletext, have all done their time.

The best way is the most robust way for YOU.

Some process where in 3-5 to 10-15 years you can pick it back up again, and worst case scenario know where all your files are and have at least an open source solution for editing it. So, don't rely on an online tool or format. And at the very very least keep a hard copy in your archives next to your seven years of tax records.
Silverlight was a subset of WPF really to compete with Flash. In 2005-6 both were huge pushes and competitive, Microsoft with Silverlight, Flash with AS3/Flex. Part of this was due to Flash video/Silverlight video that took over the world in 2005-6 with youtube and more. This was just before mobile killed Flash and thus Silverlight. Silverlight never got off the ground except for video really and will not come back. Microsoft had another Flash competitor when Flash3/4 was out called Liquid Motion, same fate. When Microsoft abandons a platform you better as well.

All of them were awesome vector based rendering platforms that had great data/web integration. They were also complete packages but thrived when plugins thrived until mobile and Chrome killed plugins.

Flash/Silverlight still have some advantages over html5/webgl/canvas/svg (much of if by Khronos, funded by Apple initially) but those have essentially taken their place and WebAssembly that came from Emscripten/asm.js from Mozilla will eventually be another option.

I do miss the vector nature of Flash/Silverlight but both are gone, especially the latter. There are better options like Haxe, OpenFL/lime, Adobe Animate (Flash successor in web standards) if people still want to use Flash like platforms.
Anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) weapons are on the rise in global arms market
If you can work as an incorporated contractor, Canadian taxes can be quite low when you sprinkle the income across your family.

* The government is starting to catch on and might put an end to paying out dividends to non-working family members.
The concept that America is not substantially a crony capitalist economy is at present untenable. There are too many examples otherwise. And if people don't see this development as a primary threat against every principle the US was founded on they are either not paying attention or deluding themselves.
Still amused that the jobs Trump promised will end up to be Foxconn jobs. Not really the jobs people wanted and certainly not the jobs that will rebuild the nation. And ofcourse those jobs will be automated in 20 years max anyway.

The Chinese are not stupid, they're actually moving away from light industry. Decreasing state subsidies.
i'm sure that can be arranged :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16158737
Sure. I think it's mainly interesting in that CSS injection vulnerability can turn into tracking. it never occurred to me that a CSS injection vulnerability could do anything actionable before.
You are technically correct...

> decentralization isn’t really a boon

Narrowly true. On its own, decentralization isn’t good or bad. In an ecosystem like ours, where most tools and services assume centralized architecture, it’s probably net bad.

But here’s a hypothesis for you:

In an ecosystem where decentralization was the default, decentralization would be a boon.

There’s a chicken and egg problem there, but I just wanted you to understand why I think decentralization is worth thinking about, even though I can see, as you do, that it is objectively the wrong way to solve almost any isolated problem.

I am building decentralized software, where there is no database, no global namespace, no source of truth, etc. My assumption is I’ll have to redesign everything, from basic authentication to employee workflows to accounting strategies in order for it to pay off. The reason I’m trying is I suspect it has very recently become technically feasible to take on a scope like that for a well-enough defined business logic. I.e. a “vertical slice” where all aspects of the business are radically decentralized. The downside being you can’t use any off the shelf software or development tools whatsoever.
How does anything I typed conflict with the basic macroeconomic pressures of supply and demand? Labor markets have those tensions, and the useful thing to understand are the factors influencing supply & demand.

Applying market theory to labor/employer relations, says that wages should tend to go up, if the demand (job openings) for a particular kind of labor exceeds the supply (pool of people who can & will do those jobs). But talking about how labor gets priced by markets doesn't explain anything about why governments choose the minimum wage (if any) that they do. Minimum wage is an explicitly moral consideration where we compel the demand side to observe a floor on the price of your time.

> If everyone could do it, and there were no demand, the value would be low.

That just muddles the separate mechanisms. If everyone has the skill for a job, the potential labor pool is as large as it possibly can be, so supply pressure is naturally higher. You are correct to say that demand pressure is what then drives a negotiated wage. But that's just table stakes to understand what an economy is actually composed of. Does this region have a highly skilled workforce, with demand outpacing the supply of workers, thus driving wages up? Congratulations! This means your region has a proportionally lower supply of low skilled workers, which creates upward market pressure on wages. Using the lens of supply and demand means you now need to look for explanations when the demand for unskilled labor doesn't go down, which is what it would take to keep wages constant.

And the value a supplier (worker) assigns to their own time? Demand pressure only indirectly influences a person's perception of value. People get born into a variety of different financial circumstances that alter their negotiating position.

> A quick way to check this is to look at expensive college programs where people come out making much less than the cost of their education. If you were correct, then such situation would not occur.

As respectfully as possible: this is nonsense. There are all sorts of externalities involved in paying for an education that would never be captured by the labor market model. If somebody is paying a lot of money to develop some skill that has low ROI in the labor market, the only thing that signals is that the person getting the "useless" degree must value having that skill for non-monetary reasons. This kind of thing is always a problem when talking about economics as the science of rational agents. Even if the market demand for a particular skill is zero, some people will use money to develop that skill anyway. This observed fact does not remotely invalidate anything I've said.
They may have meant 8.8.8.8 as well.
At a startup I worked at previously we introduced head-space and heads-down days.

Head space was an experiment where every fortnight, at Friday noon it was tools down and do what ever you want. You were encouraged to go away from the office. Ride your bike, have lunch with your wife/husband or family. What ever you thought was giving you head space.

Heads down days were every Tuesday and Thursday of every week. This meant, on those days no meetings. Work from where ever you want. Turn off Slack. Close your email client. The idea here is "planned" uninterrupted time so you get into the zone for a long stretch of time.

Edit: Oh. Forgot about this. The other Friday afternoon every fortnight we would do "refactor" afternoon. It's were the dev team would come together and refactor parts of the code base as a team. You would get to see parts of the code you'd normally never work on and some really great discussions came out of that.
At any given moment there will be a ton of offers people have made to buy or sell at a given price out in the market (whether it's Coinbase, NYSE or whatever). See [0] for an example of how this "order book" is visualized. In the middle is where the actual transactions are happening.

A fake sell wall is a giant offer to purchase at a price that is pretty far from the current market price. On that chart it would be visible as a large vertical uptick. As the price goes down and approaches the huge buy order, the trader cancels it and the wall disappears.

On a traditional exchange this is technically possible, but it's illegal to intentionally manipulate the market by placing orders. People often complain that high-frequency traders put in these orders and cancel them immediately without having the intention to actually transact.

0: https://www.bitstamp.net/market/order_book/
I'd love to hear more about the APIs we need to improve. We are exploring using GraphQL for our next revision of APIs, and your experience would help us with that effort. If you're interested - we'd appreciate your feedback.

Scott
CEO, Atlassian
Hand-off of phone phone calls and copy & paste between devices impressed me the most.