skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. The people voted for a party that has been going on and on about the government being the problem and that it should shrink and that private companies should have very low tax and not face almost any regulation. It’s not like they hid those views and people voted for them to the point where they control the entire state completely (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_Republican_Party).

The people who chose to support that party will have to realize that if they’re not happy with the consequences of their support, they have to get over partisan politics and either reform the party themselves or vote for someone else.

So frustrating when “the government” is referred to as some vague entity out of anyone’s control. They chose this and they can choose something else. Other people saw through the extreme right economics and didn’t chose it so that was a possible path too.
Careful with this, you might be doing more than just flexing your tensor tympani muscle, you might also control the pressure inside your ear.

I can do both of these. The latter is rather dangerous in the long term, although in the short term it does reduce the perceived volume quite a bit. For some reason when I was a kid I preferred a negative pressure in my ears which deformed my eardrum. I still do and I concisely need to remind myself to reset the pressure back to normal.
My thoughts are that this is a moot point. They are being anti-competitive and are beginning to be shown to be in courts of law, at least in the <snark> free world </snark>[0][1]. In all seriousness the USA seems to have lost all appetite to pursue anti-trust cases, whereas it seemed rather keen on it in the early-mid 20th century.

Regarding the tax avoidance, I notice Suckerberg and Thiel and their sub-Randian tax free fruitopian ideas. Perhaps we should let them avoid tax, and at the same time deny them the capital and property protecting powers that the state was designed for. No more copyright, patents, no access to courts at all. No criminal protection either, from hackers/DDOSers et al. At the same time if they want to use our state educated employees they can pay a special transfer fee to buy them of the state school system. There has developed a cult of 'I did this whole thing myself', which massively downplays the role society has in allowing the formation of a corporation and providing the protection of property and capital. None of which is free, and why should the regular Joe payroll tax payer pick up the tab?

[0]https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jun/27/google-brac...
[1]http://www.techradar.com/news/new-standards-for-the-indian-o...

edit: I feel like I should have expressly mentioned limited-liability. Imagine if the investors in a private equity outfit hat to pick up the tab of all of the start-ups that go bankrupt? That is libertarian
Well that is 5 times less then iPhone in Server Years time frame. Complexity is likely multiple times lower, not to mention it was the same RAZR, every iPhone iteration has slightly different manufacturing.

Having said that, I do agree and wonder why hasn't iPhone manufacturing been more automated. One thing i think was on Foxconn and Apple's mind; how Chinese Government think if Foxconn get rid of million of jobs.
It's so that car drivers can hear us and remember to look up from their phones and not kill us.

Seriously though; the noise issue divides even the motorcycle community. Advocates will tell you "loud pipes save lives" and are usually the equivalent of "car guys" that live/breath bikes. Other will tell you that the only defense is defensive riding and it's annoying.

I agree it's annoying, my bike isn't that loud, but anecdotally when I've ridden louder bikes I feel safer; riding a bicycle I feel invisible. I always hear loud bikes before I see them.

I wouldn't mind a louder bike, because I love the sound of engines; but I'd feel self-conscious riding it around my house. The sound wouldn't be a problem for my hearing because I wear custom ear plugs.
I was already amazed at Breaking Bad showing a chemistry teacher working part-time in a carwash. This is unheard of in NL/EU.

I have pointed this out here before, and I would immediately get : well, he made some bad decisions and he has a special need kid.

Well ....
In these cases you could use a https://jmp.chat/ phone number.

No smartphone is required for JMP, only an XMPP client (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16352711 for some client options).
Ask HN: How do you manage your personal authentication?
Undoubtedly most of us already use password managers, but these days I'm finding even this isn't enough.

Nowadays you need an additional 2FA app on your phone, and then you need to safely store your backup keys somewhere you can still access them.

Plus there's the extras like keypairs which can't just be copied and pasted, or managed by a browser extension.

I feel like it's a constant battle to stay secure, while sacrificing usability/sanity in the process. I would pay a significant amount of money just for an app to handle all of this in a secure manner.

How do you manage it?
> The first time you develop an issue with your senses for example, it is quite shocking; going from a state of perfection to imperfection, you focus on that one flaw

Indeed. I caught an ear infection in my 20's. I woke up and thought I was completely deaf in one ear. I went to an ear clinic and they did a hearing test, and the doctor said the results showed that while one ear was worse than the other, the results were still in the "normal" range!
You know, if I worked at Amazon, I would be very tempted to build something that plays river-and-rainforest sounds to indicate the health status of things.

Smoothly running stream? Everything is green. Rapids? Yellow-status; something needs looking into. Waterfall? Something's gone terribly awry.

Happily chirping birds? Successful health checkins. Monkeys screeching? Unhealthy result. Jaguar growl? Datacenter is on fire.
> Let me make this very clear: real population growth is not decelerating; it is holding quite steady. The rate (i.e. percent) of population growth is what is decreasing (and very slowly, at that).

I feel like you're misinterpreting my words just to be disagreeable. "Rate" is a velocity term, and the first derivative of the population count. "Deceleration" is the second derivative of the population, and the first derivative of the rate. Therefore, what you said is exactly what I said: population growth is decelerating.

> With 7.6 billion humans already on the planet, the idea that "depopulation" could become a problem is utterly laughable.

All of our social programs are based on the assumption that the subsequent generation will be larger than the previous one, and so can support them in their old age. This likely will no longer be the case within our lifetime. That's no laughing matter.

Your arguments that eliminating a large fraction of the population would still leave plenty of people around are a complete red herring. What exactly is the fact that 760 million people would still be alive after 90% of the population is eliminated supposed to prove exactly? Are you even remotely aware of the problems this would cause? How supply chains for critical goods would simply collapse? How our rate of progress would grind to a halt? There are all sorts of metrics, like the rate of scientific progress, that are directly tied to population growth. Depopulation is a huge problem for many reasons.
After topping out on prestige, land, wealth and power. What else is left? But to amass a treasure horde of the rarest artefacts and masterpieces the world has ever known.

Longform profiles of superstar dealers such as Larry Gagosian or David Zwirner provide more insight into the psychology of those who catch the art collecting "bug". And how it can morph into irrational idee fixe territory. Such as Getty's obsession with the Roman Emperor Hadrian.

The Art-World Insider Who Went Too Far

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/08/the-bouvier-af...

And of course, you don't need to be a millionaire to start building your own collection. Just a keen eye, good taste, and love for making deals ;)

How To Start Collecting Art In Your 20s

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-start-collecti...

The latest innovation and natural evolution of digital art collecting is potentially the blockchain and distributed ledgers.

The Blockchain Art Market Is Here

https://www.artnome.com/news/2017/12/22/the-blockchain-art-m...
It seems to me that you just did literally describe an inflection point. Regardless of what you call it, as I think about it, in my previous post I ought to have used the word discontinuity, because an inflection point isn't a crisis. This article on Foxconn is about a discontinuity which is the sort of thing that makes people worry, but on a global scale, I don't see why we should expect a global dislocation from automation any time soon.
I'm testing out hugo + netlify for blog posts, and tried to use forestry.io as the dashboard + editor, and it looks great, EXCEPT that it messed with the MathJax (math notation within double-dollar signs) in my markdown posts. Why doesn't it just leave it as raw text that I can edit?
orthodoxy is an enforcement based method, consensus is survey based method.

In any event, the NY Times does often present dissenting views from what one assumes its agenda is. For example, it printing many, many pieces critical of Hillary during the last election cycle.
See also “p-value fishing”
A nice boost for employment statistics fans I guess.

What I don't understand is how things got to this point without the electorate making a stand? Or do the people who vote send their kids to private school instead?
Benefits of abc notation for writing down and sharing music on the web
Background: I've been using Typescript + graphql-yoga/apollo-server/express + Prisma to create a GraphQL server. I'm not familiar with golang.

I found this interesting. So just to check my understanding, does this auto generate the routing for the incoming GraphQL queries and mutations? Then you implement the resolvers / db components?
Further, most modern streaming services actually apply a normalization to playback by default. Spotify, for example, normalizes all tracks to -11 LUFS (a scale for perceptual loudness): https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/mastering-streaming-...

So something from the peak of the loudness wars (like the Metallica album cited by the author) will actually sound a bit quieter and duller on Spotify than something with -11 LUFS of dynamic range.
You only need the sim card active to activate your signal with that number. After that you don't have to be connected to a cell network at all.
This is super cool. It looks very similar to graphql-binding https://github.com/graphql-binding/graphql-binding

GraphQL Bindings are generated from a GraphQL schema and provides static typing in various languages. Right now code-gen for typescript is supported. Scroll down a bit on https://www.prismagraphql.com/ for a short video demonstrating how this works in practice.

I'm very happy that more projects are exploring code-gen for GraphQL.
The foundational premise of the article is false.

Standard Oil, Ford, GM and US Steel to name four, dominated American life as much or greater than today's giants. Standard Oil essentially ruled the US economy, literally, for a few decades at its peak. Today's tech giants are comically weak compared to that sort of power and direct control over the economy.

Amazon in no way is dominating American life. Their retail sales are a third that of Walmart. They have lively competition in cloud computing, Microsoft is actively taking market share from them there, and Google is intent on competing aggressively (they can both afford to and have the technical chops to do it). If Amazon is lucky, one day they'll grow up to be as powerful in retail as Walmart was at its peak of dominance ~10 years ago.

Facebook is losing users in the US and that trend is almost guaranteed to continue. Competitors with appealing products will slowly siphon off users, new and old. Such platforms universally have an ebb and flow to them, they do not maintain peak power perpetually.

Google search is quite a bit less important than it was six or seven years ago. Their economic power is still slightly rising, their search product power is slowly fading. Microsoft knows that feeling, re Windows.

Apple? That one is almost pure bullshit. They've botched the home AI gadget competition. Siri is a mess. iTunes + iPod has lost its quasi monopoly. They have no dominant position in traditional computers. The iPhone is a juggernaut - so what. So is Boeing in airplanes and McDonalds in mediocre low priced hamburgers and Starbucks in coffee.
The point of single-file header libraries is that generally they are relatively small, and do not rely on linking with other libraries (outside the C runtime).
The vasalva manuever results in the same effect. We have manual control of a muscle that lets us sync the pressure in our inner ears. I haven't met anyone in person, but there are others at r/earrumblersassemble
Drain the swamp - start with the teachers.
Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon.

Apple and Amazon are fundamentally different from Google and Facebook and shouldn’t even be mentioned together. The former want to sell you real products and services, the latter just want to trick you out of your personal data so they can sell it on.
Maybe it was some stronger mutation? I had flu 2 years ago as well and it knocked me down for a month and then took another 5 months to recover fully, i.e. it kicked me back fitness-wise almost half a year. Still having some minor sleep issues since.
> Take this idea that JavaScript is a "badly designed language" out of your head

Respectfully, no. The impressive thing about it is it was written in 3 weeks. Edit: I also didn't say Javascript was a badly designed language, at least not in the post you replied to.

The rest of it is like PHP (yes, I have programmed a fair bit in that as well).

> and understand that about 99% of JavaScript's behaviours are intentional.

So much worse ;-) There is one good defense for Javascript IMO and that is it was made in a very short time.

Intentionally leaving in a heap of footguns like Javascripts type coercion isn't brilliant, it is either pragmatic, myopic or evil. I say pragmatic in this case.

> The majority of gotchas in JS are shown by people who don't understand type coercion, prototypes or who expect it to behave like x language.

The classic Perl defense I'd say: ~you don’t understand the beauty of it.

> TypeScript is miserable. I see people building libraries in TypeScript and it's sad because they will never know how much better their performance could be or how small their lib size could be because the can only think in OOP.

Well, every thing you can do in JS you can also do in TS.

In a sense you can say this is our implementation of what you said above: "If you are somebody who is intuitive enough to create your own restrictions on what to use and what not to use in JS from the POV of the language's architecture then you will love it." And here you are right: Typescript is quite a lovely language:-)

Also: By this logic we should be programming in assembly.
Sulong – A high-performance LLVM bitcode interpreter built on the GraalVM
Because one is already happening? Full employment has become "folks who used to be engineers and scientists and office managers, are working the counter at a fast food joint
". And those jobs are going next, apparently.

There's no rule that says jobs will get 'created' at all. It hasn't happened for factory workers the last 10 years.
They are entirely honest about their trade-offs. While those trade-offs may be deal-breakers for you, it should bolster their credibility.
Watching TV, reading a book, etc teens don't get personally attacked, they do via social media. So, no mediums are different and the web has made things worse.
What is exactly the legal history of the US vs MS ?
7 Strategies to Enhance Agility in the Face of Change
I'm intentionally including Berkshire, with full awareness of the difference between a conglomerate and eg Apple.

This is about economic power, reach, influence over daily life. Berkshire reaches into daily American life every bit as much as Amazon does. The difference is you don't see a lot of what Berkshire does.

Berkshire's energy position is massive. They operate one of the largest railroads. They operate one of the world's largest insurance businesses (or several of them if you view them seperately). They have huge influential stakes in everything from the largest banks to Coca Cola to Kraft Heinz. They're one of the largest owners of Apple.

I'd argue their influence on daily American life exceeds that of Amazon.
Behind the Scenes Footage with Elon Musk from the Falcon Heavy Launch
I'm also interested in hearing your thoughts on the maturity of the golang GraphQL ecosystem?

I've mostly been looking at the JS space and there's a lot of tooling. Having said that my experience has been that it's easy to write a simple GraphQL server but it gets complicated fast. I've been using Prisma which does a lot of the heavy lifting for you. It's relatively new so does come with trade-offs.
Location:Levski,Bulgaria

Remote:Yes

Willing to relocate:only to Germany or Austria

Technologies:Node.js,Typescript,Javascript,React.js,Redux,Redux-observable,Redux-saga,SEO,Docker,HTML,CSS,LESS

Résumé/CV: http://bit.ly/2G3omT0

Email: deyan8284@gmail.com
The same thing happened with the ancient Venus statues being considered fertility objects. The truth is your guess is as good as anyone's.
What happened at Google? I remember when gmail was first released - such a great product.

Hangouts destroyed the google talk experience and community. Someone should have gotten fired over it. Everyone seemed to use google talk before the plus/hangouts conversion. Such a massive lost opportunity.

There are many other examples of half-baked and unmaintained software from G. For example, play music's web UI has many irritating bugs that never get fixed. I'm close to canceling my subscription.

I'd be pretty hesitant about committing all in to any of Google's enterprise offerings, like GCE, based on my experience with their other products.
Ask HN: Whats the best Node.js tutorial right now
What's the best NodeJS tutorial to follow in 2018. P.S. I have good enough experience in Python programming
Elon Musk: The Real-Life Iron Man
1. Not everyone is rich enough to buy flaghship phones.

2. Lots of gamers just use XBox or PS4 (no Vulkan there). And on PC, not everyone uses Steam. Plus Microsoft already started to be more agressive regarding games on Windows 10, with Age of Empires remaster being the first example.

3. Well it is a matter of taste, not everyone craves for FPS, then there is also the small matter that Vulkan is not supported on XBox anyway, while DX 12 is. With much better developer tooling.
Filipino is not a race, but nationality.
This only generates the server and you need to write your own resolvers, connect to database, ... Prisma on the other hand handle everything out of the box for you.
Excellent point! This is exactly why I think that more interdisciplinary groups should be formed, which would benefit problems that a given scientists is stuck at, e.g. how can a CS, EE, linguist, etc. who have no prior experience can help with cancer research. Their domain knowledge would be inadequate but they wouldn’t have the biases inherent in microbiologists.
Considering that deaths from the flu are of similar magnitude to traffic fatalities, I’d say it’s more like yelling at drivers for running red lights, failing to yield to pedestrians, or changing lanes without looking, and justifying it on the basis that they’d rather deal with the occasional fender bender than take basic precautions.
Location: Sydney, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: For the right opportunity. Otherwise if remote I am open to flying in for short periods of time to work on-site.

Technologies: Typescript(Nodejs focused), MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSql, Redis, Github, PHP(Laravel)

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fla6q1y0a32ti82/David%20Postlethwa...

Email: David@datadev.ca

Software Developer for 2 years. I have worked full-stack for the past 2 years with multitudes of IBM Bluemix api. The applications I have built and work with take a large influx of social media data for later processing. I am hoping to find a position nearing the end of March. Please reach out I would love to open a dialogue with those interested.
To be fair, languages like Ruby and Javascript only have one sequence container in their standard lib and the difference just doesn't come up for most people most of the time. Just like how most day-to-day data for most people probably fits in array with a capacity <100. And the most common day-to-day operations are array[0] and array.append().

And even when it's thrown in your face like listOf() vs arrayOf() in Kotlin or [] vs '() in Clojure, one is the conventional default that you use most of the time anyways.

That said, someone who doesn't know what a linked list may also be lacking experience with many other things that you would expect from a candidate, but it's no mystery how someone can go far without really encountering one.
France and Germany Urge Discussions on Crypto Policy at G20 Summit
Check out https://dgraph.io/ . I haven't had the chance to use it yet, but I have been following its development for a while. Definitely worth looking into.
I am a Firefox user and when I "need" to use hangout I just fire up Vivaldi.
Graph Databases and their Properties
Just to show that 'the left' really means it when they state that it is 'racist' to relate criminality with ethnicity and religion here's a quote from the latest congress of the Swedish 'Vänster' (communist in all but name) party, published today in the Swedish media [1]:

Kritikerna menar att det finns de som vill ha brottsstatistik
över etnicitet, det är en helt annan debatt. Det är rasism att
koppla ihop brott med etnicitet eller religion. Den debatten
är bortspelad för länge sedan, förutom hos vissa moderater som
vill värva röster från Sverigedemokraterna, säger Daniel Riazat.

This translates to:

Critics state there are those who want to collect statistics
on ethnicity related to criminality but that is an entirely
different debate. ___It is racist to connect crime with ethnicity
or religion___. This debate has played out a long time ago apart
from some 'Moderates' (neo-liberals) who want to gather votes
for the Sweden Democrats (nationalists) says Daniel Riazat.

This is a literal quote from a congress which finished today, "It is racist to connect crime with ethnicity or religion".

[1] https://www.svd.se/v-vill-samla-in-info-om-etnicitet-och-rel...
Definitely read that Artnome piece if you're interested in Blockchain art - I'll share this with him as well.
Yeah, even if it's not as many as before, I do think the privacy is more important.
> yada yada

When all you've got is an agent, everything looks like a principal.
Writing really good software takes years of user feedback, and a team of knowledgeable engineers digesting that feedback to write new versions. A company can afford to do that when its users are its customers. When they are its product instead, you get a steady stream of half-baked and quickly-abandoned software, often installed via forced update.
Yes, I know what you mean. This being said, even the best flu vaccine (depending on each year) is only about 50-60% effective, so the push to "get your vaccine and you'll be safe" is largely moot. Nobody tells such figures to the public.
Oh cool. Well in that case I like the Dutch designer’s taste.
If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good 'Show HN'. Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

It might help to post the github as the primary link and the Medium post as a link in a comment.
It's mostly people who don't have kids/old people who vote with the mentality of "I don't have kids in school, why should I pay for other people's kids to go?"