skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much less than 60% of my Python2 knowledge when I upgraded to Python3, more like 5% I would say, even then.
We have that problem too, a lot of the corruption (I'd say most but I don't have data) is to gather money to be used by the political parties on their campaigns, propaganda, etc. Buying voters with literal cash works with people that are very poor and mostly alienated by the government.

As voting is compulsory in Brazil, a lot of people vote on the person that appeared on the television, or the person that had pamphlets being distributed at the red lights, so spending money on campaign works, indirectly buying votes.
Sketchy.
Useful, yet Paranoid Java Programming Techniques
Well the app description explicitly says that it collects traffic.
And it's worth noting that it was written specifically to advance the view that British colonialism was okay because, apparently, the Mughals and the Central Asian Sultans were worse.
It's part of the same larger pattern. The entire world seems to be moving toward totalitarianism to varying degrees. I have yet to encounter a really good explanation of why this trend is occurring across so many nations and cultures.
That is a great link, thank you!

I think it is telling that the best analysis of this issue that anyone has been able to find in this thread has been in a reddit comment.
I thought it was kind of odd when Trump joked that maybe the US should experiment with getting rid of term limits.

The joke he made was clearly to enrage us leftists, but it also reeked of a man who doesn't fully grasp this new situation, which is actually scary.

It was odd because China is an extremely advanced country and Xi Xinping made an extremely undemocratic, dictatorial move by abolishing term limits.

So now we have the makings of a dictator leading the largest country on Earth, commanding an extremely technologically-advanced military.

The cynic in me makes me think I don't understand Trump's joke because maybe he knows something I don't. The paranoid in me wonders, if Trump really is so misinformed.
All triangles are 2d. Using atan2 to find the angle between 3d vectors would require projection onto an orthonormal basis.

atan2 requires this even in 2d, we just assume the natural basis and assume the other vector is x hat.

Dot product avoids all this in any dimension.
You can do that now. Most truck drivers aren't going to defend their cargo with a gun.

So what's stopping people from doing that now?

Note: an automated truck can probably dial 9-1-1 as easily as a human.
As somebody who collected eggs and fed pigs at a very young age, it would have been much faster and more efficient for Dad to do it himself. :)
The app description does not even mention privacy.
That is a different argument than what the author is making in the article. Don't go on a tangent.

Also, Onavo was acquired by FB in 2013. What were you expecting FB to do with it? It is not even the most popular VPN app.
> I break phones too often

Could you stop doing that? Or get insurance that covers accidental damage. The premium will cost less than £150 every 6 months.
I have to completely agree. I remember hearing once that "convenience beats quality", but I also remember reading that "a restaurant with great food never goes out of business".

I think the only avenue for some of these places is to make up for the loss of convenience with high margin, high quality products and services for those who care. But many of these smaller communities just don't have the populations to support many, if any, of these businesses.

But a goods distribution network may just be the paradigm that's being disrupted, and what may happen is a far more services oriented set of business, until that gets displaced by new innovations.

Ultimately, I think we have the population globally, and the needs to support most of us having fulfilling work. But it may just require a lot of creative relocation individually.
VPNs by definition gather information about browsing behavior. Sharing it with Facebook is where it becomes an issue.
We provide a bunch of standard elements out of the box, including some product related elements. It sounds like you would need something custom, and we have a feature that lets you create custom reusable drag/drop elements: https://help.getshogun.com/tutorial-videos/advanced/creating...
Family courts have different, less stringent standards than other parts of the legal system, even less than the civil part, which is why people could call them kangaroo courts.

For example, you could appeal a traffic ticket decision, but appealing a family court decision could be fairly difficult to impossible task in some jurisdictions.

"As you will learn from reading our interviews, in most states a "temporary" decision made at a 10-minute hearing is generally unappealable and, from a practical point of view, permanent. How reliable is the information that a judge receives? Judge Duncan headlines one section "Lies Usually Go Unpunished."

http://www.realworlddivorce.com/Litigation
You're probably not the audience, then. Some of us can really identify with it and have used these kinds of tips to help our focus. I've never been a 60-hour-a-week (let alone 80) kind of guy except when things are absolutely emergency on-fire. I have a very healthy work-life balance which REQUIRES discipline when you're actually working.
You have a very interesting post and comment history.
I could probably be considered a "vira-lata" too as probably many other Brazilians that lost hope at their countries. But I welcome any initiative from people that did not. I think that a "better diagnosis" is a step forward to a better "treatment".

I think that the stupid voter behavior is not part of the DNA of Brazilians. It is something that can change even if it looks very hard to do it. A lot of Brazilians are actually very tired of corruption, they know pretty well how bad things can get when politicians steal public money regardless of their level of education. They know it is that bad. Teachers don't get paid, policemen going on strikes, bridges falling, economy in shambles, etc. It affects their daily lives and it keeps getting worse.

I think that the "Rouba mas faz" might be true in some places but not everywhere. Now, think about it: you feel hopeless when you know that it's a problem but you don't know any better how to vote. How could you know? How can you trust 100% on someone else's integrity to represent you, specially in Brazil? It is at this point that the problem needs to be tackled from multiple angles. One of them being this initiative. Changing legislation, which happened, in regards to how campaign are run and who is eligible to become a candidate, punishing those who stole public money (Maluf is still in jail, Cabral is in jail, no everyone is in jail but justice is working now).
I would say that "blockchain", as a concept, isn't a suitable category, in the same way that "mobile application" or "website" isn't.

Blockchain is a tool. The applications are varied. There are potential applications for blockchain technologies in each of the rfs categories.
I bought a house and moved out several months after purchasing it for health reasons. The house was an anchor, that I also feel held me back.

I had to take a number of jobs with higher pay, that weren't beneficial to my career. Almost every decision was can I pay for this house as well.

Outside of my special use case. It's an anchor point in your life. I like this job but it's further away from my house. I like this job but it's in another city. Etc.
> When it happens (during Xi's lifetime), it's going to set a particularly terrible precedent that will encourage Russia to do more of the same in eastern Europe.

It may provide a distraction for further Russian expansion, but Russia clearly doesn't need any new foreign precedent to justify invading it's neighbors.

> If China then decides Mongolia too is part of greater China, who can really stop that? Nobody.

China taking Taiwan might not start a major power war (though given the history of such wars, I wouldn't dismiss it as easily as you do), but Mongolia is much more likely to (with Russia as the opposing major power.)
I lift.
A good guesstimate:
1. Figure out your current lifestyle expenses (you can track this over time if you use mint.com or other websites)
2. Subtract your mortgage if you plan to have it paid off by retirement
3. Add in fudge factors for healthcare expenses and increased or decreased discretionary expenses, depending on the lifestyle you think you will live

As with any planning, you can stare at the numbers forever and not feel satisfied. There is no one true answer.
Great - that's very encouraging! Might just take the leap - thanks :)
I remember Nassim Taleb wrote a paper with a similar hypothesis a few years ago. If I recall correctly it was about why smart people shouldn't go into trading: the role of luck is so great that even if you're one of the most skilled traders in the world you'll probably be outdone by someone less skilled but much luckier.

It makes you wonder though: where does luck matter least? Probably in something like a trade that you turn into a business. There you get enough customers that the effects of luck probably cancel out over time.
Has dopamine got us hooked on tech?
> The Bill of Rights Constitutional amendments are all proscriptions on government behavior.

Which the government conveniently forgets.
I think this is up to interpretation. Optimizing for output could mean "improving the system", polishing your soft skills, rather than spending that 20% learning how to code in assembly. On the other hand maybe that assembly knowledge would have lead to creating something that would make others more productive, and end up saving years of combined humanity productivity. It is entirely up to the human in question on how time is utilized.

Unfortunately, most of us are just happy with our performance. We are having "meh" performance and then we look at others that achieve things and we think its luck and good timing.. While there are cases of luck/good timing, in most cases people spit blood, coding/hustling endless hours, pushing themselves constantly, being modest about their knowledge, being methodic and efficient. And the best part is that they are like pigs in mud, they enjoy it to the max. Even if everything failed, they would still emerge with a sense of achievement, just like kids playing with legos.

This is what the take away from this article should be, choose your path and execute like a boss. You are not a snowflake that can do things in 1 hour vs. 1 week, you are a spoilt kid thinking you are awesome, ending up wasting your true potential.
It is really sad that it took over 30 years and the person is still working, albeit in Israel. But wouldn't the Evidence Act(provincial and federal) set the standards that allowed this?
The data mostly looks like population data then, if US, India, and China are the leaders. What would it look like for ton-mile per capita (if that's actually a statistic)?
What really bothered me at the end of the commerical was the fact that the person could be in home in time for dinner.

Unless we have some form of UBI, where is that person going to source the funds to pay for his dinner?
So only scientists can write articles about science (and only the specific area that they research)? Would you say that only politicians can write about politics?

You'd live in a pretty limited (and skewed) world of information if people could only write about personal experience.

Or are you arguing that the writer showed little knowledge of actual gorilla research? You didn't provide any argumentation to support this perspective.

> what right does she have

Could you elaborate on how you got from TL;DRs to freedom of press?
The Economist has a very biased reporting slant on anything China related. I try to take everything from them with a grain of salt.
SF gave undocumented immigrants voting rights. Now it’s worried about ICE
Why iOS developers don't write unit tests
It's never a bad idea to follow up after all meetings -- both team and 1-1 -- with an email that goes, "As per our discussion, I do X,Y; someone else does Z, 3rd person does W, and project A is blocked on B." Then everyone is definitely on the same page as to DRIs and commitments. Or you can hash out disagreements then and there.
But most are 20-30 ...
Demographic decline seems almost inevitable given our economic system, sans immigration.

I'm a parent in SF. The cost of housing and availability of quality care (day care, nanny), and schools are definitely factors among the parent community here in deciding not to have more children. Many of the parents I know are doing well financially (they must be to be raising kids in SF), so I get to see the non-financial reasons for smaller families. One that's pretty important: quality of life. The opportunity cost of having children is about much more than money.

The options for doing things you enjoy are hugely greater today than in the past. Fancy restaurants, sports events, cruises, gaming, live music, Netflix, social media. World travel. Rewarding work. You name it. The world has become much better and better at providing things that people enjoy spending their time and money on.

Having children not only reduces the money you have to enjoy these things, it puts a huge damper on your time, and freedom to do so. Sure, you could go to that cool new restaurant with your young children. But it's a completely different experience than going without them -- so much so that it veers into negative utility.

For some people enjoying family life and kids is more valuable than all of the other stuff combined. But as the world gets better and better at giving people alternatives to spend their time/money/freedom on that they enjoy, having more children will become less and less attractive for more and more people.

Policies will only do so much to reverse this. Many European countries have much more family oriented policies than the US, yet look at the reality of their birthrates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageing_of_Europe.
Electric grid frequency deviations in Europe cause clocks to run slow
I'm not sure that's the right comparison, and it illustrates my point. The correct comparison is how much we help our companies, not how much code we output.

I know people who produce less code but outperform on many more important metrics (salary, title, being valued at the company, whether they make their company more likely to succeed)
Imagine the situation.
The only property that you have is a truck. You get out of money and cannot afford gas anymore, so for 72h straight your truck stay parked in some street. The city notices this and impound your vehicle. Now you have to:

1. Pay for the time your vehicle is in city deposit and the fine

2. Do nothing and wait for your vehicle got auctioned.

You end up with the second option because you don't have any money (or the car wouldn't be impounded in first place).
So you now have: a fine to pay and no car.

And no place to live.
Running a Distributed Database on Kubernetes
What do you not like about Sentry? Just curious.
One of the strategies is to keep Taiwan itself armed. Civilians like us can't know this, but it has been hypothesized that one of the levers being used on China with regard to North Korea's development of nuclear weapons is explaining to them that if North Korea goes nuclear, they can expect Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and who knows who else to go nuclear, either via local development of the weaponry or via assisted development from the US, if not outright turning weapons over.

After all, one imagines that if they really put their mind to it, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea could all go nuclear in a period measured in small single-digit months. They really aren't that hard [1]. If, indeed, they aren't already effectively nuclear. (We'd probably know if they'd ever tested a weapon. We wouldn't necessarily know if they'd actually built one. If I were them, I totally would have.)

One of the interesting aspects of the whole Inevitable Rise of China narrative storyline is that it has been predicated on their continuing to develop and primarily use soft power. I tend to agree if they focused on that, they have many avenues available for major growth, if not outright exceeding the US in power, certainly by the end of the 21st century. The equations for all of that have to be reconsidered from scratch if they become a dictatorship, become subject to the whims of a single man, and decide to primarily pursue hard power. If they become outright aggressively belligerent, they are surrounded by countries powerful enough to at least put a dent in their ambitions in Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and India, all of whom are already generally US allies and would be chased into the US's arms fully by a belligerent China. China is not currently powerful enough to take on that coalition, nor is it clear to me where they would get allies for that push. (It seems unlikely that the EU would full-throatedly throw in their lot with China. Russia, other than being nuclear, isn't really a strong enough military or economic power against that sort of coalition to be the deciding factor.) Furthermore, China's internal power is IMHO more delicate than may meet the eye; if China devotes more resources into hard power internally and the middle class starts to fade, internal social unrest is going to be a major problem. Even if China manages to suppress its most overt expressions, unrest still manifests itself in many little ways.

The best move for China is slow and steady, to win the race. But if one man decides that's not fast enough, well, a lot of people could end up dying for that decision and my guess is China would still not come out on top.

[1]: https://io9.gizmodo.com/this-experiment-proved-that-anyone-c...
Yeah, for some reason Google is adamantly opposed to adopting Python 3. I have no idea why. It's clearly much better, more well designed, etc. I mean come on... print as a statement rather than a function call? That alone should be enough to make the decision I'd think.
>Xiaomi (the current Android One leader) is effectively banned from India after spying on millions.

How are they banned? they have the best selling phones in India. They now beating Samsung https://www.neowin.net/news/xioami-trumps-samsung-in-indian-...
I'm surprised it didn't say "Dilly Dilly!" but it is cool what the original paper was about.
The normal optimistic number is a 4% yearly WD rate, so 25x yearly expenses saved. I’m a believer in no more than 3% withdrawal, so at least 33 years of expenses.
> Do large companies bribe the government officials or go through the party to get things done and how do they interact in general.

For about ~15 years before Xi fully consolidated power, that's how things routinely worked. It was run almost entirely on a bribery to get things done approach, in the business sphere.

Xi has moved the system/party on to new goals, with the business realm no longer having the same high order position that it previously did. I wouldn't want to be Jack Ma or Pony Ma in the environment that's being setup now. Alibaba and Tencent will eventually be too large for Xi's liking, if that's not already the case.

Australia's former PM, Kevin Rudd, has an excellent write-up on all of this (he has a particularly strong background regarding China):

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-03/emperor-x...
You're right! All of these things are true, real, and valid scenarios that can lead to this situation.

Those who have relative means will often maintain a mailbox of some sort. There are services that accept mail and scan it for you and other ways. Few of which are available to the homeless, due generally to a lack of financial means.

Lacking a real permanent address doesn't inherently make you uncontactable by governments. It's the combination of lacking a permanent address and lacking the means to work around it that creates a perfect storm.
You miss NaN of the shots you don't take
This story should remind us all how much of our consumer focused life is discarded on a everyday basis and what we will leave behind for future generations.
> The data mostly looks like population data then

The US has a smaller population than the EU (~300m to ~500m). So does Russia (150m). Australia has a significantly smaller population than the EU (15^H^H25m as golemiprague noted).

It's not population data it's mineral commodities.

> What would it look like for ton-mile per capita (if that's actually a statistic)?

The US would climb to ~15x the tonnes-kilometers per capita of the EU, and australia would shoot up to about the same ratio over the EU (owing to close tonne-kilometer but 1/20th the population). Russia would shoot up as well. Only China and India would get a lower rank overall, and not enough that the EU would come close to edging them for China at least (a bit under 3x the population, but a bit under 10x the tonner-kilometer of rail freight).
Great Story!
As far as I'm concerned, the only question that matters is "What is the chain of responsibility for making security updates get to my phone?"

If the answer is "Google-Carrier-Me" or "Google-Vendor-Carrier-Me" and not "Google-Me", then fuck it sideways. I'm so done with Android until the update model stops being garbage.
I heard about Vero ( https://www.vero.co/ ) the other day. Their business model is to allow the first wave of users to join for free, then later charge a subscription to new users. I don't know whether they'll be a contender in the long run, but they've experienced rapid growth recently (unfortunately leading to service scaling issues).
I kinda thought society moved past equating "whether you have human rights" with "whether you own property" in the 1800's, but I guess some of us have yet to catch up.
It doesn't make much sense to do logically because you can front-load a lot less at the beginning of your career. It's far better to design a sustainable lifestyle you like when starting out and aggressively fight scaling it up with your income. If you do that the numbers will work themselves out.
There a famous song from an old Soviet movie.
The song called "If you don't have an aunt"

"If you have no home
It won't be set on fire
And your wife won't leave you for another
If you don't, if you don't
If you don't have any wife
Don't have any wife....."

Original with English subtitles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50CV0C4ox-k