skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Came across this website some time ago:

The Architecture of Open Source Applications

500 Lines or Less

http://aosabook.org/en/index.html
I actually have had the same thing happen at McDonalds, sometimes they seem to just not have a receipt for you so they give you whatever they feel like. It's always been more than I paid, but it is kinda like "you had one job."

Supposedly if you pay with cash some cashiers pocket the cash and give you change from their own pocket, so maybe that's what happened here.
50+ answers in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14075942
Thank you for the suggestion. Guess I know what I'm doing next week
> it's probably the only program that I can blindly paste something from my clipboard and expect that Word will render it reasonably well.

Which is funny, because going the other direction (copying from Word then pasting elsewhere) seems to guarantee _interesting_ output. Mangled quotes being the most famous example.
"I won't be able to profit in the most obvious way possible, so I will leave."

That doesn't make much sense to me.
Like the CA ballot initiative process? No, thanks.

I lived through a couple of election cycles in CA, and realized the whole thing was a farce. At the time, you could pay signature gatherers $1 or so per signature, so anyone with about $1 million to throw around could get their pet initiative on the ballot. Ordinary people don't have the time or expertise to tease out the implications of legislation, because they have other things to do with their lives.

Direct democracy is fine for school boards and homeowners' associations, but societies of millions of people are complicated.
A. It's not about politics.

B. There's no current requirement that posts on the front page be apolitical.
That was much better than I expected.

And it wasn't until I looked at the byline at the end when I realized, yes, it is that Hofstadter (Godel, Escher, Bach).
So is net neutrality... This has to do with data and technology so it is relevant.
Well, there won't be anything protecting me from a rent increase of 20-30% so it's less about profit and more about just plain-ole affordability.

My father has property here so I'm sure he'll be fine.
What specifically are you suggesting happen? Did I say anywhere in my post that tax rates should not be raised for the wealthy, or that the estate tax should not be raised?

I am making a specific counterargument to a post arguing that wealth correlates with power, power is the true measure of inequality, and that it should thus be normalized instead.

I am thoroughly questioning the reading comprehension skills of virtually everybody responding to me.
What to tell kids about Stephen Hawking
Org-brain – mind-mapping for org-mode
Bullshit and hyperbole. There are various degrees of capitalism, and saying that if the state doesn't put corporations at its same level, eventually it'll become more or less like China, is pushing a certain type of agenda.

Have a look at Europe, there's fully privatised states, and some that might be regarded wrongly, from an American point of view, as socialist, yet still actually capitalist in economic philosophy.
I do this too, it's an ironic word that resembles its meaning. Like a textual onomatopoeia.

Parallel might be another example - are there others?
Yeah, that's a fair point. Perhaps I'm a little too caught up in recent events and not seeing the forest for the trees.
Atlanta thrives on Delta, Coca Cola, UPS, Home Depot, and others. Far from "destroying livelihoods", it's in large part due to the "giants" that Atlanta is a major economic hub in the southeast.
I don't understand the love for Markdown. I get that it is useful for quick and dirty formatting. But as soon as I want to make a document that can interoperate with others or has long term use requirements, I reach for XHTML. It is not sexy, but it has a well understood definition. As far as I know, Markdown still has a few different definitions that are not perfectly compatible.
I suspect why the stone curls in the direction of rotation is that the edge on that side is moving more slowly relatively to the ice. It melts the ice less, generating less of a film of water and so experiences more friction.

If an axle with wheels rolls such that the left wheel is on pavement and the right hits grass, it will turn right.

A glass on a bar table top doesn't melt the surface to create a film; more motion means more friction not less. So, opposite.

It probably doesn't matter which edge (front versus back) has more weight on it, but rather which side of that edge (left or right) experiences more friction. I suspect even if you slide the glass up an inclined bar table top so that the weight is on the rear, it will still curl opposite.
You will no longer be able to raise a family in the Atlanta core if you haven't already bought.
I agree. There is a good chance if they distributed these tax breaks over all their small businesses the overall benefit may be higher than giving them one big player. This kind of deal distorts the economy to the benefit of a few big players.
The Future of Investing in Startups: Equity Crowdfunding
Ginger Water: The Healthiest Drink to Burn All the Fat from the Waist and Back
Those are the keys a usual Emacs users uses maybe hundreds of times in a day. Every laptop I have owned has its arrow keys and Home-PgUp-PgDown-End block in a rather unique place, so even if it's a minor optimisation (it's not), accumulatively it's a very important one. It'd be like replacing a heap allocation with a stack one in a hot function, if that example works like I think it does.
No thanks, I prefer my Libreoffice. I like markdown for simple stuff but other than that, nope.
Wasn't the other big issue that motivated the FCC the devices which ignored / broke DFS [1], and the use of disallowed channels (eg, 12-14 in North America)

Interfering with licensed radar installations would seem to be a legitimate problem.

[1] http://www.ieee802.org/18/Meeting_documents/2007_Nov/WFA-DFS...
Or what if Harvard scientists said that sugar is good, fat is bad, because they were paid some bribe?

So Youtube bans videos spreading "fake news" that disagrees with the "science" by "foremost industry experts."

What if it was about leaded gasoline? Or $500 million is missing Haiti charitable funds.

Or the catalyst for the Vietnam War, the Gulf of Tonkin, as well as the WMD claims that set off Iraq War, were all lies?

All these things really happened.
Because they only do it when it makes financial sense, political sense, or both. Getting Amazon to move to $CITY could very well bring in billions of dollars in [personal income] tax revenue, jobs, etc. It may or may not make $CITY more in the long run even if they're giving Amazon $5B in total breaks. But even if they make less than they give Amazon, there's still the obvious political implication of being responsible for the 50,000+ jobs that got created in your city.
getting resolution name fail...
> I suspect that large part comes from that they have been thrown in front of Word with very little guidance or training, because "everyone knows how to use Word", and they then just struggle on

Yes, I would agree with this. Even worse is that typing is also an expected skill but very few people can actually do it. Almost every person I come across for whom typing should be a necessary part of their job are simply incapable of doing it. How can we expect people to use software like Word if they can't even type?

But I really do think that in the vast majority of cases people do not need to be using Word. It could very well be done in a plain text format and the documents would look better as a result. Much of Word's functionality is very much a "could" rather than a "should".
> "Illegal content means any information which is not in compliance with Union law or the law of a Member State [...]"

The "law of a Member State" part is very concerning. If it's enough that content is illegal in one member state to have it taken down in the whole EU, very tough times lying ahead.

The first two things which came to my mind were the new Polish holocaust law and the current prosecution of various symbols of Kurdish groups (e.g. flags of YPG) in Germany.

Say goodbye to free speech.
>>Archery, too, is fringe and unexciting

Lost me there. Archery is infinitely more exciting than many Olympic "sports", curling included.
In 2018, the only two ways you can do something that simple wrong, is by 1) not speaking English at all or 2) say something else completely.
Correct, that piece is missing from the article. And the answer to that question is that a tax break is effectively a form of financing, so why not let Amazon (or other major corporations) be on the hook for the note? Even when that financing is paid by future tax revenues, every tax payer in the region will sign up involuntarily for a little piece of that debt. For smaller projects, this incentive mechanism makes sense. However, HQ2 will create an enormous "supply chain pull" on every aspect of government, and those costs are impossible to accurately assess. Ignore any economists projections, those are worth less than the paper they are printed on when it comes to guaranteeing billions in public debt.

Here is a fun question:, are these grass roots anti-amazon campaigns being boosted/funded by the few remaining cities in the running as a means to sabotage the other cities bids, from the inside?? The campaign leaders may not even know the real answer to that. Thats what I would do if I were Chicago!
And yet I spend a summer immersed in Emacs and the thing I miss most is the navigation commands and incremental search.

It's not premature in my opinion.
Oh, don't be mistaken, I have plenty of vegetarian and vegan friends that aren't self-righteous. It wasn't an assumption based on putting you in a category, rather a commentary of the way you look down on others.

Slaughtering or mutilating the plants you raised yourself doesn't look like revering them too much. Looks like just raising them for your own satisfaction of tasting their flavor.
> First, it empowers U.S. law enforcement to grab data stored anywhere in the world, without following foreign data privacy rules.

How does this play into a global scope? I assume the US can tell it's own people "You can do this", but I assume the Europen Union or other countries might not allow it, regardless of how Americans feel about it. Is the idea that IF a US agency can get a hold of the data, then it is not subject to whatever rules the country dictates for data privacy?
To investigate the pivot/slide model further why not spin a flat bottomed rock down the ice to see whether it curves?
You have a point. 23cm band gives you a bandwidth of 60MHz to play with. The 13cm (2.3-2.45 GHz) playground also happens to be within the frequency range of your microwave oven (2.45GHz) so experimenting with high ERP in that area will probably have physiological consequences.
With the exception of battery life 1G Apple Watches and iPads typically work just as well as they did on day 1. Cloud support will start to fall away at some point. But these products are very durable. Huge numbers of iPad 2s are still in use.

FWIW I think developers should support old hardware as long as they can, but only the lastest operating system for each particular supported model.
Human-powered cranes and lifting devices (2010)
This article, posted by Quanttek above, is very relevant to your question:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/the-s...
I once had a long discussion with Axel about the Neuron, which went like this, around and around in circles:

Me: "So .. how does it work?"

Axel: "It doesn't matter how it works, musicians don't care, they just want to hear something when they do something.."

Me: "Sure, okay .. but how does it work if I am a musician who does want to know.."

Axel: "Real musicians don't want to know."

Me: ...

I'm honestly not convinced he knew how it works, either! :P
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16585430
Peter Hetherington, chief executive of IG Group, Europe’s largest retail trading website, said consumers would be “more likely to end up with reputable brokers and proper regulatory protection” following the changes.

But he warned that there were wider implications for financial services, saying: “Big American tech companies are increasingly influential in deciding how financial services products are marketed. This is fine if they get to the right answer . . . but a worrying precedent if they do not, since the normal checks and balances do not apply to their decisions.”

("Google to ban cryptocurrency adverts", Financial Times, March 15, 2018)
Is this inevitable? In the age of Big Data, can we realistically do anything to stop the progressive intrusion of surveillance onto our privacy?

Particularly when a single secret datacenter is enough to circumvent any law or amendment, what can we realistically do, short of going off the grid? Can we make our own?
Windows are definitively required by law in many countries, as it allows other drivers (in other cars) to see through a vehicle to anticipate for what's happening in front of it. In my country (the Netherlands) even tinted windows are prohibited for this reason.

Also, for most passengers in a driverless car, windows would be important. As many humans (including myself) get motion sickness if they have no reference of the outside world.
For clarity, the mistake LifeLiverTransp is referring to is:

> The only thing that prevented an explosion was a mistake in the attackers’ computer code, the investigators said.
iOS doesn't support OpenCL
Every few weeks there's a new item related to governments and technology. The days of leaving the internet alone are long, long gone.

Aside from the negativity of it all, I really wish we didn't have these things coming up. It's not about hacking, it's not about technology. It's not about making things people want.

But when tech companies build out surveillance systems as part of their products that would tax the imagination of the most dystopic writers in history, and the governments roll in and sweep all that data up?

As hackers we're stuck in the story, we are key players, we created this monstrosity, and we're probably the only hope there is for fixing it.
I believe back in the 90s there was a plan to have passenger jets without windows as they added weight, cost and reduced fuselage strength. Never got anywhere.
Those founders will find a way. Maybe by asking for investments sooner and then going live.
MS Word is part of the interoffice workflow ; a formal word document has a predefined and deliberately inflexible template, it goes though several iterations of edits and approvals. Features like Track changes , templates and WYSIWYG enable organization to efficiently create reliable documents.

Markdown is awesome but it is not an alternative to MS Word.
Yes the data collection volume is pretty massive. I run a raspberry pi at home running pihole to block DNS requests and the amount of metrics and dialling home devices do is pretty staggering.

That being said, my Windows 10 and Apple devices all do a similar insane amount of dialling home all the time so I don't think it is unique to Android.

In fact, you should probably run O&O ShutUp10 on Windows to disable all the telemetry (does it really need to know how you're using your keyboard?????), GlassWire or NetLimiter (not tried them) and install Little Snitch for Mac (I use this and observe much dialling out).

A sad world we live in.
Because Israel and Saudi Arabia are allies.
What's the engineering tradeoffs required for windows? Would eliminating windows result in a safer, cheaper car?

Would projecting the outside world on the inside of a tin-can car meet the benefits ascribed to windows? (I could imagine some dystopian future where windowed cars are considered to be luxury items).
I mean, yeah. If you try to use a framework intended for games, it won't be a great fit for other use cases. Look into Open Scene Graph if you want a higher level API that isn't as opinionated towards games.

Vulkan isn't a higher level API though, which might be why you and the other guy are kind of talking past each other.
It sounds like such a shitty law it must have originated from the UK ?
This is not directly related to this article (which I liked), but instead to the topic in general.

I heard of a study a few years ago where researchers divided a bunch of teenagers into a few groups (each of which was quite large), and each teen was allowed to go to a website and hear a collection of songs (same songs for everyone). Each person could then vote on which was their favorite and, importantly, they could see how many votes that song had already gotten just within their group. The researchers wanted to see if the same songs were picked as the favorite across different, isolated groups. The result was that each group had chosen completely different songs as their favorite. These groups were large enough that they were probably all statistically similar. Once people in a group saw that some song already had a lot of votes, they were more likely to pick it as their favorite as well. This suggests that in the world of pop music, success may have more to do with luck and social influence than with talent.

Ah, I found a link to a description of the study: https://www.npr.org/2014/02/27/282939233/good-art-is-popular...
While true, these companies are fixtures of Atlanta and all have a great track record of employing locals. Amazon's a huge tech company that employs a lot of tech people, and their effect on the property market is going to be outsized. Entire neighborhoods will gentrify overnight.
It's MIT licensed by default. The StackOverflow code, that is.
If they were really confident they would remove the steering wheel altogether. Bonus points for removing the hand brake and pedals.
It got me, TBH. When I read he bought the horse back at $80, it threw me off because (in my head) I was presuming he didn't have $80. He sold the horse for only $70. The "riddle" didn't say that's all he had, but it shifted the way I was thinking about it mid-question in a way that led me to thinking about it the wrong way.

Of course, that doesn't explain how people got wrong answers other than mine, but I do think the wording and framing is significant here, which is probably why this specific "riddle" is the one that is effective.
Fastmail is very nice.
Clearly you're not from Saskatchewan
Don't worry, they've been playing this whack-a-mole game for the better part of 4 years, they're not much more effective now than when they started.
It's a standard phase in the adoption of any technology. It usually goes: initial interest (run up), hype phase (often accompanied by bubble), hype peak (bubble gets absurd), disillusionment (often accompanied by crash), then gradual renewal of interest and "plateau of enlightenment."

Cryptocurrency is still in its hype phase but there are signs that it's ending. When it does expect a loss of interest and possibly a crash in value, though the latter may not occur as much as people expect due to the weird behavior of illiquid or thinly traded assets and the deflationary nature of most existing cryptocurrencies.

The plateau of enlightenment will come as people figure out new ways to scale cryptocurrencies and adapt them to different use cases in the real world.

Their current use cases of financial fraud, gambling, and crime are actually not uncommon. The military and criminals are generally early adopters of new technology, and things like gambling and porn are often early use cases. Sober mainstream "enterprise" users generally stay away from new technologies until they reach their plateau of enlightenment and are thus well understood and reliable.
You might be naive, or you might want people to know it was you, or you might be doing a false flag operation, ... telling which it is seems hard.

Cf. recent attempted murder with nerve agent in UK.
When selecting a model to demonstrate some dynamic behaviour:

1. First select the simplest model that captures some generic and essential.

2. Vary the parameters and introduce additional variables to that model to see how sensitive it is to different parameters values and variations of the model. The general state phase under variation is what builds confidence to the model.

Some other results:

* Peter Norvig: Simple Economics Simulation: https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/master/ipynb/Economic...

* Uri Wilensky even simpler version http://www.decisionsciencenews.com/2017/06/19/counterintuiti...

* Bouchaud JP, Mézard M (2000) Wealth condensation in a simple model of economy. Physica A 282:536–545.
https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0002374

* Colloquium: Statistical mechanics of money, wealth, and income Victor M. Yakovenko and J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Rev. Mod. Phys. 81, 1703 – Published 2 December 2009
https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/RevModPhys.81.1703

The general stable result that emerges from these simulations again and again is the effect of
multiplicative randomness. There may be other factors, but it's usually the largest by far and you need to drill deeper if you want to quantify the effect from other factors.
Tesla shipped its 10,000th Model 3
“Thank you, car.”

This is not the last time we will be hearing that.
Just user friendliness. Humans really like being able to see out of the vehicle they’re moving in.

Hence passenger windows in airplanes, even though this is structurally problematic and requires expensive reinforcement around the windows.

Not to mention windows in metro systems that are entirely underground.

It’s just a comfort thing. Removing it would likely decrease customer demand.
Apps are severely limited by the WatchKit SDK/API limitations that Marco Arment and others have covered. I've gone through several different podcast apps, and I'm now on Outcast which seems to work ok but still has annoyances:
https://9to5mac.com/2018/01/30/outcast-apple-watch-podcast-a...

Battery life can drain quite rapidly if you leave your cell antenna on during a run. It seems like they should figure out a way to more intelligently toggle the antenna or define a different use case where I don't have to go remember to go turn it back on if I actively want to use data but in the meantime it remains disabled (and if I don't receive incoming calls that's maybe ok? Despite the example in my original post...).

I wish Yelp and some other apps would operate in standalone mode without the phone. This is likely related to the SDK limitations, but it's also a matter of app developer priorities of course.
Well, you know, the Protestant notion of predestination is something quite interesting. I think that it's very pure in a sense, in that it strips away the sort of material or "transactional" nature of faith.

Good acts don't guarantee you a place in the afterlife - they stand alone, whole in and of themselves, giving them a moral dimension outside the bounds of faith. It's not that your fate is predetermined, which it is, but more importantly, you don't KNOW what the predetermination is.

I won't digress since I don't know if HN is a good place for a discussion of the metaphysics of predestination, but it's something very interesting to think about.
Hey now, us synth-diy guys have been around a lot longer than hipsters! :P

Seriously though, this announcement from Google does reek of "invented in ignorance"-style NIH'erism .. but then again, it may be an effective marketing ploy, given that there are so, so many kids getting into synthesisers, who don't have a foggy clue what decades of technology has produced, in terms of the state of the art.

Its a common thing in synthesisers though - someone comes up with some 'amazing new technique nobody has ever thought of before', and ends up .. producing sounds just like the 303's and DX's before them ..
Even subway cars have windows :)