skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> China is just as likely to get stuck in a middle income trap

Japan wasn't a middle income country. They didn't get stuck in the middle income trap. In the next sentence you say that china is like japan right before they crashed and here you claim china is going to get stuck in the middle income trap. Those are contradictory assertions.

> They look a lot more like Japan economically right before Japan hit stagnation, than anything else.

How? Japan's urbanization rate in 1980s was over 90%. Japan's GDP was near parity with the US with half the population. China is at 50% urbanization. Their GDP is near parity with the US with 4X the US population. China today and Japan in the 80s are nothing alike. Not even close.

> Historical question: name all the economically very successful dictatorships of the last 200 years.

Every european country ( colonial power ). Saudi arabia, UAE, kuwait, etc. South korea, Taiwan, Chile, etc.

Also, you conveniently ignore the fact that there are far more economically poor democracies in the world.
This may not be your idea of a smart watch, but is a lot of fun and has cool hardware: https://goodwatch.org/posts/introducing-the-goodwatch/
Tabletop RPGs & board games. I sort of have a pipe dream of writing and publishing my own game someday.
Saying that Google is not doing this is disingenuous.

Google is a term used for the conglomerate of Google, which includes Alphabet and due to bureaucracy it's also the "official name" of Google.
It will take money from people who continue to fund denial and political diversions.

It will increase the potential costs they consider the next time a major industry has to choose between ending human civilization and their quarterly profits.

It will punish shareholders who supported this behaviour.

It's not the only answer but I don't see any way that it hurts.
In no particular order:

Reading, cooking, handing out with friends, traveling, sleeping, working on personal projects, running, meditating, trying a new life habit, taking a break, organizing, fixing, improving, hiking, rock climbing, creating a new company, catching up on my field of expertise, cleaning, calling people I like, going to the cinema, going to a show, watching tv shows, testing a different tool, meeting new people, doing something that takes time but saves money, going to an event or a party, going to a museum, doing live escape games, playing laser tags, diner with friends, varying on sex, going to a health specialist, caring for my skin or hairs, choosing second hand cool clothes in a thrift shop, working more hours, helping friends with something...

Kids has nothing to do with what I do though. It's a matter of time. Some people without kids still don't have time. They work a lot, or have a hobby that fill up the day or just do things very slowly to enjoy the moment, or live in area where everything takes more time, or have a big commute.

Some people do have kids but have a lot of money and don't wish to spend time with them, hiring somebody to do it. Other just neglect the kids.

So the thing is more: you created a life with kids, you decided to take care of those kids, you agreed it would take a lot of time to make it the way you think it should be done (e.g: they being sane and healthy) and allocated that time to those kids.

Basically it's just like anything else: you decided to add something, here taking care of the kids, that takes time instead of something else. Kids is just a label to it and is no better, or worse, than any other activity.
> Jews for example more likely to have Tay Sachs disease.

Sure but it's not because they practice Judaism. And since one can convert to judaism, I've never heard about someone who can convert his genes to "jew genes".

> Sickle cell disease affects blacks disproportionately.

Sure but it isn't necessary because their skin are dark, when you can find people from Sri Lanka or India who have a skin blacker than African people yet they don't have this disease prevalence.

See what you are doing here? you are mixing up genetics which can be used to establish statistical facts about gene expressions, and semantics AKA social construct. And this sort of sophism can easily be exploited to make broad generalizations about the behavior of arbitrary racial groups you've established under pretense of science. That's why the notion of race for humans is completely absurd.

What race are people living in Madagascar? most of them aren't negro looking, what race the Yemeni? the afghans? they don't look like Arabs...
My mission to help spread the message that geography is not destiny.

I was lucky enough to be born during the internet age in the 90s. Because the internet already existed I was able to teach myself skills and find work that allowed me to be anywhere as long as I had an internet connection.

With the internet, you can choose who to serve and you can do it from anywhere.
Link Between Cell Tower Radiation and Cancer
This is cool, do you have any recommended blog posts on the end-to-end process? I’d love to build a movement but would like to gauge the effort/cost/time involved
Thanks for the thanks. I wasn't sure how this would be received on HN. They are the best lessons I've found, however I must admit that I think Mantak Chia's Multiorgasmic Man teaches the sex stuff better than Yogani's lessons. Plus it's a good idea learning how to bring the energy down the front as well through the Microcosmic Orbit.
Most of that inference actually comes from the pervasive "like" buttons -- essentially all of the websites you use are happily and freely giving the information about you to facebook - who gladly correlate it across sites and with your shadow profiles.

Your friends who uploaded their addressbooks and phonebooks to Facebook and WhatsApp are obviously helping to associate that data with a real identity, and by tagging you in pictures make it even more complete.

But the vast majority of info Facebook has on you that YOU did not provide directly actually comes from the embedded Facebook bugs ("like buttons") all over the internet. And it's not surprising that the media doesn't mention it -- they rely on those bugs to get traffic, so they can't complain about it without taking it off, and they can't take it off without losing traffic.
I played around with rancher in my VM and with three servers.

And it always lost its ip sec connections and only a reboot helped.

I liked it though...
While I agree with many things the authors says in this essay, the article unfortunately has an 'apologistic touch', so to say. The author starts by casually mentioning that six million jews were killed in the name of an ill-conceived and scientifically unsubstantiated race ideology, and then quickly turns to genetic issues and how they support certain differences in isolated populations. The problem with this way of laying things out is that it does not do justice to the often horrific ways 'race' and even well-justified, measurable differences between populations are handled in society.

The word 'race' should not be used by anyone in any context any longer, because it has been misunderstood, ill-defined and systematically abused over and over. It would be irresponsible to attempt to reappropriate the term into scientific usage.

Apart from that, differences in genetic populations exists just as differences in cultures exist, and I don't think anyone has ever denied that. Researchers need to be aware, though, that there is a bunch of bad human beings out there who will invariably draw the wrong conclusions from such research and advocate policies that are plain evil.
> People of different races have different metabolisms and physical characteristics

how many human races? if you're going to talk about categories of humans you need to precisely define them. So how many human races known exactly?
Misc: Bangladesh is a leader in health technology. There is a place in Bangladesh called "Matlab" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matlab_(Bangladesh) ). Bacteria from a pit toilet travel less than 10 feet through dirt. An organization called "BRAC" (http://www.brac.net/) deserves a Nobel prize. More about BRAC: https://www.smu.edu.sg/perspectives/2012/06/26/tale-two-ngos...
I'm not sure how exactly my comment is not clear, but I'll clarify anyway :) (Edit: found it - the last phrase in my comment should say "at that time", unfortunately I can't edit my comment)

Let's pick some moments in time, say 1500, 1800, 2000 and some countries, say Sweden, Romania and Asgard® (I'm going to use a fictitious country name to avoid offending anyone from a poorer country :) ).

My statement was that in 1500, 1800 and 2000, the wealth levels for these countries were like this:

Sweden > Romania > Asgard.

for all 3 moments in time (or any other, more or less)

The description in the article doesn't make sense, he's appealing to our modern sensibilities. Of course Sweden in 2000 is richer than Sweden in 1800. But it doesn't make any sense to compare things like that. If you want to get a true measure, you need to compare things at that point in time: Sweden in 1800 with Romania in 1800 and with Asgard® in 1800.

So, for your comment:

> are you saying [...] Romania wasn't poor and therefore Sweden was actually wealthy?

1. Romania in 1800 was comparatively poorer than Sweden in 1800, but richer than Asgard® in 1800. So, Romania was still poor, but not as poor as other places.

2. Sweden, as a result, "was actually wealthy" for that time, compared to many other countries in the world, at that time.
In-The-Sticks experience with the DMV shows the same experience, down to the signs asking you to speak to a supervisor.

This tells me that perhaps your experience with DMVs is out of date. I do remember when the DMV was hours of waiting in uncomfortable plastic chairs, but that's no longer the case.
I'm currently working on a project which has only social login (but allows you to choose between facebook and google) and this was a very deliberate move. For any given person on this planet, there is a higher chance that they use facebook or gmail over any other "service", so no need to offer support for 10 different social logins.

Also, this is more about imposing a qualitative filter on the users who sign up. If the earliest users you have don't like you enough to give you their social login details (assuming, of course, you don't do something silly that poses a security threat) then do they really like you enough?

I like to think of my earliest users as "apostles" (I even call them that. Not to their face, but yeah) and they should have a bit of faith in the service. If they don't, then they are not really apostles after all.
There is a manual procedure to do that, in one of Asimov's Foundation book. Some Empire officer, described pretty much as a Sun King aristocrat, spends some days in Terminus and the secret service records every word that comes out of his mouth. Removing all platitudes, obvious lies and adulation the result is a blank page :)

I loved that.
Moment of appreciation for the title of this post. This is a rather “sticky” way to share this idea (in the spirit of Made To Stick by Chip & Dan Heath). I get the gist of Rachel’s idea without even needing to read the article.
Seeing the rest of the comments to this post makes me want to set the opinion straight here and answer the question.

Sidewalk labs is not constructing. They are not consulting for anybody. They are not designing a city. They don't want to take any liability for anything.

So the only thing they are doing is being a think tank, sort of an imagination company. They identified a site for development that could play host to their ideas. And now they want others to participate in their idea. City of Toronto is one. Their role is to establish policies. Developer will be two. Their role is to establish an overall design. Consulting firm is three. Their role is to create a design. Construction firm is the fourth piece. Sidewalk Labs will facilitate the process.

The rest is a blur like financing, market, economic incentive, actual policies versus urging versus encouragement.

They will figure it out eventually.
I am thinking that it sets them up to announce something (possibly fully embracing K8s) at DockerCon[0] which is a few weeks after.

0: https://2018.dockercon.com
Dana Boyd: Media literacy classes make some students sympathetic to extremism
It’s ignored because Free Alaska is not a thing.
I've been stuck 31.7 for years because it's the only version which honours font preferences in OS X. Theme and Font Size Changer was useless after version 41.1. Someone please tell they've fixed this nonsense.
The Unavoidable Folly of Making Humans Train Self-Driving Cars
I will never use your product or service, if it only allows "social login."

If it's an app that requires ANY sign-up to begin using it, I will uninstall it, unless I feel it offers a tremendous value to me.
All we can hope for is every stockholder of UGC companies like Facebook and Twitter wind up getting sued under this law. Otherwise this law will be arbitrarily applied to only select companies.
You don't trust "anti-gun people" so you therefore don't want to enact policies that you think will reduce gun violence? You seem to be saying you'd rather have more gun violence than work together with "anti-gun people". I don't understand that, on a fundamental level.

I never said anything about "gun free zones". I'm not sure what they are, I don't know how effective they are, but I don't see how they hurt either. To me, it seems like more guns, easier and cheaper availability of guns, more destructive guns, less strict and less comprehensive / universal background checks are all things that lead pretty clearly to more gun violence. That's why I'm against those things. I'm willing to change my mind. But the NRA is too busy disparaging victims of gun violence.

I really don't see how arming teachers helps. I've heard arguments for it, but those arguments really just don't ring true to me, and it seems that more guns will lead to more violence. I haven't read studies that seem credible and support what you are saying. Do you have any? I've looked, and there is a lot of really contradictory stuff out there. I'm willing to support anything that will reduce gun violence, in general.

I've been thinking about this thread for a while, and I think what bothers me is this. If you think expanded background checks (for example) will help reduce gun violence, why will you only support it if you get something else in return? Why can't we find things both sides thinks will help, and enact those things? Why must you hold those things hostage until you get some other thing that the other side fears will make the situation worse?
reading, hiking, skiing, drawing, deep learning
Thanks for this comment and the one about ftp. I also didn’t see the difference between Facebook and MySpace. It’s hard to understand the money side of reality until you are older and have seen some things.
If you know RoR, then use RoR. You should pick the stack that you are comfortable with and can produce good code quickly.
For my little side project I’m using email only.

Tangentially related, I quite like Medium’s workflow where you don’t need to enter passwords anymore. You just enter your address, they send a login email, you click the link in your email, and it redirects you to Medium, logged in.
Judaism is not a race, being black means more than just a different skin color, you're intentionally trying to derail the discussion.
“If the earliest users you have don't like you enough to give you their social login details ”

Perhaps I’m an anomaly, but if there is no regular email sign-up, I’m not using your product, period.

There’s enough information floating around about me in databases all over the world, I don’t need them to be further connected and linked.

To see the situation with FB/CA and then demand your users use their login is insulting to me.
My mission is to make all the people I come in close contact with "Rich".

I see money as a way to reward people who you like and use it against people who you dislike.

This is what I work for today.
Modern GUIs happen mostly in JavaScript with the react + redux ecosystem which is more of a functional model then OO.
> Everybody migrated to webmail

That is so far from the truth it isn’t even funny. Outlook reigns in corporate and phones have native clients. Hell, i am still waiting for POP3 to die.
I think LinkedIn does almost that - add a contact and have the contact information they maintain updated as they like.
A more proper term might be "delegated authentication" but it's a mouthful so people don't use it unless they mean arbitrary Identity Providers.

* Biased as I work on the OpenID Connect and OAuth at Okta where we are an Identity Provider and support many of the social login options.
This is because phenotype is a good predictor of genotype and people are good at assessing someone's phenotype very quickly.

I can usually tell roughly which European country someone is from by looking at their face.

It doesn't work as well with different parts of Eastern Europe but you get the idea.
Ask HN: Free email builders?
could anyone recommend a free online tool to build modern looking emails, which can generate HTML to paste into an email provider?
My mission is to breakdown barriers and level the playing field by allowing people to leverage the huge amount of knowledge we have available today to understand the world and subsequently tinker with abstraction. I want to help people make the jump from "rookie" to somebody who understands abstraction and can look past it, as smoothly as possible.

You'd be surprised what we can do as a species if everybody could understand this huge corpus of information we already have.
32% username password

57% google

rest facebook/twitter

out of 7291 users, via auth0
(for my project brandmark.io)
> In his biography, Jacque Pepin (famous French chef) talked about how much better the food quality was in the US compared to his native France. He found American supermarket had amazing produce quality compared to the markets in France, where most of the good produce was reserved for elite chefs, leaving the rest of the people to settle for the scraps.

You mean the food quality at Walmart is superior to the the quality of the food you can find in a french organic market? the quality of milks? cheeses? wheat and meats is automatically superior in US? I know Jacque Pepin. I also know the food you can find in US markets is disgusting and low quality when compared to foods for the same price in France. There is a reason why US has an obesity crisis as sever as it is.
No, they instead choose to contact work out. Companies acquire labor to maximize profit, and regulations simply cause them to alter how they choose to obtain labor.
Fair enough. But sidewalk labs was most definitely a fringe venture that should not be associated with the smaller Google.
There are no "members of races", there are different genetic indicators that can be clustered and ordered in different ways. Surely if someone has a (measured) propensity towards a certain disease might have to be tested earlier or treated slightly differently.

A doctor's subjective perception of phenotypical 'race' is not the right diagnostic tool. Questions about ancestors and diseases in the family can very well be, if they are supported by statistical evidence.
The problem with this kind of "gene-centered" social thinking is that the implication, almost always, is some sort of regressive or conservative politics about social problems and inequalities being a result of natural forces. A horrifying example of this is, for example, the book "A Natural History of Rape" which makes a biological deterministic argument that explains rape as a natural and evolutionarily selected-for behavior in men.

Show me a controlled longitudinal study where (eg) men and women are raised in an identical environment, treated identically, and not even informed of the concept of gender. That doesn't exist, and never will exist. There are massive emergent cultural forces that make biology a pretty useless tool for doing sociology, much like chemistry studies the emergent properties of physics principles, but trying to account for emergent properties of atoms and molecules in terms of quantum mechanics is totally useless. Human societies should be studied on sociological terms, not biological ones. With even the smallest amount of effort, you can see that there are HUGE confounding factors that make any attempt to explain social outcomes biologically totally useless.
Ask HN: Where can I find testers? (alternative audio)
I have created an application that allows someone to dub a live video. Viewers that have installed the companion Chrome extension can watch the same live video (ex: a YouTube live video) with the alternative audio (sync'd). I am looking for viewers/testers. They will need a Chrome browser and will watch a YouTube video for 10-15 mins. (If interested, shoot me an email: test1@dubkast.com)
I'll have to give it a shot, but the last time I used thunderbird it was unusably slow at pretty much everything. Compacting my folders would help for a day or two, and then it'd basically become unresponsive for 30s or more with any user input.

I hope they focus on performance in coming revisions.
I agree with this because the scopes that the various apps "require" are usually way beyond what is actually necessary. At best, it's ugly information leakage. At worst, you spam my friends & colleagues to visit my farm.

* There's another aspect where if Google, Facebook, etc, etc shut down or freeze your account, you will lose access to the system.
Interesting, I always assumed this would be too much hassle for users since after the first login, the browser (mobile or desktop) would remember the password.

Certainly seems like an optimum solution to typing a password on first login though (assuming the email is prompt).
> Judaism is not a race, being black means more than just a different skin color, you're intentionally trying to derail the discussion.

no I'm not. What does being black means then? and why bring "jews" into a discussion with race? If we're going to talk about race scientifically using these words, well you'd better have solid arguments as to why you use "jews" and "black" as race discriminant.

I'd also like to talk about the fact that most European jews are convert from the medieval era and have very little to do with the "Semites" who lived in what is now Israel 2000 years ago. So what race are you talking about?
There are many skills that come to play in watchmaking.

Gears are typically made with a gearcutter, a precision indexing instrument that revolves a 'blank' through all the gear spur positions to cut the gear halves one-by-one from the blank until the whole gear is done. If you're going to use a high quality hardened steel bit for the cutter and a much more mild material (such as brass) for the gears then you should get a lot of stand time out of a cutting bit.

Another technique you might try is etching, which can be used to make quite high precision parts. And if you want to do some minor automation it is fairly easy to see how a bit of knowledge about stepper drivers and basic machining might help you to create a reasonably accurate and quick automated gear cutter.

An off-the-shelf CNC machine that will cut gears for you is possible but one that is precise enough for watchmaking will set you back a small fortune. Making your own tools and toolbits is a good part of the fun of a project like this.
Idiomatic C would say:

float discrim = b*b - 4*a*c;

Using pow for a small integer power is a no-no: less efficient and less accurate.

I agree that \ is an awkward choice. A Fortran-like double asterisk ∗∗ is out because of ambiguity with pointers; single caret ^ out because it is already reserved for bitwise xor. Maybe double caret ^^ or asterisk-caret ∗^ could be used? That would read okay :

double discrim = b^^2 - 4*a*c;
double discrim = b*^2 - 4*a*c;
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