skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What makes you think that the government wouldn't also have to work through those hurdles?

Fewer conflicting incentives, for one.

I'd say that government is more legendarily inefficient, in the sense that it's something people just say without much data to back it. I've done chunks of consulting for both governments and very large companies. I don't think one is particularly more efficient than the other. The problem is more large organizations than their revenue model.

One real advantage government has is a sense of mission. I've met plenty of people in public service who really do view it as service to the public. At a large company if you want a bunch of people to row in the same direction you often have to make it personally valuable to them in the sense of explaining why it's better for their careers or their wallets. In government, I've had plenty of luck appealing to a sense of purpose, of doing good for the citizenry and the people being served.

If anybody would like to see for themselves, I recommend Code for America's annual conference, which is coming up at the end of the month in Oakland: http://www.cvent.com/events/code-for-america-summit-2018/eve...

The one time I went I met a lot of people who were excited about the way modern technology let them be radically more user-focused than old bureaucratic and/or computerized solutions allowed.
Those support calls are screened- "is this a work-stopping event for some % of your business" is a standard screening question. They are also expensive.
I wouldn't call that 'bouncing back' it was at 20k several months ago...
Thanks! Please join in :)

Also, thanks for the feedback I actually keep getting similar comments that it's a lot to learn all. I'm currently trying to simplify things. To add a track you just add it to your "queue" by searching and clicking the plus icon, then when it's your turn (your UN is all the way to the left) your track will play for everyone. Assuming you figured it out but just FYI
I didn't read the post but the idea of yelp complaining about abuse is pretty funny.
> Because you could trivially modify the statement to be "for the people who live in a jurisdiction where copyright law applies, why do they X" and it would be clearly the spirit of the question (and even that is imprecise).

...but I responded to that too, and that's the most important part of my comment. Most people in the USA clearly don't recognize copyright law as legitimate. It is flouted everywhere by everyone.

GP seemed to assume that refraining from breaking copyright was important to most people; it isn't.
Did You Know There Are 5 Levels of Listening?
That dichotomy would only make sense if there were no means to self-publish or choosing a non-paywalled journal.
Space exploration and colonization is, or course, more difficult given the harsh environment. Given land and manufacturing capacity, people could attempt to create a larger colony.

We can heavy lift the manufacturing systems to the moon if we use 3D printing and accept risk of death and colonial collapse. It would be spartan and difficult, but I think we could do it. The meager printing would give rise to more advanced machines capable of manufacturing for materials and forms.

My present thesis is that the government lacks the vision and fortitude to colonize any celestial body. So they won’t land grant.
Of course is short sighted, but those are not the only two options. You can think the idea will change the world without drinking the cool-aid that it already has.
It is the responsibility of the citizens to make sure the next government honors these promises, right? A good example would be the abortion policy (https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential...) Every republican president reverses what the previous democratic president did, and vice versa.

If the public doesn't care enough about these issues, then how can we expect politicians to care?
Not using a public cloud in 2018 and managing your own infrastructure is incredibly stupid and a waste of engineering time. Plus anything you build will not comparable to what the best of Amazon/Google/Microsoft are building.
> If you search for places to eat at 10pm...

All the times I've searched for places to eat at 10pm or later, no. I just wanted to find the place.
How are you building the applications for the app stores?
Could be (3) for the karma. However, if true why invite the curious eye of a Three Letter Authority who might be interested in Russian ordinance.

That said, the poster said that the IT guy was fired and locked the server room. The only curious part of that tale is that he said the room was locked 2 months ago. I know of no server room with a broken AC unit that can operate that long.

[edit] this is the Czech Rep, that could explain a few things.
> Who has communicated to you that they don't recognize copyright law as legitimate or binding? Why is the number statistically relevant?

To my personally? Only maybe a few dozen.

But obviously these laws are ignored everywhere and by everyone in the USA. Surely you don't mean to suggest that it's a law that enjoys widespread perception of legitimacy?

What makes you think people have any interest in following this law in the first place? It seems like you haven't really given this foundation, which is crucial for your original comment.
Land ownership is also an issue - I believe (no expert, don't quite me) you can get a 99 year lease.
Yes. That's it. $10 isn't going to cover the costs. So then where is that money coming from, and who's going to pay for it? Add in rising oceans and it looks more like a skam or some sort.

To be clear, I like the idea - less cars, more trains But in this case something isn't adding up.
>Even though I may contribute to horrific consequences on a business level, at the personal level I am still a good man.

It's true that on some level, we exist within a system that forces us to make bad choices, and in general I think criticising individuals for systemic issues is a waste of time, but you can't just say "it's just business" to dismiss all moral decisions.

If you are working for a company which you know to be causing harm, and you are in the privileged position to be able to leave without becoming destitute, choosing to keep working for them is absolutely an action which can be morally condemned.
Is BitTorrent more convenient than Netflix?
I would never pay money for a slackbot that I could build myself.
Especially since there are no other pictures, news reports, or witnesses to what would be a huge spectacle.

I believe this is probably a deacitvated missle someone had as a curio (I see similar stuff used as door stops in military surplus stores). OP then decided it would be funny to stick it in a bundle of wires and tell people he found it.
University of Helsinki free AI course
No (or perhaps yes), but they are a big player, and this is a typical winner-takes-all situation. Soon everybody will access business X through Google, and this gives Google power over these businesses, just like Amazon has power over third-party sellers, for instance. For the consumer it means a minor convenience, but for the business-owner it means tougher competition, and loss of identity of their business. It's like selling software for years, then suddenly Apple comes along, "forces" you to use the AppStore, and demands a cut.

In short: the problem is that a company now regulates your market.
> From what I'm reading now, it seems like it's read-only. Only to get things from a vault onto their servers.

With 1Password 6 for Windows that is the case, but not with 1Password 7.

> I still don't understand how the revenue model (subscriptions) necessitates the technical solution (cloud storage).

It doesn't. But that is the recommended solution. You _can_ subscribe and use a standalone vault. But you're missing out on functionality that you're paying for that way.

Ben Woodruff

AgileBits
Once upon a time the religious left was extremely powerful in U.S. politics. Determinative, in fact. (The abolition movement was largely church based, including some of my relatives.) That echoed with the Civil Rights movement in the sixties, of course.
I'm currently developing with Expo with plans to expand to Electron (though I haven't written anything for Electron yet, just the React-Native and Expo portion) but my theory is that once you have the core React functionality down (The API endpoints, Reducers and Actions (if using redux), and general component structure) then porting to Electron will be fairly trivial.

React-Native has a lot of cross-over with React for the web. So I'm hoping when the time comes my port will go smoothly.
Ideally the other end would not rely on the phone, but so long as they do, yes. Anything to remove it from the lives of the rest of us is a good thing.
Your comment does not seem to have any connection to what I wrote. Please, read it again. It's kind of inane really. Why do you even bother to reply if you don't even care what I wrote? May I suggest not stopping after the second sentence already?
Stepping towards a password-free world
Your comment is a non-sequitur. Are you trying to communicate something? Or just trying to change topics?
Why do you wish you'd read it 20 years ago?
A play on the cult classic "Logan's Run".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan%27s_Run_(film)
1Password 7 for Mac is sandboxed, regardless of where you download it from.

Ben Wooodruff

AgileBits
Blockada can block ads in other mobile apps on a non-rooted Android phone.
Extracting SSH Private Keys from Windows 10 ssh-agent
Also agree. Until I see news coverage I am also very skeptical. People go to great lengths to lie and deceive on the internet.
Uruguay is not third world country.
Category Theory (Steve Awodey, 2006) [pdf]
Probably not, as the linked page is from 1997 ;)
SpaceX still has suppliers and employees who will diffuse the knowledge into the rest of the industry eventually.

SpaceX is definitely doing less R&D than the Apollo program, but it's also not eating 1.6% of the federal budget (~$60bn/yr), so I don't think it's fair to expect the same level of R&D.

I think it's also clear that SpaceX is going to drive cost of access to space down for other industries, e.g. telecommunications, surveying, etc, which will against have knock on effects for other industries.
>No, they do not voluntarily approach publishers.

What are you basing this on?

>I suspect that you either do not understand how academic reputation is built or you think it is somehow beneficial for society to ensure a system that makes scientific knowledge unavailable to anyone byt the elite.

Or neither. Its easy to think black/white, but thankfully the world is not so boring. I don't believe that any of the rationalizations that people have stated for breaking copyright law in this case. No, I don't agree that this is like slavery or student oppression or the driver of income inequality or the other myriad arguments people trot out.
Maintaining Notepad is not a full-time job, but it’s not an empty job either
> marquee investors including Robert Kraft, Betsy DeVos

Is this a joke? or was that intentional?
The pessimistic response to articles like that is that making Mars habitable is a more realistic goal than preventing humans from making earth uninhabitable.
> That is a really slow train, almost makes it sound like a tram.

I don't believe that's remotely slow. A commercial speed of 48mph (about 77km/h) is a respectable speed for a conventional intercity and suburban train. Please note that commercial speed is the average speed, and also takes into account the time that a train stays at each stop.

As a comparison, the commercial speed of a tram (light rail, no right-of-way) is around 20km/h (about 12mph) and the average commercial speed of a subway system (medium rail, right-of-way) is about 30km/h (about 17mph). The latter is, obviously, also not slow because it matches the average speed of an automobile circulating in an urban area.

Going nearly 80km/h is respectably fast, and will beat the commercial speed of your typical commute by car.
If so, how is that measured, and what are the consequences (to whom) if it isn't met?
Starting FORTH might be a better introduction. It's also from Leo Brodie.

https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/
That only works if companies actually support that option. Many don't, because it would cut into the data that could be collected and remarketed.

Furthermore, try sitting down with a teen, twenty, thirty, or heck, anyone not technologically inclined and try to explain the causes and ills that "marketing" causes. It is difficult. However, many are aware of and despise it, but have no idea what to do about it.

I'm sorry, but GP is right. Advertising has gone too far. It really is just customer predation at this point. It is no longer about making sure your business is out there if the consumer comes looking, it is about exploiting every heuristic that can be used to short circuit the consumer making a conscious decision to see anyone else but you.

At some point, the intrusion and attention manipulation has to end.
I stopped using python (2.7) a couple years ago once I learned CL. But—if you’re dealing with reading standard input incrementally there are differences between readline() and the interator when it comes to buffering. Or, at least, it was easier for me to get readline to work than it was to figure out how to configure the iterator correctly.

This, the whole Unicode mess and the fact that lisp allows you to write at the same level of abstraction (or greater) without sacrificing performance as much, led me to abandon Python for almost everything.
This anti government narrative is very simplistic. Any large organization is going to have some amount of inefficiency be it government or private.

How does anyone know how inefficient or efficient any large organization is since they are all complex and different? Without transparency and proper methodology identifying areas of inefficiency, drawing sweeping conclusions either way is more an ideological position.

Banks have just been bailed out with trillions of dollars, where is the efficiency. The pharma and telecom industry is routinely exposed for price gouging. And the corruption investigations against private educational institutes has recently been dropped by the current administration. These inefficiencies are simply transferred to the public in higher costs.
HN is not Blind. Take questions like this there.
What newer technology would you rather people invest billions of dollars into for mass transit that is proven to work?
Most often: Rage Against The Machine on a loop. It's been working for me since ~1999.
> this dude is forgetting about some other cool advances, such as the sharing economy (Uber/Lyft and airbnb) which kind of changed the world a little

Beyond the “sharing” misnomer, those were proven concepts with existing industries. So far what's been proved is that if you're willing to pour billions of dollars into a company you can produce a better app than the incumbents, and that you can see short-term gains if you're willing to break the law and/or subsidize heavily.

> if you showed google maps to someone from 2000, they would think it is magic.

By 2000 the most likely reaction would have been “oh, it's like MapQuest but faster”. Google Maps reflects a lot of evolutionary improvements but the big change was the rise of the advertising model meaning that you didn't have to pay a third-party for GIS software or a subscription service to get annual map updates.
The first interstellar immigrant discovered in a bizarre orbit around Jupiter
That's quite remarkable. I can only assume that, like most people writing HTML by hand, they copy-pasted the boilerplate from some other page without really understanding it.

I can find no other references to this on Google, the best I can do is: http://xml.coverpages.org/mdml.html which links to http://xml.coverpages.org/dow-mdml-dtd20010105.txt : that refers to

<!DOCTYPE mds-results PUBLIC "-//Dow Jones//DTD MDML//EN">

The original Dow Jones page from that era according to the Internet Archive (and this is an amazing thing in itself!) just has <HTML>, no DOCTYPE. In 1997 it acquires <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
> For example, did you know that you can type https://www.microsoft.com/ into Notepad's File Open dialog?

Awesome!
Geez that's a bummer. My wife and I are going this summer and I've been researching all of the different scams. Definitely going to get a belt wallet for me and her, it sounds like pick pocketing is the most common issue.
“3D battery” design twists together for split-second charging
Screwing Your Vocal Minority
The CLI and 1Password X require a subscrition and membership based vaults, correct.

Ben Woodruff

AgileBits
Usually when they won't stop in a specific city it is either because there is another stop very close by (<30min drive), or because a stop would require a complete change of the right of way. There are plenty of LGV stops in tiny towns and suburbs...I've seen some with populations as low as 15k people.
Interesting points you raise, I thought about calculating this by-hand, but then I realized that actual numbers are published by actual economists.

Here are some old figures:

https://tradingeconomics.com/ethiopia/gdp-per-capita-growth-...

In that year, GDP growth was 7.5%, but per-capita GDP growth was 4.9%. I could have some gaps in my knowledge of the meanings in these figures, but I think the difference roughly equates to what you speculate - that population growth eats some of the economic growth when viewed from the perspective of the individual.

Also important to note, I think that these are nominal, not real figures. So right now, I think we would reasonably expect sub-5% real per-capita growth. Even correcting for that I'm sure it's an astounding pace of improvement. It's hard to wrap your head around multi-year improvements in quality of life of that scale.

But there's a depressing side, that maybe some nations are actually contracting in per-capita real GDP.
Compartmentalization doesn't make something right.
Yes, the point is to not box them.
> AI doesn't actually work all that well yet. (Neither Siri nor Alexa truly pass a conversational Turing test...)

When we pass the Turing test it means we've got actual AI.

But I'm not sure there'll ever be a clear line. So Duplex kind of passes it in a very narrow context. Whether or not the person at the end of the line was actually fooled or not is a slightly different question. They could have just been humouring what they figured was a weird automated system.

But it's not like Google won't improve exponentially with this. They've now got a basic AI conversation system that they hope people will use and feed it data of actual conversations.

So Duplex v2 will have an expanded system where they can handle ten times the number of scenarios and questions.

The more I think about it, the more impressive it seems. Most attempts at a Turing test are text only where the subject is supposed to be a 13yo immigrant boy. Here Google's jumping straight to voice conversations.
Awesome! I just started getting into FM synthesis using the Korg Volca series, and this seems like a really neat compliment to that as a developer.
Fertility rate will come down as incomes rise and child mortality falls. Until recently Ethiopia had one of the world's highest child mortality rates so I would expect some significant lag.
GDPR: worst case scenario for 25th of May
Thanks! Sounds like you will be happy then :)
There was an interesting Danish documentary on foreign investments in Ethiopia titled "Dead donkeys fear no hyena's" [1]. It came down that economic investments (including from the World Bank) are used to drive indigenous people from their lands, that land is sold (outside of the public eye) to anonymous foreign agricultural corporations to start industrialized agriculture. However, those corporations will just export everything abroad, leaving the local people with little return, and, most importantly, without food. Promises of compensation, relocation and education are, of course, neglected, and people who dare to protest are met with arms.

1. http://www.deaddonkeysfearnohyenas.com/
> The acceleration and waiting at stations really hits the average.

Actually, having to wait about 1 or 2 minutes at each stop is what really drags down the commercial speed. A train only takes a fraction of that time to go from 100km/h to zero.
1Password 7 for Windows does not have WLAN sync. If that is something you have a need for, we’re collecting feedback: https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/87524/on-wlan-s...

Ben Woodruff

AgileBits
Do those work with modern multi-pane windows?
According to his update they called the Bomb Squad who reported it was live and they were disposing of it.
Embroidery machines and automated looms absolutely are the first instances of 3D printing; they just don't get a lot of credit for it because we've been doing it so long and textiles aren't an "exciting" field to a lot of people.
Maybe you can explain what you meant a little bit better, because I thought the exact same thing as the reply when I read your comment.
I can agree on the privacy concerns front, but for what it's worth, I've found my Google Home to be quite helpful. So if we're solely talking about how it can be helpful:

- When I'm cooking and my hands are dirty and I want to set a timer

- When I'm cooking and my hands are dirty and I want to change music/lower volume/raise volume/call someone (or do a measurement conversion)

- Turning off all the lights in my house when I'm already in bed and forgot whether I left some on

- Laying in bed with the gf and asking random questions out of curiosity

- Asking how long it will take to get somewhere if my gf and I are pondering some place to eat but are at the dinner table without our phones

- Get home after having a few beers and dive into the messy chicken wings with both my hands, and then realize I want to turn on the TV, play a show or change the current one on my Shield.. perfect use for the GH

- Since I already look at my phone way too much (potentially straining muscles in my neck), I can leave my phone in another room and still get quick answers to deep life questions without tilting my neck downwards

They're all __super__ minor of course, but honestly, I'm so used to the convenience now it actually feels weird to have to do some of these things 'manually'. I do understand there are serious concerns about privacy that may or may not offset the benefits, definitely plenty of room for discussion on that.
Paul is a beast. His work is central to AudioKit https://github.com/AudioKit/AudioKit
The $700 figure looks to be 3 years and about 30% out of date.

It all depends on whether you have sustained growth, but that's where China started roughly 3 decades ago: https://tradingeconomics.com/china/gdp-per-capita.
What to Do After Reacting Poorly to an Emotionally Complex Situation
It’s not that simple. Many companies cause some form of harm, but if you feel the ends justify the means there is no reason to leave.
Because legal name changes are a non-free in both upfront and downstream costs, and not something a customer should have to bear because a business is either to ignorant or too unconcerned with customer experience to accommodate different preferred vs. legal names, and to use the right one for the right purpose.
Conversations Gone Awry: Detecting Early Signs of Conversational Failure
The source is himself supposedly as one of those in that select group. Other people in the thread consider him an authority as well. He states that that contrary opinion is niche and has been at least partially refuted by new events. From my point of view it's a much better source than yours or mine reading of licenses.
If you played Duke Nukem 3D you already know most of the lines of the movie.