skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm kinda baffled by that. I'm no economics major, but this seems to imply that keeping wages low (or at least decoupled from economic growth) is actually a goal of economic policy. Is that true?

It's an inherent goal of capitalism to keep costs down. Wages are a cost. From a capitalist perspective, wages should be just above survival level. In the absence of political or labor organization pressure, that's what happens.
If every country has this then China’s is the Lebron James of them.
For me that’s a supply constraint, not demand. If MBPs got better as fast as iPhones I’d upgrade.
Stack Exchange for Kiwix, yes! I can't find Stack Overflow though - has anybody tried scraping it with https://github.com/openzim/sotoki ?
> “Apple believes privacy is a fundamental human right, which is why iOS has always been designed with built-in encryption, on-device intelligence, and other tools that let you share what you want on your terms.”

Does that also apply to PRISM? I mean can I share with the NSA only what I want on my own terms?
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It didn't create more jobs but what about the other effects? Reduced stress on employees and increased productivity during working hours?
I thought the exact same thing.
What did people do before the internet? Read books at their desk? Or has "increases in productivity" really given us all this free time?
I'm waiting for the ability to share folders.
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This was answered by bradfitz himself https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13700968
Shouldn't that be called `isNotString`?
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I agree with you, but the name of the bill could provide Amazon with a legal case to try and get the law struck down as a bill of attainder. The bill has good intentions, but Sanders shot himself in the foot with the execution.

Of course, that's purely hypothetical. There's no way this bill is going to pass, not with Republicans controlling both houses of Congress.
Gravwell.
The lithium-ion battery that didn't explode
Great. Now give me an inflation ceiling.
I expected the debugging session to end when they identified the transistor that was bad, but these guys were dedicated!

I've never seen a transistor can opened like that. I love how it's essentially just a shrunken down version of the very first transistor ever made[1]

Great story about the USAF. It's a shame that circuitry is essentially a black box nowadays.

1: https://physics.aps.org/assets/c5065b1e-4bf2-4501-a05b-6a841...
Until a couple of days ago, the SE was still on sale directly from Apple. I expect many more major updates to come.
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Which app is providing the SSH action?
> The technology does reflect the politics [of this group of people], but the government does not.

Right, that's what I'm saying. The technology will yield to the government, not vice versa, so if you want this technology to take off you will need to change the political foundations upon which it lays. This isn't an argument about what should be, this is a description of what is.

> You're just not acknowledging the existence of people with political views different to your own.

Sorry, I don't mean to be disrespectful, but the differences coming out of the cryptocurrency community are extremely sophomoric and reflect people who have thought deeply about technology and almost not at all about the political or economic systems in which this technology exists. It's not a matter of having a different opinion, it's a matter of not being able to contribute to the conversation because the crypto community doesn't even know what it doesn't know.
I'm pretty curious about how 12 compares to 10 as well. Seems like 11 was definitely worse on performance, but might be too early to compare 12 to earlier versions.
However, governments are there to ensure that capitalist-motivated behaviour doesn't negatively affect the community,

Where do people come up with this stuff? All evidence suggests that government is mainly there to act as a hammer to force people to adhere to behavioral standards that other people dream up, to protect the interests of the rich, entrenched, elitists who run the government, to enforce regulatory capture, to violate our civil liberties, and to steal our money.
I’ve been running the beta on my SE and my main complaint is much of the UI seems optimized for the newer, larger screens. So expect additional scrolling, etc (even with the os text size set to minimum). Feels kinda like how Gmail/Google keeps adding extra padding and reducing useful screen estate.
Once I realized his goal in life is to be seen as a philosopher and not an easy-to-read author, that helped me mentally adjust my filter to make him easier to understand.
I think the comparison with the workplace doesn't work really well. Linux is an Open-Source project, with the exception of some people that get paid by their employer to hack on the Linux kernel, people work on it voluntarily. This is a whole different universe.

To be honest, I don't see any point in overly hot forges in the workplace. People hopefully go to work because they like what they do there. But on the other hand it's sometimes difficult to prevent, like as you might suggest in financial market jobs, or of course in many Startup jobs which don't have much money.

Anyways, Linux is a project made by Linus Torvalds and it developed along his Philosophy of doing this. If someone doesn't like that, there are enough choices like Windows or macOS. Or for more tech-savvy people there are other options like for instance the BSD flavours.
I'm not a materials scientist, but something has happened to consumer plastics in the last 40-60 years-- it's changed for the worse (I'm assuming in an effort to be "green", which happily coincides with undermining durability).

We used to be able to buy Fisher-Price toys that were tough enough to bear the weight of a car, or withstand multiple generations of abuse by children. I've got plastic toolboxes inherited from my grandfather that still hold up.

Take a look at the ratings and user photos for plastic vehicle ramps on Amazon and consider whether you think you could even get the jack stands in before the ramps collapse. Kids' toys are flimsier than ever, yet despite the "cheaper" construction they're also more expensive than ever. I bought my kids the Barbie Dreamhouse (a $100+ marvel of plastic and cardboard) that collapsed under its own weight. The original Nintendo equipment was light-years more rugged than the endless RMA experience that is the Switch.

We have the technology to make plastics that don't feel "cheap" and the products reusable, but for whatever reasons we've clearly steered away from these goals.
Your OP might have meant to reply to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18008519
I also have iPhone 6, so I'm kinda hesistant.. Ever since the iOS 6 update rendered my iPhone 4 completely unusable many years ago, I have always been hesitant to upgrade any of my iPhones to the latest iOS, and wait until I have confirmation that upgrade was not "planned obsolescence by design". The problem with iOS update is that it is permanent and not downgrade-able.
My guess is because there is not a JVM for the 'Emotion Engine' used in the PS2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_Engine
From what I understand from the ipld.io website, IPLD allows to add links to any content-adressable systems. BitTorrent + IPLD could be an alternative to IPFS, I guess? (BTW, notice that BitTorrent isnt used as an example on the front page).

When I looked at IPFS some months ago, it looked like a lot of on-going work. It wasn't clear to me what was new and what were the reusable components of the project, and what was reused from the past.

In BitTorrent, the DHT for example is a reusable block emerged from previous P2P systems, but it didn't try to reinvent the wheel, and it didn't try to add a FS on top of it, so it solves a specific problem.

"IPFS" does a lot of things at once, it would be clearer if the project was cut into sub-specifications that could be reused with legacy protocols. Tho I believe the project is going into that direction, and for example IPLD emerged from it.

IPLD looks like a real step-forward. It looks like a "federation" of previous content-addressable protocols, to make them work together, rather than trying to compete with them.

BitTorrent + IPLD makes more sense than IPFS to me, more developers have a heard of BitTorrent and they knows what are BitTorrent features, so the introduction of a concept on top of it is easier to grasp.
> This the most stable iOS beta I've ever used.

Is it a beta? It looks like the official release to me.
Understood. But does it net anything positive beyond said "extra" hours? It's like the new quarterly earnings game on Wall Street: let's all report non-GAAP and make it look like we're not losing money.
I don't think anyone's delusional about this - Apple genuinely cares about something that is also a market differentiator. It's a win/win scenario.

The best business strategies are ones that benefit users AND makes the business money. That's what Apple's done here.
Edit: Nevermind my parent comment, i guess the 'pinning' concept of IPFS does what im trying to elucidate here.. sorry for the noise.

(But the block scheduling algorithm could/might change in the future maybe? turining this into a real issue?)
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Maybe in theory security updates are worth it, but in practice if an update slows down my day-to-day usage that’s a bigger deal than some theoretical security vulnerabilities which I’ve never actually experienced on any iPhone. Especially if we’re talking about non-tech savvy users. So an update better have some compelling reasons to upgrade besides security.
He doesn't seem to have done well on a lot of these predictions. These are slated to happen in the early 2000s:

> Translating telephones allow people to speak to each other in different languages.

This is sort of possible, but not fluently really.

> Machines designed to transcribe speech into computer text allow deaf people to understand spoken words.

This one basically exists.

> Exoskeletal, robotic leg prostheses allow the paraplegic to walk.

I think there are some prototypes of this type of stuff but nothing in widespread use.

> Telephone calls are routinely screened by intelligent answering machines that ask questions to determine the call's nature and priority.

Not really, we have IVRs but they are in no sense "smart"

> "Cybernetic chauffeurs" can drive cars for humans and can be retrofitted into existing cars. They work by communicating with other vehicles and with sensors embedded along the roads.

Not even close

Seems like Ray Kurzweil might not be the best predictor of what is actually going to happen in the future. Seems like a bit of a snake oil salesman to me.
The 1571 floppy (successor to the 1541) used a 2Mhz 6502, versus the 1Mhz 6502 in the C64. So, fairly common to have a disk drive that had a better CPU than your PC.
I wonder how long it would have taken to debug this back in 1960
For my own usage, they've taken the hotel market for personal travel. I don't think their hold is as strong in business travel yet.
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Of course! Transparent home phoning would be a GDPR violation for example.
Solitaire and Minesweeper. Before that people used to bring in the paper.
True to the title, this is a medium length post of how I changed my app's pricing to unlock $25/day of revenue.

It's funny how your conception of what you think something is worth compared to what people are willing to pay can be wildly different.

I'd call this a small win for iteration.
I think OP is implying he/she has been using the beta iOS 12 and it is stable.
There were a lot of Google Reader users that didn't know anything about the details of RSS: they already had an account at the time because they were using Gmail, and they'd automatically see "shared" stories feeds they could subscribe from friends/contacts that were also Gmail users, and from those social feeds they'd see articles from other feeds they could subscribe directly. All without knowing anything about RSS or how to find an RSS feed on a webpage they visited.

Google Reader nailed the social experience around RSS, and there definitely was a high point where RSS feeds were used by a lot of people on Google Reader that didn't understand and didn't need to understand RSS feeds to take advantage of them. It was just that weird news app "next" to Gmail on their browser tabs.

At least that was my anecdotal observation. A lot of college friends that I tried to convince to use RSS for ages before suddenly used RSS because it was already lit up on their Gmail account and they were seeing the stuff I was sharing at the very least.
What incentives cause police to care about stumbling drunk people but not petty theft or property crimes?

Are they rewarded for arresting drunk people?
That was fast. Thanks.

Also, the music and the birds are a nice progress indicator anyway.
What would you consider "going personal"?

If student is lazy or didn't think his work through - is it personal to call student on that - call him/her lazy? Tell him/her "you're not thinking!"?

Surprisingly - some people take personally critique of their work.
>> The decision to tackle the issue was prompted after the Commission launched an online survey. Some 4.6 million Europeans answered the survey — three million of those respondents were from Germany — with 80 percent of them voting to scrap the practice.

At first glance that approach appears to be a deeply flawed way to make policy which affects 28 member states.

What would happen if the commission started asking for more policy-making input from citizens via online surveys?
I’m curious about the reasons someone would use Datomic. Did you just tried it out to evaluate it or did you have an actual use case for it? If you did have one, would you be okay to elaborate?
Yes, every feature is a marketing consideration. Marketing involves everything about how your potential and existing customers view your products, and privacy is a huge subject of interest.

That being said, there's nothing wrong with privacy being both a marketing move and aligned with our interests as users. In fact, I'm more comforted by the idea that morals and profits are aligned here, because no company is above choosing the latter when push comes to shove.
Kiwix has an archive of StackOverflow but its gigantic. :( We barely got the Math StackExchange uploaded in time.
> While I haven't done a lot of research in this area, I would suspect launching a new credit card company is just a massive amount of work

there's a Futurama episode that has a snarky commentary on this - s01e06:

fry: "Do you take Visa?" clerk: "Visa hasn't existed for five hundred years." fry: "American Express?" clerk: "Six hundred years." fry: "Discover Card?" clerk: "Hmm...sorry, we don't take Discover."
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So you are going to sue yourself for this GPDR violation on a personal storage system?
...and the devil introduces an own church.
IPFS is about decentralisation!
And Cloudflare is the devil of centralization!
I blindly accept these new Terms and Conditions.
The "it's going to be too expensive and complicated" argument has been used by every group ever opposed to any new regulation.
Saw this benchmark comparison between RPython vs Graal the other day: http://stefan-marr.de/papers/oopsla-marr-ducasse-meta-tracin...

Is there a scheme implementation on graal vm?
So what would be the first step in becoming a quantum engineer?
This is already a thing, for merchants that want it. It's called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_Secure

By bank implements it as approving from my phone's mobile app via push notification. It's really slick. Here's what happened when I bought something from PSN https://imgur.com/a/iZgY74b
Yes software itself is safe. But eventually you'll want this stored online. At that point, the company hosting your data will be obligated to comply, but by design, cannot. In that sense, it's worse than simply incompliant. It's virally incompliant. Any software that uses it will also be affected.
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Your domestic workers could be just as motivated if you threaten them with deportation. I don't want to run in your race to the bottom.
IMO they are chipping away at the hotel market for group (>2) travel at least.
A _cheap_ fast large quantum computer lets you break modern hybrid cryptography in real time. That is, you can choose to eavesdrop conversations or you can MITM them seamlessly. You also break forward secrecy (you can read conversations recorded today even though their participants can no longer read them by that point).

If, as seems rather more likely, your quantum computer is expensive you can't afford this. You have to pick what to see. If it isn't fast you can't MITM (imagine you're trying to connect to Hacker News and the browser mysteriously stalls for ten minutes, you're going to retry, and either it stalls again or this time they don't MITM you) and you have to pick what to see now versus later. And of course if it isn't large it's altogether useless against modern cryptography.

The chance a foreign adversary goes from zero to fast, cheap and large overnight is tiny. Its like going from the electric lightbulb straight to the integrated circuit before anybody else even had the electronic valve.
Personally I only even think about VRBO for group trips in vacation rental type areas. I think I've booked 10x the trips with Airbnb, more than half of them for just me solo.

Not sure how VRBO's mobile presence compared to Airbnb when Airbnb started gaining traction but that could be a factor?
Sliding down the slope means replacing insurance with government, and turning this into a type of basic income. Let people take what they want from the store, and pay the store back with taxes.
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A focus of the engineering efforts at Chernobyl and Fukushima are to make sure that higher risk contamination is avoided. So the current radiation impact is not the issue. It is the potential impact that is addressed.

I hope that one day Chernobyl and Fukushima can be repopulated, and agree that may be safe. I don't think that makes any difference to the actual cost of the event. Nor, would it be wise to presume that a subsequent event could be safely handled without an evacuation. But that is one for politicians to decide.
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A transistor is just as much of a black box, only incredibly simpler.

You can decap hardware today in roughly the same way, and given of course enough time, understand it, and eventually control it.
> It reminds me of universal basic income - populist ideology that appeals to people who want more free shit.

Who are these 'I want free stuff' people? I keep hearing them mentioned as some sort of strawman, but no one can really find me any large groups of these people demanding free stuff. Most people realize taxes pay for welfare benefits.

It also appeals to people who want to eliminate 20 government and various state agencies for a single entity. We already have many convoluted forms of welfare, why not simplify it?

The whole point of a government is to benefit the welfare of its civilians.
Why are the only two options "do nothing" and "throw them in prison"? Shouldn't there be a middle ground here?
This is great advice thanks.

A great point about the path-to-$100 which for my affiliates would be referring 100 sales or about 45% of the current volume.

That said, from a Lifehacker post and Product Hunt feature, the conversion of paid users was very high, almost 10% so I think its not impossible for the right affiliate to make decent revenue.

I'll hit up some blogs in the space, see if they're willing to take a punt, it makes sense to keep the traffic as geniun as possible.

Thanks!
I don't think you can upload your own Dropbox server, or run dropbox locally.

Furthermore, dropbox uses folder structures, and can only sync folder-by-folder, and to have one folder synced requires EVERYTHING in that folder being synced.

There are many other differences that are listed on the article.
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The killer app for IPFS in this early days should be people who are paying $10/mo to host their half-dozen HTML files on WhateverHost companies everywhere. Bonus points if they are hosting heavy files, like podcast files, for example.

Is there a Soundcloud clone on IPFS anywhere? (One that doesn't provide you with cloud storage, only the public index)
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As an Australian living in the US now (where voting is ... interesting) I now recognize how awesome the Australian system is.

The other great thing not mentioned here is that elections are run by the AEC, a non-partisan commission.

They are also in charge of redistricting.

So you don’t have gerrymandering and you don’t have BS going on like what happened in Georgia where they “accidentally” wiped all the data 3 times when subpoenaed by the FBI.

Add to that compulsory voting, elections always run on weekends, and a thousand other small things and it’s like one country wants you to vote and the other does not.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18008946
Care to back up this assertion with a source? Preferably one that controls for factors like being afraid of losing your visa if you get fired? What is it about American workers that makes them intrinsically less motivated?
Yea. The U.S. has pretty strong speech and search protection for their citizens, but those don't extend to non-citizens.
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Probably half the time or less since the people working on it would be more familiar with debugging these sorts of systems.
This is a non-issue.
1. Reason?

2. It's self-hosted. If you use it, "these guys" is you. Or, your leased s3 instance.
The new Shortcuts app by Apple (must be downloaded separately: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/workflow/id915249334?mt=8) is definitely interesting. An example from the description: "Run custom scripts in Safari with the new Run JavaScript on Web Page action".

Edit: Just discovered that there's also "Run Script Over SSH" that takes input passed to a shell script (stdin) and returns the output from the shell script (stdout).