skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> punishing productivity and rewarding laziness.

I'm unaware of any scientific evidence that wealth is the result of hard work and that poverty is the result of laziness.

Can you cite empirical evidence for this claim?
Plus at the time Netscape sold for $$$. MS basically dumped & devalued their market to $0.
It's true that iOS has a smaller share of the market globally, including many parts of Europe, but this overshadows the fact that iOS is almost on par with Android in the United States (44.3% to Android's 54.5% as of May 2018), probably higher among affluent users, and the leading mobile operating system in other countries such as Britain: https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...

I feel this is often overlooked in discussions where users from certain areas where iOS is less prevalent don't understand the perspective of users from other regions where iOS is more popular.
Isn't human error more likely the cause of the bad records?
I don't need your flowcharts, I'll be heading for the door!
I saw that as the core message justifying the headline. He as a civic hacker has interest in modern methods arriving in administrative circles and bringing a spotlight to it - inspiring others to do as well.

I was surprised I knew the author - he maintains mail-in-a-box, a popular mail selfhosting package.
> In the long run, if your knowledge is situated within a context and connected to other things you know (because you learned by doing) then I believe you'll understand it much better. Memorizing by rote, out of context, will help you to recall facts which often don't have any meaning to you.

I feel it's worth mentioning that the creator of SuperMemo agrees with you here. "Learn before you memorize" (Rule 2 in [0]). Learn the information, then commit portions to an SRS tool to keep them more effectively memorized and recallable.

[0] https://www.supermemo.com/en/articles/20rules
https://boston.cbslocal.com/2010/10/01/jaywalking-in-boston-...

Here's an article from 2010 saying they hadn't given a single ticket in Boston or Cambridge in years. To my knowledge they still don't give out the tickets. I've certainly jaywalked in front of cops in Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, and Quincy without penalty for decades. So even if it's in the state law it's not enforced around Boston.

I lived in the Seattle area for a couple years and that's the only time in my life I ever saw a person penalized for jaywalking and I was shocked to see it. One of the reasons I'm glad to be back in Boston.
In principle there's nothing stopping Android device manufacturers from respecting privacy by using AOSP without Google services. However in practice such devices have either been market failures, or are even worse from a privacy standpoint (i.e. infested with Chinese government spyware).
Add a python interpreter. Let me code-solve it. haha!
I would never think of banking with BOA after all their shenanigans during the financial crises. A couple years ago I moved all my accounts from another major bank (one that rhymes with 'shittybank') to an online-only bank to avoid just this kind of nonsense. I miss a few conveniences but haven't had any cause to regret it.
NULL pointing to valid memory seems like a serious flaw that can and should be easily fixed.
>the behavior of that malloc/free pair would need to be identical (same pointers returned from malloc) in all browsers, for every possible sequence of allocations and deallocations

Why would you ever spec it like that? That doesn't seem needed at all. Plenty of programs run across platforms with wildly different mallocs and everything runs file. Replacing the malloc with LD_PRELOAD tricks is even done sometimes.
I cannot say much about the stats, but I only really know of rich-by-work rather than rich-by-luck.

But I do not think we should design a system to cater for outliers with immense wealth. We should cater for the general population, and I believe that for non-Dubai prince wealth, it is likely that it likely came through work.
If I'm going for short term wealth extraction, it's either gonna be couch surfing, sleeping in cars or malls, or maybe renting a room in an apartment with like 7 other pre-existing people.

Sinking 50k into SF for a prison cell ( that for most house guests is socially unacceptable ) is a bit of a tough sell for me!
It has a weird API.
I could create a maze much more quickly on a Z8000 in the 80s. How can this be so slow? I remember I used the maximum spanning tree algorithm because I had to learn it. Not optimal for this problem but it yields nice mazes.
I use Anki to learn Japanese vocabulary. I have found it much more useful when I use Kanji vs. Romanization. I see Kanji differently than I do Romanization and I wonder if there isn’t a picture quality to it that gets lost when I Romanize the words?
Setting NULL or nullptr to any value other than 0 is highly likely to break most complex C/C++ codebases.
So if every top vendor did that, you'd have something like a cartel, except it wouldn't just be high prices, it would be "once you're in our ecosystem, no more interchangeable parts for you, we own the whole stack". It's a bit like feudalism!
You're not being punished for that, you're being punished for a crime. That happens to be proportional to what you can give. What's not fair is fines that barely impact wealthy people.
“According to the sales pitch, the new housing units would include low-income high-density housing apartments,” his presentation said. “This would mean that we would have uneducated people living in Cupertino. A lot of other residents and I are concerned that this would make the current residents of Cupertino uncomfortable, and would split our city in half.”

Wow, I guess the individual believes its fine for these people to clean and cook for them, but they should really be bused in from somewhere else so they don't scare the children. What a friggin depraved understanding of the lives of people just trying to get by or pull themselves up by what means are available.
Just working hard does not entail success implying that it does is untrue.
The regular X is the size of the 8 with the screen size (approx) of the 8+.
Trading Fundamentals #1
I watch a lot of documentaries. There is a big shift in behavior from pre-2000 to post-2000. Pre-2000 is pre reality tv and pre technology. Nowadays people approach interviews differently. I'm not saying one is more real than the other and it is clear people have different goals/mindsets when being interviewed.
What OOP "got right" was to make it easy to use indirection to pass function pointers.

There was the part in my original post...

....and had structs with function pointers that did different things based on how the struct was initialized.
Idea here was, a robo-servant will put clothes inside washing machine or dishwasher. And take them out and put them in order too.
This argument will easily hold if there were any way to have a competing store on iOS devices. Apple banning any competition in that field makes ‘buy they provide value for the money’ look like forcing consumers hand.

Not sure if I want to have a second AppStore (APNS, etc, etc.)
Please don't combine nitpicking with racial flamebait. Nothing good is going to come of that on the internet.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18520421 and marked it off-topic.
I don’t think there is proof that a there is a connection between the salary level and how hard someone works.

A person who works at minimum wage may work as hard as anyone else. Just look at all those who have to work two jobs to feed their family. I would think that if they had the opportunity to work harder at a single job and make more money, they would.
Depends what you think the fines are for. If they are to discourage behaviour, it makes sense to me to try to make them equally discouraging to everyone, which requires scaling.
How about: the ability to rent at little or no cost unused offices,
Access to funding for "moonshot" projects,
Have the state declare certain groups certified startups for 1-5 years to help them get momentum and exposure. There are many such simple things that could be done to help and create the network of success they want to draw in via tech
I agree. I had mostly preferred organics in recent years because I wanted politically to avoid Monsanto, et al. and support a more regional food system. I didn't believe that industrial-scale organics were demonstrably healthier than conventional crops. But this research and a handful of other studies that have appeared on HN recently have changed my thinking. There seems to be more and more evidence that conventionally grown crops are essentially bathed in chemicals that are at best questionable with regard to human health.
This is why I laugh at the “convenience” of a paperless world. Still might not help but at least a paper receipt is something.
>> these owls aren’t necessarily what they seem

Twin Peaks fan?
Microsoft only got in trouble because they started selling IE as a separate product, then later added it to Windows. If they had just included it as a native Windows "accessory" from the beginning like Minesweeper or Calculator for no extra charge then it would have been tougher to make a case against them.
I don't understand the need for this. Can't the Read-Write example simply written like this?

import asyncio

read_lock = asyncio.Lock()
write_lock = asyncio.Lock()

async def read():
async with read_lock:
# shared access

async def write():
async with read_lock, write_lock:
# exclusive access

also the standard library has asyncio.Semaphore, which seems like the exact same thing like the third example?

https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-sync.html
I work in between policy and the actual scientists writing code and running experiments. I use Visio and LucidChart to make sure I've figured out how the decision flow in policy space can map to some realizable version of meat space and network space, and demonstrate to actual policy makers where their policies may not work (e.g. there's a pocket of bureaucrats who we know will squeeze the time out of our clocks, here's some software or infrastructure that will require additional authorization because it exists inside or outside a policy boundary, etc).

Some of those documents I never look at again. Some of those documents I show to other people and it's like watching lightening strike: "Oh, I like this, I like this a lot."
EA is effectively a database of design artifacts, models and components so you can draw different viewpoints of a system and previously defined relationships are automatically displayed. Plantuml, which I love, can't do any of that.

EA also auto generates documentation in Office formats which is handy when submitting a design for review and comment.

A lot of other commentators will point out that UML is redundant, but in big enterprise system development it is still a useful design tool to start a discussion and not too onerous to keep up to date. Whilst even at enterprise scale you still want to evolve architecture as per Agile best practice, things take a little longer and there are more hoops to jump through and this is where well documented architecture always shines through.
Of course some actions of nations against their own people or against foreign people will be worse than others.

If the consensus mechanism used in a democracy is a simple majority, that leaves the opportunity for 49% of the population to be entirely disenfranchised by 51%. Let's assume this is fair and reasonable for now.

Moral authority is something that has traditionally been claimed by members of the clergy, and notably by many governments in which the political leaders are also the religious leaders.

We've seen the many downsides of theocracy around the world, so I find it concerning that so many Americans are willing to accept hollow moralizing from elected leaders.

If a president said, "I woke this morning and I knew that God had spoken to me. He said that the US must invade country X. And so it shall be done", most people would all be appropriately freaked out.

But when instead the political leader says "Country X is led by a mentally ill tyrant, women of country X are oppressed, and the infrastructure in country X under the current regime is failing, resulting in high levels of disease and infant mortality", everyone applauds the upright moral character of the American politician.

Every day the newspapers contain a number of articles pointing to infrastructure problems in other nations... whether it's drug violence in south or central America, corruption in India, the smell of garbage or sewage in China, etc. Not to mention the many articles taking aim at social ills blamed on the ruling party in any number of nations. This writing is read by Americans as we read celebrity gossip, as entertainment. It reinforces the narrative of American exceptionalism.

But one might ask why it is necessary. It is done to help make Americans view foreign people as beneath them, unable to prevent drug violence, corruption or the smell of garbage. We are meant to read these articles and think "wow I am sure glad I live in the US".

But in reality, the way of life for middle class people in many countries in the world is superior to that experienced in the US. Not in the way that is reflected by per-capita GDP, but if you go there and see how people live it is obvious.

If Americans realized that we would tolerate a lot less from policymakers. We might even insist on accountability for grand ideas that promise to be money pits. If we saw the people of other nations as getting a lot of things right, maybe even getting some things more right than we do, we might be reluctant to allow our leaders to fly drones over their countries or scapegoat their exporters.

The entire American security state and massive military projection of power could not exist without the opiatic effect of the state religion of American Exceptionalism.

So while the program going on in China may be of some minor level of concern, we need to see through the PR campaign that is going on and realize why we are being told about this one narrow aspect of Chinese policy.
That's why it "might" be :)

I think in the HN community this is probably common sense.
> name for this phenomenon in HN, comments giving birth to posts

What's interesting is that that is a question that a person could answer (in context) quite easily. But can a google search or a computer answer the same question posed the same way? It can but only if the question or similar has come up before in some way. But if not it would take a human to figure it out.

For example if I said 'what is the name of the person who was initially involved in HN that no longer makes comments' most of us would know it is PG (as the likely person). But do a search and not include any more info and the answer does not exist.
I think it's "off" meaning "outside of". It's a problem for consumers when confusing marketplace rules coupled with single-company-enforced limited options unnecessarily cost them more. That said, not sure I would want it illegal.
It's ridiculous all thru Cali
One bedroom==1k
Even in the outskirts towns
Edit, that's per month
I thought in most cases the author is free to provide copies of his/her own articles directly? Is it not true that you could just ask your colleague for a copy of what he submitted for publication?
... because doing so will hurt their competitors and not them. I'm glad for Apple's focus on privacy these days, but let's not chalk it up to altruism.
This article presumes acres for $420,000 in San Francisco. Not sure where the author is finding land values like that in the Bay - certainly not in San Francisco, where land is closer to $100/sqft at the low end ($4.5M).
Understand, but I think the intensity matters here. If you are mentoring a junior developer and he asks you questions about every little detail (instead of working through some docs and trying things out), then I guess this is not the on-the-job-training you would like to offer.
I've been in the home improvement biz for a long time now- the price of a house is mostly a function of proximity to high paying in person jobs, restrictive zoning from local politicians, cost of labor, and then lastly, materials.

This is why a poorly-built trailer in North Dakota's oil fields can still be 100k (instead of 20k in Maine), whereas a beautiful mansion in rural Texas can be 200k (instead of 900k in New Jersey)
You need to add social factors too. If you are born into poverty, it is not simply enough to work a bit harder than the average. The weight of all the factors against you will probably increase the workload by a magnitude compared to someone born into an average family.
So, it's not for you. But not everyone need or want rooms bigger than that.
For almost all platforms that's true, but the culture of standardization on the Web is unique. It comes from wanting a Web page to have the maximal chance of running across all standard-compliant browsers, forever - that's just not the case for practically every other platform.
Many seem to interpret what I said as "poverty equals laziness". This was never in any way what I said.

However, almost regardless of your situation, harder works gives greater results. You'll get significantly more if you work 14 hours a day instead of 8. Whether you're working a shit job and just trying to push up your work hours, you're trying to build your own company, or even if you're managing your multi-billion dollar portfolio, the more hours you put in the more you get.

Should that be punished? I get that a Dubai prince racing at 300km/h through a school zone in his Bugatti Chiron is one case, but what about the guy/girl that took on much more work than average? Should their punishment be directly propertional to the life-shortening stress they're taking on?

Designing laws around statistical outliers seem idiotic. The Dubai prince case is certainly not the norm.

(Using Dubai prince as my general example for "absurd riches+irresponsible behavior" for no reason in particular)
Our per-unit budget looks like this:

$30,000 construction costs

$10,000 land & other non-construction costs

$10,000 profit margin

The cheapest lot I can find in San Francisco is $200k, not counting the lots that are being foreclosed on because land is so expensive there.

https://www.zillow.com/san-francisco-ca/land/

I mean, I love the idea. This is the sort of thing I wish we could do. But this does not sound realistic to me. The numbers look like they were pulled out of thin air.
I think this is the beauty of this approach as well (vs actively teaching skills). If somebody does not work out, you will know pretty early based on how they approach the learning in the first place.
according to my research of sample size n=2 the time delay is 1 day
And 30% was a rate that was concocted during that same era, or shortly after. Why should it still hold true now, when Apple's revenue is far greater?
Hmm, I remember thinking about this several years ago, the big issue is that it's almost unfalsifiable. I remember thinking that an experiment looking at whether anesthetics (that caused loss of consciousness in neurons) also stopped quantum phenomena in said neurons. But alas, that was a hard experiment to do back then :)
Very H.R. Giger.
Yay someone else calls it sportsball
Planning is highly useful, plans are useless.
Any outcome would be tainted by the nakedly partisan motives. It would send a clear message to companies that they must bend to the administration's ideology.

Anyone who opposes the administration would be short-sighted to allow themselves to be used as puppets in this manner.

Speaking selfishly from the outside the short-term effects might not seem so bad, but the I wouldn't relish the long-term consequences.
Basic ethics? Seriously, think through the implications of allowing companies to sell medical treatment that don't mention the risks.
Even if you insist on having closed-source apps from the Play Store on your device you don't need to install the actual Play Store or any of its dependencies. Use either Yalp [1] (or its derivative Aurora [2] for those who want a more polished interface) and you can install free Play Store apps without ever needing to sign in to Google.

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.yeriomin.yalpstor...

[2] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.dragons.aurora/
Until very lately there were secrect mandatory agreements with google which made device manufacturers unable to sell devices with and without googles software at the same time. You had to choose one.
How your perceived by your peers does effect your promotion though
And yet if an ISP blocked Netflix and made you buy from ISPFlix there'd be wailing and rending of garments.

I mean, you could just change ISP to ISP2 if you didn't like it.
Why wouldn't that be in commit messages, documentation, or a FAQ?
For those wondering too long just like I did, AV as in autonomous vehicles I presume, not adult video I presume... :))
Ok, we merged this thread into that one and put it in the second-chance queue (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380). Thanks!
"Pattern Recognition" is the most accurate term IMO (at least as far as this particular tech is concerned, and yes it is a subset of Machine Learning), and it doesn't pretend to be something it's not.
>A few powerful individuals set the tone (replace the government with big tech and the media), they get the masses to do their bidding via propaganda, eliminating dissenting opinions (IE: Bans for things such as stating scientific facts on Twitter etc..) and crushing anybody who dissents from the narrative.

So like how the government still has anticommunist propaganda in textbooks and regularly on various TV shows? And how supporting any Communist-action committee, including the Communist Party USA, is a crime under US law?

I don't know who you call communist, but the actual communists have faced over a century of abuse far more direct than you mention.
Because property taxes support the needs of residents, and because the density of residents would increase, the property tax obtained per acre would need to increase.

Thus you can't just shrink lot sizes by 90% and expect to shrink per-lot tax bills by 90%. The average tax, in dollars per acre, must increase in order to compensate for the extra people.
Ask HN: What’s the best “maker” set to gift children?
Hello - I’m looking for the best arduino (or similar substitute) set to gift some of my nieces and nephews, aged 12 and under.

I grew up with great toys that helped me build things, and I feel like in today’s world there is so much opportunity! Any and all recommendations are appreciated.
If only that was true. Javascript has had all plenty of inconsistent behaviors across browsers and the feature matrix for what is and isn't supported in each browser is hugely complex. And even if that was true standardizing the results of malloc makes no sense, it gives you no extra compatibility guarantees for any sane programs and no one cares about insane ones.
Neither does it seem fair that I'll be fined twice as much if I work twice the hours, does it?
Oh okay, so as long as it's their MO to have a monopoly then it's fine. I'm sure plenty of iPhone users, for example, would like to have a PornHub app on their iPhone, but that's currently impossible because of Apple's guidelines. You could build a very high quality app and be denied for a reason strictly outside of the "UX, security 'or any other very valid reason'" that Apple arbitrarily decides.
Calling them skins is not correct at all. Being able to auto translate whole pages or sync all bookmarks and browsing history or passwords in iOS chrome
is not merely a skin.
She made history by promising free everything. Who wouldn’t vote for her, unless they had a brain.

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out if other people’s money.” —-Maggie Thatcher
Here's the original pull request: https://github.com/DCCouncil/dc-law-xml/pull/134/files

The text already mentioned "The Freedom of Information Act of 1976" unambiguously, but the metadata was incorrect.