skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Have we not been demanding better?

We haven't. Instead, we've been saying things like:
How exactly are we supposed to get them to "make sausage again" when #2-8 pretty much list out why they aren't going to make sausage?

I, too, primarily get discouraged each voting cycle and feel progressively less inclined to take any sort of political action. I'm right there with you. It's actually very heartening to me that whoever wrote this article is optimistic that, if we really demanded it, change might come.
>fundamentally only simple things can be easy
[Biographical note: In 1937 he proposed that the neutrinos have mass and are their own antiparticles. This make them slightly different from the other particles, like the electrons. This theory is still not confirmed, but the particle-physicists really like it. More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_Majorana ]
It is worth noting that the E-Cat is the sort of thing that is not just unlikely, but blatantly fraudulent. It's claimed to work by adding hydrogen to nickel to make copper, a reaction so ridiculously unfeasible it doesn't even happen in supernova explosions.

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2011/12/05/the-nucle...

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Energy_Catalyzer
Just a macbook pro retina with 256GB SSD - i5 - 8GB Ram.
Is really nice for travelling and working all over my house.
It's a synonym to democracy, and yes, I agree to some extent. Still, self-control with regards to any system is a widely accepted term, and a comparable metaphor.
Years ago I pitched a VC with a working prototype and biz plan - actually was looking more for angel-level money (perhaps) - somewhere between $300-$500k, and I was projecting revenue (which would be mostly profits) of $5m/year within 4 years (aggressive growth by my estimation, but doable). No dice - they wanted to see numbers north of $20m/year for sizable exit before they'd be willing to put in.. $500k. Those numbers always struck me as insane, but have stuck with me (this was... 15 years ago perhaps now).
>4) Yeah. It's frightening almost. Still, it depends on the data sets. Many state parties have POS data sets that still rely on a top-down method of data insertion that sucks. Also, the more rural you get the less accurate the data is. (Although, there are other methods of voter ID for rural voters.)

I remember reading Zell Miller(former Georgia Gov, and Senator)'s Biography. There was a story about his mother being the chairwoman of the Young Harris Democratic Party. The job of the party chair in those days (great depression era) was keeping the party files which consisted of notebooks, notecards, file folders etc on every voter in the county. family information, social relationships, interests, pain points. which is the exact same information that is valuable in politics today, just gathered by different means.
My guess is "in touch with" is intended to mean understanding, not necessarily reliability... meaning, they know exactly what the majority of their community wants, but the paradigm rewards self interest which often runs contrary to the majority given the way that power & wealth naturally consolidate.
PGP is end-to-end, TLS is not. PGP does improve privacy by reducing the number of people able to understand the content.
Bio from Wikipedia:

Ettore Majorana (Italian: [ˈɛttore majoˈraːna]; born 1906;) was an Italian theoretical physicist who worked on neutrino masses. He disappeared suddenly under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. The Majorana equation and Majorana fermions are named after him. In 2006, the Majorana Prize was established in his memory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_Majorana
You will always need a kind of GC if you start allocating things on the heap. This is because, in some cases, it's impossible for a human or an algorithm to know statically where a memory can be deallocated (you could solve the halting problem if you had a such algorithm, yet the halting problem has been proven unsolvable).

The GC can be very primitive such as in Rust ou C++11 by using reference counting. Reference counting is not a static allocation.

What Rust introduces is memory safety for statically allocated data. That's, the type system will prevent you use a reference/pointer to data a which has been deallocated.
The virtualization layer becomes a single point of concentration for both security and attack. That offers opportunities to reduce the attack surface and opportunity.

Net net, given the choice of extensive plug-ins vs. virtualization, I'll go with the latter.
The USA has the strongest military in the world. Unlike the Netherlands, we can actually defend ourselves against an aggressor. I would rather come from a strong country than one that needs to rely on others when it comes to defense.

Your social programs aren't worth a damn if you don't have the ability to defend yourself.
Turn your news feed into push mode instead of pull mode :)

HN is the only site I visit for tech news. The rest of the news I get through newsletters. I follow about 20ish, which I sift through each week to stay updated.

JavaScript Weekly, HTML5 Weekly, Node Weekly etc has me covered and a lot less stressed about staying updated. Basically, just Google [Topic] weekly or newsletter and subscribe to a few. If they don't deliver, just unsubscribe.
I watch "Peppa Pig", "Hello Kitty" and so on in English with my daughter :D But also watch conference talks (like Google.io) in English. I understand most of written text (except of Harvard Business Review - authors select not common used words) and a little bit worse talks in videos.

But it's opposite if I want to speak or write.
The powers that be have zero interest in the legalization of marijuana and yet it continues despite directly contravening federal law.
Great dev blogs, good luck!
Some thoughts :

It wasn't absolutely clear to me what this is. The front page (project page) doesn't have a simple, clear description of the application. Or is it a "platform"?

Documentation page has a list of features - but they are all quite technical, not end-user helpful in general. The "getting started" page says :

"rapid development of robust and highly performant websites with content management functionality."

Wordpress is mentioned a lot so I assume it is a "blogging" platform to a major degree. A demo site might help but first, a better description I think.
"Namely, they haven't really screwed things up."

Could it be that in the past, external factors prevented that from happening: the industrial revolution, 2 world wars, the cold war, etc. But in the world we're in now, they aren't set up properly to save the declining domestic quality of life for the average citizen (e.g., see arguments along the lines of _The Two Income Trap_)?
We're currently in the process of simplifying the key sync spec. The new version will store your private key encrypted with a strong random passphrase in IMAP. So it's similar to your dropbox proposal, but with a UX that leads users along the way.
I know this is not directly related but I've been looking at cms design lately and I was wondering what different approaches people have come across to store documents and content in a structured, hierarchical way? And if there is an accepted 'best' way of doing it.
Sometime not being allowed to conveniently do something is good for the brain and the body. Here in China YouTube is not convenient and going to MacDonald is not either. And tv is shit. Do we do not have connected the tv at home, eat white rice with veggies and pork, drinking green tea. As a result I an quite fit and in good health, and I have plenty of time for my side projects even with a daily job and two kids (three soon).

So, reading about your no netflix in the train inconvenience, I thought: what a great occasion to read plenty of books, or a handful of long and important books that make you a better/finer human being (e.g. Proust).
EFF's view is that we've been sold down the river with EME (Encrypted Media Extension).

Except ... that I seem to be able to access most online video content (certainly on YouTube, Vimeo, and other major sites) via youtube-dl.

And hugely prefer to do so. It's much more useful for me to be able to queue, speed up / slow down, pause, resize and otherwise manipulate video with consistent controls than to have the limited (and varied) interfaces various online video / multimedia sites offer.

I've got a video playing as I write this, well, paused, at 133% playback speed, in a small 250px x 190px window -- when I can give it my focus again I'll simply mouse over it and tap 'space' to resume playback. If I want to skip back a few seconds, or a minute, the left or down keyboard arrows do that for me. As they do for all video I play. I can also normalized audio levels (many are too low, this one's actually got a tendency to clip), and more.
Openh264 from Cisco may be free as in beer but as it only supports the baseline H.264 profile it's effectively useless.
Yes. It gossips with the following list of servers. Keys are uploaded and also fetched form these servers:

'https://pgp.mit.edu',
'http://pool.sks-keyservers.net',
'http://keys.gnupg.net',
'http://keyserver.ubuntu.com',
'http://pks.gpg.cz'
> [...] or whether it was something simpler: hydrogen is involved so conventional explosions are always possible, and lithium aluminium hydride is pyrophoric, busting into flames in air.

I didn't know this detail. So it has something that can act like a conventional chemical fuel inside the device. If the device allows entering a small amount of oxygen, the fuel will slowly burn and produce an unexpected excess of energy. [Another alternative is a plain fraud, but I still don't discard a combination of an excess of optimism and bad measurements and experimental designs.]
Side note which doesn't affect your point: without "consideration", such as more money, or when you start a job, the job itself, a non-compete is worthless, it's a contract where each side has to gain something. And "keeping your job" isn't one of those. As for California vs. Texas, well, you do get some serious considerations by making a move in either direction.

Greater note: I've been convinced for some time that the non-enforcablility of non-competes is "Silicon Valley's" unique advantage. Given the steadily increasing difficulty of doing business in the state, it's almost certainly been critical in keeping that Golden Goose alive and somewhat healthy.
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Indeed. The only legal basis for non-competes being valid is that they prevent the "first bite of the apple", the damage caused by the first such disclosure of IP, which then requires the harmed company to sue to obtain recourse.
That's mostly a function of size. Several countries have stronger military's per person. Worse we gain
little from a strong military. Sure, there are a few economic benefits but suspending 1/3 as much would be a huge net gain.

Picture zero national debt.
Kudos! So elegant. Both C++11 and the article.
Ask HN: What's the best resource for getting back up to speed with modern css
I used to know my way round front end design techniques a couple of years ago, but I guess I'm no longer current. I'd like to know what people regard as the best resources available at the moment for the front end stuff that's changed:

* CSS transitions
* CSS3
* SASS/other compilers
* Styling in JS.

Basically, what are the cool kids doing nowadays?
As opposed to the CA system, where machines who are unqualified to do so confirm identity based on an email?
We have those in the US. They are called good school districts.
Exaggerating claims beyond a certain point makes them unconvincing. For example, the BBC's iPlayer is designed for time shifting and device shifting, and it has always used restrictive DRM, so saying that DRM prevents that just makes the argument look wrong to semi-informed users.
> push that information to you in a customized-to-you fashion.

but the IRS somehow knows exactly what you owed them and why, so why can't they just perform that calculation before hand, and then tell you it, instead of forcing an onerous process on everyone else, and waste people's resources paying for tax-preparation services?
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No user (statistically speaking) even knows what EME is nor what EME (and DRM in general) implies. It says a lot about the morals and intentions of an industry when they are so quick to exploit that ignorance.
Europe is too important to US power to leave to chance so those forces would be redundant.
Air India Loses/Delays Bags of multiple passengers from multiple AI191 flights
It was. It technically still is. But large parts of what makes the web useful -- content and search/indexing is being trapped in silos like Google, G+, Twitter, Facebook, Blogspot etc.
My notion of "public healthcare" is being able to walk into a government clinic or hospital and get free treatment or appointments as long as you show you're a citizen -- sorry for not having cleared that up.
Finland: the tax administration knows almost everything about your money already, income tax is withheld by employers in advance through a pay-as-you-earn system (and this has been on for decades).

Tax authorities would like to get direct access to see bank accounts, that's not on yet.

Filing a tax return is very easy. Usually you need to do nothing, but if you have some specific tax deductions - not much is eligible - then you can do it with a fairly simple Web interface, or leave an equally simple paper form.
> Basically if you allowed people to see your source code it was considered open source.

This (premise of your entire post) is very much incorrect.

OSI has never certified the notorious MSFT "Shared Source" licenses that you are probably referring to.

Please read the Wikipedia article on the subject, you will find that the licenses that are certified by OSI are the same licenses that the FSF calls "free software", and the licenses that OSI didn't certify are "non-free" according to the FSF.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_source

The OSI "Open Source Definition" criteria are based on the "Debian Free Sofware Guidelines", which are in turn inspired by the FSF's "Free Software Definition".

http://opensource.org/osd

In practice all 3 of these organizations tend to come to the same verdict, with very few exceptions in fringe cases (such as the GFDL).
Please share with anyone taking AI191 flight as baggages are being delayed for more than 7 days.
Not trade secrets, by definition, because all was exposed. In fact, if I remember correctly, IBM even published on paper the assembly for their (first) BIOS.

This is a copyright vs. patent sort of thing. What Phoenix copied using the "Chinese Wall" technique is the sort of thing that might be covered by patents, that is, ideas. The IBM BIOS was a creative implementation/expression of those ideas, and that code was copyright protected, as was Phoenix's independent version of the code that implemented the same ideas.
I'm usually quite good about catching "we're gonna sell your data!" dark patterns, but having just done my taxes on TurboTax I definitely saw that consent form and didn't understand its implications. Yeesh.
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Starting a SASS workflow with Alfred
Without a soldermask, how do you mount anything SMD finer than about a SOT-23? (only a slight exaggeration)

I can't imagine mounting even a simple ATTiny, let alone a quad-flat anything or a bunch of 0603s without a solder mask.

I'm sure that some use cases can get by with all DIP, through-hole, and similar-sized parts, but it's hard to design a product that can later scale up cost-effectively without being able to use surface-mount parts. There's a reason the mass production all switched over to SMD->cost.
You misunderstood my question ,what i meant is how do you learn most of the new technologies and not forget them after a while
Your first paragraph is largely true for the US (people running quite small businesses don't necessarily have to keep up with pay as you earn, but the limits are a few thousand dollars and then the correct thing is to make regular payments during the year).
Both of these examples exhibit the "busy waiting" anti pattern where a thread is waiting for something in a loop with a sleep or yield in it. This consumes CPU time, power and resources and may be sleeping more than necessary. The proper fix for this is to wait on a condition variable, which will make sure the thread remains inactive when idle.

This may be fine for a trivial example of std::thread and std::mutex but you should almost never do this in practice (there are some exceptions in kernel space when waiting for an I/O device).

I have a few useful rules of thumb when doing multi threaded programming which I want to share:

1) Almost every mutex should be coupled with one or (usually) more condition variables

2) A mutex variable named "mutex" is a code smell. Ditto for condition variables named "cond". They usually have an easy-to-describe function such as "queue_lock", "not_full" or "not_empty".
Congress is still necessary to save America...

When you think like that, then you're part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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as the congress critter already identified: you are just pushing more folks who would want to do the job out.

i think there are a good sized number of folks who legitimately do the job to serve. when you hook payment to the outcome of the whole group, you effectively excluded those folks who dont naturally have a giant bank account to afford going unpaid.
Le me recommend the Threading Building Blocks library from Intel - it's great for writing parallel solutions for data parallelism problems.
Which businesses/organisations are really big on internal transparency?
Is Social Media Making Us All the Same?
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..metric that citizens would consider to be desirable..

And your problem is that you can only know what you and maybe a few other people consider desirable.

Europeans commenting on HN seem to be continually confused on why Americans don't think like them.
Did you go through with the business? If so, did you end up reaching your goal?
Based on official Chinese data, the average wage(after tax) in Beijing is less than 600 USD per month.

Another Story: My friend Li works for Alibaba,the largest internet company in China. Li is a software engineer with 8+ years working experience, and his salary is less than 3000 USD per month.

But Beijing's House price is much higher than Silicon Valley.
One would argue that "social profit" (ie: where society profits) is where all those not-for-profit "bad dreams" go.

The Red Cross movement especially brought forward the Geneva Conventions (which improved the conditions of prisoners of war), successfully fought epidemics, and (in my opinion) began a tradition of humanism that combats extreme fundamentalism in a practical non-violent way (which is why the worst fundamentalists target Red Cross/Red Crescent workers.)
Thanks! Really useful feedback, the kind of "obvious" things I did not see any more after being trying to get this ready for release.

EDIT:

Tried to incorporate some of your feedback.
f-you money to me is having $100 million or more. Did this guy get anywhere close to that figure?
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Agree that eating less shit sandwich is better than eating more. But it's still a shit sandwich.
The largest blocker in my experience is that they don't have that information processed for 6-18 months after the filing deadline.

Source: personal experience with a period of very-late filing in my younger and dumber days.

Other factors are that they can't possibly know your total liability. They literally don't know exactly what you owe them.

Cash-based employment or trade, sales of securities purchased prior to the very recent cost-basis rules, basically anything schedule C or E (small business or rental property), etc, etc.

They might be able to auto-file something close for the simple W-2 employee case with no investments, but they don't have a secret computer system with your full return auto-prepared and just waiting to catch you for forgetting to enter $12 in bank interest from a long-forgotten account.
Interesting point. For the past few years, I have printed out my return and mailed it in because that is free and e-filing costs money. I do it partly because it is cheaper but also partly because I find it sad that e-filing is not easier and more cost effective for the government to handle than a paper submission (if it is, it is sad that the government is not incentivizing it through cost). Maybe the government just prints the e-filed return out and adds it to the stack of mailed in returns to be processed. It seems like there would be big gains in efficiency if the government had a standard digital submission protocol, if they could get past the initial cost to develop it and could handle the security issues it would entail.
Except you said the U.S. doesn't have any public healthcare.
How very nice that the top item of HackerNews is a 404 page.
What I do is I try to be in the Early Majority group instead of being an Early Adopter [0]. There are "a thousand things to learn" but how many of them will be still popular in 2 years? You can start learning them after 1 or 2 more years and still be in the early majority group, saving yourself some time learning a technology that is overhyped and dies in 6 months.

[0] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/DiffusionOfInn...
There is a progression from idealism to disillusion to professionalism to monetization.

You start out with high hopes of making a real difference. That runs smack into a complicated and compromised system, which makes you disillusioned. You try hard to figure things out and do useful things. Eventually, you understand how things work and how to make the system work for you, which makes you a political professional. Those skills are very valuable and you see your peers making a killing with them. Not wanting to be the local chump, you use the skills to your own advantage, which is monetization.
This is good advice for smart and creative people who have good taste.

I have friends that plowed their savings into their dream projects, but they lacked good taste. Nobody bought their shit.

Now they are back working a 9 to 5.
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5) We don't have a Congress but a parliament

This is the true problem of Congress. It no longer is a separate part of government but merely and extension of the political parties. The ACA is the best example of this effect.

2) Congress listens best to money

The only way to fix this is to government fund all elections with a set amount of money and do not permit direct donations to political parties. However we must not ban paid political speech, only speech that targets a specific person pro or con; excepting someone already in office, negative ads should be always permitted against them
Although the nature of neutrinos is still to be uncovered, my alma mater announced the discovered for a "meta" Majorana particle a couple of years ago [1]

[1] http://www.tudelft.nl/en/current/latest-news/article/detail/...
We're planning for that... Please have a look at it in a week or so.
Looks like an interesting project. I'm not entirely sure that you're prioritising the right information though - almost all of the text on your site is about Haskell / the technology stack you're using; but for a CMS, most people care about the admin UI / features and how they simplify the process of managing a website's content.

I think it'd be useful to show some screenshots / examples of how it works, in order to immediately engage potential users, and then lead on to the benefits of using Haskell etc.
Zmq is most often associated with network communications, but its in process sockets are fantastic for multi-threaded programming.
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"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence".

He is the most famous "missing physicist" and people have been speculating a lot about various possibilities.