skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it just seems like there would be a lot more bank tellers if not for ATM's

Depends on how you look at it. If you believe that ATMs were instrumental to the growing of retail banking to the otherwise underbanked (lower cost of providing a service), then without it you wouldn't really have more bank tellers, you'd just have more unbanked people.

The full article has some more details. But these machines are still making very simple foods and most people (ignoring soylent fans) enjoy variety in their food, so it seems like it will be quite a while before robots will take over large parts of the restaurant/take-out market.
Having spent the last 8 years building a Netflix competitor, I think you overestimate the commoditization of VoD tech. You need a lot more than AWS + Akamai. The costs of those are too high for the types of margins a Netflix-like service has. Also, you need apps everywhere, and those apps have to be good. Even though it's getting a lot easier every day, it's still way outside the reach of any individual show, they're just not structurally set up to build and manage the tech side. HBO can do it because they are just barely big enough, but individual shows will never jump that canyon.

What's going to happen is not that shows replaces channels, but that services become the new channels. Instead of having a few cable companies monopolizing the last mile, building and running all the distribution tech, and charging an arm and a leg for access, the new model is that there are no gatekeepers on distribution. But that is not to say distribution is a commodity or easy, in fact doing good distribution ala Netflix that cuts across devices, geography, and a long tail of content will become an essential value-add and it will be more competitive than it's ever been.
Dealing with Software Religious Arguments and Architectural Zealotry
This article is a good summary of the issues of the (mis)use of statistics in science. Having done some research myself, in most cases the statistics don't scream a particular message to you, and it's really hard to understand the data. Even without any external pressures, statistical tools like p-values have limits. If you run 10 different models (all a priori reasonable) and 8 of them seem to say roughly the same thing, does that mean your result is correct?
Jeb Bush Comes Out Against Encryption
What if merit isn't defined by "technical competence" but the "ability to deliver results in a defined context" and by "results" we are talking about "what the company(e.g. managers) defines as results".

So often engineers and quants take it on themselves to define "results" but is that fair? As an engineer these are lessons hard won over my career. I am a component in larger system. What if the alternator in my car took it on itself to improve engine efficiency, fuel economy, or safety at the expense of the job I expect it to do?

One of the most important things an engineer can learn on the job is humility. Understanding that the don't have all the information and accepting the tasks they are given. The author admits this is not what they did and they deserve poor marks as a result. No promotion? ... color me surprised.
Wow, you're right, I totally forgot about that (http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~vincentp/ift3395/lectures/backp...)
How many of them are working in fields directly relating to their studies, and how many of them are being paid a livable wage?

Because I can guarantee you right now that a postdoc salary is horrible, especially considering the amount of work that goes into getting that PhD in the first place.

Being employed != being employed in their field, and being employed != being paid a livable wage that can simultaneously sustain student debt.

Furthermore, this adds nothing to your original belief that if people were to do something that benefits society, they would be financially stable. This statement cannot be any further from the truth.

You only have to look so far as teaching to see how wrong that idea is. Teachers are absolutely necessary, and yet in many places, teachers are heavily in debt and not being paid a livable wage. You don't even have to look far - in the Bay Area, the center of technology, school districts are facing massive staffing shortages because teachers simply are not able to live with the salaries they're offered, so they're no longer looking at the Bay as a viable option.

You and I have the immense luck of both being able to enjoy programming and having some measure of talent in it. On top of that, our mutual field is going through an extraordinary time of heavy demand and high salaries.

Not everyone is that lucky. It is absolutely factually and logically wrong to extrapolate your own lucky circumstances and impose them on people less fortunate than you. Not everyone can enjoy and be good in a field that is constantly hiring and paying very well. Not everyone who works hard gets the same opportunities at financial stability that we do. To look down on people and think that by doing something "meaningful" they can find financial stability is a horrible logical fallacy to make.
I'll be honest, I don't see these products as all that compelling. They all seem kind of gimmicky to me. Who exactly is the target market for the sandwich-making machine or bicycle cafe? Is it for restaurants? If I owned a deli, for instance, you're going to have a hard time convincing me that your newfangled robot can make a sandwich faster or better than human employees.
Pando goes to, and is escorted out of, Y Combinator demo day
Effectively yes, when you're on lightning scale, yes.

I use an isobar myself to power reduce noise, but I'm under no illusion that it will protect my shit from a direct strike.
The great demoscene sourcecode giveaway
It appears to shell out on windows as well because it needs select. But windows doesn't have a system version of python.
I've been using it for the past couple months and it is hands-down the best option for hybrid mobile development
"Netflix has set the price for large quantity of video content way too low."

What makes you think $8-10/month is way too low? Let's do a few back of the envelope calculations:

Globally there is an easy 500 million user market for high quality US TV content.

If we take off a 30% cut for Netflix then that is $2.8-$3.5 billion per month for the content providers.

A high quality show like house of cards, or the wire, or daredevil, or game of thrones costs around $150 million. Let's say studios want $300 million to make a decent profit.

So there's enough money through this kind of service for 10 high quality seasons of content per month. This would very quickly build up a large high quality backlog for most people.

Of course content providers would rather pump out lots of low quality crap, and spend big money on advertising average shows rather than spending that money on the content.
> Sending an HTTP request to a server is no different than walking through the door of an establishment. You don't see the "content" of the store until you walk through the door

Walking through the door of an establishment also does not make the person obligated to pay for seeing the content.

Anyway, anyone who knows basics about how the www technology operates and its history knows that's false analogy. Sending an HTTP request to a web server makes no promises to the owner of the web page or other data the server sends. There is no human-level contract or trade in the sense "content for ads" implied. It may be how the operation is payed for by the owner, but nobody ever asked the consumer. For contract/trade to happen, both parties need to agree on terms and willingly enter it.

> is the same as deciding you don't like how the physical establishment operates, but you feel entitled to take something anyway.

It is not the same. Nobody takes a thing from the owner when using adblocking software.

> There is no logical difference, and you are using a completely false justification.

There is a physical difference. Donuts will be missed, copies of cat pictures will be not. Eventually, even logic must give way to physics.
Don't bother. At first you look at your inbox and think "Amazon? me really?" I responded only to find out this was a mass spam campaign. They found me via LinkedIn, said "Our senior management as indicated your experience is exactly what we are looking to hire", then proceeded to ask me what my experience was. Hashtag this company has become a joke.
Website featuring only the highest rated Amazon items
I think everyone is somewhere on the 'spectrum'. And each one of us has a unique way we learn best.
Some people can listen to lectures in a university, go home and ace the assignment. Others can sit through 100 lectures and learn nothing, but then read an algorithm textbook chapter, ace the assignment.
Some people can listen to thousands of lectures, podcasts, read hundreds of algorithm textbooks, but if they never actually program an implementation it just won't stick in their brain.

I think the appeal of watching people code is for people who learn best by example, with visual/audio/story-line cues as reference for learning. Humans love story telling and if a code-caster can weave their coding with their dialogue about how they are going about their tasks, the result can be some pretty powerful learning juice for the brain. YMMV!
I like ShapeScale. As someone going through an intense regimented workout program, I would love to see the micro changes going on in my body. I wouldn't buy one but could definitely see myself going to a local gym to use it every so often.
The answer is just to sell video content play on demand. You can get access to a substandard catalogue with Netflix (it's really poor in the UK, at least) or you can just pay for access on a show by show basis. The key is that they have to make it very easy for people to use, and allow people to use the media files as they wish. It's iTunes over again, only this time with a different set of established interests.
And the whole thing can be funded by selling lists of users who did/didn't disable the ads in cluster X, Y, Z...
That's not a real surprise, though, is it? It's a further confirmation that's he's just another branch of the same tree.

Please don't take that as a fling against republicans, or support for another party. I despise them all, quite equally.
I suppose that's one reason. :)
of course ask for money. use domain name market as ref. take your two letter domain name price -- and ask for some fraction of that for you gh name -- by the logic that github is one of x number of important web presences for a company.
It is quite nice. I did this demo 6 years ago using chromium and wpf:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sean_mcdirmid/archive/2009/07/27/a-w...

It wasn't possible to do with IE.
If the pattern keeps repeating, I speculate the end result is more consistent quality of living around the globe, labor costs would be a much less important differentiator. Country after country that used to be suitable for cheap manufacture has, as it grew & developed, become less suitable than some other country.

In the end, quality of living will increase world-wide until the cost of manufacture is roughly equal in all locations.

This is perturbed by a variety of costs that make it more expensive to pay an Elbonian worker $10/hr than an American worker $10/hr if the goods are to be sold in America- but it could close the gap dramatically.
The neutrino error was very much people saying, we don't think this is accurate, but we don't know why and we are not going to hide this data. I saw a video of the press release and the guy looked like he really did not want to be saying those words.

Now, after they said that plenty of people ran with it way to far. However, I feel the team did the right thing.
Seems like only one company's employees are working on this, is this really open source?
What about this kind of bias: every experimental result can be attributed to some kind of bias. And bias is a hot topic, especially given the ascendence of progressive politics in academia and beyond. So there is a strong motivation for experimenters to explain any experimental result in terms of bias, rather than other reasons.
I would think both have a place next to Vending Machines.
Definitely ask for money, if it's a for-profit company wanting the username.
Am I the only one who thinks we seem to be spending a whole lot of money on research and getting mostly infinitesimal deltas in terms of results?
Whatsapp Web is now available for iOS too
I'm probably going to check this out. I've taken several Coursera courses in the past and they've been great.
Now and forever, I reserve the right to read documents that I'm
interested in, without any ads visible. If the web economy
cannot exist without this, then I want to find another way.

Out of curiosity - and as a software engineer who makes his living partially from the intellectual property he creates - why do you feel entitled to arbitrary content on your terms?

Do we all have a moral right to unencumbered and payment-less access to the new Britney Spears album?

Wouldn't it make more sense to only consume media that's legitimately available in a way that you find acceptable? That's one way to steer content creators towards that world, right?
I generally agree with your assessment. However, I am imagining the sandwich machine in places like McDonalds where there is no art to the sandwich, where it is simply about squirting predetermined amounts of condiments (and other ingrediants) on.
Didn't the guy end up having to resign because of the media circus? It was a pretty sad story IIRC.
I agree, it seems like the better fit for this type of technology would be McDonalds type fast food, not health food. It probably works in downtown SF, but in mainstreet USA, not so much. ATM's are used for simple transactions like getting cash, maybe the parallel in fast food is getting a big mac, fine to get it from a machine if it keeps the price down, but for a sit down meal I would like to see a wait person serve me.
So the question is how is it broken, and what will the consequences of the proposed changes be?

Are scientific papers meant to be textbook quality results, with absolutely no errors? Or are they meant to speed the pace of discovery of true facts? Because I would argue that they are meant to be the latter, that they are effective at that, and that trying to make them more like the former would slow the pace of discovery.
I think he got a good point and if you are talking in person you can see the reaction to your product "live" and really capture the experience of your tester.
As Seen on TV is a product line of crap that sells millions of dollars every year. Even without being compelling.
I could see a future where there is an automated restaurant or cafe. In those cases, if optimized a bit more, you could have cheaper/better long term returns and also scale to locations without changing the experience. Many chains seem to have a manual to keep the experience constant. Robots won't have that issue.

There are obvious tradeoffs, but I could see it happen
Sandwiches -- especially anything containing meat -- need fresh ingredients to be actually compelling. Seems like it'd be difficult to beat restaurants, especially with the "yuck/cheap factor" that comes with vending machines.

Plus, going out for lunch is 25% about food and 75% about getting out of the office and walking around in the world.

I'd imagine the primary market for such a vending machine would be the small population of workaholics who are too far gone to take a 30 minute break in the middle of the day, or McDonalds competitors in high-minimum-wage areas. But honestly, it seems like McDonalds would be able to beat any comer (maybe even without having to license any IP).

Tough market :-)
Empathy and Global Corporation
Do you have to use your full name to enroll, in the field asking for it? I've probably become excessively paranoid about giving personal info on the web - Stanford is probably OK...
Do you have any references on that ? books, papers or even blog posts.
Take a look at Cayley - https://github.com/google/cayley
> "Sending an HTTP request to a server is no different than walking through the door of an establishment."

Of course it's different. It's not even close to being similar.

Sending an HTTP request is much more like asking sears to send you the catalogue for this season. It's a REQUEST, they can REFUSE.

If they do send me one, I can do whatever I want with it, including throwing it in the garbage or my fireplace.

They might include stuff you don't want in the catalogue, but you can just rip them out. And if, after dozens of issues you realize they always put the unwanted stuff every 10 pages, you could build a machine that rips out every 10th page before you even look at it.

Now, Sears could say they don't like that I'm doing that, but I don't care (nor should I). IF it really is annoying enough to them, they'll just stop sending me the catalogue.

And with HTTP requests, I'm even paying for the bandwidth via my ISP! When they answer to my request, they cost me money, just like I'm costing them money.
But this is how rockstars are made. You hire in as a minion, you work hard, learn everything you can, and after a few years you can leave a rockstar. I doubled my salary each time I moved for the first three development jobs.
Working 20 hours a week with full (4 year grad) class load in STEM? No way, no way at all.
I don't think you're alone in thinking that, but the question is why do you think that and how do you justify your position? Is it because you get all your science news from the internet? Because if so I would argue that you're not getting much science news. Science is not well reported by the media, so you don't hear about much that happens.
Except that sending a HTTP request to a server you get copy or version of the content, which is no longer the property of the content creator. Physical store owners enjoy inherent DRM but your analogous physical store owner seems to wish for DMCA like control over digital content. What if lynx/links is used ? There are no legal or moral-rights 'physical store owners' have to decide how a URL is fetched and interpreted on the some one elses property.
This is really interesting to me. I make money with OOP in the commercial arena. But I'm considering getting out and changing careers. Can you summarize WHY FP is superior? In this context is fine. If I'm asking too much, do you have a good paper which explains the necessity of FP to a OOP-head?
Shutdown as a service is shutting down
I certainly don't doubt it is possible, but I think it'd be pretty easy to under-estimate the difficulty of building a sandwich making machine that keeps up with rush-hour demand and costs less than 7-8/hr to run.
We all know that generics are not coming any time soon. The debate is over, it isn't sincere.
Ashley Madison data breach Q&A
Google Express plans to shut down its two delivery hubs, revamp the service
Looking over the source history at $DAYJOB, we run a migration containing DDL statements on average every two days. Mostly for adding new features on small(er) metadata tables where the ALTER doesn't hurt - but occasionally on our bigger XX-GB log tables, where it takes all morning.
Could low income individuals benefit from a sandwich making machine that could (theoretically) produce a sandwich at a lower cost than human labor?
They do, I read somewhere that out of 35 million addresses in the system, only 24 million are verified. Still, I imagine that there would be false positives in the verified emails list (for instance someone clicked on it by accident or without reading it as they were signing up for something else, etc).
On the contrary, only free markets generate enough surplus capital for it to be invested in long term research. Planned and managed economies don't generate enough production to even feed and supply their existing populations well.

It's a false dichotomy to say that you can only choose between 20 year research and 1 year marketing. Plenty of private money goes into research with long term payoff. There are private companies engaged in fusion research, because the payoff is huge if it is achieved. Even the public money that goes into publicly funded research comes from private earnings in the first place. So science and free markets are absolutely suited to each other. That's before we even start discussing corruption of objectives in totalitarian states, based on leaders whims (ie, Nazi science research, Lysenko etc)
The Research Is Clear: Long Hours Backfire for People and for Companies
Negative net upgrade is a rare pleasure we all enjoy.
"Moved from Less to Sass, improved grid system, dropped IE8 support and moved to rem and em units" looks like where Foundation was more than a year ago
The signup form has a field named Full Name, but what's stopping you from using a pseudonym?
I agree, here's probably what's going on:

oh shit, startups that people thought were bad ideas are unicorns.

Some time later .....

I don't get it. Hmm ... UNICORN FUND IT!

Jokes aside: I think some of these are interesting, rather than gimmicky. But it all lies in the execution.
So... shipped multiplatform code without testing it on Windows and Linux?
Start with Learn You a Haskell, IMHO. Best starting explanation of that sort of stuff.

Then you actually have to use it for a while.
Batman doesn't care about tenure.
This rambling reminiscence missed a few of the bigger gravity study missions, such as GRACE.
David Cancel on small, autonomous product teams
PayPal acquires Modest just months after emerging from stealth
Coursera is trying to branch out into academic partnerships and professional credentialing, which will probably want your legal name if they become relevant to your use of Coursera. I don't think they have a way to confirm your name for a simple course enrollment.
Offtopic, but the magic piece of hardware will be a washer / dryer that is actually competent at both tasks.
Judging from my account, no you don't. Maybe if you are planning on being certified but just to take a course, no.
I passed the threshold many years ago advertisers only have themselves to blame back in the late 90's early 00's the web used to be miserable popups everywhere ads disguised as content ads that served malware etc. Then they moved on to irritating flash ads - sometimes with sound...

Nowadays it's worse because they actively mine your personal information. I see things on Facebook like "31 years old and single? Meet women now." No thanks, talk about creepy and condescending.
UC Berkeley

You're looking at around $27,000 or more per year.

http://admissions.berkeley.edu/costofattendance
How to successfully publish a mobile game in China
>Sublime 3 ships with python 3.3 on all platforms.

So does that fix that issue he says in the end is "still open", about select etc not being present on some platforms?

(I don't have Windows or GUI Linux available to check).
Zirtual Fired 400 Employees Right Before It Was Acquired. Now They’re Suing
no, it's nothing clever, just my initials. Also happens to be the same as the initials of the company in question
Is that really what you want YC to be about now? I'm all for live and let live, esp. in terms of making a living, but actually using that as an excuse/somethign to shoot for seems pretty stark.
> Ultimately Crash fit into the PS1's memory with 4 bytes to spare. Yes, 4 bytes out of 2097152. Good times.

http://www.quora.com/How-did-game-developers-pack-entire-gam...
The bicycle cafe is a job on wheels. Would you rather drive an Uber? If the hourly rate is similar it would be a less stressful job. I suspect this could pay much better if you pick your locations cleverly.
Someone has asked me to check out git-annex .

Seems promising.

Will look it up down the track when I am much better at programming.

But in the mean time, I would be happy to find more for dummy solutions.
Good work!

but I was typing "supercars chase LA" and got this result: http://moviesniper.com/movies/la-hija-de-moctezuma?q%5B%5D=s...

maybe because the LA was mistaken?