skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From 2007:

... I'm sure someone will let me know, probably by tying a nice note to a nice red brick and hurling it through my window. You should see the email I get sometimes.

I think you can estimate the maturity of a culture by how easy it is to commit heresy. There is simply no excuse for how people reacted to his writing. It reflects poorly on all of us.

Maybe Alan Kay is right that we (the IT industry) are a pop culture, complete with our own sort of Kanye West.
for me I see `~~` and I think coerce to integer value (the result will be an integer regardless of i's value, 0 if it fails a clean coercion)

Similar to seeing `!!` and thinking true/false coercion.
What Do the App Store, PlayStation 2 and the Roman Empire Have in Common?
SATA is the biggest limiting factor on SSDs. PCIE drives are a magnitude faster.
Not everyone has a "horse" today. You're thinking of the developed world! (I remember a WIRED article back in 1999 where a panel discussed which technologies would have the biggest impact in the 21st century, and someone suggested the telephone, only then penetrating third world markets; the same person pointed out that the most impactful technology of the 20th century was probably the bicycle.)
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> Usually it feels like companies open source projects are kind of lame or just to look fashionable.

I don't understand this. You think Netflix and Facebook's Open source projects are lame?
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Substance aside, this is an excellent example of how people will give themselves partial credit even for unequivocally wrong predictions. The temptation to double down on your original hunch can be irresistible.
Lets say you select all the aspects of a person's life that you consider to have any relevance to anyone and write down a description of every one of them—is that person now 'made' of words? That's how ridiculous this is.

I think what this is missing is a justification for thinking the universe somehow 'uses' mathematics in this sense; being /describable/ by it, is not at all the same as actually being generated by it.

There is a mistaken assumptions here that consistent rules from /within/ the universe would apply to its own operation. It's like assuming that because some rules must always hold when Monopoly is played, that the rules governing its physical constitution must be drawn from the same set.

"Confusing the moon with the finger pointing at it" —is a simple concept to understand, but seeing all the subtle places where we actually make the mistake in our mental lives requires another level of effort.
Maybe a better description is that this object is "space-shifting" a magnetic field to its opposite end, or playing telephone with magnetic waves.
> I work in an insurance company where 100% of benefits coding changes are put through QC, and then another 25% are put through a second level of QC.

For electronic engineering this is a known fault mode of inspection.

When the first line inspectors are busy they'll shovel stuff theough with less inspection because there's someone else to do so checking. But now that other person is busy, and they'll shovel stuff through because if the first line of inspectors are doing their job properly it should be okay.

So it's interesting to see this not fail in an indistry tha is data driven and cash sensitive.

It'd be interesting to know what the difference is.
If this frustrated anyone else out there, I recommend checking out the fallout2 restoration project:
http://killap.net/

It makes it possible to reunite sulik with his sister, as well as roughly doubling the content in the rest of the game as well. It's a massive upgrade.
ASK HN: How do you hire?
I've been working on a side project to help people hire/get hired, and surprised that every company takes different approaches to their recruiting.

Just curious and want to study how your company is hiring and why it should be that way. Thanks.
I consider him much less correct with his mobile phone prediction. "At least 5 years out" is completely, totally wrong. If you made a business decision with that prediction you'd have felt a severe sting.

I agree with you about the Apple and XML ones though.
Ruby's massive success relative to python? The August 2015 Tiobe index lists python up to 5th from 7th a year ago, and ruby holding steady at 13th across both years. I know tiobe isn't necessarily an ideal source, but this fits my intuition better than your suggestion. Can you elaborate on your perception of the two?
If you wish to learn a bit more ..

Consider the DNA to be the basic hardware of life ... there has to be software layers that control how, when, where and how much information is to be decoded from the DNA. One layer of abstraction is epigenetics - DNA strands being modified by various (ex. methyl) groups, that regulate how the information is copied. Depending on where these methyl groups are on the gene, copying of DNA will greatly vary.

To add another layer of abstraction, scientists are discovering the importance of RNAs .. in particular small or micro RNAs in regulating how, when, where information is decoded from the DNA. These tiny RNA molecules travel and impact regions of the DNA that was previously considered barren wastelands or vestiges of our evolutionary past.

To study them, it is a very tough undertaking. They are easily degraded and also, they are expressed at various time points. So imagine, you try to collect all RNA from cells during the day .. but what about the ones that are expressed at night that regulate the circadien clock? Or what if you collect it at a time when cells are undergoing division and you miss on the RNAs that are responsible for suppressing cell division ..

Furthermore, how much of an RNA present in the cell, adds additional complications. How do you quantify how much at what time ... (for science geeks: qRT and northern is a good estimate :)

Furthermore x2, an RNA that can be positively regulating one region in the DNA (aka gene :) .. might be negatively regulating another region.

Hopefully with the current research, it would be much easier to get a very detailed catalog of all RNA molecules and over time, build a comprehensive tool kit to better treat genetic diseases.
> Tangentially, I believe your estimate on ROI from rentals is inaccurate. Long term average stock returns are in the range of 7%, it's not uncommon to find rentals about 10%. As they should be, given the illiquidity, lack of diversification, various extra risks, and the work involved. All of which explains why stocks are more popular.

Let me put it this way, we both agree there are extra risks. I think, after those risks, RE is worth +.5%-1% on equivalent assets in a different asset class. [e.g. Stocks]

You think its worth the "paper value" of 10%.

Fair enough. I just am never going to agree that RE is worth the risk at -1% of what the current real returns is vs. Stocks.

> Many consider the "1% Rule" as the minimum bar. You're probably right that there are a lot rentals around that level, but those are the marginal rentals that I mentioned would likely become for-sale housing.

Yes. Its also the bar used for relatively safe real estate investments. Generally, when you hit 2%+ you are engaging in a greater level of risk. I believe the market prices assets accurately in regards to risk v. reward for the capital.

That being the case, greater than "1% rule" returns are gained through taking on larger risks.

> Also, since you define the tax increase as 1% of property value, then your math is correct. But I believe the proposition is to charge it on the value of the land, not including the value of the improvements, which is typically a much lower number. For single family homes it would still be a hit, but not as severe as your math indicates. For higher density developments it would be even less onerous - which is pretty much the point.

In major metro areas with heavy zoning, the land is worth more than the improvements on it. Literally every piece of residential real estate I have rental income from, this is the case. Sometimes its as high as 2:1 [land:improvement].

In situations where land is the "lower number", you have to recoup the losses from removing improvements from the equation which effectively makes the "tax on real estate" equivalent to the government as a source of revenue. You can't say "Well, we'll just take in 33% of the revenue we did before because the land is only worth 1/3rd of the value of the improvement." You've got to keep the tax revenue roughly the same, so its a tax swap.

Yes, you'll get better returns under a land value tax with highly dense construction...however, if you double the density of a city, that means the land outside that denser urban center is going to lose value and that compaction is going to require higher land taxes to recoup the loss from the less valuable land.

Ultimately, even the proponents of a LVT agree that land abandonment is a concern [although they in theory can fix this with a properly designed LVT regimee] when introducing into an area that previously only had a property tax and/or the LVT is used to replace other taxes. [e.g. income, sales]

So...I get you don't agree but until someone proves me wrong in practice, I don't have faith in it.
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You're just describing the fact that we can make up descriptions of physics all the way down. If current mathematics is unable to describe physics, then new mathematics is invented [1]. Just because the descriptions work rather well does not mean that those descriptions are somehow more than mere descriptions. It just means that they are very good descriptions.

You're making the same category error as mentioned in the blog post.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_physics
Belief as Attire
This is actually something you can do with Tabletop Simulator on steam, as I'm using it for that exact purpose. It even uses JSON as the underlying data structure. Granted, it's proprietary and not free.
Conversion rate went from 5% to 12% with this drip campaign
Kids? You can be over 30 and never have used a teleprinter :)
I found the quality of writing and level design in the new content F2RP offers to be pretty inconsistent with the rest of the game. The unofficial patch that fixes the various bugs in the game (including some which blocked off content that should have been accessible) is very worthwhile, though.
Quite true. The iPhone didn't really take off until late 2008 when iPhone 3G, the global launch and the App Store happened.

In the first two months, iPhone sales were slacking so much that Apple suddenly dropped the price by $200 after just two months on the market:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/07/technology/07apple.html?_r...
My thoughts exactly on the global async!
Good video for newbies: Installing Arch Linux in 15 minutes
This is written by an advocacy group, as disclosed on the first page of the pdf.

Anyway, consider the following scenario. Bob makes $10 an hour, and produces $100 of value. Obviously, this is a great bargain for Bob's employer. So much so, that another employer should be perfectly willing to offer Bob $11 to lure him away. Another sweetens it to $12 and Bob moves again. Rinse, repeat until Bob is making $100 minus the opportunity cost.

What that suggests is that a large gap between compensation and productivity is unstable, as large forces will be at work to shrink that gap. So why is inequality happening?

I suspect that productivity simply isn't increasing for a lot of jobs. Such as janitorial services - there's no automation there, the janitor with a mop and a bucket is doing the same thing he's done for decades.

The rise of computers and the internet, on the other hand, have caused the productivity of other jobs to soar enormously. For example, slightly improving the speed of the operation of a server farm can produce millions of dollars in value. I would expect that workers who can do that will be highly compensated for such value produced.

In other words, there's a growing inequality in the productivity of different kinds of jobs.
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The "historic" and "unexpected" drop in oil prices since last September taught me a huge lesson in supply and demand elasticity. The media and analysts want a smoking gun explanation, blaming it on the Saudis attacking frackers, Russian geopolitics, the strong dollar, etc. But a drop to nearly 1/3 the price cannot be explained so simply as the supply and demand difference is a small percentage on consumption.

The way I see it is that both supply and demand are inelastic in this case, as the world only needs so much oil at a certain time and cannot ramp up easily. Supply is inelastic in this case because much of the production boom was generated by highly indebted frackers. That means they have to pump and sell no matter how low oil goes. These two factors completely kill price rebalancing.

What does this mean for worker's pay? Simple: the effect of offshoring a few jobs has similarly an outsized effect on the negotiation power of employees. If there is always someone out there willing to take a job at breakeven (paycheck to paycheck living), worker pay will never go up.

Anyone who claims it's only a few jobs or that they pay market rates for H-1B's is either ignorant or a crook.
And why should the season matter?

It's not that they provide meaning, however if you spend a lot of time out doors in most areas there are dramatic changes. There is something visceral about the feeling that you need to smell the wildflowers right now as they will soon be gone.
I don't understand this. You think Netflix and Facebook's Open source projects are lame?

Whoah, I didn't notice that Netflix and Facebook became the only tech companies on Earth.
Everything in human existence is a narrative. The reality for human beings is a story; in fact that is all that metaphysics is a meta story about the nature of human reality. If it's not a story, then it's just one damn thing after another, which is what it really is... but we prefer our stories and narratives about how things are, versus how they actually are. All meaning is built from narratives, without narratives there is no meaning. And for many people narratives help people find meaning in their suffering, which is a solace to having nothing.

For instance most people don't know what they are doing at all. That includes politicians and leaders. But they build narratives and they use those narratives to lead, rule, assign punishments, and so on. Without narratives of history and the present, we would be utterly lost as to what to do now or next.
Hm, I don't see any mention of it, but renting to own is probably the safer bet for making sure you get upgrades.

In the event you finished renting-to-own and a major release comes out, let's say Substance Designer 6, you get cheap one-time upgrade fees (IIRC $75 for SD vs the $150 new purchase). Looks like they don't allow for monthly payments on upgrades, but there's no reason JetBrains couldn't.
Then learn to use make (Makefile) and how to write a ./configure script, or better yet learn to use autotools. Oh you don't want to write all your code by yourself, so better use some external libraries. For that you better understand your preprocessor, compiler, assembler and linker. Code not working?... get yourself familiar with a debugger. Static or Runtime code analysis?... yes please.

Find a open source project to support. Get familiar with the code base and the community. Write a patch, send it, get it refused, work with the community, finally getting your patch in.

See, it's not that hard learning "C" and becoming a "C developer"... 21 days at most!
Bill Murray Shakespeare.
What makes you say that? I don't see anything in the article that seems to demand that it came from an physics mindset, except for a few references to physics history that are pretty well-known.
Can someone explain what happened in 1973 that would cause such a divergent trend?
The author doesn't really address one of the most important mechanisms that human ears use to determine direction: the delay between a sound wave reaching the "near" and "far" ear.

You can try this with headphones, by playing an identical recording in both ears, but delaying one by about 1 millisecond (I set this up back in college on my BeBox).

You'll perceive the sound as coming entirely from the non-delayed ear, at least until you take that side of the headphones off, at which point you can once again perceive that it's also playing in the delayed ear.
I get your point, but the nuclear bomb by preventing major countries from going to war with each other is a good contender for most impactful technology of the 20th century.
Hmm. I very strongly got the opposite impression.

"Today, we need geniuses like von Neumann and Turing more than ever before. That’s because we may already be running into the genetic limits of intelligence.... AI research also pushes even very bright humans to their limits.... The detailed inner workings of a complex machine intelligence (or of a biological brain) may turn out to be incomprehensible to our human minds—or at least the human minds of today". (emphasis mine)

The entire thesis seems to be we will need artificial cognitive enhancements to be able to comprehend AI sufficiently to create it. It really sounds like he thinks we are too dumb to figure this out, that we are just scrabbling around in the dark trying solutions at random.
Keybase proof
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/jota_ele_ene; my proof: https://keybase.io/jota_ele_ene/sigs/xVM2yczzocR3C3bfyhnwaeFfWpxBfT5McY9F3BLailA ]
> full replica of the oval office to play around inside

This made me stop and Google, yep:

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/09/07/githubs-new-offi...
It would be interesting to know how much data Google stores in traditional RDBMS versus NoSQL stores (BigTable, Spanner[0], etc.). I could probably track down this number, but then I expect I wouldn't be able to talk about it after, so for now I'm saying ignorance is bliss :). I would wager that we're rather more NoSQL heavy than most organizations, so it wouldn't really be a good proxy for the industry in general, but it might be helpful for justifying Steve's claim. It might be particularly helpful if we looked at the workloads Google runs on NoSQL stores that traditionally would have mandated an RDBMS.

[0]: http://research.google.com/archive/spanner.html
I hated it too. I don't recall a single good moment about using MSBuild. I never once felt like I'd figured it out, nor that I was getting to grips with it. But perhaps its brilliance was just beyond my ken.

It was astoundingly verbose, rather poorly documented (I didn't think much of the official book either), extremely short on any kind of examples that might be usable with slight tweaks when you're getting started, and seemed to make unnecessarily heavy weather out of the simplest of tasks. Your debugging options are rather limited (especially if something goes wrong in one of your DLLs!), and I for one found the log files very hard to read.

(On more than four occasions, I also lost a lot of source files after doing a build|clean. I never managed to finger MSBuild for this directly, but there aren't that many programs that are invoked on build|clean, and fewer yet that rely a filing system watcher to tell them which to delete, so I know where my suspicions lie.)

I also have vague memories of finding out that only certain constructs could be made conditional, and that there were no facilities for abstracting conditions, making some of my files very repetitive and long-winded - but to be honest, at this point, I've blanked most of it.
The Wanamingo mine is a huge pain, because there's basically no weapons that are very effective against them. Fallout's combat is fun when it's a brief, lethal shoot-out with human enemies, but any prolonged fight with non-human enemies can be a slog. Unfortunately, both of the original games start out in areas that feature prolonged fights with non-human enemies (rats and radscorpions in FO1, the temple trial and Trapper Town in FO2). FO2 also has the mission where you have to clear the aliens out of the tanker's hold, and the robots in the army depot can be a pain. None of those are mandatory, luckily, and the Wanamingo mine is almost entirely pointless because it only makes you a little bit of worthless money.
Are you assuming ethics and intelligence disparate? Intelligent humans aren't necessarily void of empathy, morality, and emotion.
You're supposed to put it in your profile, not in a submission to HN.
See my other post here. In a word, automation.
> facts like that two is the smallest prime and the only even one

I see the fact that two is the only even prime brought up from time to time as if it's inherently interesting. Why is it more interesting than the identical observation that 37 is the only prime which is a multiple of 37?

I guess this bothers me because 2 being the only even prime isn't a consequence of the definition of "prime"... it's part of the definition.
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> But it isn't unless you purchase the bundle with every application

The initial buy-in is cheaper for many products than it was previously, so for new developers they have to have some ability to retain people to even break even with subscription licensing.

The annual subscription seems to be more expensive than the current per-upgrade add-on price for most products, though. And, of course, there are some, like WebStorm, where the annual subscription price is more even the new-purchase price under the old model.

So, its kind of a mixed bag.
As always, "kids" == younger than me. But no, I've never used a teleprinter for anything serious.

Still, the evidence of their recent departure is all around us. vi (short for "visual", because the idea of a visual editor was still pretty novel) didn't even exist until 1976.
Imagine how extravagant they would get if founded by pretentious designers combined with unlimited bubble cash: http://curbed.com/archives/2013/12/04/find-the-war-room-from...
I know exactly what you mean. Most predictions are cast into the wind and only the ones that are correct are recognized later. Nate Silver talks about this in his book "The Signal and The Noise"; I highly recommend it.
c++11 added a ton of support for that kind of stuff tho, with language-level atomics, mutexes, etcetcetc.
Using Docker-in-Docker for your CI or testing environment? Think twice
For that matter, Mono has been sharing the parts of the new .Net Core as they come out and make sense to do so...
10 popular misconceptions about digital magazines
Thanks for posting this. Context is always welcome :)
Indiegogo is porting over successful KS campaigns to InDemand
Bob's upward spiral of salary only works so long as there aren't a bunch of equally qualified Abel, Charlie, Dave, Ed, Frank, and George. If employer 2 needs someone to create that value and can pick amongst 10 employees, the salary of the job will not tend towards $100/hr.
> What about architecture? There are plenty of buildings which have lasted over 100 years.

Agreed. That's what I was thinking of to when I wrote, "unless treated by humans".
The number of writers who make more than a senior Google engineer would be very, very small.
Ever seen C code by APL programmers?
Probably by virtue of total karma lost by JetBrains reps here.
Would love to hear a detailed explanation, but my guess is that the deep recession of the 1970's forced companies to look at new ways to cut costs. That was the beginning of offshoring, ending pensions, and employee turnover. The recession gave cause and excuse to make the cuts, and companies found out they never had to go back. Nor could they necessarily have, given that they were no longer competing with a bombed out world following WW2.
CoreOS has released one: https://github.com/coreos/go-oidc

We're currently using it in our own OAuth/OIDC identity provider.
Software development: Are you in for the long haul?
This looks like a great modern approach to the subject. Good job!