skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to this article what's the extreme poverty threshold for World Bank, after all? It says first:

"Extreme poverty has long been defined as living on or below $1.25 a day, but the World Bank’s adjustment now sets the poverty line at $1.90 a day."

And then, at the end:

"The World Bank first introduced a global poverty line in 1990, setting it at $1 a day. It was adjusted last in 2008, when the group raised it to $1.25 a day."

Got a bit confused.
Perhaps I missed it amongst the reasonable commentary about the "millions of lines of insecure code" or the SystemDos snark?
Reasons Why You Might Not Like Lightweight Linux Distributions as a Newbie﻿
They have a 1.5 year-old that undoubtably puts everything in his/her mouth.

Even the CDC factsheet says the impact of low levels of exposure is unknown. And we're not talking about the milligrams in a CFL bulb, a speck of mercury. This was cups of mercury.
Time shifting means copying for the purpose of listening to the recording at a better time, whereas space shifting is relevant here because the intended purpose is to allow the audio to be played in a different environment (i.e. not the YouTube player or app).

The more important thing is that space shifting to different media (digital, personal computer hard drive in this case) is legally treated differently. Though, to be honest, I'm not convinced that any personal recording protections would or should apply to the YouTube situation. It's just one way that the two differ.
> Really you don't keep £50-100 for small purchases on you what happens if its late at night raining and your card gets eaten by the machine and you need a taxi home?

No? Why would it get eaten by a machine?
I've run some smallish content sites with comment sections. My experience was that in 2007, comments sometimes added interesting context and trolls were relatively easy to ban.

By 2014, there were thousands of high schoolers in Asia being paid tiny amounts of money to sit in Internet cafes and create accounts and post spam comments as fast as they could. The only solution was constant, manual moderation, which is very expensive.

And for what? When we went back and reviewed our recent comments data, we found that commenters were no more likely to return to the site than anyone else. Engagement metrics like time on site and pages per view were not significantly better for commenters. Commenters talked to each below stories, but persistent connections were rare; mostly it was a one-time conversation between strangers. Essentially, it seemed like the vast majority of comments were just people blowing off steam and then leaving.

This coincided with a shift in traffic sources. In 2007 it was largely search engines, other content site referrals, and email newsletters. By 2014 the clear leader was Facebook, with Twitter in the top 5 too.

To me it was clear what happened: people now establish one or more "home bases" on community-first sites like social media or aggregators like HN. From there, they jump out to read articles that other members of the community posted. This was the reverse of 2007 and earlier.

The challenge therefore today is: how does a site hold onto that social media "snack" traffic. One thing that doesn't work: community features. There's already plenty of community on Facebook (and Twitter, and HN, and Reddit, etc.), so that's not a compelling reason for a visitor to stay.
Hopefully they appreciate the irony of using a Facebook group to complain about the influence of... companies like Facebook
Facebook Tests Emoji Reactions to Fix Its ‘Dislike’ Problem
Elon Musk Calls Apple the 'Tesla Graveyard,' Pooh-Poohs Rumored Apple Car
I agree with you, in theory.

Practically speaking there hasn't been a lot of large scale CSP done, and e.g. Ivanpah[1] has a lot of limitations and teething problems. It has no energy storage, and it needs to use natural gas for 4.5 hours each day during startup.

As for your assertion that CSP has continued to grow, the one data point I linked to claims "little appetite" from California utilities for power from plants like that.

One thing can probably both agree on is that CSP is a "go big or go home" technology. It's not suited for small scale deployments. Which makes it quite complementary to rooftop PV.

[1] http://breakingenergy.com/2014/10/29/at-ivanpah-solar-power-...
3d printing got oversold. "Print replacement parts for your washing machine" was total bullshit. 3D printer CEOs wanted to be like Steve Jobs and sell millions of devices to consumers. They could have earned a respected spot in the toolboxes of engineers, artists, scientists, even manufacturers. Instead they pushed trinket machines that didn't even work as designed. They could have been like Tektronix or Mori Seiki but they got greedy.
> Sysvinit is basically Windows XP.

Honestly that's unfair to XP/Windows Server 2003 which had much better supervisor capability than sysvinit provides.
More info about it (and clearer) here: http://data.worldbank.org/news/extreme-poverty-rates-continu...
No, it is not. Efficiency increases with transaction volume. That transaction volume is currently capped at 1 MB is a separate issue from whether efficiency improves with transaction volume.

It's possible there is a misunderstanding here with me interpreting "gets more successful" as seeing its transaction volume increase, and you interpreting it to mean something else.
Alibaba has once again proved its success in the US market and the world. Alibaba should no longer be seen as "Amazon of China" because it has become a threat to Amazon. With a labor cost mainly in China, the company can compete on cost. The only thing that Alibaba still need to work on is the English staff that can support the US customers because it is a Chinese Company.
> I am still to find a sys admin that likes systemd.

Can't have looked very hard, then. There's dozens of us. Dozens!
It's not just the kindness of whichever inspector comes to your door. I imagine a majority of it is the company- it's goals, culture, etc. There are insurance companies that will try to deny you a claim that obviously should be covered, and there are others that will cover your claim even though you made a poor decision choosing coverage levels that were too low.
Improving Sort Performance in Apache Spark: It’s a Double
Nice. Glad to hear that AWS builds products exactly how I think they should be built.
ITT: butthurt people who think they can do better, or have done better, but are sore because they didn't get the HN front page limelight for it.
Video of an Olympic cyclist powering a 700 watt toaster. Painful but awesome to watch.
http://youtu.be/S4O5voOCqAQ
Can someone with knowledge please explain why an entity can't create an "Open Cell Tower" as YokoZar says?

(Genuine question)
There is a mercury fountain in Barcelona

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/calder-mercury-fountain
I'm not saying you're wrong (and I think you're right), but do you have a source for the "fossil fuels get $100billion+ in subsidies" and "Nuclear needs massive subsidies to come close to break even"?
Maybe there is supposed to be an implied, "... for stockholders", at the end ...
P4 Language Aims to Take SDN Beyond OpenFlow
I'm excited to see what the Motherboard Letters experiment turns up. I honestly can't recall the last comment section I read that added to the discussion. Aside from hot-button political or social issues with their associated vitriol, even technical videos or software reviews are cluttered with useless claptrap. Maybe I read the wrong sites. But when I was a heavier dead-paper consumer, I absolutely enjoyed the letters section of quite a few periodicals.

I think punting to social media is... uninvested. I enjoy twitter more as an index of links, rather than actual convo. Facebook, meh. It's facebook - a conversation mediated by an ever-shifting overlord that I don't care to participate in. But neither of them are lauded as interlocution par excellence, last I checked.

The big question for me is how the issue of engagement plays out. Comments update in realtime, letters assume you're familiar with the antecedent article.

Either which way, I think it's about time we saw more experimentation in this area.

(I'm glad I had the opportunity to read a page full of people projecting their own egos, conspiracies, and neurosis on this very article.)
Wow. That's crazy expensive. I'm glad to hear about this story. I don't think I'd pay $50k for something like this.
Elon Musk lashes out at Apple’s car ambitions
Thanks for writing this up! How'd you pay for this? Did you have to take out a loan? Did the companies have a payment schedule?
It is a interesting article about sleep. It is very hard to balance among your work life, your social life and sleep. Many people think that sleep is the waste of time because they think that the amount of time spending of sleeping can be used to do something more useful. We can see that the author of the article can always make time for the sleep.
Imagine you're the loan officer in a bank. A developer comes in and says "I need a loan to build a luxury building. There's no projected demand, but that doesnt matter, becuase luxury buildings /cause/ demand for luxury units".

Seriously, would you loan him the money?

When you view it from the perspective of a property developer or bank, it's pretty clear that projected demand is the /cause/ of building construction and not the other way around.

Amazon moving downtown will create a lot more demand for higher end units. And that demand is the reason higher end units are being constructed. Amazon's plans for their downtown campus (it's huge - all the way over to Denny) /caused/ many residential developers to buy and develop lots downtown.

Think about those 45 minute waits to get on I5 right now. Imagine what it will be like with thousands more Amazon employees in line. All those people waiting in line will be thinking "I need to move downtown, this commute is crazy". That mental image is projected demand. If you picture that, you too will want to build apartments downtown.
>in my mouth
Was that common in the US for mercury thermometers? In Hungary it was always "under the armpit" but as far as I remember I have seen the thermometer in mouth method in US cartoons.
Jared has truly been an inspiration for me.

Apart from being an extremely bright and insightful person, he is remarkably down to earth and gave me sound advice during a particularly rough patch in my life!

Congratulations Jared! I hope you enjoy your time at YC.
Understanding costs with and without subsidies is critical. I believe the current reports about renewables being cost-effective relative to fossil fuels includes subsidies but I couldn't find the raw data after a few minutes of googling. If so, just means the costs are being shifted -- and that renewables are still more expensive than coal/gas.

The big problem is that we still don't have effective ways to time-shift energy production. Solar and wind power sources will never replace base-load coal/gas plants until we can solve that problem. Battery technology doesn't solve this problem yet.
The Next 10 Years of Automation and What It Might Mean for the Job Market
The large tech companies benefit from a thriving tech ecosystem: companies using these tools are much more likely to become partners or acquisition targets than they are to become direct zero-sum competitors.
6 Affordable Ways to Enhance Your Business Local Online Advertising
> "Practically speaking there hasn't been a lot of large scale CSP done…"

Maybe not in the United States, but it has taken off in Spain (looking at Wikipedia I cited earlier, which is probably better suited to take advantage of it in theory since installations are near population centers). I see far more interest oversees than in the United States… which is not surprising considering all the entrenched players that simply don't have the influence to the same degree in other places.

I can agree with this statement to some degree: "It's not suited for small scale deployments. Which makes it quite complementary to rooftop PV.", but seeing how it's serving a need that PV has not been able to provide to date despite it all, I'd hardly say its "go big or go home", there's far more abundant sodium and potassium available in the earth's crust vs lithium.
Please do not disable zooming. It makes life unnecessarily difficult for those on iOS devices who do not have perfect eyesight.
Exactly this. I've worked with insurers and the first step to any claim is working out the cost of fighting the claim versus paying up. I wrote part of the system for managing estimates. You're only going to win easily if the claim value is cheaper than their lawyers fees.
Do you assume that I would be a CTO of anything had I not stuck in the school, or? I didn't say that grad school is a shortcut to financial success, just a shortcut to understanding the harder CS problems.
You can drink mercury and nothing bad will happen. It is the vapors that hurt you. A lot.

A toddler breathing mercury vapors is bad idea. Of course bucket of sulfur will go a long way towards cleaning this up.
Blue Screen in Windows 10
this issue occurs because the iastor.sys driver, is not compatible with Windows 10. Microsoft is aware of this problem and is currently investigating ways to solve this issue, by preventing the driver from being migrated when upgrading to Windows 10.
It is very interesting that the article point out that the internet doesn’t create new human behaviors/motivations. It just exposes existing ones and puts them in new context. Especially in the internet era, people are more exposed to violent things. It is also easier to become popular by the help of internet.
Who are these "mortgage lenders" you speak of? It's all Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and they set the underwriting requirements which include property insurance.

[1] - https://www.fanniemae.com/content/guide/selling/b7/3/02.html
You can ask people if they want some toast, are they as strong as Robert Förstemann (hint: no, they are not):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4O5voOCqAQ
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Natural gas will stick around until utility scale batteries ramp up...

Batteries have improved over time, but I'm not convinced that they'll see the vast improvements necessary in order for them to replace natural gas for a long time. If natural gas really must be replaced the most logical alternative might be ammonia.

Ammonia has hydrogen's good properties: not a greenhouse gas, doesn't cause smog, numerous production methods including electrolysis, easily transported in liquid form, can be used in fuel cells or in ICEs. However it doesn't embrittle, in liquid form it's actually denser in hydrogen atoms than liquid hydrogen is, and due to its agricultural applications there is already an established distribution infrastructure (in the Midwest, at least).
To be fair NT4 had a better service management story in 1996.
I was an OI contestant but only a mediocre one at a national level. We've been trained by brilliant teachers until our noses bled, it does not qualify under "on your own" at all.
That's interesting. I see

"dnt": "1"

using Firefox, regardless of whether "tell sites I do not want to be tracked" is unchecked or unchecked.

Could be a bug in Firefox, since visiting your site with Safari doesn't send the header at all (which is how it's supposed to work).

Edit: Sorry about the noise. It's not your site, and it's not Firefox. NoScript took it upon itself to set this header!
California’s Busiest Bridge Has a Serious Issue with Rust
That's because if the code is over some quality level (which can be measured with bugs count) then the source itself is implementation documentation. And systemd contains the more classic documentation of its behaviour for its end users.
A major proof of concept for brain simulation
Streaming become more popular media channels and Netflix is becoming one of the most popular streaming media in the US. People will still pay the extra $1 because they still have the desire to continue watching their favorite TV shows unless there are cheaper streaming media available. With the new package, two people can share the service so it is not really the bad thing when Netflix increase $1 more.
I don't know the Chinese VC-Scene well but I know a few "Western" VCs in China so I can't make a judgement.
It is my impression that it is much easier to get money in China than in the states, at least until recently.

On the other hand: Often you get money from non VCs and VC is not very in the nature of a true Chinese. Chinese prefer M&A (with the focus on the A). How much is it to buy everything? They don't want any long term partner and they want everything based in China.
The Fascinating Life and Tragic End of the Polish Countess and Spy
Its about the total cost accounting. Many types of insurance offer discounted, or even free services for things that lower your total risk. You get a break on home insurance for having an alarm system. Car insurance will replace the windshield for free if it is chipped. It is cheaper for them in the long run to replace the glass and have people driving with an unobstructed view. Yearly checkups for some insurance plans will actually pay you to go.
> There are many ways to characterize numbers, but in the 2015 budget the US spends over $600 billion on the military, an enormous amount. The nation spends amounts of the similar magnitude on Medicare, Social Security, etc.

As Krugman defined the US gov - it is an insurance company with an army attached. The executive branch has very little monetary freedom to execute.
Kemoge – Malicious Android Adware Infects Devices Worldwide
> Few.swift lets us express UIs as stateless, composable, immutable-ish values of their state. When their state changes, Few.swift calls a function to render the UI for that state, and then intelligently applies any changes.

arent most Objective-C and Swift views written like this already?

in the .h:

@property Klass *model;

in the .m:

- (void)setModel:(Klass *)model {
if (![model isEqual:_model) {
_model = model;
// ... stuff like self.text = model.value ...;
[self setNeedsLayout];
}
}
Properly rating a potential customer seems to me like the key metric for these companies and if I can find a way to better qualify risk and therefore offer lower prices to truly less risky customers that equals profit. So I'm pretty sure there is very strong competition in this area and insurance companies will do absolutely everything they can to ascertain the risk of each individual customer and price a policy accordingly.
This conflict between Linus/kernel devs and systemd devs is pretty fascinating, I hadn't seen it before.

Here's an example:

http://lkml.iu.edu//hypermail/linux/kernel/1404.0/01331.html

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76935
Well I am sure I could sue US in international court as torture.
I believe the API restrictions started happening after Ev was pushed out of Twitter. Maybe he will not let the same thing happen this time.
Why would your insurance cover negligence of someone transporting your car? Ask for them to pay for the repairs, or sue them if they refuse.
I don't see news sites as having a community. I don't believe I've ever intentionally read the comments, and I always viewed it as a way to interact or provide feedback with the author, not a place for discussion.

Alternatively, you could have commenting-as-a-service, where users opt into commenting on arbitrary URLs.
But technically if you write your own browser, these are just guidelines and you don’t have to respect them, right?
It's pretty rare to invest in small scale, local fossil fuel power generation.

I think you're ignoring the diesel or natural gas fueled generators that are now installed at most supermarkets, many office buildings, and even apartment buildings and private homes. They are everywhere these days; even 10 years ago you didn't see them as much.
I like the proliferation of ideas around React and the various new attempts at cool stuff.

Question, though: why is the idea of glorified two-way bindings with dirty-checking constantly popping up? It may make your code slightly prettier, but at the expense of efficiency. Instead, what's wrong with this:

component.state.x = 5;
component.state.y = "blah";
component.stateChanged("x","y");

And in the view:

component.onStateChanged("x").set(function() {
component.someExactElement.innerHTML = x; // or whatever
});

No need to do dirty checking, and it's explicitly clear what the bindings do.
I can't. I neither have the resources nor the ability. However, locking it to the Mac ecosystem eliminates possibilities for third world countries (like India and China) which are using Linux right from schools.
The answer is that you're asking the wrong question. China has half the worlds population at its doorstep. Whatever you're seeing isn't relevant nor is a 20 year time frame. China is going to sell infrastructure and consumer products to all the emerging economy in the upcoming decades. That some things aren't made in China anymore is a sign of success not the other way around.
From my interactions with researchers in ML, most of them are actually pretty good programmers. There just isn't an incentive to make your code clean:

1. There isn't much correlation between quantity or even quality of papers you publish and the quality of your code. Meaning, writing cleaner code is not going to help you get that postdoc or faculty position.

2. Doing research is full of stops and starts and branches that fail and approaches that get thrown out. It's a waste of time to write clean code since you know it'll most likely be thrown out. When you do get an approach that works, you publish your paper and move on.
At the moment I can buy a beer in a corner store.

During prohibition, it was much harder (and more expensive) to get beer (or liquor), and more liquor than beer was consumed at a considerably higher price. One outcome was significantly lower alcohol consumption and all that that means (lower deaths by cirrhosis, lower city drunkenness arrests).

If we take prohibition as an analogy, then sure, a dedicated criminal will still be able to get guns. However, a casual street-level criminal is going to have to work harder to get them because they're no longer available in the mall or from the pawn shop, and he's going to have to pay ten times as much to get one from Benny in the pool hall. That'll significantly reduce the number of guns out there, and that is what creates the environment and the expectation that results in cops shooting civilians.
When surgeons and engineering students join forces
The Allen AI Science Challenge: Is your model smarter than an 8th grader?
Wow, that's amazing. I would never have thought it was sensible to make all those tiny changes from one market to another. I guess it's kind of like the changes they make between model years...
This conversation has been had ad nauseam and these comments are no longer wanted on HN (according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 )
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Since we already basically ignore, in an economic sense, the externalities that come with burning fossil fuels, ignoring any subsidies associated with renewables is sort of fair game. Or at least, if you're going to insist on factoring in subsidies, you should also account for externalities.
Agree, however Pettis probably does not care too much anymore after the sale to Stratasys some time ago. For the long term employees, i feel bad.
The colleague's train of thought was already disrupted by stopping what he was doing and walking over to the person he wants to question. Waiting a couple minutes will not be any more disruptive to the colleague.
Foreigners in Switzerland (25% of the population) can now cast a virtual vote
was that a slang/neologism/typo? honestly curious. english third language and all...
Let's start with the assumption it is impossible to alter the constitution to remove or severely cripple the second amendment

That's a pretty steep assumption for a subject of this lethality, especially about something that's called an "amendment".