skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The top 50% of Americans are better off than the top 50% of people in Sweden. That's 160 million people doing better than Sweden, I call that an extraordinary success.

But it has little to do with the differences in the two economic systems. The USA is rich because Europeans discovered a very large geographically isolated land mass that was only thinly populated by pre-literate people with technology that was primitive even by ancient standards. How would you not expect such abundance to produce an extremely wealthy society?

Sure, settling a continent and building infrastructure up from nothing is hard work, but Europeans had a couple of millenia worth of practical experience and how-to manuals on the best way to go about this, and cheerfully reinstituted slavery, which had worked out so well for the Roman empire. Without denigrating all the genuine hard work and innovation deployed by many generations of settlers (and not only from Europe), their labor was far from the only economic input. The US has vast tracts of agriculturally productive land, huge mineral wealth, and extremely favorable strategic geography. If you could go back a few thousand years, wave a historical magic wand and give ocean-capable shipping and navigation to the Romans or Han Chinese, they too would have established a mighty economic and military empire on the North American land mass.

I'm broadly pro-capitalist, but I can't take you seriously when you ignore the massive economic advantage of being practically handed an entire continent to play with. You would have to be staggeringly incompetent not to become a world power.

The bottom 1/3 are better off in Sweden than in America however, not much debate on that.

Not only does Sweden not have the same sort of permanent underclass that the US seems intent on cultivating, they probably don't spend as much of their wealth on security services designed to protect the property of the well-off from the poor, whereas something like 1/5 of America's labor force is devoted to guard labor: http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~bowles/GarrisonAmerica2007.pdf

While the US is certainly wealthier in fiscal terms, this country does have some massive quality-of-life problems, and there's an almost pathological antipathy to measuring the cost of economic externalities - another symptom, I suggest, of having so much land available.
I am admittedly too willing to use airport codes in common expression. Nice catch.
Ggplot for python is almost done. there is an active dev branch
Vacuum cleaner-maker Dyson is buying experimental battery startup Sakti3
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War is every bit as ugly as it was a century ago.

Disagree, as far as I understand at least Americans and western Europeans don't systematically rape civilians. Firebombing civilian areas isn't as acceptable as it used to be etc etc.

Really cruel things still does happen but it could have been a whole lot worse.

I'm of the opinion that as an unarmed civilian I'd much rather meet an angry, armed soldier than about any other equally angry equally armed person. Then again, my limited training and lack of combat experience might have rendered me a bit naive.

And: IIRC drone operators, at least many of them, aren't soldiers which has been pointed out as a problem even by US military, again IIRC.
I wonder how long until YC goes upstream of fellowship/startup school: consolidated remote/mini internships for high school students, or some other "get involved with YC companies early" kind of thing.

Especially likely to happen once the first cohort of YC founders has kids of age 12-18.
Recently moved to Github. Bitbucket seems to be losing the game.
Considering that she's a well known apologist of mass surveillance, what you're saying is that maybe they are simply using her and abusing her trust to undermine her own positions.

That's not exactly reassuring vis-a-vis their ethical character.
She'll be on CNBC tonight at 6

https://twitter.com/MadMoneyOnCNBC/status/654674975798919168
The producers are doing just fine. artistic subversion of commercial considerations is a norm in the arts industry; if anything, this gives an otherwise shallow piece of ideological entertainment some unintended cultural depth.
That is a good specific example :)
Why can't Dropbox build something like this in their app?

https://cryptomator.org/
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Statsmodels has tons of model diagnostic...and there is no R equivalent to Pymc3 (stan has less capability and worse API)
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> if I decide to use Rust instead of Swift, why would I be wrapping Rust in Swift through C?

To avoid the unnecessary overhead of dynamically dispatched Objective-C method calls.

To me, it seems more sensible to go

Rust -> C -> Swift

vs

Rust -> C -> Objective-C -> Swift
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Makes sense. No reason why YC needs to recede over time and progressive funding rounds. Long tail early stage startups are the beachhead, this is the "big vision" -- vertically integrate the VC stack. Right now other VCs are benefiting from the value YC adds at the beginning of a company's life. YC's stake increases in value, but this lets YC keep betting on itself.

Good stuff.
The main thing we're doing here is not making any discretionary bets on companies until they're far enough along to be valued off of an Excel model. At that stage, signaling matter much much less.
Someday I'd love to see a decentralized equity exchange built on block chain technology. Maybe YC could pioneer this approach down the road.
Thank you. Download is $300/ month. What's the upload speed cost ?

Edit: website says upload and download. Amazing. Tempted to rent or buy a little office space in Chattanooga.
Bitbucket has always been behind and they have had sooo many issues in the last 10 days. ugh.
Same has happened with writings in Russian language for decades -- Hollywood folks seem to not care at all :)
It's been down multiple times over the last month or so.

The following services are showing "Major Outage"

* Website

* SSH

* Git via HTTPS

* Mercurial via HTTPS

* Source downloads

I'm imagining their devops team isn't having a great time right now.

More info on their status page: http://status.bitbucket.org/
Roughly:

- Clone the git repo, build Guix, and run the build daemon

- Add the Scheme code for the package recipe to the relevant module

- Run 'guix build' to make sure it builds and runs

- Run 'guix lint' to catch common style issues

- Make a commit

- Send patch file to our mailing list

Full details about contributing can be found here: http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Contributi...

I welcome you to give packaging a shot. The IRC channel and mailing list are full of nice people that can help you if you struggle with something or encounter a bug.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10392636
I've got 1gig via hyperoptic in London.

Compared to the 80/20 VDSL I had before, browsing is pretty much the same. The difference between enabling and disabling adblock is far far greater than having 1gig.

Uploading files is generally a lot quicker.

However, most internet services can't handle it. I rarely get more than 1-2mbyte/sec to bitbucket or git for example, which is annoying since that can be painfully slow on large repos.

Even worse, hard drives struggle to keep up with high internet speeds. SSDs are fine, but considering how quickly you can fill even a large SSD you don't really want to be using them for giant file downloads which can take advantage of it.

Finally, WiFi really can't deliver 1gig or anything close to it. I often drop back to 2.4GHz WiFi in some areas of my apartment and that is by far the biggest drawback.

So really, you only get 1gig or anything close when you're on a very fast server or protocol, downloading to an SSD on ethernet.
I can't read Arabic, but it's great that the internationalization of modern programming languages and editors allows for this.

Sure, statements are still in English in most languages, but it must feel great to be able to write comments in your own language!
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.

I remember visiting microprose.com with my 14.4k modem in the mid-90s and being mad that they used so many images I had to wait for about 5-10 minutes or so. I couldn't effectively read it at home and usually ended up reading it at the library.
> It's almost entirely nurture

It might depend on what variables you're referring to, but according to some famous studies done on identical twins separated at birth; intelligence and personality are about 70% genetic and 30% environment. While these studies conclusively suggest that it's actually 'almost entirely nature', I agree that the potential 30% disadvantage is something that can and should be fixed.
Ah I had no idea. Thanks for the clarification!
Oh boohoo, homeland is racist.
The first sentence of the article begins "Whilst searching for a flat in London..."

I'm pretty sure that African American is not perfectly fine in this particular context.
Where did colleges go wrong?
Meanwhile, a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad resulted the deaths of 12 people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo#Muhammad_cartoon...
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Great Article! Just recently hacked a Dash button as well for slack notifications :}

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Most of the US market had shifted to cable TV by the introduction of digital TV, and simply wasn't aware that it existed.

I think there's a bit of a generational divide: older people think of the cable companies as the institution that brought us 500 channels. Younger people either can't imagine a world without cable TV, or loathe the cable companies for high prices and poor service. I'm the latter, and have been eager to find any way to reduce any connection to the big telecom companies. Right now, rabbit ears + Netflix/Hulu + cable internet is just one element short of perfect.
There's plenty of great advice already in the comments, but mine is quite simple, and quite relevatory when I made the transition to Lead:

Measure your success by your team's productivity and not your own.
What's that in the upper left corner of the other image[0]? Is that a hashtag-something? I don't see any mention of it neither in the article nor here. Can anyone who reads Arabic chime in?

[0] - http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/10/16/world/middleeast/1...
KeePass is also an offline option. It includes the ability for auto type to split data among the clipboard and keyboard. Though I didn't like how wide open it is when unlocked, so I made LockyWindow as an plugin to fix that.
http://www.engineeringandcareering.co.uk/p/the-well-rounded-...
I wish that it were more like you've described here, but unfortunately, my experience is that the interviews will be very challenging, that you will need to know data structures very well, and that it really won't be enough to talk generally about these things. It might not even be enough to talk generally in a way that shows you understand how to use a data structure to solve a problem and sketch out a bit of code. It depends on the company, but to get an offer, you may need to write more or less accurate code at a whiteboard that solves a problem efficiently. Some minor syntax errors aren't a big deal, but overall, the code will need to be pretty tight and be close to working. Again, this is in my experience (I have interviewed at amazon and google, as well as smaller startups that seem to do the same thing).

I'd highly recommend "cracking the coding interview", and make sure you can handle even the moderate to difficult problems in about an hour at a whiteboard. Before you go to that, though, go back to your data structures and algorithms book and make sure you can do basic list, stack, queue, binary tree, hash, and binary operations. In other words, you should be able to build and print a linked list or binary search tree without much thought - if you can't do this, there's no way you'll be able to solve unanticipated whiteboard problems that use linked lists, trees, or other core data structures in a more elaborate way.

Your experience will be worth more than your degree, eventually, but you probably will still need to pass the technical interview/exams when you change jobs, even at more senior technical levels.

I'm not saying this is good, just saying this is how it is.
Or windows that have been completely bricked up.
No, but it does show that the writers who are making storylines around Arabic speaking nations and cultures don't have anyone who lives in that culture.
I have the EPB 1 gigabit service, and it's 1 gigabit up and down for $69.99/mo. There is no reason to think the 10 gigabit service will be anything but symmetrical.
Hi 'gotchange! Since you speak (and read) Arabic, could you tell what's in the top left corner of that picture[0]? Seems like hashtag-something, but it wasn't mentioned in the article.

[0] - http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/10/16/world/middleeast/1...
> All HTML tags that could be left unterminated were,

Thanks for making the internet worse so you could make your precious little webpage fast to load.
So is Elixir the future?
That's amazing. Love that you practice what you preach with respect to keeping spend low. Have you shared more details about where your money goes?
Bitbucket services are disrupted
Do you have any links about the project? I'd be really interested to know more.
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Transcoding happens on the fly, in hardware I assume. The compression is configurable, from a very high quality 1080p profile, down to more lossy streams for mobile devices, 3 profiles total IIRC (non tweak able). The highest quality mode is _almost_ indistinguishable from the OTA signal. No lag or stutter, whatsoever.

An added bonus of the transcode is the reduced bandwidth in the LAN. Previously I needed CAT5 for a stable ATSC stream, now Wifi suffices (e.g. to iPad/iPhone). There is an app for the iPad, to watch those streams. On iPad Air 2 it renders 1080p without lag.

Also, putting the HD Homerun in the network let's one get away with a small head unit (in my case an Intel NUC).

You are correct, the resulting files are still wtv container, but with h.264 stream inside. VLC can play them fine. Not sure about conversion to MPEG4.

A 1-hour show comes out around 1.5GB (from memory), maybe less. Much better then before.
Yes. Url changed to that from https://medium.com/engineering-at-ifttt/data-infrastructure-....

Medium's republishing API has already become a problem for original sources on HN.

p.s. Comments in the threads are an unreliable way to reach us. There are too many for us to see them all. The reliable way is to email hn@ycombinator.com.
But I'm white, speak English, was born to a middle class family that valued education, and sit in the air conditioning all day for work. I'm clearly a hard worker. Now the guy who cuts my lawn? He was born in another country, came from a family that didn't value education or even speak English, and his office is 100 degrees in the summer here. He's clearly lazy.
Even the playoffs for MLB are cable only.

http://m.mlb.com/postseason-schedule

OTA FOX only gets one or two playoffs games and the World Series.

In previous years it was possible to watch most of the games online via "live alternative video feeds (excluding the broadcast feed)", and now even that is not allowed.

Check out all the disclaimers and fine print here

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/subscriptions/index.jsp?&affiliateId=...
Tattoo parlors. Strip clubs. Hole-in-the-wall liquor stores. Pull-tab joints. Attended laundromats (people who live in bad neighborhoods don't have their own washers and dryers, and ones that are inside apartment buildings tend to get vandalized/broken into).
Is this genuinely something that someone would say in America, or are you just making a tongue-in-cheek remark?
Not Dropbox employee, but I think they don't care about Mailbox. Especially since Gmail Inbox now has support for Google Apps hosted mailboxes (my primary Mailbox use case, though the org hasn't activated Inbox), and that app is probably superior to Mailbox in every way.
Another interesting one ... a resume: http://docslide.us/documents/fredrickdaliry-chronologicorder...

Quite a few of the keywords (programs) don't show up in Google results, so I'm guessing they are yet to be unveiled by any leaked docs so far.
I completely agree with you in that this is currently a weakness in the system, which can be exploited by those savvy enough to realize that they can gain a pretty large advantage simply by putting in a relatively small amount of dedicated work.

Having said that, if (as many of us believe) these sorts of interviews aren't a very good way to correlate candidates with desired job skills, then the situation is bad for companies, and for the efficiency of the industry as a whole, despite being a good thing for that set of people who are willing to gain an advantage through preparation. There are probably more useful things than preparing for interviews that people could be doing for that couple hours a day.
> CSS is a complete utter crap that failed to solve the problems for which it exists.

Huh? Do you not remember/know what it was like to style webpages with FONT elements before CSS? CSS was a godsend. That was the separating content from presentation breakthrough.

The problem for which it existed wasn't layout. CSS1 (1996) didn't even have anything in it for layout.

>- About Tables: 15 years ago everybody switche to tabless layouts for the purpose of separating markup from presentation.

Using tables for layout was the original hack. Likewise using floats to avoid it was also a hack. Neither of those features were designed for those purposes. You can possibly blame the CSS standard for being incomplete, but you can't blame it for designers creating elaborate hacks out of it.

> A few years later we got access to the table display mode in CSS because, well, not a single one from the other solution worked well to build layout. Qo we got offered the option to emulate html tables in CSS.

You make it sound like table display was added after the failure of other layout methods. Not so - table display was there right from the beginning when CSS first added layout (CSS2 in 1998). It was IEs failure to implement it for nearly a decade that meant nobody was aware of or could use it for many years.
The transcode happens upstream, in the HDTC-2US. It then streams the transcoded broadcast to your WMC PC.
Sure. But that's a pretty extreme case.

Chip, alone (that is, chip and sign), is intended to prevent card duplication, which represents the vast majority of credit card fraud.

Chip and pin is intended to prevent lost or stolen cards from being used, which makes up most of the rest.

Since these two represent, by far, the bulk of credit card fraud, the presumption is that credit card companies could now claim the consumer is responsible for their own security. The theory is that now that credit cards have the same level of security as a debit card, just as banks won't reimburse you for losses, nor should credit card companies.
Are those 12-18 year olds well served by something like a startup themed summer camp? If there are kids who are truly interested in it than so be it but I'd hate to see something like this turned into just another impressive extracurricular checkbox on college applications.
It also provides anchors and examples for availability heuristic[0]. It then leads some people to generalize from fictional evidence[1].

[0] - http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Availability_heuristic

[1] - http://lesswrong.com/lw/k9/the_logical_fallacy_of_generaliza...
So who exactly eats fried chicken in the UK?
Bitcoin was bad enough with multi-million dollar fortunes evaporating into thin air after people got hacked. Suggesting tying company ownership to such a thing makes me wonder if we're seeing Poe's Law in action.
I like asking a refactoring / functional programming question in JavaScript like this one http://glebbahmutov.com/blog/functional-js-interview-questio... trying to make the candidate work through several small steps. At each step (step itself is pretty simple) I am looking for clarity and the candidate being able to explain the logic and the solution.
Can you run commercial servers for that price or is that only for residential users?
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The article missed mentioning Minneapolis, which has been offering symmetric 10Gbps since December, 2014.

Residential 10Gbps costs $399/mo, but normal 1Gbps is quite affordable at $65/mo: http://fiber.usinternet.com/plans-and-prices/plans-for-the-h...
All bullets will tumble when they change media like that, they do a 180 and if in the body long enough will exit rearwards.

There's enough bullshit in the link you reference that it should be entirely ignored, the twist rate pertains to getting the bullet to spin fast enough to be stabilized in the air, it's not going to significantly affect the stability once it changes media. It's been decreased, bullets are spun faster, because we've adopted a heavier and disproportionately longer round (has a soft steel penetrating capsule), and the particularly long tracer version requires a 1:7 twist rate.

Cavitation, which causes the effect called temporary stretch cavity, is if you believe Dr. Martin Fackler, not a major wounding mechanism, most tissue will snap back without major effects. Permanent crush cavity is what counts.

This is not the general understanding when the round was adopted, it's what Facker found out after a lot of surgery in Vietnam lead to a career in wound ballistics and shooting a lot of blocks of calibrated gelatin etc. to figure out what actually happens.
Are you kidding? It's not in the first 10 pages of bing or yahoo. Being the #1 result is obviously done artificially.