skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which of the recent URLs is the best?

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=alibaba%20singles&sort=byDate&...

(One thing we want to make the HN software do is let users the link related URLs together and identify the best one of a set.)
Defold (http://www.defold.com/) is potentially a solid option for 2D. I always find it interesting that some of the biggest requests for primarily 3D engines (Unity, UE4) are better 2D tools, and that no one, outside of Gamemaker, has built a 2D engine that has gained as much adoption or has as strong of a toolset.
Do you meant that the iOS community has been influenced by the Rails community due to overlap and has taken up the culture of OSS from the Rails community?
I think what he means is that there was a lot of 'doom & gloom' about how all our jobs were going to India and so on and so forth. And here we are... things are still going pretty well.
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They are populist and without concepts. However they attract lots of voters because the traditional parties are failing at governing. This topic however is way more complex than that and I think has very little to do with Austria in the second world war or afterwards.

> and having the largest amount of neo-nazis

Most likely, but I doubt we have more neo nazis in general than other countries. But I would love to see statistics on that. We're one of the few countries that have strong punishments on this sort of stuff.
Too close to Christmas to be spun as "buy something for yourself" day.
It's about money creation and the use of that to ramp land prices in order to compel everyone to hand over part of their labour.

If you could point me to a single bank president who says his goal is to "compel everyone to hand over part of their labour," I might find this believable. Otherwise it reads like an Us vs. Them Marxist diatribe. Red meat for the proletariat, no different than the Tea Party.

I agree that there are systemic forces at work, and that they should be changed, but it's silly to impute dark intentions.
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Correct. I think people do this when they need new features/fixes now. In some cases you gain the future benefit of the maintainers being more open to your issues/feature requests.
There are a lot of ironies when it comes to power. Another big one, relating to the article under discussion, is that it's by the CEO of a company dedicated to taking money from the poor and giving it to startup founders so that they may become rich.

I think a lot of the confusion is because power operates as a hierarchy (or oftentimes, a graph), and each layer of the hierarchy tends to oppress the layer below it while itself being oppressed by the layer above. Hence you had poor blacks in Reconstruction being oppressed by the KKK (largely composed of poor white sharecroppers), who were being oppressed by the Northern bourgeoisie, who were being oppressed by Gilded Age industrialists who were being oppressed by populist politicians who were allied with the poor white sharecroppers. That's why you may have a monarchy with strong support from the common people: the monarchy keeps wealthy business owners in line, which keeps them from oppressing ordinary citizens. It also explains the current political situation in the U.S, where the Republican party is an uneasy coalition of wealthy plutocrats, small business owners, and poor rural religious whites, while the Democratic party is an uneasy coalition of academics, white Yuppies, unionized black factory workers, and immigrant Hispanics. The plutocrats oppress the yuppies, who offend the small business owners, who oppress the immigrants, who take jobs away from the rural poor, who discriminate against blacks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ8ZCs4jY
By virtual machines, they'e talking more about hardware visualization (ie. Xen/VMWare/KVM) than language VMs like HotSpot, JavaScript, or WebAssembly.
It's related because you take exception to the term 'modern Austrian'. I take exception to the generalization to all but find it perfectly believable that a segment of modern day Austrians is still in convenient denial. From personal anecdote I can confirm it but I don't like to go down that route so I'd rather stick to the statistics about the right wing party representation in Austria and submit that amongst a group that large there must be some overlap with the group that still sees Austria as the victim of the Nazis. That's simple statistics and does not require exceptional leaps of faith.

Aside: Nationalist parties are pretty good at finding ways to gain a foothold using single-issue scapegoating games. What you get once they're in power is a totally different kettle of fish.
People die and are victims of circumstance.
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Wow! An easy way to have media conglomerates drip-feed me bias, propaganda, and advertisements? Thanks Facebook! This is really adding value to my life!
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Why question their motives? Is it really so hard to believe that Gates really loved computers?

Did Gates' love of computers motivate Microsoft's anticompetitive moves in the 1990s?
San Francisco is littered with giant Wells Fargo locations with 30ft+ ceilings, and dozens of employees just hanging around, waiting for a customer to help. In the financial district, it feels like there's one on every block.
Heads up (squares up?), this video is about 38 minutes.
There is a debate here about whether syntactically valid 802.11 frames count as "jamming".
>>>Indians worship Saraswati (the goddess of learning), but will do anything not to learn and be intellectually curious. Behold the Hindu nation.

ROFL. Hahahah... Well said
Posted a few times: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=protopiper&sort=byDate&dateRan...
It's pretty obvious that he didn't just like computers. Bill Gates was a consummate competitor. He loved competing.

I agree, it doesn't matter what his motivation was, but he wasn't solely motivated by "computers".
I think they're simply ploughing all their revenue back into growth through sales/marketing. If they wanted to they could turn down the customer acquisition spend and ride their recurring revenue to a tidy profit.
I mean, when iOS first came out, #macdev and #iphonedev were flooded with mostly Rails and Python devs. And since then, most of the people I've seen who are big names in iOS were first big names in Rails and/or Python.
The court is really saying that the url isn't even metadata, and I agree with that finding. The url is itself content. It's a request for content. On static pages it exposes the entire content of the communication.

I don't think the court would have a problem with the police discovering you buy weed because you call a weed dealer every week.

But this URL isn't just telling them who you are "calling" / httping with, but what exactly it was about.

I think the internet equivalent to phone number is the IP address.
Wonder why Firefox doesn't seem to display this PDF correctly...

The book is excellent though.
Across the country by train? How long does that take? How much food and water did they have to bring along?
"Although Wi-Fi might work fine for checking email or conducting a brief product demonstration, activities that demand more bandwidth or more security, like transmitting a live broadcast or running credit cards, still often require wired Internet access."

Why would running a credit card require wired internet?
We have wasted much time in school executing algorithms than making it
I have wasted a lot of time in school executing algorithms rather than making any. (some of the math classes)

"One of the characteristics of algorithms is that they do not require any intelligence to carry out. They are mechanical processes in which each step follows from the last according to a simple set of rules.
In my opinion, it is embarrassing that humans spend so much time in school learning to
execute algorithms that, quite literally, require no intelligence.

On the other hand, the process of designing algorithms is interesting, intellectually chal-
lenging, and a central part of what we call programming.
Some of the things that people do naturally, without difficulty or conscious thought, are
the hardest to express algorithmically. Understanding natural language is a good example.
We all do it, but so far no one has been able to explain how we do it, at least not in the form
of an algorithm." --ThinkPython
The rate was much higher pre-Reagan, nearly double what it is today.

Also, the rise of finance means a lot of Wall Street hedge fund managers who should be paying ordinary income tax are paying cap gains rates through the carried interest exception. Venture capitalists too.

http://avc.com/2010/05/why-taxing-carried-interest-as-ordina...
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By definition everything was once a "unicorn" before the resources, demand and labor were mixed into developing it. Everything must originate as a idea before it can become praxis. Modern capitalism itself was a unicorn as recently as the 18th century, but it emerged nevertheless.
That's what you get when you focus on the outliers. I doubt that causality plays a big role in determining who becomes a billionaire (Zuckerberg, Gates, Buffett) and who stays a mere doctor, lawyer or congressman (father of Zuckerberg, father of Gates, father of Buffett).

But that is a question of who belongs to the 0.01% and who belongs to the 1%. It's not a very interesting social mobility study and I agree with you that the "rich get richer" argument makes no sense for the super rich outliers.

Unfortunately, things do get a lot more predictable at the lower percentiles.
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I wrote many of the Keykos papers and can answer most questions you might have.
For instance, can sandstorm do confinement as described at http://cap-lore.com/CapTheory/Confine/ ?
It means that to me 1991 is figuratively speaking yesterday. I remember it clear as day and it does not seem long ago at all.

I realize that for lots of people on HN the early 1990's seem like forever ago, and probably quite a few of them weren't even born back then but for me personally it's an eyeblink.

Yes, there are some who remember WWII vividly, I'm not one of them because I was born well after that but I can see how what you determine to be a 'long time' very much depends on your own personal time-line and that was the full extent of the meaning of that comment.

To me it means yes, that they have just changed their official position, and they definitely should not be left off just yet, not because it took them that long but mostly because of developments in Austria since then. The legacy of Haider is alive and well.

Just like NL should not be let off the hook either, we have our own version of that problem to contend with. (And, for that matter, our own version of the Anschluss even though you'll never hear about it outside of NL, we had a very large chunk of the Dutch openly collaborating with the invaders and a political party (NSB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Movement_in...) with substantial following.)
Commercial Crew never stopped. Congress is not funding it well, though.
Apple to roll out own payment system
Genesis 2:9 does mention a "tree of life," though in this case certainly 6stringmerc did mean "the tree of knowledge of good and evil" from which Adam was commanded not to eat.
This is why I actually favor doing away with the corporate income tax. Hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of accountants and tax lawyers would be out of work, but on the flip side companies would have no incentive to play all these games and keep money offshore. Just pay a dividend, or don't, and let the investors figure it out.
Before the government started regulating them Microsoft was able to kill off Wordpress and Lotus 123 which could have been big companies.
I wonder if Tim Sweeney's research on lambda-aleph, a dependently typed language, is reflected on Unreal Engine somewhere.

http://www.leafpetersen.com/leaf/publications/dtp2013/lambda...
No reason to obfuscate AFAIK. A bank can just as easily buy a building and rent it out at a profit instead of putting a money-losing branch there.

I don't think banks are generally prohibited from investing in real estate, subject to other risk-based capital and liquidity requirements. If there's some loophole that results in an owned branch being treated differently from investment real estate, I'm not aware of it.

In NYC anyway, banks typically rent branches. They don't want to be in the real estate and property management business, although they often end up in it involuntarily after foreclosures.
Shares of BRK.B are available to anyone who wants to buy them. So they can participate in those gains as well.

What you're really getting at is tax incidence. Ultimately corporate taxes are still taxes on people. It's a complicated question to figure out which people. Sometimes it's shareholders like buffet, but it's also often employees or customers.

I do generally agree with you though that corporate taxes probably fall disproportionately on rich shareholders so to whatever degree there are shenanigans it's probably benefiting those rich shareholders.

Personally this makes me question the value of corporate taxes entirely. Just get rid of them and tax people directly. It would save a lot of paperwork and be easier for everyone to understand. Most people disagree with me on this point (though I would say that's because they don't think about tax incidence!).
Cycle Computing gets patent for detecting faults in cloud infrastructure
That's so retro. I'd use a ShopBot CNC router, with a 1/2" carbide end mill for the roughing, then a 1/8" ball cutter for finishing. Then sand and polish.
kragen said she never said she was; he's inferring.
Apple in Talks with US Banks to Develop Mobile Person-To-Person Payment Service
It's interesting to compare that version with this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMHNrRaQB4Q

Audio's not good, alas, but it's actually being played by a human. It sounds like it's got all the complexity of the machine-played one, which of course it doesn't --- which does suggest that the extra complexity wasn't adding anything in the first place...
A video of high def images in 60fps would require huge bandwidth. It may also add annoying codec artifacts. I am not an expert, but I think it is unrealistic.
There's another thing I kept thinking while reading this article: while I'm not a software developer or involved in the startup/entrepreneur community in any direct fashion and probably not the target audience for the article, isn't the whole approach sort of backwards?

If you have created a valuable service/tool/game/etc that people really want to use and is also a good fit for mobile use, people will download the mobile app. But the conversation is all about "how do we come up with apps that people want to use and can compete with the top handful?" Isn't that just a solution in search of a problem?

Maybe those top 10-20 mobile apps that get the lion's share of relative adoption are the 10-20 things that people find worth doing with apps on a mobile platform. The mobile apps that I always install and continue to use/reinstall on new devices are the ones that address an existing need. I only have so many of those needs that can be reasonably addressed by mobile apps.

I need something to jot down quick notes wherever I am? Notes app. I want to see what amusing things my friends are up to on Facebook? Facebook app (not really in my case but as an example). Same for Skype or Uber or any other service. I want the service first and since it makes sense to access those services from my phone or tablet, I get the app.

I don't just go looking for apps randomly because I feel like (outside of games) there is a limited set of things I want to be able to do on my cell phone. The only time that set gets larger is when someone comes up with a really useful or desirable new service. Not because someone came out with a really cool and well-designed app.
That's the point. Congress cut funding so NASA and ULA could catch up to Space-X. Does this bill add funding?
The post is about "An investment mentality that hollows out our culture." Even if the folks that profit from the hollowing give the money away, the hole's still there. To be specific to the example in the article, it's not like Rockefeller's heirs are literally giving money to Mom and Pop delis to compete with banks for New York's street corners.
What's the licence on fluke? It doesn't seem to be listed anywhere. I don't really want to look at the code until I have a good handle on that.
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New Adsense exploit spreads like wildfire
From the article:

> There’s no doubt that entrepreneurship is thriving globally. Fully 1,191 members of the list are self-made billionaires, while just 230 inherited their wealth. Another 405 inherited at least a portion but are still working to increase their fortunes.

Not sure how "at least a portion" is defined, but I imagine less than half had significant inheritance. That's not to say the self-made billionaires were born middle class, but it does suggest that wealth does not necessarily beget wealth.
Who benefitted most from the US revolution: sharecroppers or land owners?

It was an enormous risk for Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin & company, but the upside was huge. The average worker not so much. Non-landowners weren't even allowed to vote!
Because people don't understand end-to-end encryption.
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I dont think that is true at all. This sort of extrapolation is mostly based on our mental heuristics which turn out to be false because we fail to account for several other factors that might be affecting poor and rich.

For example I would love to be a poor person in today's American which rich are richer than a poor person 30 years ago. The fact that rich people get rich basically suggest accelerated pace of development that brings down cost of living for everyone including the poor. Even though the average income of a poor family in United states might not have grown substantially in last 30 years, what they can afford for that money has changed a lot.

Money <=> Power is not true unless government interferes too much in Economy. In USA however that is happening in the name of helping poor.
Man-Computer Symbiosis (1960, PDF)
This logic is a few years old, but back when WEP was popular and HTTPS less-so, I was nervous about buying things online over such a connection. WEP was/is easily crackable and without HTTPS, that credit card info is plaintext over the airwaves.

Nowadays we have WPA2 and HTTPS is more common. But I still prefer an ethernet cable.
That depends. In the case of shopify probably yes, but you'd have to look very closely at the life-time value of those customers. There is a small possibility that if they turned down the rate of acquisition that the retention would be just poor enough that they would not make it to profitability, or alternatively that they would be profitable only for a short while.

This can be quite hard to establish, especially for companies that have raised significant capital (Shopify raised $120M+), they can keep that from happening for a long long time.

For companies that have not raised significant capital, if they're able to finance their growth out of their income stream then yes, they can convert to profitable overnight.
Why is the full repo URL needed? Why not just rails/rails?
> analyzing real-world sounds & instruments

One of the most important books on the subject:

http://www.amazon.com/Physics-Musical-Instruments-Neville-Fl...

It's mostly covered from a synthesis/physics POV angle, btw. But will give you a tremendous foundation in the types of waveforms many different instruments produce.
about the C; https://software.intel.com/sites/landingpage/IntrinsicsGuide...
This story is your regular reminder that the world does not owe anyone a workable business model.
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A beautifully written web site. It made me happy just to look at it.

I haven't been doing much Clojure or Common Lisp development this year but I am putting Parinfer on my look-at list.
Bad for business (except Apple's business), good for user experience. As you point out.
I just downloaded Unreal Tournament a few days ago and have enjoyed playing it quite a bit (played lots of UT 2004, forgot how much I missed it!). If I want to get involved in development, what's the best way to get started?
Your best bet isn't to 'change the system' if dramatic change is needed, your best bet is to create a parallel system that people can buy into gradually.
All of that makes sense if we consider the case of amplitude modulation, which is multiplication. But if we are talking about the interference patterns caused by two overlapping audio signals, that is addition, is it not?
Your use of the example "going to school and improving future income potential" is a very externality caused by intervention, i.e. the modern public schooling system and licensing requirements. A more voluntary society where autodidacticism, guilds, apprenticeships and decentralized democratic schooling are practical options for advancement (that a hypothetical laissez-faire arrangement would make easier to emerge) would therefore mitigate the effects of time preference, in that self-advancement would have less legislative barriers and the opportunity for market signaling would be more unfettered now that the principal-agent inefficiencies caused by formal credentialism are lowered. That is to say, employers would rely more on real signals rather than the nominal signals emitted from credentials and licensing that do not account for time and skills corrected after their acquirement, and don't suffer from disequilibrium caused by poorly thought out credential requirements.
> The good old "Bill Gates the bootstrapped college dropout" argument. These myths never die.

You appear to be refuting a claim that was not made in the GP post or in the Forbes article they cited.

Grandparent only said that Gates is among the top 3 riches and is not going to pass on his wealth, they did NOT claim that Gates was born poor or otherwise among the self-made millionaires.

Similarly Forbes lists Gates as the richest person, but makes no claims whatsoever about how he made his fortune. There are two independent claims there and at no time does either source claim that Gates is in the self-made group.

Your QZ article is more responsive, but it boils down to saying that one needs access to capital to start a business. This is not really surprising and ensuring that any capable person can get funding is why we have things like YC. If there's any group out there with good ideas that's being systematically ignored or denied funding, you and anyone else could make big money by investing in them. All you need to do is prove there's an opportunity being ignored and people will jump on it, chasing the money.
I meant neo-nazis / party

> Most likely, but I doubt we have more neo nazis in general than other countries.

Yes, probably not. I'm just guessing, but it looks like the former DDR has the most issues. Then there's also Greece.
From the horse's mouth: https://transition.fcc.gov/eb/jammerenforcement/jamfaq.pdf

Section 333 of the Communications Act
: “No person shall willfully or maliciously
interfere with or cause interference to
any radio communications of any station
licensed or authorized by
or under [the Communications]
Act or operated by the
United States Government.” 47 U.S.C. § 333.

If you're willfully screwing with other people's transmissions, you're breaking the law. It's that simple. The method being used doesn't really enter into it.
> literally I have never seen anyone besides the employees gazing out forlornly at people on the street

The bank branches should start selling coffee, food, or knick knacks on the side to keep them busy. I can see it now: Citicorp Coffee, Chase Bagels, 5th 3rd Home Furnishings.
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