skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neoconservatives are conservatives who believe in a muscular foreign policy focused on the middle east centered on support for Israel. Tea Party conservatives aren't neoconservatives, nor are libertarians.
That's unfortunate! Looking at the chart, it seems as if Betterment's system excels at giving you 100% participation in each market decline, offset by about 70% participation in each advance.

Yikes! That's like playing cards at a casino poker table with a big house rake. The pattern is so consistent that it looks as if it's a built-in feature of their model, whether they know it or not.

It's hard for me to imagine any reason to keep more than lunch money in such an account. I can understand the desire, out of sheer intellectual curiosity, to see how the system works. But their product right now looks inferior to a much simpler buy-and-hold approach, based on a relatively static asset allocation that you determine yourself.

There's also fair amount of financial history of can't-miss algorithmic investing that didn't work out, after all. Two examples that come to mind are portfolio insurance (1987) and Long-Term Capital Management (1998.)
Thank you, Garry! Your perspective, advice and support was invaluable through YC.
Not very clear what this is from the home page.... appengine-style PaaS?
Which is why we need to wash all that stress out of your head by holding it under water for arbitrary amounts of time...
If you believe that it's OK for programmers to override laws, you don't get to complain about Uber anymore.
No, it doesn't. I was just kidding. It was the first thing that caught my eye. No worries, it seems the white-knight brigade is out to defend your honor though.
This is so fucking stupid. People aren't going to give up their nicotine addictions; giving them a cheap and convenient alternative that is many orders of magnitude safer for themselves and their families than smoking is the single best outcome that could happen.

It's really simple: Make vaping less accessible, continue to destroy the lungs of children and others with secondhand smoke.
Yeah it's very true... nothing like being an early adopter with your retirement nest egg! :-|
I think both framings of Snowden are accurate given a subset of the facts. What will make it into history books is still up in the air, and reality is more complicated than either lens. Or perhaps future history books will capture the nuance of reality. That would be nice.

In the case of mass phone call metadata collection, it seems to have been well established that what the NSA was doing at the time was unconstitutional and is now changing. The mass metadata collection didn't stop, though, it's just run by telecoms instead of the feds. Has revealing it served the national interest? It doesn't obvious to me.

As for the rest of his leaks, there is more public disagreement. Apparently the NSA's IA mission took second place to the offensive after 9/11. That seems to be a terrible long-term strategy, especially given the calculus of state sponsored hacking, and if Snowden's leaks expedited the reversal of that change, that's definitely a good thing.
My metric as a tall person is, if I can comfortably rest my scrotum on the top of the urinal, it has no place in an adult setting. Seriously. Every workplace I've been to has had a substantial percentage of urinals that looked like they were sized for an elementary school.
Singapore is building an entire forest in a high-rise apartment atrium
Did you really just suggest that the risk of an e-cigarette exploding is comparable to the risk of heart disease, emphysema, and cancer from smoking actual cigarettes?
Nicotine is basically a synonym for addictive.
This TPP is such bad news. I've never been politically active enough to want to "run a campaign" but honestly, this thing is really motivating me to take time out of my busy schedule ... I feel like it's such an uphill battle to get this thing defeated.
Thank you Garry for everything you've helped me with.
Good luck with your new adventure!
Not exactly kidnapping. More like curtailing someone else's liberty and freedom of movement. He was restricted in his office space.

The funny thing is: there were police and politicians involved on the scene! If they too cornered him, forget about crimes and the application of law.
The scroll-jacking on that site is extremely frustrating.
Here's my experienced-based concern about vaping. I've spent a lot of time in a medicinal/organic chemistry synthesis labs. During which I have often been around synthetic set-ups involving drawing smaller organic compounds over heated metal, (sometimes specifically catalytic), elements in order to render them reactive for the next synthetic step. Oftentimes the assumption is that an intermediate free-radical is thereby generated. Vaping juice has a variety of (poorly regulated) smaller organic solvent and flavor-ant compounds in it, which are drawn over a heated metal element. Free radicals are often implicated as carcinogenic. Of course, i have no clinical data; but you can at least see where my concern comes from.
You are clearly not a primary user. I'm not sure why you would think your example would be relevant. The vast majority of people post a lot of stuff and even more do not know how to prevent Facebook from tracking their movements across the internet and in real life. We used to think stalkers and state level corporate hegemons tailing people was something that dictatorships and authoritarian regimes did. Wait a minute. Maybe that hasn't changed.
>But to my knowledge airlines don't really participate in the ground concession profit stream... airports do, but not airlines

They don't participate directly, but they're still economically coupled the concessions (and various other surcharges like for taxis): to the extent that airports can charge extra for frills, they don't have to charge for the landing spots. The ability to do so may be what makes them viable (that landing charges + surcharges can cover operating costs).
Here's the study cited by the article: http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/four_fu...

The takeaway: "All this points to new top-management imperatives: keep an eye on the speed and direction of automation, for starters, and then determine where, when, and how much to invest in automation."
What I am actually thinking of is this:

bytes -> string
-> URL
-> SQL
...

Once you type strings, you get multiplicities. Completing your diagram, we get

bytes -> string
-> URL-string -> URL
-> SQL-string -> SQL
...

or

bytes -> string
-> URL-string -> URL
-> SQL-string -> SQL
...

There's the redundancy. What are the typed strings doing for us?

Edit: I don't think these diagrams are formally correct - I don't think of URL as a subtype of string, even though it has a string representation and URL objects can be constructed from strings - but I think they make my point clear.
I do not understand how private firearm ownership is identical to covert tampering with exports in consumer electronics.
I dislike smoking and e-cigs, but by any accounting, e-cigs greatly benefit public health. Vaping is far less harmful than smoking tobacco, and around 70% of vapers are former smokers. When you plug in reasonable numbers for smoking vs vaping deaths[1]:

> ...if a public e-cigarette ban reduces the number of smokers who switch to e-cigarettes by 2%, you’ve just killed an extra 9000 people per year...

So if anything, e-cigs should be subsidized, not banned.

1. http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/28/thank-you-for-doing-som...
>. A lot of vaping proponents try to argue the relative safety of water vapor to smoke, but in the end it's still just a delivery method for various chemicals including nicotine.

and so the coffee for caffeine

>Not to mention the vapor is just as obnoxious as smoke.

and so the vapor from your hot coffee.
Oh, the irony!
The Terminal is used around the world and is localized into 11 languages. News content is provided in something like 40+ languages.

edit: Also very important is native speaker tech/analytic support in all major customer languages.
Garry! Garry! Garry!

Thanks for all you do for YC and the community. Congratulations on your new adventures!
You almost never see foot pedals, oddly enough.

Depends on where you are. They're quite common in Mexico although not universal.
Nope. Intermodulation distortion for out-of-range frequencies is inaudible. The 1hz beat you are hearing is not a 1hz sound wave, it's a 1000.5hz sound wave becoming louder and softer once per second.

The comparison of a 1hz beat to a 1hz sound should be absurd on its face: you need about 20-30hz to become audible, and it's a low rumble more felt than heard. Very low frequencies sound absolutely nothing like intermodulation beats.
Completely agreed - short urinals have the worst user experience for tall or dare I say average height males. In fact the average height in the US is approximately 5' 10". Claiming all urinals should be short ones seems instead like misplaced aggression or dare I say a bit of Napolean complex.

This being said selecting urinals as a comparison to enterprise mobile UX/UP patterns is a bit off-putting, sexist and simply unprofessional.
But you can't do that with current paper money unless stores start regularly scanning money as it enters the cash register.

Even if the bank gives me a tracked 20, I can easily "launder" it by using it to buy something. Now I have $19 in anonymous cash and stick of gum.
Actually they are massively safer than tobacco cigarettes - around 95% less harmful[0]. At the moment there is no evidence that they act as a stepping stone to cigarettes (and some indication that they don't). So converting smokers to vapers could do a lot to reduce the huge harm done by tobacco.

I agree I'd rather not sit next to someone using one on a train but I'd also rather not sit next to someone eating strong smelling food.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/e-cigarettes-an-e...
> If (false statement), (non sequitur about a service I don't use or complain about)

Great contribution there, Tom.
Google+ does all this and more. How I wish Google hadn't tied the name to the youtube cleanup / real name policy.

My opinion is that real names policies mostly should die. Basically the idea that real names will cause people to behave is a fallacy for a number of reasons:

1. Trolls use fake accounts

2. Some people seems to honestly believe that "just nuke Iran/Syria/Israel/Gaza" is a smart comment

3. or they don't care about the consequences of posting dumb stuff.

The only people you stop with real names policies are those with dissenting opinions, who don't make fake accounts and who feel they have something to lose.
> when I return to the US Midwest ... Since its the Bible belt

For those unfamiliar: The Bible Belt isn't in the US Midwest and generally the regions aren't much alike. The Bible Belt is the most conservative region in the US and is in the American South. The Midwest has historically been liberal, even progressive in places, the home of unions and democratic voters. (Also the Midwest isn't in the middle west, but you can find a map.)

That's not to say that there are no Midwestern areas where people are more religious or conservative, or that tsunamifury's family doesn't live in one.
If a government wanted to give out Linux PCs to children.
Then, the students could require the government to provide the open source software as it part of the copyright condition of Linux.
But the government couldn't require the distributor of the Linux PC to provide the source code.
What happens? Would it be illegal for the government to buy Linux PCs for civilians?
Note: a Linux PC could be a smart card used for identification, voting, a licence, etc.
Ever had a week of migraines from quitting coffee?
Dumb question, but wouldn't you need to reproduce position of audio sources as well in order to replicate that?
"...and cause inter-modulation products in the audible range." AFAIK, this is true in acoustic environments under conditions as described in the original post.
It's just a rant with very few valid points. First of all the author is confusing the readers by not making it clear the distinction between writing code as a hobbyist programmer vs writing code like a Computer Scientist. Computer Science first of all is more science than Economics. Theories in computer science have mathematical proofs behind them, the arguments he is making seem to be based on programming design patterns like Abstraction and so forth which are of course always debatable.
This "grandfather" date is so dumb and such obvious pandering to an existing large business faction: this kind of law should apply to everything and everyone. "We now require all food to be tested for contamination with [insert newly understood poison here], unless it was marketed before we discovered the poison... in that case, have fun!" :/
Modals. They're used properly now, to a good extent, but 4-5 years ago everything was a modal.

Hover states are also mostly gone from good design.

Fixed-height layouts were a fad that I think is on the decline, for good reason.
the bit that made me shudder was "Our mission at Famous is to empower digital marketing professionals to build beautiful branded apps that amplify every aspect of their digital marketing campaigns.". if you believe (as i do) that people just tune out and skim over everything that sounds like "marketese", that says absolutely nothing. surely there are better ways to say the same thing, that actually make people interested in what you have to sell!
Yeah, but then they would be masturbating monkeys too.
Can't say I have, no.
thank you for the breakdown.
Vaping is clearly less harmful than cigarette smoking, and shifting from cigarettes to vaping is a great move. But somehow the most gullible vapers have convinced themselves that vaping is utterly harmless, and they should be able to do it everywhere the way they did when omnipresent secondhand smoke was taken for granted. So we get all this clear propaganda about how harmless it is, and how the nonsmokers are bunch of unreasonable fascists for not letting people do it all over the place.
Cymbals are the biggest tell for compressed music. Even with crappy speakers they sound very strange.
Hacker News. So What?
> all people wanted was for him to let the project go

Why should he have to do even that? It's his project to do with what he pleases. Work on it, horde it, release it under the AGPL... it's his, nobody else's. Of course, that's not their impression. Their impression, and the general expectation, is that if someone open sources code, they do so expressly for the good of the community of developers.

You see this quite a bit in GPL discussions as well.
syner.js
I recall listening to a vinyl rip of Lady Gaga's first album, and found that "Pokerface" was much more enjoyable with the additional dynamic range. So I'm not sure if overcompression is necessary for newer songs, but rather that it's just what the mass market has become accustomed to because of the loudness war.
What HN commenters put as “disclaimers”
Notre Dame, in Paris, broke ground in 1163 and was finished 182 years later. Gaudi's ahead of schedule...
Designing the circuitry around the DAC to provide ultra low noise reference voltages, to fully isolate ground loops, and provide a fully linear response (AC coupled, but linear in the relevant range) is not trivial even for 12-bits. It's not the hardest thing in the world, but lots of people do it wrong. Trivial sounding things like using a cheaper capacitor in the low pass filter or not finely regulating your power supply voltage can put audible noise onto things.

Worse of course if the sound card is integrated into a computer due to the opportunity to pick up much greater ambient RF noise from other components, although that is less of a problem now than it used to be back when I could hear my hard drive kicking up on my speakers...

In any event, I'd absolutely believe that the quality between a $100 DAC assembly and a $200 system is enough to be noticeable. More than that and I'm very skeptical. So I guess I don't really disagree with your statement, but I think that in current dollars $100 isn't necessarily enough to pay for solid underlying engineering and good components.
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First kernel patch
I could use it to lay out my living room for the movers. Then they could see the layout I want for each piece and then replace the layout with furniture as it's unloaded. As I'm setting this up, I can get a sense of how each furniture piece might fit in my space. On a smaller scale I could use it to place objects where I was thinking of putting a new piece of furniture and then spend a week living with the space carved out before I buy the piece.

If there were a smartphone app that took dimensions and then supplied assembly instructions it would be golden.
I've actually recently designed a concept around the interest graph of Twitter that I think would be a step in the right direction.

Twitter Rooms: https://medium.com/@danielrakh/twitter-rooms-e6f34e843e9a
Funny to see how different some things are in other countries. In the US, if I restrict you in your office space that's unlawful imprisonment, which is a Federal crime and my ass will be hauled off to jail pretty fast.
I really hope regulations don't go that as far as this article describes. I realize that formal review of drug delivery products are important for safety, but the deadlines they're imposing will hurt what vaping has done for public air quality.

I don't vape, but I wish that everyone who smoked in public spaces would just switch to vaping because of how much better it is on everybody around them.

There's a way to getting to what regulators want, but demanding things happen on a timeline that not even they can keep up with is ridiculous and needs to be rethought.
Garry, thank you for everything!
It's absolutely this.

Airline customers care about price above all else. A price differential as low as $5 is enough to get people to switch flights, even if the pricier flight is better. It's utterly cut-throat.

Why do airlines cram people in so tightly you can barely breathe? Because that lets them shave dollars off the ticket price, which attracts customers from anyone who doesn't do this. Given the choice between a cheaper flight that's less comfortable, or one that's $5 more and has more room, people will choose the former.

Why do airlines not serve meals anymore unless they absolutely have to? Well, those meals aren't free. People will choose the meal-less flight for $5 less over the flight with a meal that costs slightly more.

Why does everybody charge for checked luggage now? Because it lets them shave the price of a ticket.

If people wanted comfort, good food, free luggage, and all that, we would have it. But what people want above all else is to pay less.

And actually, airlines have gotten pretty good at segmenting the market, which for their customers (us) means we can pretty much choose our own tradeoff there. You'd rather pay more money for a larger seat? Almost all of them let you do this now. You want a meal during your flight? Just about any suitably-long flight will have meals available for purchase. You want to check bags? Go for it, just pay for it.

I hate getting crammed into tiny airline seats (I'm 6'3" and barely fit) and all the rest... but every time I get on an airplane and pass those better seats, I remember that I'm just voting with my wallet here, and clearly I value the $100 or whatever it is more than the space.
Can't read the full article without registering. Any alternative source?
It's basically the idea from cypherpunk's manifesto - write a code, that will fix a problem, don't write a law.
Compared to any car ECU and related software, gaming machine software is rather simple. Not exactly trivial, but much simpler, and the state can afford to set rather arbitrary behavioural restrictions.

Similar restrictions would severely cripple innovation in cars. Just consider Tesla's autopilot software.
So amused, in fact, that I did a big grep from the Algolia API:

http://mbrock.github.io/disclaimer.html (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10521578)
I see the spirit of Andrew Volstead is still alive and well after all these years. Frankly, I don't care what people smoke, or how they choose to smoke it. I also don't care what they choose to read, or what they choose to drink.
Screencast #54: Container Queries Prolyfill
try this https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
What I was trying to get across is: every file has two potential purposes—listening and serving as input for sampling. So, if we care about enabling "remix culture", wouldn't make sense to offer a "24/192 FLAC" option for download, push DVDA over CD, etc., anyway?

I've never seen the hype from artists about 24/192 as being about better listening experience. It's about handing their consumers a better master so as to encourage and enable more of them to be remixers.
Search Google for the post's title.
Is this an example of the misleading late-stage valuations Sam Altman mentioned recently?[1] What were the terms of the latest raise?

[1] http://blog.samaltman.com/the-tech-bust-of-2015
Aeroflot opted for the 787 but has ordered some Sukhoi Superjet 100s. I think "simple, rugged" philosophy is difficult to maintain for massive projects with huge part counts. Most Russian airliners have not had much success in the global market. I think the biggest cost saving in aircraft development will come from cheaper engineers, mainly in China.

It would be interesting to see if development costs plummet if we were all willing to accept auto traffic rates of accidents and deaths in air travel.
I was thinking the same thing when I passed that part. Some times I come across low mounted ones where I might accidentally hit the `valve on the top`, never mind the top of the actual urinal.
These urinal photos make me uncomfortable, there's basically zero privacy for any of them. Is it too much to ask to toss up some dividers between them?
Yeah agreed. That chart is great, but it's not telling the whole story. If you take a 747-400, 757, 737, and a CRJ (1 fuel stop) move a full load of passengers 3000 miles the widebodies will have better seat/mile costs. That chart compares the seat/mile of a 737 going 1000 miles to a 747 going 6000 miles. If you flew a 737 6000 miles (with stops of course) the seat/mile cost would be huge.

Similarly a Cessna 150 could get you a better seat/mile cost than a CRJ if you're going 30 miles.

A 747-400 going 6000 miles nonstop will have tremendous first hour fuel burns because it's carrying... tons of fuel. Each extra pound of fuel you carry requires that you take on.... yup more fuel. It compounds.
You can actually now just click 'web' in the below-title links!

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