skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Random thought. People also do WANT a "romantic" or "interesting" or "passionate" life or whatever you want to call it. All the talk about "work/life balance" and "stable income" and stuff is uninteresting to this mentality because in one sense all it is is a preference for stability, a kind of conservatism. I know people who have abandoned career altogether to go around busking, and they LOVE the "hustle" even when it sucks in objective terms. They love the sense of urgency, the sense of being on their own space fighter like in Firefly. With funded startups it's a bit different because you still have daddy in the board room handing out your allowance, but that's secondary.

I can imagine someone semi-consciously optimizing their life in such a way as to avoid middle class normality as much as possible. If you want to get financially independent without doing "boring" stuff like working a stable career and investing in index funds, the notion of a wildly successful startup is perfect: you get to be interestingly poor for years, and then you can suddenly get fuck-off rich, with no intermediate period of dull stability.

Presumably after that you can go off and build canoes with your friends or whatever it is you "really" want to do. Except that probably, for reasons David and others outline, the plan will fail and drag you into decades of pure hypocritical misery.
You're under-selling 401Ks and over-selling pensions.

I just started a job in government. I had two choices: 10% of my salary in a 401K, or 5% of my salary in a 401K and 5% in a pension. I selected the full 10% in a 401K and let me explain why:

- The 401K can follow me job to job. The pension is tied to this employer.

- If I quit this job or get fired before 65, I lose a good chunk of my pension, however my 401K remains safe.

- The pension is largely a "black box." Money goes in, and I have zero control over how it is invested or what their fees are.

- If I retire at 62 I lose 10%(!) of my pension, if I retire at 60 I lose 15%(!). 401K doesn't care when I retire, just when I withdraw the money (e.g. I could live on other savings from 62-65).

- If I die before retirement there are a complex set of rules deciding what percentage my spouse receives (summary: less than me, almost always).

- If I die on a 401K, my spouse receives 100% of the money as long as they cash it after their retirement (for tax reasons).

- I can invest it all in a nice safe diversified index fund with extremely low management fees (the management fees on other funds alone between now and retirement could wind up costing me almost a years salary!).

- The 401K money vests in 4 years. The pension money effectively vests in 20 years (takes 20 years to receive a really crappy pension).

Pensions have a lot of asterisk/gotchas/limitations/etc. The devil is in the details. 401K requires some self-management, but removes most of the limitations, and you can receive a good retirement as long as you put it somewhere relatively safe, diversified, and inexpensive.

Plus if you die then either your spouse OR kids massively "win" with a 401K. A pension definitely doesn't protect their interests.
Almost the entire finance industry and banking industry runs on RHEL or SLES (mostly RHEL in the US).
Ask HN: do you need a responsive site if you also have Android and iOS apps?
We've just finished the development of our Android app (we already have a great iOS app) and I've been wondering what gain would we get from having a responsive site at this point. It certainly adds to the cost of development and QA, so does it make any sense whatsoever to keep investing in responsive for the 7% of mobile users[1] who aren't on Android or iOS?

1. https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8&qpcustomd=1

Is there an intrinsic value to responsive that our users can't get from a native mobile app? Before making that decision, I want to make sure I'm not missing something.

Thanks HN.
Ok lets do some math.

Lets take out 40% for taxes. This is a high number since the the whole number isn't taxed at 40%. That leaves you about 120k. Supposed the OP has a 1br apt so 120-32=88K.

So 88K > (40K-8k). So some who is making 165k is pretty well off even in SF.
> and it had the very first 3dfx graphics card in it (which was also a pretty big deal then)

This was actually a very big deal then.
No offence, but do you even have scientific evidence that there can be a form of semi-permanent to permanent isolation which is psychologically healthy for any human beings? Even ascetic monks have to interact from time to time before they crack. Humans didn't evolve for isolation.
What is most striking is the return of the trees
“iBackDoor” Ad Library Found in Thousands of iOS Apps
You may be right, I don't know. I suppose the acid test is when YC companies start posting for front-end developers with C#, .NET and UNIX experience versus what's required today, i.e. either node.js, django, ruby, etc.
What part do you have problems with? Graph isomorphism or quasi-polynomial?

For the first, I would expect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_isomorphism (different from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_isomorphism_problem) is simple enough for laymen, as long as they know what a graph is.

For the second, I would think https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-polynomial_time#Quasi-... could give just enough rope to climb out of the pit you are in.
In my opinion if you truly have confidence, chances are you will succeed in life (assuming you're not some delusional psycho). The world revolves around people who take action and confident people tend to take more action. Doesn't matter if they're not smart enough to tackle the problem (who is, anyway?), they will figure out as long as they keep trying. Whereas people with low confidence in most cases don't even try. And even when they try they give up too early. I totally agree with you about the "optimism" junkies. I know a lot of people like that and they all tend to have read too many self help books without taking action. However, this "fake confidence" you're talking about never comes from parents praising their child. It comes from insecure people reading too much self-help porn.
> errors returned rather than thrown

WHATT??? did they do the same mistake as Go?
woozers, really excited to see this. hope videolectures.net picks up the presentation soon afterward.
I work at a space science / tech research lab at the university of colorado. RHEL is our distro of choice for linux machines
EPA Used Monsanto’s Research to Give Roundup a Pass
The section on interception is awful.

* "Warranted interception is used only for intelligence purposes."
* "Warranted interception is governed by RIPA."

There is of-course, no mention of unwarranted interception. One must presume that there is no unwarranted interception of communications being actioned.
I wish the media, would stop using the term marijuana when referring to cannabis.
-the added security is deemed too hard for a large part of the population, and would raise support cost too much

"Older people"

When I think of how difficult it was to teach my grandparents how to use the Picture in Picture functionality of their projection TV, when they were in their 50s... It makes me very afraid of how well people of their generation would handle two factor authentication on their credit cards, now that they're in their 70s and 80s.
I've been a software developer working on video games for 20 years and as simple things become easy we find more difficult things to do.

When game machines solved the problem of moving lots of 2d sprites around we wanted to make 3D games.

When flat shaded 3D moved to hardware we wanted texture mapping.

Now even a mobile phone game will have people writing pixel and vertex shaders.

Then there's mmo technology where we have to build and run servers for millions of players with no downtime.

In my industry at least team sizes have only ever gone up as has complexity.
I did. Then I googled amazon.com and "order canceled" and saw the same thing.
I think it may be the reverse, anyone who is holding a CS degree and doing computer-related job, like an IT support guy in non-software, non-tech company, counts as software developer.
Steuard was directly talking about "the scientific community" and employees of NASA.
Memory-boosting devices tested in humans
That math-co processor made all the difference in games.
Synthetic biology lures Silicon Valley investors
+ Google Page Rank, for having a mobile website.
It isn't a currency, it's just another payment method. Your provider will exchange the bitcoins for a real currency to pay their employees and taxes.
Make a living basically? Can work on both ends, like cutting your costs. I wonder how much you would have to be living on annually in order to have a decent idea work? Is $20k too high?

I've been working on that more than my startup recently.

We could live on $20k annually for at least 4 years. Now I am trying to figure out a SaaS that could generate that within a couple of months.
I don't mind fighting with price even though that's what you're not supposed to do.
Or just surviving, without evolving.
Deconstructing the CSS animation behind Twitters new heart button
Is there any way in which this is provable?
Great News!!! Former Academic Systems Librarian for a college of around 1,000 students. We paid $50,000 annually to access our journals 10 years ago. They weren't even the new Journals but ones that were a few months to a year old. What a money racket it was.

I was also in Grad School (Historical Theology) at the time and I personally boycotted any articles that were not Open Sourced and Free Access. It was hard and I had to talk with my Professors before I did that and well sometimes I just couldn't find research and break my rule BUT I think I was at around 95% of the time faithful to my pledge. It was IMPOSSIBLE for my MLS (Masters in Library Science) those suckers were locked tight back than. Librarians almost always equal the keepers of copyright and withholding resources (I don't get it still except for job security or fear).
I sincerely hope that you do not judge yourself as harshly as you judge others.
Microsoft did a partnership like this before with Apple (Microsoft Office) but it didn't turn out so well for Apple. Wondering what the outcome would be like with Satya in the driver's seat.
Can someone explain how Jet's business model isn't just selling (or rather, dropshipping) dollars for $0.90?
I work at a think tank specializing in tax policy, and I've seen/heard all kinds of technical problems at the IRS. My favorite story I heard was about the "hip replacement gang". These are the IT guys who retire on Friday, and come back on Monday as consultants at twice their previous pay. They can't simply be left to retire, because nobody else knows how anything works.
I admire what they do, but I definitely don't understand how they do it :)
Or a battery operated angle grinder.
Google calendar is experiencing a server error
Could someone with industry/academic experience in ML comment on the quality and reliability of the resources in the repo?
I very strongly disagree that dismissing the possibility of an incomplete theory is premature. The amount of evidence supporting our current theories is absolutely staggering. Some small acceleration on a technology nobody understands isn't going to overturn that evidence.

It needs to be almost absolutely undeniable that this drive works, not a mere suspicion or curiosity.

"IF scientists universally adopted your position [...]"

Scientists don't universally adopt positions, so that's not something we have to worry about. We have to worry about non-scientists adopting dreams over facts.

But really, there's no point in declaring victory or defeat while the battle is still going.
But the game isn't the performance on a machine, or even a few machines.

The game are tools like Kubernetes and Apache Mesos. I have X thousand VMs spread out through the world, with a few hundred per datacenter for geo-stability.

If a network link fails, no biggie. Still runs. If a rack dies, still no biggie. Redundancy makes it work. Earthquake/tsunami/natural disaster ? Your stuff still runs, with a bit higher latency and slower throughput.
And the "debunk" sites clearly explain, what he meant by that was that the Pentagon literally could not account for that amount of money. Not that trillions of dollars were missing, but that their accounting capabilities were not sufficient enough to track that large of a sum of money.

As mentioned, the entire US budget was less than 2 trillion dollars in 2001. That would be an awful lot of money to go missing and no one notice, 9/11 or not.
C# is a decent language if you like imperative programing. .NET MVC, though, is far from impressive. The routing is crap, Razor is designed to encourage you to dump C# straight into your views, and in general it feels like a "let's do Rails in C#", which I really don't see as the future of web development.
What you are looking at has nothing to do with dynamic languages. Static languages and modern IDE's do this just fine, and much more.

Here is an example:

https://youtu.be/rhN35bGvM8c?t=5998

This is notch (the creator of Minecraft) coding a game live for several hours. Notice that the game is constantly running in the background for the entire duration of the cast and it updates as soon as notch changes the code.

This is done with Eclipse and Java.
Making decentralization the only strategy for the open web is a big bet, with little evidence in it's favor.

I mean, sure, if you don't want to count the first twenty years of the Internet, I suppose it doesn't have much evidence.

Author seems to be completely missing the other benefits, such as having a more open marketplace of ideas, of having a more robust set of different services to fall back on in case one falls over for whatever reason, and so forth.

The clincher for me was the appeal to "but but but we have to work with the .gov on this". It's pretty obvious that freedom of speech and decentralized control is anathema to every .gov out there today.
Can someone please explain to me how does one creates new technology without having alt least one of the following? a) working prototype, b) consistent theory why the new technology will work.

In other words, what made Roger Shawyer believe his engine will work if he does not know how should it work nor have a prototype?
Setup your own tahoe-lafs cluster on a vps.
No need to trust where you host it.
Yes, I'm saying that he doesn't deserve to be in charge of a project he started and owns. It's bigger than just his pet project now, it affects lots of people and many people spend a significant fraction of their life working on it.
Computer languages were a lot simpler in those days.
America's hooked on legal meth
And having worked at BT where those with wide access to the data on the phone network had to be Vetted (as they could look up the Queens phone number)

I can't see a lot of ISP staff being happy at having to be PV Veted (Top Secret in US terms)
It's interesting to consider what synthetic biology actually is in comparison to what investors think it is. The term is sexy, and the reality of it can be, too-- but only with advanced scientific understanding, which investors absolutely never (and I do mean never) have. I'd give "synthetic biology" a lifetime of two more years as a buzzword.

I work at a synthetic biology company, and largely the term is ill-defined even here. We make constructs that as a whole are not in nature, yet the separate pieces are more or less unchanged from their natural counterparts. Is this actually synthetic, or merely grafting of odd bits together for a new purpose?
Yes, but we are all hypocrites, so don't feel too badly about it.

The problem with not having a simple solution is that humans are wired to take action based on simple solutions. Here's a test for your theory of mind. Can you imagine that someone else thinks, "I know I'm not completely right, but I also know that the best way to lead this group forward is to present a simple solution as if it is right." How would they act?
Some of us don't like to download an app for each and every site we visit.
> Only the most stupid people are going to visit "verydangerousterrorismsite.com" without going through a VPN

While I agree with you that the intent of these laws is greater government control, why do you assume terrorists won't be stupid people?

People have googled how to kill people before - see http://www.digitaltrends.com/home/googling-how-to-murder/

You can strike at the low-hanging fruit first - and just because someone is an idiot doesn't mean they're incapable of doing damage.
Sarcastic
> With all the urban young people (esp. women IMO) who love to travel the world with disposable income (no families, marrying late), NG has no selling relationship with them.

Given its mission to increase and diffuse geographical knowledge, it's remarkable to me that National Geographic doesn't operate a travel-services agency (insurance, tours, guidebooks—that kind of thing). It seems like that should be right in its wheelhouse, and could be profitable enough to fund its research projects, if competently run.
The economic environment is becoming less favorable for large Western companies
Lenovo and Nutanix to Bring Hyperconverged Infrastructure to Global Enterprises
> It still has implicit numeric cast,

Implicit numeric casts that lose bits are not allowed anymore.

> exception unsafety

??
Can read original source [0] from Eric Raymond once you are done sniffing your finger

[0] http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6907
No. There's a few things that combine to make it different, but what it really boils down to are enums. Rust functions that can fail return a type, Result: http://doc.rust-lang.org/std/result/enum.Result.html

There's a number of things that make using this ergonomic: you can use the try! macro to convert it to a success value, returning an error value up the stack. You can use any of the combination methods on that page to chain various possibly-failing functions together into something that looks nice. Some people even use the word "monadic." We don't have if checks everywhere.

For more than you probably want to know on error handling in Rust, this guide just hit stable: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/error-handling.html
I think you need to get customers in order to get a feeling of how you should proceed forward.
What can you get from Open-Sourcing? Do you want a community of developers? For what?

Best Regards,
Needs more background. Is your product an app? Are you asking if you need a "web" version of your app?

Or is your product an website, and you've created an app that serves the same content?

Generally speaking, you're talking about two separate things. An app does not replace a responsive website - however there are too many considerations to make a blanket statement.
There's no FDIC providing government backed insurance for most commodities, or for non-bank accounts in fiat currency (e.g., those you'd have with a typical brokerage), so I'm not sure bitcoin is really fundamentally different than most commodities as a speculative investment

So for a speculative trader, I dont e that holding keys if any more essential than physically holding goods is for physical commodities; you obviously have to account for trust/security of the entity serving as your agent/broker, but that's typical.

Now, holding the keys may be essential to realizing some of the benefits of bitcoin which drive is value to some users, but for people investing in bitcoin, that may be peripheral to the purpose.
They have a very slim majority, and some conservatives believe in civil liberties.
Many times in the past bitcoin companies have been hacked, embezzled or otherwise lost user funds. There is no recourse.
It all depends on how unique and in-demand your skillset is. I did it over a year ago, but had the benefit of working at a company which was basically a consulting firm itself. When I had already decided I was leaving, one of the clients I had worked for expressed an interest in retaining my services. With the blessing of my former employer, they became my first client. After that, my former employer realized how difficult it was to replace my skillset and I essentially became a subcontractor for them. This may not sound great, but I set my own hours, worked from home when I wanted, and was payed about 1.75x what I made as a FT'er. I've able to spend more time with my wife and infant son, work less, and make more money than I did as a 9-5 'er.

However (and I say this not to brag, but as an important piece of information), I only believe this was possible because I was in the top X % (where X is maybe 5? 10?) with respect to my peers. I've seen other people attempt this and fail and it is because they were more replaceable than I was. So a lot of it comes down to where you are located (e.g. supply) and how many prospects there are around (demand).

Over a 1.5 years now I've had about 5 clients (not many), but they all knew me personally beforehand. Your personal/professional network is your biggest asset. Use it.
Wesnoth Project Status
Does anyone have any details regarding the rejuvenation of the Wesnoth project? I used to play this all of the time, and think that it's an incredible effort. I'd love to hear some success stories with FOSS software.

It looks like their last update is pretty extensive, and looks great:
http://www.wesnoth.org/start/1.12/
To guard against terror. Terror coming from a certain group of people, we are pushed to choose between living without potential terrorists, and without the stasi, or with the potential terrorists, and with the stasi. Stasi and multiculturalism - both or neither.
Yes, socially, and also for minor things like renting an appartment, communicating with service providers, tax authorities, banks, etc.
Released by NASA. I still as a non-scientist see this as something big. If NASA is saying there is thrust than there is thrust correct? Or is it just "impossible" so it means an error in testing instantly? Did you look at the results?

(Fishing for more details)
I've really enjoyed reading about the technology behind Jet. They are definitely doing some cool stuff with their dynamic pricing engine and advertising (see this post: http://techgroup.jet.com/blog/2015/08-17-realtime-pricing-re...).

However, I've found the site to be a bit strange at times regarding pricing due to their inventory model. For example, a month ago I bought a large pack of diapers for around $30. A very good deal. Then, a few weeks later when I chose the the option to purchase the same item as before, the same pack of diapers appeared as $80. Very strange.

I've found similar pricing irregularities throughout the site. It's still very possible to find good deals, but I feel that people will be wary to use the site regularly if they cannot count on the item they want always being in stock at a competitive price. Perhaps I'm using Jet the wrong way. It's very possible that they don't care about being a one-stop shop like Amazon, and instead want to rely on traffic from very specific hits through Google Shopping. Regardless, it seems like they need focus, as right now the site seems to be in limbo.
You're talking more about epistemic rationality - getting closer to the truth; 'yummyfajitas seems to be talking more about instrumental rationality - doing and thinking stuff that systematically yields success. But generally, you're right, and here:

> If what you care about is exploiting the cognitive failures of others, you're just a jerk.

I totally, 100% agree with you. Rationality is a tool; if you use it to exploit people, you're just a jerk.