skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, like:

> Most people then figured that the users had multiple deliveries which is I guess a possibility.

Possibility? That's the default. Whenever I'm in China I have 5+ pending orders from Taobao at any given time. From a single battery to reels of components or $500 equipment. Pretty much always from independent distributors, often in the same city or the other 10+ million people city next doors. Often you get delivery two-three times a day with all handwritten slips and boxes of all sizes wrapped in layers and layers of tape. Whenever I go home late at night you pass the local shipping centers having spread their packages all over the sidewalk and close to my hotel there usually a few guys sorting packages in a small van and a couple of electric motorcycles.

Sure, the numbers might be inflated, but the article does the classic mistake of trying to understand China with a western mindset.
Pose relevant practical problems for discussion vs more standard Q&A.Keep questions broad as you want to give them room to show where their thinking takes them.

E.g. When hiring a marketing role I'll give someone some campaign materials before the interview (when they arrive so they don't discuss it with friends/family) with instructions to tell me how they would improve this. There's no correct answer but I want to see how they approach and consider possibilities. I'm more interested in the 'why' they say something than the what. Combine this with an Excel or relevant technology test and you should have a good idea of if they can use critical thinking and logic to meet goals. Another question I've used is what business in another industry do they think is looking to change the market. Then challenge their views and see where they go.

For soft skill roles basic logic is seriously under-rated. Also finding someone that can look beyond the obvious. Look for someone that sees the world differently, like a Karl Plinkerton, but with some more common sense of course. I personally don't want hive-mind in a team. I want people that can respectfully disagree at all levels, provide options but then crack on with whatever decision is made. Its surprisingly hard to find this.
Eater.com story posted earlier today:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10549684
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Check out Kent Beckman's Prune for ideas along this line: https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/prune-a-code-editor.... It's not quite the same since it's more like an enforced paredit, but it contains a lot of similar ideas and also enforces indentation.
Netherlands prisons close due to lack of criminals (?inspiration for California)
> In this case it's the drive for culture that causes monoculture.

It's the drive for a culture that can be commodified and packaged up that causes monoculture.

I was passing through times square the other week. One of the 10-story tall LED billboards had a girl in underwear with the tagline "No retouching on this girl! The real you is sexy." We seem to be disillusioned, and that makes authenticity in advertising hot. So find the hottest authentic girl, package her up, and mass-produce her authenticity.

The way out is to build your cultural values around that which cannot be commodified. Value authentic authenticity, and value the things that can't be measured in dollars and economic efficiency. We've known what that is: self-expression, creativity, friendship, family, and love.

What we struggle with is recognizing fake authenticity. For some reason we value hallmark love more than a handwritten note because the hallmark typeset is more refined or it has a more clever tagline or the art on the cover will supposedly evoke a deeper emotion than any stick figure I'm capable of drawing.

We've been conditioned to think the best expression of our love is something that can be bought in the card isle, and we've forgotten that our love is actually ours to give freely.

The only way out of the catch-22 is to decondition your way out of the value and belief system that perpetuates the catch-22. What's the old adage? Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: there is no spoon.
Banks use the float caused by check processing and transfer delays as investable funds. They have no real incentive to speed up the process, and most measures to reduce delays have come in the form of regulations.
>I don’t say I disagree, really, but you really ought to dial down the nutty-rant factor just a tad.

Only seems nutty because you don't know what is going on in the world.

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397
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How would you do different?
iSAX2 yields a much better inverted index style model.

The thing is, particularly with time series data, a lot of times it is sufficient to at least start with the summary data in the index.
It's been a few years since ARM processors had any inherent power efficiency advantage over the equivalent Intel processors.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6529/busting-the-x86-power-myt...
This wasn't done by 'academia'. It was apparently done by a Federally Funded Research and Development Center sponsored by the Department of Defense.

That doesn't mean there isn't room for criticism regarding the activities but that would be criticism regarding government activities and not academic activities.
And how does that explain why they have an oversized retail branch on every corner of the financial district?
Ah yes, the classic response to dark matter.

But you should know that this is precisely the same response that scientists took to dark matter. They have spent decades doing numerous studies and experiments trying to nail down the source of these unusual observations that might be "dark matter". And in every single case, again and again they've eliminated everything else it could be and focused in on a very tightly constrained explanation: weakly interacting massive particles traveling at very sub-relativistic speeds (aka "cold dark matter"). The dark matter/WIMP theory has now been verified to an enormous degree across a variety of different observational fronts. Nothing else fits the bill no matter how hard we try, only a very specific dark matter theory fits the evidence.

And it's not unprecedented, we know of other types of dark matter (such as neutrinos) though we know such things don't make up the bulk of the mass that appears to be out there. We have detected it, time and again, we just haven't observed it directly. Nor do we know exactly what it is, though we have some strong suspicions based on likely extensions to the standard model.

There really is no better explanation.
Unity has integrated a 2d physics solution that is very similar to their 3d solution. It has different strengths/weaknesses relative to the 3d solution.

Another option is simply using 3d physics volumes with your 2d sprites if you need features of the 3d physics systems. This works fine and you can constrain objects to a plane/rotation axis as needed.
I've thought for a while that the most likely long-term solution to the "Millenials want to live in the city but work for all these South Bay tech companies" reverse-commute problem is that Mountain View will densify until its residents live in the city.
Hello from NixOS:) (https://github.com/seagreen/vivaine)

I don't think nixpkgs is a direct solution to this problem though.

(A) Sometimes you're stuck with cabal-install because the rest of the people in the project use it. Nixpkgs includes many different sets of haskell packages, but isn't designed to pull in arbitrary versions of lots of different haskell packages by default.

(B) Even if the rest of the team was using a set of haskell packages compatible with one of the Nixpkgs sets, it still involves extra work to figure out what C libraries the computer you're deploying to has, and then to make sure they're packaged for Nixpkgs and build with them.

I think Nixpkgs and NixOS are _fantastic_ tools, but they aren't a panacea for all haskell deployment solutions.
There needs to be much wider awareness of this for any serious changes to happen on a wide scale. Problem is, how do you accomplish that?

Don't posit it as a privacy vs law-enforcement thing. At its heart it's game-theory.

Let me get a bit abstract first so we can tighten up the lingo. If we start with Cogito ergo sum - the concept that all we know as an individual is that we think and everything else is up for debate, we can also posit that when it comes to intentions we can only know our own. Some people don't even know what they want...I digress. Back to game theory.

You as an individual have no idea what someone else's intentions are. You can trust them, but you can't be sure exactly what they want or what they will do.

Do you provide all electronic communications; spoken, typed, captured by an imaging sensor, read, downloaded, listened to, purchased etc to a body that has the greatest capacity to control you? If yes...

Do you trust all politicians, bureaucrats, and law-enforcement officers? The answer is probably no but we've gotten nowhere because the majority of people have cognitive dissonance when it comes concepts involving technology and privacy intermingling.

So can we posit it like a game of cards? If you had the choice to show 2 cards from your hand, 1 card or 0 cards, which would you choose - knowing that the other player has put down none?

I'm sure there's a better analogy but I thought I'd put the game-theory idea out there so others can take a stab at creating an effective metaphor.
I agree, but that's all consulting\agency work. Markets change and people move on. Not sure why there are those who expect or wish for life-time employment (besides for historical\cultural reasons).
Slick, thanks!
>Consider a new user, with no experience in office software at all.

But is that even a reasonable share of the market any more? I'm hardly a spring chicken and I was exposed to Office in elementary school. I would imagine that the proportion of people who've never used an office suite (and can't use Google to search for answers for how to do things) is fairly small at this point.

In my experience, adding the Ribbon was a huge step backwards in terms of usability, not because the Ribbon is inherently bad, but because it was a very big, very abrupt change from the File | Edit | View ... menu system that preceded it. I was working on an IT helpdesk at the time the Ribbon rolled out (with Office 2007), and the backlash from users who couldn't apply the same set of steps that had always worked for them to do things like adjust paragraph spacing was immense.

I feel like Microsoft was blinded by its focus groups. Perhaps the focus groups included people who weren't familiar with Office, or with computers at all, and that skewed the results enough to make it seem like the Ribbon was a good idea. But in practice, the cost of adopting the UI is not just the cost of learning the new UI, but also the cost of forgetting the UI that preceded it. The Ribbon might be great if you're starting from scratch with a new UI, but the existing Office 2000 UI was so entrenched, the cost of forgetting was huge.
> That's paying a university to do law enforcement work.

Not really. The organization involved is SEI, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center sponsored by the Department of Defense. Not at all the same thing as CMU.

Mentioning this for clarity, not as a statement about the actually activities.
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> Why can't the dad stay home with the kids and leave the mom be the "strong independent" woman she wants to be?

Because the wife won't allow it; it's extremely unattractive to women to be a stay-at-home-husband, or so I've been told (by women).
I wonder why Adbusters died out, this is basicallynthe same message
1. Don’t go into details about, for example, the behavior of the US, when that was not the topic being discussed. It’s fine to merely bring it up as an aside, but don’t go into any deep details unless someone asks.

2. Don’t ascribe ignorance to people that could very well be honestly disagreeing with you. It is very possible to have read all your references and still not agree with you. People draw different conclusions from the same facts all the time. Reasonable people can disagree.

3. Don’t go overboard with references. More is not better. One or two references (which should ideally themselves be summaries with references of their own) is quite enough.
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Hakyll will be very similar to something like Nanoc. The difference will be mainly in the language and ecosystem -- compared to normal languages Haskell is pretty weird.

That said, Haskell is also _incredibly awesome_ and especially well suited to static site generation. Plus Pandoc is possibly the best format conversion tool out there. But I would only use if if you either already know Haskell or are curious and will enjoy playing around and learning new things.
I initially thought the same thing (although never had any malware I knew of on any of my Macs ever) so I tried entering false passwords which came back as failed log-ins. It was only after entering the correct one later did it verify and the application finally launched so unless they had a way to authenticate actual Apple ID accounts as well, highly unlikely to be malware.
I recently spent some time trying to turn a 2D simulation of Special Relativity into a game:

https://github.com/blevinstein/SRAsteroids

To see what it looks like, you can check out this youtube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hSCz7tRl1s

I wrote an engine that modeled object positions as "timelines", where position varies with time, and demonstrated the basic relativistic effects (length contraction, time dilation, and frequency shifting).

Unfortunately, I never really figured out how to turn these into actual game mechanics.
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> Show me 100 year old (or 200 year old!) reclaimed plywood and you'll have made me a convert.

You can buy 200 year old teak. There are plenty of wooden buildings around the world that are multiple hundreds of years old.

When plywood is shown to last 500 years without breaking a sweat, then I'll believe it's a great building material full stop.

For $500mm it should be built to last a millenia. I know it's not, but again, engineer brain.
Things should get better, to some extent, with Same Day ACH.

Starting September 2016, their should be relatively cheap next day ACH transactions available to the majority of US bank accounts.

It's far from perfect: still not instant, will probably cost money (interbank fee of about $0.09), and won't immediately support debits. However, it's a big step forward for US banks.
That depends on how sensitive higher ed is to competition from vocational training for things like programmers, right? Something like Udacity isn't going to replace a traditional CS degree, but something more like an IT degree could just be high-end vocational training offered by a traditional four-year institution, and as college costs rise, it could start to eat into the lower end.
Blocking based on port is a silly thing. He probably just ran ssh on port 443 to get around it.
Singapore authorities make record number of requests for Facebook account data
Some good points in here, but the points about chains/franchises is misguided.

I've been to many countries. If you go to China, Vietnam, Colombia, Eastern Europe, you can find plenty of places without mainstream chains and lots of local shops.

You know what? Most of them suck.

Bad selections, overpriced, trying to cheat you on change, rat droppings or layers of dust on top of a variety of food products...

... I know if I go to Duane Reade or Chipotle, the food or medicine I buy will be legit, unexpired, and without any egregious violation.

If I buy a pair of jeans at Walmart or Target and they rip in the first week I own them, I can take them back.

Chain banks mostly suck, and credit unions or online banks are far better. But for food, clothing, and medicine, chains are a godsend. You don't get cheated, everything is decent quality, and clean. If you buy something and it's broken, you can take it back. Not so in most of the world.

(And also, many of the small shops locally owned aren't owned by local people just getting by -- they're owned by local bosses, who are just as callous as the archetypical big corporation, but much less effective at delivering to customers and much less accountable.)

Liked the rest of the article, and do admire companies that operate differently like REI. But lionizing small disorganized ineffective dirty shops is a miss; Chipotle and Duane Reade are godsends compared to what you'd get otherwise. If you don't believe it, check out any developing country before chain stores move in. It's not a better state of affairs.
To use the lock analogy:

It's not OK to break into random houses under the guise of lock picking research. Even if it is research, it's still B&E.

However, the designer/manufacturer/seller/marketer of the defeated locks would look silly to come out and say, "No fair, you're not allowed to pick those locks. We clearly said you could only do that in our test lab!"
That only proves the point of the article: Mobile is still bad and has fundamental barriers to overcome. In the 1980's, the "obsolete the moment you buy it" and "expensive paperweight" jokes were commonly encountered for PC's.

The nature of what will cross those barriers is still up in the air, though: It could be plugging the phone into a dock to access the traditional peripherals; it could be used in tandem with a novel display technology like a VR headset, and likewise use novel interaction methods. The market hasn't started proposing serious solutions yet.
Already posted five times.
Most comments here (and it's not even the original):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10535310
Already posted four times.
Most comments here (and it's not even the original):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10535310
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Misinterpreting Copyright–A Series of Errors
You have #1 and #2 inverted.

Prop 13 happened first. After rents failed to stabilize [0], Rent Stabilization ordinances were enacted.

[0] One of the several arguments for Prop 13 was "Prop 13's enactment would keep rents in check, because increases in property valuations (and -thus- property taxes) are a significant contributor to spiralling rents.". Turns out that that argument was fabricated. :P
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"I find it shocking the lack of public reaction to the behaviour of various world governments"

Human reasoning doesn't work on logic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

So you shouldn't, the vast majority of the public is stupid, uneducated and illiterate.

Lastly capitalist societies are not set up to defend themselves vs the rich... see here, the spying is for dissidents not terrorists.

Important:

http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137
DNS is already a a distributed chain of trust. I trust that the well know ftp site will give me a good hints file to get to the root servers. I trust that the root servers will provide me with the proper ns and glue records for the tld servers. I trust that the tld servers will provide the correct ns and glue records for the domain I want to resolve. DNSSEC just formalizes the trust with digital signatures.

A traditional CA validates empirically that a customer controls a domain at some point in time. DNSSEC is a stronger validation of control of the domain, because it's a property of the domain itself.

Trusting the domain registry to indicate who controls a domain makes a lot more sense to me than trusting a third party. If I can't trust the DS records, I can't trust the NS records either.

A DS record doesn't indicate a connection between an organization and a domain though, which a traditional CA supposedly might.
If B2B and internal working communication if the primary usage I think .com best as it feels more international company. Plus will save hassle if you have employees moving between countries as you grow.

If email supports B2C or will remain fixed regardless of employee movement I'd run the local domain address as it should help filter request origin.

I own the .com of my name (based in Australia) and do some marketing consulting. Someone owns the .com.au. in the same industry. I receive the occasional email from their business leads so people definitely confuse.
I just looked up the price of bulk tofu, and it looks like the protein/price ratio is less than that of ground beef but ~2x that of milk or eggs. I can't say I've actually tried tofu. Maybe some day I'll give it a whirl.

For years now, I've wanted to see a wider availability of affordable plant-based proteins, particularly at normal grocery outlets. At the same time I understand that for many folks, beans are ideal since they're quite affordable. Soy milk is a prime example of the difference in cost between plant and animal protein. Not only does soy milk cost about 2x what cow milk costs, but it has only about 65% the protein per serving, making it more like 3x the price. Perhaps there will come a day when these things are more affordable, but I fear it may never happen since food seems only to get more expensive with time.

The main thread was talking about technology, so maybe someone can come up with a way to process and distribute plant products more efficiently. There is a certain dilemma here in that many plant-goers like small-scale operations, when large-scale operations and bulk processing are necessary for the lowest prices. In this sense, there seem to be two separate goals being combined together -- the desire to return to the olden days of family farming, and the desire not to eat meat. I have also felt that there is something of an elitist culture surrounding some of the vegan circles, where much of the food is very high quality yet rather pricey. Perhaps it dates back to Hitler's plant-based diet, which was also seen as high-class and elite. I can't help but wonder if the prices are kept where they are as a result of this elitist culture.
Author doesn't seem to be aware you can unwrap multiple optionals in one if let statement?
It's a very limited set of documents, like prepared quarterly and annual statements.
I stop my aws service .
It's interesting how the FCC has been trying since 2001 to ban free software on radio devices. rms predicted that these bans would be extended to other devices. I don't think we have anything quite like it yet, do we?

Maybe it's confirmation bias, but he always seems like a Cassandra to me. What sort of paranoid and widely ridiculed predictions has he made that turned out to be completely wrong?
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