skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nitpick, but:

> All of these have increased in the last several generations:

[...]

> 4. Number of options and alternatives in almost every area of our lives (except cable/internet providers of course)

Actually, the number of options and alternatives in cable/internet providers has, over the last several generations, increased from 0 to a number greater than zero.
> For people living paycheck to paycheck, four weeks of savings might not be easy to accumulate.

That is the major problem: those who are poor and don't know their rights are hit the hardest - and this is why at-will should be abolished.
Automata Memory Processor Points to Future Systems
One should be careful to not box people in too much, of course HN is full of tinkerer-types though (i mean, it's in the name), but I don't see that as the opposite of someone who is possible of searching for meaning, that's just absurd.

Judge people less, it doesn't do you any good, and it doesn't breed better discussion.

You're doing the exact same judging by going "I'm tired of having discussions on HN for this exact same reason..".

Just do your best to contribute and don't fuel the flames when things start going downhill, it's (imo) the best way breed an overall better environment.
Better Missed Call Pricing for Lead Generation / Verification ( India )
Well, there's a difference between being able to work for multiple systems, and having all or nearly all drivers actually doing that. Is there anything to suggest that all or nearly all drivers actually do that? In SF i see most uber drivers exclusively driving for Uber (but most lyft drivers seem to be on both systems). That's an admittedly small sample size, so is there some evidence that isn't accurate?
How Will Silicon Platforms Evolve?
When you have memory leak in your code, you can typically just drop used resources from console or even make some code to do it periodically. Erlang tracing is so good that finding memory leaks is rather easy. There WAS one situation where VM was leaking data (actually this was improper usage ;)) and it was fixed rather fast after people started to complain.
Obfuscate PHP
Join an HMO, they do this work for you.
They could probably buy up the rights to BeFS for really cheap now. It was a beautiful file system, in my opinion.
The results from these are always really fascinating and I think if you look at the past few years you can really see a lot of momentum behind the language. I'm excited to see the results of this year's survey, particularly with an eye to Clojure as a mature piece of technology and to what the community perceives the current state of ClojureScript to be.
Comparing a Giraffe to a Blender: Firebase and Redis
A great idea, but the pricing seems a little steep ($50/mo/policy) for something that can already be done using routing policies in your hosted zones.
Imagine a world where crony-capitalist incumbents legislate with the explicit purpose of stifling competition and protecting their monopolies. That is the world we live in.

Given that fact, as Uber your potential choices are to either: 1) ignore those laws until you grow large enough to mobilize public support 2) invest in lobbying yourself as a defensive measure 3) do both.

The fact that Uber is lobbying and in some cases outright ignoring laws has little to do with the quality of their product, and a lot to do with the realities of our current legal system.
Related, where do I begin to learn about live streaming/broadcasting from end-to-end?

I'm experimenting with an Apple TV project and I'd like to know (a) what has to take place to get from video camera or iOS device to an HLS stream? (b) What open source tools (if any) are available to help do this? (c) what storage/server requirements are there?

TIA
I don't really have any expertise to comment on whether setting up an LLC versus a non-profit is a good idea. I'm not even a big Zuck fan. I just think it's so very… western culture in 2015 that a bunch of internet warriors are getting irate because they think a self-made bajillionaire isn't donating $45,000,000,000 of his personal wealth the proper way.
Add in Bitcoin for a lower barrier to entry for Uber-like services.
> eat and pay rent

The retiree homeowners in my life also need it for medical coverage. Feels like this country is a pyramid scheme that's falling apart.
I think ZFS would still need some work to be a good consumer filesystem. Most notably, they would have to remove the restriction that you can't expand a pool by adding devices -- the way you have to do it now (swap in a larger device for one existing device, resilver, and repeat) is just a non-starter.
Thank you very much! I hope it will serve you well.
OH I miss the BFS
This is more evidence that there should be a minimum-reading-time requirement for contracts to be considered valid.

We now have the capability to algorithmically generate an estimate of how long it should take an average person to read any given text. Take something like 3/4 of that time (this value is tunable), and if a person wasn't given at least that much time to read a contract, then there patently cannot be a "meeting of the minds"[1] and the contract was never established.

This removes much of the social pressure against holding up the line, and discourages extra-long contracts. Every contract should be read and understood completely.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meeting_of_the_minds
Maybe; maybe not. Regardless, they aren't in a position to alter their software to the degree required at this time.
>Nextdoor — the neighborhood-based social networking platform with a billion-dollar valuation

Am I the only one that's never heard of this company?
That's fair, dragonwriter. I saw your comment above as well. In the context of this thread I'm only thinking about things from a harsh economic perspective, but if you loosen that constraint of course you gain a lot more options.
Ask HN: Next-gen task manager app. Feedback?
Working on a new idea and looking for feedback. I'm still flushing out the messaging so bare with me.

It's a to-do list app, with a twist...

Imagine if Trello, Todoist or <Insert App Name> helped you get more done... Instead of being barraged by hundreds of tasks, our application would keep you focused on your most important task. Evidence shows that multi-tasking makes us less productive (http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/multitask.htm). This is just one step to help you get more done. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/7ifRVVX.png

Additionally, every morning we provide you a list of your tasks that we've prioritized by a number of factors (other tasks, task length, etc…). You can then prioritize them based on what you want to accomplish for the day. Organizing and planning your data has been shown to help you get more done.

But, it's sophisticated enough to be your project management app...

As more of your colleagues start using the application, really interesting things happen. Tasks can become dependent on each other, which will auto-magically generate beautiful roadmaps (Gantt charts). Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/tpujpiR.png

And - because every morning everyone is prioritizing their tasks, we provide a section where at a glance you can see what everyone is working on. It's like daily stand-ups on steroids.

Those are the key points of the app, but there are many more. You can read more at: http://hellofocus.com/

What do you think? Any feedback?
alright this is awesome.
Not the same thing at all. On VMS, when you opened a file, made changes and saved them, you automatically got a new version. You could open any version using the colon syntax, but it's not the same thing at all as resource forks.
4g lte isn't in those areas either.
This would have been a lot more compelling if it basically wasn't just somebody stating the existence of resource forks and acting like that's a surprise. If someone knows just one thing about HFS+, it's that it's kludgey wrapper around the ancient Mac OS filesystem which added POSIX behaviors and other more modern niceties that no one at Apple was thinking about in the '80s. If someone knows just two things about HFS+, the second thing is the existence of resource forks.

There are wide, deep, rich, fertile fields of HFS+ criticism to be had- low hanging fruit just dripping with potential for hundreds if not thousands of snarky blog entries about problems with HFS+ for people to post to HN. This is not one of them. The filesystem situation on OS X has such a long, tortured, and widely documented history of technical and human failure that even the Cleveland Browns should feel sorry for it.

There is at least one extremely old, legacy font file format supported by OS X in which the entire font is in the resource fork. Other than that, resource forks themselves have been deprecated for the entire existence of OS X. This is like stumbling across some ancient vestige of DOS compatibility in Windows and treating that discovery like a smoking gun gotcha moment that you're certain is going to blow everyone's minds.
Shouldn't he "short" the stock instead? ;)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1497563/
This isn't about what the author does/doesn't know. The author managed to figure out that this was about resource forks, meaning that clearly they'd done some footwork and had found the right thread of information to follow.

But GP's point gets to how the author handled that new knowledge: post an essay of cranky, self-assured tone to their website instead of following that thread to understand how and why OS X resource forks came to be. I.e. they followed the path of "anything I don't already know must be wrong":

I'm sure there's an Apple-y reason for the existence of this feature, but I can't imagine what it might be.

It's hard not to bash this kind of rhetorical mess. "I took the time to research everything up to here, then EPIC FLOUNCE!"

If you're going to write an article critical of HFS+, perhaps making an argument for a successor, great! It's a topic I'll get wholeheartedly behind. But this article is just lazy bitching on the internet, which certainly doesn't deserve to be voted up.
Is Software Eating Hardware? Programmable Hardware Comes of Age
I'm confused by your addition of "and don't know their rights". In at-will, not knowing their rights means they get fired with no notice because that's allowed. Without at-will, not knowing their rights means they potentially get fired with no notice because they don't know it's not allowed.

I would think that giving people more rights is more helpful when they do know their rights.
>It's very possible that it's not possible to deploy fiber profitably.

Well, boo hoo for them. If it's not profitable, they shouldn't have signed the contract in the first place. They can't just shirk their contractual obligations because it's financially inconvenient; that's why their called 'obligations', not 'optionals'.
Why is a personally owned self driving car a better solution than robust public transit? Self driving cars still are inefficient if they need to be parked and likely don't magically solve congestion if they take up as much space as current cars on the road.
"Looking more like math" is not so vapid. As Leslie Lamport says, programming is hard because thinking is hard. Fortunately, we long ago invented and mostly debugged something to make thinking easier: Mathematics. But, it turns that not only is mathematics a great tool for thinking, it's arguably the best such tool we've invented so far.

The people that object to making programming look more like math seem to think that the goal is to make programming serve mathematics, but the actual result is that (just as with physics) math ends up in better service to programming.
I read Breiman's random forest paper, but I'll give his others a read too. Does the variance reduction effect apply to any ensemble method then?
Elvis Presley's phone bill for local service in 1973 was $134.19. A simple CPI inflation calculator says this would be over $700 today.

http://www.elvispresleymusic.com.au/pictures/1973-april-2-ph...
I was a little skeptical - after all was it really tricking me into thinking it's 3D? Or is this just an odd visual artifact? Then I read:

Notice how the shaft now seems tilted to the left?
(Did you just catch yourself shifting your head to
the right? Convincing isn't it?!!)

And I realized I had just moved my head to the right to center the shaft without realizing it. I laughed out loud when he caught me on it.
really? it just worked for me http://swiftlang.ng.bluemix.net/?cm_mmc=developerWorks-_-dWd...
oh dear

http://acme.cat-v.org/
If you're going to bother filling each cooking utensil with water you're better off giving them a quick rinse with a spray faucet. As it's faster to spray each utensil than to fill each container. Your "simple" method is a worse version of method 1 and doesn't actually solve the problem.
> 3d printers are great for quick prototyping but they can't do the fine detail of proper sculptured/cast models which if you care about miniature gaming is presumably the point.

If you care about miniature collecting that's the point, and because of the willingness of collectors to pay for that, most miniatures gaming companies cater to collectors.

I think a lot of people into miniatures gaming prefer the three-dimensionalty (and, for free-movement games) freedom of miniatures as compared to other alternatives (e.g., gridded boards) and would be happy with distinguishable-but-less-detailed models.
Drinkers have to adapt to the situation. Be it in SF or any other city where mass transit closes before bars, if I know I'm in a situation where I need to drive myself, then I'm going to severely limit my drinking, if drink at all.
Hah. "Show me a competitor and I'll show you a loser" [1]

I like the idea that only anti-competitive (probably large) institutions can do stable long term projects (space exploration, say). I think it's hard to argue against that claim, really. Highly competitive firms do produce a lot of stuff, so they feel productive, but the pile of new apps that came out in 2015 will not propel us into a more livable world.

But a lot of resources went into the competitive clusterfuck of building them all! Those resources should have been allocated better.

I'd prefer a responsive democratic state to direct the flow of resources and guide long term innovation, instead of a monopoly that trades stewardship of innovation for an upward redistribution of wealth and has zero accountability to anyone outside of it.

[1] Apparently Thiel used to say "Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser" when he lost at chess. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/28/no-death-no-tax....

The article doesn't say so but I think that quote originally comes from Vince Lombardi. http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2010/03/why-the-vince-lo...
just worked for me...i ran my hello world app http://swiftlang.ng.bluemix.net/?cm_mmc=developerWorks-_-dWd...
To be fair, resource forks have been around since HFS first came out. I doubt Apple invented this concept, but they definitely predate MS on this front.
Event-Driven Data Management for Microservices
I'd love to see someone play around with getting GLC + Twitch and/or Youtube Live working together. Or making streaming video in real time from a programming language (maybe openFrameworks can do this?) ...
Very cool, can't wait!
Oh, that's fair. My mistake then.
Fyi, they told me only interns and it's unpaid.
according to the article, the manager was fired immediately afterwards. He or she may well also have been aware of this plan.
How can you create matter out of thin air?

Overeating makes people fat. Period.
It's in that Thumbtack/Shyp category of billion dollar companies where the only time you hear them mentioned is from VC's and TechCrunch not actual users
PHP7 now supported by Facebook's HHVM
He is under no obligation to pay taxes he does not owe. Tax deductability of charitable giving is effectively government spending, so take it up with your lawmakers if you don't want that. It has no bearing on Zuckerberg from a legal perspective, and since I'm not out to judge him, I don't really care if he decides to spend his money on a foundation or give it to the government.
Your MPD8 should work with an iPad/iPhone with the camera connector if you attach a powered USB hub to the camera connector first, and then attach the keyboard to the USB hub... I've done that to get my Novation Impulse to work with my iPhone.
Do you how a company would you give employees shares directly without them being taxed on the grant?

One way I've seen this is with RSU double triggers: you are granted RSUs but you don't own them until the stock is actually liquid. However, at that time, you will have to pay taxes and you don't get long term capital gains.

Update: Just read your link, it's crazy how on this topic, Ben goes on a rant about random things, and whether it's fair to give 10y exercise period, because the person working there doesn't somehow get that benefit. Even if you have a money, employees are not investors, they can't just throw $10-100k on one startup, without knowing liquidation preferences or anything else, and which may or may not have some kind of liquidity in the next 10 years. It's useless to give equity if most people get screwed.
The Future of Privacy Forum's future of privacy is "no privacy".
The difficulty with adapting these studies is that culture can have a great influence in meal frequency and timing.

In America, the typical schedule is to have a large breakfast, get in your car to work, have a light/medium lunch, then drive back home for a large dinner with the family.

When I lived with my family in Italy, where cities are denser and families are closer, things were completely different: breakfast was espresso, and eating anything more than a croissant was rare. Around 1 the country shuts down with an audible clank as everyone goes home for a huge lunch with the family. After work is dinner, but it tends to be much smaller than lunch.

It can also vary depending on the part of Italy. Dinners were much larger in inland Rome than coastal Gaeta, although Romans tend to stay out much later, so it makes sense to have the extra calories.

Ultimately, it's an optimization problem that will never be solved. Even if there is an optimal meal method, most people will reject it because their personality/culture values pleasure above efficiency. What's the point of being healthy if you're not happy?
$3.3 million was about the amount Double Fine raised from Kickstarter for Broken Age. They then went on to commit a few million of their own funds. So, if you're trying to calibrate expectations in terms of quality versus funding you should think of Broken Age as being a Double Fine game in the $6 million range.
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> Where is there free parking?

In New York, there's free street parking practically everywhere except Midtown and FiDi: https://smoothparking.com/

If all street parking were metered or for commercial use only, I think it would improve the city a lot.
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...and significantly more than some developers I've worked with.
I think your right that Apple is more focused on iOS. I can't figure out how Apple expects developers to create apps for iOS if OS X goes away.
Another related article about reduced energy intake that adds some social commentary:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3518570/
"Energy Intake and Exercise as Determinants of Brain Health and Vulnerability to Injury and Disease"
This seems a clearer statement of your position. Absolutely, don't base 100% of your life on a 5% shot at an exit. That is indeed a common failure mode. But your reaction to this observation seems too extreme. It is possible to work these things out probabilistically. Treat your career as a portfolio, spend 80% say of it in relatively safe places, spend the remaining 20% in multiple places, don't stay too long if you stop believing in a place. Do all that, and the 5% probabilities add up. 5% here, 5% there can add up to real money.

It seems sub-optimal to assume that probabilistic money isn't money, it'll close you off to lots of opportunities for wealth.
It's recur, not recurse. Would you incurse during an incursion?
Don't forget the cultural aspects. Cultures like the French or Italian enjoy more their food moments. In their ultra efficient society, the Americans — generalization warning! — don't think is really an important social moment. No mystery that Soylent is an American thing.
I'm sorry, OP, but NTFS has resource forks as well, and they have value. The fonts are probably in resource forks because you are prohibited by copyright from copying or transferring them, but in other situations, they represent data that is only valuable to Mac OS, so that, say, if you rsync a bunch of files to a UNIX/Linux machine, you don't get things that are OSX-specific.

That said, it is a fairly non-transparent and mysterious bit of functionality.

My favorite thing about HFS+ is that about ten years ago at WWDC, I sat in with the Darwin Filesystem Birds-of-Feather, and asked them why it is case sensitive. They gave me a very simple answer:

Microsoft Office.

Office, like basically apparently all Microsoft software, aggressively takes any filename string you give it and sends it through a rube-goldberg machine of forced uppercasing and lowercasing at several levels of the application, and therefore does not reliably open "Something.txt" as "something.txt" or "SOMETHING.TXT", but will absolutely never open "Something.txt".

So, on my personal Macs, I actually run HFS+X, which is case sensitive and was designed for OSX Server. Homebrew works, all Apple apps and native Mac apps work. Office will almost definitely still not, but LibreOffice will.
I'm not sure how you see holding someone with no charges, no due process and no chances of release as mercy. It sounds more like torture to me.
In Washington State, Verizon sold their land-line business to a company called Frontier. The first thing Frontier did, before the ink even dried on the check, was announce that FIOS roll-outs were cancelled forever.

I also had to swallow my pride and go over to Comcast.

When Frontier asked me why I was cancelling my account, I said: "because you haven't upgraded my DSL speed since 1997, and now you've told me you never will." That operator didn't even bother trying to get me to stay after I gave that reason.
> A centralized network needs to be trusted for transporting data over vast expanses...

Thanks for the reply!

You state this as a fact, but I've spent many hundreds of hours trying to prove to myself that it's not a fact. I think with packet switched networks, you are probably correct. Instead, I've been designing an Isochronous network protocol.
If you could help me out with more concrete details on why all non-centralized networks are incapable of running at scale, it could save me a lot of time! :-)
I have no idea what you're talking about.
This rationale behind relationships like this is pretty straightforward. Banks can't profitably lend amounts below $250k to small businesses, because underwriting a $250k loan costs them about as much as underwriting a $1 million loan. If they can partner with a company that can do it, then banks can underwrite more loans without any increase in acquisition cost.
It's essentially a way to gather more information concerning a file/application without needing to fill the overall filesystem with fairly irrelevant data. So it's a natural place for things like the third-party fonts a program needs, the data files that a program uses, the settings a program has, etc. For example, a game could have a save file that's simply named Blah.sav, but in the data streams, it could have Blah.sav:Save1, Blah.sav:Save2, etc