skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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His use of quotes around "space station" is as good as his witty humor!
I think the parent is saying that pointers need storage too and this can add up, not that sizeof expressions are computationally difficult :)
The Shocking Truth of Silicon Valley Revealed
Sounds like a page torn straight from the CIA's Middle East playbook.
Would it be rational to assume that even Apple has a hard time coming by quality people and all their A players are already busy laying the ground work for whatever product category they are about to enter next?

For example, if that might be a car they will need much better software and that from day one, otherwise people will die. The lack of polish on OS X might be an indication that they are working on something big. Not necessarily big for us, but a huge effort for them.
Except that literally the next paragraph has a bunch of percentage comparisons (as does the preceding paragraph). These aren't cherrypicked stats; the article cites a range of comparisons to create a broad, meaningful picture of the situation.

But yes, by all means, dismiss a long and carefully researched article because it irks you the way a single figure is cited.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory
Sad to see looking at all the innovation that sprung up through them: https://github.com/asm-products

Personally I got my first real-world Rails app experience by working on the Helpful App (https://github.com/asm-helpful/helpful-web). And in turn that experience gave me the confidence to land my first paid Ruby on Rails consulting job.
just wanted to add that maybe allowing to donate without javascript enabled could make easier for people to donate?
I read this as "how Apple relies on the R&D of other companies" For example, the quote about how IBM spent 100x as much on R&D as Apple.

IBM has produced 6 Nobel prize winners that lead to revolutionary advancements in the industry which Apple "innovation" relies on. There would be no iPhone without the investments in basic research and process that has done been done at IBM, Bell Labs, Intel, et al. When I worked at IBM, I couldn't wait to read the next IBM Systems Journal, it was the only piece of "corporate" internal communications in any company I've ever worked for that I looked forward to. I worked at IBM T.J. Watson in the 90s and one of the things told to us during orientation is that our budget, and our research was separate and independent from the commercial divisions of IBM and we were free to work on stuff that wasn't necessarily commercially viable.

Something rubs me the wrong way about this article and Apple's R&D spending. R&D spending is wasteful, it is a gamble, but every once in a while, it produces something incredible that leads to a huge net positive externality for the world. Some of the greatest inventions were done on research no one ever thought would have any commercial usage. These days politicians decry studies on bear DNA, or Shrimps on Treadmills, but who's to say these won't be vitally important things 20 years from now?

Part of relying on the research advancements of others, standing on the shoulders of giants, IMHO, is to take your success and your profits, and invest them, continuing a kind of scientific "social contract" for those that come after you.

Hoarding profits and bragging about how you can get away with making lots of money without having to hire many researchers is IMHO, a kind of parasitical attitude.

On top of that, is the tendency of people to credit Apple for all advancements, even those that were tweaks on hard work done by others. Do I credit Apple for their graphics performance, or Microsoft, AMD, PowerVR, NVidia, SGI, and everyone else who over the past decade have invested massively into consumer 3D acceleration? Do I credit Apple for amazing battery improvements, or Intel or Samsung investments into NAND? Is the A9X more important than TSMC/Intel/Samsung fab innovations? Or IBM's introduction of STM, Magnetic Storage, Eximer Lasers?

Science and Innovation are social endeavors relying on a community of shared progress. The secretive way Apple does R&D, their lack of publishing, and the way they promote this 'lone genius/inventor' view of the company rubs me the wrong way. I'm not saying Apple hasn't innovated, especially in mobile software, but won't should brag about not doing basic research, and banking a hundred billion in offshore cash to be used for what, stock buybacks?

Just what is wrong with say, spending some of that money to fund research into say, quantum computing or medicine? Does every damn thing have to be applicable to the next iPhone?
> He has fucked up personal beliefs-- this is a fact.

You find them distasteful. That's your opinion, not fact. His support of Prop 8 and the legal ramifications of Prop 8, are the facts here.

> These personal beliefs could have been kept in a box in his mind, but when he spoke on this publicly and loudly as a public figure

So you're only allowed to believe something if you don't actually act on that belief in a way that internet stalkers can find? Hmm, hopefully there's never an unpopular belief someone has that you would say is good, because they'll decide to keep it to themselves instead of risking getting fired. I'm not sure his position was public or loud, at least not until people dragged it into public. All he did was donate, thus getting himself on a legally-required list of donors.

There could be dozens of employees at Mozilla, even some execs, who voted for Prop 8 (voting against gay marriage) but didn't fund advocacy groups so that nobody knows. If Brendan Eich hadn't donated but voted and if nobody thought to publicly ask his belief and got an honest answer, he would still be at Mozilla to this day, quietly oppressing employees and infecting the world with his anti-gay views through Firefox. Or not, because I haven't heard any accounts of his political views actually entering the workplace until activists forced them to. To the public and to Mozilla employees, it was pretty much indistinguishable from "kept in a box in his mind."
not all oil...Saudi oil is because of the US agreement to defend Saudi which has that clause
Show HN: React Indie Bundle
Didn't think anyone else would be doing the same sort of thing. Changed it.
As is obvious from the post, Fred meant a list services that are used to publish lists for others to consume. Lists like the MacRumours' Buyer's code mentioned in the top comment. http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/

There's an obvious network effect: producers and consumers, more of each makes the service better, if producers get something as a return, even if it is just silly internet karma points.
Before today, I think the US dollar was about 60% of the SDR bucket of currencies.

For years I have read about probable problems if the US dollar was no longer the reserve currency, but it seems from what I have been reading that there is some sort of negotiated slow migration from the US dollar to using SDRs as the reserve currency.

I like slow and steady change, even is it means that eventually my country (USA) will lose a lot of economic advantage.
How to get a job at Google – as a data scientist
Pure B.S.
$89 Symple PC Project Evidently Dead
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Sysadmin's former boss claims five years FREE support or off to court
Rent is not high just because of scarcity. It's high in North Virginia even there is plenty of new housing on the market - the problem is that developers are only building luxury apartments and trying to rent at above market prices. Most of these places are offering 3-4 months free up front because nobody is paying the obscene sticker prices for a 12 month lease.

It's not just a local phenomenon - public REIT's are buying up affordable units nationwide and renting them out at >20% above market...

http://www.multifamilyexecutive.com/business-finance/luxury-...
I was just gonna comment about this. I've been a huge fan of Mashfeed for about a year now. Surprised I don't hear about it more often. I hate how the big social media networks give me one huge feed to sort through. Mashfeed lets me organize my favorite feeds from Instagram and Twitter into lists so I can literally only look at posts I want to see without scrolling through a bunch of nonsense.
We'll soon have an integration with Segment too. In fact, you can already use webhooks to send your Segment data to Alooma.
I guarantee you, the reason you were having trouble isn't because the grads "don't know anything" it's because you weren't paying enough. From my experience the job market for most flavors of EE is "dead". I think 25% of my class last year actually went into engineering. The rest went to CS grad school, software dev, consulting, or finance.

When you are offering lackluster responsibility, and bottom feeder pay, don't be surprised when you can't find talent.
That's a good example. But as you hint at: managing the content for that is probably pretty annoying for how simple it is.
It also helps to know that '=>' is really just syntactic sugar for a comma that also implicitly quotes the word to its left, and not a special operator for hashes. These 2 lines are the same (in Perl 5):

%hash = (hello => 'there');
%hash = ('hello', 'there');

This is also perfectly valid (though non-idiomatic) Perl 5:

print Hello => ' ' => there => "\n";
The correct response to the hypothetical "Why does it matter if I am a good public speaker..." statement is "it matters if you are going to be giving presentations and doing public speaking", not "saying um a lot makes you seem stupid". I still can't imagine a world in which being that directly accusatory to an employee is a good way to help someone.
Actually that was the intention if you looked at the original crowdfunding video. But a call from Apple prevented that from happening due to licensing issues of using their converters.
Cost per month:
$10 for usenet access with SSL support
$3 for VPN anonymity
$100 for 150mbps internet access
$15 for electricity to run a 24/7 box

Total per month - $128 to have things literally on demand.

How much do you pay your cable or satellite company?

EDIT:

I should say that the box does cost money, but usually can be piece together with old equipment.
Silicon rally: The changing US technology sector
Damn. You took the words right out of my mouth.
HTTP/2 is not TLS-only, even though major browsers will only use it over TLS. And even when over TLS, the TLS connection might terminate in a separate machine, it going cleartext the rest of the way.
How Corporate America keeps huge hacks secret
Just opened the dev tools in Canary. Not a big fan of that "mobile-first" device bar to be honest. As a primarily desktop dev, the previous device mode worked better for me (enable it when you need it, disable it when you don't). I hope we can at least make it optional in the final revision.

Everything else looks great though, keep up the good work!
Appreciate the list. The Chisel and MyHDL work are impressive. The Cocotb is new to me. I'll have to check it out.

Btw, what do you think of this one which I haven't seen anyone report on:

http://cx-lang.org/

Need to see someone experienced in hardware design try it with some realistic components and see how well it does. Especially ease of use and practical value compared to established alternatives like Chisel or MyHDL.
Respectfully, I must dissagree.

My country (USA) has benefitted hugely by being the reserve currency: effectively being able to generate money by fiat with lower chance of this causing inflation because other countries buy dollars and hold them in reserve to buy oil, etc.

I expect the economy in the USA will take a small gradual hit over the next decade as we lose (mostly exclusive) reserve currency status.
Yes, that was also in what I read.
here's one of the main reasons why income inequality is so bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-g6tXnI8b4
Wow. Talk about gratuitous negativity. Lots of people have a favorite theory about where Daesh came from. Blame Bush. Blame Obama. Blame Islam. Blame oil companies. At least this hammer isn't one we're already sick of hearing. What do you actually think is wrong with Piketty's analysis, other than the fact that he has actually published on this topic before?
That guy is seriously confused. He seems to be referring to sectoral balances but doesn't realise that having the USD as the international reserve currency is what has allowed the US to consistently run trade deficits (where importing is a benefit to society and exporting is a cost), that the US government does entirely determine the ability of the US private sector to save USD and is able to pursue full employment because it is a sovereign currency issuing government, and that foreign central banks can only buy US treasury bonds in USD, and mostly do so with reserves earned by exporting to the US, with interest being paid in USD. The entire article is like economic sounding gibberish.
It's been clear for a very long time - what's needed is: Opportunities for creation of wealth, access to health care and specifically mental health care and lots of education.

Next.
Gold was never a currency, it's a commodity.
I'm surprised by this reaction. Here's a more sympathetic reading: Sheryl thought Kim showed great potential and was doing great work. HOWEVER, it was clear to Sheryl that the presentation was super awkward from an audience POV. The problem would probably never be obvious to the speaker, because we usually are unaware of our Ums while giving a presentation. So Sheryl only wants to help the speaker. Is it a little embarrassing? Maybe, but it shouldn't be.

Now the author is a better speaker, and better professionally for it. Isn't that a great outcome?
This story masks BAD news.

http://blog.mpettis.com/2015/11/chinas-rebalancing-timetable...

China's debt today is over 200% of its GDP and may exceed 300% in five years. One hopes the IMF and China agreed on concessions will assist China in rebalancing its economy quickly, because as Petits' posting points out -- a disruptive end is near for the current model.
Why address the substance when a glib dismissal will do?
TL;DR: 3.5% of $233bln is more than 21% of $12.5bln. Is this just an article about basic math, or am I missing something?
There's a difference between "dead" as in non existent, and "dead" as in no job opportunities for grads. Advancements in software have eaten most of the entry level jobs in analogue and RF given simulation tech allows teams to consolidate in design. Anything cutting edge is regulated to the PHd level. As for power, politics and lack of funding assures power (in the US at anyrate) will remain trapped in the 70s and consequently won't be drawing any talent.
I assume that’s a big part of it. It’s disappointing though, because there are huge possibilities for user interface improvement in systems like file managers, “office” software, web browsers, image/video/audio/&c. tools, developer tools, and so on, for someone willing to invest serious time and money in getting the core abstractions right instead of chasing shiny new small features.

It’s depressing that for example the file manager from BeOS is still better than anything we have in current machines, and that the OS X file manager isn’t fundamentally anything but a mashup of the ones from NeXT and from original Mac, with slightly different chrome.
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A little POODLE left in GnuTLS (old versions)
A Decade-Old Gag Order, Lifted
You pick YC Research's first three groups
Algorithmically constructed link-bait HN post-title notwithstanding, I'm losing it waiting to know more about what YCR is doing. Aren't you? Let's just pick. If you had your hand on the tiller what areas would see YCR building in the short-term?

Rather than the one initial group, let's say three announced research areas over the next three years. Parsing Sam's original post we know there's $10mil. $24mil is a good number for a roughly MIT Media Lab sized yearly budget. We can assume efforts to bring on other investors and many external partners although most will likely be providing resources and pro bono services rather than direct investment. Similarly, certain types of research will be better able to leverage YC's infrastructure without incurring the cost of building, say, a synthetic biology lab.

Also consider that this is YC in terms of overall strategy. Does this mean there is more or less likelihood to be proximal to current long-term research themes in SV? It's fascinating that multiple firms converge on things like flying networks infrastructure, VR, automotive, mapping tectonic, long-term futures on parallel lines. Will YCR be in there? Noticeably absent from the initial post (http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-research) is a critique of research as it's conducted in industry. Even if the goal is to make the IP openly available, there are myriad other business models including spin-offs. Nonetheless, maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I'm getting a family vibe from roll-out strategy: a 10 person start, doing diligence with Alan Kay and the like thinking of the old and highly insular (in a good way) think tanks, reference to 'projects' with 25 year horizons. So, maybe no spin-offs.

You’re pick.
You didn't address his argument at all. Just an ad hominem.

Is that because you can't address it? Because his thesis seems quite reasonable to me. And historically, we certainly know that societies with extreme income inequality are less stable than those with more equality.
I have a question. Given an u derstanding of special relativity plus Einstein's equivalence principle, can one derive the Ricci curvature formulation of GR? By that I mean, is the math of GR an inevitable consequence of those assumptions?
tl;dr: negative people can suck all the joy out of software development, particularly when doing the less enjoyable parts such as support/bug fixes for free. The author has some suggestions, but I think they work best for larger projects.

I've related this before, but I've had some super negative experiences with very entitled people. One person was a professor for whom I continued to build stats software for 18 months after leaving university. He actually repeatedly called me screaming when I was too busy to do some custom work for him on his timeframe. After giving him 10+ hours a week of free work for a year and a half because I thought the software was interesting and I believed in the work the various labs were doing.

I also work on a bit of open source software that I wrote that implements a high performance (threaded and heavily beaten on with vtune) ml algorithm.

I think the solution, particularly for small projects or individuals, is to preemptively cut people off. After many negative experiences, when I get bug reports or requests, if the reporter hasn't put in a reasonable amount of work already, I just killfile the email address and move on with my life. Even a small fraction of negative people was ruining any interest I had in working on my project: I'd open the tag in gmail, read a nasty or demanding email, and lose all motivation.

If people don't preemptively respect my time, I have no use for them. If they don't like that, they can have a full refund of everything they've paid me =P
All a gold standard does is increase instability in the economy and reduce domestic policy space. It was abandoned for a very good reason, and typically would be abandoned often anyway even when it was "in effect". It's a ludicrous way to run an economy, similar to a pegged exchange rate.
tl;dr?
I think that's basically what she means with the graph. Radical candor exists in the section where you confront them because you care about them.
Ouch. You consider a tiny hotel room to be ok because "that's how it is in NYC"?
I wrote a bunch of ThreeJS and I see code I wrote in your Goo Engine. You also have the ThreeJS license in your license:

https://github.com/GooTechnologies/goojs/blob/master/COPYING...
Coroutines in Visual Studio 2015 Update 1
I don't think Trello is kanban-specific. Yes, it does kanban very well, but I know of many different types of people that use trello in completely different ways (and they've never heard of kanban).
Bitcoin's Future: Scalability vs. Security
I think he meant that "income inequality" is the hammer, as the source of every one of society's ills.
One interesting notion exemplified in this article is the importance of intuition in science. There is a lot of noise made about empiricism and accumulation of data - but scientific endeavor necessarily begins with a hypothesis, an act of pure intuition. In this case, Einstein was acting on the data and inferences from well-known experiments. What he added was only a new understanding. This is perhaps the most visible and celebrated example of this sort of intuitive leap, but really every scientific endeavor must contain this kind of thinking.
While inequality may be ONE factor, it is definitely not THE factor. Much more important are the factors of American imperialism, Islamic extremist ideology, destabilization of Iraq, and so on.

What Piketty is right about, however, is that it is the policies of the West is in part to blame for the extreme rise of inequality in the Arab world. That said, I am not too certain Arabs would have fared better on their own.
The issue when JavaScript is disabled is now fixed, thanks for pointing this out!
Is whatever was spent on something like buying FaceShift counted as R&D spending?
"That is not an argument."
For me Google Keep is by far the best list management tool out there- it solves the singular use case very well.

For the network use case, I think there are "levels" to it- some of which Keep solves.

For my wife and I, we share lists for groceries, errands, restaurants to try, etc.
Keep is absolutely fantastic for sharing with only a few people.

I think there may be a level at which point Keep wouldn't handle a lot of people- though I'm not sure exactly what the level would be- but I haven't really tried it beyond a handful (4-6) people.
I don't really see the controversy, it's just a reframing of well-known issues about the conflict, using different terminology.

For instance, there's obviously an economic element to the conflict between the richer, more urban Shia Alawites who live principally in the Western part of Syria, and the poorer, more rural Sunni population. I have read that part of the destabilization is down to mass movements of the urban poor into the cities in the years running up to the conflict.

And Saudi Arabia and other wealthy oil rich states clearly provide religious and armaments funding to support hardline interpretations of Islam, which means that the conflict between Shia and Sunni takes on a much more fundamentalist tone. That power arises from their wealth relative to other regions in the area.

As I say, I don't think either of these things are particularly controversial. If we were talking about the rural poor moving into the cities in China, we wouldn't have a problem talking about it as an issue of income inequality. It seems quite obvious that this is a major issue in a lot of the developing world (where income inequality tends to be far higher than in the West, particularly in resource rich countries).

I wouldn't say this has much relevance to policy in the developed world. It would be dubious if Piketty tried to use this to draw conclusions about the West, but I can't see he has done that.