skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this idea is almost unfathomable to humanity, which is funny, because who doesn't day dream of not "working" anymore (in which the meaning of "working" is doing something that you don't want to do to earn livable income).

An obvious first step is a basic income, paid for by military spending cuts and increase on corporate, capital gains and high earner taxes. This will show people that such an idea is sustainable, so they can prepare their mind for the coming utopia.
Risk exposure is a BIG issue and is actually one of the primary points of leverage since we were transitioning from a Backbone meta-library that had recently been deprecated. I'll agree that tooling choice needs to be a good technical AND business decision but I do think it's important to address the concerns of those who are maybe gunshy after their last transition from maybe jsp -> jQuery.

I agree that the information is technical but it's not above most many of the business side people who can speak the language a bit. I'm confident that most of these things can either be directly tied to the bottom line or help dispel concerns about how a transition can be made effectively.

Thanks for the feedback!
First Blood was ahead of its time, in that the audience was expected to sympathize with the victim of brutal policing.
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10 points to Hufflepuff for this useful extension. My life is much improved.
Oh it happens all the time in econ - although one could argue that economics at the moment does deserve some of it. You regularly get emails and even the occasional book, linking to yet another youtube misconception of how money, banking and the economy work. I usually reply pointing out the time at which the first provable mistake is made, and I've yet to get over 5 minutes. They do get extra points for being vaguely anti-semitic before that point.
The comments I quoted were directly related to "UI convergence," which was featured among your bogus "indications."

Assessing the relative value of iPad Pro vs. a notebook to different market segments is not related to UI convergence at all.

The rules are simple: claims should be substantiated. I have refuted some of your claims with direct on-topic quotes from Apple execs. All you've tried is insinuation, complaint, and appeal to authority (nameless "experts," and yourself, comically enough).
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Why am I being downvoted?
> temporarily change your mindset from "engineer building software" to "writer building documentation"

Excellent suggestion. But also here, focus on a tool and/or workflow is warranted. Meandering the field is very productive; it has its time and place. But it is not a panacea for a deep dive. Sustained focus remains necessary.

Writing documentation can be a rewarding, productive, and, yes, even noble method for taking a deep dive.
What killed the dinosaurs? Dark matter, says theoretical physicist Lisa Randall
Indeed, we live in a time of unprecedented democracy. But confirmation bias reigns supreme, people read from news sources which confirm their preconceived notions of the world. The Hacker News community is as susceptible to this as anyone else.
It's not 5/7ths, you're awake for 16 hours: 8 work, 8 leisure. This means on 5 out of 7 days, half of your leisure time is gone. So if you burn 4 commuting then you've given up 20 hours out of 40 + 2 * 16 on the weekends = 72, which is 28% vs. your 71%.

Personally I would never do it, but like, different strokes.

Also, define richly. Assume monthly savings of $2000/month on housing, call it $500 / week, that's $25 an hour. Plenty of people make less than that, so again it's just priorities.
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Randall's Theory Increases Number of Dimensions in Physical Universe (2009)
The main problem with this is we are thinking in autonomous car as they where super humans, so a human with endless amount of time will have to rely on ethics to make a decision, but not a driverless car.

A computer will rely in an algorithm, and most important than that in multiple sensors, not just their own sensors but also other autonomous cars sensors.

And there is a huge opportunity here to create even more sensors around crossways or sense people cellphones or bikes, or static speed sensors to warn other cars, creating tons of information for the car to know where cars, bikes and people are.

I see this as a remote scenario if we start building more sensors on top of the current highways infrastructure.
This 2012 Rolling Stone article by Michael Hastings (linked earlier by BryantD) provides relevant context from nearly two years before Bergdahl was released: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/americas-last-pris...
There is some disagreement with what I am saying being factual reality. Can anyone point me to the nearest LEO tree? Or maybe there's a secret VAT lab growing clones to be our guardians of the future that I'm unaware of?

Dead officers aren't easy to replace. They aren't goldfish. You can't just go out and buy a new one to replace the old one. Expecting them to take needless risks that end up with them dead isn't a realistic option if you expect to maintain a police force.

There is a reason Kyle Dinkheller's video is used in training. "Hesitate to use deadly force. Don't hesitate so much that you end up dead."

There is a huge difference between putting your life on the line and throwing it away. Putting it on the line is having a gun drawn on them. Throwing it away is letting the other person take the first shot. It seems many here are asking they not only put their lives on the line, but that they throw them away too.
For a collection of this type of issues please see IssuesFromHell

https://twitter.com/issuesfromhell
Does Swift run on Windows ? Emscripten ? Android ? Portability is also a big question that Rust has a lot better incentives to solve than Apple.

I got the impression that Linux support is more of a "here iOS/OSX develoeprs - we're aware you don't actually run OSX on your servers so you can share code between client and server now". I was not aware Apple wants to push Swift as a cross platform language.

If it was and their commitment looked credible (ie. they start porting tools like integrating debuggers and stuff on other platforms as well) I would definitely consider it.
Man, t'Hooft is upping his design game! It looks mutch nicer than the previous versions which looked like they predated his nobel prize.
Why do you think people wouldn't/couldn't challenge themselves in ways they care about (rather than arbitrary bullshit they have to do for someone else)? Why do you think challenge or accomplishment only comes from your 9-5 job? Have you ever done anything but work?
Ban Cars
groan Not another site claiming blockchains are the solution for everything, please! I've yet to see an actual useful blockchain usage outside of payments.
I enjoyed the first version of this game and like this one also. Nice job.
3 ways to find your first client
Great, lots of fun. Would be better if it used numbers and other keys that programmer's use. Or perhaps I didn't get to a high enough level where they start appearing?
Obligatory reading here: Riders of the purple wage, by Philip José Farmer.
Far better for the authority of a policeman to come from citizens' belief in the importance of law and respect for their governmental institutions than from fear of deadly force. Even if the rule of law is ultimately guaranteed by force it is a really bad idea to continually confront generally law abiding citizens with that fact, they are going to follow the law anyway most of the time and pointing guns at them is just going to escalate the situation because the one pointing a gun is seen as an imminent threat and 'other.' Dangerous for everyone involved and stupid if you care about building belief in the importance of rule of law.
Poll: Percent of early code still in production
For post series B companies.

From day zero until either profit, IPO, or a year after the series B, how much code that was initially written is still in production?
90% or more
75%-90%
66%-75%
50%-66%
33%-50%
25%-33%
10%-25%
10% or less
Tesla announces the companies selling the Powerwall in Australia
cool. how come after a while i run out of ammo or something?
"never eating Taco Bell again."

Actually, you could track cohesion, firmness, gassiness, possibly odor, etc. Unfortunately there's already an online community of people who do this kind of thing.
Sociopolitical movements (for example, the various anti-LGBT movements out there), can bully because they are trying to change society's beliefs.

But it's not bullying that changes a society's beliefs. It's commerce, coexistence, and exposure which does this. If anything, bullying can produce the opposite of the intended effect. Pseudo-activism can be recognized by the primacy of outrage in its actions. Pseudo-activism actually thrives on the generation of outrage among the "enemies." This in turn generates more outrage on "their" side in a (literally) vicious cycle. When observing activists, ask yourself -- What has primacy: a moral message, or the generation of outrage? Hateivism lives through outrage, and it optimizes the maintenance and generation of more outrage.
> Is there enough demand for that much creative work?

Are you serious? All we do outside of work is consume others' creativity.
I'm an American who's only had good experiences with US police.

I'm not gonna spill all my interactions with the police on the internet, of course, but I've been to college parties where the cops just told us to shut up. I've been speeding once or twice and had the officers bump the ticket down or give me a warning.

Perhaps we have good cops over here in Washington?
There are apps for detecting these things. Maybe we need an app that plots locations based on anonymized submissions. Also, I wonder if it's possible to distribute blacklists. But I suppose that's buried in the radio firmware.
Only in a minimal consultative capacity. As I recall, the code was a fork of NOLF, but I don't remember at what point in development. Obviously, things had to change up big time, especially vis-a-vis wall-walking etc.
Mysterious hackers attempting to bring down internet by DDoSing critical servers
> I’ll soon upgrade to HTTPS here.

Pardon my ignorance and probably silly question, but what is the point of making data transfers to/from blog hosted at own domain more secure? If I get it right, it will just hide which certain articles reader visits (not that he visits this certain domain) and it will prevent caching along the wire. I suppose there must be some real benefit of this right in from of me (see "everyone else seems to have performed the same upgrade"), but I cannot see it. Any clues?
I am not sure how I feel about the general HTTPS-ization of the web. I've used squid (http://www.squid-cache.org/) and dansguardian (http://dansguardian.org/) for nearly 15 years now. It greatly speeds up my web and keeps smut away from my family.

Yet it is becoming more and more useless everyday because of HTTPS. I used to be able to quickly fly through google maps because most of the images were in cache, even with only 1mbs internet. Then it went HTTPS only. So I started using mapquest, then it too did the same. Bing maps still allows some non HTTPS images, so I now use that sometimes.

I can see how some sites might want to be more private in nature. But news and maps websites I am not seeing the point.
Yep, rates of evolution (in particular mutation rate and drift) are proportional to population size, and we have a larger population size than we ever have in the past.

~2 billion base pairs * ~1 in a billion error rate = 2 mutations per generation (on average)

Edit: Slight clarification and a brief (and greatly oversimplified) lesson on how this works.

Let Ne = effective population size. And I'll define "fitness effect" as the advantage conferred by a particular mutation in a particular fitness landscape. e.g., If you're an E. coli, the fitness conferred by penicillin resistance is very high if you're sitting in a pool of penicillin, but generally mildly negative otherwise because you're wasting energy.

When the fitness effect size is much larger in magnitude than 1/Ne (or 1/2Ne if you're diploid, like us), the fate of the gene is largely determined by natural selection. (But add the occasional coin toss in there b/c the real world is messy.)

When the fitness effect size is much smaller in magnitude than 1/Ne, the fate of the gene is largely determined by genetic drift. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_drift (tl;dr Mostly chance mod a few other effects, like if the mutation of interest has a physical location close to another mutation with strong selection pressure)

However, there are slightly deleterious or slightly advantageous mutations, whose fitness effect size is close to 1/Ne (or 1/2Ne for diploids), and things get kinda interesting, because it's a combination of genetic drift and natural selection. For instance, if it's a slightly deleterious mutation, it will decrease Ne slightly (increasing the proportion of mutations that are considered neutral of the new value of Ne), and the previously "slightly deleterious" mutation may now be effectively neutral for the new value of Ne.

There is a lot of evidence that the "slightly" deleterious and the "slightly" advantageous mutations contribute substantially to evolutionary dynamics.

This is further complicated by the fact that the fitness (whether a mutation is deleterious or advantageous) is not constant everywhere geographically, or over time.
> Most startups will never need anything close to $5000 in AWS credits.

This statement is not true. It is quite easy to have a $5,000 a month bill on Amazon.
Huh? In the AMA they hinted that the thing can boot other OSes.

Whatever the convergence plan is, Pixel C is the test hardware. The bootloader bits are in the ChromeOS tree. It uses Coreboot.

It's a ChromeOS device and I suspect it's future will include a return to its roots.

ARC in Chrome will be a better way forward for Android than trying to fix all of Android's insidious problems on the "desktop" and making mobile Chrome more fully featured. It just seems painfully obvious that Chrome is going to win.

It's better tech all around.
Looks like it's almost 2016 and we still can't reliably share a calendar over a computer network.
The End of Work?
My friends who like Donald trump
I agree that offering this makes sense for AWS. What I'm not so sure about is whether offering this makes sense for YC.

(BTW, Tarsnap isn't in any incubators/accelerators, but if someone wants to throw a bunch of AWS credits at me I'd be happy to have them!)
Make School (YC W12) Is Hiring Ruby on Rails Developers
Make School is building the world's first Product University - higher educational experience focused on building software products to impact the world. Students spend two years learning CS theory, shipping products and interning at a tech startup. The program has no upfront cost for students, they pay tuition through future earnings.

We're looking to hire Ruby on Rails Developers for two roles:
1. Curriculum Engineer - teaching and building curriculum (can be 3 months from Jan-Mar or long term)
2. Software Engineer - building an operating to power Make School at scale

If you're interested, email me (Ashu, founder) directly at ashu@makeschool.com

You can read more about us and our vision here:
https://medium.com/make-school/the-product-university-5814df...
https://medium.com/bright/for-silicon-valley-hopefuls-is-col...
http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/21/make-university/

Full curriculum engineer job description:
https://www.makeschool.com/jobs/ruby-on-rails-curriculum-eng...
It is true that invasive species are always more likely to come from somewhere else. And the bigger the somewhere else, the more of an opportunity it has had to come up with new invasive species. But this says nothing about the relative likelihood of producing an invasive species per square mile.

In fact speciation events are believed to happen more often with small isolated populations. Most of the experiments are failures. But not all!

See the theory of punctuated equilibrium for more.
Oh, c'mon. You do it for as long as you can.
Location: San Francisco / Los Angeles

Remote: Maybe

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python (10 years), C (6 years), Java (6 years), C++ (5 years).

Resume: http://wavelessboat.com/resume.pdf

Education: California Institute of Technology

Email: See resume
Are you going to listen to the whole series?
Argh. Thanks for that - you've saved me quite a bit of cash. If only I'd read a post like that before backing the Almond and the UDOO.

A reasonable amount of my network at home is run by an aging and ailing Dreamplug - ARMv5 and remarkably sturdy. I'm still looking for a viable replacement. I was hoping to jump to a Pogoplug (same SoC, but USB3) but I (soft-)bricked it upgrading uBoot.

The now-worthless Australian dollar makes most of these things much more expensive, but it really looks like my choices are expensive industrial boards with nebulous support arrangements or giving up on ARM entirely.
Also, AWS credits usually last 12 months. You can spend $416.67/month at AWS with just one EC2 instance.
Git-secrets: Prevents you from committing secrets and credentials
I think journalists have opinions - and sharing those opinions is a big part of 'news' - whether you like it or not, that's constantly done, either through direct words, or through more subtle means. That's why you have 'conservative' and 'liberal' entities of the news.

Moreover, the media also decides what's important - think about how they've covered Trump vs. Sanders - Trump is selling ratings, they are promoting his message in a way that's unequal to other candidates, and then saying 'oh, we're being neutral.'
That is crazy to me. I'm an American and in the probably twenty or so times I've interacted with police at various times in my thirty plus years, I've never once had a gun drawn on me nor had the threat or implied threat of having a gun drawn on me. I can't think of a single person I know well who's ever had a cop pull a gun on them either.
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The car has to have the power to avoid being in a bad case scenario, it has more power to calculate the odds before even gets there. That is why this should be a DMV call not programers.
Doesnt that serve a good purpose? Is it a good thing to keep investors tied for years in a fruitless endeavor instead of investing in something better?
Any chance of opening: How about Other Person of Colour who are of First Generation Immigrants Status of a Country, which isn't the US in the future? That would really be electrifying ;P
I've been a Type 2 diabetic officially for 18 years but impaired glucose tolerance for longer. You're on the right path, there's a lot you can do to slow down the progress of the disease.

I'm not a doctor however so take any advice with a grain of salt. (But not sugar, definitely not that.)

> I keep reading that the problem is carbohydrate overload to my genetics.

Read up on "glycemic index". This index tells you how close your food is to pure glucose e.g. table sugar has a glycemic index of 68 so it has 68% of the insulin response of pure glucose. The index correlates to the type of carbohydrate and how processed it is, although there are some surprises e.g. premium ice cream has a G.I. of 37.

http://www.glycemicindex.com/index.php

You don't have to commit the entire index to memory. Usually you can come up with several heuristics e.g. tropical fruit tends to have higher G.I. than temperate fruit.

Obviously you should test this with your own blood sugar readings as individual response to a carbohydrate challenge can be quite different.

The other components to a meal also affect blood sugar. For example, acid, protein and fat tend to slow down digestion and thus blood sugar spiking. If you must take pasta for example, take it with a tomato-based sauce (acidic) rather than cream-based. YMMV.

> Unfortunately, my doctor thinks that pushing pills is an adequate response, which I heartily doubt.

It's important, although somewhat depressing, to see this disease as a progression. A progression that you have to slow down as much as possible, but still a progression.

Know that in the future, you may have to resort to the first line of pills, and then possibly stronger ones. Try to slow down the progression as much as possible, and research the pills to see their efficacy and benefit.

Metformin is usually the first line of defence and it has a long history and little side effect. It generally fools your body into thinking it's in starvation mode, which means you can lose weight, both fat and muscle. It actually lowers insulin resistance rather than increasing insulin. Generally in amounts >1g it gives you loose bowels, so when you have to use it keep on low doses as long as possible.

When metformin doesn't work as well, generally you'll get prescribed sulfonylureas. Since they increase insulin secretion, they tend to exacerbate your insulin resistance. There is some inconclusive research that they burn out the pancreatic beta cells. Better to avoid these as long as possible, but if your glucose control is bad you may not have a choice.

I'm currently on an incretin enhancer (gliptin) + metformin.

Also look up supplements on examine.com. It's hard to tell the effectiveness of supplements, the only one that had a distinct effect on me was berberine.

The other thing you can do is exercise. Lots of it. Strength training for more muscle and more insulin receptors. Aerobic exercise to burn/absorb more glucose and lose weight. There's even recent evidence that high-intensity interval training improves diabetic markers more than sustained, low-intensity exercise.
I'm an American who had my windows smashed in by police supervisors because I asked them to identify themselves. In Winnipeg.

Don't think we're too far off from our friends down south.
I will be. Acquiring a software development company like JetBrains would provide absolutely no value to Google, and would go completely against their new corporate structure.
> No one will play Starcraft with me

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83896
Yes! I didn't mind the HFR Hobbit movies at all, but I can't stand the interpolated HFR that comes out of smart TVs. Once you start to notice the artifacts (often distortion or weird juddering in the background,) it becomes much less enjoyable to watch than the standard uninterpolated 24fps content. I look forward to a future of real HFR content, not fake interpolated crap.

And of course, smart TV HFR butchers hand-drawn animation.
A backdoor like that does not exist. Sorry.
11,000 pound flywheel comes loose from its moorings
Stripe is currently in ACH beta.

When Balanced shut down, they encouraged users to go over to Stripes private beta.

https://www.balancedpayments.com/stripe/faq
It won't fail, because the card companies want it and you aren't going to be given the option to swipe.

The US is way behind on this, it's ridiculous.

So is chip + signature, but that's a different argument.
Palantir raises $680M
I think you're missing my point. Tarsnap has no trouble paying its AWS bills, which are well over $5k/month. I'm not worried about spending $5k.

But at the same time I can't think of anything I could spend 20 minutes on which would create more than $5k of value. $1 of AWS credits = $1 less expenses = $1 more profits = $1 more revenue.