skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US government does not have a single viewpoint so it's message is not unified on a wide range of issues. But, things like the food pyramid have a huge impact on how people think.

Consider, did the Fed have anything to do with the recent housing bubble and burst? Well, bubbles become self sustaining up to a point, but was there anything that caused a huge amount of money to slosh into the housing market?

Now, let's take a step back. Are houses a good investment in the abstract?
Though I wouldn't have guessed it earlier this year, this seems like a bygone conclusion. Last night I tried out the iPad Pro for the first time while killing time at an Apple Store...I liked it, though I've had an iPad since it first came out so there's much less of that revelatory experience with each iteration. The store had the iPad Pros set up with the keyboard cases and I've never used my iPads with a keyboard so I was delightfully surprised that my favorite OS X shortcut -- Cmd-Tab -- worked for application switching. Unfortunately, none of the other shortcuts I'm used to worked, such as Cmd-T to open a new tab in the browser, and so forth.

In a way, the iPad Pro felt like tablet's version of the uncanny valley...close to "real" computing but not annoyingly not quite enough...unless major overhauls are made to iOS, and every application built on it thus far, I couldn't imagine using the iPad for anything more than media consumption. And when I think about it, I hardly ever use the iPad for any app that is iPad-only -- I use it mostly for web browsing, reading, and Netflix-watching -- things I can switch effortlessly to on my Macbook.

I had thought the Surface was doomed to fail, in trying to serve both as a tablet and as a regular computer and screwing up both...but in retrospect, it seems like the intuitive strategy. Most tablet functionality is purely a subset of what a regular laptop can do...and attempts to port OSX apps to iOS have rarely resulted in something that was better as a native tablet app. Adding to this, the majority of the computing world is already entrenched in Windows applications...even as someone who has been almost exclusively OS X for the last 10 years, my next tablet purchase will probably be a Surface...doing productive work on Excel and Windows-versions of Sublime Text is better than attempting it on iOS by far.

edit: And maybe familiarity breeds contempt -- and/or I'm entering in my tech-curmudgeon phase...but besides the initial iterations on multi-touch -- two fingers to scroll, pinching, stretching, rotation -- I've been less than inspired by iOS's innovations in touch gestures. In fact, I find myself frequently fighting against accidental actions, such as how dragging my fingers a little lazily to the left while reading a webpage triggers the browser's Back action. And how I'm frequently accidentally activating my Slack app (because it's the only one I have that has multitasking?) when my fingers do something on the right side of the browser. I feel we've reached the limits of what we can intuitively express via finger-motion gestures and if Surface's tablet functionality had far fewer of them...that would actually be a net positive for me.
I love the direction that this project is going in. I think a future where you can monitor your body in real time and use that data to make decision about what to eat, treat medical conditions in their very stages, maximize energy, etc. I think body chemistry is still a huge unknown area that I would love to see explored. Can you monitor the body and sense DNA damage and possibly be able to attribute it to something that you can change. Can you measure the levels of various chemicals in your body to find an imbalance? Fuck 140 characters, this is the direction the minds of our brightest people should be going in
"Policing" and "law enforcement" are different.

Policing: hey, you're not allowed to jaywalk, so stop.

Law Enforcement: here's a $100 fine for your first jaywalking offense.

We have too many law enforcers, too few police.
I've seen others knock down this report already, but I'm having trouble finding a link. What those other articles noted is that this is US-only, online-only sales (and I believe from people who opted in to provide this data). Apple sells a lot of iPads at their own stores, and certainly outside of the US.

Ahh, here's one of the sites that did a take down of this report:

https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/ios/62854/so-did-surface-rea...
I'm working on some analysis showing more of the functionality.

It's like Excel connected to your Postgres! A common use case though is for people to use VQL to filter/aggregate the data and then export to Excel.
Why aren't big online publishers more concerned about the junk that the ad networks

If an expert like Google can't even ensure that ads don't auto play

The latter answers the former. They are concerned, but there is basically nothing they can do about it if they want to continue to earn money.
Currently very few people are seeding or leeching NOLF, which is a bit surprising with this article.

https://kat.cr/usearch/no%20one%20lives%20forever/
When I have the heart-rate monitor with me, it's really easy to stick to that zone. I shoot for a target heart rate of about 150, and I can go a long time. Last time I tried it was 7 miles, and I stopped because I'd looped around and was close to home. I set it up with RunKeeper so that it gives me a heart-rate report every minute, and I just tweak my effort a little bit to keep in right around the target.
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If you can find them anymore (and care enough), the pink pencil erasers are good too; they are very slightly abrasive, but not so much as to remove a layer of metal.
The main problem I have is from framing it as exclusively a business decision; for almost any issue, it's going to be a combination of the two.

This felt particularly odd since most of your examples are more technical than business issues – the only one which didn't feel like it was something just about everyone else claims as well is the list of large companies using React since that gets to a core business question of risk exposure.
Of course it will. Those labor costs are much higher than for fast food workers!
Great achievement. Let's hope we see first fusion reactions and then sustained fusion soon.
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SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT
There is nothing that can't ultimately be done by computers/ai.
There is EMV & Sign mode, and EMV & PIN mode, and it's set on the card and marked as 2 different transactions types by the bank.

Most american banks are issuing EMV & Sign cards, which means no PIN. You can set a PIN, but it's not a default flow and you have to call in to get it set.
The second-order effect is to kill the businesses and jobs which depend on white collar patronage.
What does a typical 5-year goal sound like? I always struggle to come up with anything when this sort of question comes up (not necessarily in an employer-employee conversation, just in general).
Until the day when computers learn how to become more creative (AI and stuff).
Digitalization is to White-Collars what automation is to Blue-Collars.
How can it tell when my mail has been read?
I wholeheartedly approve of this shift in focus. Yes, police do have to deal with violent and dangerous people, but most people are neither violent nor dangerous (nor ought they be criminals). The police force is not the military; one's fellow citizens are not one's foes.

> The officers were charged with felony assault but acquitted by a jury in 1992, sparking days of rioting and protests.

For completeness, the article really should have mentioned that they were then convicted by a federal court, the Constitution's prohibition on double jeopardy being held not to apply.
The fastest way to pay is cash---how many times have you waited around a credit card machine waiting for the transaction to go through? Anyway, the big time sink is in the shopping experience, waiting in line, and checking out the items. Who cares how long it takes to pay? Focus on getting ride of waiting in line.
> I have it in case I forget my wallet at home.

I have a sleeve attached to my phone, which holds my bank/credit cards. The only things I carry are my phone and my keys.
I agree we should differentiate between the types of open-sourcing. Open-source hardware should either be the umbrella term or the specific one for open-source circuits. Open-source build is one phrase for this sort of thing. Maybe configuration would be another.

Seems tricky given we usually call a collection of components on PCB's and such a computer, hardware design, server, or so on. Putting open-source in front of them doesn't make it clear how much is open-source. That might be what we need to resolve. Anybody have ideas?
An acquaintance of mine who used to be head of training for Oakland PD once commented to me that police officers had essentially the same psychological profile as gang members. I thought he was just engaging in some self-deprecating humor but he was at pains to point out that he was serious and regarded it as a chronic problem in police culture.
"And sadly, the optimal capitalist strategy is to just lay them off and enjoy the surplus they unwittingly made for you."

Maybe for a dumb capitalist. The optimum strategy is to pick a level of compensation that works for them and you while realizing there is a transition cost to new people and talent is worth something.
Very interesting hypo. "CARMA" made me laugh.
Another element to consider is if there are fleets of empty and unmaned cars on the road (eg an Uber), an empty car could take the hit to skip the single unnecessary death.
Not necessarily - for some stores, such as Walgreens (a US drugstore chain), the checkout flows look something like this:

Credit card:
1. Enter phone number (for loyalty card lookup)
2. Select "credit card"
3. Swipe card
4. Answer question about making a donation
5. Confirm credit amount
6. Sign
7. Confirm
(This is from memory, but it is roughly correct - I actually fear I may have forgotten a step or two)

Apple Pay:
1. Enter phone number (for loyalty card lookup)
2. Wake iPhone and bring near POS terminal
3. Place finger on home button until it buzzes (~1 second)

The flow for Apple Pay could be a little longer if you need to select a different card, but it is still both far faster and far simpler than the regular credit card flow.
I have no clue what you're supposed to say, but the closest thing I'd have to a 5-year goal is "increase my net worth by at least 20% per year". Which has almost nothing to do with my job except staying employed.
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Visual Question Answering System (MIT, Facebook, with Source Code)
Also, for Android?
I imagine it is very hard to make money with the types of apps that fall within those most popular app categories. Mostly free apps with advertising.

I guess I don't really understand the shift of ONLY creating a mobile app for productivity or business type stuff. Seems like these types of apps can more easily be monetized with a web app and "maybe" complimented with a mobile app.
I think they fell for the myth that "ideas don't matter, execution does"

If you start with a flawed idea there's no saving you, no matter how hard you try.
My dad will now read your kids a bedtime story. Thank you internet
I'll never own an iPhone, so unless they plan to extend Apple Pay to other platforms, no, it won't be replacing my wallet or keys ever.
I'd really encourage you to do the Challenge. You will have the opportunity to learn some things about yourself, good and bad, that you will not get during the Light. That knowledge is worth the added difficulty. Your team will get you through. There will be men and women with multiple events under their belts who will be there to pick you up mentally and physically when and if you start to founder.
There are so many questions about this, not just the share of sales happening in Apple Stores but also whether 1010data's tech that monitors online shopper behavior on the client side works for OS X Safari and iOS Mobile Safari. They may be missing a skewed set of shoppers who are most likely to buy iPads.
I think people know this, they just don't want to admit it. As someone who works with people who used to work with ICF, I've been told the reason that NIF flunked is that it was designed with 1D simulation codes because back then, that's all they could manage. One of the issues they inevitably ran into were plasma instabilities similar to Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities[0] that one only sees in two (or more) dimensional systems, but not 1D. These instabilities reduce the efficacy of heating and compression needed to achieve ignition, and were an unpleasant surprise when they actually performed the experiments. Even to this day, 2D simulations are fairly common and littered throughout the literature, and their justification (arguments of approximate symmetry) are suspect, at least to me. 3D sims are coming on the scene, but they often have to sacrifice things like spatial resolution that hurt's the simulation's physics in other way.

Computational feasibility is one of the things physicists in that field need to admit is holding them back, and may be a little humility in seeking out advice from computer scientists is warranted in my opinion[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh%E2%80%93Taylor_instab...

[1] this statement won't give me much criticism here, but it wouldn't go down well in a room of my peers.
As someone who knows relatively little about how the stocks works, and this stage of a business' lifecycle... what benefit does Atlassian get by going public?
Isn't the Richmond or Outer Richmond area fairly affordable?
Because this wasn't a guy fencing stuff off Craigslist, it was a multi-billion dollar global corruption that is operating in a highly regulated market. Consumer protection and all that. If someone is going to get hit in the nuts it's going to be VW and not the consumer. The cars will get fixed or VW will buy them back, but it's a ridiculous waste of resources to have police pulling over people driving VW's.
Basically, you need hardware designers and a ton of money to develop ASIC's that will accelerate as good as current GPU's. I've seen designs along lines of SIMD's, DSP's, etc that might be a nice alternative in custom hardware. Still tons of money to get them to work. Doesn't even count developing compilers and such to utilize them properly.

Existing tools on GPU's are easier despite me wanting more work on FPGA's and ASIC's in this area. ;)
Did you work on AvP2 at all?

Still one of the best, most underrated multiplayer shooters in pretty much ever.
Yea, I've got a 3 year old who gets plenty of daddy time at night and on the weekends. Can't say I _like_ the commute, but it's not as horrible as all these dramatic replies make it sound. I'd definitely move closer to work in a heartbeat if the South Bay or peninsula was affordable.
Good work FB on another great deliverable for open HW configurations and improved datacenter design! :)
Their market is very similar to that of Salesforce, which is showing very few signs of slowing (and had a 52B market cap).
It also supports routing and account numbers
https://developers.dwolla.com/resources/dwolla.js.html
django CMS has very granular permissions, so yes, it works well for Intranet purposes.

It can take a little while to get them set up just-so, but you can use them to handle just about any scenario.
> It looks like they are using instart logic, and are on the same cert as a bunch of their other enterprise customers now.

Which is a great way to know who Instant Logic's customers are, if you're in the CDN business and looking for customers to poach...
When the Hungarian revolution of 1956 against communism was knocked down, I didn't hear the refugees smashed truck windows, left tons of rubbish after themselves in foreign countries, neither attacked each other or raped women.

Sorry for the exception, I really hate when people starve or cold. I know there are good people there, kids and women as well, but their culture is just not fit in to Europe.
> If only the people of Japan stood up for their rights..

As mentioned in the article, there already are massive protests around this issue.

What more could they do? Try to take down the government by force? Even if they succeeded, I'm sure the U.S. would be happy to step in to "calm the waters" and impose martial law outright.
Until art is mechanically approximately generated at acceptable levels for zero cost. At which point we'll realize we have to enjoy our existences and there's nothing to solve here.
Tax on issuance of equity is the same in the USA. Even worse you cannot use most of capital losses against your normal income taxes, just other capital gains. I think canada does it on sale only.
Yeah, at this point I keep massive replaceable data backed up locally and important "can't lose" in 1-2 clouds and locally
I wouldn't begrudge an employer for negotiating my salary and not paying me what they think I'm "worth," but I also wouldn't feel guilty about doing the least amount of work necessary to fly under the radar at the job and not get fired. (Not a direct response to your comment, I know -- it just made me think of how annoyed I get when the former is considered "just business" while its equivalent on the employee's end is usually regarded as "mooching" or a moral failing.)
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It's entirely possible that nobody wanted to blow the whistle. This scandal involved making the cars pass some foreign emissions standard by tweaking the engine software. The people responsible for approving engine compliance were also the people responsible for making it compliant (something that VW says it will change now). Even if a bunch of people were involved, they might have liked their solution.

The CEO created pressure with his ambition for VW to become the world's largest auto manufacturer; meanwhile the company had a culture and structure that would allow for shortcuts to be taken.
All these "Company"Pay systems are horrible for the consumer. Sure they may give a particular consumer a particular benefit at a particular point in time, but on balance they are the Facebook of currencies.

One of PayPal's initial strategies was to maximize transactions for which both the payer and payee were PayPal customers. This decreased PayPal's operating costs and reduced fraud by a large amount. Sounds like everyone wins, right?

That's simply not what currency is. Currency is an transferable i.o.u. worth whatever the creditor says it's worth. The most pervasive currency is currently the greenback. Every additional party or layer between you and the U.S. government increases credit risk and transaction costs everytime you make a transaction outside the pay network your currency is held in.

Visa is so convenient because they try to be everywhere, because that's their business. Apple is not a payment network. Walmart is not a payment network. Walmart Pay is simple one part of Walmart's portfolio. Since it's not their core product, they will by necessity make compromises that negatively affect their Walmart Pay from time to time in order to benefit some other part of their business. Look to GE Capital for a case study of what can go wrong there.

Just as Facebook is a walled garden for communities, these pay networks are walled gardens for currencies. Some are actually really great, just as Facebook is actually a really great community site. But at the end of the day it's not your garden. With other options such as Visa or cash, I find it difficult to justify turning over yet another critical apect of my daily life to a profit driven corporation according to the limiting and onerous terms and conditions they set.

Phew. Now I can go back to watching Wes Craven's "Shocker".
It doesn't work in machine code either, I have to run a whole operating system on top!
The difference between satellite and ground temperature taking for climate change
That's because US EMV is Chip+Signature not Chip+PIN (which is pretty stupid, why not go all out). Properly written readers should go directly to signature entry and bypass the PIN screen altogether since IIRC there's a flag on the card which tells it if it supports PIN or Signature.
Want in? https://www.atlassian.com/company/careers ;) When a company has had 30% growth per year according to their F-1 filing (This is a ballpark - please check the filing), you don't need to wait to get hired. More seriously, in a Forbes article last year Scott Farquhar said some employees would be able to buy a house, so there are probably some people who want to pursue some personal projects. I expect Syndey real estate to become very expensive, but I also expect such companies to have some retention policy, like progressive vesting and post-IPO lock-in period.
This sounds like such a German corporate reaction - almost as if it were a caricature - "they didn't follow the process - how can we be responsible? we better double down on process."

How about failing in building a corporate culture that rewards openness and learning from failure?

This gives me very little hope for VW, and to an extent, for Germany. These top of the crop german execs just don't get it.
This link is badly broken and consistently takes me to a map rather than a news story.
I used Mint a decade ago and it looks like it's hardly changed - all the reflective surfaces are very distracting an noisy (and also very 2005).
What tech did you use for developing the interface? Any framework, library, architecture (thinking React/Flux/Angular) or was it done by scratch?
This quote really jumped out at me as almost a caricature of the disconnect between Silicon Valley internet/communication disruption and "disruption" in something like medical services.

"While Draper isn’t a board member or official adviser, he says he sees Holmes frequently. He’s puzzled by Theranos’s troubles and wasn’t aware the company isn’t currently using its famed nanotainer for anything but a herpes test. The idea of pausing the relentless push forward to wait for fusty government approvals doesn’t seem to make sense to one of the investors in Twitter and Skype. “So they’re going to have to go through each one of those tests before they can even use the nanotainer?” he says, sounding horrified. “You can run tests; you just say they are not FDA-approved,” Draper continues, referring to the nanotainer. “If that’s not the way it’s happening, I’m definitely going to give Elizabeth a call about this.” He pauses the interview to pull out his phone.
“I would think they can still use the nanotainer and just have some wording,” he says, typing out a text message to Holmes. “I would think you just put a little warning label on the thing and say the FDA has not agreed to the accuracy of these things.”"
Not sure that statement is true (I actually think it's almost the opposite). For example if programmers are replaced, who will create the programs for the machines? I imagine even after the first wave of robot overloads, they will want a version 2.0.

If you are a web designer, your connection is through a computer. Not sure robots can be creative (not yet anyways)

If you are a sales person, your connection will be through a phone (I don't think we are anywhere close to where a computer can make a judgement call based on speaking cues)
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I like Atlassian and we use JIRA, Confluence and Stash.

Do I think Atlassian is worth $6bn? No. I planned to buy ~100k in stock at the open, saw the $27 open price, and cancelled my trade.

Is this a nice result for the founders? Yes. :)

Starting price on IPO day means little. It was flat the entire day. The way to judge these is in a couple of weeks (2-3 weeks) to see where the market really values it. See RACE for an example. That had a stronger IPO day "pop" and... here we are. :)