skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do somewhat extravagant things like this for my wife every anniversary divisible by 5 years; I've not used magic to do it, but most nice restaurants can make something like this happen if you call and ask.

It ends up being something a few times more expensive as a night out at the restaurant, so it's not cheap, and you don't get the ambiance, but my wife is very attached to memories, so the touch of "somewhere we visited on a romantic trip" is quite nice, and more appreciated than e.g. jewelry that might be as or more expensive.
Sounds more like tumblr than reddit.

I do think there is a tendency for social media sites to converge towards the same thing. As features are added, and limitations are removed, the lines between different types of sites begins to blur. Something that started as some simple niche site, starts allowing users to host content, create forums, have their own chat app, adds features from discussion sites, etc. Eventually we will end up with some kind of hyper-FaceTubeRedditumblrkype.
12 months is not difficult to hit.. M
> markets don't have to be capitalistic

Ok, if you're using such a broad definition of "market", then I probably agree with most of what you just said. The big problem I see is:

> creating an arrangement such that people can settle grievances endogenously

That is great if it actually happens. I personally believe a lot the current political situation was caused by a total lack of these endogenous corrective forces. When people observe that no such arrangement actually exists and grievances are not actually settled, operant conditioning takes over and we end up with people who think they are somehow smarter/better than other people.

Arranging everything so incentives are properly aligned would be great. In practice, we don't actually know how to make that happen reliably, so recognizing all of the needs and desires of society is important, even when we don't know how to evaluate something other than "we consider it good" or "I just want that my future". Yes, this could end up causing problems - humans are fallible and sometimes we don;'t know how to explain something other than "my intuition says so".

Note that I'm suggesting that non-quantifiable criteria should be considered, not that they should be given any special weight.

> It's actions change the expectations of its constituents, perhaps creating perverse incentives.

For this, I'm going with Mark Blyth's response[1] to a similar statement about modern economic thought.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJCcoF5K0SM#t=1437
Hey Paul, this value proposition resonates with me (especially the comparison with lawyers and accountants) and I'm the target customer... But I enthusiastically tried Magic when they first launched and it was full of fail (big promise from Magic, no delivery on a keg of beer from the East Bay). I certainly would have paid a lot for it. Skeptical that it'd be any different this time around? [Edit: typo]
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The metaphor is faulty. Uber hasn't brought down the cost of limousine service, and it didn't make cars cheaper or more efficient to create UberX -- it just tapped into a larger market of drivers who were willing to do commodity work for less money.

You don't pay people $100 an hour for commodity work. Unless you're so rich that price doesn't matter, I guess.
If you read the original bookshelf as a matrix look at row 3 column 3. I recognized at least 5 books on geometric algebra and geometric calculus. This is the way geometry will be done in the future.
Yeah, I've started work on 600 or so games, but haven't tested them all. Russian Solitaire is a glaring omission, and will be corrected right away.
There is a separate list of recommended books on his site:
http://worrydream.com/#!/Links
and corresponding HN discussion from a while ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7578795
I'm a developer and I bill as much as $250/hour. I could totally see paying someone $100/hour to make something happen so that I could focus on a paying task.

Problem is that most tasks likely to waste my time are things that would take longer to delegate (due to detailed instructions, needing to answer questions about needs, needing to set them up with the ability to pay bills...) than to just do myself.
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Does this mean Heroku will reduce their price too?
With Moore's law now still continuing to double transistor counts every 2.5 years or so, if AWS was serious about passing on savings, it'd reduce the cost of EC2 instances by about 5% _every couple of months_. That's clearly not happening, and because compute isn't exactly fungible (despite being called a "commodity") thanks to things like subsidized data ingress, AWS is making an absolute killing. The margins, even after building huge datacenters, are ridiculous.
We were acquired by IBM last year. As we adjust to their HR systems, we have to limit our hiring range.

Each region needs to have a "proxy" manager to take care of the employees within that region. As we had Canadians and folks from London with us at the time of the acquisition, we were set-up respectively.

We hired an excellent engineer out of Germany before we were clear on the processes, and it's added a significant amount of time to getting him into the the swing of things.

To avoid this discomfort, we're narrowing the region.

Hopefully, this is something that will ease in the future - it stings every time we have to turn away someone potentially brilliant from places like Brazil or Israel.

For your edit: The former is correct. Anyone with the right to work in/through the UK. You can work _from_ anywhere you'd like! I prefer at home in my jammies.
I have a large portfolio and I've never needed to write an algorithm to sort a binary tree (for example).
Yeah, but wouldn't it be a lot more than $200? We're talking Magic's $100, however much the meal cost, plus the cost chilled overnight mail would be insane.
I am under the impression that almost all customer testimonials are fake. They are just too easy to fake one, and hard to catch one, so I assume that they are all lies.
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it's the CDG's library, there's other people in there and it's definitely not just 2015
I was kind of figuring that people would register their own software, rather than trying to somehow find them. It doesn't seem much harder accessing different repos on different servers than on just github. You still have to keep an url.

Of course, if it's not a public server then you can't do anything, but then again in that case the authors can't really complain they don't get any credit for what they do.
The more I hear Bernie Sanders speak, the more I realize he has a very rudimentary understanding of economics. I fear him winning as much as Trump.
I would love to work in an environment where I can work at my top productivity 12 hours a day for a couple weeks (including weekends). Then I need to not do anything for a few weeks.
> because they used logic and math, their analysis must be correct

> belief in AI overlords ruling humanity, the technological singularity, cryogenics, or impending 1000-year human lifespans

I don't think anyone on LW believes these are 'facts' that are 'correct'. LW commonly thinks of these ideas as risks / opportunites that might happen (except for the 1000-year human lifespans, which is a new idea to me), and that it's probably worth investing minor amounts of money in case it does. In case of cryonics, that's about $20/month for insurance that covers it; in case of AI safety, that's a couple people doing research on the problem, and some amount of money sent their way.

The way you phrase it seems like LW people are certain that cryonics will definitely let them be revived after death. That's definitely not the case - in fact, IIRC, on a survey a year or two ago LWers subscribed to cryonics assigned lower probability of it working than ones not subscribed. It's not a cargo-cult.
A blog post on how this algorithm works:

http://blog.otoro.net/2015/12/28/recurrent-net-dreams-up-fak...
Setting up a Mac to programmatically send iMessages is trivial. I have a custom solution running that receives data over HTTPS and runs an AppleScript to send the specified text to the desired number or address via the Messages app using an iCloud account not tied to any mobile phone number.
> What kind of income do you need to spend $200 on a Valentine's dinner?

Ordering dinner from across the country overnight isn't spending $200 on a Valentine's dinner, though, it's spending $200 on leftovers.
I don't agree with the author at all, there are some interesting points buried under an over abundance of ranting and vitriol waged at one person. It also, I think, attacks Paul Graham for points he is not even making in the original article. However, those tweets she brought up are very dismaying and show a very odd attitude, that I don't think was found in the original essay.
The author likely had nothing to do with the photo.
I'd heard that China is going in debt before but how that is even possible? I though US is getting pushed in debt because of China. If everyone is going on debt, who the hack is giving all these loans?
A number of cities do satellite airline baggage checks, primarily on the city end of airport express rail.

Here's an example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoyuan_International_Airport_...

Here's another one:

http://www.hongkongairport.com/eng/transport/to-from-airport...
In Canada there was even a Social Credit Party:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Social_Credit_Party
You wouldn't need an extravagant income to do something like that. I just did a quick check and it costs less than $150 to overnight an 8lb package from NY to SF with 8am delivery. So the markup over just buying the meal at the restaurant is going to be less than $300 once you add refrigerated packaging and pay somebody to order it, pick it up, package it, and ship it. That's pricey if you're doing it every week, but for a special occasion that's not unimaginable for somebody even at the low end of middle class.
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> Presumably they'll build software to handle common requests quickly.

I'm not the OP, but...

I guess, but again, where's the software? You can entirely reasonably solve that problem with a well-indexed medium-sized binder and a Rolodex.
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The best part about trying to measure exceptions or work towards zero exceptions is the system you put in place to detect them.

What you care about eliminating are the ones that happen a lot, or the ones that happen immediately following a release or feature flag being turned on.

If you aren't measuring or capturing things in a reasonable way, that's where you'll feel tons of pain. Otherwise I agree with a few of the comments; getting to zero is a noble goal but perhaps not the point.
They recently started having office hours specifically for minority groups, and they seem pretty attentive to stuff like this, but I haven't really seen money-where-your-mouth-is action either.
> What kind of income would a person need to fathom affording something like that?

Depends heavily on how often they did it. A quick estimate suggests that a request like that would cost a few hundred dollars at most: the cost of the food itself, packing it in an insulated box with cold packs (some restaurants can do that themselves, and if not, a shipping service could most likely do that quite cheaply), and about $100 to ship a package weighing a few pounds overnight. Absolutely in the "luxury" category, but a few hundred dollars doesn't seem wildly outlandish for someone making an average tech salary to choose to spend on a meaningful birthday gift for a close friend.

(I say "meaningful" because I'd tend to assume that the reason for the restaurant across the country would involve some kind of shared memory with the place, rather than just a wild whim.)
Have you ever considered they view you in the same light?
They don't chill the whole logistics chain, they just put the food in an insulated box with some dry ice and send it with the rest of the overnight packages.
Holy crap, I've been waiting for someone to ask me that (I need more coding friends). The entire game is client/server. The client is pure JavaScript, and communicates with the server using only a few messages (select card, move card, etc). Normally, it connects via WebSocket to my Play Framework/Scala app, and the server processes moves and sends the results and a list of potential moves back to the client.

If you download any of the native apps (iOS, Android, Linux, Win, OS X), you can play offline. This is the magic of Scala.js. The same code that my server uses gets compiled down to JS, and the client calls it directly, forgoing the socket connection. You can also see offline mode in the browser by replacing the word 'play' with 'offline'.
Wouldn't that only be true if they replaced/upgraded everything every few months? You'd have to factor in the cost of that. And of course, it wouldn't work that way anyway because Moore's Law isn't actually continuous. It's is a line drawn through discrete points in the timeline (new product launches from chip makers).

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but Moore's law doesn't say anything about ancillary costs like power/air conditioning. I have no idea what the trend is for those.
got it. thanks!
> YC doesn't publish numbers on economic diversity and I'm not aware of any special attempts at funding people from poor backgrounds.

Well, I know they are making efforts toward female founders, but I suppose you can argue that they could be of "the right class" as well. I presume that YC looks at different socioeconomic backgrounds, not just gender, but I can't prove it at the moment.

> VCs in later rounds will value companies with elite founders at higher numbers

Citation needed.
Yeah, my bad.. I read past SSD in the initial post, I was looking at spinning drive prices.
Yeah, Kodachrome processing stopped about 5 years ago, since the chemicals were too nasty. I think Kodak still sells B&W reversal though.
Or better yet, The Hateful Eight, in which he takes film to a new level, shooting on Ultra Panavision 70 (which perhaps counter-intuitively is 65 mm film).

Other people are going digital, but Quentin Tarantino seems to be busy taking film to the next level instead :)
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Interesting idea, like something that you could throw into a Sci-Fi movie to explain how all knowledge of the internet is stored in the Hero's phone, but it practicability seems limited unless you can develop an algorithm that finds the sequence of bytes you are looking for in an efficient manner. Good luck with this.
"You can tell the difference if a piece of mail was signed by a human with a pen instead of a printer, and it means something."

Not any more. There's an app for that now.[1]

[1] https://vimeo.com/101932145
I certainly hope we don't reach a point where the average venture-backed startup outlasts the average laundromat. That would either be due to a batch of incredibly boring startup ideas, or the economy can no longer support laundromats... both are terrible futures.
I'm on mobile so my question shall be short:

I have three small kids, my youngest, before she could even speak, was able to pic up an iPhone, unlock it and browse to various apps including camera, gallery and netflix and take pics, view them or select a movie to watch. Yet she couldn't yet formulate a word.

So given this, I assume that there is a great deal that an iPhone like device could be leveraged upon to accomplish greater learning...

How would you propose this be done with the ubiquity of such devices at this time?

I have some theories but I'd like to hear your position first.
Yep -- see http://orderboxesnow.com/ for FedEx's first-party options, which are the upper bound on expense (for the chilling, not the overnight delivery).
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Considering that many kinds of common requests would likely involve waiting on hold, I'd be surprised if they didn't contract out to some cheap automated service to handle "wait until this goes off hold and then connect me to them".
sharetea is closer than the govt figures.

Smoking gun is capital flight by Chinese themselves.
My issue is that I am allowed to transmit, and being unable to nullifies half the fun. Are there any cheap alternatives to use that can transmit?
"Facebook just gave us one more reason never to trust it"

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>ayy
I'm still not sure you could assume ultimate power and achieve everything you desired if you were the only hacker news reader on a planet of 8 billion monkeys.
Or JJ Abrams. Or Christopher Nolan. Two of the most profitable and prolific directors of today.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/help-star-war...
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Sadly it is pretty common that someone copy & paste some witty tweet and get attention. There's even a service to discover that. In Japanese it is called pakutsui (pakuri (= plagiarism) + tsui (= tweet)).
I don't know, I don't agree with the article but I don't think it is a stretch to say something like "95% of startups fail, everyone knows this;" I don't know what the actual percentage is but I think this comports generally with reality and what most people understand.

Also, many people, even startup founders see VCs as somewhat predatory, even founders that are very fondly though in the HN community.
So you are telling us that if we had a PhD, multiple awards from previous companies for actual work and not politicking/backstabbing/brownnosing, Coursera/edX certificates relevant to your area of business with almost 100% success rate on their most difficult courses, can program in 50+ languages, you would still ignore our past success and we have to go through your normal hiring process? I am sure this would bring you plenty proven world-class talent... /s
I meant http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/vpc-en...

It's a private connection to AWS services including S3.
You'd use the same URL as it's a routing basically.
No idea if VPC endpoints would be better than IG though.
P.S. Just tested and I get about half of the latency on VPC endpoint.
You must use Firefox on Android. I did as well. Apparently they're aware and working on a fix, but for now it works better in a webkit based browser on a phone. (Including Chrome on Android.)
I've bought several things from Dick in the past 12 months, mainly click-and-collect, where they're competitive with other online retailers when specials are posted via ozbargain. Or a wireless mouse that's cheaper than the supermarket aisle.

But the stock in store? they were recently selling HDMI cables for about $12 that had been discounted from $55. Having low turnover stock sit on the shelves that is vastly inflated in price is what got them in this mess.

The real worth of the goods was probably closer to $115m, but treble the valuation based on insane highway-robbery retail markups.
It might not be necessary but it does help scale cheaply. You could have people pick up the phone and order food for you when requested, but if they can route that through an API 99% of the time it costs a whole lot less time & money.
The hidden legacy of 70 years of atomic weaponry: At least 33,480 Americans dead
Every social network so far has eventually faltered. FB is certainly way bigger (and way more invasive), but usability issues like the feed may see it stumble.
Why privacy is important, and having “nothing to hide” is irrelevant
The concept piqued my interest but after reviewing the FAQ, I am a bit underwhelmed. The upside is that I get better oversight, the downside is that all expenses are on a prepaid cash only basis (since it's a prepaid card, I have to front the money well before the purchase is made). Purchasing card programs are not just about oversight, they are also about cash flow and trade credit optimization. It seems that the app only addresses oversight.
Data containing null bytes is not text.

I like to think of bash / sh as just a job control system. It enables you to setup process pipelines. Everything is just processes and files (streams). Variables only serve as programs arguments. Since program arguments are also null terminated, variables containing null bytes just make no sense.

(Of course it gets dirty as soon as you feed the output of a job into a variable, for example. I think that isn't even defined by POSIX for non-text streams).
No, it doesn't. No matter what certain closed-source companies might want you to believe.

There is a difference between Open Source and Free Software, but it's ideological, not technical (as pertaining to the rights granted to the users of the software).
Honestly, I thought the opening shots of the snow-covered landscape and a few of the longer interior shots didn't look that good. However the close-ups looked amazing.
Sure thing, the best case is where the original code & data is available, and a cross check replication does an independent reimplementation. There's a little bit of risk that peeking at the original code might lead one down a wrong path, but overall I think it's still better that the original code is provided. For example, if someone isn't looking to replicate and might be instead trying to extending the original work, using the original code could save a lot of time (and could help find original mistakes too).
Only 2M...?
Assuming they have a +1 ... internationally available SMS number. 5 digit shortcodes aren't guaranteed to work globally.
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Thanks. I'd guess bigger RAM uses bigger instance types as a host hence more bandwidth.
If this was my goal I'd try gof3r to stream data from s3.
The main problem is that the product is just garbage and is getting its lunch eaten by onenote. A note taking program that has terrible stylus support and routinely loses data... Come on.
> If the Australian market is like the U.S. (and I think it's fairly similar), then all the financial information used in this post would have been available to investors prior to their investment in the float.

This is what the authors of the article wrote in the comments of their article:

> We were talking about this yesterday. The problem is that they only have to provide you with a balance sheet at one point in time. We knew it was fishy at the time of the float but there was no way of working all of this out until you can see a time series (and, importantly, they had to give you the old balance sheet as part of the business combinations note). The $170m of inventory in the prospectus was roughly two months sales, about the same as JBH. Looks low but you wouldn’t think only half of what is usually required.