skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the webmaster forget to renew how exactly do you think a permanent link pointing to the dead website might help?
It's up to webmasters to enforce consistent permalink in their website, no one else can do it better, end of story.

Web archive will be of great historical value for futur researchers, but backward compatibility of any service or software rely on developers, not a third party.
Helping America's inmates reach the outside world.

I used to be one.
Ask HN: How bad is the technical debt at Amazon?
When citizenship can be bought and sold
"Recently I bought an item for double the retail price. The seller lied about the price. I wasn't able to leave a review.
"

Return it?
I've bought items >$3000 from third party sellers on amazon, had price or other issues, and returned them, with no problem.
The one time there was an issue, amazon stepped in and took care of it.

"So, am opting for more friction to compensate for less trust.
"

What do you hope to find elsewhere?
In particular, it sounds like you bought from a third party seller on amazon, yet you seem to expect a different experience from those same type of third party sellers elsewhere?

...
Portfolio-generator:JS to dynamically generate a portfolio site from JSON resume
Or even better, sign up using a Canadian IP. The their dollar is lower than the American, so it is cheaper (might be cheaper elsewhere). It doesn't limit you in any way to sign up and use in another country as far as I can tell.
My response to a sibling question gives some details on recent developments. We're currently looking to target 28nm bulk CMOS.
> In communist societies everyone had very similar income...

Again we're reverting to the straw man of 100% (or nearly) equal society.

Our society must be unequal to some extent because capital is a reasonable and effective reward for figuring out how to best allocate resources. But extreme inequality prevents a large % of the population from fully developing, exploring and disseminating their talents, shutting them out of this virtuous cycle altogether.

You bring up Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Uber as examples of companies that succeeded on their merits. All four of those companies were started by straight white men with upper middle class upbringings. Do you believe that's a coincidence? Or are there some "lost Zuckerbergs" out there who never had a chance to fully explore computers when they were kids? Is a family's ability to afford the latest technology a material advantage for the next Zuckerberg / Gates / Brin / Page / Kalanick? In your original example, who is going to invent the next great space tech? Probably the kid whose family is buying a space station.
I'm also building a data driven (mostly NLP) portfolio optimizer, based on expected utility theory! It's a naive model, but it also has statistical bounds on its efficiency relative to the regret, which is an interesting bonus.

Out of curiosity, what kind of model (loss function) are you using?
The main reason Uber is flopping hard in Germany:

http://www.taxi.eu/en/

It's been around since ca. 2011 and for the passenger side offers the same ease-of-use as Uber does, but results in rides with real taxis along with all the protections, insurances and guarantees they involve.

For no extra cost.
It is very obvious that the author is referring to his inner monologue when when he states:

> if I had only manned up and broken out sed, but I pussied out and wrote some Python

It's very frustrating when people try to take an argument out of its context.
Getting Festive with Cascade Classifiers
Sort of.

Stockfighter is great and serves as a great introduction to the field. However I am building something aimed for "the real world".

The system will, after being backtested, trade Bitcoin and small amounts of $ & € to learn.
> What we want are policies that do not make it so absurdly easy for those who already have access to capital to continue to accumulate wealth and influence at an exponential rate

What specific policies are those? Most people who advocate for such policies recommend taxation, which is what the GP is referring to: the government forcibly seizes the money. The GP is not really addressing a straw man when the most common solution is tax.

It's worth remembering that taxing is taking, so a "policy" that prevents people from becoming wealthy is just a societal license for seizing their assets.

Personally I've seen the government squander or tax revenue on pointless wars and ineffective programs like F-35, and would be happy for those who are fortunate to keep their wealth and invest it smartly; they will drive more positive change in society than the government will.
Of course other conferences probably considering inviting him and then decided not to for the same reason. You only know about Strange Loop because it got further along the process.
Hmm, what are you purchasing that's more expensive than Amazon? Electronics and books are typically roughly the same cost. Household items are generally a little more expensive, but on some occasions it's the same or cheaper.
Doing http://hapii.co a web app for continuously getting feedback whether people are happy at work.

Intro here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FJTYcCjYo2g

Sign up at https://app.hapii.co
Continuing work on adding more OS support for https://sysward.com - patch management and security notifications for a range of linux OSs ( Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, CentOS, SUSE, OpenSUSE )
I'm not claiming that failure rate is the sole value destruction mechanism. Rather that it is one. The other, perhaps more pernicious, mechanism is solving problems with little to no long term social benefit. (i.e. much entertainment)

Your point about drug discovery helps illustrate the second item. If most of the drugs being pursued were cosmetic in nature, we could challenge the long term benefit of drug discovery.

I appreciate the apology, but that's part of my frustration. My claims do have some grounds for validity and consideration. They have a rational basis.
I think the main reason Prime is successful is because it's so convenient. I live in Seattle, and running errands is really time consuming, so it's a lot easier to buy items on Amazon if I don't need them today.
So on the one hand, we're already supposed to have permanent identifiers, and they're called URIs/URLs.

On the other hand, what is it that makes URL's fail even if the content still exists on the web?

Generally, changes in platforms hosting the content, that addresses them differently.

It is not technically hard to provide redirection yourself that redirects from the old URLs to the new ones. If the new platform still uses the same internal identifiers for each piece of content, it may be as simple as a one-line apache httpd or nginx redirect, from `http://example.com/get/thing/$ID` to `http://example.com/find/it/here/$ID` or whatever. If the internal identifiers have changed, it's a pain to list the mapping -- but that pain doesn't actually diminish much at all with this w3id.org service, you're still going to have to update all the URLs individually with their service.

Another possibility is that your hostname has changed; as long as you haven't lost the ownership of the old domain though, it is still not technically hard to point it to the same place as your new one, and then you're reduced to the same situation as above.

So it's not technically hard to provide the URL redirection yourself locally. If you want to provide your own platform-idenpendent "permanent identifiers" from the start, there's even several open source packages meant to help you do it yourself, locally.

On the other hand,it is another thing to think about, another thing to maintain and monitor. Nearly everything else one can think of, even things not that hard to do locally, especially if they might require running another service locally, is being 'outsourced' to "X As a Service" platforms.

So, okay, why not 'permanent' identifiers too? I wish people would just take care of it themselves, the way the web was intended. And I wish w3id.org actually just identified themselves as "permanent identifiers as a service" or whatever, instead of implying that they're doing something fundamentally different than plain old URL redirection you can do not too difficultly yourself.

And it is important to note that you are relying on the continued existence and maintenance of the w3id.org hostname and service behind it for "permanence". When "permanent" is in the name, the risks of relying on an "_ as a service" provider are higher, you can't really switch to a different provider later, you're stuck with them literally forever, and counting on them existing as long as you need your identifiers to.

But it's not too surprising if people are looking for "permanent identifiers as a service", they're looking for nearly everything as a service. On the other other hand, most entities don't seem to care about permanence in their URI's _at all_ -- if you are at the point where you realize it's important, I'd think you'd be the kind of entity to have the technical capacity to implement it yourself locally too, and then have true local control over the 'permanence' of identifiers, not have to rely on a third party continuing to be maintained.
> "Yes, there are a lot of jerks who amass capital and do nothing with it or who do irresponsible things. But you also have people who use it to work very hard to make positive change in the world, and even if those people are in the minority, their impact is very large."

I wish you well with your game launch, I hope it's a success.

The issue I'm tackling isn't about erasing the rich, it's about setting limits on the differences between the rich and the poor. If you believe the rich should be richer, why shouldn't the poor be richer too?

The issue with wealth accumulation is that it's a runaway process, wealth begets wealth, past a certain point it's no longer based on merit or contribution to the strength of the economy.
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10831261 (88 points, 4 hours ago, 32 comments)
Atmospheric cube satellite kits for STEM programs: http://www.trimtab.space/ We 3D print a cube satellite, send them to the school, they fill it with their experiments (conditions are extreme at 100,000 ft.) and we send it up on a high altitude balloon. We've got a 3U launch planned a few weeks from now.
Isn't that kind of your own fault for not price-checking? Stores often claim they have the best pricing.
I concur. 30C3 to 32C3 were immense learning experiences, videos from the conferences can be found on youtube.
The only thing Uber has a problem with is encouraging people to play taxi with their private car using private insurance. That's not allowed for very good reason, the other services they offer work fine.

The taxi market is heavily but well regulated. As a consumer Uber offers no improvement apart from potentially temporarily lower prices in the short term.
And this is what kills uber:

Their only advantage in Germany is price.

But they can only offer that advantage by breaking the rules.

And breaking the rules in Germany is one of the most stupid things you can do, as people will end up refusing to use your service due to that.
Using No Mocks to Improve Design (2012)
It's an interesting question, but I confess I have never thought I would get fired for a bug I committed. Hopefully I'd reinterpret it on the spot.
An iOS (Swift + SpriteKit) game my 8yo designed late last year.
I started on it late last year, but I didn't get very far. During the break, I started fresh using Tiled.
Facebook shut down
Facebook’s “Free Basics” program in
Egypt has been shut down, according to Facebook. It’s unclear why the new free
internet service stopped working.
However, the news arrives a week after
the Indian government temporarily
banned the program in the wake of ongoing net neutrality concerns . Free Basics is Facebook’s Internet.org
project with a new name. It gives people
free but limited access to Facebook and
some select online partners. Mark
Zuckerberg pitches Free Basics as an
altruistic dreamer’s quest to bring knowledge to the world, a no-brainer on-
ramp for literacy, light, and “likes.” While we don’t yet know what’s going on
in Egypt, disdain for the program is well
documented. In recent weeks, Indian net
neutrality activists, academics, and
entrepreneurs, have very publicly decried
Free Basics as a way for Facebook to control internet access. (Which, of course,
it is.) Zuckerberg argues that it is, undeniably, a way to connect people.
(Which, of course, it is.) The Facebook angle on the whole thing is
that it’s a high-minded and bleeding-
hearted near-charity project, a noble
mission. Zuckerberg’s been trying very
hard to convince everyone that building
an internet for poor people is a good idea, thoughhe has not been very successful. The angle for anyone who can smell half a
whiff of sanctimony-flavored corporate bullshit: It’s pretty convenient for Facebook that ~making the world a
better place~ involves making sure as
many people become data siphons and
customers of Facebook’s products and
platforms as possible.
Some days or weeks ago a report about inequality was released showing it's growing. I guess there has been a lot of concerned opinions in the media. So pg's essays (there were a couple of them) have tried to present a contrarian opinion: inequality is not good in itself but it's kind of a natural state or a good sign or something... I couldn't finish reading the essay. As much as I like most of his writings, this one seems terribly wrong to me.
I'm a regular at Linux.conf.au (Feb, Australia): http://linux.conf.au/

It is mostly Linux but a lot of other related stuff gets in.
> I'm not comfortable with the idea of everyone having far-field microphones in their homes.

That's the problem with progress and technology. It will happen regardless of how comfortable you are with it. In fact, if it helps those with power to maintain or extend their power it will happen. If it tends to limit their power it will be squashed and marginalized.
60 years ago, Denmark was one of the few industrialized countries other than the United States which was not extremely devastated and still in the rebuilding process after WW2...
+1 for out-of-box mouse event support. This would be the killer feature for me.

Right now, configuring pass-through mouse events in Tmux on a Mac is a huge production. StackOverflow has conflicting advice for each permutation of OSX version + Tmux version, and a lot of stuff changed in the last couple versions of each, such that old advice is entirely useless.
I didn't say tech couldn't relate to politics, nor do I wish to hang out with racists.

I implied that not all people would care to waste their time in the company of no-platformers. Disinterest is a perfectly reasonable position to take when faced with the proposition of hanging out with people with wildly different political beliefs than yourself.

The idea that some people might dislike no platforming almost as much as they dislike racism shouldn't surprise you.

It's not safe to support organisations that choose whether to platform based on the whims of a mob or their leaders.
I am building an app for our agile work method called TimeBlock - a method that helps makers and managers communicate better and more clearly thereby helping them to a less stressed and more fun work enviroment.

http://timeblock.com
I'd also question how Uber defines job here. Something tells me those thousands of jobs they're thinking of might not be full-time jobs providing a wage you can live on.
There's also [0], which I found to be almost eerie, where someone has tried to use evolutionary programming for an FPGA, with the result that the winning generation exploited the analogue characteristics of the concrete FPGA chip being used (i.e. it did not work on another FPGA chip of identical type).

Maybe I'm a bit peculiar, but this article sent chills down my spine.

[0] http://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/
Even more interestingly: Has someone sued Uber regarding the Scheinselbstständigkeit of their jobs yet?
As I said further up, nothing about pairing precludes any other channel of communication.

When I need to learn about a tool or system built by anyone else, the docs are the first place I look. If that doesn't help, I reach out for help.

> So if you generalize a "pair" into a "triple" or a n-tuple, the process of pairing suddenly no longer helps and often dramatically hurts.

Nothing about pairing changes the number of people in a project, or the number of potential pathways between them (some might argue that it halves the paths, but that would be twisting the meaning of pathways).

As I said above, we use pretty ordinary tactics to manage building large distributed systems, such as breaking them down into human-sized chunks of functionality that interact in limited ways.

If you like, I can ask about having you visit an office. It probably won't change your mind, but if you see something we don't, that's useful and valuable feedback.
I think you've got a point, but then I'm old too. I found reading Arthur C. Clarke's 'Profiles of the Future' early on, and Yergin's 'The Prize' later on to be valuable in reasoning about energy, and found 'The Oil Drum' [1] fascinating during its run. But I know I'm an energy dilettante... what resources would you recommend for understanding history, the present, and our future needs?

[1] http://www.theoildrum.com/
You said "I say shit's gay all the time. And I have no problem throwing around the word faggot."

Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10831106

That isn't about an inner monologue, and my reply is not out of context.
Well, so was I, of course, but since I failed to take careful dated terminological field notes, I can't really say much more than feeling that I would have understood it at the time. But frankly I don't know. It just doesn't seem as freighted with modernity as the concept of "automation" in this context.

Seems kind of like maybe something Gibson would have used, but yeah, that's probably later than 1982. Now my interest is really starting to get piqued.
Yes you got it all, now the next logical step is : "Stop being a technical person only", this is what PG is saying.

My advice is keep doing your stuff, but aggressively start building your product-based business on the side.

I encourage you to bookmark my blog and read the categories : "Startups", and "Software Engineering" (coming very soon) for free and valuable information. In 2016, there'll be new essays almost daily.

http://read.reddy.today
10B, not 10M!
It depends on the company.
Some "foreign" companies closely follow the structure and culture of their HQ (Goldman Sachs, Google). Some are essentially Japanese companies that happen to be owned by a foreign entity and share their brand (e.g. Yahoo Japan years ago -- now Yahoo isn't even the major shareholder). Some are in between (e.g. IBM Japan).

Also, nowadays salaries at foreign companies tend to be more in line with the market.

I've been living in Japan for a decade and I've always wanted to work for a foreign company. But I never managed to get an offer from Google, Amazon, etc. One year ago I interviewed for a senior developer position at a certain American company, went thru 4 rounds and finally got an offer... of around 60k USD.
The thing I never understood about Prime is that unless you are extremely impatient, prime buys you nothing [1]. I'm not impatient (2 business days vs 5 is rarely a problem), but even if I had paid for 2 day shipping on every Amazon order I made last year, it would have cost less than the cost of a Prime Subscription.

The real insidious thing is what the OP pointed out -- in an attempt to justify their $100 subscription, people end up spending more than they otherwise would.

[1] I'm not counting the Prime Video service/etc, which may have value to people.
In reality, how far are you from having silicon?
You should have a read of Gaerber's "Debt - the first 5000 years". It talks a lot about the the origins of slavery in different cultures. It doesn't seem as black and white as you seem to imagine.
I've been working on a web-scraping tool for API documentation, scrape-to-swagger

https://github.com/bobby-brennan/scrape-to-swagger
> Working with a Japanese company may seem like a good fit if you speak Japanese, but with the vastly contrasting work cultures and the fact you’re a foreigner in a Japanese world–you might want take a look at other options.

If you honestly think you speak and understand Japanese, but you don't understand or are not already better and more completely aware of what is being discussed in this article - then you don't actually speak or understand Japanese as well as you think you do (or as well as the many 'nihongo ha jouzu desune!' acclamations might have led you to believe.)
> I still would not want another active listening device tied to a mega corp within my vicinity.

I wish more people were like you and voiced their concerns about this ongoing problem around centralization of services. However...see http://www.cultofmac.com/264381/hardware-siri-runs-puts-new-...:

> Over on Reddit, a post suggests that there are 3 main ‘instances’ (or server farms) for Siri in the United States, and at least one for every other country.

> This information allegedly comes — albeit second-hand — from Apple’s lead cloud architect, who says that every instance of Siri runs on 32 powerful HP servers with a total of 1024 cores and 32 terrabytes of RAM apiece. That certainly makes the new Mac Pro look long in the tooth.

> Specifically, each instance of Siri is made up of 4 HP c7k enclosures made up of 8 HP server blades each, with memory upgrades to 1TB of RAM.

> According to the post, if one server dies, it’s simply removed and another one slapped in, with no downtime.

Granted, there are a lot of people yacking at Siri at a given time, but still. You probably need a fair amount of horsepower to pull this off.
> Germany is a country of insane regulations and rules. ... I'm not saying it is better or worse, just different.

Even if you didn't mean to say it, you did, and likely thought it. I recommend improving your delivery. :)
I guess it depends. Setting up a business in Germany might be easier (haven't done it so I don't know, but there's a good startup culture in Berlin so I guess it's possible), but as someone who has lived in Berlin I know there's a lot of pain and procedure to get set up as a resident, get a bank account, and so on.

As an example, to find somewhere to rent on your own, you need a German bank account to pay your rent with. To get a German bank account, you need to register as a resident with a specific address. Supposedly you need to do that within 14 days of entering the city, but when I last looked the wait to book an appointment online to register was a couple months.
Germany also loves paperwork.

Want to setup a farm, as farmer? You’ll have to register with the Katasteramt, Tierseuchenfonds, the Sozialversicherung für Landwirtschaft, Forsten und Gartenbau, and most of them require you to tell them the same stuff 3 or 4 times.

Germany could improve a lot in bureaucratic things.

My mum – working in the emphasized agency – often has to actually call the other agencies frequently to check their data (as it’s often inconsistent)

The famous database class lesson of "duplication always leads to inconsistency" doesn’t seem to have been heard by the people who administrate this stuff.
> It's more convenient -and often faster- for her to order something on Amazon than to drive 30 minutes to shop at the closest electronics shop

Prime delivers in under an hour in rural Japan?
Another vote for Curry On. It has a strangeloop vibe.
The evolution of CES
My point is that wealth is not a useful metric. To your point, having surplus wealth on the day of your death is not very useful, especially if your kids don't need it. That's why some people get reverse mortgages, to turn the value of their homes into spending cash during retirement.