skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the Brave New World comparisons are lazy. If people engaging in pleasurable things and people having a comfortable place in society is the criterion, "good government" becomes indistinguishable from "totalitarian government." There is more to that book. In BNW, the government used artificial or stylized pleasures (drugs; emotionless, recreational sex) to destroy individual autonomy, traditional families, and organic social structures.

Our society, in contrast, condemns the instruments used by the government in BNW. We idolize work and glorify working families. We legislate "for the children." We frown upon sex outside of emotionally-involved relationships. We make escapism through drug use illegal. Now, our society has its own modes of indoctrination, but they are rather different than anything in BNW.
If your Internet needs are privacy or anonymity related perhaps. That's why I said it rules out a lot of computing.

For those with a 'serious' as in life dependent need for privacy, for instance whistle blowers or persons of interest it can be argued the Internet today cannot deliver the level of anonymity they require.
A car sitting in a driveway will last longer than one doing stop and go traffic 23 hours a day

The single most obvious point that everyone seems to be ignoring!
It's testing whether the virtual reality experience can 'prime' people for a behavior change. It was intentional priming and I don't see an inherent flaw there. The experiment does sound weak though. How reliable is the control on the amount of spilled, how accidental it seemed, and the timing for each group who had different events preceding the spill? Also, what does the behavioral difference matter if they do not carry that behavior beyond the single experiment or if the ones exhibiting that behavior were already more paper towel conscious without the VR. I find the article really weak because of a lack of substantial examples, and the examples given lack detail.
I should have said Manhattan. 23% is "scarce" in that, on the island, there are relatively few gas stations, parking is expensive, and getting your car serviced reasonably encumbering. It's also a four-fold reduction from the U.S. average.

How much cheaper would a driverless Lyft or taxi be? 50%? How many more people would forego driving, in Manhattan, if ridesharing were half as expensive as it is today? If half do we're at 11.5% car ownership, a 7-fold reduction from the present-day U.S. average. If 2/3 do, we get to 10-fold.
I have been extremely impressed with Google Play Music, I use their web client on a daily basis.

I did not know about YouTube Gaming, it looks very interesting.
This is the first time I've come across 'product engineer'. How is this different from a 'full stack engineer'?
Are you saying when you love your work it's easier to let go after hours?
Sorry, I think this is just totally disconnected from the reality of the average American who lives outside of a major urban center.

1. Mom, dad, and kid all need to go to work/school at roughly the same time. If they all have a 15-20 minute commute (well below average for many areas) and the destinations for all three aren't in the same immediate vicinity, we're right back to the family needing 2-3 cars.

2. Eh, no. Go to the mall or a shopping center parking lot and walk around looking in people's cars. The average person's car is somewhere between messy and a pigsty. IMO, this will only get worse with SDCs, since people will be able to do more eating/dressing/preparing/relaxing in their car without the need to drive. Not to mention the number of people who simply don't want random strangers using their car. Uber or Lyft would have to offer a significant fee before I would even consider it.

3. Vehicle owners are used to convenience. If I live in 20 minutes outside the city, then I probably have to wait 20-30 minutes for a ride to arrive before I even start my trip. Massively inconvenient, and not worth it.

SDCs will definitely lead to change in American society, but I have to wonder if it won't completely backfire on some of these expectations, and actually lead to American society sprawling out even more into the suburban and rural areas. WFH is becoming a viable option for more and more jobs, and longer commutes will be much more acceptable to most people when the time in their car isn't simply lost time.
"One of the things I find frustrating about web development is there is no interface builder"

There was, and Apple killed it. It was WebObjects Builder and it was a GUI for interacting with the components you wrote in code in XCode when doing WebObjects development. It was the web version of IB, and, in its day, it was awesome.
We are beyond George Orwell's "1984" since cellphones.
Is that one the cheapest?
If you don't believe we need IPv6, read and properly understand the awful mess that is ICE: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5245
This is what VoIP and other similar peer-to-peer applications do today to get connectivity in our wondeful NATed IPv4 world. Are you really arguing we're in a happy place with IPv4?
First:
That is a really neat algo for solving how to make fiendishly difficult very custom puzzles. I might pay for that as a service.

Second:
I feel that the pieces are too unique; and that might distract from some of the enjoyment of the puzzle. Perhaps if the variance was lowered so the pieces seemed more uniform....
Not even all of the other boroughs, either. Eastern Queens and Staten Island basically require a car, and so those two counties have much higher rates of vehicle ownership than the rest of the city. Brooklyn, Western Queens, and the Bronx are much, much more friendly to people who don't want to drive (like me)
Spacemacs 0.105.0 released
But it's not just about writing individual components when you build an app (you need something like a router still for instance). I say this as someone who rather likes the model Web Components espouses. Developer ecosystems matter a lot - for development, debugging and hiring. At present you have a great many more resources/communities to reach out if you go with React. When you get stuck with Web Components or polymer, and you will get stuck, you are a lot more on your own.
Also, for building you are, at least presently afaik, limited to vulcanize instead of the richer set of tools out there for more typical patterns. Vulcanize is cool, but again - if you get stuck, and you will if you do something complex - you have to rely on a much smaller community to help you out.
In general, anything that moves the interview from adversarial to collaborative is a big win. In many ways, interviewing is a lot less about assessing skill and a lot more about creating affection between two strangers.
Yup. And this is "actual work we need done" - and get done at well below market rates - of which they only hire 37% of those.

Now, certainly, people will do the trial who were able to comfortably "talk the talk" but not "walk the walk", and there's some attrition there. But for the others? Cheap labor!
“Chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with
information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without
moving,”

This, from Fahrenheit 451, hit me like a truck.
turn off backlight, turn off 3g, turn off touch, and turn off force feedback (i am not sure if turning off touch will actually render it to act like a dx).
Sorry for the confusion. This isn't a project from us. Travis Webb (@tjwebb) was added as a contributor in mid-2015, but unfortunately it did not work out. The only contributor who was removed from Sails was Travis, in late November. And ever since, he has been doing everything he can to discredit our project, including claiming that the Sails team is working on Trails, or that Sails is "abandoned". Travis is the _only_ former Sails contributor (i.e. someone with actual write access to our repos) working on Trails.

If you have a technical problem with Sails, bring that up with me or another member of our core team on GitHub. But please realize that this fork is not about technical issues; it is a personal vendetta against me and the Sails.js project.
Yes, but that's also true for 4k gaming. It's not an issue at all for PC gamers to get a 970.
I agree with some of the the other points in this article that it's intentionally vague, and missing a lot of details. What I do notice is that HR specifically directed author to have no further contact with the other employee. The author obviously violated that both directly, and indirectly. As much as the author may feel like HR treated them unfairly, he should remember something we all tend to forget:

HR is not your friend. They are there to protect the company, not you.
This is a great problem to have. I'd rejoice.
Captain401 (YC S15) is growing fast and hiring
RethinkDB is great. It's the first NoSQL database I've used so far which I actually liked. The query language is sane and the developers definitely know what they're doing. The realtime features are amazing and work very well with Python + asyncio.
Smalltalk MVC Translated to JavaScript
Why do you think GM invested in Lyft rather than Uber?

In my experience, Uber is more established, well-respected, leading the ride-sharing movement. Why would GM partner with the seemingly second-place horse in the race?
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari

Very interesting though later chapters become less of history and more of philosophy.
To add to the Clojurescript point: dead code removal. CLJS uses Google Closure and can take part in it's advanced compilation and dead code removal feature. All of the cruft that isn't used, that is abstracted away in CLJS anyway, can be removed when building your code for production.

https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/api-tuto...

Not an excuse for baroque frameworks though.
In the US, isn't it up to the accuser to prove libel, not the defendant to prove that what they said was true?
Show HN: Scaffold out a node module with ES6+, Babel, tape and npm scripts
Highly recommended. I have been buying this olive oil for 1+ year now, and it is up there with the best I have ever had (and I travel to Mediterranean countries often). Every time I have guests for a dinner party, oil/bread is usually served as an appetizer, and most guests immediately notice the quality.

And no, I did NOT receive this product at a discount in return for an unbiased review :-)
Why should he hand Yoko, who is swimming in money, $20m of his own? Because of some unrealistic gentleman generosity that only exists in Jane Austin novels?

>Would have hurt paul financially, of course, but far less than it probably has over the last 20+ years.

Maybe he felt maximizing his riches and spending like a loon wasn't within his interests? Or that this wasn't a good investment? I think its obvious now that the post-ipod world and post-baby boomer nostalgia period, etc means that music monetization for oldies is high, but at the time, records and tapes ruled, and their sales weren't exactly inspiring for 60's rock. Disco, New Wave, Punk, etc ruled at this time and the prospect for a big Beatles fan revival seemed low. The new CD format ramped things up a bit and obviously the digial music revolution happened, but to a conservative investor in 1976, well, those would have been very risky trades.

Its also worth noting that ATV bought the rights from Northern Songs for $17m in the late sixties. So just a few years later the negotiate priced went over $40m? Triple the price? Of course, Yoko and Paul balked. In 2015 dollars we're looking at close to $150m for publishing rights. That was unheard of.

Lastly, this is just publishing rights. My understanding is that other royalties were quite profitable for the remaining Beatles and their estates and getting back publishing rights wasn't a high priority for them. All this hand wringing is interesting, but it didn't stop them from getting incredibly wealthy. None of them were remotely in the poor house.

Of course, in England, the taxation for the top earners was something like 80% (more?), so amassing a fortune meant losing all but 20% of it instantly. This probably helped Paul, a UK citizen, make his decision to not bid large on a potential big payout. Lets say he bought the catalog for $50m in 1976 or so and his net worth at the time was $200m. Now he's down to $150m and lets say that investment brings in another $100m in twenty or thirty years. Great, he's now back up to $170m post tax. Still a $30m loss.
Sounds like that scene from God Bless America. If you haven't seen the HR scene it's probably very similar to what many people have experienced. I learned long ago that workplace friendships, and colleagues, are to be treated as absolutely professional. End of story. Too much on the line and too many quick to judge, be offended, etc.
Yeah - say you're working already and making, say $90K as a developer already. You're going to be taxed 25-28% of this $25/hr at the federal level alone.

Money is money, but I could think of more things I could be doing than work for a highly profitable company for what might about to $15-20/hr take home pay.
i don't make monkeys, i only train them.
Startup Founders Can Optimize 80% of Their Time (Epic Productivity Guide)
My friend runs this company called Documentica, I can put you in touch if you are interested: http://documentica.com/

I think they have released version 1.0 now.
The idea seems very interesting. Would you care explaining how you tackle these issues?
Whom do I have to work for to get a job like this?
Yahoo shuts down Yahoo Screen
The hardware requirements are based on the 90 FPS requirement for good feeling VR. That extra 5ms of savings is quite difficult in a lot of experiences. And even without all the "good" looking graphics requires quite a serious amount of rendering hardware to get consistent, which is very important.

You're not going to get the standard AAA experience level graphics in VR, you're talking about a ~20ms difference in render time, with twice the amount of view to render (In polygon processing at least) But good VR is very sensitive to hardware performance.
I'll grant the last two (as long as the additives aren't toxic) but this basically is robbery, just at a distance.
> ... and the overall expressiveness of the language.

We're looking at the same Elm, right?
I think the problem for MS is that Windows 7 is much like Word 2003. It has all the features that most users will ever want, and works well enough to mean there's no real reason to want to upgrade, hence them needing to offer the free upgrade to 10, and hence that process now slowing down as the "ooh, look, shiny!" brigade are done, leaving those who are happy with W7 who will take a lot more persuading.

I've updated my laptop to W10, and when I get a chance it will be reverted to the image I took before the upgrade, as it offers me nothing new (as a user, I'm sure the points outlined elsewhere on this page as under-the-bonnet improvements are true for developers), and in fact works less well than when it was running W7 - there are a bunch of things that just don't work properly, and a load of things appear to be unfinished/missing (settings, etc).

If I could move completely away to Ubuntu then I would, but I have one piece of software on my laptop that I need to run which needs Windows (Cubase), and on my desktop I have a variety where there isn't a linux-compatible alternative that works well enough, so that's that. But I will be running W7 until it's too dangerous to do so, as I detested Windows 8, and for me W10 still has the horrible look and feel of it.
Certainly you're not alleging that I created that account to write that comment? Not only do I not have time for that kind of dishonesty, Sails was created while I was running one of those "kind of consulting shops".

Please leave me and my team alone.
F# is commonly used on the frontend?
> If I live in 20 minutes outside the city, then I probably have to wait 20-30 minutes for a ride to arrive before I even start my trip

Not according to studies I've seen, including the one cited in my original comment [1]. They map commute patterns, urban, suburban and rural, and take simultaneity and fleet access into account.

In Ann Arbor, Michigan a "shared fleet [was predicted to] provide almost instantaneous access [fractions of one minute] to a vehicle with a fleet of only 15% of the number of privately owned vehicles that would have been used for these trips." In a rural study conducted in Germany, maximum wait was estimated at 5 minutes with fleet capacity at around 20%.

[1] http://sustainablemobility.ei.columbia.edu/files/2012/12/Tra...
Remember the time you could already do all of this with IRC?
It doesn't affect the business range.
Do those apples look like those oranges? I might be able to go to Old Tony for my deposits and withdrawals, but can he give me legal advice and represent me in court? Is he allowed to drill my teeth while protesting that he's not a dentist, but a toothologist? I'm fairly certain that he's definitely not allowed to attempt a kidney transplant.
Apple Peeled: Getting Under the Skin of iPhone Worries
Look at the Thinkpad P50/P70.
Bandwidth isn't limited by protocol but the effects of latency vary widely. It'd be really helpful if the discussion could shift to prioritization and reservation so ISPs could implement a better version of this feature where e.g. any traffic flagged as latency-tolerant costs less but you could simply pay to have a greater share when the network is congested.
The product engineer wouldn't necessarily (or rather, shouldn't) implement the functionality. That would be left to the full stack engineer.
Gold Glam Wedding Inspiration for 2016
I read an article form of Kurt Vonnegut's original talk. My favourite part was the happiness/misery graph of The Metamorphosis: http://austinkleon.com/wp-content/uploads/2005/vonnegut6.gif

(Found here: http://austinkleon.com/2005/12/17/graph-a-story-with-mr-vonn...)
My favorite way to rent a car when I fly somewhere. The overall experience (mobile first in a way that makes sense and isn't just trendy) is fantastic.
I think many people just don't want to coordinate with strangers, like a pickup time, place, etc.

This will be much smoother if you just open an app like Uber and it tells you the next pickup time for where you want to head.
Perhaps I am missing it, but I am not seeing any list of exactly what courses are being offered.
>lack of best practices

How many 'best practices' do you need? What about 'higher order components'? Use proptypes in development? 'Avoid local state'?

>constantly breaking changes

I call bullshit, what was the last breaking change? Every large release still supports the old deprecated syntax, but with warnings.

>Every tutorial before the last month is already outdated

That is a big exaggeration; I wouldn't advice anyone to use 'pre es6' tutorials, but the concepts still apply.

>everybody has a different way of setting up webpack / isomorphism / templating.

No they don't, maybe a small differences and what do you mean with 'templating'? It's not Angular.
I think, just like with most predictions that are based on trends, the current set of expectations will be uprooted by an unforeseen technological advancement.

I'll even go as far as predicting that this technological advancement will be a personal (or family) aerial vehicle[1] that makes commuting as easy as vehicular travel, but perhaps safer, and definitely faster.

In other words, I think the automobile will diminish in quantities, much like the horse, not because people need them less, but because something better comes along.

1. This could be a gyrocopter-like device or a drone-like device, but will likely not be a fixed-wing "flying car", especially beyond the extent to whicih a V-22 Osprey is a fixed-wing.
I would differentiate them in the following way:

Product Engineer: Focused on creating something that fulfills users' need or want

UX Engineer: Focused on polishing the product to make sure the user's need or want is fulfilled with the least amount of friction.
Volkswagen Sued by US Federal Government Over Emissions Scandal
NREL's Cybersecurity Initiative Aims to Wall Off the Smart Grid from Hackers
Yes, I agree with your premise here. Personal anecdote, I lived in San Francisco in the city 8 years. It was by far more economical for me to have both Zipcar and taxis (later UberX and Lyft) combined per month than to have a vehicle lease + parking costs + insurance/maintenance/gas. By far. In both $ and time.

I'm not certain that other elements of your vision work in non-metro areas.
The patent is only for a relatively short period and Cancer is generally not a contagious disease. So, really it's 90$ per pill now, and 10cents a pill for the rest of time.

PS: Don't forget, the company was sold for 21 billion which is chump change for the world.
Yeah, I think I don't disagree with any of that. To clarify a bit, I assert (but don't have any good proof for):

1. If you're involved with a startup, you're inclined to take risks (explore unexplored spaces in the market) on specific things that are closely correlated with the specific experiment the startup is investigating, but not particularly more willing than non-startup folks -- and probably less willing, because of how much risk you already have -- to do risky things outside of that specific experiment. If you want to place one risky bet, that's worth doing. If you want to place dozens of risky bets on the same venture, you'll lose. (VCs know this, and place dozens of risky bets one per venture.) For instance, just about no startup will, or will be advised to, run on a nonstandard OS just in case there's some secret sauce. There are certainly a few, but they have founders who believe firmly, a priori, that the secret sauce exists and the market hasn't recognized it. ~Nobody says, "Well, we built our system on AIX because nobody uses AIX so we figured we might get competitive advantage out of it."

2. Yes, the Juilliard drop-out might do way better than the Harvard one. But in the (hypothetical) case that you have literally zero information to differentiate the two founders other than their school -- let's say, they have the same programming background and ability, their parents pushed them both towards music, both were admitted to Harvard but one's Juilliard application was lost in the mail -- very few investors would prefer the Juilliard kid.
I thought of linking this on HN during the discussion about Guesstimate [1] a few days ago. It seems the HN community has an interest in uncertain data, which happens to be the PhD topic of one of my friend, a3nm. He wrote a summary of his (impressive IMO) work for his blog, and I think it is accessible and interesting.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10816563
To be more precise, the feature in DDR4 is called TRR and the one in DDR3 is called pTRR.
Pepperidge farm remembers
You know, in my one big project on Haskell I choose it for performance alone. I didn't even think I needed any other of its features at the beginning.

Anyway, FP people are nailing composability and reusability to never seen level just in front of your eyes. You just have to keep them open to see. OOP did it at its time too, it just hit a ceiling; but there's one reason every imperative language is OOP nowadays.
> Of course it did; every person he hired got a higher wage than they would elsewhere.

If you increase men's and women's wages proportionally, but are still underpaying women per unit work compared to men per unit work, I don't think you're lessening inequality.

If you're increasing women's wages disproportionally, you're sabotaging your own arbitrage opportunity. (Maybe Greenspan thought there were more important things in the world than arbitrage.)