skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://meetabit.com - an easier way to run tech and startup meetups

As the organizer of HelsinkiJS and a new dad I find it takes too much effort to organize monthly events. Meetabit makes this easier by letting companies offer sponsorship & speakers submit talk proposals. All that organizers need to do is pick a date. The service handles sending out invitations, handling registrations, providing a wait list and even getting speakers to add links to their slides after the event.

To see some of the features available, check out the HelsinkiJS community profile: http://helsinkijs.org. If you're an organizer yourself, it would be great to hear from you - just drop me a line via the feedback link in the footer.
I think he means the exact same Python script can be run directly on any environment that has Python installed if written correctly, in contrast to a C program which has to be recompiled on various environments to be able to run.
Redistribution coupled with corruption (cronyism) results in new oligarchs.

This is a classic trade-off, just like surveillance and security. If you estimate that the chance of abuse is sufficiently low, then yes, those are great things to have.

If not. Holy shit, you know the drill.

So, the problem is not income inequality (lack of redistribution, or the network effects (the compounding) of capital), but the rationality of decision making. The stability of the utility function of those who make the decisions. Which is the aggregate of the whole power structure.

Do we see a stable trend in good governance?

I'd say that the US could use some internal redistribution. Less spending on war on things and more on education and social safety stuff. (It'd be probably much better for the US to stop funding the useless manpower-hungry parts of agencies - like the TSA and all the terror chasers - and send those guys that would get unemployed over to work as social workers, or even just pay them to get a degree and do something useful.)
It seems to me that there is probably some optimized point between total economic equality and extreme inequality. I believe we are drifting further away from that point.

In concrete terms, I don't believe those with pre-existing access to capital should receive privileged tax treatment. I'm im favor of lowering taxes on earned income and raising taxes on inheritance and investment income.
I found this while doing some research on hosting costs on AWS and GCE.

Network egress does appear to be very expensive on the big cloud providers.

In contrast, compute cycles seem more reasonable for what you get. Still more expensive than dedicated servers - but you are getting some benefits as well - namely someone else to manage those servers, elasticity etc

Why is bandwidth so expensive on AWS and GCE?
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: node.js, javascript, backbone, react, redux, express, mongodb, iOS, Objective-C

Résumé/CV: http://registry.jsonresume.org/l2abdulle

Email: liban2.abdulle@gmail.com

I come from a mobile background (iOS) but these days I prefer writing full stack javascript. I have deep experience with front-end development and the curiosity to learn new patterns (especially excited about react/redux/webpack).
Based on experiences with highschool reunions and with hard-drug dealers, I feel like children whose lives are "optimized for success" often end up pissing away their "potential," while the second-tier/nice-but-dull children end up having personally fulfilling, materially successful lives. Probably this observation reflects nothing more than a bunch of named fallacies.
Another idea that no-one will use.
Agreed, but what angered me a bit about Murdock's death is how fast it fell off front despite iirc over 1300 upvotes.
I've been writing a self-hosted Rails application where a company can upload their binaries/product-files for their customers. Having accounts, their customers can privately comment or bring up issues on what releases/products they purchased from the company.

It's somewhat like the "Releases" feature of Github, without everything else. A minimalistic selfhosted-internal-appstore-slash-customer-service-desk if you will.
Taxes on inheritance are not regressive when you include a sensible floor. Current US Policy places the floor so this tax only affects families somewhere in the upper 1-10% of wealth.

Taxes on investment are complex. Considering the fact that most humans do not have anything approaching a real investment portfolio, it's hard to understand what you could mean when you say this kind of tax is regressive.

A properly progressive income tax should mean that more people can join the investment class. If the taxation within the investment class is actually regressive, then maybe we worry about that when the majority of humans have this problem.
I'm hopeful that as an industry we're making baby steps forward. Rust clearly wants to use checked arithmetic in the future; Swift uses checked arithmetic by default; C++ should have better support for checked arithmetic in the next language revision. All of these languages make heavy use of LLVM so at the very least we should see effort on behalf of the backend to reduce the cost of checked arithmetic in the future, which should hopefully provide additional momentum even in the potential absence of dedicated hardware support.
Means it's something to gripe about when you're pretty high up on Maslov's hierarchy and not worried about war, hunger, disease, or any of the other horsemen of the apocalypse. Similar to white-girl problems
I'm rethinking the computer. The hardware, the software, the UI paradigms, everything. Xerox PARC 2.0.

- We must stop writing UI by hand

- We must adopt a new language that's less ambiguous

- We must prefer graphs to trees

- We must not build service-specific apps and websites

- We must stop thinking of computer hardware as a personal device, and make switching from a device to another completely seamless

- Local storage must be nothing but a local cache of sections of the ONE universal knowledge base

- Speech and text must not be the primary way to interact with a machine/AI

- Service providers must never have a say when it comes to UI/UX, as services must be completely decoupled from UI

- Everything is an agent, the system shouldn't make a distinction between human users, AI, smart contracts, APIs, etc.

- There must be no difference between creating software and using software

- Money shall be replaced by a social currency, a form of trust score (based on reliability, honesty and predictability)

- Businesses must adapt their practices and models to software, not the opposite

- Brands must be eliminated and replaced with a trust score

- We must allow for non-precise facts to exist (ranges, set of weighted values, conditional constraints)

- We must allow for non-universal facts (opinions, contradicting values, different weight/credibility based on the user's trust graph)

- "Undo" and "Predict next" functionalities must be ubiquitous and present everywhere

- Intentions and Predictions are communicated by logging events in the future (where the date doesn't need to be precise as allowed above)

- A cooking recipe, GPS directions, task dependencies, a playlist, IKEA directions, a tutorial, must all use the same model

- ...
That's awesome! I tried signing up, but it's lagging out my browser a little bit and it doesn't look like any forums are up yet. I'll definitely keep an eye on this though.

Did you post it to /r/ethereum yet? Cuz you totally should.
Saudi Arabia severs ties with Iran-minister
Sciences.ch (table des matières)
That's an interesting theory. How would you test it to prove (or disprove) it? Would you predict that it would change as video chat becomes more commonplace? Why or why not?
My argument is that not that the state needs to be 'fixing' things. I'm not saying wealthy people should contribute more just because they are wealthy. It is very unhealthy for the whole if money and the amount of power and control that comes with money gets consolidated into the hands of a very few. We don't need billionaires. I'd much, much rather have 10 people with $100,000,000 than one billionaire; even better is a 1000 people with $1,000,000 to invest. They will keep on make smart investments because they will wont to keep that $1,000,000 or try to get to $2,000,000 or $3,000,000. With the number of people worth more than $250,000,000 that we have now is just a massive disaster that ended with $15,000,000,000,000 debt on the backs of everybody.
to be a non-cynic, oracle is going to want to make sure their stack runs as efficiently as possible on any platform that google and hp are backing. getting involved at the ground level allows them to provide input and to shape the architecture as much as possible.
Maybe they think the more Intel conquers the markets it's in, the less competitive it will be performance/price-wise - like say how it replaced its $110 Core-based Celeron chips for Atom chips with half the performance and almost no extra "features" that also cost $110, because it knows people will keep buying "Intel" in the PC market and are not even giving AMD a second look now. It surely helped when Microsoft killed Windows RT and eliminated the ARM competition from the market for the foreseeable future.

Maybe these RISC-V chips will never get out of the labs of Google, but they could still serve to force Intel to keep prices the same on its new generations in the future, unless they want Google to really get serious about making its own chips.
Well, you can go back to at least the Middle Ages in Europe, when valuable books were sometimes chained in place in monasteries or libraries to keep people from running off with them.
Pinterest can at least insert itself between you and products you might buy to earn referral dollars. My understanding is that for certain markets it has a lot of eyeballs like wedding planning.

Personally, I think Snapchat has the most to prove.
While this might look like a superficially good idea, this means that the government gets 100% ownership of all businesses after 50 years or so. There are multiple reasons why this would be very bad, for example politicians would not have the specialized knowledge required to make the owner decisions of every business. It would also give politicians an unprecedented amount of power.
"The diesel engine is inherently efficient: Even a heavy sedan can get as much as 50 miles per gallon, while producing fewer carbon dioxide emissions per mile."

There seems to be a common misconception about CO2 emissions from cars, evidenced in this statement.

Burning hydrocarbons produces CO2 and water. The more burned, the more emitted. The efficiency of the engine (and vehicle in total) determines how much fuel is used while driving. More efficient = less emissions.

Diesel engines are thermodynamically more efficient by virtue of their higher combustion temperature and pressure. It's this same high temp and pressure that causes nitrous and sulphur oxide pollutants to form in the exhaust gas. Hence there is a definite trade-off between high thermodynamic efficiency, and NOx pollution.

Diesels are more efficient, but less clean.
"First world problem" is a way of saying that the problem is very low stakes and would only appear in an area where people already have their more basic needs attended to. For example, if I want my coffee to have cinnamon in it and no sugar - but the cinnamon is mixed with sugar. That's a 'first world problem'.
The saving grace for uber is they appear to be making boatloads of money in mature markets. So while opening new markets is subsidized and expensive, they're not operating on the promise of eventual profits but actual profits in mature markets. See leaked numbers from a year or so ago.
Not quite the same sentiment and you have mis-attributed the quote.

If a violent revolution comes, I'd be thinking more about those pervasive comments touting a belief that theft of private property is somehow justified. I'd suspect those making such comments would be a little more regretful to see their rhetoric fulfilled.
s/underfunded/misfunded

Money that is wasted may as well never have been used.
It's interesting how many programming languages were made by Danes.

Nauer of course contributed to algol60, but did you know PHP was written by Rasmus Lerdorrf, Anders Hejlsberg developed delphi, turbo pascal and C#, Bjarne Stroustrup developed C++, Ruby on Rails was developed by DHH. All Danes.

Given a nation of 5 million people I think this is quite unusual.
Well, the cheaper option is a bike or public transit.

Taxi costs are hard to get cheaper – Taxi drivers already get the cars for almost free, most of the costs are minimum wage and the 8$ per gallon gasoline. (Plus maintenance, inspections and insurance)
I'm only aware of the black bar because of the discussions that inevitably seem to describe its absence for a given person.
The wet noodle revolt!
For the curious, "Beneath Apple DOS" is available online at:

http://fd.fabiensanglard.net/prince_of_persia/Beneath%20Appl...
Indeed. There's a kind of 'iron polygon' that is composed of the FCC, media corps, content corps, telecom corps, cable corps, satellite corps, lobbyists, Congressional patronage, and federal and state civil servants with agendas. Each node wields power over and/or shares power with other nodes. Promotion is from within. The unifying principle of the polygon is to plan the telecommunications industry in such a fashion that the polygon remains on top.

This 'organization' has no customer service line, and the existing cell-phone companies essentially work as oligopolistic - and profitable - vassals of the polygon.
I agree. Years if not decades ahead of its time.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=programming%20as%20theory%20bu...
I wouldn't be so upset if the divice firmware was completely open source and easily user modifiable (android does not meet this, 100gb source download is not easy to modify).
Tl;dr of complaints:

--unit AI does not automatically make optimal decisions to win game for you, you actually have to control your units on a minute-to-minute level and think and pay attention to win.

--"campaigns are boring"

--winning is tedious and takes no effort after you spend an hour building up to the final stages of the game

--people on multiplayer actually know how to play the game beyond the level of someone who has been playing for a day and a half, they beat me, i never played again.

Yeah, if all you're doing is playing single player against AI on low difficult, DUH it's tedious. RTS games were not made to play against the computer. Learn to play properly and get into multiplayer, where the glory and awesomeness never ends.
A Russia Today link? Seriously that is the best you can do? Back to the bog troll...
The AXIOM, a 4K camera uses a RISC-V

http://riscv.org/workshop-jan2016.html
Fun with Disque, Java and Spinach
"Who will be the next CEO of Apple?"

"No."

Someone didn't think this law through...
Marissa Mayer wastes more money
In common parlance, the term "first world problem" is an indication that we are fretting over things that are only problems because of our relative affluence and status. Sometimes it's also intended to poke fun at people who are a little bit too precious.

There is a related thing called "fallacy of relative privation."
Ruby on Rails is not a unique programming language. Matz created Ruby.
Will you?
Another nitpick is the image labelled 'universe' which is clearly a solar system.
Great idea - include a function so you can email the CTO automatically telling them to remove the 22 tracking scripts that their site just has to have.
There are PLENTY of noob games on multiplayer steam. I don't think you're really looking. In fact they make up the majority.
>What part of "sit in this room for 8 hours a day until we cut the umbilical cord, then get a job and contribute to society so that you can afford to live and maybe retire one day. because otherwise you are human garbage."

I think the expectation that "people should be good to me just because I was born" lies at the root of much distress. Reality can be harsh: if you don't have anything to offer them, most people don't care much about you.

Maybe this is a terrible failing on the part of society, but from a pragmatic perspective it's much easier to change one's viewpoint than to change society. It can be surprisingly liberating to not expect anything from the world.
That same realization made me feel very naive, especially since I'd grown up in the competitive Quake LAN scene.

My house mate and I would play AoE2 vs the AI as a change of pace. We'd done this enough to get a basic understanding of the game and I would have considered us "pretty good" at the game. I recall the moment when I stumbled onto MrFixitOnline and learned about the concept of Villager Seconds and just how important it was to get that 2nd boar in the very early game.

I have a vivid memory of yelling across the hallway to my buddy, "I just found out that we're terrible at this game and no nothing at all".
Dealing with private, or non-repo updates myself recently, I've been exploring what it takes to do these. Currently I'm using Freemius, but I'm sure at some point I'll have to make this work. I'm excited to see another option out there!
What? They kicked you? There is no "kick" functionality once the game begins on steam. What are you talking about?
I love your HN comments. Up votes aren't enough for you.
Pilot Guardcam, See everything, all the time, wherever you are
Am I the only one who can't read this on an iPhone without instantly being redirected to a mandatory app download page? I don't seem to have the option to close or hide it or go back to the article.
Interesting, I didn't know about the extension. They owe me a few months in that case!

Thanks for the suggestions about calling their support. I'm going to try that now. EDIT: they're closed. :(

I think in the future I'll just have stuff sent to an Amazon locker nearby and I'll pick it up myself...
you're right of course. I thought I'd include it though since its so popular.
"you can't stick JavaScript (or a Java applet) in an email and expect the receiver to be able to run it."

You say that like it's a bad thing?

NB I can see that it might make sense to allow "executable" messages - but they potential for security and/or privacy problems look pretty bad.
Interesting. What technologies did you use here?
> Coming from a former communist country, I don't understand why smart, capable people want to give away their money to a corrupt, incompetent state to manage it for them.

Coming from a former communist country, I can explain why. Because the alternative, capitalistic "free market" where companies eventually end up as oligopolies, is actually worse and gives you less control over the resources involved. For example, botched privatization of water utilities here in Czech Republic hiked prices up 100x.

Yes, real democracy is quite a weak control, but at least it's some means of control. You don't get the same level of control over private corporation as you get as a citizen over public utility. And there are many examples of government run enterprises that prove this point, in Nordic countries and in Switzerland.

So state is something I can at least marginally influence by voting or by being involved in local politics (I have for example information laws that give me some insight about what's going on); and yeah, to me, giving state less control over resources by minimizing it is a losing proposition. If I could vote about the companies, then perhaps we could talk (but then they would be more like customer cooperatives than private companies).

Of course, you probably think competition is the solution, and I don't buy that. First, it doesn't exist in many places (as you're probably painfully aware), and I believe it actually tends to not exist. But the biggest point against the competition solution in my mind is that it's very "low information density" solution. People cannot come and to try to fix things (unless they make their own company, which is unrealistic to expect); they can only signal unhappiness by leaving. It promotes irresponsibility and fatalism. I think it's a kludge, frankly, compared to a possible system where you could really control citizen-owned companies via voting.
Well, startup time aside, it seems like increasing the memory has done the trick? Or it may have all been some subjective nonsense to begin with. In any case, it is at least practice at being patient :)
FontLab VI Public Preview 2 for Mac
> large cable companies wants to have with ads

Any guesses why this is? It seems so strange to me that it isn't possible to offer a commercial free service.
How does RISC-V compare with the J2 core based on the SuperH architecture by the Open Processor Foundation[1]?

1: http://0pf.org/
But does this position argue for anarchy or mass democracy? Either seems terrifying in its own way.
String interpolation is one of those features where I'm really confused about the direction the Python team wants to take. It's implicit and magic, and yet another non-obvious way to do do string formatting.

What's more, it's being hailed at a plus for localization which it isn't. Localizers should never, ever deal with string interpolation - anything past what .format() does is essentially untranslatable.
Regressive in the general sense--privileging those who already have access to wealth. The long term capital gains rate is a good example.
> * They are highly educated.

Huh? You are mistaking cause and effect here. People are highly educated because the state pays for our education and give and lend enough money to handle living expenses while we study.
I'm assuming the poster is pointing out the irony
I'm working on a related project that uses hyperorthogonal data structures to create better bookmarks:

https://github.com/ixtechnology/z-mark
http://www.cobaltspeech.com ?
Yes, if you want those, I can see how it would be worth it. For me, I wouldn't use them, so that's no benefit.
I think that a major driving force behind how slowness of asana is how their API is formatted. In order to load up the my tasks section you need a minimum of 2 requests per 100 tasks that exist in your workspace. And if they don't bump the request limit to 100 then they need 2 requests every 25 tasks.
The system linked to is terrible. Content addressable schemes should be solved via decentralized routing algorithms/networks. See ipfs et al mentioned else where in these threads. The poster's link is no better than link shortening
Making it less easy for the wealthy to accumulate wealth exponentially !== attacking income of the rich.

Poverty is always relative and is inextricable from the issue of inequality.
I'm completely the opposite. Mathematical equations and proofs make my brain shut up shop.

One day we will figure out what parts of the brain allow some people to prefer working using one way rather than the other. Until then, I'm glad that we have both.
Interesting idea how do you get the names? My initial idea would be to crawl some social networks for the name.
Here's a Wall Street Journal article describing the same thing:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/speaking-fees-meet-politics-for-...
> OOB most things will dish up leases at will, how else are folks spinning up countless bridged VMs, containers, etc in workstations.

They are not in the 99.99% of corporate environments outside of startup-land.
So why should inheritances be taxed again? They've already been taxed at least once - when the original wealth was earned.

If you want positive social mobility, then you need to encourage generational wealth. The rags-to-riches, pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps in a single generation story is more romantic, but the more realistic path to advancement is to build on the foundations of the family nest egg. Taking a haircut on that family wealth each generation makes it harder to climb the ladder from working class to lower middle class to upper middle class.
Was a Kickstarter. Got mine in my hands last week.