skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Social conditioning or not, brain malleability decreases rapidly after 25. Neuroplasticity is no longer what it was, and the quicker one reconciles themselves to that fact the quicker they can figure out what they both excel at and enjoy. There's tons of things that are just in the brain. I come from a family of academics where every male in my family was either a PhD or an MD except for my paternal grandfather. Most of them are of Oxbridge pedigree, ranging from post-docs with Nobel Laureates to tenured faculty at those East-coast liberal schools Ann Coulter hates so much. Math came ridiculously easy to me, nature or nurture I'm not sure. Then I started going to conferences and seeing people who were of Terrance Tao caliber. No matter how hard I train, I'll never win a Fields medal. My brain is no longer malleable. One of the reasons I went into industry instead of academia was meeting people 20 year old first year grad students who were of one subset of mathematics, take 4 months to sit down and study an entirely different subset and start collaborating, then outperforming post-docs who've spent ~10 years on it. I'm convinced we all have more or less the same ability to perform at that level, just in different fields. Most of us will never be able to out-return Andre Agassi, but they might just be naturally[I use this term loosely since we know so little about the neurological methodologies by which we acquire and integrate knowledge, problem solve, etc we can't quantify what differentiates one's propensity for a skillset from anothers] great at poker, tearing down an engine in 20 minutes, or precision pilotry.
That riot in no way threatened the existence of the state, or the privileges of the elite.

Your example proves my point. There is nothing to fear from the poor. They are completely checked and have no access to power whatsoever.
>> On the other hand, I have to question the necessity of a custom ERP and the cost and effort put into it.

I can't imagine why anyone would, either. I've seen companies spend 2X the cost of a new ERP system that would solve all of their problems on customizations and additions to an existing, outdated ERP system.

What do they end up with? Solutions that are incomplete, unreliable, and late to the game.
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Houston-style regulation is pretty bad: they don't put the madness into the zoning per-se, but they require lots of mandatory `free parking', don't they?
A surprisingly large number of the 2000 Super Bowl ads were for companies that didn't have products, or whose products were never really explicable to the public. Some kind of spammish email marketing company, a website for announcing your wedding, and of course Pets.com, which had a working site but not a working business model. I remember watching the game and thinking, 'God, I'm glad I got out of the dot-com world.'

Instead, I went into the telecom sector. With a specialty in Sun Microsystems work. Evidently I am awful at being prescient.
What are you actually building?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10833129
I don't see how it's different than a smartphone. Everyone carries with them a little microphone and GPS now. Who cares about using voice recognition in the home?

And the real voice recognition should be turned off 99% of the time. It should just passively listen for a keyword before using any cloud service.
I guess they've just focused on getting the functionality available on devices you can already find (Android and iOS devices, TVs like the newer Sonys that run AndroidTV, etc). I see the appeal of a standalone device but I find that lots of times, the response may not translate well into audio-only so having a screen helps when you ask something and the best answer is a graph, text, or image.

Just a guess though. I'm surprised that wasn't included in that rather pricey wifi router they launched recently. It has a decent sized speaker in it but perhaps they decided not to enable it just yet. My guess is that they wanted to start selling the wifi routers but didn't think the voice stuff was up to snuff for a consumer application/selling point just yet.
Hey, it's me. The person arguing for this.
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The only people I hear calling Visual Studio "the best" are usually .NET developers. Considering their lack of choices I'm not surprised.
I have a Hilti driller that my granddad already owned. Must be decades old by now. Destroying a Hilti is next to impossible even if you drive over it with an excavator...
Elegant for who?

Adding a new syntax that doesn't exist in any language.

vs.

Using sensible default parameters.

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An argument for why my suggestion would be bad:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0498/#no-use-of-globals-...
One upside is that after 9.0 is released he can update that post with U+1F926.
Except a linter or static analyzer can easily be taught to understand f"", but it's essentially impossible to reason statically about locals().
Some fax machines used rolls of full width thermal paper, I'm not sure how that would compare. My guess is for printing text, paper cost is going to outweigh toner cost by a significant margin, and thermal paper is more expensive than plain paper.

Thermal paper also requires more attention to environmental conditions of storage, if it's stored in a hot place, good luck reading it. Otoh, storing it on a roll might be somewhat useful.
Mill Valley has huge roads compared even to Monselice---they have enough space for roadside parking, even.

By European standards, Monselice doesn't have small roads.
I don't disagree with you, and I think we're more on the same page than not.

In case you're interested, a writer (and scientist) whom I've found very insightful and thought-provoking on this topic is Bernardo Kastrup:

http://www.amazon.com/Bernardo-Kastrup/e/B004OFGCA4
One that I've read up on:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Reform_Act_of_1986

Some tax shelters were eliminated/reduced in their effectiveness, shifting some of their wealth gain through the year to being classified as actual income.
I answered a similar (but slightly different) question here: https://lobste.rs/s/jmgsyl/untethered_lowrisc_release/commen..., comparing lowRISC and the Open Processor Foundation.
I used to refer to this as "ritual-taboo programming", where people know what rituals work, and which to avoid, but don't understand why. This comes from reading books which are all examples, but don't provide reference documentation. I used to consider this a vice; now, it's normal. It's necessary to deal with the flood of sort-of-working software components one has to deal with today.

Dijkstra was once the head of the "programming is hard and programmers should suffer" school of thought. Few people read his books today.
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I finished up the first round of my side project: PeerGym

http://www.peergym.com let's you search for quality gyms in your area by membership price and amenities - the kinds of things services like Google Maps and Yelp don't do. Most people do a particular kind of workout (running, weights), and need special equipment (treadmill, barbells), and you can't always guarantee you'll know what you're getting just by the name and a few pictures.

It was mostly an excuse for me to learn Elixir and Phoenix. I've tackled auth, uploads, geolocation/geospatial DBs, SSL and more, so it's been a lot of fun and hopefully I can turn this into some sort of tutorial series on building out a real-world app.

For the future I want to add reviews, community edits, and advanced filters to make them easier to search and populate. And hopefully, accept payments if people want to buy passes to their gyms online (or automatically renew their memberships.
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The #1 thing to do in SF is to not leave any valuables in your car.

Otherwise, check out the California Academy of Sciences.

The Giants resume playing in late March.
In aggregate, startups certainly do create wealth. (So do other types of companies.) Certainly not every startup creates value. Perhaps even most don't.[1] But some startups generate a massive amount of wealth. (Apple for instance, or Google, or Tesla, to give a few hopefully non-controversial examples. We are better off as a society for these companies having been started.) And the ones that don't create wealth don't tend to destroy much either. It's not like investment funds are just torched. They go to purchasing materials, paying employees, etc. For the most part these actions simply redistribute wealth, rather than destroying it. Therefore it seems clear that, in aggregate, startups create wealth.

I suppose one could argue that more wealth would be created if everyone went to work for large, established companies, or started lifestyle businesses, rather than starting startups. At the very least it would be more difficult to disprove that assertion, but using the same logic as above it seems unlikely to be true. For all we're immersed in startup culture here, the number and people and amount of capital focused on startups is still small relative to the rest of the economy, and yet the benefits we've seen from just a few high-profile ones, let alone the smaller benefits accrued by many others, are very significant.

[1] Although, just because a startup "fails" does not mean that it has not created wealth during its existence. Obviously any time two people voluntarily make some sort of exchange (absent mistakes), wealth is created. IE, both people are necessarily better off than they would have been otherwise, else they would not have made the exchange. So it is very possible for a startup to create wealth on the way to shutting down.
No, I ran two instances close to each other (in one DC).

For example, Tarantool and CouchBase were installed on nosql-1 instance and YCSB client on nosql-2 (There are links to *.vhd files in the article).
Doesn't matter. I wouldn't reject an applicant based on whether their resume has two pages or whether they try to squeeze a ton of info in 10pt font. Frankly, it wouldn't even affect my impression of the applicant in any way.

What matters is the contents. If you add a hobbies section to fill space, it'll make you look very junior, for example. A long education section or overly specific explanation of previous roles will have a similar effect.

If you have a ton of experience and need space to highlight experience w/ different stacks and/or team management aspects, then by all means, make a long resume to make your seniority show through. In that case, covering a broad number of aspects might reveal early that you're not a good fit for my particular needs, but it might also help pass your resume around internally to other teams where you could be a good fit.

Just don't BS it. It's pretty easy to catch buzzword-slinging w/ a phone or face-to-face screening.
This is a reasonable article about how people are inclined to use the political method to secure their interests at the expense of others, and how as such more naive deregulatory policies without institutional changes will quickly reswitch back into a different pathological state as other rent-seeking opportunities are discovered.

I'm not entirely convinced by the paragraph on rent control. The author is resting on the assumption that new housing construction post facto overcomes regulatory hurdles, but it seems to me a broader picture of regime uncertainty and adaptive expectations might still skew the allocation of resources, and this discount be reflected in the rent being "too damn high". Actually, he mentions the market-clearing quantity, but seems to gloss over that a modern mixed economy has many forces countervailing from markets ever clearing.

The dichotomy of housing as capital/investment good v. housing as consumer good is interesting, but again, I'm unconvinced of how one function excludes the other, unless there is something countervailing the process of speculation.

I'm sensing a Georgist vibe from this whole thing, but the author stops short of advocating a land value tax. There's some issues with qualifying what an "unimproved" value of land would be, and also on the valid uses of a resource being idle. I'm unfamiliar with the housing trends in countries that implement LVTs, but they're worth researching.
I'm not the right person to answer this question.

My initial comment was an attempt to illustrate the fact that startup funders and VC's that get rich don't make innovations in a vacuum. They rely on a complex network of global labour, government funding, university research and the entire history of human knowledge.

Therefor I don't think funders and capital owners should feel so certain about their privilege to extract enormous amounts of private wealth for the prize of rising income inequality.
If you're worried about "double taxation" I've got some bad news for you: That money was taxed many, many, many times before. When it was earned through labor? Taxed. When it was spent in a store? Taxed. When the store owner made an investment in a company? Taxed. When that company issued a dividend? Taxed. "Taxing it again" is the normal state of things.
There are a LOT of recent bootcamp grads in SF. If you don't have a hookup, getting noticed may be difficult. Not sure about NYC.

Recommendation: until you can afford to be choosy, go where you get the most attention in your career search. If you fight to get a single opportunity in one market, you will likely face a similar challenge when it is time to look for the next job in that same market.
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When we had Sun workstations at Ford Aerospace in the early 1980s, we had several software packages which were locked to specific CPU IDs. Sun CPU boards of the era were not very reliable. Every time we replaced a CPU board, the paid software packages stopped working until we got new serial-number stamped versions, on magnetic tape, of each package. This usually meant about a month of downtime for the workstation. That's the earliest example I have.
No reason why it shouldn't. This is not DRM, is your own credit, secured on your behalf. It should just be resistant to software based tampering by default. Specially, as I said, "normally installed software". If you can make sure that rooting your device requires a explicit knowledgeable user interaction (say: rebooting, erasing all data, then re-keying your device to your bank account somehow - in person visit?), then I see no reason why you should be prevented from changing the secure operation mode code itself or building your own compatible device.

I mean, you can mod the brakes on your car if you really want to, at your own risk. What is a bit strange is when your media player can affect your brakes without you even noticing. Same principle here, less lives on the line.
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I am just trying to explain that your assumption about the intent of the left is wrong, that's all. You're basing this assumption on bad analogy with Russian revolution and on your fear, while you should base it on, I don't know, actually talking to some people on the left? Again, most of them don't think that revolutionary escalations are a good idea. (Although that's the path history often takes.)

But if you don't want to trust other people, then I don't see how could I convince you.
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I do not understand your last sentence. I am assuming that if the increases in cost were not passed onto renters, they would be absorbed by the landlords themselves, which harms the landlords' profit margins. What incentive would landlords have to willfully cut into their profit margins vs. passing the increases on to the renters?
This was a common way to troll Xbox players: If they used speakers, shout "Xbox Off" loud enough via the voice chat (in a multiplayer game) and their devices turned off.
As a Finn living in Japan, our preference for silence is certainly very compatible. I have never lived in one of those "small talk" cultures, which makes it hard to compare.

I do recall having a visitor (couchsurfer) over from US and having the bus driver get angry at us because we kept talking loudly in the crowded bus.

In Finland I feel like my signal-to-noise ratio is being judged. If I kept talking when I had nothing important to say, people might start taking me less seriously. I recall my dad commenting on someone "you should really listen to that person, when he speaks it is always something important".

Finnish IRC channels get pretty funny, as they often become idleness contests when no-one wants to break the silence with something insignificant.

I've noticed the "backchanneling" when speaking in Japan. I often need to make a conscious effort to keep saying "hai" periodically when talking, otherwise it may be assumed that I have either stopped listening or don't understand what the other person is saying.
On the other hand I have seen many functions that were written in 10 minutes that are utterly broken except for the most common cases. Where a library function should have been used because the programmer did not understand the depth of the problem.
Please stop this. It's approaching spam. Someone put a lot of work into building a new capability into a language and writing up a lengthy blog post about it. If you want to do the same for what you think is good about Nim and submit it to HN, please do. Repeatedly intercepting people's question about D with "you should look at Nim" is obnoxious. If D users did this in a thread about Nim, I imagine you would find it frustrating.
Well, Rust formatting is magical, unlike that of Go: it has to be because it has type-safe format strings, which can't be expressed in the normal language. But the magic is encapsulated into a macro, so the complexity doesn't leak into the language per se. Someone could write a similar string interpolation macro and replicate Python's feature without modifying the compiler if they wanted--though the fact that nobody has so far indicates to me that it probably isn't needed, as the {} syntax is awfully lightweight already.
C3TV – Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10833637
fear of radical change
people are more accepting of incremental changes rather than massive radical changes

rooted in fear of the unknown, i guess!!!
> If you paste the SHA hash

Okay, where are you pasting it? Wherever that is, it's a point of failure.
Yes, it is.
When I was running the test, CouchBase 4.x hasn't been released.
Still possible but much harder.

For the first six months of a permanent contract you can for anyone at any time for no reason.
I think the point is that "100 million" is an extremely suspicious round number, and smacks of pulling a number out. It could be an "Everest" number (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00031305.1982.104...), but that seems highly unlikely.
Laptops seem to last less than 10 years and PCs less than 20 years. If we assume that the catastrophe takes out chip manufacturing plants so that no new laptops are forthcoming, what can the survivalist do? Perhaps buy many laptops, but I'm not sure what the unused shelf-life of them is. At the very least they should remove the CMOS batteries from them for long term storage..

A related question is how to preserve library machines long enough for civilization to restart.
It is a duplicate, but not of a sibling comment. There's another top-level comment with the same text (an...aunt comment, perhaps).
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Without disparaging iOS or Rails developers, I assume that's what nostrademons meant when he said, "Okay, we have a variant of this today as well."
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2016 is the year when Silicon Valley feels the wrath of Buffett's "when the tide goes out" old saying, and probably most haven't been wearing swimming trunks in a long time.

The stupidity, of course, is the media and the rest of the Valley using VCs' own valuation as some sort of data, instead of the self-interested BS that it is. VCs are the greater-fool theory in action, and the greatest fool are the retail investors. Look at Groupon that somehow IPOed, and the only ones that lost money were the mutual funds and retail suckers that bought in.

VCs are considered great if they are right 1 out of 10 times. The only reason why they don't go belly up is because they stack the deck in their favor through liquidation preferences, onerous funding terms, etc. So why on earth would we believe them when they say companies like Lyft are worth 5B or Snapchat is worth 20B?

When the Revaluation of 2016 hits, it will be harsh and immediate. VCs act like a flock of birds and it's binary. Either they are in feeding frenzy mode, or they are cowards on the sidelines. When a couple of VCs start getting cold feet, they all get cold feet, and when that happens, unicorns start dying. Companies like Dropbox that have a real business model but whose maximum prospect of profits have been critically injured by Box's IPO, will probably get destroyed by either horrible funding terms or a Square-like IPO. Lyft will probably be dead by the end of 2016, and people will be wondering how they burned through 1.5B in funding.

My bet is that 2/3 of the unicorns are acquihired for terrible terms, dead or on life-support by the end of 2016. If only I could short them, I would, but since I'm living in the Valley, I'm probably going to be negatively affected by this unfortunately.
I might be your target market.

I use google keep for online plain text type things. I can definitely see the power of being able to run scripts over these kinds of notes.

For years I had been using a system which was built around yahoo pipes and cron tasks. Pipes would suck in rss sources from a huge number of places, do some munging and logic and output another rss feed which I would process with a cron task to do various things based on what was in the feed.

Then yahoo killed pipes.

Can a script create a static output file?