skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I understand you correctly, you are saying that value/worth exists because of price and a liquid market. This is incorrect. Price is independent of value, and does not require the ability to sell.

Suppose the government made a law saying that you cannot never sell KO (Coca-Cola stock). Today KO is selling for $41.62/sh. Tomorrow, is it worthless? No. It pays a 3.05% dividend, which it typically increases 10% a year. It is worth at least $1.27 (the first year's dividend).

Now to the question about cats selling for $500k. Would a sensible taxing authority or professional auditing firm assess a flower at $500k - $1 million? In 1637 a single Viceroy tulip bulb sold for 3000 - 4500 florins; a skilled craftsman made 300 florins/yr [1]. Assuming that a skilled craftsman would make at least $50k/yr (probably more, given that $50k is near the median US income), one tulip bulb cost $500k - $1 million. Not so different from selling cats for $500k, so you cannot attack the example for unreasonable prices (s/(dog|cat)/tulip bulb/). Now, was it worth that price? No, hence why it fell back to a much more reasonable level shortly afterwards. But during the mania, selling one tulip in exchange for two lesser-valued tulips would be quite valid.

You missed the point of the illustration, which was that price (market cap) has no relationship with value. Admittedly, the illustration was rather opaque.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
I'm not a T-mobile customer, but I guess the "BingeOn" feature is supposed to stop the throttling for certain video providers.
Exactly what people said about video of people playing video games "not being content."

Content you don't want to watch or don't understand is still content if other people want to look at it.
Many times I've relied on new hires, and even specifically asked them to, for improving the documentation and/or onboarding guides. Once someone has been in the team for a few months, they'll picked up "tribal knowledge" and they'll mentally fill in the blanks in any documentation (or obscure code). Those few initial weeks of someone with fresh eyes are precious for that.
This is very nice, and priced just right. Could easily replace the desktop of just about everyone in my family.
I'm not sure how Steve Buscemi got to be CEO of T-Mobile but he's making a big mistake picking a fight with the EFF.
The problem isn't Paypal. The problem is competing sets of laws. You'd have the same problem with a bank, or any startup that cared enough about what it was doing to actually follow financial institution laws.

PayPal makes you create a new account because each country has different requirements for financial institutions and customer data retention. Often times, laws in one country conflict with the laws of another. In some cases, like moving from the US to Europe, under EU laws it would be illegal for Paypal to maintain the US account data, but under US laws it would be illegal for Paypal (as a financial institution) to delete that account data for a period of several years. The KISS solution: just make the customer create a new account, subject to the laws of the jurisdiction they are moving to (and stored in a system compliant with those laws), and transfer any money in the existing account using existing mechanisms with their existing reporting processes that have been sanity-checked thousands of times by prior transactions.
funny how so many statements on that page are marked with footnote numbering, yet no actual footnotes or references are provided.
Tell HN: Looking to pass on the ownership of two open source projects
I have two open source websites/services that are semi-popular. I'm looking to pass on the ownership and domain names of these products to someone who I can trust to run them. If you're interested in running one or both of them please let me know! My email is in my profile, or you can reply to this thread.

1) Hipster Domain Finder 2.0

https://github.com/bramgg/hipster-domain-finder

Uses Python 3 and Flask. Find short & sweet single word domain hacks with Hipster Domain Finder. All domains listed should be available for registration. HDF has been used by hundreds of thousands of domain searchers. The website went down a few days ago, and I've received emails from people asking if it will go back up. Note: HDF uses Domainr's old API, and needs to be updated to their new API (free).

2) 99 Haskell

https://github.com/bramgg/99haskell

Solve live Haskell coding problems based on H-99 in the browser to strengthen your understanding of the language. 99 Haskell is made entirely in Haskell, including Haskell based pre-processors for the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I've never put analytics on 99 Haskell, but I'm certain it's had a significant amount of users. It's one of the first results for people searching for Haskell problems on Google. Note that like HDF, 99 Haskell is down now but you can see a gif of it in action on the GitHub README.
Your hypothesis at least lines up with the big points in the data.

Computer science enrollment went through a huge boom and bust centered on 1984-1985. In a five year timespan the number of computer science majors increased by five times, before falling back to approximately half the peak.

The second big increase in computer science graduates was in 2005.

These both correspond with the major drops in the percentage by gender chart.

Points to you if you make a graph for us of the absolute historical Computer Science graduation rate by gender.
> When a company does something good does not mean to ignore when they do something bad.

Agree.

> And BingeOn is fundamentally bad, because its everything Comcast

And here's your problem. It's not fundamentally bad. T-mobile is not Comcast. T-Mobile has a limited amount of spectrum on each tower, and a limited amount of backhaul to each tower. It can in no way be compared to Comcast, who can pipe Gb/s into your home, and who isn't limited by the laws of physics for delivering bits. They can always drag more fiber. There is only so much RF bandwidth in existence.

I have a choice in my mobile provider, I do not in my local internet. If the EFF wants my support back, start lobbying your ass off to get tax breaks and funding for municipal fiber and stop wasting your time on T-Mobile.
Clickable

https://github.com/bramgg/hipster-domain-finder

https://github.com/bramgg/99haskell
> To illustrate the difference, consider what would happen if the Warren Buffetts and David Teppers of the American capital markets put all their money into ETFs. You'd have no price discovery. Someone needs to be wiling to do their own research, reach conclusions with conviction, and trust in those conclusions through short- and medium-term wobbles.

There are a lot of different ETFs, some much more broad than others. You don't need to buy the whole market. If you think energy is cheap you can buy an ETF of energy companies (say XLE) which is a useful way to diversify if you're not able to buy reasonable quantities of multiple names.
It's concerning that those who don't get it then act confused about why anyone else would like it. It seems like out of 2 possible responses, the ideal should be b)

a) I don't understand it or see the appeal, then why do other people like it?
b) I don't like it or see the appeal, but others do. Cool.
There's a lot of prejudice in the world. Keep your head up!
Have you tried looking for telecommuting options? In my mind, it shouldn't matter if you're blind if you can produce quality work.
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Is their service that good? As a current T-Mobile US customer, it looks like I can get an equivalent plan from Sprint for approximately the same cost, mostly thanks to T-Mobile's aggressive competition.
I like the ;wr part (won't respond) better than the ;djr (looks complex).

But we should make sure to decide on a single one* to use, I like a bit of both: wm;wr cause of symmetry.

*maybe it would be more effective to have multiple and see if any of them catch on but I feel like it'll just cause unnessecary confusion
Android barely works on smartphones.
There are a lot of things in this world that we have because somewhere a big sacrifice is being made. This case with DuPont is one of many, where chemical companies have taken the liberty to sacrifice something they don't have to right to, so that they can profit but also so things can be made. So many of the products we use everyday are most likely tainted in hidden scandals. Just google what Unilever has been doing in India with mercury. We have to make these companies accountable and stop using there products until better methods to produce it are developed. Its equivalent to me saying "Hey give up oil, it damages everything."
Yeah, you're right. We're probably on the same page about both of these methods being coercive.

My initial point was just that there's probably a big number of cases of mental illness in traditional societies that we can't diagnose because our ways of coping with these are so different that they manifest in completely different ways.
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Hmm. I'm kinda disappointed. I was expecting more of a breakdown into an actual strategy, not what basically amounts to an ad.

Personally, tracking expenses has never really been the big problem. Once I've swiped that card, the action is done. I can't really take it back. If I go over my spending, I'm in trouble. On the other hand, if I don't swipe that card in the first place...

That's where I took back my spending. Planning ahead of time -- not tracking after the fact.

Anyway, disappointed in the ad-in-blog-form, but always glad to see advice re: personal finance.
I usually assign simple, low priority maintenance task to new team members so they can start to learn the codebase, the tools and the process.

Once they get those first few simple issues done, they're quickly assigned increasingly more complex issues.
Actually, I don't think so. Its kind of hard to get any technical information on the real sense and I know that Intel is making different versions of it, so please correct me if I'm wrong and if they have one which really does stereo. On http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-tech... they say the following:

"The Intel® RealSense™ Camera F200 is actually three cameras in one—a 1080p HD camera, an infrared camera, and an infrared laser projector"

So this is just looks like the first Kinect. The infrared camera will observe the projected pattern and the RGB camera is there to capture the color information. You can't really match an infrared image (which is also covered with a laser pattern) with a visible light image, as they will look very different. So you would require a yet another camera (infrared or visible light) in order to do stereo.
I've had friends who couldn't get their Sprint service to work on major streets in downtown Chicago, but my T-Mobile service worked on the Playa at Burning Man, not to mention that I get free edge data in 140 countries:

"Only from T-Mobile, our Simple Choice Plan makes it simple for you to stay in touch while you explore the world. Now get unlimited data and texting in 95% of the places you travel most—140+ countries and destinations around the globe. Oh, and calls? They’re just 20 cents a minute."

There's a reason I've used them for 14 years.
> I think studies have shown that past a relatively low (by SV standards) level of income ($75kish I think) the relationship between money and happiness breaks down.

This is true. But while that is low by SV standards, the $75k threshold from the study is targeted to "median america" cost of living.

If you adjust for cost of living and for purchasing power over the 6 years since the study was conducted, you end up with quite a bit more for areas like San Francisco. In fact, you'd probably be looking at more like 175-185k. [1]

1. http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/commentaries/Happi...
Good post!
If it resumes in 10-20 years that means it still has a long way to go (not to mention catching up for lost time!).
I would further add that Google, and similar technologica enterprise are some of the richest organisations of all time. I'm not sure about comparison to the Spanish Empire, however Google and 'Industry' can well afford to pay for their own research. If you have not been to Seville, and other major European Empirical cities, Rome, Paris, London, St Petersburg, Berlin, etc, then I recommend that you do a bit of travelling in Europe and witness the legacy of the dangers of what happens when money and power have no checks.
There's no way in hell the CEO/owner of a business would spend 1.5 hour on the phone with an account manager, setting up the account.

That's actually a legal requirement in many countries, including the US--either the CEO or CFO of the company must directly deal with a financial institution when setting up a financial institution account (i.e., bank account--note that Paypal is a registered financial institution in nearly all of the jurisdictions in which it operates). My clients run into this all the time. It's a hassle, but it's one you simply have to accept as the cost of doing business in the big leagues.

Want PayPal to transfer british pound to an non-british bank-account, then prepare for a world of pain

Legally, yes. Because British law has rules about this, and as a financial institution Paypal is required to follow those rules. Those rules are deliberately onerous because the type of transaction you are describing was once widely used in tax evasion and money laundering schemes.
"if not for Sundar Pichai killing off Android's laptop project"

This is the first I'm hearing of this. Do you happen to know what the project was called or anything more specific that I might be able to look up?
Why? Serious question.

And what do you mean by "Linux"? Would GNU coreutils and a terminal be sufficient, or is there something else you need?
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Dependency management and isolation are 2 different things. With Nix I can get either or both (with isolation in the form of lightweight containers).
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I'd love to revive my N900. Do you have any recommendations about which OS to install on it these days?
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Never heard of AmazonSmile. Is it just regular Amazon but they donate a % to charity? Does it offer only a subset of their products? I'm looking for the catch but I can't see it.
Except that superconductor required a pressure of 1.6 million atmospheres!

Dunking a high-Tc superconductor in a dewar of liquid nitrogen is pretty easy and relatively low cost, and I believe far more practical. I don't know that much about the diamond anvils used to generate these pressures but I believe it's only over tiny surface areas in specialised equipment.
As someone that lives in Cambridge and going by your linkedin profile and glassdoor salaries, you might want to try bumping your salaries up by 15+%...
> Instead of focusing on the moment with friends, she was more concerned with posting something on Snapchat for our circle to see.

Isn't this common with every social media app, relatively? It's the same with cameras, writing down notes, and many other things. You need to use it wisely and have a good focus on the right time and place, and amount of time too.

I use Snapchat a fair bit friends, but almost always not when we're together. It's a low-friction and cheap way of just keeping in contact. Like when you're walking down a street, see something cool and point it out to a friend. Snapchat lets you do that when you're not actually together.

When I'm with friends and want to show something to other friends, I'll make a quick photo or video, and then let it be. Again, you'll have some friends who are on their phones too much, but that's not a Snapchat app problem, or a physical camera problem, it's a user problem.
No, I think it throttles all video. OK, maybe it doesn't throttle video providers who voluntarily throttle themselves, but the result is the same.
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If you were the president, would you be inclined to answer questions from a journalist that was consistently antagonistic?

An American reporter can freely be critical of the government. They can even publish Snowden documents, which put the government in a very bad light. Nobody even considers harassing them, let alone jailing them. (In fact, legally, they can't.) This fact is huge; it is an essential difference.
You mentioned that your POS allows to split the check 6 ways.
So, if you see more than 6 people at the table, then you may ask them how they are going to pay: separately or by one check.
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> Decent speech recognition and text to speech. Nonexistent.

Nuance Dragon SDK runs on Linux, it's not FOSS but it runs there.
Just no GUI / Command Line App.

> OCR is quite better, but still loses to commercial alternatives like ABBYY. Understandably so.

Nuance and ABBYY SDKs running on Linux. Quite well.
Just no GUI / Command Line App.

Oh and you don't need to use FOSS only just because you are using a FOSS OSS.

And yes Audio / Video is pretty weak on Linux, thats true. However for most other things there are good enough tools.
Especially LibreOffice is really really great.
It's better for Users migrating from Office 2003 than to migrate to 07/10/13/16. However there are weaknesses, too, like the Dictonary.

Also some bigger Office's Macro's aren't easy replaceable. However Linux is good enough for the most.
How about introducing a simple convention for indicating your degree of belief in similar manner to the sarcasm indicator /s: One could write for example /p1 .. /p9 to refer to the probabilities 0.01% .. 99.9%.

That could resolve a lot of issues that occur in text communication. /p7
As would others vote to continue it.

Relevance is a very broad term, with industry a subset.
This is the key point: PayPal is not your checking account. PayPal is more like a merchant account which voluntarily takes on much more risk than most banks are willing to in their merchant accounts.
This is awesome, thanks for making it!
It won't - at least for general ray intersection itself, the deferred sorting doesn't buy you that much - the main benefit it gives you is much more coherent texture accesses, which Disney needs because they use PTex which needs coherent access for the filtering.

Almost everyone else is still doing pretty much shade-on-hit one-at-a-time and getting pretty good performance out of it.

PRMan RIS is batching shading points up, but after the first bounce the batches get much smaller, so the win you get from it is much less.

Disney do a lot of work sorting the batches, and that takes time.

Also their render times for full frames are generally 12 hours wall clock or more (like most of the rest of the VFX industry). And Disney are heavily de-noising their images afterwards anyway.
Google could - and certainly has (even with the latest Pixel C) - do much worse than RemixOS for the desktop. If they can't come up with any other way to make Android look good on the desktop, it should at least acquire RemixOS and go from there.

I'm not a fan of the whole "Android apps inside Chrome OS" idea - it seems like a very roundabout and complex way to achieve what Android already can by itself - run over a million Android apps. However, if it does make an Android Wear-like Android for PCs, I do think Google should retain all control, so it can update Android for PCs just as easily as it can do with ChromeOS (or as Microsoft can do with Windows). Google should in no way repeat the update failure of Android on smartphones.
By choosing to quote him in this discussion you kind of are making that comparison.
> It also makes it clear that they do have quite a few options and the reason they don't have the rest is because they don't pay for them.

Won't let you pay for them.

Or please do point me to where I can buy that individual license for Windows 10 Enterprise.
Do you benifet from the ideas of Copernicus and Galileo Galilei?
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There is Lisp-stuff in R not coming from Scheme. Like object system inspired by CLOS, FEXPRs from very old Lisps, ...
Waiters are expected to make over minimum wage once tips are included. Yes, if they don't reach minimum wages, then legally they're supposed to be paid the difference (though there's a vast gulf between "should" and "does", especially in a job like this where speaking up likely means getting fired). But assuming that the waiter is already reaching minimum wage this month, then refusing to tip means that the waiter is only earning $2-$3 per hour for the time spent serving you.

Also, being a waiter is absolutely a job that should pay over minimum wage, so if your argument is "but at least they're making minimum wage", you're still significantly under-valuing your waiter's work. Being a waiter is hard work.
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Agreed, HDF could benefit from journaling. I have to ask though, why not just make a cached file of your data and onces its done, integrate into the final HDF file?
>when I was reading their blog I quickly started to feel like they go off half-cocked too often.

While I am a fan of EFF and the work they do, I too have started to notice this recently. The title of articles have become borderline click-bait and sometimes conveniently omits vital information that may help better understand the issue. The most recent one is "Stupid Patent of the Month: Microsoft’s Design Patent on a Slider" [1] [2] which surprisingly is a lawsuit on a whole lot more than just sliders.

However on this issue I am kind of split. I agree with both EFF and T-mobile. As for T-mobile, BingeOn is optional and can be disabled anytime with just a click, so it does little to nothing to hurt customers and cannot effectively be called throttling. As for EFF, they have the right to be worried that this may set a precedent for bigger control over your data in the future.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/stupid-patent-month-mi...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10802413
xdg-app is solving those problems, although I don't know if it will be adopted, especially by KDE.
Exactly. All the major processors are little endian now. Just standardize on little endian. If you are working on some esoteric platform that is big endian you will know it
I'm not sure how I feel about this.

I mean, Binge On is obviously targeted at customers who have limited data plans and seem likely to go over their cap if they watch video normally. Many (most?) streaming sites don't provide fine-grained control over what quality is delivered to your device. Seems like a lot still just differentiate between "normal" and "HD". So it seems to me like T-Mobile is trying to help their limited customers out by lowering the bandwidth on videos so that data is used up a slower rate. I personally have an unlimited data plan, so I can't even provide anecdotal evidence, but if I had a limited plan, I think I would appreciate that.

Once bitrate management is in place, throttling doesn't seem like a big deal. As long as I am still being delivered data at a rate > the rate at which I am consuming the video (i.e. as long as there is no buffering) then there isn't really a problem, right?

If you disagree with T-Mobile's decision to choose what bitrate is good for you, then yeah, I understand, this sucks. If, on the other hand, you are OK with this, then I don't really think there is an issue.

What I think would be the best option would be for T-Mobile to have some sort of control panel that customers could use to pick a bitrate cap for all videos that they watch on their mobile plan. Seems like that could please both parties if they started with a fairly restrictive default setting but users could change it.