skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
11 Reasons Why I Never Want to Own a House Again
Sharpening the Ax (2015)
That and TV shows that have completed their original run, of which they have a great collection.
I feel like phones are slightly larger than optimum at the moment. At least for my preferences. I guess it's tougher to fit high spec hardware into a phone with a smaller footprint.

I bought into Steve Jobs' idea phones should be usable one-handed. I think the sweet-spot for that is 4 inches or less. A premium phone at these dimensions doesn't exist anymore, the last one was probably the iPhone 5S.

I went from iPhone 3GS -> iPhone 5 -> Sony Xperia Z3 Compact and honestly the Z3 Compact is larger than I would like (4.6" screen). I'm honestly considering getting a 5S for my next phone because I don't want a phone as big as the iPhone 6.

I noticed recently that the One Plus 2 Mini is going to have a 5" screen, that seems insane for a "mini" phone.
Why thank you, but sadly, I must refuse. I am yet too stupid to hold such position responsibly. :).
Remembering the Iran-Iraq War
Java7u79 is supposed to be the last public release. From the SLOTH page, it looks like there might be another release to address this.
Why is Orbitz continually ignored on these "most famous Chicago IPOs" lists?
Which is caused to our public school system not teaching financial literacy to high school students, because people in power don't want that.

I suspect that in top private schools, financial literacy is rigorously taught, along with ways of starting a business, and hiring employees, and how to be a master (employer) to servants (employees).
The industrial revolution created a ton of jobs. Lots of people were needed in the factories. The industrial revolution wasn't about automating jobs that had existed before, it was about increasing productivity. A single skilled craftsmen could only make 1 chair a day, but 100 children working in a factory could make 1,000 chairs a day.

The only people who lost jobs were skilled craftsmen, who made up a tiny percent of the population anyway. And they weren't really lost, just replaced with lots of unskilled work.

Agriculture automation came years later, and the farmers weren't entirely screwed because they mostly still owned the land. If you own the robot that replaces you, you aren't necessarily worse off.

The coming technological revolution is entirely about automation. And not just automating skilled jobs, but most unskilled ones. A large percent of the population will be affected.
I will use this opportunity to mention Maxima (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxima_%28software%29) that was developed by one of the best math professors that I have had the privilege to learn from: Bill Schelter. It was forked from Macsyma and released under the GPL and still appears to be actively maintained.
I'm pretty sure Amazon would find a way to reduce the price.
This has great potential to take off
This seems like it could be an incredible collaboration tool for university class notes (either students or professors). I think I would have used this in Engineering University instead of something like ShareLaTeX
Thanks for pointing this out, and my apologies! Will fix that going forward.
> For me however, $100/hr is totally worth it since it effectively increases my leverage and enables me to get more done in less time.

Also, because you can afford it.

If you only need assistance a few hours a month, I can understand the need for such a service, but why not just hire a virtual assistant that speaks perfect English, and works 40 hours a week for around $2000 a month (or less!). Multiple companies, including Zylun.com offer access to such talent.
I was just looking at TI-83 / 84 calculators today because I saw that they used a Zilog Z80 chip and I wanted to try building the Z80 Forth from "Threaded Interpretive Languages" . I'll have to take a look at this and see if it would work for that.
Yes they are. Especially 16-35 year old ones. Nature of the beast called raging testosterone.
Petition to Name New Heavy Metal Element “Lemmium”, for Motörhead’s Lemmy
instantwatcher.com shows what titles are available and let's you queue them up on Netflix if you have an account. Not sure if they have a regional filter yet.
> Why should I as a user be forced to upgrade from a system which does it's job just fine only because the system's manufacturer decides that they don't want to spend any more resources on patching up errors in this system?

Because by choosing that system in the first place you implicitly chose to tie yourself closely to their support. Both the buyer and the seller have a responsibility to plan for following these support decisions. Scenarios like this should inform future purchase decisions, including whether or not to buy again from the company who failed to keep up.
"Over the last 150 years, the proportion of Americans employed in agriculture has dropped from ~70% to ~2% [1]. They've literally been replaced by machines."

In most of the fields I've seen they've been replaced by Mexicans.
They did exactly this with Edge, which - AFAIK - is not a system component, but a standalone application, just like the others.
My old contract was something like $80 / month. Every two years they would tell me I could upgrade to a new phone for very low cost. It was foolish to not upgrade because the monthly fee stayed at $80 whether I upgraded or not.

When the option is upgrade and keep paying $80 / month or keep your old phone and the rate drops to $60 / month, the incentive to upgrade is reduced.
Your Algorithms Are Not Safe from Hackers
Why, there still will be plenty of work to do - maintenance, for instance. But probably not enough for everyone.

That "a median house still costs 4x yearly median salary" means exactly nothing. The size of median salary is market driven, and the price of housing reflects the games banks and housing developers are playing, and thus can be arbitrarily high.
Cooki: A Desktop Robotic Chef That Does Everything
From cars to supercomputers: Nvidia moves ahead with new chips
Are you blocking a whole bored and standing team to get help from a workmate on an issue that is relevant to you only? I hope not. I think the Agile orthodoxy prescribes that any conversation that lasts more than a few tens of seconds should be saved for after the standup. And it makes sense. However, if you were stuck on something, then you've probably been for some time before the standup. So I guess you had plenty of time to ask that knowledgeable team member before.

As for the lone programmers you haven't met: lucky you. I seriously believe that in the "agile" companies I've worked in, scrum was actually intended to make people talk, if only once a day and for a few minutes. What was that line? Ah yes: "individuals and interaction over processes and tools". Good luck.
North Korea makes more sense when you know its roots
I've never understood why it's ok for people to waste their money on HBO but not fantasy sports.
Even with local power storage the grid demand would be noteworthy and you'd notice some impressive power lines going into the desert just to keep up with average demand.

Even if 99% of the transmitted signal were absorbed, the reflected signal would be staggering, strongest signal you'd detect on the ground, probably. The world has a couple radio fences at Graves and some NAVSPASUR sites which broadcast (well) under a megawatt continuous and are pretty trivial to detect when a satellite blows thru the fan shaped beam. Then again, who's listening on (obscure microwave ISM frequency) for 10 minutes at 2am one night. Possibly no one would notice. The existing fences are well within the ability of serious ham radio operators to use for meteor scatter predictions and stuff like that. Supposedly when the fences hit the moon its quite a bloop of signal, so I've heard.

As a side note its funny to try and estimate the total wattage of millimeter wave magnetrons and solid state power amps manufactured to date by humanity and compare to the plan, its depressing. Lets say someone with a three letter agency outright bought the entire production line at triquint... Even optimistically how many millenia would it take to produce the GW required? Hmm... In this way the idea is very manhattan project like in that the hard part isn't deciding to do it or even getting the cash, but building the infrastructure to build the infrastructure two maybe three layers down to finally build the actual device. You would notice if "they" did this at area 51 because of the world wide shortage in foundry capacity followed by a staggering production glut. The world wide famine of stuff you need to build the stuff you need to build the foundry to make the amplifiers would be noticed. OK so the entire world supply of machines to build positioners that are used in foundaries has disappeared from the market, interesting.

Something everyone is very careful not to discuss is a very small scale like a hypersonic anti-missile missile for a naval ship is "reasonable-ish" or less unreasonable anyway. Rather than talking about mach 25 orbits of tons, or building naval ships to carry dozens of mach 5 self propelled interceptor missiles, why not build naval ships that carry hundreds, even thousands, of microwave boosted mach 5 interceptors?

And speaking of death beams, strategic scale will be hard to build, but something that can near vaporize an incoming sea skimming cruise missile guidance electronics is much more scalable / reasonable. I would imagine Somali style boarders would find the RF to be unpleasant. So the emitter array will be dual purpose.

So I suspect there's something like this system installed and operating at a very small cheap scale at some naval research facility right now. Area 51 was all about the air force.

Now if I disappear after posting this, we'll know I was at least partially correct...
1) Better how? For whom? What's your metric on that and does it hold true in all circumstances and contexts? I'd make a general assertion that "better" communication is written communication as it is more easily reviewed later and by parties not originally involved. An asynchronous persistent communication channel beats a synchronous one when you need to coordinate non-synchronous activity (which often involves coordinating with external teams and stakeholders).

2) People can ask questions at any time, but in a meeting only one person can really have the floor so provides a synchronous block on communication for anyone not involved in the exchange.

3) "Making others aware" so they don't think "you're not doing anything", is the social pressure "face-saving" style I believe has nothing to do with software engineering (at best). At worse, if your entire team is obsessing that you have less to do than they are doing, then they have way too much time to obsess with, probably the time they spend in those meetings; they should take it up with management, who should have knowledge on what's going on anyway due to status reports and a general involvement with the team in an ongoing basis.

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>>> I disagree. A good manager should have a broad overview of what's going on but, he should be busy in his own job planning etc. to not have to micromanage. A 15 minute stand up each day gives him insight he needs without standing over anyone's shoulder or worse making false assumptions about what they might not be doing.

The term micro-manage is yours not mine. A 15 minute stand-up gives him the power to assert that for 15 minutes each day, he is the alpha-male. That's really all face-time meetings like that do when it is between subordinates and superiors. For everyone else, its a jockeying up position and pecking order. Welcome to the primate side of human culture; I didn't make the rules I simply observe them every time I see it happen.

If he can't get what he needs without appearing to be micro-managing, he lacks the social skills to manage with greatness. But he'll be in fine company as most of his management peers are roughly equivalent. From my own experience good managers are few and far between because to be a good technology manager you need to be a good manager and a good technologist.

However, if a manager is going to pick a team management religion, he'd do best with Zen.
So, which 9 countries? Which 9 admins? If the US wants info on a user, would 9 of its allies that generally do what the US wants be enough? Would the servers / admins all be government controlled? If so, I fail to see how this wouldn't just be another rubber stamp.
Reed Hastings announced that Netflix service has gone live in nearly every country of the world but China
His article really needs to be read in the context of Neal's involvement with the Long Now Foundation and its mindset, and with some ideas about long term thinking that he's developed in his novel 'Anathem'. Look at the article from this perspective and it makes complete sense.
http://netflixable.com/ has an overview for a set of countries. Maybe yours is among them.
Laquan McDonald's shooting happened in 2014, before we started investigating and tracking this data.
(a) I don't know what a "Universal Windows Application" is, but clion on windows uses mingw, so if you can build them with mingw you can probably build them with clion. (b) I've always found Jetbrains to be very good about answering questions, just ask them.
Kind of. I'm not sure how I would categorize it, really. "Wealth" is abstract, but shoes are not.
>There's an implicit decision there - choosing between you (the passenger in the autonomous vehicle) and the people on the street.

Does the law ever require a person to break the law? That is the decision you've proposed the computer make. This is a serious question, not a pithy comment. Any action outside of immeditately stopping breaks the law: swerving into another lane involves changing lanes without signaling or entering into oncoming traffic. Swerving into the sidewalk breaks the law as well.

I contend that we do very often say "it is unfortunate this situation but you complied with your instincts as they have been developed within the confines of traffic safety law."

I also contend that fault is at stake and only fault can be considered at stake. We do not expect people to correct other humans' mistakes by breaking the law, correct? So why do we expect a computer to correct for all human's mistakes? There will certainly be tragedies involving autonomous vehicles. But to count that as a mark against the technology is holding it up to a standard we have never applied to any other technology.

The computer merely acts in accordance with traffic laws. That there are two possible outcomes (passenger injury and pedestrian injury) does not imply that a choice has been made. In fact, those are not the only two outcomes, we've merely whittled it down to those for the sake of discussion.
> Bringing their weapon to a ready state, actually increases the time that they have to react, and lets them make more rational decisions.

Or one could argue that it reduces the amount of time they spend rationalising the situation, which could result in a "knee jerk" emotional overreaction to any perceived threat.

I'd argue we've seen so many completely unwarranted shootings in the last few years due to: cellphones, reaching for ID, hands in pockets, etc, that maybe police should be taught to slow down and consider the threat, not speed up, and start blasting on a whim.

The number of police officers dying on the job hasn't decreased with these new higher risk tactics. They're just killing more members of the public. It has stayed roughly around 50/year shot + 2/year from stabbings for the last ten years.

Most police officers die due to vehicle crashes/collisions and illness. None of which is resolved by shooting more members of the public.
They aren't accepting submissions to the oculus platform unless they are able to drive 90 FPS on a GTX970.
The demand isn't there because people are at work. More leisure time should create more demand for leisure activities.
it is about two things - licensing as well as market size.

in the case of the latter, big media companies just don't care about small markets, as the cost of operating them is greater than the potential profits realized.

in the case of the former, i work in media and you are absolutely right - media licensing is stuck in a 1985 model, which only serves to sustain a few middlemen kind of players, but in the bigger picture sucks for both consumers and the companies that own the content.

one particular result of this is that many people who can't legitimately get what the want (in terms of downloads, streams, etc.) will just pirate it, having tried unsuccessfully to do things the right way and been frustrated.
Nanomsg: Stepping Down
Hello, productivity should not be measured on hours worked per day but on scheduled tasks completed per day. To increase productivity, have a work plan and set up realistic deadlines, break them down to daily routine with room for non-routine. Then do all you can to complete daily tasks without carrying over. But if you should carry over a few, begin the following day with those ones, before taking up new ones. As you make progress, try to increase your work load.
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>Considering that a median house still costs 4x yearly median salary means that not only do we live in a resource-scarce world but we will continue to for a long time.

Are housing prices, at least in the U.S. actually attached to the value of work, or they mostly affected by the banks willingness to hand out money?

Let's go another step and take work out of it completely. If houses were free, there would still be houses that are worth far more than others, simply because of proximity to other things of human interest.
In the first clip I wouldn't call that "competence" so much as "overwhelming force", something US police use frequently. It's worth noting that at the beginning of the video, an officer is trying to ram the perp with a trashcan found at the scene...

It's also worth noting that in the US an officer is much more likely to be killed. Hence why regular people are more likely to be killed by police. It's a fearful, kneejerk reaction thing.
Now you can cancel your account worldwide!

Previously, the Netflix website did not work at all from outside of their regions. Want to cancel online? You cannot. Call them? Only if you are willing to pay for a overseas call. No email support, nothing.

I took these steps to cancel my account:
1) Open a Twitter account
2) Tweet about canceling my account
3) Send friend request (or whatever it is called)
4) Accept friend request
5) Send direct message
6) Receive a direct message with an email account
7) Send an email about cancelling my account

Cancel a Netflix account from overseas, all in 7 easy steps.
Thanks for the constructive feedback, Thomas. These comments will be valuable when we build the 2016 database, if we decide to do so.
I wonder if that's flash wear.
Sorry for the choice of words, but my point was that a person armed with just a knife can still be very dangerous. The use of a gun in such a situation cannot be simply called a deadly overreaction, without going into details. Therefore I do not see my comment as unreasonable.
Palmer Luckey tweeted that there is no reason why roomscale won't work on the Oculus. He set up two cameras in the corners and said it worked acceptably.
So ... people with massive amounts of computing power can decide what to decrypt? Isn't that the exact opposite of what we want?
Is there a way to get the union of "Fleeing suspect" and "deadly weapon" (or, better: "fleeing suspect" and "firearm") from the data?
Whether the officer makes more rational decisions with a gun in a ready state is pretty debatable. People holding guns are reduced to instantaneous decisions with large consequences. A very basic, universal rule of responsible gun use is don't point it at things you aren't comfortable destroying. The important decision is whether to draw at all.

How is a suspect's decision making affected when they have a gun trained on them? How does provoking irrational behavior affect the outcome?

I certainly hope there's more governing an officer's standard readying of a weapon than the X seconds they have to quickdraw at the OK Corral.
So their predictions are wrong, but yours are correct? You can't argue against someone else by saying all predictions are unreliable, and then insert your own predictions instead.

And nice, you managed to cram global warming denial in there too.
Linode just had yet another major compromise. Yes, it should probably be ruled out.
I'm going to release the results next Thursday (Jan, 14th).

The reason I'd like to give it time till next week is to give people who'll just be returning from their Christmas holidays next week an opportunity to participate as well.
If the dev team isn't coordinating and communicating outside the meeting, then you have problems the meeting isn't going to solve.

I do agree with you that a manager's job is to support the team, and not the other way around.
Because I don't see a Creationism Museum or a bunch of megachurches over there, or a bunch of loony conspiracy theorists, flat-earthers, moon-landing-deniers, etc.
My entire office of 100 people has 90% 15" MBP, and 10% 13" MBP. There might be one or two managers with Air's or the new Macbook.

Which still doesn't prove anything, of course. Just saying my experience doesn't align with yours. A survey would be interesting.
This really resonates with me. My experience with scrum was very similar, and I thought Kanban might be a nice answer to the arbitrary deadlines that frustrated me. Never got a chance to try it, though.
Reforming the Gregorian calendar [video]
Or you could just make a voip call via any of the free options (ie Google hangouts)
Nobody called it a "deadly overreaction", so I'm a little confused about this comment.
> The second point is that they would have no reason to keep us around. They would do whatever we programmed them to do, to the point of absurdity.

This is where this line of reasoning completely falls apart for me. Any complex system is going to do unexpected things that weren't deliberately designed for. My laptop computed doesn't do "whatever it was programmed to, to the point of absurdity." Why would you expect a program complex enough to simulate the human mind to act in such a predictable way, when none of the much simpler programs we already have act that way?
Still not it India or China, all of Asia (except for Japan) and Africa, isn't what I would call around the world...
Well I really wanted this to be a huge, consumer hit that turns VR on to the masses, but like many the price is simply not going to make that possible.

I think it's unwise to target 'hardcore gaming pc users' who will drop 600 on a new video card enough to not bat an eye at this price. In that context it might be a hit, but that's hardly going to forward VR into the mass market as was the original hope of this device, at least for me.

Like other have also touched on, Sony seems to be in a better position now. They are a consumer product company and have learned the hard way of the perils of a roughly 600 dollar gaming device and how that works out in actual sales (the original PS3 was 599 at launch at got pummeled by Xbox360).

This would all be a moot point if there were that one true killer VR app that made us all want a Rift but it doesn't exist right now either from what I can tell. This again plays into Sony's hands as they can sit and wait for that one product to emerge and maybe have already grabbed it (they seem to be holding the reins now on No Man's Sky, which could very well be the VR killer app we are all waiting for).

Time will tell but I'm disappointed. VR for the masses will have to wait a bit longer.