skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feel the same way here (about mentally being the same person)

I look at my 90 grandmother and think 'damn she still sees herself as 19 too'
It took me a long time to find the error in thompsonenteprises.com but half a second to recognize that kinneyconstructiion.com is wrong. I wonder if businesses are more at risk due to their name alone (some are more difficult to manipulate into hard-to-spot alternatives).
> or ones working in extraordinarily sensitive product domains.

A side project I'm working on comes under that domain (medical data), By any chance do you have any recommendations of books on this kind of stuff? I do all the usual OWASP/best practice stuff but most of my day job is LoB stuff and while security is important it's not quite the same as losing potentially thousands of peoples medical data.
I mean I don't know how much more right-libertarian you can get than, say Ron Paul, who basically ran on the platform of no bailouts, having predicted the crash of 2008 (he's a perma-bear so that could be a bit of broken clock being right twice a day, nontheless sticking to his guns on the policy). Keeping history in mind: Ron Paul, who supported Reagan in the beginning publically broke with the Reagan administration because of Reagan's non-libertarian economic policy and ran against bush in 1988.
I said this in my other comment [1] too that they should spin off both.

Integrate with Tumblr has a good upshot - browsing Flickr picture is kind of dull. If you have a Medium-like site for photo publish, you can create a web photo magainze!

The one - on Tumblr is all the custom themes. IDKY, but Medium just looks better for readers. Yahoo needs to make Tumblr for high quality posts, but Tumblt started out with teens, mostly asks, gifts and quotes. Now really just about reblogging every day and like I said I keep seeing the same stuff reblogged every day.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10862680
Yup you are probably correct. I just have a hard time now because I associate lenovo with spyware. Ah well.
And the advertised Jackpot isa 30 years annuity. The lump sum is ~62% of the advertised Jackpot before taxes.
PG (or anyone involved with YC) has a financially vested interest in everyone believing that startups are great. I don't know the dude, so cannot presume his full thoughts or motivations, but he is FAR from an unbiased source.
> There are 6.02 x 10²³ atoms in 12 grams of carbon. I.e. in a tip of your pencil.

Pretty big pencil.
I would think a 2M line Python application would suffer logic bugs, like the C version. However, I wouldn't worry about indexing off the end of arrays, NULL pointer accesses, etc. which occur in C (sometimes silently) on top of the logic errors.
Depending on the data you're storing, you may be responsible for HIPAA compliance. Such a thing is possible on AWS[0], but is not provided out-of-the-box.

[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-compliance/
I need to be more productive. I currently make a good amount of money doing basically nothing at home, and should be using this time to get some more skills. Instead I just sit around and BS
People working in politics, in my experience, usually understand the strengths and weaknesses of democracy quite well. If they don't, and just have an idealistic view of a utopian version of democracy, then they're likely to fail and quickly get pushed out.

So, is the politicking of democracy perfect? No. But the view that democracy is fundamentally broken misses the good aspects that it can and does provide, and seems like naive radicalism.
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Even beyond that, we need to be able to prove that the binaries we're distributing were made from the source that we claim they are, and be able to provide exact instructions for a customer to independently re-create the binaries. That usually means that we stick to versions of libraries and compilers that are on the GA installation disks for a system, with exceptions made for a few security-critical libraries like OpenSSL.
> This is rediculous. Libertarians were leading the charge against the 2008 bailouts before they even happened, and it was liberals, (e.g. barney frank, paul krugman) who were among the chief architects of the bailouts.

I forgot about that time that Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke were actually Barney Frank and Paul Krugman's secret identities.
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So, in your world, someone who perhaps cares too much about others' welfare is a dangerous sociopath who should be thrown in prison?

Okay!
Adulthood, maturity, is fundamentally about responsibility. Are you a person who is always seeking the help of others or are you a person who is substantially self-reliant and who others go to for help? That's the dividing line for adulthood.

Notice that this has nothing to do with style, fashion, or entertainment choices. You can drink scotch, smoke cigars, wear suits every day, and drive a luxury automobile, that doesn't make you more mature. And you can chew bubblegum, watch cartoons, play videogames, wear jeans and hoodies, that doesn't make you less mature.
I used to do some crawling on comcast using what is now IBM Watson Explorer. I got a ton of phone calls from them. It sounded like those calls would go away if I just paid a little bit more for business class service.
Virtually nobody is going to care about throttling you can turn off yourself. They probably shouldn't have defaulted it on, but 1080p video over LTE is a shitty use of network resources.

I'm more pissed off they were advertising free video streaming yet it's only on the more expensive data plan. I burnt through my data allotment at the airport in a single afternoon because I believed the advertising.
Well, the idea is that the market takes care of lies. If a different insurer can correctly predict that a lower premium is sufficient to cover your risk, they should try to sell their product to you at a lower price to gain you as a customer and thus increase their revenue.

Now, that does not mean that it would be fair. Insurance doesn't care about fairness. They balance premiums with modeled risk, not with actual risk.
> The problem you're describing is poverty, not inequality.

Poverty and income inequality are more strongly linked than a lot of people seem to accept. In most economies, when the average income goes up, you also get increases in living costs. Poverty is struggling to pay housing costs, medical costs, food costs, utility costs, and so on, and all of these depend to one extent or another on changes in income in the rest of the population. If your income goes up by 3% over a decade, but living costs go up by 10%, there's no use in saying 'a rising tide lifts all boats'.
> economic inequality is not intrinsically the problem

People keep saying that, and I personally agree that there are other related problems that are bigger than inequality, but inequality by and of itself is a problem, and a significant one at that.

"The average well-being of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth. That's very important in poorer countries, but not in the rich developed world. But the differences between us and where we are in relation to each other now matter very much."[1]

And even the wealthy in more unequal societies are less well off than less wealthy people in more equal societies. I think this is an important finding because it is counterintuitive, even surprising.

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson?language=en
What it might do is avoid the bias of selecting numbers that other people are also likely to choose. So you're no more likely to win, but you may be less likely to have to share the jackpot.
Ask HN: Its 2016 why do I still get gmails intended for other people?
I just stopped doing this, because the only tangible impact was people asking why my emails had weird incomprehensible junk in them. Admittedly this usually took the form of mild derision rather than outright hostility.
> Not really, but imagine the fallout of charging Prius drivers more per gallon in order to increase their contribution to the infrastructure that they're using.

More than one jurisdiction has actually attempted a hybrid/electric surcharge with that exact purported justification: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/nc-lawmakers-propose-50-100-f...
> If we had a society with no poverty and perfect social mobility, and economic inequality didn't translate into social or political inequality, would it be that bad if there was also great variation in wealth?

That's saying that if money weren't, well, money, it wouldn't matter much if some people had a lot of it and others didn't have any.

But money is money; that's why they call it money [1]. Wealth inequality directly translates into social immobility, because the first thing rich people do is try to make sure their children stay that way, and there's only so much room at the top. Wealth inequality directly translates into political inequality, because why not? If you get to meet the President what are you going to talk about, but the political issues that directly concern you or your business?

Strict equality is impossible, of course. Some degree of inequality may in fact be desirable. But immense inequality tears society apart.

[1] Paraphrased from Heist, 2001. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252503/quotes
A typical reason they don't just quit is that they need a new car to work for Uber in the first place, which they can get using their xchange program[1] that gives them a large monthly obligation[2]. They can get this even when they don't qualify for a regular car lease because they have bad credit/no income.

So they have to work many hours just to get to the 0 point after which they start to earn money for themselves. If they quit they're stuck with the lease, which they cannot afford to pay and makes no sense for them to have with any other low paying job. So the lease serves as lock in -- bondage -- of the worker to Uber, even though they're technically not employees. I think being indebted to your employer in this way is barbaric.

Disclaimer: I heard this, haven't verified it myself.

[1] https://get.uber.com/cl/xchange/

[2] Lease cost. Taxes. Fuel. Insurance.
Given the long odds, I find that just imagining winning the lottery is still fun and decidedly cheaper than the real thing.
the following post is old, but a hacker news poster in 2010 did the research on the constituents of the forbes list, and it seems that there aren't too many startup founders featured there:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1444212
Maybe, and maybe get mugged. But I don't want to get mugged.

Sure on an intellectual level, everyone is a human being, deserves to be heard, not feared, etc, etc.

At night, in a neighborhood ridden with crime, seeing a bunch of teenagers zoom on your from across the street and starting to cross the street toward you, it is easy to re-assess some priorities.
Emacs will handle this for you: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Te...
You could take a look at Coursera https://www.coursera.org/courses/?query=electrical%20enginee...
I'd like to see the mathematicians ascribe an expected value on the bitter, icy glare of your envious colleagues as you eat that sweet victory lunch.
> I would also dispute that liberals (or at least only liberals) were architects of the bailouts, which mostly happened under the Bush administration.

Bush himself called the process of the bailout "breaking capitalism to save capitalism". This is a philosophy that aligns strongly with liberalism - that the government must intervene when the market fails. Should it be surprising that liberals helped architect the bailout?
I'm not in the US (though I've looked at the HIPAA guidelines anyway in the course of my research), I'm in the UK and will only be storing UK data (at least initially, I suspect there is strong demand for the idea but I'm a) not planning on making huge amounts of money b) supporting other countries since the laws on medical data are so varied), I spoke to friends in local government who put me in touch with the people who deal with storing medical data for them, as long as I follow best practices, make sure that users are aware of the license terms of using the system and behave ethically that (appears) to be all that is required except for of course obeying the rules on DPA/PII (Data Protection Act, Personally Identifiable Information), as I'm not a public organisation their rules don't apply (though I'm still going to follow all their guidelines anyway).

I'm still going to speak to the company solicitor though just for belts and braces.

Oh and on the hosting, I won't be using any cloud services, Physical server out of a a state of the art DC a few miles up the road that is certified to my UK Gov standards as a provider, they pretty much tick every box I'd ask for though not cheap I can get an insanely powerful machine and they have a superb reputation, looking at approx 75 quid ($110) per month for a dual core i3-4160/8GB RAM w/1TB RAID or £145 ($210) a month for a Xeon 1231 with 32GB RAM and 2TB of RAID storage (that one has dual power supply, n/c) which if it's used isn't that expensive at all.
I'm very willing to accept the idea that the economy's performance is uneven, with legitimate hardships in some areas/industries/demographics/etc. If what people observe is that there aren't any jobs near them, I wish they would say that, and not describe any economic trouble as a "depression".
> It doesn't say anything about "non-trivial" programs.

No, but its source does. The source for the Turing Halting problem is Gödel's incompleteness theorems, which do specify that the entities to which it applies are non-trivial. The Turing Halting problem, and Gödel's incompleteness theorems, are deeply connected.

> One straightforward way to do this is with a language that always halts.

That doesn't avoid the halting problem, it only changes the reason for a halt. And it cannot guarantee that that program will (or won't) halt, if you follow -- only its interpreter.

> In particular, if you write programs with awareness of the halting problem in mind, you can write extremely complicated programs that are provably correct.

You need to review the Turing Halting problem. No non-trivial computer program can be proven correct -- that's the meaning of the problem. It cannot be waved away, any more than Gödel's incompleteness theorems can be waved away, and for the same reason.
Kipling gave it some thought: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/175772
> I think the best we can do is to implement strong laws about how this information is stored and used.

Given that those who would be responsible for enforcing those laws have already demonstrated that they don't mind breaking them themselves, I don't think that that could possibly work out.
So, essentially, a reproducible build.
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Print another form of currency to pay for everyone’s education. (Medium)
> it really seems like the same things are happening again

Indeed, Starbucks pulled almost the exact same thing in 2012 with Square:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/15/technology/square-starbucks/
i was 5 years old when they mounted ashtrays on my face due to really bad astigmatism. my family only had a black and white tv back then, i didn't watch much tv until much later in life.

not entirely sure your theory applies, to me at least.

i think you see much more people with bad eyesight nowadays as life/nature does not kill us off immediately. with minimal corrections we can be productive members of society (unlike 5k years ago).
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Many of the tribes were non literate and had no form of written language which also contributes to the historical obfuscation. Many of those who did use a form of writing, such as the Mayans, had their historical writings deliberately destroyed by the Conquistadors and Inquisitors because their culture was seen as deeply heretical:

>We found a large number of books in these characters and, as they contained nothing in which were not to be seen as superstition and lies of the devil, we burned them all, which they regretted to an amazing degree, and which caused them much affliction.

-Bishop Diego de Landa, 1562
So sad this was the use case thought of.

Forget about scanning something to sell it. Think about scanning something and sending it off with an app to be printed and shipped to you.
The value of a company is the present value of future dividends. Investors, collectively, will not do better than that. However, it may be possible to find investors who will overpay for an overvalued company and lose money. The "unicorn" business requires a large supply of such suckers.

"It is in the nature of markets to move money from the many to the few."
I think yalogin was asking what would be left if Yahoo sold off its "web business", besides its Alibaba holdings.
The day I got excited about ordering a new vacuum cleaner.

I can't say I definitively crossed the threshold of adulthood that day, but the kid in me grieved. He was no longer in control... of everything ;) There was now a "grown-up" in charge.
"If it's easy for me, it should be easy for anyone" is the scourge of interface design.
this.

i've joked before that parenting 3+ young kids is really just figuring out how to ensure one doesn't get neglected any more or less than the others or that it's switching from man-to-man to zone defense. either way, you reach a point where the time/energy/money required to give your loved ones what they need no longer comes from "you" (your sleep/hobbies/friends), but has to be taken from what you can give your other loved ones as you are already maxed physically/mentally/financially. it's then not a matter of "doing everything you can" anymore, but trying to do the "right things" that you can, and balancing consequences of which are dropped and hoping you can mitigate in future. sometimes it works, sometimes it hurts.

friends will then joke "and that's why i'm never having kids" or "that's why we're only having one", but it's not "worse", just different.
That's not true.
1) The title is can you win 800 million in powerball. If you passed 800 million, you win congratulations you did it.
2) It can be impossible to reach 0 even with a random walk.
There's needs to be core set of laws which must remain at the federal level. States should be able to pass their own laws to suit diversity to a point. If they go beyond that point then the federal government needs to put things right.
On points 2 and 6: Ezra is defining a start-up differently here, not wrongly, but differently. I'm curious to know what exactly constitutes a start-up to PG. Was the first In-N-Out burger a start-up? If not, why? In-N-Out is a case example, but just because a business is small and then happens to stay small or grow big with all the stock still in the family does not mean it is not a startup to many people, possibly including the bean counters that track these things. What does PG define as a startup in these essays?
A lottery ticket doesn't buy a chance, it buys a pleasant daydream. It buys a mental escape hatch. It buys the 'what would I do' game for another week.

A movie costs $12 in a theater for 2 hrs of enjoyment. A lottery ticket costs $1 for a week of intermittent enjoyment. For certain segments of the population, a lottery ticket is a downright bargain.

Math problems are easy. Real world problems are difficult.

As an aside, it's so important that people who care enough about a social challenge like the lottery/gambling addiction are able to find the ACTUAL root cause to address. I'm not blaming the LA Times. I LOVE content like this - and not all content needs a purpose. BUT - if the purpose was supposed to be helping people who play the lottery see their folly, this probably isn't the right tack.
Of course, Paulson and Bernanke are nominally "not liberals" because they were appointed by a "not liberal" executive, but orchestrating a bailout like this requires support in the legislature and support in the court of public opinion. Frank and Krugman were important figures in those spheres.
Interesting point; the "perceptual brightness" formula used in grayscaling calculations is usually this:

sqrt(0.299r² + 0.587g² + 0.114b²)

Real "photosensitizing" chemicals, on the other hand, have spectral response curves, like this one[1] for the silver iodide used in daguerrotypes. (The formula above just being an approximation of the summed spectral response curves of the three cones in the eye.)

There's a big difference, like you said, but it's not an impossible problem; we should be able to create a greyscaling formula for any photographic process with a known response curve. (And honestly, I have no reason to think this hasn't already been done in the creation of an Instagram filter at some point.)

[1] https://books.google.ca/books?id=9IpaIAcgthQC&lpg=PA119&ots=...
I'm not talking about whether it would be good. I'm sure it would be great. I'm talking about whether the introduction of autonomous cars will result in everybody ditching car ownership and using companies like Uber for transportation, which a lot of people seem to think is a given.
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I wondered how the author had written "more than 10,000 articles".
It doesn't update files in /etc nor does it remove old files.

There are other problems, but those are the most prominent.
Your line of reasoning can be used to justify child labor or indeed, child prostitution -- or really, anything... and it has.

The point of society is, or should be, to make sure that its people do not fall in a situation so dire that any deal is a better deal.
Because someone typed in their email wrong, something that is completely out of your control.
What extra value are they bringing the the grid.
There's room for debate in the different numbers that are used to measure employment rates, and you could argue which measure is most important changes over time. But as I understand it, unemployment is a frequent result of an economic depression and not part of its definition, so whether or not there's a depression does not depend on what number is used. Of course, macro measurements don't put bread on the table and obviously jobs matter, and there not being opportunities available in a particular place/time sucks. I'm not denying that. I'm just advocating that people say what they mean and use the correct words to describe their observations.
Yep, exactly. We may need to pin things like TypeScript and minifiers to specific versions in our local environment's Dockerfile, but otherwise there should be no issues with other people's machines computing the same packages and hashes byte-for-byte.
Yeah, but those minimums are usually 40 or 45mph. You can absolutely be ticketed in many states for going at the speed limit in the left hand lane if you're blocking faster traffic although I expect that's fairly rare. I'd have to see someone driving at the speed limit in the right hand lane be ticketed for going slower than the flow of traffic to believe it. That would be a definite man bites dog event.
You become an adult at the point you have a significant (meaning, major life impact) responsibility to at least one other person.

That can come from (examples):

1. Becoming a parent (most people)
2. Becoming an employer (who's employees depend on you and the business for their livelyhood)
3. Other examples that you can come up with

At the point that your actions, decisions, the way you present yourself, how you spend money, etc have consequences for more than just you is the point where you really grow up.

When it's all about you, you don't really have responsibilities you just have stuff to do.
Remember, companies used to run their entire stacks on things like Solaris, or on IBM mainframes, until someone snuck a Linux box in there somewhere. Change does happen, even when policy exists.
Lots of parents here claiming they are more adult than non-parents...
I doubt the people who have significant credit card debts (and are paying 10% interest p/a) are investing. They're probably spending.
Is perl6 also vulnerable?