skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can pick up a lot of signals, and they have claims data: it seems like they should be able to build a pretty good model.

Even just "number of miles driven" is a strong signal.
I'm moved back to Oklahoma. The only thing that went up was my car insurance. I thought it was nonsense, but 3 hail storms, crushed car (tree limbs), tornado and 2 hit and run drivers (likely uninsured). I can see why. I pay about 200 more a year. My insurance company has paid 36k to fix my cars the last two years.

My only surprise is that they haven't dropped me. Oh yeah, they paid to fix my rental car when it got crushed by a tree limb while my car was getting fixed from a hit and run.
After a Java SDK, we have now Android as well. On top a lot of new connected services like OneDrive, Slack, Uber, Venmo, Stripe, etc. Open for any feedback!
If anyone from Amazon is reading this - add support for chromecast.
US Hellfire missile wrongly shipped to Cuba
I know I'm contradicting my previous point, but a federal program would inhibit tax-paying citizens and corporations from moving to the most convenient nearby location to do the same business but for cheap.

One example to look at would be the cities of Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington. A lot of people choose to live in Vancouver because Washington has no income tax and spend their time and money in Portland, which has no sales tax. So one could argue that the insufficient resources of a state are a function of the expected tax base exodus if it is cheaper to move and keep doing business than to stay and pay.
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You can, but you shouldn't. I hate to use the term slippery slope, but it's crazy to me that they still do this. You could easily apply to same logic to race and prison statistics and how officers treat who they're dealing with, who you hire, etc.

Much better to do it on an person by person basis.
It's the decade(s) where it took a really long time for us to figure out we just can't have our cake and eat it too.

If we want to continue with our economic preferences toward growth and capitalism, fine, but we also need to make sure the people at the bottom have enough to contribute meaningfully too, or we blunt the potential in all of that.

It really is like a field. Farmer grows some years of high yield, high drain on the soil crops. Good times, until they aren't.

Greed may see sucking it dry as a good thing, but the expectation of high profit at low investment just won't last. What happens when the bounty in a rich, fertile soil is gone?

Tepid returns, that's what. Increases in risks and costs too.

Edit: One could seek new, fresh ground, and repeat this. At some point, there is a lot of sour, drained ground with the winners all fighting over the ever shrinking fertile ground remaining, a clear case of diminishing returns at the macro level, despite many success stories suggesting otherwise.

On the other hand, either taking a little less, say by staggering crops or resting ground, or reinvesting some of what is gained to keep the ground healthy and fertile, act together and the bounty possible goes from an awesome peak to something less, still good, but sustainable longer term. Wealth can still be accumulated, but perhaps less liquid and larger amounts happen over longer periods of time.

In a very general sense, this all feels a lot like placing blame and shifting risks and costs around to avoid the more simple, direct and growing issue of how many of us just aren't able to participate in the economy in a growth meaningful way.

In this sense, disruption is like crack. Big gains are often had, and we like, want and need those, but it's all just buying more time, not actually getting at root causes. Because of that, many larger gains are offset by problem growth and tepid demand growth, neither of which do any of us longer term good.

And while each success appears to hint at an answer, we in a macro sense, just can't seem to string enough of them together to make sustainable gains.

GDP limps along, while we all chase bright spots... and for many, standard of living declines, despite some growth which should seemingly preserve at least parity.
We know that gluten is immunogenic in some people, the controversy is whether the only manifestation of that is Celiac disease.

I'm not aware of any plausible mechanism explaining why MSG would cause a laundry list of vague health complaints it's blamed for.
i would early adopt the heck out of this in a VM but they had to get all weird about it. not interesting at all in 2016
Thanks for following up, Clay. Sorry sailsjs.org caused trouble for you last year. You're right-- fixing SEO permalinks in our docs (i.e. converting sailsjs.org from an SPA to a site w/ server-rendered views) was a pretty slow and involved process. This was due in part to the fact that we switched to deeply-nested navigation in the docs, but also because of the sheer number of old links we had to maintain from two different past versions of the website. We weren't able to preserve them all, but we did our best to maintain the functionality of as many legacy hashbang (`#!`) and Angular-style (`/#/`) links as we could. I'm glad to hear the doc links are working for you now.

We also owe Kevin Burke from Shyp a big thank you for drawing our attention to the SEO problem in the first place. Regardless of where Shyp goes with their tech stack long term, it has been immensely helpful to learn from Kevin's experiences using the framework there. Those lessons have already impacted the direction of Sails, and will continue to influence its future development.

On the subject of documentation, I wanted to share two other resources from 2015, in case either of them might be helpful for you: The first is a free Sails course on Platzi (https://courses.platzi.com/courses/develop-apps-sails-js/). It covers best practices for authentication, blueprints vs. custom actions, and multi-instance deployment to Heroku, and contains some great Q&A. The second is "Sails.js in Action" (https://www.manning.com/books/sails-js-in-action), a Manning book about Sails written by Irl Nathan (creator of Sailscasts) and myself. It is set to be published this Spring.

Finally re: the next generation of Sailscasts-- I don't want to speak for Irl there, but I should point out that there are 6 episodes of the second series of tutorials available (https://github.com/irlnathan/activityoverlord20). You can also see the final example app that Irl and I worked on together which includes a reference implementation of present/idle/away/offline status, user login, and chat here: https://github.com/balderdashy/activity-overlord-2-preview
So, if you have some connection to Edward Snowden (not that I know what this guy's would be), it doesn't matter how vile the causes are that you go to bat for?

On suicide terrorism and Naziism, read up on the Nazi influences on the Middle East during and after the War. The Ba'ath Party is explicitly National Socialist; Sayyed Qutb and the Muslim Brotherhood were influenced by them, as are organizations descended from them. Anti-Semitism in the Middle East is largely a Nazi import -- this is the same Middle East that the Jews fondly remember as a center of forbearance prior to the modern age. (Thus all those Orientalizing synagogues.)

Of course, suicide bombings and suicide terrorism are bad because they're bad, not because they're Nazi-associated. (Conservation, sustainable forestry, and high minimum wages were also Nazi causes, after all.) But there's a Nazi element in modern Islamic terror, which makes it particularly unsettling when a Westerner who's apparently on the far left defends supporters of Islamic terror and supporters of a new Holocaust more or less in the same breath.
Prior to being called MSG, it was often called 'poultry salt'.
Those who cannot differentiate between life expectancy at birth and life expectancy at adulthood are doomed to draw misleading cartoons.
I was hoping for something with GUI because I'm lazy, but I really should stop putting off learning vim :|
PRIV – an andriod phone by BlackBerry
(1) this is awesome

(2) http://glassbowl.info/ is not leading for me

(3) If you did scrape LinkedIn, you probably violated their ToS, so you may not want to admit this publicly in case this goes anywhere :)
Well, my ISP provided me with a very fancy fibreoptic router and a TV box with a terabyte hardrive which I am pretty sure cost them pretty penny yet I haven't paid anything for either of those things. They make money off me every month though, just like an insurance company would - they give you a fancy box for "free" and make money off you selling you their service.
that wouldn't have been a catchy enough title to make me read the story.
I'm not sure if a lifestyle business is seen as a degrading term when hurled at someone. The only people it's a lifestyle business for is people who already have the lifestyle of not necessarily having to work - investors.

What we have left is a term that's used to whack people who could add value in a lot of way to only think they can do it if a VC gives them their blessing of worth, validation and permission to innovate. I don't think that's accurate or fair to anyone.

For entrepreneurs, there is no lifestyle business, or owning a business until it can run without you.

There are plenty of SaaS businesses in the $1M to 5M/yr range that would be perfectly suitable "failures". To me, it doesn't seem unprudent prudent to collect a few of these "lifestyle failures" and be ready to build the $100M company instead of taking moonshots without any experience in building a business.
I don't understand this question. Are you really asking whether it's possible to find out how much glutamic acid is in a gram of a given foodstuff? The answer is "yes", of course, just like you can easily find out how much sodium or iron is food.
You bring up some good points about the DRC but I have to disagree with you on Phnom Penh. It was, and still is, one of my favorite cities I've ever visited. At the same time, I find it hard to express in words why I liked it so much. I think part of it is just that compared to the rest of SE Asia (at least the parts I've visited: Thailand, Laos, and Siem Reap), Phnom Penh just seemed more authentic and real compared to all the tourist traps that spot the rest of the region.

That being said, it was almost ten years ago since I was there and I'm sure their tourism industry has grown. In addition, My comments about other countries being touristy is limited to the places that I went (and this is certainly a biased sample).
Note that everyone's missed - it has HDMI out. This is looking more at smart devices that display information and which you can interact with directly, rather than devices which you configure occasionally and which are hidden otherwise.

Additionally, this is likely a DIY/hobbyist board and a reference device - any major company doing their own thing will likely be building their own devices. Mozilla isn't in the B2B business.
Why complain at all?
I used to run a computer store. Did not take credit cards as we couldn't afford the service. Got hit with a lot of bad checks. People take advantage of small businesses in that way. We couldn't afford a fraud scanning service or credit check in 1995-1997 and went out of business as a result.

My friend with the computer store that took credit cards, the card scanner was supposed to check if the card was used in fraud and all of that. He got hit by people using the chargeback to get free computers so many times that he got black listed. Getting the checks for fraud is hard as one can do a chargeback multiple times and it doesn't count as fraud.
Ideally email addresses would just have different colors - internal email green, external red (as verified domain spelling and by SPF/DKIM).

That would also help immensely with accidental leaks of internal discussions, which is something I have to constantly watch out for with gmail (google apps).
People that want to buy and sell will do that, unless someone is interferring with price or threatening profits.

The Federal Reserve expanded credit to give us the Roaring 20s stock market. Eventually, there HAD to be a correction. Instead of letting things correct, government interferred and made it worse. And then kept repeating that.

And we've done the same thing with the housing bubble.
MSG is absolutely delicious on steaks. The family recipe calls for garlic salt, black pepper, and msg. Grill on whatever grill you use (we used countertop grills like the george foreman). Perfection.
In space it often isn't so much boiling (liquid+heat=gas) as sublimation (solid+energy=gas). Sublimation can, weirdly, occur well below the freezing/boiling point. That one lone cosmic ray can heat a single molecule of water enough to cast it into space as a gas ... all in an environment where the average temp is well below freezing points. Temperatures in vacuum are strange.
Good developer is able to write high quality code in C...

the sufficently smart developer is as much elusive as the sufficently smart compiler
I would love it if you would open source. I would contribute! If not keep up the good work sir!
Well the most important thing to remember is the Golden Rule. You should treat others as you would wish to be treated in their situation.
I just went back to doing something like this. About a month ago I decided to try a "per diem" (per day amount).

So at the start of the week, I take out a lump withdrawal of spending money for the week, and then each day $40 gets divided into the following packets: Me ($10), Wife ($10), Kid1 ($5), Kid2 ($5), General ($10). Me and my wife don't have to justify what we spend our personal packets on, we can use or save it as we wish. However, we make our purchases from what we've accumulated in our packets. The kids money is earmarked for expenses dealing with them individually (diapers, wet wipes, allergen free food, etc). General is for things like gas or other items that apply to multiple people.

It's caused me to be a lot more conscious of what I'm spending money on. I won't frivolously spend the money earmarked for others, and for me it's kind of a game to see how much of my $10 I can save each day. So far the 6 month old is doing the best at saving, he just accumulates his $5/day most of the time - passive income for the win :).

Note: This only deals with "spending money". Our bills are treated as fixed monthly costs. However, it does include things like groceries, household items, eating out, gas, etc.

Since we started this about a month ago, we are for the first time in about 3 years actively saving, which for a single income family in a fairly high cost of living area (Juneau, Alaska), has been a wonderful change.
Growing growing.... wow.

Hoping some biochemists and petroleum engineers added to the team. Would make YC very all-encompassing.

Physics+EECS seem plentiful.

Biochem/pharma/subsea-hydrology seem to be only areas lacking in expertise.
Depends. If you look at the bottom 90% and their economy - we are in depression. Or extremely deep recession. The top 10% are both capturing the lion's share of new growth and siphoning wealth from the rest.
Indeed it would.

The Greek philosopher Polybius referred to this cycle between anarchy and totalitarian state as the anakyklosis

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacyclosis
But again, thinking about doing something and actually doing it makes all the difference. You do not have 100% control over what your think. Sometimes you think about something and then decide whether to do it it not by predicting the possible outcomes. I swear i have thought about murdering several people, but of course i will never follow through. And I'm sure everybody does that. It's part of our critical thinking. We think of something and then weigh the pros and cons in our mind and then decide what to do.
I think that it's SpaceX that is one of the few companies that can actually achieve something similar to Apollo or Manhattan Projects. Both the Moon Landings and the atomic bomb development had strong non-monetary motivations. People at all levels, from the lowest worker to the highest manager, cared very much about the project's success, and not just about their own pockets. Just like Elon cares about Tesla and SpaceX. Also, completely unlike most today's companies, and completely unlike today's government.
By "relaxing and socializing", what exactly do you mean? Do you think they opened a good book and a bottle of Bordeaux?

Leisure time isn't valuable unless you have something to fill it with.

Plus, most of those statistics about historically higher "leisure time" are misleading, because anything that wasn't professional work was probably personal work; mending clothes, performing the brutal labor associated with pre-industrial cooking, etc. I'm also skeptical of any such claims directed at pre-civilization humans, because it's not like they could do a very good job of writing down what they did that day.
How about this?

At renewal, term = max( 1, round( 20 x .97 ^ duration in years ))
Cost = round( duration in years x ln( duration in years)) x median individual income
The total assumes that MII will have roughly constant relative purchasing power.
| YEAR | TERM | COST (x MII) | TOTAL | AVG |
| 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | 11 | 60 | 60 | 3.00 |
| 31 | 8 | 106 | 166 | 5.35 |
| 39 | 6 | 143 | 309 | 7.92 |
| 45 | 5 | 171 | 480 | 10.67 |
| 50 | 4 | 196 | 676 | 13.52 |
| 54 | 4 | 215 | 891 | 16.50 |
| 58 | 3 | 236 | 1127 | 19.43 |
| 61 | 3 | 251 | 1378 | 22.59 |
| 64 | 3 | 266 | 1644 | 25.69 |
| 67 | 3 | 282 | 1926 | 28.75 |
| 70 | 2 | 297 | 2223 | 31.76 | (biannual renewal)
...
| 84 | 2 | 372 | 4603 | 54.80 |
| 86 | 1 | 383 | 4986 | 57.98 | (annual renewal)
...
| 100 | 1 | 461 | 10928 | 109.28 |
...
| 200 | 1 | 1060 | 86673 | 433.37 |
...
| 1000 | 1 | 6908 |3197517|3197.52 |
...
| 2000 | 1 | 15202|14199586|7099.79 |

Recall that those numbers are not dollars, but the entire income of one person, working all year. Given that such a person spends no more than 0.1% of their income on a given work, multiply by 1000 to estimate the number of paying fans required just to keep the work copyrighted. If you have less than 60000 copies sold in the 20th year, it is not worth extending copyright another 11. If you have fewer than 106000 sales in year 31, you probably can't afford to go another 8.

In theory, this would allow a work to remain copyrighted for millennia, but at that point, you are essentially employing tens of thousands of middle class workers to do nothing for you at all. The annual renewal bill for a 2000-year-old copyright would be about $500 million now. The Christian Bible, all editions--the bestselling book--has annual sales around $500 million.

But in reality, a one year consumer boycott on any copyrighted work older than 85 years old would probably be enough to force it into the public domain.
List.fold_left is compiled into a while loop in ocamlscript. The main reason that I used for loop is that the generated code is the same as hand written js, so the comparison is more reasonable

Edit: I am a practical programmer, I am in favor of both for loop and recursion as long as it is readable
Hi Sam, this isn't really the place for this, but I was late to the party during your AMA a couple months ago and you weren't around when I asked my question. I'm reposting it here in hopes that you'll see it.

A few weeks ago I submitted this article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10213547 about one of Peter Thiel's biotech investments and the top comment asked "How does someone very intelligent like Peter Thiel make investment decisions in an area where he lacks a huge amount of background knowledge?". I'm curious how you personally and YC as a whole goes about making investments in areas where you don't have great expertise. For example, how do you evaluate biotech markets and the YC biotech companies? How did you evaluate your energy investments?
I suspect that given peak loads, utilizations, etc. there are pretty unfounded assumptions about the economics associated with what would in effect be robo-taxis. Drivers today make, what, $10-15 per hour? So one would need to explain to me how taking that cost alone out of the equation suddenly makes using taxis and limos in place of private auto ownership an economically sensible thing for the majority of people in the majority of places where it isn't today.
They route everything through a VPM when connecting to the public APs. So it prevents that security issue.
Still probably less crude than your age and gender, no?
I have a pet theory that people had longer attention spans back then and didn't need constant entertainment to distract them from the present moment. Also they listened to the radio and enjoyed not being out in the cold.
Anyone who is glorifying hunter-gatherers needs to look at the hard evidence, of which we actually have. There are plenty of recorded evidence of hunter gatherers societies and there are still many that exist, such as in Papa New Guinea for example.

Their lives are full of incredible violence and murders happen all the time. There is a reason that the populations do not exceed a certain capacity. Because they kill each other. (Sometimes it's because there is only so much food in a certain area to support them) There are plenty of sources. Guns, Germs, and Steel is a great book that can explain some of this.
I do pure type theory, semantics, proof theory & intuitionistic mathematics. Very little of this will find a home in industry (at least, not for several decades). Industry has historically been incredibly resistant to 100% of the things I'm interested in, and I don't blame them!

But it's not just the hard & expensive stuff that they are resistant to. Even the "easy" stuff (like adopting a programming language designed by the professionals instead of the amateurs) they won't do.

I build interactive proof assistants. But I'm not pushing their applicability to industry, and I don't expect them to be relevant to industry (for a long time at least). Why? Because it's too expensive. Formal verification in type theory MAKES NO ECONOMIC SENSE; ask anyone who's actually ever done any industrial verification, and you will find out what tools they are using, and it has nothing at all to do with the area of research I'm involved in. This is because there are inherent trade-offs in every technique, and industrial use-cases tend to prefer a certain set of trade-offs, and I prefer a different one.

But it's a fascinating topic, and something that I'm preparing to devote the next several years of my life to. And I can safely say that a meteorite will more likely destroy Manhattan than will any of my computer science research be of widespread relevance to industry.

So, no, I totally disagree with everything you have said.
The sized types are optional, since they are more restrictive than the ordinary types - see section 7.20.1.1 in the standard (http://port70.net/~nsz/c/c11/n1570.html#7.20.1.1). To summarize: intN_t is exactly N bits, with zero padding bits, and 1 2's complement sign bit; uintN_t is exactly N bits, with zero padding bits; the implementation must provide such typedefs for all such types it supports.

So, if a system is 1's complement, you won't get the intN_t types at all. If the system doesn't support a particular bit width, you won't get the types for that width.
This is actually... a) very insightful, and b) something I don't recall ever encountering before. Thanks a lot for the reference!

(Increasingly, I'm starting to feel that a lot of things I figure out for myself - often while writing HN comments - is something that's been widely known for thousands of years. I guess I need to sit down and read some of those classic works.)
How about a real world scenario:

- driver C who drives fast yet safe (over the speed limit like most drivers) but has to deal with:

- driver D who drives the speed limit in the fast lane, changes lanes without signaling, is essentially clueless, and forces C drivers to navigate around them.

Stunts at any speed is bad, sure, but speed can't automatically be assumed to be stunts. That's the flaw.
Can you specify why it was "useless"?