skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in that case, do you use retrospectives at all ? if you dont have a goal post, then how do you retrospect.
> And anyone driving their own car needs to pay for parking, plus for full insurance, registration and so on.

Those costs don't go away just because you're renting. In the same way property taxes don't disappear just because you aren't paying them directly in a leased apartment.

> Free street parking will gradually disappear and off-street parking is not going to get any cheaper.

This applies to maybe 10% of the population. And I feel like that's pretty generous. You probably haven't seen much of the US outside of the North East if you think that's even remotely plausible.
It seems like the distinction is between "Apple/Google/Microsoft" and "Apple/Google/Microsoft services." My gut reaction when I read it in the article was "so... not really ditching them."

Edit: someday I'll learn how to format text on here.
"31 to $75 per person per night seems a little bit costly"

Is it? Looks like it includes everything: food, housing, electricity/water, cleaning, admin of frequently changing guests, ...

If they can really provide everything for people for $31/day, there are welfare systems that could switch to save money...
> I spent over 60 hours of intense work to do a project for free for them that they requested.

That might be where you went wrong.
Dart is a pretty nice language, and practically speaking I don't think it's "weaker" (optionally typed) system is a concern. The vast majority of Dart libraries are typed, giving you all of the benefits (compile time type checking, runtime type checks, intellisense, etc.)

Check out the flutter project (http://flutter.io) for a hint of what Dart on Android and iOS looks like.
I feel the same way. I'm also in my 40s, and most of my life goals have passed me by. I spent some time and life energy on a doomed startup in my 20s, spent my 30s recovering from the fallout, and now - working as a freelancing nomad programmer - my options for starting something significant suddenly seem very limited.

The question is indeed, as you hinted, if those limits are largely self-imposed or not. There are certainly some external penalties, but what really keeps me up at night is the fact that past performance is a huge indicator for future performance. If I want to set out to accomplish anything of scale, I feel I have to delude myself into ignoring the nagging feeling that if nothing ever came out of anything I did in the last 20 years, it's more than likely the next (and also last) 20 years will be very similar.
I'm not sure what you expected? This is akin to going to a retailer and expecting distributor pricing. You went to a PSP when you should have been talking to a bank, the only laughable part is that, somehow, a company with this kind of volume didn't even know what they were trying to buy.
I don't think you are, he seems to respond with the predictable hyperbolic future-boosting expected of futurologists, "singulatarians" etc. Everything is all "exponential growth" and inevitable transformation right-around-the-corner.

Except it isn't.

And this ignored every point that jaron was trying to make and falls into all the traps he was trying to point out. It is an oblivious comment.

I must say, I don't find most of the contributors to edge particular insightful.
I was thinking more along the lines of lispyscript[1]. It's not as good as SPOCK[2], or clojurescript[3], but there's less overhead than clojurescript, and SPOCK is known to stretch your javascript implementation in odd ways.

1: http://lispyscript.com/

2: http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/spock

3: https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2015/12/a-new-planet-in-the-ou...

> As Caltech astronomer Mike Brown pointed out via Twitter, "Fun fact: if it is true that ALMA accidentally discovered a massive outer solar system object in its tiny tiny tiny field of view, ... that would suggest that there are something like 200,000 earth sized planets in the outer solar system. Which, um, no."

> The far more likely possibility is that the astronomers captured one of the many icy objects floating beyond Pluto in the Kuiper Belt and the far-flung Oort Cloud. There are millions of such objects, ranging in size from less than a mile in diameter to almost 1,500 miles.
Arming the refugees to fight ISIS may cost more now; but defeating ISIS will be worth it.
Researchers disclosed a list of default credentials for ICS
For me it depends on the interruptions / context switching.
Yea, I gave Magic access to setup recurring donations to two charities I support.

Unfortunately they closed my account and stopped the donations. They provided no information on when the last donations went out so I could resume them.

They went completely dark.
Follow up post to this post "The Dribbblisation of Design":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10626942
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34073196

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34675552

There's also a news story today about a factory making fake life jackets, and stuffing them with packaging not proper floatation devices.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/06/refugee-crisis-...
"I'm sorry we're falling off a mountain right now, but it was us or that family."
There's also the chunk of the population with vision problems like presbyopia.

I just upgraded my Moto G to a Moto X Play, and the pocketability hasn't been adversely impacted. My new, bigger, phone doesn't really feel bigger in the pocket (thanks to thinness and smallish bezels), and I can't really tell the difference.

The best thing is that I can set the font size to Huge and read the screen with only a little squinting without having to pull out my reading glasses. I don't think there's any way I could go back to a screen the size of an iPhone 4/5.
How come, still, no one I know, including myself, has received this email?
yes, its called commercial credit. When you go to a store and pay with a plastic card issued by the bank, its almost the same as paying with cash as long as you have credit on the card.
Evernote now supports audio Notes
Exactly. If NK's tests are low-yield because they're testing miniaturized devices intended to produce a low yield, that's scary. But it's far more likely that they're trying to make a bigger bang and it's just not working right.
Undertale - videogame soundtrack
I wonder how they did collision detection? I know pinball had a perspective view, but surely items were mapped on a 2D grid and detection done by comparing ball.xy versus object.xy ?
Yeah, if it ends up being large. The other explanations seem more likely. Either way, it does make me feel really small in the overall scheme of the universe.
I'm not sure I agree that this is a loss for Google. One of the fastest ways for Toyota to move forward in AI would be to adopt one of the existing AI stacks rather than carry out greenfield research. The Google...or is this Alphabet...technology seems like a good candidate given Kuffner's background.
This is pretty neat. Just built using qmake on Windows, works smoothly.

The build folder on his personal site, what's up with that? There's no file extensions to the builds.
http://pimathbrainiac.me/CEmu/
you are in between those 2 extremes and standups are useful?
> You see those kinds of choices being made at a cultural level all over the world. Developed countries where nobody uses leafblowers, or in-sink food waste disposals, or what have you. People understand how those things work, they just don't want the effects.

Is that really a cultural difference or just a socioeconomic/generational one? My parents' generation talked about the evils of the dishwasher - but mostly when they couldn't afford one; my generation buys them without a second thought.
Although, if you don't have time to be cynical, you can always use magic+ to obtain the ultimate super-human cynicism!
Microsoft Edge is a Universal Windows App, i.e. uses APIs that exist on Windows 10 only. And Microsoft is not backporting that.
You can take general principle and apply them with analysis, it does not take much in terms of analysis to extract a useful lesson from history, the analysis has already been done for you.

Just like any other tool such insights can be (and are) abused but it need not be like that.

The conclusion to reach is not to give anyone any power ever, clearly that's not feasible. The conclusion you're supposed to reach is that you can give power to people but you'll need oversight in place. Effectively you'll end up with checks and balances, pretty much the way most governments are set up.

And what history tells us - again - is that this isn't always sufficient to prevent abuses and our newspapers and other media seem to tell us that our current set of checks and balances have outlived their usefulness in the information age.

This flows from 'power corrupts' because it appears that those placed in power have - surprise - again abused their privileges.

Think of it as a warning beamed down from historical times to our present day that does not need more embellishment and is all the more powerful for its brevity, it is something so inherent in human nature that we need to be vigilant of it at all times, no matter who we end up placing trust in.
I struggled with similar emotions for a few years after turning 40 but lately I'm content to enjoy life and new experiences and continue to hone my skills as a programmer. I'm writing the best code of my life, traveling around the world, and taking everything one day at a time. I'm a lot happier since I outgrew the idea that I need to erect some kind of monument to myself in order to validate my existence.
>> I think this is largely due to "bigger is better" mentality of marketing (and consumers).

I'm not sure this is the case. Ask anyone over 40 whose near-vision eyesight is starting to decline, and they'll tell you that there is a real-world problem with reading text on a smaller screen. I fall into that category.

All other things being equal, I'd choose the smaller device, but a bigger screen enables me to set the font larger and read content in short bursts without having to pull out my reading glasses as well.
On behalf of other developers, thanks for the extra business.
This is exactly the same question I asked them yesterday: https://twitter.com/davecraige/status/684429034676092928

They haven't responded yet.
Use the Android Checkbox with NativeScript
Love the suit. He looks like a Fred Armisen character.
An App for Testing Your App Ideas
Spot on. None, and I mean NONE of my non-tech friends give a damn about their email/messaging not being really private.
I think you could use anyone as an example. It's always easier to ignore people you don't know than the people you do. I imagine most people would pick a family member over people they don't know.
As far as art, it's all subjective, there is no "better" :) Accurate - now that's a different story.

And I agree with you, analog nonlinearities are more apparent when you generate the sound.

Having said that, as a practical example, there is a big difference in the sound of drums (loud, fast transients) recorded to tape vs digitally. I really like the sound of tape for certain things. For some things, it doesn't make that much of a difference. The amount of mojo depends on your tape recorder, tape formulation and amount of overdrive.
If Charles Stross, Georges RR Martin could do the same, maybe we could stop having shitty milfan boy creepy SiFi and have good SiFi again with bits of humor.

If Neal read this and meet Charles please tell him to stop post photo of his cats on twitter and go back to work.

The quality of his writing is going down, and the only thing that make me stay away from social medias are good books.

I get it. I am a Sociomediapath because of him in fact. I blame him 100%!

PS neal makes good funny books, but he has difficulty making ends that don't involve deus ex machina. (REAMDE ending is a tad disappointing after quite a good development. Still it is a good essay on virtual currencies).
New PowerVR Series7XT Plus GPUs Introduce Support for OpenCL 2.0
The article is less about opting for snark over smarm, than it is about reading too much onto the method of delivery ie: "I can't imagine a good teacher being smug about it", being politicized in a particular way.

It kinda runs counter to the position you're advancing, but I thought you'd find it interesting anyway.
Are any of those dividend-paying companies? At the risk of no true scotsmanning, I wouldn't count it as "production" if the company isn't making money off it yet.
Oh, I must have missed it. Then it certainly looks reasonable.

But still, I think you agree that we should be able to have a discussion about this without (1) being called "racist" and at the same time (2) being open to possibility that this money is really required.
Except it's not cheaper for the government or the taxpayer.
Even worse, the numbers are differences, which can take on negative numbers as well, so it doesn't even make sense to talk about a distribution (in the probability sense).

I read the AVC blog once in a while as I feel he's a pretty well-informed investor, but I often get the feeling he doesn't understand the most basic mathematical/technical concepts. I guess he has a "numbers guy" for that stuff...
Because an existing name (from all various of the world) wasn't around before some bloke on the telly?
>politeness is hard to enforce.

Because it is a logical fallacy. To enforce something implies using violence which is considered mean and not polite.

The same logical fallacy applies to gun control. Oh you want to ban or restrict access to guns? How are you going to do that? With guns of course.
Yes to #2. I desperately need a new Android and want a close-to-stock experience.

My choices are the 5.2" Nexus 5X or the 5.7" Moto X Pure. Both of which are WAYYY too big.

So yes this will skew stats towards larger screens, but it should not be construed as the will of the consumer. Just idiots in marketing trying to out stat each other.
>> 90 FPS requirement for good feeling VR

This is not a requirement. It's a nice-to-have. 60fps is good enough for most people. 75fps is good enough for the vast majority of people. And asynchronous timewarp largely makes the issue moot, too.

Regardless, Microsoft bought Mojang for $2.5 billion dollars. Zynga has a market cap of $2.4 billion. I think the era of AAA games like Call of Duty being your main cash-cow are over.

You don't need to spend anywhere near all of your cycles to make a good VR experience.
Select a client-side framework for Drupal core
Thanks for the heads up - unsure what happened there. Appears to be working now though
Accidents are not the same as intentional homicides, and should not be treated as such.

You do have a point re: arms races between the police and the rest of the country, but I'd argue that letting the police up the ante is a mistake. It's better for both sides to be armed equally, as this discourages officers from abusing their power (and vice versa).

As for lumping states together, there's a reason you don't do that, and it's codified in something called the Scientific Method. If you want to measure the effects of a certain well on iklness, you must count the users of that well separately from users of other wells, even if the wells are right next to each other. If you lump two wells together, then you don't know which well actually caused the illness.
Note that this is global wealth, whereas golergka's link is about the US specifically.

Turns out, the world in general has a lot more poor people (both absolute, and as a fraction of the population) than the US does, so globally more wealth is concentrated in a smaller population fraction.

I agree that for the world at large the wealth distribution is clearly not good. The good news is that it's been getting a lot better in the last few decades, largely due to India and especially China moving people out of poverty by the hundreds of millions.

For the US specifically, things are less clear.
Did anyone think of the new Apple building when they saw that picture? Wonder if that's a coincidence ;-)
I think that is misleading.

I believe the employees are only paid $15 an hour.
I'm a project manager/scrum master, with a team that varies from 6 to 12 (roughly half the team is semi-permanently on-loan to other related projects/teams).

My daily stand-up is usually 5-10 minutes. About 5 minutes of the standard "what I did, what I plan to do, and what's in my way". And 0-5 minutes of resolving problems (figuring out if I need to escalate, or if another team needs to be involved, etc). Anything longer than that, and we schedule follow-up meetings with a more correct set of attendees.
I will look into Farnham Street's Blog, thanks.

> What he's preaching isn't science.

I don't buy into the necessity that everything has to be peer-reviewed in the old fashioned way. There is peer-review happening in the comments to some extent. I don't take a fancy to dismissing any radical ideas as pseudoscience. It's just the outer fringe of hypotheses that need to be tested against reality, and as long they are approximately humanist, enlightened and don't contradict existing physics without depending on mathematics (or disclaimers), I cannot see anything wrong with it. As a naturalist, I pretty much agree with everything I've read on LW so far, except for the parts I cannot judge (like hypotheses about physics), which I allocate a weaker priors for and a few unconvincing pieces.

> Not to mention, and this is a bit of a pet peeve, I find that most LW people are too self-absorbed, I've literally seen a blog where the person who runs it "warns" the readers that what he writes is too complicated for people to follow.

I have not yet experienced that, but there are also a lot of people on reddit and HN that I don't like, yet I differentiate within these communities between what is valuable and what is not.

> Most of what Yudkowsky says is extremely sci-fi, no real basis in scientific fact, but stretching the current technological progress to the point where his opinions on things (stuff like transhumanism, singularity) can be justified.

At the risk of seeming indoctrinated to you, this is what I believe with high certainty: If Moore's law continues another one or two decades, I think the singularity is a very real possibility. The human brain seems to be nothing more than a learning and prediction machine, nothing what transcends what we can understand in principle. Evolution did come up with complex organisms, but the complexity is limited by biochemical mechanisms and availability of energy. In addition, nature often approximates very simple things in overly complicated ways because evolution is based on incremental changes, not on an ultimate goal that prescribes a design of low complexity. I also think that AI will very likely be superintelligent and that poses a tremendous risk in the 10-40 years to come (on the order of atomic warfare and runaway climate change). By the time someone implements an approximately human-level intelligence, we better have a good idea about how to control such a machine.
Who cares if the profit margin is even double that (10-20%). Almost certainly still cheaper than the government getting into the hospitality business, and has the benefit of not creating a permanent bureaucracy.
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Still Unsafe: The Major Bug in Java 6 That Turned into a Java 9 Feature
Super basic boilerplate for Redux with React
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10820051
Does anyone know whether Idris is a response to Haskell's 'Foldable' controversy?

It looks like it was released in 2012 on hackage but I don't know how far back 'Foldable' was envisioned.
Are you talking about physical - real world Evil, about digital real Evil, or about digital - inside of one's head Evil?

About the first one, physical, what king of stupid incompetent secret service lets an entire terrorist organization train their people on physical training centers, physically dispatch them to their targets, get their hands on weapons and explosives, and successfully commits their crime, while doing nothing because they are really focused on breaking Tor?

Universal surveillance is not just useless for fighting terrorism, it's actually harmful, in several ways. And most of those apply to almost any use you can came up for it.

About the last one, digital - inside of your mind (that is, inside of the criminal mind), those people need help, not punishment. Stop punishing them and they'll seek you.

Now, the real problem is the second set, digital - real Evil. I have no good answer for those, but the surveillance people also lacks this answer, and are almost completely useless against that too. I'm not willing to accept an argument claiming that mass surveillance needs to exist so those people may start doing that work in the future, when they discover some way to do it.
it has been long argued in many circles that many welfare/assistance programs could be better administered by private companies. entrenched government services have no incentive to improve and how some governments budget they may have actual disincentives to improvement.

does sound like these guys are doing a good job. the best part is that when the need changes they will likely adapt or move into a new business whereas a government support structure would be hard to dismantle

the sad part is that some government officials apparently think profit making in this industry is wrong and that is a very bad sign because once you go down that road no business is safe
Autopen: autograph robot used by celebrities and U.S presidents
Wow. A Nemesis star or Nibiru planet possibly?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_(hypothetical_star)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_cataclysm

It would be exciting to have large bodies out further and further from our planet. Like stepping stones to the stars.
15 (goal) minutes with a 10 person team.

Everybody didn't zone out every day, but most did, most of the time.
About Rust’s Machine Learning Community
or why not GoButler?
I'd love to reply to you all (ie: siblings) but this discussion is just sprawling (not a fan of "tree-and-leaf" fanning arguments, I much prefer linear forums), and I just can't put in the time.

FWIW, you strike me as a good person, as do many LWers. I wish I could communicate to you the nuance of my issues with statements like "humanity as one great family", but I'm a newbie at the study of ideology myself, so I wouldn't do a good job.

À la prochaine!