skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I am not an economist. Some of their discussions go well above my head, so it's possible I'm mis-understanding\mis-interpreting what they say. This is also why I'm curious as to a source.

The one thing I hear a lot is: The statistics we are using to measure this are BS. One example: We don't account for people who are under-employed, which is important to note in long-term depressions such as this one. The other things I typically hear are quite anecdotal: "I have family in Rnowheresville, $some_state, and they have no jobs out there!"
I guess Marissa Mayer could ask on Quora what to do.

Or start an "Ask HN" thread. By the comments seems like all the corporate strategy experts hang around here.
Colonize it with Polish people, of course.
Those methods have a lot more refinement, but eventually, most certainly.

I suppose the more important argument is not about "what's the quality of the model?" vs. "what goal is the insurance company trying to accomplish with better risk pricing?"
"Think of H2Flow as an app for your teeth. The more Flow you take in, the more Sparkle Points you get! Get enough Sparkle Points and you're on your way to your first Aqua Badge..."

(Parks and Rec)
self driving cars that we still have to drive, sounds awesome
You're painting with too broad a brush. There are kinds of founders who are in conflict with their investors (first-timers without significant savings), but there are plenty who have the same risk tolerance as their investors do.

A fairer complaint to make is about the tension between investors/founders and employees.

This is all neither here nor there, though, because whatever kind of founder you are, you are vastly more likely to get external financing in the post-YC era than you were before YC happen. YC funds all kinds of companies that aren't immediately on a moonshot trajectory. VC firms as a rule don't.

I am not a YC booster, but I've been in startups since '95, and there is just no comparison. YC has made things significantly better for founders everywhere.
Those rules don't apply if you actually ship cargo, as long as the cargo is secured according to regulations it can be put on board even if it's a commercial flight which carries passengers.
Even as a normal passenger you most likely can make arrangements with shipping dangerous goods with any airliner they would most likely direct you to a logistics provider that will handle it according to regulations.

I've bought quite a few dangerous goods like actual pure lithium which were shipped internationally by air using regular post (which in most cases is shipped through regular commercial flights) including actually pure lithium and various pressurized gas containers.
The shipping costs were not even more expensive than what would a normal package of the same size and weight would cost the only difference is that i had to send them signed customs forms approving the import prior to them shipping it to me.
The only other different thing is that on one of the bigger packages (a canister of helium) the local postal service actually called me and said i have to pay extra for a specialized driver with a permit to transport dangerous goods to pick it up and deliver it to me, that actually ended up costing more than the express air shipping and oddly enough only one package was flagged which just shows how poor custom enforcement is actually is unless there's Ebay or Amazon written on the invoice in which case they know exactly how much to rip you off on import taxes.
Usually it goes away if you wait a little bit. I think they do some rate-limiting. Also they'll probably block requests from my server soon ;)
> If you run a service on IPv4+, your router needs to support IPv4+, and your users need to support IPv4+. That's it.

What does "your users need to support IPv4+" mean? What does it take to make a "user" support IPv4+?

> Note a user with an IPv4+ address can connect to non-IPv4+-capable systems since he also has NAT.

Yeah, the same as with IPv6/v4 dual stack.

> NAT already has this problem. Broadcasting ICMP is an acceptable solution -- remember that IPv4+ for a client is an alternative to NAT.

No, it doesn't, no, it's not. ICMP error messages contain the first 8 bytes of the packet that couldn't be delivered, which in the case of TCP and UDP contains the port numbers, which a TCP/UDP NAT uses to NAT the ICMP messages. And broadasting is not an acceptable solution because delivery of ICMP messages happens to sockets, not to machines. If you deliver ICMP UDP port unreachable messages to all sockets in the respective IPv4+ address range where the port happens to match, that's going to cause chaos.
I've been working on something similar and I have ran into some of the issues you mention. As you correctly pointed out, quality and post processing is also relevant to not crawl irrelevant/spam sites, which can be HUGE! The work presented here is cool but it does not address the whole picture. Having a crawler that takes quality and user feedback into account is the hard part. Not to mention if you are being polite with the requests... we need to scale but not ignoring Robots.txt

So crawling a billion of links in X number of hours is not trivial but not that hard specially with cloud infrastructure like AWS, it's just a matter of a good enough implementation and how much money one wants to spend on it.
Anything capable of painting a modern channel selector UI on that screen will be generously oversized for recreating effects from the screen saver age.

But I get your point, it may take a while before those screens become must-have gaming accessories. Even if you had the GPU resources to achieve high FPS, an excessive increase in screen resolution would only expose low polygon count artifacts without a matching increase in scene complexity.
OP didn't say that it actually had to happen, just that you had to realize it was possible. Many people will not have to experience something drastic like OP seems to have in order to realize it, but some people don't until that point.
That's what is interesting to me: Most of the people I hear complain about it are in those cities, and they are doing just fine. But someone can be doing OK, and still believe the country is not.
kind of OT but,
"Its surface is separated into cells or polygons 10 to 25 miles"

reminds me of glimmervoid: http://magiccards.info/mma/en/223.html
The best tips for anything can fit onto an index card. Just a matter of how many.
Then you use valgrind instead of sweeping bugs under the rug.

The next person may have equally likely (or maybe more likely?) simply forgotten to initialize some particular field and now you've got a problem if the field is supposed to read 0 most of the time and maybe sometimes 1.
Does It takes money to make money?
In practice, it's the opposite. Switching may be a sign that you are a bad driver but it's also a sign that you are price sensitive which is usually the more important signal. Never switch and you are flagged as price insensitive and therefore a fine candidate for being over-charged.
Agreed that is always a possibility. These of course are just recommendations to try and stay clear of those such things, but again, anything is possible. Thanks for your feedback, it is appreciated!
> they pretty much do whatever the hell they want unless there's enough people willing to sue in a class action suit. this goes for consumer, business, financial, whatever.

Okay fine, please explain to me how you think they would be worse with behavior-based rates than they are today. If they're just looking to bump rates for everyone on a flimsy pretext, there is nothing stopping them from pushing the price envelope as high as they can right now. Well, except the competitive environment they operate in, of course, which isn't going away even with behavior-based rates. They already do whatever they want, so this lets them do it more? It seems unlikely to me, and my early experience is incredibly positive.

Behavior-based rates can at least remove some of the mystery behind rates rather than add to it. Behavior is personally trackable, shareable, and demonstrable. Ultimately, it's a way to increase price discrimination, something I'm a fan of.
I'm 30, married, have 4 kids (with one on the way), own a house, and have a good job. But I cannot grow a mustache or beard, except for a small patch under my chin; the best I can do is literally a neck beard. I'll never feel like an adult. Ever.
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There have been so many (successful) OSS projects with VC backing since the 1990s that this argument doesn't hold much weight. OSS != no revenue options. There are many business models that exist beyond selling products or taking a percentage.
The problem are the enterprises that don't care about the quality of the C developers they hire, with big teams, high attrition and rotation of outsourcing companies.

I have seen the quite a few of those and I imagine you wouldn't enjoy to audite their code.
Antivirus software could make your company more vulnerable
pssst: I think you double-posted
We ended up having to duplicate some of the functionality of Raphael ourselves while writing the processing mentioned in the article (like to locate regions of an uploaded image after transformation). We thought it was best to just use this code to do the layout as well. It also ended up being a lot smaller than a full library, since we're not using a ton of features.

That said we played around with Snapsvg, and it is great if you're lucky like us and don't have to support IE6.
Has there been anything publicly reported about what happened with the YC Fellowship program?
Would Star Wars' Han Solo Survive 2016?
I wonder what would happen if someone tries to rob you and you put your finger against your inner earlobe, look down at an angle, and say to yourself "he's in position, MOVE MOVE MOVE"
Parental Controls are DRM. They're precisely the same problem statement and software solution: You want to turn general-purpose computing into devices that hide their capabilities from the user, selectively. This doesn't work on an informed and educated populace, and kids reach that level of education earlier than you think.

My parents stopped filtering my internet at about 8 - I'd been online since 4- and while I'm certainly more scarred and savvy about a variety of strange subcultures than I would otherwise be, I am glad of it. Even before then, the filters had not been 100%; I know by anecdote that I had seen some seriously deranged pornography before the filters completely dropped, and I really just wasn't interested.
>>Yet its easily possibly possibly to start working towards and move in that direction.

This is impossible. One man cannot build and design the 747. The total man hours required exceed several life times.

>>Its a symbiosis. But where you want to belong is really upto you. You now have two options a) to work 20 hours a day, be a god programmer, get a job at wall street, make a few millions and retire. b) take life as usual, work 9-5 and be a commoner.

It is not a symbiosis. Ask anyone who chose option b.

What a coincidence. Everyone who chose option a thinks it's a symbiosis, everyone who chose option b doesn't. Wonder why. Tell me, in your life, did you happen to choose option a?
Responsability literally means response-ability. It's different to what I'd call self-consciousness, or what another commenter named independence.
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It depends what you want/need. Initially I thought like you too, I coded embedded C stuff years ago. Though for quick prototyping and hobby things, it's a lot faster to write C code with macros (=Arduino), you can put together a nice prototype in hours. If you want to sell your product, you can always rewrite it later.
Does page design improve when you replace every image with William Howard Taft?
I use this approach and call it "killing with kindness".
Just for the sake of shooting the breeze: how much of that $3m goes into COGS and capitalised assets or improvements?
> That's why you don't drive 100 mph, mm away from a line of stopped/stopped cars or next to a crowded street corner.

Wow, you were there?

Forgive the sarcasm but you're speaking as though you were when in fact you are utterly clueless about the rest of the circumstances, and you probably are unfamiliar with the local territory.

> Your examples are ones of exactly the type of behavior insurance companies are trying to disincentivize.

Well, let's just say you are dead-wrong about that.

> Namely, fail-deadly behavior that puts you in a position where you have to be attentive to avoid a collision when other actors don't do exactly as they should. Your error was putting yourself in that position in the first place.

Classic strawman, you made up an extension to the situation and then you valiantly knock it down.

Well done. Really, what would it take to get you to re-phrase your comment into something like:

"Forgive me for asking because I don't understand how these situations came to pass in the first place?"

And then I would have answered:

The tourist was a Japanese dude who was standing right next to one of the most busy streets in Amsterdam, I was doing about 50 kph, right along with the rest of the traffic there (and considerably slower than the taxis overtaking the rest of the traffic) when a guy stepped backwards of the curb while looking through the lens of his camera. Obviously he lost is balance and I stopped the car mere centimeters from his fallen body wrecking a set of nearly new tires in the process. We shook hands and that was that, I'm sure he's going to be a bit more careful in the future while walking and looking through his camera at the same time. The alternative - to swerve - was not an option because of the higher speed traffic in the tram lane and it wouldn't have worked anyway. Good I keep my cars in excellent shape and kudos to whoever designed the brake system on the Citroen DS.

The toddler was a much slower affair, this was in a street with slanted parking (quite common in the old south part of the city), this little tike had escaped from his mum and came out from in between two cars well under mirror height. I wasn't going very fast and fortunately there was a large open space on the other side of the road (super market loading area or something to that effect, I forgot) and so I had plenty of room to swerve when I saw something move. At first I thought it was a dog. An emergency stop there would have been too late, he practically rolled out under the car.
Can I plead ignorance? :X
T-Mobile CEO Claims It Doesn't Throttle, T-Mobile Spokesperson Confirms It Does
Another comparison point in linux land would be firejail

https://firejail.wordpress.com/
We'll be making an announcement very soon about the first batch and changes we'll be making for the future.
3 tomatoes have about the same amount of glutamate as the average prepared dish with MSG added. 3 tomatoes sounds like a lot, but tomatoes are mostly water, and if you're eating a prepared dish where tomatoes are a strong flavor (like tomato sauce), you're getting a lot of glutamate.
According to the article the missile was inert.

But it is not the first time a mistake has been made. In 2010, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms sold untracked guns to Mexican Drug Cartels AKA Operation Fast and Furious, which led to the death of a US Border Patrol Agent.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/atf-fast-furious-sg-storygalle...
It's not that they don't want to, it's that they can't. They may be 3000 miles away, or they may have just got a cancer diagnosis, or their knowhow of math may not be up to snuff for your problems, or they don't approve of your habits and are doing it for your own good. But yeah, you hit a wall where the only person that can help you is in the mirror. That choice, to live your life, that's a big turning point.
Coming also from a hardware design & embedded background, it was quite a surprise when I began to notice this a few years ago. I was so accustomed to processors being expensive that it was a shock to notice that as their prices dropped close to zero, it was the connectors and switches in my design that were becoming the expensive bits.

OTOH, CPUs are now so cheap they have become replacements for fixed logic devices.
Is "YC Core" the official name of the main YC program? I'd never heard of it before.
One other problem is that "real" black and white images don't come from the same distribution as greyscaled images. The training data is just regular photos that have had all the color channels combined and averaged together. Sometimes it's a weighted average, like green is given more weight than blue, because human eyes see green better.

However real black and white photos represent the actual intensity of the light waves. Black and white photos might be sensitive to light humans can't even see, or weight different "colors" very differently. Even two colors that appear the same to the human eye might be different intensities and frequencies, and so produce a different black and white photo.

I don't know how much of an effect this would have. But real black and white photos definitely look different than greyscaled color photos, and it might lead the NN to guessing the wrong color information.
Sam how much randomness are you using in your selection processes? For example, are you randomly funding a percentage of teams?
I never really liked this question. The article even states verbatim why I have this feeling. "Adulthood is a social construct."

So when we're saying "are you an adult?" I'd like to ask what are we REALLY getting at. An ability to handle X class of situations? An ability to make X levels of abstract reasoning about social processes? There are so many and so variable a set of objective and subjective markers that any sort of broad statement seems useless, at best, deceptive and detracting from the actual markers at worst.

I had a conversation with my father once, something along the lines of, "We really all just get better at pretending, don't we?"

I'm not sure what my "Central point" of this post is, (and it's far from my more rigorously argued ones) so take it as a collection of thoughts on how I've found the most "personal enlightenment" regarding adulthood, as a rather transparent contrived construct; realizing this was (perhaps ironically given my thesis on this) my internal moment of "I have reached adulthood".
Yes, but that has nothing to do with gravity and everything to do with thermodynamics.
I'd say that the realization that you are the only person who is responsible for you is only half-way there. I'd say that full adulthood realization is that you are the only person responsible for you, but you are still responsible for other people.

The reason I say that is I've know individuals who have taken the first mantra to mean that they hold no responsibilities to other people. That it is, in a reductio ad absurdum, that a driver has no responsibility to stay off the sidewalk and that the onus should lie entirely on the pedestrians to dodge her vehicle.
Because you're on the same road as they are (they could hit you).
A searchable/clickable NIST SP 800-53
For anyone who was wondering what Silver was: http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/16/6248561/google-android-sil...

"The oft-rumored Android Silver program was supposed to showcase the best smartphones running Android as Google intended it."
Are there any free websites I create wordpress blog and earn money?
I have a wordpress blog and it is running on a droplet in digitalocean. I want to move the blog.

I am looking for a website that
1) lets users create their wordpress blogs
2) lets users customize blogs with themes&plugins
3) displays ACCEPTABLE ads (no fullscreen ads,no drug ads,no sexual content)
4) pays users for ads

Do you have any recommendations? (By the way, I hate blogspots)
There are no such provably safe programs. I assume that you are thinking about programs that have been verified by formal proof systems.

They are not proven to be safe, they are proven to adhere to whatever the proof system managed to prove. This shifts the possible vulnerabilities away from the actual code and onto the proof system and the assumptions that the proof system makes.

For example, take a C program that was proven to be absolutely free of buffer overflows. And therefore labelled by the proof system as 'secure'. But, unbeknownst to the proof system, the C program also interprets user-supplied input as a format string! So it's still vulnerable to format string exploits.

Correct proof systems probably add a huge margin of security compared with the current security standards, but it's not absolute.
There's still a lot to learn from stigmergy. That synchronization can mediated through signals/state from a shared environment.
Evolution probably uses tho mechanism more widely than we currently understand. To speculate, just think how human mood is affected by global chemical levels such as serotonin.
LMGTFY: http://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/11/pay-up-slowpokes-or-get-out-o...

Here is a specific law in Utah, for example: http://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title41/Chapter6A/41-6a-S704.html?v...
This problem exists in market capitalism as well. The solution to this problem is that there will always be a massive incentive not to scam people - to earn a strong reputation and userbase - by being a legitimate business person.

Secondly, despite a small minority who are amoral, the vast majority of people aren't short-term thinking opportunistic scammers. The rewards of being legit can be massive and rewarding on a long-term basis. Inspiring others to follow suit. Scamming is always a short-term, high-risk low-reward act that always exists as a niche in every market. The odds will always be against these people because the opposition is better financed and incentivized to counter their schemes.

Thirdly, Most consumers have a certain level of tolerance for being scammed but as long as the majority of transactions are legit then the trade-offs of reduced fees, lack of censorship, and pseudonymity will keep people using the market.

Finally, if someone doesn't have the tolerance or analytical ability to not get scammed then there still exists many options outside of the market. What matters is a significant enough amount of buyers/sellers use the service. It doesn't need everyone.
Thanks Kevin. This is a really interesting experiment and I have been very interested to learn what you guys have learned from it.
An Optimist's Reply to Ezra Klein
For me, feeling like an adult means feeling more like myself. It's like there's a core being of who I am, independent of all other factors, which becomes more prominent over time. I suppose it's tangential to the current top post - "when it comes down to it, you are the only person who is responsible for you".
Related HN thread on planned Yahoo layoffs from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10861925
I don't know if there are companies that do this (I'm not saying there aren't), but this does not match my ground-level understanding of how and why big tech companies are hiring. The ones I'm talking to are hiring because they are constrained on what they can build by the availability of specific kinds of engineers in their organization.

Zero is the number of companies I've talked to who have ever mentioned competition with other tech companies as a recruiting concern. I'm sure that's A Thing That Happens, particularly in executive hiring, but I don't think most companies are hoovering up developers so they can hoard them.