skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a fair point. But I think that the issue is that we then are lumping all of these companies into one category and we should look into what they are doing. So if we think that "dating apps" or "photo apps" derive less social value then we would tax them more than startups that derive "more value" (say, fighting disease or providing solar power). There are systems already in place for this type of incentive, where government provides tax breaks in fields deemed "socially more valuable."
It's mostly disturbing because it implies that he doesn't know what Google is, or how it is used.
Really reminds me of this guy https://youtu.be/bajOUNg9_ms?t=280
> The darker patch at the center of the image is likely a dirty block of water ice “floating” in denser solid nitrogen, and which has been dragged to the edge of a convection cell.

I love that we (the public) are still getting regular updates about what scientists are finding from the Pluto flyby.
I would be interested to see some statistics at the end of 2016, to see if the article had a measurable impact. Actually they did one in 2015 too, so it should be possible to check that now. But I would be leaning towards no, I don't think this article will cause any significant increase in tourism.
In their list of validation images, I thought this was was pretty cool:

http://tinyclouds.org/colorize/val-imgs/val-006200-2.jpg
Or undefined behavior.

I guess it can be summed up as: C++ is extremely good at making people think they're writing safe programs.

This feeling of safety is virtually always incorrect in the case of large-scale software, and the huge stream of memory-related vulnerabilities that virtually all popular network-facing C++ applications have and continue to have is proof of this. There is no reasonable way to argue against this; the fraction of popular network-facing C++ software written by a large team that have had memory safety problems rounds up to 100%.
TL;DR - Categorize your spendings to at max 5-7. See where you spend max money and try to optimize for it.
From the fourth point:

So, by this completely rational view of the “pie,” it is, in fact, trending towards a zero sum game.

It doesn't even matter how growth is trending. Graham's misguided criticism of the 'myth' misses a simple mathematical fact: that the growth in income among the top 1% dramatically outpaces overall economic growth. Consequently, contrary to his assertion, the rich are increasing their income at the expense of the poor. There is no where else the money can be coming from. You can argue (wrongly, in my opinion) that this is solely because the rich are smarter and harder-working than the poor. But you cannot rationally argue that such a shift is not happening in a broad sense.
The steps are easy:

1. Make a budget.

2. Stick to it.

If you need a little more pressure, stop using credit cards in favor of cash. There's something powerful about realizing you have less of something every time you get a cup of coffee. It will slow you down and make you think "do I really want this?"
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I was surprised to see it on the list, especially when neighboring countries have many of the same touristic aspects. Keep in mind that the Congo and the DRC are two different countries.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in my understanding, the primary purpose of uintptr_t is to type-pun a pointer into a compatible integer, inspect/modify the bits of the integer and then cast it back to a pointer of the same type. I don't feel like it's the right type for simple pointer arithmetic.
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I really don't like the word "progressive" being used in a context like this, and it seems more like a cognitive anchor for associating actual progress with this proposal.

It seems really backward and regressive if anything.
I click on a lot of emails just to find the unsubscribe button, and sometimes open-archive is the fastest way to get things out of my inbox
“Why do we need to learn this?”
I've heard that for nationals outside US, US is very good place to store your wealth. Because they give zero information outside. However practically all financial institutions outside US are very dependant on US finance infrastructure. That means they will comply hard with US data requests, which means that US citizens outside US have hard time hiding their assets.
From an amazon review:

This book presents the thesis that many ills of today's society (obesity, mental illness, rates of drug abuse, ...) can be attributed to large income inequality. The authors make this point using two-dimensional scatter plots, with income inequality on the x-axis, the prevalence of some form of social ill on the y-axis, and dots in the plot representing individual countries. These plots generally show a positive correlation between income inequality and various social ills.

As a statistician, I would like to comment on the soundness such argumentation: unfortunately virtually all graphs are plagued be a confusion of correlation with causation.

Reviewer then explains correlation and causation. I could claim "inequality is good" using the same methods. I'd argue inequality is immaterial but does tend to be correlated with poverty, which is what we should focus on.

Not to be outright dismissive (I should read the book), but this is a problem in social sciences in general. I think software simulations would be a lot more useful at this point than scatterplots comparing two variables used by so many economists today. I think I've read about people starting to do that in various areas, not sure about how prevalent it is in economic modelling. AFAIK not very.
http://teacherweb.com/WA/LakesHighSchool/LegaryScience/endoc...

TL;DR: You push the candy into the side of the bag, deforming the side of the bag without puncturing it. You can reach your hand in the opening and tie a string around the candy nodule then cut the excess paper off. Now you've gotten the candy from the outside to the inside without having exposed the inside of the bag to the outside! Enodcytosis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocytosis) is awesome!
I don't understand how people manage to log every purchase they make and keep on a budget (this app is no different). I find it so inefficient and time consuming. I can't even plan a budget.

I prefer to focus on how much money I can actually save every month. Much simpler and easier to manage. Best is to put that money aside on the 1st of each month and see if you can stick to it.

Then choosing what to spend less on to improve that saving every month is by questioning the usefulness of the purchase (Will I use it? Will it make me happier? Will it improve my productivity? Will it allow me to create wealth? etc.).

Try to keep your living standard below what your income could afford. On the long run you'll save money and live happier.
One thing that's weird for a lot of Europeans is that the US has exactly one national newspaper, USA Today. All the other papers are local: NYC, Chicago, LA, Baltimore, etc. The NY Times is a great paper but go past above the fold and is local stories.
> over around 30 years before it's really worth it

That is ANCIENT Solar Technology. If you care to read this it actually is

Energy payback estimates for rooftop PV systems are 4, 3, 2,
and 1 years: 4 years for systems using current multicrystalline-silicon
PV modules, 3 years for current thin-film modules,
2 years for anticipated multicrystalline modules, and
1 year for anticipated thin-film modules

http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy04osti/35489.pdf

I think you need to re-research solar technology.
Musk is just the Lebron James or Michael Jordan of entrepreneurs. It doesn't matter that others aren't as good as him or as driven as him to keep improving. There is an entire league of entrepreneurs out there doing things that aren't as well-publicized but still very fundamentally important to our society and how it works.

And your ignorance of the fact is probably that you never stop to talk to some of the business owners in your area, and see what they're planning.

You can only find so many stories at the height of public consciousness and Musk just happens to be one of them.

As for buying mansions and yachts, you can't tell me that that's any different than you buying the latest iPhone or car when you already have a perfectly usable phone.

Hell, we could all be getting by with Nokia 3350s if we really want to take that argument there. We don't really need color screens, or internet in our pockets. It's really just a convenience after all, and there are many less fortunate out there in 3rd world countries without phones at all.

Here's where we begin to argue about what poverty means and what 'filthy rich' means. They aren't clearly defined.

I'm for people who earn money, fairly and legally, using it however they see fit. If they want to build space ships, awesome. If they want to buy yachts, awesome.

Even the yachts employ people and produce net effects on the economy that could be argued as positive things. Many engineers and craftsmen are employed by the yacht industry.

I happen to live in one of the yacht capitals of the world, Fort Lauderdale, and there are over 100,000 people employed in that industry here alone.
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Except I've had to turn off that feature on my phone with Google's Fi service because public hotspots aren't necessarily reliable and can result in missed or dropped calls.

Also, there is the whole security issue of connecting to public APs automatically.
This seems like a good spot to go meta - what exactly does someone who has achieved a level of financial success owe the rest of us?
The Christian church has a well-known - at least among churchgoers - figure, which is 10% or a tithe.
Ask someone who favors government and they will probably say something like "as much as we need."
Ask someone who does not and they will probably say something like "as little as possible."
It's a long shot but it might help if we had some consensus of what constitutes an equitable "contribution."
Right now "affluenza" type teens cause plenty of accidents in both shitty cars and super sports cars, and no one is banning them from driving - as long as they can afford ridiculous insurance premiums they bring on themselves. Don't see that happening later either.
Yeah, I won't be signing up for something like this precisely because this is nothing more than a gimmick that insurance companies will use to maximize their profits.

How does the insurance company know you are hard braking because you are an an inattentive jackass that is texting while driving that suddenly has to brake to avoid a collision vs a safe driver that had to suddenly account for someone in front of them making an improper lane change?

The short answer is they can't but you can bet that they'll use that data to justify raising your rates.
Well, I guess you can't tell for sure if it's worse than Mint before using it. If it's prettier (as you said) and its UI is more intuitive there's a chance it can be better, at least in some aspects.

I guess you're right, I didn't have time to make a budget but have some to design an app because by doing this I learned a lot when it comes to design, and after all I earn money by designing things. So it's a win-win
I'm very much on the other side of the political spectrum, but I would have a lot more appreciation for libertarianism if someone could come up with a credible, practical solution for making monopolies (or monopolistic behaviour) rare or impossible. With the proviso that it acknowledges the reality that monopolies form even in the absence of government influence.
I'll wait until the numbers start to roll in for the outflanking. I'm not convinced that offline is the same killer feature for videos that it is for music. I'd argue that most people streaming movies do it on large format devices which are more likely to be connected to wifi. Amazon's original content compared to Netflix is largely a joke. Most of the shows have extremely low budgets and you can tell. This situation seems to be improving, but Netflix hasn't stagnated either. The UI for amazon devices is also significantly worse than netflix. I have amazon prime for shipping but would rather pay extra to use netflix's ui.
“Observing the end of our economy’s lifetime.”
It drives me nuts that Hacker News is such an awesome resource but the person behind it is such an arrogant jerk.

Am I banned now?
TL;DR doing too much of anything is not good?
Same here, especially with the capitalized "G"
There are no problems with the business model, it just doesn't pencil out in that state anymore. Keep in mind the business model for solar is basically trading higher up front capital costs for lower long term recurring costs, and the capital costs are largely invested into products that have a rapidly declining cost. That sounds like a great plan to me, and while it requires subsidizes today, in a few years it won't. Arguably the entire drop in oil prices over the last few years was due to the realization by major players that we will see the end of fossil fuel demand before we see the end of fossil fuels. One of the key contributors to that is unsubsidized price of solar panels was getting very close to the price of oil (~24 months ago).

I would also argue, if you do not take care of the externalities of your energy production yourself, than accept that you are going to have to subsidize people that are reducing the demand for it. Why is it on the solar owners to pay for all of their energy storage but not on the coal power plants to capture and store their CO2 emissions?
The technology they are using basically is similar to the technologies other wireless providers have used for throttling which they sometimes call "video optimization", the word optimize here is from the perspective of the carrier meaning "use less bandwidth on our network. It works by re-sampling and reducing the video quality in terms of resolution (pixels) and also color fidelity (e.g. octree). The thinking is that people watching video content on their phones will not notice the difference because the screen is so much smaller. The reason a lot of carriers ran afoul of NetNeut is that they were applying it without the consent of the subscriber (for example some would apply it only when their network or a cell site was nearing capacity or for users who were "abusing" unlimited plans (abusing meaning actually using a lot). I am not sure if the user elects to use a service with reduced quality at a reduced cost is really a violation of Net-Neut or not, the cable companies offer regular definition and high definition TV at tiered pricing for example. All the wireless carriers are trying to get into the content business in various ways as the growth of the traditional business levels off.

One add on to my own comment is that I forgot is that there is an allegation that Tmo is applying "video optimization" to content other than bingeon, which if true is a clear violation. It also is possible they are just incompetent too because that type of system they are using has to be programmed based on the 5-tuple source or destinations (and some other parameters) which it would not surprise me if they screwed that up).
Do you work out regularly?

I'd imagine if you exercised/stretched your lower back and hip flexors regularly (deadlifts and squats) that you would be OK to sit for long periods of time.
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Thank you for sharing your perspective. I find some contradiction in your sentences and this question comes up:

As a manager, can you have both a team full of stars _and_ maintain a hierarchy? If yes, how?

The definition of star is also a bit vague: a person with lots of knowledge and experience can stand out as a star, but in my experience a junior person with less experience having the right way of thinking can also be a star.

Hierarchy means having only a few people steering the vessel, the rest need to align with the leadership, or there is no team. What does it mean to be a star in a hierarchy with the top-down approach?

Still, even in a team full of stars they all need to align among one other, or it's not possible to achieve a common goal. Stars are opinionated because they have knowledge, but that usually comes with an ego, so they need to work around that.
> when in fact a proper parental control solution should be client-based because as soon as your child goes to WiFi at MacDonalds/Starbucks they probably have access to all the adult content they want to see by bypassing the wireless carrier parental control network controls.

And to anyone that doesn't think kids know how to change the wifi settings:

My son is 6. He trawls for open wifi like crazy if I don't start my hotspot. And other kids do to, at an alarming rate: We were flying to see his grandma before christmas and at the gate at London Gatwick, I turned on my hotspot. He was one the iPad that automatically connected. Only I had turned the password off at some point for some reason. Within a couple of minutes, half a dozen kids had joined his Minecraft world by finding my hotspot, and then starting Minecraft and realising there was an accessible local server ....

(alarming, because they'd be an oh-so-tempting target for all kinds of stuff...)
It's mildly frustrating that that site mentions "Press J for next K for previous" at the bottom of the page after I've scrolled through them all..
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Law enforcement officers and researchers could file for their case to be dismissed by providing evidence of their reason for accessing the material.

This is an argument for privacy around criminal charges since even being charged with CP can ruin someone's reputation. Many civilized countries have this. But this is a separate issue.
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So far net metering is still at retail rates in CA but PG&E, SCE and SDG&E are fighting hard to change that. Ref: http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/breaking-califor...
We see many sock puppets these days. Some companies do their cruel things even on HN. Sure there is a fine line between fanboys and sock puppets, but some are either that starry-eyed, are employees or even get money for their postings.
he'd rather re-invest every last cent he has into new projects than that he'd ever splurge 10's of millions on himself

Take A Tour Of Elon Musk's $17 Million Bel Air Mansion[1]

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/photo-tour-of-elon-musks-hous...
I understand your position. But the negotiation part is crucial to your decision. If you "just" a CTO for the startup, then I would follow the more common advice around here to reject it. Even though the experience might be valid, without the funding you wouldn't even get that, like hiring and managing other engineers - and trust me, if the founder said May, it will probably come in August at most. And if the startup is successfull you won't get the financial reward you deserve. So good experience is your upside.

BUT... if you become a Founder, a proper one, reflected in serious equity, not a BS job title, then it is very different. According to YC, less than 10% (before any funding) they don't even consider you a founder. So I would negotiate participation between a minimum of 10% and a maximum of being equal any other founder.

My opinion would be: founder or nothing. But I don't think it is irrational if the decision is: accepting the CTO role, gambling with the funding and considering experience a worthy outcome in the worst case.
> This is not surprising to me at all, nor do I see anything nefarious in this. PayPal operates two different business units,

Only as nefarious as locking random person that came to your door in your basement then offering h(er|im) your company because (s|)he might be lonely.
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Done this. You'd be surprised how many misspellings it didn't catch.
I ordered the book, but can you share a thumbnail of what they propose as the causal relationship between inequality and poor performance on societal indicators?

On first blush it seems too neat a solution. Just look at Texas—massively unequal, there are oil barons and illegals within the same zip code, but Texas is doing well because it's possible to live the life style of an upper middle class person in NY on a pair of civil servant salaries down south.
I've used YNAB for over a year and I don't understand it like that. I allocate to different savings (bills, rainy day, etc) and spending (games, eating out, etc) categories and spend from those.
Could you explain what you mean about that philosophy? I may be able to further improve my budgeting.
So I have T-Mobile (a prepaid account on a pay-as-you-go plan with no data), and there's already a parental control feature: they call it Web Guard. It's been there for a long time (since dumbphones) and is set to "Young Adult (17+)" by default. To turn it off I need to provide age verification: my full name, address, date of birth, and last four digits of my social security number. Although this information "will not be collected or stored for any use by T-Mobile USA" -- presumably it's only sent to Equifax or some other identity verification partner -- I'm still not comfortable giving them that information (I believe the only personal information I've ever provided is my name, email address, and ZIP code). I haven't made a fuss because I have no data plan, so turning it off won't help me, but I do still find it annoying.

Incidentally, when I went looking for the setting today (it's in your account profile under Phone Controls), I discovered I now have a Binge On setting, which is (of course) on by default. However, I haven't checked to see if streaming video works (even though I have no data plan).
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Night time peaks are likely far lower, also transmission losses are higher as temperature increases requiring more transmission infrastructure.
Relevant but not Amazon Prime - I looked everywhere for somewhere I could legally download Star Wars in HD to watch on a plane. But since my Surface Book apparently doesn't support HDCP, I couldn't. The best I could do was SD from the iTunes store. Eventually, I just paid the $20 somewhere, then torrented it in HD. It doesn't seem like the kind of thing that should be completely impossible in 2016.

I see that Amazon Prime offline is only supported for Android and iOS, and I bet spotty HDCP support on laptops is part of that.
It's amusing how many CEOs get to CEO with this attitude. I once put a nasty Yelp review up about a local place and got a call from the CEO of the larger franchise who demanded to know exactly who had put my up to this.
This doesn't seem like it is working yet. Most of the validation set images are flat sepia with a random blotch of blue.
I've been waiting for one of these for ages! Really useful, however I opened several shader files and was disappointed to see the bare minimum implementation with no comments. I would consider the shaders one of the more interesting parts and would really like to see some explanation of them.