skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> These are both untrue.

>> I'm not aware of a single American individual who gave up their citizenship for politics (and I work in this field).

Firstly I'm not sure which 'both' are untrue, as I had 3 points, so your response is a little confusing.

Politics: There where some number of American men who where wanting dodge the American draft before it was abolished in 1973, particular in the 60 and 70s. I suspect some number of draft-dodgers renounced their American citizenship. Similarly, some number of American women did not want their children to be subject to the draft, and didn't agree with American wars, so they too moved away, and renounced their American Citizenship--I know some women for who this is absolutely the case. I also know some people who currently reside outside of the US who would renounce their American citizenship were Trump to be elected president. I would say all of these example falls under the board heading of "politics".

I would agree that it is currently the policy of the US Government not to make individuals renounce their citizenship where they to become a citizen of another country, but I do not know the history. It is that other countries do make new citizen renounce their other citizenship(s); Singapore, for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renunciation_of_citizenship

Similarly, if Singapore citizen was to obtain American Citizenship, s/he would have to renounce their Singaporean Citizenship.
If you have an Android device, the Droid48 app listed there (also at [1]) is worth a plug. A touch screen on a phone can't compete with the awesome tactile keypad those old calculators had, but at least the layout and operation are familiar and I've always got it with me.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ab.x48
Someone has already mentioned Hollywood Accounting.

Also Netflix gets $10 a month from me. $120 for a year. Double what I spend at the cinema.

And I don't watch big budget movies all the time. I can see them getting customers to keep paying the monthly subscription for the cheaper to make content and then they have enough money left over to film a few huge movies every year. Especially if they use relatively unknown talent that won't get paid tens of millions a film.
This rings true for me too... in winter if I go to sleep when the sun sets I'll wake up around 12-4am and stay awake for an hour before being able to fall asleep again.
I agree with your premise, and can decorate it with some details, but also can't claim inside knowledge to the BigCo research environments you describe.

One datapoint might be the recent movements of the SURGE Accelerator down in Houston. They focus exclusively on energy startups, but after four years of being an accelerator for such companies, they've put the accelerator on hold and raised a venture fund to focus on the current portfolio companies that are having success. Part of that is obviously the market impact of $40 oil, but another factor seems to be that their companies are selling to medium or large energy companies as customers, and this simply makes their path to growth a more drawn-out affair.

As you point out in your "building a bridge" sentence, the budgets in energy may be huge, but that's a result of sheer complexity and (human) scale rather than a willingness to spend on every-other shiny new thing.
>> Under what circumstances would one want to receive these sorts of messages over a Facebook message instead of via email?

If you're the kind of person who instead asks "Under what circumstances would one want to receive these sorts of messages via email instead of over a Facebook message?"
I used the linked 3rd party site above: netflixable.com, choose a country, goto "Alphabetical List".

Example:

http://usa.netflixable.com/2016/01/complete-alphabetical-lis...

The total number of movies/shows/episodes is 7004.

(I hope that was what you where asking about)
Why did Tutorspree fail?
Was In-Person tutoring, as a market, the cause of Tutorspree's failure? Or was it something else?
Maybe that means there's a need for a web service that generates random and periodic posts on behalf of users to give the appearance of "Facebook normality". E.g. the website service posts random inspirational quotes from dead people or TIL from random wikipedia pages. You never have to log into Facebook and yet it seems like you're "with it".

That's actually interesting. I'd expand it to other types of activity too, but then there's the risk of alienating your friends because your bot "liked" that they divorced, or something. :)
They should tier it. 140 characters for a free account. 280 characters for a cheap but paid ($) account. 1000 chars for a premium ($$$) account.
I'd say these aren't simple systems.

The "kill the pedestrian, not me" example is brought up... but what is a real life situation wherein the only two choices in retrospective was 'die' or kill a pedestrian?

Most of the time, you'll avoid killing a pedestrian and it'll result in non-critical injuries to you due to airbags and other safety features. Or it'll result in a dodge or just car damage, since the other cars are more prepared to react to you than a hobbled pedestrian carrying groceries is.

I think often times the car will 'choose' to risk injury you rather than absolutely a pedestrian.
That is a good point. It is different experience to shoot with film than to shoot digital. However, I haven't heard people argue for film from a strictly process point of view. It is, after all, a strength of digital that everything is just software--easy to manipulate, reset, copy, distribute.

Having said that, you are still probably right. There is always going to be someone that prefers an analog process--maybe BECAUSE of how inconvenient it is--to a digital process. Some people also like working within constraints as it stimulates their creativity.
If you're implementing randomized load balancing, consider using two-choice, randomized load balancing by default.[1]

[1] https://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~michaelm/postscripts/tpds2001....
Well, in business, it seems that most deciders have difficulties to find the real important insights in their data. Dashboard are nice, but they often don't reveal the really relevant stuff. They show you only what you know, but no interesting data patterns. I wonder why this is? Is it a tooling issue, a skill problem, ...?
That's a lot of drones
I think the value of a CoC is merely to signal to people who have experienced abuse or disrespect in communities before (which would describe, I think, most women and people of color who have participated in technical communities for more than a short time) that the community is on their side when sexists or racists show up. That has some value. It doesn't really matter to the majority, and it doesn't actually alter how people behave (generally), nor does it really alter a project leaders ability to excise a toxic person. But, it does say, "We will excise toxic people. We will try to make you feel welcome here, even if you have been made to feel unwelcome elsewhere."

Even if that's all it does (which I think it probably is), it is enough to make it worth doing in most cases. (Which reminds me that I don't have a code of conduct on any of the open source projects or communities I work on, but I'll make it a project for the first quarter of this year.)
On their software page, they have this text at the bottom:

"We are targeting specific hardware and do not provide a general purpose installer at this time. If you’re interested, most of Our Software is available for download. In the future, we plan to make disk images available as well."
IoT Projects: Raspberry Pi vs. Arduino
Fun fact: Donald Knuth, perhaps one of the most important computer scientist of our times and epitom of rational and logic, is a very very religions man. From Wikipedia:

In addition to his writings on computer science, Knuth, a Lutheran,[21] is also the author of 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated,[22] in which he examines the Bible by a process of systematic sampling, namely an analysis of chapter 3, verse 16 of each book. Each verse is accompanied by a rendering in calligraphic art, contributed by a group of calligraphers under the leadership of Hermann Zapf.

From psychology theory perspective, when you are kid you are boot loading your "firmware". This is the time in your life, where no questions are asked about validity of any statements and whatever is in the firmware is accepted as fundamental undeniable un-erasable core of your being. You will sure go on to learn from your environment and build your "kernel" on the top of it but everything must eventually reconcile with your firmware somehow. So there are many great scientists who are extremely religions and have spent in-ordinate amount of their lives justifying and rationalizing ancient verses with findings of the modern science. From a pure psychology point of view, the huge continuous dose of religions education at very early age is the primary reason why people in Islamic faith as well as parts of Christianity, Judaism and others are more stricter followers of their religion even when many of them turn out to be Nobel prize winners. So if you were ever to create a religion that would last for thousands of years, here's the tip: Make sure your ritual requires intense religious teachings at very early age.

This is not to say that above mechanism is the only mechanism why people become religious. Many people do genuinely believe in presence of some greater being independent of religion just due to consequence of their rationalization process (aka "spiritual"). Lots of people also tend to become much more religious in older age regardless of religious education during younger age and there is whole bunch of philosophies around that too.
I'll answer your question: no, the venture model does not make sense in capital-intensive industries. The entire premise of venture investing is to beat established competitors by leveraging technology to be more capital-efficient. It wouldn't work otherwise; because using the Internet as a delivery pipeline is exactly what gives most startups their cost / strategic advantages. Infrastructure investment is expensive, and very few investors are willing to float you a billion dollars without expectation of return for 10+ years. VCs want to make lots of small bets on low-capital businesses and hope one strikes gold.

And it just so happens we have a funding model for capital-intensive industries: government grants and tax incentives. But the nature of the beast is such that we can't have a huge number of companies all trying to do the same thing. That does mean that success is ultimately a result of your ability to get what you want out of the government system, and hope there aren't too many powerful groups angling for the same thing. That's exactly the model that VC / startup is trying to get away from.

That's the thing about capital-intensive industries: generally the problems and solutions are not difficult or especially unique. The only reason there's not a hotbed of competition in those areas is because funding is the chokepoint. And you're right; it's more about quality of execution than "getting lucky". Some things you have to get right the first time, so the trial-and-error approach of VC-funded companies is probably not the right approach.

EDIT: Also, to answer your point about being attached to a "BigCo", you're absolutely right. This indeed does happen -- you just never hear about it because large companies like to keep their R&D projects secret. They don't need to publicize their achievements to establish a customer pipeline because they already have one. In fact, most advances in infrastructure technology are funded by large, established companies in a way that makes them seem evolutionary.
(How) does it handle updates to stories?
>>Second: In almost the entire US, being armed is not against the law.

Way to miss the point. Of course being armed isn't against the law. But most states don't allow open-carry, and if someone is reporting you to the cops and saying you're armed, that means you just broke the law by failing to conceal your weapon. Furthermore, if the person reporting you says you're acting suspiciously or in a threatening manner, that's enough justification for most cops to shoot you.
How to Start a Cult (Startup)
I wonder if DJI makes up the majority of that
I had submitted this a week ago without the "Show HN" tag, out of ignorance of this section being available. So apologies for the double post.

I like tinkering in the kitchen, and I've had this tumbling around in my head for a while. So I decided to bang it out a couple weekends ago. It's simply a recipe manager for people enjoy creating new recipes, and want some type of revision history during the process.

Feedback definitely welcome.
The numbers in this are daunting, but I personally believe massively multi-core systems make the problem a lot less daunting than the article makes out. Core counts in big servers can get up over 100 per server for Intel (see Amazon's new EC2 offerings for public evidence of this). Intel's Xeon Phi series of processors offer core counts approaching ~300. Going to 300x takes the required latencies per request from microseconds up to the millisecond range. POWER systems can go even higher. Moreover, for many workloads that actually leverage this sort of compute you can do something horrifying with the new DRAM-addressable persistent storage: DMA directly from the NIC into block storage. Some (many?) high performance network adapters offer the ability to filter packets to distinct Rx queues; buffers can be posted with addresses in the storage mapped region allowing direct NIC->storage transfer. If you bake more intelligence into the NIC, you can even do things like Mellanox's NVMe Fabrics:

http://www.mellanox.com/blog/2015/04/mangstor-mellanox-show-...

This is particularly relevant to the JBOD example.

Now, there's the question of what you're actually going to do with all of that data, but in a lot of cases it's likely a durable read-mostly cache that's effectively a materialized view optimized of some (hopefully much slower write-rate) transactional store (say, product data on Amazon -- detail pages served up at some absurdly high rate, but a relatively low mutation rate).

Other workloads I can think of fall into a category I tend to think of as log processing -- a high-rate series of streaming writes which are slurped up and batch processed/reconciled to some (much smaller) state (which of course may then be exploded back out to large materialized views as above). In these scenarios, presuming the log entries have low contention over the underlying state, CPUs like those I called out above are more than up to the task of streaming over the input and optimistically updating the backing state.

Finally, in terms of real workloads, there is almost always going to be a bottleneck limiting your ability to fully utilize your resources. Either you're CPU bound and leaving network bandwidth on the table or you're network bound and are leaving CPUs/storage devices under-utilized. Massively improved storage performance local to a node is fantastic in terms of computation you can do locally, but if each network fabric upgrade costs you 10x what the previous one did to keep up with the storage/CPU available per-node, you're going to have a bad time. Amin Vahdat talked a bit about our (Google's) historical network fabric evolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaAZAII2x0w

If I were betting on an annoying bottleneck to full resource utilization coming up in the near future, I'd put my money on network before CPU :)
Because I was installing it from local I completely forgot to publish it, thanks for the tip! Published now
It's as if we were successfully making cancer less deadly, but at the same time more people were living long enough to get cancer that there were more cancer deaths. We'd still be making the kind of progress we care about in working against cancer fatalities, even though there are more of them. And a suggestion that reduce longevity so that fewer people would die of cancer would be missing the point.
Phantom all the way!
> Flipping the question a little bit, how do you justify paying actors 40 million for a movie if they're being streamed online for $5 a pop?

This is basic supply and demand. Harrison Ford has a monopoly on Harrison Ford, so if you want Harrison Ford, you have to pay what Harrison Ford wants for it.
Kids and Screen Time: A Peek at Upcoming Guidance Ed
Not everyone is happy to use CREDIT card. You can get a gift card that is top up. Some large shopping centers and shop chains offer them. They will have Visa or Mastercard logo and can be used as regular CC.
I remember reading that farmers would milk cows during this mid-night hour, but I can't locate a source right now.
Not mentioned in the article, but consistent hashing[1] is usually what you want if you're going to use hashing and load balancing together.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistent_hashing
If anyone is wondering, the police were charged with second degree murder in this case: http://www.wdsu.com/news/local-news/new-orleans/grand-jury-i...

They have plead not guilty and will be tried soon: http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/01/trials_set_for_d...
These are not even games; the expected value is < 1. That said if you like playing then the actual math is almost meaningless. Nobody complains about not breaking even when going to the movies.

With one game you never actually end up with ~20$. It's either 0 or ~40$. Expected value is close to break even, but you get an actual bet going.

With 20 games you never end up at 0 or ~40$ it's 'always' (524,287/524,288) something between those extremes. However, with negative expected outcome games the average case is bad, so you odds of winning are less than 50/50 and your average win is tiny.

Further, many people play not just a fixed number of games, but keep playing until there stake is gone, which tends very strongly toward zero.

Net result, if you play just one game you have a reasonable chance of winning. If you play lot's of games you most likely will keep losing money until you stop.

PS: This is why most casinos don't take big bets; they make far more money from people making lots of small bets over time.
Thats like saying entry of BMW in India will force upgrade of road infrastructure. I do not see how or why entry of Netflix will force ISPs in anyway. ARPU for Cable TV in India is ~Rs 300 so Netflix is twice as expensive there. In sharp contrast to US where Netflix will probably will be the cheapest streaming service.
I agree. I think they should give that choice. I think foreign media companies don't realize that even though many European countries dub movies, lots of people will watch an un-dubbed movie (with subtitles) if that is the only thing available at the time. Lots of people prefer the un-dubbed version (even without subtitles).
This topic is about a former Mozilla CTO (who allegedly worked with Android) and his inaccurate and baseless statements about the implications of Google's switch to the OpenJDK. I could accept this level of technical ignorance from a blogger or a journalist (although, a proper journalist would have researched it thoroughly), but to hear these comments coming from a CTO is baffling due to how out of touch his understanding of the situation was. I hate to use the word ignorant, but in this case he was pretty much ignorant on the entire topic which is sort of a head scratcher for someone who was once a CTO.
That's a bit different. Presumably this API would be used for more than user-unfriendly data mining.
Uber Totals
This feels very similar to how the total work expended by the Bitcoin network can be approximated (not the current hashrate, but the sum of all hashes over time). Basically, you can take all of the block hashes, and find the lowest one of the lot. From that number, you can estimate the total work performed by the network in aggregate. The concept is basically the same here.
Paramedic Shares His Wild Ride Treating 'A Thousand Naked Strangers'
I would imagine Somali style boarders would find the RF to be unpleasant. So the emitter array will be dual purpose.

There are already truck mounted microwave systems that are tuned to cause immense pain on your skin, for crowd control.
How about Harvard vs a local community college?
> From the little I know on SSDs(don't claim to be an expert here) the sequential reads are below or on-par with high spindle speed disks.

Not quite, but they're "only" a 2-5 times faster, not orders of magnitude faster, as with random accesses.
I feel like such a sucker! I got excited to go to your quiz and vote for the 5-6h option just to show your boss.

Then Spidey sense tingled...

Looked at your profile, then followed your last submission to product hunt and found out that you are the Founder CTO at guaana.com. Co-incidence?

Next time please do put a disclaimer and definitely do not try to "Growth Hack" HN.
Thanks a lot for the advice, this really helps! It's great to read about your experience. Did you always work remotely or did you start with local jobs?
Very nice! I see this as the next evolution to the phusion's custom init system[0], which was created to solve largely the same problems.

I should be able to take Yelp's dumb-init and add it easily to any linux container I want -- including things such as Alpine[1]

[0] https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker/blob/master/imag...
[1] https://github.com/gliderlabs/docker-alpine
What's really interesting is that studios may be able to make the first round of oculus games very cheaply.

The resolution is lower than typical on PC games, framerate is important, and the experience is very different.

So I bet they could get away with repurposing a lot of old content into new oculus games.
If OP meant to say that the average player plays poker with more skill than he plays DFS with, then I too disagree.

However, I think what he meant is that poker allows for more skill--it's a deeper game. I agree with that sentiment. Poker includes all of the things you mentioned, and more:

* Building complex models about the other player's strategy
* Hedging bets in the form of pot-control, post-oak betting, bluff/fold situations
* Scripting, of course. There's tons of scripting & mathematical work that can be done in both.

Then you've got bet sizing, psychology, bankroll management (in both), incomplete information, and the list goes on and on for some time.

Any given poker decision might weigh a thousand factors or more, in real-time, and that often happens several times per hand.
> and the performance of an SCM (hundreds of thousands of I/O operations per second) is such that one or more entire many-core CPUs are required to saturate it.

So, we are getting a lot of data, but latency is still killing. (Even more taking into account that this thing has a few stages of pipeline inside.)

Anyway, our CPU is getting distributed nearer IO and memory. We are going to get NUMA machines, everything points at it.
I'm not a gamer, but I still get a kick out of people complaining about how expensive $45 or $50 games are.

Get off my damn lawn, when I was a wee lad, I reserved my copy of Super Mario 3 and was HAPPY to find a store to hold a copy for me on release, of course full retail price of $65. That's $130 in today's dollars!
The house price is set by what buyer's are willing to pay for them. This is taking into account that in median, 4 years of that person's work-output will be required to purchase a house.
Here's what's gonna happen. They're already doing this. Charge a premium for streaming bandwidth. Sell a separate 'streaming' package. Bundle. HBO, Netflix, NFL, Hulu, PBS. They all come standard on the streaming package. A mere $25 a month on top of your basic $60 100mbps connection.
It also depends on the data you want. Most data sources don't have all of the things you could want to use in order to create meaningful stats.
Maybe you should contact the state attorney for consumer affairs and let them know that they are ignoring your requests to prove that your personal information has been destroyed.