skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I talked with the boy. His school introduced basic familiarity with the keyboard around fifth grade. In seventh grade, there was some formal training via websites. Then a little more in 9th grade.

My question: why make it easier?
original source discussed here... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10916342
A comment that has the attribute of being heavily downvoted is not necessarily a heuristic of what the community wants.
If the eye is so amazing, how come nearly everyone needs glasses?
>And while it's impossible to say what is a lot or a little of a continuous quantity like time, 8 is not a lot of something. If you had a handful of 8 peanuts, or a shelf of 8 books to choose from, the quantity would definitely seem limited, no matter what your lifespan was.

But not if you had 8 private jets, or 8 cars, or 8 houses, or even 8 telephones. This is a rather arbitrary statement.
If you mean state-and-identify, that is only valid if they have a "reasonable suspicion" that you're involved in illegal activities.
based on fortune article discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10916731
The single best way to reduce terrorism, civil strife, and violence in general is greater prosperity. Keeping people poor, ignorant and frustrated is a guarantee of future terrorism.
"New processors will only work with Windows 10"

WTF?! They're using some sort of hardware DRM lockdown to kill Linux, FreeBSD, etc? The nerve!

Oh wait, that's not what it said. It said windows 7/8 wouldn't be supported. Stupid link bait title.
I'm kind of surprised you're getting downvoted so bad. Your tone may have been over the top, but I don't see anything factually wrong.

It's common knowledge that Iran supports groups that have committed terrorist acts.
And there goes my little exercise I get in the morning.
Get fucked faggot.
The problem with sanctions is not whether or not they "work".
A nitpick, but thing-what-compiles is not a "script".
I think it conflicts because of pg's focus on intentionality the way you spend your time - which, if not the strict opposite of 'farting around', is darn close. If pg preaches impatience for what matters, Vonnegut preaches farting around because, who knows what you want?
What democratically elected leader did the USA assasinate?
>Would you accept that most Americans believe what their government tells them?

Often, but not always. I think Americans will believe what they're told not because they believe the government is never wrong but because they believe what the news tells them and they simply don't care enough to dig deeper. Americans also tend to believe whatever confirms their existing biases. I suspect this is not a uniquely American problem, though.

> but when the head honchos of the US "defence" forces, the Secretary of State, and the President of the United States stands in front of the nations media and talk about the foreign bogeymen who're out to get them, would you accept that most Americans believe them?

Even at the height of the post 9/11 paranoia and the Iraq war, there was plenty of skepticism and criticism of Bush's actions. Some (admittedly many) Americans thought Bush was a hero (and still do,) and others thought he was an idiot who was playing out a power fantasy in the Middle East. So it's not really the case that the whole country swallowed the government's arguments hook, line and sinker.

>Then you have the Fox News and dozens of right wing radio talk shows pounding on the same drums...

The thing with right-wing talk radio and Fox News is it's designed to preach to the choir, and it does, and the choir is large and boisterous, but it's a laughingstock to a lot of people as well. Is it effective propaganda if it only works on people who shared its biases to begin with?

To paraphrase Obi-Wan Kenobi here, what you're saying is true, but only from a certain point of view, and a narrow-minded view at that. As with any population of this size, pinning it down to any one political stereotype is difficult - our lunatic fringe is bigger than some countries.
Back in my day, the immoral decisions were copying commodore 64 games!
> The trial was conducted as per Guidelines given by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). Approvals for clinical trials were obtained from Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC) and Institutional Stem Cell Research Committee (ISCRC).

Given that that none of the authors are at a recognized institution, I would really like to know which committees they are talking about.
It reminds me of the halogen infrared (HIR) bulbs used for automotive lighting. I'm not clear on what advantage a theoretical mass-produced photonic crystal bulb would offer for this application that HIR does not. Any thoughts?
That's what they say, but the Netflix original content is still DRM'ed, last time I checked.

The dance doesn't match the music.
You're mistaken. Etsy was for many people their first steps at e-commerce, but every seller who made sales on Etsy has asked themselves "What about all the people not on Etsy? How do I reach them?".

In 2005 Etsy's advantage was that creating your own standalone shop was hard, expensive, and ineffective. They shuffled CEO's while Shopify, BigCartel, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, and many others solved those problems. And Kickstarter proved you could make a lot of money without losing your cool indie cred.

There has always been a disconnect between what Etsy wanted to be (and there have been multiple versions of that) and what it's sellers (who are its customers) wanted. That grew into a chasm so big that Amazon saw light shining through it.
But there are plausible ways they could have done it. They could, for example, be redirecting the IR radiation in some other direction.
My major was in Brain and Cognitive Sciences and I've been working as a programmer in NYC since I graduated (May 2013). I took a few programming courses in college but don't have a formal academic CS credential.

My experience has been that once you get your foot in the door, your degree doesn't matter. I got my first job on Craigslist. It was a shitty work environment and paid 45k (which in NYC ain't much), but I needed experience (and proof of income to move out of my mother's one bedroom, ha). Fast forward to today, I've just received an offer from a fast growing startup for 120k. Compared to what the best folks in NYC are making it's not that high, but not bad considering where I started.

My advice is that while things will be a bit harder in the beginning, staying hungry and ambitious and doing your best to constantly learn will have you quickly outpacing those who don't have the same level of drive. My policy at the jobs I've held has been to volunteer for every single task that I can. I don't even think about it anymore; if there is something that needs doing late at night or on a weekend, I just say yes. I probably don't need to do this as much anymore, but I think it helped me seem more useful when I started, especially since in the beginning there were pretty big gaps in my CS knowledge. Between that and reading Hacker News obsessively I've become the go-to guy for many projects (seriously, I attribute a significant amount of my career success to reading about new technologies on HN).

Also, for what it's worth, I don't have any kind of public portfolio and I've never had anyone ask for one. I'm sure it couldn't hurt though.

Good luck!
Ask HN: Would you like to have a stand up with other people who work remote?
My company doesn't really do a daily stand up. So I'm trying to see if anyone else would be down to do a standup with me?

I think doing a daily stand up would really improve daily satisfaction and deter depressed days!

Sign up here: https://speedbumpit.wufoo.com/forms/daily-stand-up/
Thanks PG after reading this I realized life's too short to read bullshit Paul Graham essays
Emotionally-charged efforts to shut down speech are hardly exclusive to the "right wing" or the "religious". In fact, these days I personally seem to see it mostly among the secular progressive crowd.
Thanks; I edited my comment. The point remains, though, that PG is not "creating wealth" under the terms laid out in his essay.
This isn't really about red vs. blue -- the "red" side acknowledges massive wealth inequality as a genuinely bad thing as much as the blue does (recall the president most known for trust busting, and recall the 'R' next to his name -- Republicans like markets, not wealth inequality). The two sides just have different explanations for what causes it and what will resolve it. This is about understanding an issue. The essay is indefensible; many, many people have taken the opportunity to eviscerate it because it presents such an easy target. There are plenty of other HN threads for you to peruse if you need specifics.

Half the population does not agree with the stance given in the essay. This argument has not been made for centuries; it has not been made at all because it is wildly out of sync with reality.

I would agree it's very reasonable to bow out of it because life's too short if you are a millionaire; in that case the argument really doesn't effect you so why bother with it, it's just academic.

Also "bully pulpit" doesn't have anything to do with being a bully.

I would reiterate OP of this thread: I love PG's essays and I hope this one isn't a way of saying he is dissuaded by his readership challenging him on one that didn't quite hit the mark. We read them in the first place because they never cease to provoke thought.
sounds like one shall pass: https://oneshallpass.com/
My experience doing this sort of stuff in C is that this class of complexities is still present, but hidden outside the source in the crt0 and build scripts. Putting it in the actual program text seems like an improvement.
Yea, the Commodore bankruptcy predates Win95 I think.
http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/discourses.1.one.html

(I'll throw in, with all humility, my philistine take on philosophy: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/09/09/geopolitics-for-individ.... It was inspired partly by Paul Graham's previous http://paulgraham.com/philosophy.html, which IMO is far superior.)
No, it doesn't imply that at all. It doesn't say anything about the people that aren't creating and amassing wealth. It simply says, of the people that are getting rich, most of them are driven. The thing you could get away with saying it implies is that you could have all of the other positive attributes and opportunities of those people, but not be driven and fail. It doesn't say anything the people without the opportunity or positive attributes to get rich, because being driven is a necessary condition, not a sufficient condition. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessity_and_sufficiency ]
From the perspective of that quote, the people getting rich in finance that would be switching into startups already have the combination of sufficient positive attributes and opportunities, including the necessary condition of drive/determination. If they lacked those things, they wouldn't be in that group of people that would have gotten rich in startups.
How Silicon Valley is trying to fix its diversity problem
The 5 Billion were foreign aid from 1992 onward. It includes money to the peace corps, HIV prevention, help with chernobyl and tuberculosis... during many different goverments.

I doubt the US goverment is capable enough to finance and plan a coup of an not yet known goverment 20+ years in the future.
The military occupation was a big part of it, but the communists were able to seize control of the political process in Eastern European capitals without resorting to overt military coercion. They made it look like the Eastern European states were free to choose their own paths. By the time people realized what was happening, it was too late.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Bloc#Concealed_transfo...

Roosevelt was fooled too. This is what he wrote to one of his diplomats in 1943, before the war was over: "I think that if I give [Stalin] everything I possibly can and ask nothing from him in return, noblesse oblige, he won’t try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace."
I posted this comment on Schneier's blog, but I then saw this thread. So here it is:

This type of risk is one that you must accept if you rely on a Service as a Software Substitute[0].

By relying on a remote service for your data storage and computing, you give up both freedom and control---even if the data are encrypted; we've all seen what information can be gleaned from metadata[1]. In this case, perhaps where a document was distributed: if Eve knows that Alice viewed document X, and Bob has a document Y that is shown (through metadata) to have been sent from Alice, and that document has certain properties that match, then it might be enough to convince a court that Bob contains document X, and get a warrant.

> Companies treat child pornography and abuse in a special category. But the precedent remains, and it could be tempting to extend at least the exact-match kind of search to the Paris terrorist example

Terrorism and child pornography are two examples that are often used to justify broad searches, chilling free speech and violating privacy.[2] These types of privacy/security "trade offs" start down a very slippery slope.

> As so much of everyone’s private communications and work migrates into the hands of a few massive private companies, the net-wide search will become too tempting to leave alone. Exactly what makes it tempting is what makes it troubling

You should reject those services and do your own computing![0] These remote services are not a substitute for locally installed software---a distinction that many do not consider or realize.

Not everyone has the technical capability to handle certain problems on their own; hosting your own e-mail server is a good example. In such cases, users should, at the very least, choose a service that commits to their privacy, to the degree that LavaBit did.

For social media: consider decentralized alternatives, like GNU Social[3], GNU MediaGoblin[4], and many others. Using those services will also encourage your friends and family to ask questions about why you made that choice, and consider switching themselves, since they'll have others they know using those services. Even if you cannot host your own, you can shop around for hosts that you feel that you can trust, and still participate in the same network as your friends and family; there's no lock-in to one service like Twitter or Facebook. Wholesale searches are also made rather difficult by distributed networks.

Forfeiture of privacy and freedom should not be the default, as it is encouraged today.

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...
[1]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/why-metadata-matters
[2]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/08/mandatory-reporting-us...
[3]: http://gnu.io/social/
[4]: http://mediagoblin.org/
DNA from 37,000-year-old human hints at early European history
Yea, the freedom to copy and distribute is my favorite one to think about it exactly for this reason (and also because it creates the most practical problems too). I am thinking that there should be non-profit foundations maintaining OSes like Windows funded by hardware vendors etc. I don't think this was ever considered for CP/M for example back in 1975, right?
Fuck working hard
Well, there's always the conspiracy theory that the bitcoin network (and the blockchain) is a harness created by the NSA to crack encryption around the planet.
This is a really poor argument for why Israel is allowed to skirt the Non-Proliferation Treaty scot-free. The less nuclear weapons we have to worry about, the better. But instead, the US rewards them with billions of dollars and high-tech weaponry[0]. When other countries do the same, like Iran, they receive sanctions and threats of military action (Iran is even a member of the NPT[1]). Worse yet, Iran has been clear about its intentions[2] and there's been high-profile accounts of intelligence officials agreeing that Iran isn't pursuing nuclear weapons[3][4]. And we wonder what kind of message this double standard sends to the rest of the world...

0. http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33222.pdf

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferatio...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Views_on_the_nuclear_program_o...

4. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/23/leaked-spy-cabl...
I am no fan of pg's worldview but I think there are less conspiratorial and more good-faith ways to attack it. I genuinely accept what jl said, but even if I didn't this just isn't a point worth pressing (unlike, oh, "you have presented no evidence that increasing economic inequality is inherently necessary to the social good which you wish to do, as opposed to simply a convenient approach with externalities you could avoid but don't care to"). Whether or not this essay is self-deception, if he does not believe that it is and cannot be convinced that it is, there's nothing productive in arguing further and certainly nothing productive in doing so aggressively.
Yes, the UI on mobile is unclear. Your reply to [deleted] looks like a new top-level comment: http://i.imgur.com/FodrC3R.jpg
As best I can make make out he was appointed in 1951[1], as per the British system, by the parliament elected in 1950[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddegh#Appointment...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_legislative_election,_...
It's possible that he was very unpopular. I'm pretty sure it's confirmed from CIA papers since released that the mobs of protesters were organized, paid for and in some cases paid by the CIA, so there's at least an argument that his unpopularity was purchased.
I feel like they should retitle this, "a list of opinions on programming languages"
In support of your points, I think it's worth remembering those "life in a bitcoin mine" videos that some journalists groups did

http://media.coindesk.com/2014/09/20140729120509_0210.jpg

The waste heat from these operations are not being reused. The energy most likely came from a coal fired power plant, or from a nuclear reactor.
Yes, like I said, speaking from experience, different C++ code styles and paradigms absolutely do cause isolation. Having to climb yet another mountain in order to be effective on a different codebase in the same language means people don't do it, so they become experts in a single codebase -- isolated.
Going from rich to poor is significantly harder than staying poor.
This development was discussed on HN about 3 days ago. On that thread I commented that a merit of the incandescent is its continuous output spectrum. The newer lamp technologies produce discontinuous spectral output, CFL having prominent green, and LED blue emissions.

The difference is reflected in the CRI (Color Rendering Index) where 100 represents natural daylight. Incandescent lamps are generally very close to 100, but most fluorescent and LED sources are much lower, 90 or less. CRI is crucially important in the visual arts (museum/gallery lighting, photography, etc.) and other industries (color matching).

There are fluorescent and recently LED lamps that have high CRI ratings. These are relatively expensive items different from the "bulbs" sold at the hardware store. For the future, "remote phosphor" LED lamps look promising, though likely there will be a market for improved incandescents as described in the article.

Looks like advancements in LED, and now incandescent, technology could produce lamps that provide the best of both worlds: high CRI along with significantly extended durability.
Mr. Graham:

I believe you meant "ensure" not "insure" here:

"Indeed, the law of supply and demand insures that: the more rewarding some kind of work is, the cheaper people will do it."

Thank you.
And it is extraordinary claims that sometimes spur the imagination towards scientific action. Creativity works in many forms.
As of Go 1.6 the concurrent map access will also forcibly crash the program: https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.6#runtime
He's providing incredible value/wealth to the startups he advises and invests in. I'd also argue that his essays are a great deal of wealth given to the world.
When traveling down, would turning around and facing the other direction help?

It might also allow you to start a short conversation with the traveler above you, eg. "I have vertigo which makes going down escalators tough"... would that sort of distraction be helpful or not?
Here is an example of a project driving a realtime camera with Beaglebone black.

http://www.erlang-factory.com/static/upload/media/1394631509...

There is a video for the presentation as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBGqVmzuDQg&list=UUKrD_GYN3i...

The trick is Bealgebone black has 2 co-processors PRUs and they can be used for realtime work:

http://beagleboard.org/pru

http://elinux.org/Ti_AM33XX_PRUSSv2

It is a programmable 200-MHz, 32-bit processor with single-cycle I/O so it can be used to toggling GPIO pins.
But do you really need an excuse to dance around? If he bought the envelopes online he could choose when and how much to dance around.

Note: I always appreciate an explanation for a downvote. I love to defend the notion that automating tasks can always lead to more productivity/happiness if we assign the freed resources appropriately.
Well, we need a higher visual acuity today then just a few decades ago. To tell the difference between lowercase l and uppercase I on our tiny screens if nothing else. So small errors in eye sight play a bigger role hence more ppl with glasses.
I don't know why they don't take the resource intensive stuff and push it into a "web server" that Atom then hits as a client, it is after all a "web client"?
Awesome thanks. I will take a look
The new check recipients who will benefit most include people who currently work, possibly at multiple jobs, but still barely earn enough to get by.
beggars can't be choosers.
(Some of us would gladly take any of the above options)
I appreciate the link. Hadn't seen it before
>I'll give the megastructure conjecture much more weight the second someone in the research community suggests it, preferably with some sort of a testable hypothesis

Neither of those things should increase the probability at all. Just because a researcher believes it doesn't make it more likely to be true. Neither does the fact that it's testable.

Conversely, you shouldn't lower the probability because those things aren't true.
PG points out that being driven is not a necessary condition for being rich: "there are a lot of people who get rich through rent-seeking of various forms, and a lot who get rich by playing games that though not crooked are zero-sum."

Since the skills necessary to succeed in finance are distinctly different from those necessary to succeed as a startup founder, I assumed that the essay was attributing success to the one attribute it specifically calls out: determination.