skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Enjoyed the article, thanks. For those who like trivia: bit of history at the current shopping center construction site around San Antonio Rd.

"Demolition has already begun on a row of buildings along San Antonio Road, including the International Halal Market and the Barron Park Plumbing Supply sites. The unassuming-looking market was the former site of Shockley Semiconductor a seminal, albeit unsuccessful, business credited with kicking off the silicon chip industry in the South Bay and considered by many to be the true birthplace of Silicon Valley. As of now, the only mark left of the former building is a signpost mounted years ago summarizing the history of the Shockley site.

As part of their plans, Geiser said the finished development would include a variety of silicon-transistor-themed artwork as well as a plaque and photos to commemorate the Shockley building. (http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2015/06/01/big-changes-af...)

Bonus: progression of the building over the years:

1. https://videogamehistorian.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/12sho...

2. http://telco.lk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Silicon-Valley-Ro...

3. http://i0.wp.com/siliconvalley.town/wp-content/uploads/2015/...
The question is if that value is at the right valuation.
Might be worth giving it another shot. Doze in Android Marshmallow drastically improved my standby battery life[0]. Doze handles wake locks much like iOS--not quite as well but it's night and day from my previous Android phones.

Here's more detail on how it works[1].

[0] http://i.imgur.com/tQyNJXD.png
[1] http://developer.android.com/training/monitoring-device-stat...
I found it to be an interesting claim. We'd have to look at what one buys when they get a startup. Focusing on tech, they typically get the team behind it, the tech itself, the userbase, the patents, and then anything else created. I think the team, users, and I.P. are most valuable components. Then, they tend to fold that into their other offerings or sometimes shelve it if it was for anti-competitive reasons.

So, it seems to me it's not a financial instrument. I mean, my understanding of finance is pretty basic. There could be instruments that represent what I'm describing. What I'm seeing, though, is that they're buying a market (users) w/ cross-selling opportunities, reduced liabilities if patents, and proven tech if they want it. It's more like investing in themselves through a third party they're bringing in for the enhancements they'll provide.
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Very interesting! I've been pondering what could be an effective way to gather different statistics on an active hive.
Does anyone know of any projects or links worth checking out?
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> I really hate the corner of the tech industry that takes old ideas and renames them and then goes "hey look at this new trendy idea I thought of!".

It is more out of ignorance than anything else. User Interface never necessary meant "screen". It is just that the author knows nothing about the subject he is talking about and only writes that stuff because of a "buzzword" that sounds good, he has a very narrow definition of the word User Interface at first place, which makes his definition wrong. A bit like the "No Server" folks who think that there is no server just because they are not managing it themselves and just uploading a js file somewhere on AWS ...
In the example as given, yes. In reality, it has `className="row"`. I stripped out all of the classes from the example code to make it easier to read.
It's the old diversity vs. centralization/standardization argument.

Too many programming languages leads to too much fragmentation, not enough programmers well-versed in the languages, etc. Most times, we pick a language today based not on how optimized the language is for the problem, but on the availability of programmers who know how to use it. Haskell might be great, but if you're a business trying to build something, you'll have a much easier time hiring experienced C++ programmers. However, different languages have different strengths and weaknesses and applicability to certain problems, so you don't want to just standardize on one either. You probably wouldn't use Haskell on a project that is a good fit for C and needs low-level access to hardware.

It's not much different with version control, except that fundamentally all such systems aim to solve the exact same problem: managing and keeping track of source-code changes in a project. They go about it differently (distributed vs. non-distributed is a big factor), and offer different features, but they all want to do the exact same thing. And here again, programmer familiarity is an important factor. Working with git is not even remotely like working with ClearCase, for example. So people tend to gravitate towards popular choices, which was SVN before, and now has become git. So if you pick Hg for your project, you're going to probably have to spend more time getting contributors up to speed on it than if you picked something more popular like git.

One big factor in these debates is: how easy is it to change from one to another? Another is: how easy is it for individuals to pick their favorite and use that regardless of what others use? For programming languages and version control, you can't easily change between them, and everyone needs to be using the same one on a particular project (unless you do something where one part is written in one language and linked to another part in a different language through bindings, but this doesn't apply to version control). For editors, this isn't the case usually: any programmer can use whatever they want for the most part, and it has no effect on what others use.

As for your other examples, build tools are the same as version control: everyone has to use the same one on a project. You can't have one person build with make/autotools and another with scons and another with CMake. This doesn't mean you can't change it later if there's a compelling reason, but there's inertia to overcome once a project is built a certain way. ASCII did win, that should be obvious. Even Unicode is largely based on ASCII with utf-8.
> What would you think of a system that instead tracked materials and manufacturing process?

I think it's a great idea, and people are building it.

https://medium.com/@jutta_steiner/using-the-global-trust-mac...

The decentralization renaissance is hitting full steam. If you like thinking about this sort of thing, you should find a way to make it your day job.
This isn't software development. Why reinvent the wheel?
If parts pop off during a competition, you're allowed to put them back together. I'm not sure if that includes a full explosion (when a majority of the pieces come off the cube). It probably doesn't matter because it would take too long anyway.

https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/#article-5-...
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I wonder why those numbers don't add up :>
While technically true, anyone creating an ID using someone else's email would be unable to verify the account making it unusable. All someone would have to do is go through http://iforgot.apple.com to reset the password for the ID setup under their email. From there the account would be under control of the email owner.
Wouldn't be surprised if a lot of that went to insurance....as in malpractice insurance, even though I'm sure the recipient will be signing various wavers
If you want to understand the UFO story better, you should watch Mirage Men about Air Force Office of Special Investigations Agent Richard Doty, a self-admitted UFO disinformation agent-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6naKTTuBq14

The intelligence agencies aren't hiding anything about UFOs from my experience. And I don't really think the USAF is either. But the USAF did tell various people that UFOs were real and they did run a psychological operation against Paul Bennewitz, destroying his life and forever obsfucating whatever truth there is about UFOs. (None in my opinion.)

Here's a good summary:

http://www.openminds.tv/open-letter-u-s-air-force-allegation...

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I'm not sure how who he is or what he does is at all relevant here.

Especially considering that he makes pretty obvious factual errors, e.g:

>[CVE-2015-7578/79] Possible XSS vulnerability in rails-html-sanitizer: You're safe if you use a single page application that properly encode for you. Stripping tags isn't the best way anyway to filter XSS, so if you're encoding, you're good.

If you don't want any HTML you aren't supposed to be using rails-html-sanitizer, it's specifically for scenarios where you can't do that.
I'm not sure, think you can construct a DHT-only magnet link from that hash/filename like so: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:(hash)&dn=(filename)
Already taken down. I'm sure the lawyers got to him immediately. Helvetica is probably one of the most valuable properties in the font world.

I had a look at the Google cached version, which Medium makes extraordinarily difficult. The changes he made to the font took much of the unique character out of it, making it just another generic sans serif.
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I don't agree with what you say (Facebook and other large companies operate in the EU and I haven't heard of one avoiding EU law by hiding in the U.S.), but even accepting it I don't see what options EU users lose.
Oh, I didn't know that, thanks.
> If there is any training going on there at all, that is proof of fraud.

This is not true.

Let's say you need someone with expertise in a very specific category, like embedding javascript into Postgres. You find the one person in the world who does that and hire them using an H1B. Your whole company uses Macs and she is used to Windows.

Is training that new employee to provision an OS X machine fraud?

No.
I love that part at the bottom that says "Do you want to believe?".
I disagree with the article. Basically what it's implying is that we should stop giving small amounts of funding to many talented people and, instead, give large amounts of funding to few geniuses.

The problem with this is that you can't know who is a genius before you invest. Was Steve Jobs obviously a "Genius" before he started Apple? No. Even after running Apple for a few years, he was fired because some important people saw him as incompetent (I.e. Not a genius). It took many years before he was able to prove himself.

If investors started spending more on fewer people, it would mean that fewer "geniuses" would be discovered.

If anything, I think Silicon Valley is too much like Florence; VCs are pouring billions into unicorns headed by so called "geniuses" while depraving unknown geniuses the ability to prove themselves on the market.

Also, I think during he renaissance, very smart/talented people would have stood out from the crowd. If you go to SV, smart people are everywhere, it's even harder to identify genius in such an environment.
Fair enough, but I don't think there is much of a distinction. The market would just import people wholesale to get the cheapest possible labor. The market hates the islands of civilization built in the sea of entropy. It wants to bring everyone to the global average, which for those fortunate enough to be already in the developed world, is a precipitous drop.
Is it this course - https://www.udemy.com/php-programming-for-affiliate-marketer...? I can access it just fine.

Maybe it was spot checked because affiliate marketing is often so closely associated with spammers and scammers.
Very well said. I would add that "corporate power over individuals" applies to the fired employees just as well to the fired employees as to the H1B workers. Indeed, their power over the former depends fundamentally on their power over the latter.
Cool! Bees really are fascinating. It'd be especially neat, if like they say, they are also able to determine pollen etc. with their system.

I found the following really amazing too:

Detection and Learning of Floral Electric Fields by Bumblebees - http://www.efn.uncor.edu/departamentos/divbioeco/entomo/Scie...

Using radar to track honey bees -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23448846
The US takes over 1.2 million immigrants legally into the country every year. These new free and full citizens pursue...

They aren't citizens right away. Getting even a green card takes about 5 years. Citizenship another 5-10 years.
Honestly even if you don't believe in aliens visiting earth (and I do not), these documents are still an interesting read.

Just seeing how they investigated and the investigators opinions/thoughts/methods was quite interesting to me. Some more than others, some are very short and only contain a witness statement.
Richochet is a service on the Tor network, thus it would not hit exit nodes, only relays; an exit node is only required to reach traditional internet services, not hidden services.
Uber is facing a staggering number of lawsuits
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> I'm a huge proponent of the Zero UI movement. I gave a talk last year at a local Google DevFest about a CMS I created for a Priest friend's Church that didn't have any user interface to speak of. It relied on Google Drive to host all the files that the staff and teachers at his Parish needed to edit, and all they needed to do was leverage their existing knowledge of the OS's file system and Microsoft Word to do it. A script runs every half-hour to update the static site based on the changes to and additions of files in their shared Google Drive account.

Shouldn't you call it "integration" instead of this buzzword ? The user has an existing system and ecosystem of tools and you just wrote a script to integrate your program with these existing tools ?

If I use emails or SMS to update a blog online I didn't invent anything, I just didn't code the email client , the SMS client or the phone the user takes advantage of.

Business integration is what people have been doing since the beginning of modern development there is no new movement, tech, trend, or paradigm here.
The paper that you cited doesn't contradict anything I said or support what you're saying:

"...even the more refined recent studies show that lower-paid employees still had quite respectable success rates in arbitration, ranging from about 21% to almost 40%. That compares very favorably with the 23% win rate of union-represented employees that I found in one of the oldest and most respected labor arbitration systems in the country."

The author is comparing arbitration and arbitration, not arbitration and courts. Is there any place in the article where he addresses the research in the other paper, or is he just saying "it's not that bad."

Also, I'm not sure what the existence of insurance against employee claims has to do with the claim that wages would be lowered? Do you have any evidence for a connection other than inductive reasoning?
I think his points on executive compensation vs labor-based compensation plus incentives are spot on. It's this way because they can do it this way for their own gain. They also have influence in Washington to pull it off. Quite simple.

Of course, being a scientist, I prefer to judge something by its results. We can say exactly what our system's design is doing by looking at what results from it and where those results show up. Spoiler: it's a plutonomy or an economy that almost exclusively extracts wealth to concentrate in hands of richest few.

Citigroups internal analysis confirming we're a modern plutocracy & that illusion of upward mobility was critical:

http://politicalgates.blogspot.com/2011/12/citigroup-plutono...

Nice profile of the richest firms controlling the most wealth and their interlocking boards:

http://www.projectcensored.org/financial-core-of-the-transna...

That's 161 directors managing $23.91 trillion in funds. Hard to imagine control of wealth distribution or incentives to take a slice getting more concentrated.

EDIT to add: Also relevant is this recent HN post with empirical evidence supporting rule by elite claim. If law and business structure are for elites, then of course they continue and expand economic inequality that benefits elites at the rest's expense.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10965943
Anecdotally, I find it amusing when devs bring this up but are fine with blocks of:

$('<div>').append($(<h1>).text('...')).addClass('...').appendTo($('#selector'));
> There is no logic in the "template". No looping, no branching. Only inert ids. There is logic in determining which component replaces each id, but that logic lies in the code, not the template.

Again, changing view to mean "template" is a strawman.

> Wicket clearly separates its state into models
> You do have to declare which changes update which UI (for performance reasons),

Separating state isn't the same as no state. Also imperatively updating the UI on state changes is stateful. Which increases complexity, which for most people makes code hard to reason about.

> but you can make that "always re-render the whole page" if that suits your use case

Anything can be made to do anything, so this point is moot. If this model was trivially applied, would it lead to flickering, lower performance, losing scroll position, losing selection, or losing input focus?
Correct me if I am wrong, but to generate a Zcash coin you need to send a bitcoin to a escrow account, and to redeem it they will send a bitcoin from the escrow account to where ever you want?

I would be much more comfortable with generation being tied to destroying bitcoins or simply running yet another blockchain and letting the market deal with exchanges from BTC to Z.

Looks like they made some very cool progress though.
I don't know much about signal analysis but amps sound different when louder. Since they couldn't enter the room due to the loudness, it makes sense to just lay out 8 different mics and use the best angle. Layer three takes and it doesn't seem like hype so much as a loud approach to recording.
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It applies in different quantities though: the fired US people can apply for unemployment and look for a new job, or maybe take some time off and go surfing, or move elsewhere, or pursue a degree. The fired H1B people need to book a flight home.

That implies a lot more power over the latter.
The reason people resist the idea of super-advanced ancient civilizations is because, quite simply, it fails Occam's Razor hard. The strongest evidence for such an idea is rooted in anthropological evidence, which is among the weakest historical evidence you can produce. There is instead a noticeable lack of evidence in the form of concrete archaeological evidence (it should be noted that it's possible even to see signs where wooden or earthen structures once existed, if you know what you're looking for) or suggestive genetic or biological evidence. It's also well-known that technological progress is in no sense inexorable--the Chinese printing or Roman steam engines went absolutely nowhere, for example, and even the bow-and-arrow was lost by some aboriginal tribes for unclear reasons.

It is certainly more plausible to suggest that human populations were too thin and nomadic to sustain technological innovation prior to the development of the sedentary lifestyle that arose during the Neolithic Revolution (itself caused probably either by some sort of climate change or overpopulation).

I should also point out that your view that larger cranial capacity early on means that humans had to develop civilization earlier has an uphill battle to explain why modern humans are Homo sapiens and not Homo neanderthalis (who had a larger cranial capacity than Homo sapiens and were probably even more physically fit).
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>>I don't appreciate being called a "jerk

Then try not to sound like one? The OP went out of his way to compile and document the important bugs and post them here. You, on the other hand, completely ignored the value of his contribution and instead rudely called him out on a very minor (and frankly, subjective) tonal issue, and went so far as to call it "whitewashing," which implies that he has an agenda.
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You linked a different movie for the Mirage Men trailer. The correct link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6naKTTuBq14
Google could sell a ton of Chromebook Pixels to developers if they would put a 512GB SSD in it.

ChromeOS + Crouton + a decent SSD would make a killer development laptop.
You have to hand it to the CIA for taking advantage of the XFiles reboot to boost their social media a bit. Especially on 37 year old documents!
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I see, Thanks for the insightful answer! Regarding machine learning it would be nice to be able do the training in your desktop/laptop when it's idle or something like that.

But it's very good to know this is a technological issue (as opposed to a business issue). Well, hope you smart folks solve this. Meanwhile, I'll keep tinkering with my raspberry pi and raspberry pi camera :)
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Tim writes:
But in formerly rich countries, many people who used to be paid well for their work now have to compete for lower-paid jobs, while those who already own meaningful capital take a larger and larger share of the pie.

This is the real “pie fallacy” — the idea that as long as the pie is getting bigger, everyone is better off. It’s true that through technology, trade, and the spread of knowledge, we have made a bigger pie. But that doesn’t mean that some people aren’t getting far more of the benefit, while others are losing out.

This highlights probably the biggest flaw in Graham's original article, and if he does reply to Tim's critique I hope at minimum he addresses this point. The reason that the wealthy are claiming an increasing slice of the growing pie is that we've institutionalized, in the form of law and custom, many, many, "rich-get-richer" rules. Tim enumerates a few of them, but there are many such mechanisms woven into the economy, some of them not so obvious. (For example, recently HN featured a Priceonomics article showing how cigarettes effectively transfer wealth from the poor to the rich: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10941671.)

There are only two ways to combat the rising rate of inequality: 1) modify all those rules and customs to make them wealth-neutral (unlikely), or 2) legislate new counter-rules that move wealth the other way. Any other solution is wishful thinking and not mathematically viable.
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There are actually lots of very informative car repair videos on youtube.
SeaLand isn't recognized by any nation, and corporations can't operate as stateless entities.
ASCII will subsist a long time. Just like the roman alphabet. It's minimal and easy to support. People rely on it to express through words or art or diagrams. It just sticks around because it's the easiest form of computerized lettering you get.

Unicode is too heavy and complex AFAIK.
Not only that. But they are also doing odd stuff with the hardware, although most users probably don't care about this.

The Pixel C had the potential to be a very nice open machine. It's even shipped with the Nouveau driver. And it runs Coreboot. But sadly Coreboot is locked down in this particular case.

Also, I don't get why they mess up with the keyboard layout. Many useful keys have been removed like tilde or backslash. Yes, they are accesible via a sort-of-compose-key labeled "...". But then I need to retrain my muscle memory.

It's otherwise a fantastic machine, so I'm a bit sad for the missed opportunities.