skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Learning through experiences -

One of the hardest skills to ever master is the art of putting oneself in others shoes. It's hard to imagine how it feels to live like a woman in a man dominated world because you can never experience that. Our solution to most crimes is to restrict ones freedom and hope that somehow that person will figure out why what he did was wrong. Does it have to take 15-30 years in order for someone to learn from his mistakes? Can we do better?

I believe we can. We should be able to put someone in an entirely different life by using hypnosis, VR, drugs, etc., and let them live a life so s/he can see the other side of world and learn things on his/her own. What sort of technological changes do we need to enable this? How do we model that virtual world to make people believe that its real? How would it impact someones life after such an experience?
What Simon says is actually marketing 101.. they teach this in undergrad intro marketing (without all the bs about 'greatness', etc). The problem with it when it comes to startups/small businesses, is that it's expensive. If you want to go that route, you need to get out the entire message - A + B + C. Whereas, the sales-based approach he's criticizing, you only need to get out C and part of B.

So if you want to go the marketing route, you're going to be spending a lot more on ads, pr, etc to get your entire message out there.

Despite what he says, Apple did not follow the path he says. Apple in its early days followed the sales-based approach. It wasnt until they were making money that they turned to a marketing-based approach. This is a very normal route for companies to take.

[Edit: now that you understand this is marketing vs sales.. you can find plenty of articles on this by pg, jessica livingston and others.]
You're a criminal. Prove me wrong.
I think this is a pretty insightful way of looking at the problem. I disagree with the notion that Basic Income won't work because { Welfare | Communism } has been shown not to work. But giving that a pass ...

One of the more interesting disussions about "what would you do if you won a billion dollars?" was looking at some technological solution for homelessness. That lead to an interesting discussion about what might a completely energy neutral 21st century 'cave' structure look like? People are exceptionally ingenious in some of their encampment designs, is there any way to facilitate "better" encampments (safer, more sanitary, etc) other than just building the traditional homeless shelter? (or warehouse with cots in it?)

I also like the idea of different "home" modalities, if you lived in an apartment complex with built in high speed network access and an "office" room in the apartment, would that help lower your cost of living? What sorts of jobs could you have in that sort of situation? It is an interesting thing to think about.
A stock market is a place where a group of businesses are able to offer ownership stakes in their company in exchange for cash...

..10 microseconds at a time.
The legendary Bill Hicks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMN8REGJXaA
This is very true. Because we do purchase the items ourselves we do see the vendors who are shipping the items and so we can screen for this and mitigate the risk. We are definitely going to invest in a machine to X-Ray packages to further ensure the safety of travelers. Thanks for pointing this out.
What circumstances? By default this is the case for every delivery. As a courier I would never accept a parcel unless it came with a cash advance to cover all import duties and taxes.
> And then you threatened legal action to get them to take down an image that you yourself posted?

Why not? If he owned the rights to the image, it's use was contingent on his approval, absent any other agreement. The only reason it required a a legal notice is because they locked him out of the account he used that had rights to change it.

This is no different than offering to let the office use your ping pong table, then getting fired and having your building access revoked. If the business refused to return the ping pong table, which was in use contingent upon your and the businesses approval, they have essentially stolen your property. Feel free to substitute any other item item (such as fridge, chair, computer hardware or servers...) for the ping pong table in that example.
Yeah, calling the H1B visa holders such is offensive. But so is how the workers are treated.
Think the writer is referring to the restaurant facing side of the software and not the user app/website. Those are much nicer.
1. A lot of industries are concentrated and monopolistic, which leads to both issues of high prices, control and lack of local resilience.

So how do we build a more decentralized economy ? What are the missing building blocks ?

2. Our current remote-work isn't good enough from the psychological perspective. No eye-contact, no body language, isolation, etc.

But solving this is one of the only things thing that can bypass politics as a way to decrease housing costs and transportation costs , which are ~50% of our living costs.

3. Is it possible to go to some empty space in the u.s , and establish a city from scratch , a city that would be purposely designed for low living costs ?

4. There was a study , in 2004, measuring happiness, which showed the Amish we're considerably more happy than regular people , and as happy as the "forbes 400" billionaires. How do we create such happy communities, while still living in a technological world ?
Native ads are usually signposted as such.
So my problem with kinto and couchDB/couchbase is that as a newbie indie developer I have no idea how to get started with these.

AT least with Parse they had an iOS SDK and tutorials. With kinto or couchdb/couchbase i don't even know where to begin.
The other missing presentation, "The Augmented Knowledge Workshop" by Doug Englebart, is on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/XD302_86ACM_Prese_AugKnowledgeWo...
Because you're comparing Apples to Oranges, comparing PowerVR to Adreno/Mali chips. The original post claimed Apple modified a way to make PowerVR much faster than the off the shelf PowerVR IP that any phone manufacturer/SoC supplier can access.

But the reality of the 'secret sauce' is pretty a banal. They basically just stamped down more clusters, and introduced an interconnect. This is not something other vendors haven't done in the past. They didn't make major architectural changes.

It would be like claiming that taking two Intel CPUs, and arraying them with a custom bus means you've changed the design of the CPU cores.
I'm not opposed to a minimum salary, I'm just saying that it's pointless when the market-determined salary to convince the Xth person to work in America is higher than the minimum (where X is the number of people we want to work in America through the H1-B program). Raise it if you want, but given the salary-based H1-B allocation, the salary minimum is the same thing as the quota.
Deer population control. Reduce deer in the northeast and reduce the primary vector for northeaster deforestation and Lyme disease. Come up with an effective way to reduce the deer overpopulation that doesn't involve shooting or poisoning them

In The west, research ways to control the wild boar/pig population, or find a way to produce a sustainable food source from wild boars that doesn't require owning lots of land.
> Like facebook, there is no using it correctly or not. Once you are in you are socially obligated to follow everyone you know with a feed.

If the way you use it keeps it from being useful, then I would suggest that you are in fact using it incorrectly.

I mean, you don't have to drive all your friends around everywhere just because you own a car. And you don't have follow all your friends just because you're on Twitter. You don't even have to tell your friends you're on Twitter.
And this isn't the same law the 1 days are using? Are you suggesting that DK and FD will end up doing season long paid sports and everyone will be OK with it?
Criminal justice reform. Alternatives to drug prohibition.
Its no surprise, most people pay by the lb. If there was some way to price by nutrition maybe people would optimize that way. Eg: 20c per 1000mg Vit C .
Corruption.

Bureaucracy is responsible for a lot of corruption. Getting things done in the government is meeting a lot of people and filling a lot of forms. Bribing is sometimes the shortest path to get work done.

Having interoperable data systems, forms that can be filled online and an easy way for citizens to understand the law and fill the papers without a human touchpoint would make things much more seamless and transparent.

P.S. - Low level corruption might not be such a big deal in the developed countries but is an efficiency drain on about 70% of the global population living beyond that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index#/...
In addition to things with long time horizons, it makes sense to look at things that have little profit-incentive for startups or companies to work on.

One example would be nutritional supplements. It's fairly expensive to do a good nutritional study, and there's no good way to make money off of the results (since companies can't patent supplements). So, no one funds good studies on supplements.

At the same time, finding out that certain supplements have positive or negative effects would be great for humanity as a whole.

This also goes for nutrition in general, though supplements are easier to research.
I never really thought to do anything like .classname.classname
Seesaw: scalable and robust load balancing
Can you go into more detail about this "analog encryption" you're talking about? You might be talking about some kind of Spectravision-style video scrambling, but that's not really "encryption" in the modern sense --- in the modern sense, encryption, with an actual cipher, must necessarily take digital inputs.
The Commerce Department Has Good Recommendations for Fixing Copyright Law
Large Scale Medical Data Mining research, similar to OpenAI.
Specifically Computational Healthcare a Search and Aggregation Engine for Medical Records & Claims.
We believe that this is a classic Software eating the world situation and the time is perfect for it.

Here is the link http://www.computationalhealthcare.com

We have access to almost 130 Million de-identified medical records from approximately 36 Million patients (~10% of US population) this includes all Inpatient, ED, Ambulatory Surgery records between 2006-2011 from California. To put simply if you lived in California and went to a hospital there is 95.9% chance that we have your data. This data has been available for quite some time but its use has been hindered due to lack of good software. The data has led to significant research, e.g. my collaborator (not me) published a paper showing risk of strokes following pregnancies in New England Journal of Medicine last year.

At Cornell Tech & Weill Cornell Medical College, we have developed a Search and Aggregation engine that will revolutionize how researchers and physicians use this data. Imagine your mother with Leukemia in Remission just got admitted for Pneumonia. With our software, the Physician will be quickly able to asses likelihood of this occurring and rule out any confounding adverse events. Or consider that there is a rare combination of diagnosis e.g. Graves Disease and Clotting disorder that is indicative of a unique genetic mutation likely to offer novel insight into disease process. With our software questions like these can be answered within second, Today & Right now.

The Data, Legal structure and fully functional prototype are available right now. We were counting on support from AHRQ, but sadly the agency has run into trouble due significant budget cuts.
> You tried to use their site to promote your site and they banned you?

What is wrong with that? As long as your aren't spamming or trying to ruin the experience for others, why the fuck should it matter that you post your site to a subreddit that would be interested?

Also, people do this literally all the time in subreddits. Like, ALL the time. Wonder what was different in this case.
I agree and empathize, especially with your example. Just out of curiosity, do you find this more or less readable: https://gist.github.com/kaishiro/fda6d9e6cb9876944901

No right or wrong answer here, just genuinely curious.
Changing code for name change requests doesn't have to be hard
A web link is easily shareable on the assumption that anyone you send it to has a web browser. A link to a native app requires you to assume that the recipient has the app installed and is on a platform where app URL schemes are well-supported.

Direct linking inside apps has been enough of a pain in the mobile world that entire companies have been built around it -- and the solution that those companies tend to use is built on web links. Android and iOS have also been moving in that direction.
Some way to use technology to make legislation (lawmaking) easier, smarter, better.
Stupid Patent: Sharing Your Hard Copy Documents, but on a Social Network
Is it okay to minify .css files for production or does it not really matter that much?
Anyone have an idea how likely it would be for this to show up on Linux?
Perfectionist Fallacy

Assuming that the only option on the table is perfect success, then rejecting anything that will not work perfectly.

'What's the point of these anti-drunk driving ad campaigns? People are still going to drink and drive no matter what.'

Shared From Logical Defence Application
Still is heavy on the GTFO, they still know how to tell tell people to fuck off in innovative and superficially polite ways.
Funny thing is roasted chickens are a loss leader and often cheaper than the raw ones. If I could get an organic pastured chicken preroasted as a loss leader I would, but usually the $5 bird has broken bones and a weak taste.
Perhaps they were operating under the mainstream radar for a while and all the advertising was their downfall. According to Wikipedia, Draftkings has been around since 2012.

I'd never heard of them until they started plastering every sporting event I watched with annoying, loud commercial after commercial.
The writing is cuneiform script (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform_script), they were created by a wedge on wet clay. I guess our writing would appear as peculiar to ancient eyes :-)

For a general and short introduction to cuneiform I would suggest http://www.amazon.com/Cuneiform-Reading-Past-C-Walker/dp/052... (other books in the Reading The Past series are excellent, too).

Or, if you're interested in other type of ancient writing in general, there's a nice Mayan Hieroglyph workbook online (pdf: http://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/hopkins/MayaGlyphWritingWrk...). It's a great way to waste an afternoon!
Agreed. This is exactly what the NSA should be doing. This leak has no value to the public.
How hedge fund traders shared inside information while playing 'Call of Duty'
It's all HTML at the moment.
I'm guessing that the mentions of fourteenth-century Europe refer to the work of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Calculators , an interesting bunch in their own right.
Can anyone explain why an otherwise very forward-looking, user-experienced focus got stuck with an incomprehensible name like "18F?"
Auto-formatting is great, but it can't handle everything. For example, our ESLint config prevents modification of function params[1]. I don't think a tool could automatically reformat this into compliance without changing the behavior of the code, a human needs to look at the failure and change it.

[1]http://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-param-reassign.html
Not really, foreigners governments are minions of the US Military, it just for war reasons they are painted as real enemies. In reality any country fighting the US in any way would be like being a skinny kid who fights Mike Tyson in his prime and Mike Tyson has a bat and a gun and the referee is Tyson Mother.
Credit scores aren't perfect, but that's not a good example. An individual's salary says nothing about their credit-worthiness.
>Though its the most ugly, I'm a fan of the original B__E--M

I feel this is something people need to learn to look past - because I agree entirely. It looks terrible. Absolutely terrible. Names get long (but yay for autocompleters!) - but everything is readable. CSS shouldn't be aesthetic. It should be legible. Maintaining something you can't read is hell - every programmer knows this.

I also make use of prefixes to namespace. Which makes my classes even longer. [0]

But there is absolutely no question what my code is doing when I read the HTML. I know exactly where changes need to be made. My coworkers are familiar enough with my style that they know what code is safe to change and what code will have side effects. They're slowly adopting the style - although it's almost a 180 from the old style of "be as specific as possible so you don't accidentally break something someone else had worked on 8 months ago". (#NotEvenKidding .our .selectors .are > .like .this)

[0] http://csswizardry.com/2015/03/more-transparent-ui-code-with...
One thing that I just can't wrap my head around is the "no participation" brigading rules. The site literally exists to share content for others to discover and discuss, but if you share anything remotely meta you get accused of brigading and are banned/shadowbanned.
Cheap Virtual Reality behavioral therapy. There is research that show great promise in VR phobia therapy. VR seems to be quite a potent medium for modifying habitual patterns and emotional reactions. And soon it will be a popular hardware.
It would be quite interesting to research the possibility of delivering working (open source? / mental health as an app?) behavioral therapy solutions for home VR ecosystems.
There is a possibility of a great improvement of therapy costs and the quality of life.
Another vote for Aubrey de Grey's SENS. It means funding indirectly fields like alzheimer research, cancer research or cardiovascular disease research with radical and different approaches, more startup-like. Conventional academic research in these fields is slow-paced like things inside a big corporation, and is also constricted/handicapped by the "Publish or Perish" dogma..

As Sean Parker said, the problem is essentially hackable... (the problem is in the process). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFqovaiSfJI

PS: Peter Thiel funded SENS, but clearly it won't be enough...
I'm not sure it makes sense to put effort into these kinds of programs. As an example, a specific approach SENS wants to develop is lengthening telomeres in your body. But scientists are not even sure that shortening telomeres contribute significantly to aging-related diseases.

Derek Lowe (who knows drug development better than any of us) made a very interesting comment recently on the cancer research "moonshot" funding presented in the State of the Union speech:

"""
Trying to cure cancer in this way would be like trying to go to the moon without really knowing how rocket engines actually work, without being quite sure if Newton’s laws of motion would hold up, and with some real uncertainty in the position of the moon.
"""

The disparity between what we know today, and what we would have to know to "cure" cancer, is quite unfathomable to us computer hackers.
Yes, you are correct. Got my toys mixed up :)
Expanding Live Video to More People
Comparisons to Fressian and Transit would be interesting too.
Why Python rather than something like Rust instead?

The phrase "lightweight" is thrown around, but the [requirements.txt](https://github.com/Kinto/kinto/blob/master/requirements.txt) is anything but lightweight and that's before you consider carrying around python itself.

It seems like compiled version would be more efficient and much smaller.

EDIT:

Their FAQ seems to make this question even more interesting

> Why did you chose to use Python rather than X?

> We love Python because it’s a concise & expressive language with powerful data structures & easy to learn, so it was an obvious choice for the development team.

> In addition, the Operations team at Mozilla is comfortable with deploying and managing Python applications in production.

> However, Python is just an implementation detail per se. Kinto is defined by an HTTP protocol that could be implemented in any language.

If your end-user is hitting a HTTP API, then Python being "easy to learn" is a non-goal. Rust (or even JS + Node) is just as "expressive". This really makes it sound like their team is inexperienced with DB design (not very confidence inspiring). I find it equally mystifying that operations would dictate python rather than whatever language the team thought would be best.
This is a great article. So true at all the levels.

Look at any mid to large scale company and their internal ticketing systems, HR systems, travel booking systems, time tracking systems.

The last company I worked for, did not upgrade the employee laptop OS from Windows XP for over 10 years as their legacy ticketing system wasnt supported on the newer versions. Obviously this was a cost issue of the new ticketing platform but also the unknown cost of retraining the whole company. Additionally people and organizations get comfortable with the "evil you know".

Frankly as a new entrepreneur this is also incredibly hard to test in the market. Most early customer development will give you signals that they want it, but won't act when it comes time to switch.

This is why you see SaaS services succeeding by cracking few employees or small teams at a time. Think of Yammer, Slack etc.

They don't need the whole company or department to change. Just few employees or the team can use it and slowly infect the rest of the company. That would be the only way to overcome this problem (although not all products can do this).
See the `.gov` at the end of the name? ~.^
My top 4

1. Health Data Comparison Analysis: What can we actually use existing health data comparison for. How much data is needed for progress?

2. OpenSpaceMining: Research into how to mine space.

3. New OS solutions for new scenarios: Research into new types of operation systems solving new kinds of problems (ex. Fleet management for drones, automated ships, planes, trucks)

4. Technology and it's effect on our economy. What does technology actually do to our economy, how can we make it a part of the economic models instead of just treating it as an externality
I'm sure the Israelis care that their fighter jets and drones use crypto that can be trivially broken with current computing power?

It also of course plays into the whole fix vs exploit debate. Should the NSA inform on weak crypto or subvert it for their own purposes? What if its crypto used by a military partner? Where lies the greater public value?
The enduring puzzle of the human chin
That was the "Sherman Tank" strategy in WWII, if I'm not mistaken. Shermans cost a lot less than Tigers, and one-on-one they were no match. But because of the cost difference the US was able to build so many more of them that they were an overwhelming horde, despite the heavy losses among the crews.

With modern drones, we're not losing crews anymore, just hardware. So we could build enough of them to be overwhelming against any opposing force. (Except, perhaps, an even larger swarm of enemy drones.)
You're being downvoted unfairly, because that's exactly what my peer group says about twitter.

It just looks like a storm of hatred and noise, with some good comedy and utility in breaking news situations.