skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I find particularly amusing is that Marvel Comics in 1965 introduced a Soviet enemy of Iron Man: Titanium Man (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium_Man) ... Funny how they were "accurate" in mimicking the preference for using Titanium vs.Steel in the USA/USSR arms race.
> The US for example is a highly regulated welfare state

Compared to Sweden and the other Nordic countries, or even most of Europe, I'm not sure I'd consider the US a welfare state. You need (a lot of) money to fare well in the US. In Sweden education and healthcare is free(1). If you have good enough grades, no matter your background/wealth, you can go to the best universities in the country. The government will even pay you a little for doing so. We have 400 days of (combined) parental leave/child and putting your kids in kindergarten is heavily subsidized (for two kids the maximum amount is $150/month, if your combined salary is below a certain threshold you pay less). Besides you are never(2) expected to work more than 8hrs/day 5days/week and have a legal right to at least 5 weeks of vacation per year.

I think these are very important factors because it allows for both having a healthy work/family life as well as both parents working full-time(3).

(1) There is a minor fee for seeing a doctor but that's just to keep imaginary sick people from going every day.

(2) For reasonable companies, which if you want to be if you're gonna keep well-educated employees around.

(3) Or nearly so, if you have children under 8yrs you are legally allowed to work anywhere between 75%-100% which many parents do. Of course you can probably cut a deal with you employer even if you don't have kids, but then it's up to the goodwill of said employer.
Apple really really need to focus on starting new product lines. The biggest mistake companies often make at this stage is "it's not for us if it's not going to be billion dollar business" mindset. Apple should just go after every product that it can produce at significant improvement. Everything from kitchen microwave to digital picture frame to 3D printers to quadcopters to children's toys is a fair area to explore. This will require balancing resources between mature products and new products, aggressive talent acquisition and product life cycle management that scales to 100s of products. Companies with cash flow like Apple should be announcing new product every quarter. Instead of trying to optimize for one product and get all possible thud for once-a-year event they should spread out their events over more eggs in the basket. Some of the products will only sell few million and may not move the needle but as long as Apple had good return on their total investment, it should be ok.For example, they can easily spin up team of just 10 people to produce digital photo frames and it's not going to be billion dollar market but if it makes revenue in access of 10 million, it's prett good ROI. Eventually the long tail of small products should be much more anti-fragile and sustainable for large margins.

This is exactly opposite to what Jobs wanted (focus on 2 or 3 things). I think Jobs philosophy was necessary as long as there was one super good guy who needed to make all the calls. This is extremely fragile system. A much better system is 100s of product designers working on 100s of internal experiments and 10% of those passes internal scrutiny on quality and advancement of art to finally face the market except that not every product is expected to become billion dollar market. Just 10s of million dollar market supported by small a team should be good enough. Create a long tail instead of keep looking for that lucky unicorn.
It's a matter of supply and demand. If the zoning laws enable the building of affordable housing then the supply would rise and overall prices would decline. What you'll find in places with high housing cost is that zoning laws or geography prevent massive expansion of housing supply.
What's funny is the best study would involve picking some people at random and giving them a basic income -- something YC could easily do. Theory can only get you so far on this one (although would be necessary to interpret the results of an empirical study).
There are also plenty of free servers - you don't have to run your own. DuckDuckGo, for example, offers free @dukgo.com accounts.
To your point, I'm also younger and have very few friends on Twitter. If anything, twitter is old and full of noise. My friends all use fb, Snapchat and IG
I would very much like to help with this. Is there a way to contact someone beyond the application? There is no way to provide what I can show in that fashion, but speaking could glean a tale most would find impossible. It's a safe bet I can provide a perspective from more angles into the concept than most if not nearly all.

Be it as the researcher, or an advisor in the truth of the real American demographics, that have next to no chance at success. Few topics ignite a passion in me as much as those surrounding this.

Other than the lifestyle truly rich, I have lived the life of the rest. From barrios then ghettos, homelessness to youth prison, day laborer to small business then tech startup success... In literally every corner of the nation as most every caste... With only an 8th grade education to begin with, a dash of 90s electronics tech school, and self taught for all the rest.

I want to help, just let me know how to explain why, away from public eyes. I make this request, to tell the not for public knowledge story of the rest. Then leave it for you, to allow us, to figure out where to go next.
Virtualization was a buzzword, and per se, used for plenty of things it shouldn't have been used for. But it will continue to be a cornerstone in any IT infastructure for the foreseeable future, at the very least until the containers mature to a point where it can replace virtualization because it has near bulletproof sandboxing.
I like the example Rolex ad "Checking his watch costs Bill Gates $300 a second. What is your time worth?"

To me the answer is "why are people checking their watches? They are losing money." Probably not the conclusion a watch company wants to draw.
I was under the impression that XMPP was alive and well, it's federation that's dead. Because as it turns out, the big players aren't really interested in interoperability, they want their own walled gardens because that's where you can actually make money.
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I'm not comparing Theranos to a ponzi scheme (e.g., Madoff) but the path may be the same -- they tell a small lie, then another lie to cover it up, then a bigger lie. Pretty soon there is great press, they are in too deep to backtrack and have to keep exaggerating just to keep up the baseline.
If it's not getting better on its own, do yourself a favor and see a qualified medical professional for an evaluation of your back problem. Commonly these problems are treated in physical therapy. A skilled PT is an expert at prescribing the kind of exercise that will help you the most.

I know these things from experience, having lower back pain on and off for 30 years. Yeah, I'm "old" now, and other parts get involved, like knees and hips. But I've learned that a bad back can cause changes in posture, gait, etc. That is, the tendency is to compensate for the movement limitations imposed by the back problem which eventually puts pressure on other joints. IOW a back problem can have negative downstream effects, so get the consults you need.

The article confirms the importance of the right exercise preventing and managing back pain. The worst thing is prolonged "rest", continuing normal activity is the key. I'd also advocate my "no bending or twisting" rule, and taking care when attempting to move heavy items. Mainly a matter of self-observation, but that's a whole program in itself.
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XMPP development started in 1998 and so predates JSON. And while it's true that XML is more verbose than JSON, I don't think it's worth redesigning the protocol over.
You and patio11 are smart enough to understand that all the HFT strategies are equivalent to front running. Each and every HFT strategy exploits some aspect of front running. In this world the market is by definition a misnomer because it does not exist on a single exchange and is fragmented.

Sure you cannot front run a single exchange when every buy and sell is on that single exchange but that's not how the actual market and front running works.

HFT requires that the market is distributed. You can say this is market maker arbitrage but it is actually equivalent to front running the market the same way a retail to broker initiated trade can be front run.
What are you calling the "early years"? Major famines in 1921-2 and 1932-3 killed tens of millions.
CIA 1988

Looks some some smart-ass Jew-doctor trying to be psy-op.

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Putting the format and security aside, isn't the main issue that XMPP was so good that we tried to bite more than it could chew?

- Local Federation is great, but Global Federation doesn't benefit the big players

- Extensibility is great for domain-specific problems, but it leads to more fragmentation

- It tried to handle data streaming, but it's inherently suboptimal at it

I mean, it was a great protocol to explore the IM design space, but it was bound to be replaced once we clarified our needs (for the most part, multiple devices and media streaming).

As a side note, I often get showerthoughts about mixing IM and blockchain techs. I'm not sure where that would lead us.
What you clearly forgot were features basically everyone is using today that don't work with XMPP: sending pictures, sending voice messages

> - Federation is good

I think it actually isn't. You're locked in to one server with your account. The server might shut down totally. The server might shut down federation (just like google did). Registering is another step hindering usage, Peer to Peer should be the way to go.

There are two things you need servers for: collecting messages while you're offline and later pushing them to you, having a registration service for a nickname.

At least the first one doesn't require accounts to be bound to servers at all. A model could be that message bouncing servers are run by the app developers. Friends computers that are running could act as bouncers.

Which brings me to xmpp addresses. They're there to be able to initiate contact with someone you haven't contacted before. Nobody is using the username scheme anymore, because it really sucks. Facebook uses a) real names, where you can search somebody with the real name and more importantly uses b) the friends of your friends in suggesting who you could add. You can easily implement the latter feature also for p2p messenger protocols. Other messengers often use other verified usernames like phone numbers, that users already have in their contact book. I don't see how this is possible for a p2p messenger protocol.

> In the modern world, people are afraid of XML

It's just mapping very badly to native data structures in any programming language except xslt.
This makes working with XML lots of work. Sometimes this is justified, as XML is a really good fit for the data structure of the document. That's generally the case when you have some text with markup, like HTML or for word processor files. Otherwise it's just an unneeded strain on developers.
Also, Newegg have always stated they would fight every single patent case to the death. And they haven't just stated that, they've gone ahead and done it.

That's actually not only awesome, but smart. You do not want to sue Newegg for patent infringement. Notice how fast that company dropped their patent suit? Unfortunately for them, Newegg never, ever gives in. Ever.
I've been in SE Asia for over a year now and GrabTaxi is everywhere and common in a lot of places, but I'd always side with Uber because of the cashless payments. Especially here in Saigon, I would love to use GrabBike (motorbike taxi) but still opt for Uber so I don't need to worry about paying. Excited that they've launched this!
XMPP predates the first general articulation of JSON by at least 3 years.
Duh, you should live how you want to, not how others want you to live.

Also you should not date/marry a girl which only likes you if you drive a specific car A, live in neighboorhood B, earn C and maintain society status Z.

You should work on your social skills if you can only get your neighbours to like you if you drive the same car as them or earn more/thesame than them. If they really dislike you because you are poorer than them or drive an older yet safe car they aren't worth the effort.
Good idea. But I have to ask... "just"? Really? :)
> due to being unable to participate in the 9 to 5 that society expects

As some already mentioned, you are likely covered by ADA - if your company is larger than 15 employees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_disorder
It's back up now. ;) If someone wants to seed the original files back to the tracker I'll get back to seeding them forever. ;)
> More troubling for me, many of the models we use to understand, or attempt to predict, our reality strike me as quite flawed. Economics itself not the least among them.

What troubles me more is that there are plenty of useful and 'proven' models that we don't even use in practice. From the way we approach crime and addiction to group dynamics, from the power of advertising/propaganda to education, there's plenty of stuff we know pretty well, and yet don't implement.

I've eschewed a career in academia, as well as one in politics, but I wouldn't mind dedicating at least part of my life to figuring out how to optimize the process of bringing the more solid discoveries into the 'real world'. I'm just not entirely sure where to start.

On a smaller level, I notice this disconnect in the personal lives of my friends as well as my own. We know quite a bit about how willpower works, for example, and how important habit formation is, and yet for the most part this knowledge only barely trickles down into our lives. Most changes seem to just sort of happen as I age, if at all, and that usually feels too slow and too late.

After a few decades of living and noticing this in myself and others time and time again, I've been trying to address the issue at its roots through mindfulness, habit formation, and some degree of organized group effort. And while it definitely seems to work, it feels a bit too small as a goal.
They tie the two events together because there is no better way to fund the replacing of Flint water infrastructure than to blame a third part (state, federal, etc) so they feel obligated to pay for the repair and maintenance work Flint should have been doing in the first place.
The claim is that, in some cases, the human operators of Deep Blue intervened and played a different move than what the computer indicated (https://www.chess.com/blog/clizaw/did-ibm-cheat-kasparov)

So, yes, you can cheat in a perfect information game.
Index funds are by all evidence the better choice for the average individual, but they present something of a chicken and egg problem.

To set the price of the index, you need people buying and selling individual stocks. If everyone owned index funds, there would be no index. What is the percentage of the market owned/run by index funds where the premise of following an index starts to break down?

The article says we haven't reached it, and that at that point active management approaches will regain an upper hand. Still, I wonder if it's true and the broader question remains.
There will be a big questions to answer:

Will the basic income be paid in addition to standard gov't subsidies?

If yes, how do you make up for the shortfall of money? "Taxing the rich" is nice in theory but IMHO it doesn't work right now, what are you going to do to change that?

If no, it might be worth it, if you also fire the bureaucrats currently working on gov't subsidies (freeing up the money thereby) But I don't see how your study will account for this, nor do I think this is feasible because gov't tends to increase in size and has no incentive to decrease. Other beneificial aspects would be decreasing the size of the code of law and forcing "social security lawyers" to specialize in something else, reducing costs of all other lawyers. Again, it will be hard to put it in practice and difficult to account for in your study.

I suppose you also have already read some literature on the topic. From my personal viewpoint I'd recommend "Economics in one Lesson" by Hazlitt [0], it's decidedly non-mainstream and I wonder if it's taught at all in universities today but the only economic theory based on game theory (although not explicitly) and fully consistent IMHO.

I also believe that funding a multi-agent simulation is probably cheaper for a few economic models (I'd volunteer here)

Finally, I see some business value here, namely studying whether it would make sense to fund persons instead of start-ups, as e.g. Entrepreneur First does [1] (I have no affiliation)

[0] http://www.hacer.org/pdf/Hazlitt00.pdf
[1] http://www.joinef.com/
If you ever intend to read that v.foo value in another goroutine, then that edit needs to be before freeing the lock as well.
According to this, IV transferred the patent to Minero in April last year:
http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/09/nest-ceo-and-ex...
I'd say the housing problem in the UK is a lot worse than the US, at the average income (£26,500) you won't be able to afford a house in 91% of the country:

http://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2015/sep/0...
> My take: If someone has something to hide, they're likely to encrypt their communications. Encrypting their communications alerts the NSA that this person has something to hide.

Which is why you should practice good opsec and always encrypt everything, even when you're not doing something that "needs to be hidden".
Some thoughts that are not related to the topic of research but rather the program:

- I love the idea of YC sponsoring research.

- Some more information about the program itself would be helpful. 5 years is long for a research program. What does this cover? Income for the researcher, other costs, are they required to live in SV or maybe somewhere else?

- Where are the sponsored basic income people supposed to live/how will they be selected? Any plans for this already?

- (!) Important: Please make it a requirement for the research to be as open as possible. Require datasets to be made available and all publications to be made available online (if journals/conferences make sure they have Open Access). Also make the research process as open as possible.

- Consider making the application process as open as possible, too. Publish the materials/proposal that was submitted by the "winner". Possibly publish unsuccessful applications with some comments as well. I know that this isn't going to be a high priority but there's a distinct lack of feedback for unsuccessful grant proposals in science.
Probably not, but seems like a good way to turn a bad business into a worse one, but one you can claim is "Mobile" and attract more VC cash!
The day I notice them doing this is the day I sell any shares I own in Apple. Maybe it works in the short term, but going into "100s of products" dilutes not just the brand, but the attention to detail as well.

When I walk into an Apple store, I see the three main product lines and I see a few others scattered. I see a great staff (35 floor employees on a Thursday afternoon!) helping people with new purchases, teaching people how to use their Macs, and occasionally a tutorial on a specific subject. In your vision, I would be walking into a Walmart.
It's also legal for them to keep encrypted communications indefinitely, while there is a time limit for the data (not for the metadata they get from it or any of the analysis they do).
Nope. It doesn't matter if the results came by courier pigeon: The test has not been validated in controlled trials or even published in peer-reviewed literature -- let alone approved by the FDA. If it were so simple don't you think they would have obtained approval by now? The sad thing is any idiot can invent a glucose meter and file their PMA properly -- but a company essentially backed by Google blows it horribly.
Yes. I was thinking more of devices like the one-port Macbook than tablets.
It isn't much different from namespaces in programming languages, which most developers do not have a problem understanding.

They are in XML to avoid naming clash, and they do that well. I haven't really seen a different mechanic to solve that problem.
Fully agree, the human readability of json and xml is "fake productivity", it tricks you into thinking the format is easy and invites you to do hacks like manually writing the serialization and only helps you short term.

I've worked in places where binary serialization + deserialization functions were generated automatically by just adding a field and the bit-mapping into a message-spreadsheet. This was way more productive than misspelling the property name of a json-field between serializing and de-serializing and spending a whole day troubleshooting that. This also automatically documented the format instead of sending an example xml-file to your counterpart who is to implement loading of the data elsewhere and saying "the data will look aproximately like this". Viewing the data for debugging was done with a special program (similar to wireshark) that understood the protocol and rendered a much nicer view of the data than pasting a json-file into notepad++, there you need indentation and highlighting plugins anyway so the number of programs you need installed is not an argument either, streaming data through notepad++ doesn't work so well either if you want to view data on the fly.

Security is also one aspect, at every place i've worked there is always one smartass that thinks xml can be created by string-concating, that's impossible if the serialization-functions are totally encapsulated.

All this isn't a problem inherent to xml/json as it can all be solved with proper processes, it's just that it invites to that type of culture.
Is it accurate to state they have made illegal (via 'rules') to use open source (user controlled) EM comm above 100um (below 3000GHz[1]) (except a few windows)? Or is it 9kHz to 275GHz? I bet when line of sight NIR comms (there's a nice window around 1550nm) get popular, they will (to stay relevant) want to 'regulate'[2] that too. Prior restraint is the problem here, anyone can mess with the spectrum with basic electronic skills, mandating 'approved' software seems less than pointless.

[1] http://www.spectrumwiki.com/wp/allocations101.pdf

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbYXBJOFgeI
Basic income exists already in several European countries. For example in Germany you get for half a year after loosing a job about 75% of your last salary. After six months it degrades but you will always be supplied with a home, food, cloths and some little money to spend.

In France you get paid for two years after loosing your job. In Denmark I think it is three or four year even. Enough time to start three or four startups.

Would be interesting to look into the data of these countries.