skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure I've seen an episode of Friends with the exact same story about splitting the lunch. But after that story, I expected the author to bring analogy back to the realm of social and economic matters, and show how, on global scale, wealthy are trying to "divide by the number of people" when they've been ordering more than others, but he never delivered. Just as the book that he criticized, it's just a sympathetic story.
This used to be correct, but modern SSL clients support SNI (Server Name Indication), which involves sending the exact hostname in the clear to allow vhosts to have different certificates. The path and everything else in the actual HTTP request is still private, though.
Boost Python is great for C++ shops too.
No. Chrome has supported notifications even when you have no browser windows open since Chrome 42, released mid 2015. https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/getting-start...
If there is some algorithm to define what the next number is going to be, the state can share that with the company in order to provide "services"...
Yes, something that should have at a minimum caused no harm to performance (and possibly helped, such as by allowing for SIMD) and been a win for code readability instead introduced an extra layer of pointer chasing and heap allocation, because Java doesn't have structs. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8485180
> We can all agree that IF the market cap gets this large, it will mean Bitcoin will have had a huge positive impact on society.

What, why?! Even if that were the case, it doesn't follow that the good it does outweighs using 1% of all energy.
Incubator hopping: Should you go to more than one incubator?
But, as some XKCD notes, nowadays all of humanity walks around with great photo cameras all the time and nobody is taking pictures of UFOs with them.
Is it bad that we don't empathize with the Sentinelese? If they knew about us they would feel worse because all of their comparisons, all of their sensations and evaluations would change. The problem is that the poor cannot sense the presence of the rich without immense pain. Neither redistribution, nor empathy are as palliative as ignorance in this case.
Oh! Nice, I actually know a guy who works for Honeywell out of MN. He's in the Aerospace division though (just found out he's kind of a big deal... weird, I know him through my girlfriend's family and had never checked his LinkedIn page.)
HR software hadn't seen much innovation for years, it's refreshing to see newer entrants getting money and traction. We use Lever's API, it's a delight.
> Democracy doesn't mean "things I like." It often means "things the average voter likes."

That seems like a misrepresentation of the post. jrandomh didn't say "this is undemocratic", but rather (paraphrasing) "this generates ill will". Hoping that mass ill will will (not a typo …) lead to change is not anti-democratic; it is exactly the idea of democracy.
Anger interferes with your intelligence and leads you to make rash decisions. Anger should always be avoided.
Most likely Google will never update beyond Java 7, if their attitude at Google IO is anything to go by.

For me what counts is the official Java, not forks.
> It doesn't matter to me at all that Bill Gates has more money than God, because he's empathetic to people who aren't as rich and aren't as great as he is,

I'm glad he learned empathy in his old age; but keep in mind that he was ruthless, manipulative, exploitative, and caused a lot of long-term damage throughout most of his working life.

That's the problem I have with the "rich" - our system (and lack of government oversight/enforcement) enables and encourages evil, as long as it makes profit.
There is a difference between wasting and spending.

It is impossible to get the security guarantees that Bitcoin affords without spending energy. That expense is the end goal of proof of work, not a side effect.
I find that often reading a scientist's dissertation will often tell you something about how they approach the rest of their research. Somewhere I actually have a paper copy of Feynman's Thesis under Wheeler, which covers exactly this material. He was clearly enamored of Lagrangian formulations quite early (I didn't know that it was due to a High School teacher).

You can find this actual thesis on-line at CERN:
http://cds.cern.ch/record/101498/files/Thesis-1942-Feynman.p...

It's short at 74 book pages, and relatively readable.
Will Apple's rumored 4-inch iPhone 5se be a premium or value-priced smartphone?
A newly designed, low-cost iPhone as described by 9to5Mac.com doesn't ring true with Apple's history. Apple experimented and failed with the value-priced iPhone 5c, which its loyal fans seemed to regard as "not really an iPhone." There's clearly something important in the report, but it's probably a premium priced iPhone
The connective fabric is that Microsoft has always been investing in VR, or at least AR/Holograms: the Surface Table/PixelSense was a step towards physically touching digital spaces, the Kinect was a step towards physically touching digital spaces, the HoloLens will be a step towards physically touching digital spaces. All of those steps have learned from the past steps and build on sensors and software built for the previous step. (Crudely, the Kinect moved the table's sensors into a platform that could be attached to an Xbox and the HoloLens is now strapping those sensors to your face.)

I don't think that Microsoft is missing out on the VR revolution: I think that all this time Microsoft has been trying to baby step/bootstrap their way towards some very cool things. I think it's useful to take a step back and appreciate the incremental/evolutionary approach Microsoft has been taking here. I still think it's kind of brilliant that MS/MSR was able to use gaming to commoditize the Kinect (what was a lab's worth of sensors is now available in every Wal-Mart for a reasonable cost).
What Went Wrong in Flint
Not even as sinister as sibling comment here talking about genocides, these billionaires are wielding disproportionate political power to encourage policies that effect lower classes negatively to the benefit of their own bottom line.

On a foreign scale, defense contractors have a vested interest in keeping the Middle East unstable and have the political power to push congress towards putting more US forces there. Domestically, it's hard to find a more plausible explanation for so many state governors doing things like opting out of ACA, limiting unions, closing schools, or enabling the Flint water crisis.
> We can't help everyone live without eventually hitting resource constraints, can we?

I think it's better to phrase it as a problem statement: how can we help everyone live without eventually hitting resource constraints?

Humans are good at figuring out solutions to problems. Don't give up!
Yeah exactly my thoughts.

The cynic in me is thinking "hey, funny that a company selling SSL Certs wrote an article about how great SSL Certs are which doesn't do much more than state side-benefits to one primary benefit of having SSL"

HTTPS gets you privacy, tamper-resistance, and authenticity for the end-user.

This is the one that I often forget: just because something is encrypted doesn't mean it can't be meaningfully manipulated without knowledge of cleartext.
Note that Screenhero was acquired by Slack; the "joined" label is an odd usage that implies that they just registered for the service.
"Accelerating product delivery in the Digital Economy through Continuous Application Lifecycle Management of Cloud-based Workload, backed by @WalmartLabs"

I think you could work on that elevator pitch a little - it seems like it's been workshopped by a committee, and doesn't really tell me anything.
Thanks to people noting that this is already happening to some degree in Europe/UK (didn't even stop to consider what was happening there already, gotta widen my world view).

What I'm worried is having it just be instant. Some regulation that requires speed-checkers in every car built, and reporting to find out any time your car goes over the speed limit, regardless if there's a camera in sight. But maybe driver-less cars will come first, and manual driving itself will be outlawed (or made prohibitively expensive).

It's a balance -- it would seem to me that speed traps are stunningly effective at protecting a given intersections (if people have been speeding through it too much), but the logic applies pretty much everywhere, just waiting for someone to try and apply it.

This is going to prompt some interesting soul searching from the populace. Yeah, you want the speed limit to be 35 (for the kids, of course), but now that you get penalized instantly when you break the rule you agreed on, the fine won't be so enjoyable. Or, laws will pass as they normally do without the majority of the populace thinking, caring, or getting a say.
What are you using to monitor spikes? Trying to locate something that would give continuous readings rather than manual testing after every meal.
iPhones don’t matter anymore
The article mentions that, and the author shares your sentiments. His point is that the wealthy lose perspective on the financial hardships of poorer people, leading to thoughtless actions/comments that grate on the poor over time. He describes this as an empathy gap, which coincides with a (not necessarily bad!) wealth gap.

Edited for spelling.
LUA? Still?
things ole lint will never do: walk outside. since 1973, at least 55 people have died while walking not inside.
> All that is happening in that case is changing the location of the credit card swipe.

And the amount. +25% to pay it by the side of the road.
> buy back their own stock so they make themselves rich while screwing ordinary investors and employees and companies

I'm not sure how this is valid reasoning... Aren't stocks "bought-back" on the public market? If so, then buybacks would push up the stock price, which would benefit arbitrary investors directly (those who were willing to sell at a slightly higher price) and all investors indirectly.
http://vuejs.org/guide/comparison.html
But banks provide credit which Bitcoin does not. Most of the problems with banks (bank failures etc) comes from the credit side, not the payments side.
As a crazy exercise to learn both Python and Lua at the same time, I've been porting a small Numpy project to Torch. I will say that both the languages are equally nice, but Numpy is much cleaner compared to some of the seemingly hacky things I need to do in torch.

For example. In numpy:

x = numpy.array([1,2,3,4])
y = 1/x

In torch:

x = torch.Tensor({1,2,3,4})
y = x:apply(function(n) return 1/n end)

In any case, its been a fun and interesting exercise!
Isn't that the same Scott Adams who said that if he didn't get hugs on the regular he'd start killing people.
Banks and Bitcoin serve radically different purposes. (Try getting a mortgage from Bitcoin!) A more appropriate comparison would be the percentage of bank energy that goes to payment processing, which is probably pretty low.
A few comments:

"If the most successful people are becoming more effective and the least successful remain consistently ineffectual then you get a divergence in wealth. If the baseline is zero and the top line goes up then the two of them diverge."

The author's mistake here is to assume "being more effective" has any real bearing on who is the most successful; random chance providing a substantial push in the right direction and then post-facto narratives denying chance are far more likely. Environmental factors increase exposure to upside of chance while minimizing the downside risk. Therefore, rich white people are typically thought of as the "most successful" people because they were born to a similar demographic which ensured they would land in an okay spot.

"Is it really such an issue if a few people get rich so a lot of people can wealthy?"

The "lot of people" aren't get wealthy. Most people are getting less wealthy while the very richest are getting substantially more wealthy. By and large, nobody is "getting rich" so much as "getting richer". As someone else said, "a rising tide lifts all boats, but most people can't afford a boat, so they drown."

"I’ve never met a wealthy person that hates the poor but I’m shocked by the number of poor(er) people I know who hate the wealthy. I never really understand why since they’ve never obviously suffered at the rich’s hands. But then it something doesn’t have to be obviously bad to add up. It just has to be occasional, careless or callous and over time it accumulates."

Ah, an out-of-touch comment by a rich man; the poor "hate" the rich because they frequently seem as though they are from a different and better planet, and they really think that it would be much better if all the poors could just move to that planet gracefully, like they did. After all, "I did it so anyone can do it." Completely and self-servingly ignoring the reality of wildly different starting conditions while subtly implying that their final superiority is some sort of inherent Aryan guarantee.

Additionally, the poor do obviously suffer at the rich's hands, though perhaps they don't see it this way: bank overdraft charges, paychecks on prepaid cards, more scrutiny and arrests for trivial offenses from law enforcement, increasing rents, outrageously expensive and ineffective health insurance, etc.

Anyways, just to put this topic directly to bed, the wealth gap is actually bad, and the lack of empathy that the rich have for the poor is a historical fact rather than an issue itself. The IMF is against wealth inequality and has detailed how and why in depth: https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/2015/sdn1513.pdf and to be blunt, they know better than any of us here. The bottom line is that, as the report says, "Societies with greater income inequality experience slower and less stable economic growth." Even the capitalists have to get on board with solving the problem of inequality when it's framed that way.
Couldn't we just re-purpose the G in GPU to stand for "general" rather than "graphics"?
"It doesn't matter to me at all that Bill Gates has more money than God,"

It should because traditionally rich people have done bad things to people who weren't rich. Having lots of money = concentration of power. Giving that much power to individual is dangerous. That is why people who believe in massive inequality are stupid, they are for unimaginable concentrations of private power with no accountability what so ever.
Relative wealth is zero-sum, and relative wealth disparity can and does negatively affect you.

Let's stay your wealth/income remains static, but most people around you see a great increase in their own wealth/income. You are certainly less better off now because all this extra wealth in your area will increase demand for goods and thus prices. See Bay Area housing market for an example.
He certainly put his claim in context, but my suspicion was that "I ended up finishing this 150-year process" was a bit grandiose, so I wanted to see if anyone was familiar with this work.

People can definitely be quick to criticize Wolfram for pomposity, but I've seen a lot of passages from A New Kind of Science where he says "I discovered X" but means "someone else discovered X, then I confirmed it for myself."
> Almost all the industry power rests in the hands of the insurers. (And the private insurers are themselves beholden to Medicare).

Don't forget Big Pharma who pay for all of their research and sponsor their conferences. Speaking out against them means your research funding disappears. Doctors have a lot of industries surrounding them that are pulling strings. It's arguably the most regulated industry in the world. If you puff your chest out in any direction, it's the Alamo.
> The next thing I look to see happen is automated speeding tickets. There's no reason radars shouldn't be set up in conjuction with license plate readers, or actually just pulling speed data from cars with in-car transmission ability and tickets being auto-generated to constituents.

This seems like a Catch-22, though. Any state that actually enforced speeding laws systematically would wind up ticketing (almost) all drivers, (almost) all the time, and the selective nature of current enforcement of speeding limits would become so glaringly apparent that (one hopes) the problems with it couldn't be ignored.

Especially in a state like Texas, where "no regulation" is a religious mantra, it's hard to imagine that the result would be anything but raising the speed limits on the road to reflect actual driving conditions—which, I'd argue, is a good thing. (I don't know anything about the reason, but I do know that, on a stretch of I-35 that I have driven regularly for a few years, the speed limit has increased; and the trend statewide seems to be towards higher limits, with much of I-10 having a speed limit of 80 mph—beyond which I, as a Prius driver, wouldn't go significantly even if I were legally allowed to do so.)
Not sure on Webstorm, but IntelliJ (which has the webstorm plugin) lets you flip between panes using standard Vim keybindings.
I had 4 years of experience with UE3.5 (admittedly, I have not tried UE4), but it's far from trivial in that environment. Perhaps UE4 makes this process much easier, but I can't see it approaching "trivial."

When I see the words "trivial," I think of a weekend project - not something that would involve tons of man hours.
No, you can have one Chrome window assigned to persona "work" and another window assigned to "personal" and they will each have their own sets of cookies and settings and history.
Do good actions prove empathy?
It's not hard to see what the problem is. When the first rule of the IRC is "Lex is god, respect him or else", there's an issue. And that's not getting into the fit he threw over JSON models.
> These are (probably) justified, punitive fees imposed on an individual for some kind of offense against the law (and by extension, the public). It's not the case that the police are extorting people that are behind on their rent/credit card payments or something.

John Oliver did an entertaining segment on bail at one point. It presents some good examples of what can go wrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS5mwymTIJU

> Whoa there, hold on a second. That's not what's going on at all.

We already have de-facto debtors prisons, this is just making it easier to get people into them.
Python is a great language, and I like it very, very much. However, packaging and deployment in python remains such an amazing mess

When are dynamic languages finally going to learn from these problems and fix them? Smalltalkers were making these exact complaints to me in person in the 90's and I know they predated my involvement by a lot.

What if someone created a Smalltalk-like uber-debugging-godlike-power-over-the-runtime alternative compiler target for Golang? Then you'd have all the good parts of dynamic languages with the dead-simple distribution model of Golang.
>Chrome has supported notifications even when you have no browser windows open

Chrome is literally botnet
RSS readers seem like such a good idea, but they've hardly caught on outside of tech groups. They weren't intuitive enough for most people to use, and we didn't want another interface that we had to check. We also didn't want it to fill up our inboxes with notifications when we didn't have time to read.

IMO, that's why Facebook continues to work well. You see updates from the people and the sites you want, and it's not at all overwhelming. There's no backlog of notifications to stress you out.

Done right, I think browser notifications could be the solution we're looking for. I look forward to seeing different implementations. There are already plugins for major CMSs.
Interested in BSD ports or are we all wasting time here?
It's the wealth gap. Next.
What the author means, and is significant for the market (Minecraft Education Edition) is that it will work with any "Azure Active Directory" credentials. Every school I've worked with either uses active directory or has another directory service that exposes endpoints (usually SAML based).

Read that line instead as:

Good news! Your teachers and their students won't need yet another password to be able to use this application.
Regarding applying without an idea:
https://fellowship.ycombinator.com/faq/#noidea

"We tried this once with YC, and it didn't work well."

Any post-mortems about this?
POSIX is basically what should have been the official C runtime, but they didn't want to make it a richer runtime.

At least as I see it.
An even easier argument to make for the selfish and empathy-challenged is the link between inequality and violent crime [1]. The more money and resources you have to spend on walls and security guards the less you have for investment and consumption on useful things.

[1] http://web.worldbank.org/archive/website01241/WEB/IMAGES/INE...
> Wouldn't the more obvious choice be simply adding an option in browsers to not require hitting the play button (perhaps for MP4 that has no sound)?

This is basically what Imgur did with GIFV (http://blog.imgur.com/2014/10/09/introducing-gifv), I think.
The programming courses
Yeah, my original comment simplifies. I'm just trying to find common ground with "grow the size of the pie" thinkers.
Neat project. I would not mind that view occasionally (perhaps as an option) but not all the time. Thanks for the link.
Most Google apps supports a way to have multiple Google accounts active, typically by adding /u/[numeric index of a specific Google account]. Gmail for example:

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/2/#inbox

The "u/2" part indicates that this is the gmail view for the third (counting 0) user

For Google Apps for work, if you go to mail.google.com/a/example.com, it will let you log in separately to an example.com account and then redirect to a url like the one above.
anybody know if fastmail is planning to support this? that would be cool (even cooler if it could be set up on a per-folder basis) would be nice having a biff equivalent working in the browser without having to code something using IMAP...
I've been reading http://oneops.github.io/admin/key-concepts/ to try and understand what it is. I still have zero idea...
Starting Up Slack’s Search, Learning, and Intelligence Group in the New NYC Office
> the biggest challenge I had with math was being put off by cryptic notation. I tend to want to read things to myself in my head as I look at them on a page, and when I'm looking at (new/unfamiliar) math notation, and I don't know how to "pronounce" it to myself, my mind wants to just blank out and skip it.

Material that has an almost unnecessarily comprehensive vocabulary and notation practices guide at the beginning/end is the best kind.
Man, would I ever love to see some before and after code.
I'm unsure how this anecdote proves anything about a correlation between empathy and wealth.

Whether you are rich or poor, you can have empathy. If you're interested in empathy, I suggest you watch this brenee brown video. The video may seem anecdotal but she has done a lot of research about shame and vulnerability and... having read her books, money is not something that comes up in the research.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw
If wealth weren't power, then wealth wouldn't be wealth.
sudo yum -y install epel-release && sudo yum -y install python34

python35 will be soon be coming to EPEL also.
You don't need to run your own server to use Let's Encrypt. You probably do want some sort of automated method for updating the cert due to the low expiration time (though it isn't mandatory), but that can be done in many ways such as a desktop application, or just having the shared hosting service add built-in support for Let's Encrypt, as Dreamhost has already done.
My bot was online and then became offline, got this response from support:

> We had to restart our bot server due to a lot of signups from PH and HN. Bot should be online in couple of minutes.

Looking forward to trying it out. We are already using Meekan, Hubot, Slackbot and Howdy in our Slack setup.