skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice work joeyespo, it's definitely a much-needed step forward. NFS, though, is a huge pain point for me on OSX performance-wise. The only reliable solution I've found so far is Unison sync between Mac & Vagrant (Ubuntu). That also comes with some caveats, as Unison has to be compiled with exactly the same version & dependencies on both OSX and Ubuntu.

If anyone's interested, I've created a list of steps involved in making it work on El Capitan: https://gist.github.com/pch/aa1c9c4ec8522a11193b
If the Facebook OAuth module is closed, if their comments module is closed, or if their advertising platform is closed overnight sure there will be waves.

But the part you mention actually refers to the easiness to close a Facebook account and switch to WeChat, or Viber. This part talks about the user base, which is at the end of the day the foundation of their business model.

The point made here is that there's no real lockin because there's no real value.
I know how this story ends: the app has basically arranged to introduce a service-provider to a client, and unlike Uber where you're getting services at different locations where different providers are needed every time, Alfred is providing the same service over and over again. This makes it trivial for the provider and the client to eliminate the middle-man. Service agencies of all kinds have been struggling with this problem since time immemorial, putting them on an app solves nothing.

I'd actually rather a "pay for recommendation" engine where I can pay the app to just put me in touch with a reputable service-provider for whatever - like HVAC or an electrician or a local housekeeper.
In the ancient world, there was little distinction between the concepts of fiction and non-fiction with regard to story-telling, given that they viewed their own existence as part of a larger (what we might call fantasy) narrative about the universe itself. For them, a story was fiction (not true to life) if it taught lessons and ideas that were not true. A story was non-fiction (true to life) if it taught lessons and ideas that were true. So a simple story like "a citizen robbed a merchant and was rewarded by the town for his good deed" may or may not be factual (by our standards), but to them would be a fiction. On the other hand, the story of Icarus would be regarded as non-fiction, not because it actually happened in the sense that we understand historical events, but because it taught a moral truth. Whatever did or did not happen in the mundane world of day-to-day life wasn't as important as the lens through which that world was interpreted.

With that in mind, they would not have placed a high priority on clearly stating what was totally real and what was totally unreal. Atlantis could have been a real city in accordance with the theory described by OP, but Plato might have adopted that truth for the purpose of crafting a political allegory that would be, in his eyes, even MORE true than some mundane fact like "Atlantis actually exists." So don't be too quick to dismiss it as false just because Plato meant it as a political allegory. The ancient Greeks didn't care as much about the distinctions we cling to in the modern world.
If you're right and CRISPR doesn't actually work, then none of the papers published so far are replicable and you'll be vindicated in mere months. If that doesn't happen, then there's a flaw in the style of reasoning and research that led you to conclude the existing papers were flawed. I recommend jotting down a few notes about how you came to this conclusion, and making a calendar reminder to check how it turned out next year.
> they do not retain any messages

Right, though they retain messages until their recipient comes online.
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They might work, but if, as I do not rule out, the machine uses dead reckoning (i.e. it doesn't use its cameras to detect when a face is oriented at exactly 90 degrees, but just rotates a face by what it knows to be 90 or 180 degrees), I think it would be difficult to properly set up the machine.

You would have to place the suction cups exactly at the center of each face, cannot allow one cup to suck a bit harder than another, and have to make sure all faces are very close to being perfectly flat in the starting position.

Edit: also, if those suction cups slip, I guess you will be looking at more Rubik's cube parts than you thought existed.
One of the big reason we have an increase in wealth inequality is globalization. Before 2000, you were only competing with another American at the same wage. Now, you need to compete with workers in India, China, and Mexico.

If not in those countries, big companies like Facebook will just bring them over on an H1B visa at a similarly competitive wage.

It's the same phenomenon that happened when technology uprooted the music industry 15 years ago: small, indy labels can now no longer survive because nobody actually buys music anymore and we are left with huge labels.

Adblock will eventually do the same with independent blogs: If you want to make any sort of living, you will need to post your content on a large-corporate owned blog that has enough traffic to make money outside the ad system.
Tim O'Reilly on PG's income inequality essay
>"The thing is, insurance is almost always meant to spread around risk from random events..."

Health 'insurance' covers many predictable issues, such as eye glasses and continuing care issues, but I will grant you that insurance is generally best used to hedge against risk. A number of national US insurance providers offer policies which cover employee suits, so it must be a large, insurable market.[1]

>"If an employer is explicitly trying to minimize their risk and costs by mandating arbitration how can you ever trust them to pick an unbiased arbiter? If an agent is trying to maximize their outcomes by forcing arbitration, why would they then chose any arbiter that isn't more likely to side with them?"

There are many kinds of risk which one might try to minimize; one of these risks might be that of a long, drawn-out civil jury trial which can take a long time to be seen, and have a completely unpredictable outcome. Having an arbitrator decide against you for a reasonable sum might be preferable to devoting time and resources to a trial and investor relations disaster over many years (even if the verdict is in your favor). In addition, having a defined process from the outset may help the damaged party get their issue resolved quickly and easily; as a long civil suit can be ruinous to an individual (even if they win). In short, real people are not risk-tolerant robots.

[1] https://www.nationwide.com/employment-practices-liability-in...
If there was a way you could have worded this comment without implying that Kasey was just making things up, it would have been a better comment. As it stands, I think you can take the time to use the search bar at the bottom of the page to find what he's written about the book on the site before.
What about doing all processing locally and storing only end-to-end encrypted data in servers?
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Depends. Do they live or host in a country with, say, FBI-coerced "SIGINT-enabling" or something similar? And they be held indefinitely without trial? And are the foreign nationals subject to rendition? Can their assets be frozen by tax authorities and their datacenter equipment seized like some colos? Are they creating something that's straight-up designed to piss those organizations off in many countries and/or aid their opponents?

Most proposals succeeding wouldn't bring this risk up: very specific to this project's goals given it ties in anonymity and money. We actually have no idea what they'll do outside some surveillance, court-ordered searches or seizures. Hopefully, it doesn't get popular among their targets. The closest thing is Tor but it's unusual: a tech used and funded by U.S. organizations including military, LEO's and propaganda teams (conflict of interest); anti-censorship getting it special treatment for exports; non-profit; extra smart and dedicated people. Quite a combo. The rest of the carriers and projects fell to FBI, NSA, or both when they became important enough to target with the big guns. If not immediately, then eventually. We know some were paid off but the coercive techniques are unknown.

So, yes, centralizing control of something for untraceable money into few, known hands is a huge risk depending where you're at. A risk of what I can't tell you as they won't tell me. ;) The other commenter wisely added the for-profit angle as another dimension of the risk. Most of those screw their users, get hacked, or fail for business reasons. So, that should probably be No 1.

EDIT: Conflict of interest on Tor is meant to indicate that, internal to U.S. government, there would be battling over doing something to weaken or end it. Not the Tor team or organization itself.
I disagree with this argument. You are posing two extremes: One where everything can be known with certainty, and one where everything is purely based on faith, and dismissing the potential of there being something in the middle.

You are right, economics can't model every potential variable that influences outcomes. Large scale studies of minimum wage admit that policy and economic differences between local municipalities can cause the effect of a minimum wage change to vary. But you can model for most major differences, such as "Did adjacent municipalities adjust their wages at the same time? Did this have an impact on employment".

Ultimately you can get much closer to an understanding of how minimum wage impacts an economy than you would from a purely faith based approach, and you can land at a recommendation like "In general small increases in the minimum wage do not raise prices or hurt employment, given the following conditions".

That's much more valuable than the Austrian position that purely bases itself on faith.
One of the most surreal experiences of my life was watching one of the old Godzilla films, dubbed into fluent Australian.
They don't need to target Bitcoin developers to track use of Bitcoin or conversions. So, they don't. End of story?
I think that is considered fact.
> Or is that a British thing?

An everywhere outside USA thing.
I've also disabled all notifications except texts and calls. I can look up for messages myself if I have time and I want to. A silent phone means a happy user.

Further, I've used the weirdly named "Wifi/Data Auto Off/On" application¹ to disconnect mobile data and wifi except when the display is on. This helps me get days of battery if I don't do much with the phone. It also makes it easy to ration the battery: when I do something with the phone, I use the battery; when I don't do anything with the phone, the battery drains very, very slowly. Thus, I don't get surprises as the charge will be depleted only when I decide it's all right to use it. And nicely enough I don't get a zillion notifications all the time which would urge me to look at the phone again and again, further consuming the battery.

¹) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whueric.da...
I would focus on companies already in the market for new email software. Next, focus on the pain point your software solves the others don't. run an ad or go talk to companies about the problem. If it resonates you might have an actual company. then 1 of 2 things will happen. if your new way is really hard to duplicate or it completely cannibalizes the existing companies business you could grow big. if not they will probably just add the feature when things start to look good.
> [Do] you think that such a device just shouldn't exist for anyone?

No. I apologize if that's what you took from my statement.

I hope the future sees technological evolution that makes it easier for common people to self-manage their devices. Presently, doing so requires more time and thought investment than traditional "cloud" options. For example, it took me a bit of time to set up a self-hosted NVR with a network of IP cameras. But in an ideal world, Dropcam-like devices would exist and provide an option during setup: "Do you want to use our video hosting service or run your own? If you choose your own, you'll need to install some software on a computer..." The Dropcam software is really well designed, it's just a shame I can't run it on my own server.

Like I said, it's idealistic wishful thinking. But if people want to use services hosted by third-parties, I don't want to take that option away.
Google Maps&#8217; Your Timeline keeps track of your travels
I remember seeing this a couple days ago and they said they had tried not to modify the cube but weren't able to get the right amount of leverage needed to rotate it and thus insisted on drilling into each center piece. Don't think it still counts, pretty cool set up none the less.
Wild guess: a huge amount of stemcells required?
How come this is still on YouTube? Isn't this copyright infringement?
I can't really talk publicly about our roadmap (I'd love to, believe me.) I'll try to engage some of the marketing folks and point them to this thread.
"Flip a fucking coin." is exactly what I was going to say. Clearly the decision is influenced way too heavily by each of your pasts rather than on the merit of the technology (either will do exactly what you need it to do). So just flip a fucking coin, or come up with a more interesting way to settle these kinds of trivial pursuits.
Since the idea is to save the patient from degenerative disease, recovering non-autonomous functions might not be a requirement - he only need a healthy body for now. It's still hard, but more feasible I guess.
I fail at this, miserably. Some of us are on the other end of the spectrum. Tending to wait "too long" to respond thus end up talking over someone.

I think this is because some of us prefer to take time to actually think about a response, rather than just react.
"Understanding the index also helps greatly when you need to do a merge, cherry-pick, or other similar operation; you need a staging area to work in, separate from the work tree."

Actually, with mercurial I don't need a staging area to work in separate from the working copy to perform merge, cherry-pick, or other similar operations. The index appears to be needless complication.
That would be a far more valuable and practical medical breakthrough than full head transplants, at least in the immediate future.
Given the same radio power (it's capped for all cell phones) the faster your wireless data, the less battery it will chew up. Why? Because it consumes the most energy when radio is on, and if you transmit at higher speeds, radio doesn't have to stay on for long.
Thanks for linking to this. I am on the second lecture and it is pretty stunning so far. I really appreciate it.
Sony Hack
Anonymous, FBI, DPRK, Mr. kazou Hirai, CNN, Prime Minister Abe

I didn't do the Sony hack obviously

but did Anonymous do the Sony hack?

my evidence: In the video

"Sony hackers mock FBI investigation with..." at time 1:17 in the video is an upside down Anonymous "A"

my sentence structure was used, but did Anonymous cross the line

Again, if you did you let the DPRK take the blame

I seek an open statement either way to the evidence, for your actions have contribute to WW3

I seek all to de-escalate.

I will add that you may disagree with Sony, but who are you to judge

-lemonk
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity

>Not when proposed by apparently paranoid HN users, I don't.
It's true. I have a Nest and it works without the Internet.

Also, the Sonos can work without an internet connection. It requires a Wifi router, but not an internet connection once it has been registered.
How about they just ask three payment networks (VISA/MC/Paypal) to cut off their payments then watch them wither and die? That's how Wikileaks was destroyed by Bank of America and Co when they threatened to leak on the big banks. All that OPSEC can't help without money to support it. Worked like a charm and not a single shot fired.
> In that decade they introduced shoulder belts as a world first

And ultimately decided to make the patent (US 3043625) license-free and open (essentially copyleft)
Before Ralph Nader was the face of the Green Party and the the 2008 darkhorse candidate in the 2008 election, he was the bane of the automotive industry. Check out his book Unsafe at Any Speed.

GM's response to the aforementioned? One of petulance and cowardice. They had to be hauled into Congress, kicking and screaming of course, before anything was done.
First sentence reminded me of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyuJQ_UO7OE
I've had a couple people who work in high frequency trading say that Flash Boys is extremely inaccurate, but they still recommend The Big Short. I've not really heard anything significantly negative about TBS though I'm sure there are probably disputed opinions about it out there. And while the character narratives in TBS could be entirely fabricated (I mean, I'm sure they aren't totally false), the underlying issues and events line up with my previous understanding of the crisis.
https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/michael-lewis-...

Quote:

> I think this is the crux of this story: according to Michael Lewis and Katsuyama, we’re supposed to trust people like Einhorn who have been convicted of insider trading, people who are suspected of insider trading (buy side is by definition rife with this; particularly firms that do merger arb and special events), J.P. Morgan, Goldman and Morgan Stanley: we’re supposed to trust these guys more than we’re supposed to trust a bunch of tiny little market making firms who had been inconveniencing them by taking away some of their flow. Lewis tries to make this seem like a battle between the underdog “good guys” and the evil establishment. To believe this, you’d have to believe that Goldman Sachs and people like Einhorn are underdogs, rather than the actual establishment. To believe this, you’d have to believe the tiny industry of HFT traders actually rules the world and buys off congressmen and the SEC more than … J.P. Morgan and Goldman. [...]
Yeah, I might believe that. I might believe that if I were a dribbling retard.
This probably won't be either. If we knew how to do that, we would have tried it on an animal successfully first.
I think they fought all these items not because they didn't want to sell them, but because they would make more money selling them 10x more expensive to 20% of their customers.
How code review works at genius.com
Symmetry and the Fourth Dimension (2012)
>"If you're right and CRISPR doesn't actually work, then none of the papers published so far are replicable and you'll be vindicated in mere months."

Not at all. I'm not sure you understand what I am saying.

It appears to me the data can be interpreted in multiple ways. Two different "theories" can explain the same results. This is a much more insidious problem than mere non-replication (I haven't seen any direct replications regarding CRISPR either though). People can continue on the wrong path for a long time by interpreting good, reliable data incorrectly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimentum_crucis
This is so very wrong....

> tabs are bad, because if you let people choose their own tab widths then it becomes impossible to align anything anymore.

In what world is that true. If you indent your code with tabs, and I indent your code with tabs and I show my tabs as 4 chars wide and you show yours and 8 EVERYTHING IS STILL ALIGNED. It's just greater or lesser levels of indentation. You only have problems when you MIX tabs and spaces. Be consistent in your use and you won't have problems.

> It makes it impossible to align anything which is != a tab width.

Yes. So? Don't mix tabs and spaces.

> Tabs aren't "designed" for indenting text: they're a hangover from typewriters, where they were literally metal tabs used for creating tables.

What is a table? It's a tool FOR ALIGNING MULTIPLE COLUMNS OF TEXT... so yes, they ARE designed for indenting text.

For a more fully thought out argument on why it's a dick move to use spaces as pretend tabs: http://weblog.masukomi.org/2010/07/26/why-you-should-never-i...
Even that might be conservative, since it seems reasonable that deaths would increase more than linearly with increased highway traffic density.
2 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10969149
One would hope that in a world where automated cars and advanced AI make unskilled employment especially difficult, unemployment wouldn't be a terrible thing.
I think "won" means that when you are making an argument to introduce a piece of software into your workplace there is a technology that is more widely used. It doesn't necessarily mean that one is better, but there is usually a reason a technology is widely adopted. If you don't fully understand the advantages and disadvantages of similar products then widespread adoption can help with the decision.
It's Chicken Little in Canada too. I've never heard it being called Chicken Licken, even by my Scottish mother.
in no way was i implying he was "making things up" but he has said that Flash Boys did a "bad job of explaining HFT" and on that website he links to it says its "dreadful". He also says he "answers this question so often" he made that site. but the site just lists books, but doesn't really answer any questions. Just pointing to other peoples books is not really answering a question. and i think if Flash Boys is "dreadful" he could point to a few concrete examples
There was an episode of Top Gear where they dropped a Saab and BMW on their roof from 8 feet in the air. IIRC, the Saab survived, and was able to even open it's doors. The BMW was basically flattened.
love to have someone with a PhD in git show how to do the `hg wip` from jordigh above.
"An employer can already fire you for saying something in your free time. An employer can fire you for ANY reason, ANY, that doesn't violate civil rights. This is well known and no one is fighting for any laws to change this."

Literally five replies ago in this very same comment chain, I stated that it was indeed completely legal for employers to behave in this fashion, and should continue to be so; I merely pointed out that it was not right.

"This lawsuit is about harassment, not free speech, and celebrating (legal) "harassment" on the grounds of "free speech" is again, flawed reasoning."

But this comment chain very definitely is about employers firing people for exercising their free speech, on their own time, not related to their employer. I don't think they should do that. What do you think?
Vagrant is more repeatable, though. It's straightforward to provision an environment. In my (limited) experience with direct Virtualbox, you wind up manually building a lot of stuff.
strike gold would be a good brand to start with. they're available in the US but you definitely pay a premium
I think about all my responses before broadcasting, and I end up making excessively long pauses.
Making OSX Linux is hard, but making Docker smarter about running on OSX is easy (have docker-machine provide a socket like this project does, have docker client detect the environment and connect to the correct virtual machine's docker socket) and would be an obvious huge step forward.
Thank you.

Please let them know that the "Product Suggestion" portion of the Nest Community site is an absolute insult to their customers. They should just shut it down instead of collecting years of requests and completely ignoring them.
Thanks for clarifying, my experience with Git is much more limited than with Mercurial, so it wasn't clear to me that the index is a sort of editable (or partial?) commit (of course now it looks quite obvious).

I understand the appeal of that, in fact Mercurial acquired similar capabilities during it's evolution, thanks to a number of extensions (for example histedit [1])

[1] https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/HisteditExtension