skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unrelated, but I seriously doubt you could eat for three months for $100 at Costco unless you subsist on bulk oatmeal and other dry food.

That's supposedly what they're doing now. You could just buy the rice/beans in much larger bulk than normal grocery stores so the money lasts longer.

'Normal' meals with fresh veggies and some meat/etc? You're right.
Absolute pitch
Since the crowd around here can't exist without an increase in poverty, the real question is how many poor people do we need to produce one Zuckerberg. If we want more Zuckerbergs we need more poor people, just as if we want more whales in the ocean we need more ocean.

Pretty sure Trump can work out a nice formula to export the poor into the developing world, in return for an expansion of H1B visas or something. Given the clamor I still see in China and India for people coming in, shouldn't be too hard to work out. Also they don't use toilet paper there.

And yes I am that cynical of the crowd around here and the effect the tech industry has had on increasing poverty.
The true reality is, most poor people don't have the mental capacity to spend money appropriately.

While we live in the fantasy land that they are quite smart, but happen to be poor we really can't move ahead and improve the situation, the two issues are linked.

Someone well off might also may not have the mental capacity, but it will affect them less, I get that but that's an aside until the far future when everyone is well off.

IE Using disposable diapers rather than reusable ones? It is kinda scary the article has this as a given.

I get as a single parent time is hard to find, but it also means less shopping. True you have to have a washing machine, but surely responsible use of a credit card allows would make this cheaper and easier then going to a laundromat.

Responsible use of a credit card is hard and this is more the issue, not a strict lack of money problem.
Ask HN: Movie trailer intro service?
Is there a movie trailer intro type service on the web that would let me create text effects and intro for a video blog?

The default trailers with iMovie are not that appealing.
I'm deeply grateful that my parents put me through music lessons. It's something that continues to reward me, decades later, like math, as a source of challenge and enjoyment. I no longer play the instruments that I learned as a kid, but I perform a few times a month with local groups.

There's a lot of controversy over whether kids should be "pushed" or "forced" to learn music. My observation (my own childhood and my kids) is that some kids will push back on anything that they're asked to do, even if it's something that they genuinely want to continue doing.

I'm lucky, and delighted, that music "took" with my kids. They're teenagers now, and actually like classical music.

If possible, I suggest looking for a program where your daughter can play in ensembles, group lessons, recitals, etc. For instance Suzuki violin programs involve the youngest kids in recitals, and there are people teaching guitar in the same way. This will bring out yet another of the benefits of music, namely the interaction with other people in a cohesive activity. And performing, in and of itself, is a beneficial skill. A lot of what I do in professional life is akin to performance.
Exactly. I once identified memory leaks in a managed runtime implementation, worked around them, and showed that third party networking libraries from the hardware vendor were causing irrecoverable crashes but I can't spout off runtime complexity of algos. The former saved a multi million dollar contract and my company's reputation, the latter is something I look up when I need it.
I don't understand why Lyle still doesn't mention the roles of insulin/leptin/dopamine receptors (and strategies to boost their results) in newer studies.

Some good info here:

http://gettingstronger.org/2010/10/change-your-setpoint/
This is categorically untrue if you are talking about large numbers and asymptotic complexity. It is true that algorithms with a constant factor larger number of operations may have such properties, but O(n) will always beat O(n^2) eventually, and in nearly all real-world cases at a fairly small n (1000 L1 cache accesses is slower than 1 memory access so n=1000 will be enough to counter any locality issues).
Mozilla's Servo Is Whooping the Other Browsers in Performance
At least one study did find that many subjects exhibit better insulin response in the morning, implying that such people should shunt their carb consumption to earlier in the day rather than later.

EDIT: then again, here's useful background as to why this occurs:

http://www.leangains.com/2012/06/why-does-breakfast-make-me-...
Can't you just pretend some religion made you do it?
I've been living in New Orleans for the last year, and I'd have to say it's been great. NOLA is a blossoming place, with lots of startups and a rapidly growing tech scene. The culture is incredible, full of its own unique charms, delicious food, and vibrant music.

I don't know, maybe it's not for everyone, but I love it!
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In Europe, You’ll Need a VPN to See Real Google Search Results
The following theorem, originally imparted to me by an algebra professor in the UCLA math department (grad school), may be helpful to you when testing yourself:

Theorem. All numbers < 100 that look prime, are prime EXCEPT 91.

(My addendum)

Where "look prime" means, is not a multiple of 2, 3, 5, 11, nor a perfect square. All these numbers have quick tests for divisibility.

Note that 91 = 7 * 13.
Thanks for taking the time to post.

However, we live in an area (Berkeley) where yes, kids have homework, but every single day of the week, after school, all the kids on the street are running up and down, riding bikes, playing wall-all, shooting hoops, and running in and out of eachothers' homes.

In the evening, right when it gets dark, you see parents walking around or calling out their front door to ask the kids to come home. My son now carries a walkie-talkie with him and we signal to him to come home.

Your experience is likely a function of your environment. Our neighborhood school is definitely not a top 20 CA school--or even a top 100 or 250 school. But, our kids are happy (except when they have to come in for the night!) and in turn, so are we.
Does anyone really believe this wasn't paid for by a chocolate maker?
If you are complaining that teachers and textbooks do a crap job explaining why someone should bother learning lots of the school curriculum, I agree 200%.

Trigonometry per se, as it is currently taught, is a boring and not very important subject, not worth spending more than about 2–3 weeks on sometime in maybe 10th grade (for a typical student), maybe 10 hours of total class time. Its form is a historical anachronism, dating from a time when there were no pocket calculators or general-purpose computers, and the only way to do science or engineering involved doing lots of hand arithmetic and consultation of big lookup tables printed in books, so it was important to be able to convert many types of problem into a form compatible with the available tables, and thus it was essential to memorize a large number of abstract formulas as shortcuts to tricky reasoning. Nowadays, you can easily solve a broad range of such problems using a computer algebra system or other type of computation, and learning to understand the reasoning is more practically important than memorizing the formulas, but the standard trigonometry course hasn’t caught up.

Moreover, the trigonometry taught in high schools now is based on the understanding from of several centuries ago, and hasn’t changed to incorporate any more recent advances in related fields. The current trigonometry course could be skipped altogether and replaced with a basic course in geometric algebra, from which the current content of a typical high school trigonometry course is a completely trivial set of corollaries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_algebra (Obviously a high school course would not be at the same level of abstraction as this Wikipedia article.) This would have the advantage of radically simplifying and clarifying nearly every college mathematics, science, and engineering course.

If you really like trigonometry and you wanted to make an interesting course on the subject, or on triangle geometry more generally, one could certainly be devised. Such a deeper and more interesting course would then deserve more work and more respect. Students would probably even find solving the problems to be fun. There are many surprising and beautiful theorems related to triangle geometry which students should be exposed to as part of their cultural heritage but currently are not.
It's the only reason this study exists, or got the results it did.
It would be nice to see which billionaire is next :-)
Bill Gates AMA
I can see that this is a library to send Push Notifications via Apple's servers, but what does it have to do with HTTP/2? Did Apple make a new version of the notifications API that uses HTTP/2? Why wouldn't they just silently upgrade the transfer protocol on the existing service?
Overlord is a general purpose device monitoring and proxying framework
Vitamin D is typically dosed in I.U., not grams. 2000 I.U. is 50 micrograms.

The max recommended daily dose is 10000 IU (but people have taken higher doses).

2 grams would be 80 million IU.
The bad/goodness of your strategy I would measure by your market success or happiness. Do whatever makes you happy and employable.

Personally, I love the idea of being a generalist. But at the end of the day, you gotta code and code good, specialist or not.
Yeah, good point.

I believe TIOBE is heavily weighted towards search terms, not job listings though.
There are startups working in this area in SF. I interviewed at one.
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It's hard to say without knowing you problem/solution. Perhaps search for your competitor and scan for complaints. My app helps podcasters record their skype/hangouts calls so i search "podcast record skype" or variants of that and look for people complaining about the quality.
Right, my first thought was that Electron is an instant show-stopper, but it's great to see how far Neovim has gone.
You typically need to own your residence if you want to install a washing machine. If your residence was not designed for a washing machine, you may need significant changes to the plumbing to put one in.

In one case, I owned my residence and still wasn't allowed to put in a washing machine; it was a condominium, and the common drain lines were insufficient for every unit to have a washing machine, so no unit was allowed to install one.

There are some non-permanent washers available, but the reviews on them appear to be very mixed, so I never took the risk to buy one, and that's as someone with significant disposable income.
I think the results apply to any culture. Excessive studying doesn't produce the intended results. The trend has also been towards increased homework but it's beginning to wane in more developed areas. I wish I knew how to accelerate the trend because it's continuing to do harm to a generation of kids.
Maybe I'm dreaming this... Trying to install some Python package on Windows 8.1 and 'the usual' stuff didn't work.

I'm a python newb and maybe I wasn't doing something right. I'm more used to Linux/Perl and doing "Perl -M CPAN ..." which just works. 'pip ...' just didn't.

I was not left with the feeling that Python ran as well on Windows as on Linux.
This isn't a "who is hiring?" thread obviously, but if anyone wants to be a part of our team we are always looking for folks who share our passion for space, especially those who happen to build software too!

https://www.blueorigin.com/careers

Needless to say, there are tons of interesting problems to solve and opportunities to make a huge impact.
Another thing you can try is searching for the hashtags of conferences in your industry.
Community for Startups in San Francisco
The poor don't have money. How does inflation screw them?
AlphaGo’s ultimate challenge: a five-game match against Lee Sedol
Vastly different levels of capitalization. Bezo's is a multi-billionaire, while Carmack was only a multi-millionaire.

Bezo's has more money to invest in failures and iteration than Carmack did. Also as far as intelligence goes I think they're pretty close, or Bezos would come out ahead, specifically when taking account of deep breadth of knowledge.
Carmack also started a rocket company at a time when it was much more difficult to do so (there were far fewer government dollars available via contracts), Bezos also has far more capital to put in than Carmack.

Not undeservingly Carmack is something of a folk hero here (for example: http://h14s.p5r.org/2012/09/0x5f3759df.html) but I don't think being a 10X programmer necessarily translates into great rocket company CEO and in terms of entrepreneurial and organizational skill Bezos excels (at least based on Amazon's success).
This comment is absolutely baffling to me - I can't even disagree because I don't understand what you are saying.
> Since the crowd around here can't exist without an increase in poverty, [...]

How does that work?
That hasn't been my experience. It depends on the kind of app you are writing. Are you writing a desktop UI app or game? Yes, C# apps tend to be better and you can use XAML or whatever. But I've written a bunch of build tools and network apps that work flawlessly on Windows and Unix family systems. Not everyone wants to switch to Microsoft tooling for their entire project just to support one more platform.

By comparison, C# tooling makes some things really difficult on Unix-like systems. For example, try spawning a process and redirecting file #3 to a pipe. I honestly do not know how to do that in C#. Python is fantastic at being cross-platform glue.
Inventory management software seems like a great startup idea. Are there any good companies doing web-based inventory management software?
What people miss is those prices are high in large part due to theft and low volume. A Safeway really can't operate in such places without jacking up prices. And the same is true of most other retail, poor customers are both low volume and expencive.
Inflation screws people with savings, which excludes the poorest.
How about lets have parents have more choice in their kids schooling?

Multiple choices within a district? Vouchers? Something!
Why is that funny?

You feel he could have done a better job - they both tried, Blue Origin has lasted longer and achieved more. Reality says he couldn't and didn't do a better job, so your model is inaccurate somewhere.

A quick Google suggests Carmack's net worth is ~40 million, and Bezos' ~49 billion, with over 500 million invested in Blue Origin - and experience running a successful big company. That doesn't sound like dim prospects for Bezos, does it?
I actually love such code, as long as the vars or funcs are named capitalizeWords.
This type of code is the difference between long term investment/cure vs short term gain/steroid.
I cannot imagine a boiler plate 'for loop' with assigning and re-assigning and doing all sorts of convoluted branching.
> If you're so poor as to not be able to afford a large pack of toilet paper, sacrifice one of your dish rags

If you assume that the really poor own a dish rag, let alone multiple spares, you may not understand the kind of poverty we're talking about here.
I never understood the whole coupon thing. Can't you just go to Aldi to get a good price without all the hassle?
Tempting. Are your working hours more reasonable than SpaceX? With a family to love, 70-hour weeks just don't fit well.
Is this c/10 spaceship known?
If anyone is interested the Shanghai Containerized Shipping Index is a great source to monitor exports.[1]

[1] http://www1.chineseshipping.com.cn/en/indices/scfinew.jsp
One holiday puts exports down double digits for two months in a row eh? Must be one crazy party.
> if you noticed my work, I did a bad job.

Partial counterpoint: I didn't notice the cameras in the sandbox, so I happily covered them up by accident. It just "felt right" to me for whatever reason to decorate the corners. Oops.
Serious question: can applicants be assured that the project won't be used to kill people? One can never be too sure when government grants are paying the bills.
The previous APNS service doesn't use HTTP at all.
Show HN: HackerWeb – A simple HN iOS app built with React Native
This indeed does look pretty nice. Anyone reviewed the source yet?
I've been doing this for years, not because I want to, but because I'm too poor not to.
My Wet and Wild Bitcoin Weekend on Richard Branson's Island Refuge
Livestream of DeepMind vs. Lee Sedol Match
You know what else is super unreliable? The account you are posting under. Enjoy your hellban!
> Wiping is barbaric! Your bottom begs for salvation

It's funny but I really do fee this way when I use regular toilet paper. You're just smearing poop all around! It's sick!
> Would you suggest to go straight to ES6 then?

ES6, while it's there, is not a must. It's not like the old syntax will stop working. Take in only what you need. For instance, native Promises are handy, arrow functions are concise, but I have yet to find compelling use cases to write generators, proxies, destructuring and all the other funky stuff.

> what could be the best choice to then being able to write chrome extensions and perhaps chrome apps?

If you're writing from v8-based platforms (Node, Chrome), then most of ES6 should be available. https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/#chrome49
> To be blunt, you're abusing the shit out of SOMEONE ELSE’S
> product that you're not even paying for.

I <3 GitHub, but for their own business/values/whatever reason they choose to host open source for free. It’s not like these people have found a loophole and are getting a paid service for free.

AFAIC, that makes every free user a customer. They may not be a paying customer, but it's GitHub’s choice to be in the free hosting business.
Hello everyone, OP here. This is my first iOS app built with React Native. It took me few months since around September.

Feedback welcomed!
Blue Origin is a credible rocket company, in case anybody was wondering. They've got some impressive engineering, a realistic, incremental long-term plan, and pockets deep enough to pay for it.
Most of my work on an ecommerce platform doesn't need much attention to algorithmic complexity, but everyone on my team still curses the guy who wrote an O(n^4) algorithm in our checkout pipeline (discounts, promos, shipping, tax, etc). More than a couple items in your cart and you couldn't checkout because the thread would spin forever. I want to work with a team of people who can recognize these things immediately, even if it's not an absolute requirement for the job.
That was a timing weakness in an older version of iOS that was patched in software. Previously you could just cut power at a precise monent and get unlimited attempts. It's no longer exploitable.
> I might have to use 'xclip' to go about making something equivalent.

Right now my code just shells out to pbcopy on Mac, but you may be interested in pyperclip[1] which provides cross-platform access to the clipboard.

[1] https://github.com/asweigart/pyperclip
I don't understand how you can read "our use of git as our package manager is better than some other package managers we won't name :wink:" is an example of not understanding the problem. It looks more like someone who doesn't want to accept that the problem is on their end.
That's the way it should be. I'm happy for the kids in your district. It's ironic, we moved from Berkeley to our current location because of the schools. My wife went to Berkeley High and I used to work a couple of blocks from it. I had a lot of relatives that went there. I really didn't want my kid to go there. Perhaps that was a mistake. I really don't know.
The subthread turned into a flamewar.

The root comment wasn't off-topic, but it wasn't helpful either, because of the snarky second sentence. It's typical for such a comment to nudge the thread in the wrong direction.
That is sort of the premise behind a whole slew of very successful dating apps isnt it?

Spend several hours perfecting a profile to increase your odds?
It's the largest mass human migration on earth, and it happens annually.
Fantastic! Trying it now. Love that you used Typescript.
Seriously? If you don't mind, email me (qbix.com/about) and I'm interested in speaking more about it.
Don't Authy store some of your secrets server-side?
My god are you ever a pedantic asshole.
That's awesome. Came here to say that 91 keeps killing my gut-instincts!
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Cost of living, humidity, unbelievable corruption, traffic, lack of tech, deadly and destructive hurricanes and probably the worst internet access in a major city.

On the other hand, it does have Chicken Kitchen and Samurai, effectively canceling out all of those other items IMO.
This peaked my curiosity since I'm considering moving there. You must be exaggerating a bit since I just looked it up, and around the winter solstice the sun rise set times are like 7:55 - 4:20.
I bought a house on Russian River when I realized I'd never be able to afford SF. I spent a lot of time in those towns while coming up to work on the house. I found the culture shock too hard to deal with and ended up renting the house out. Sebastopol is a gorgeous town with its own personality (not something I could say for Santa Rosa). But it's still quite expensive to get a house there and I don't know what the job situation is like.
Its clear neither of the commentators knows anything about AI. I wish they would talk about the strategy, what they do know.
This article presents one theory of why the poor pay more.

Alternate theories are that (some) poor people have weak impulse control, are bad at delayed gratification, and/or have low intelligence.

In reality the causes are very likely a mix of all these factors, but the article makes no attempt to even consider other explanations.
Is that a retort or simply an unrelated observation?

Edit: My intent was to understand your perspective (and argue...), but this comment goes over my head, and it seems as though it was a thinly veiled insult.
Democrats &Republicans Planning Corporate Giveaway–to the Tune of $400B
Another +1 on Minneapolis. A growing tech scene, lots of outdoor activities, low unemployment (2.5%!) and very affordable.

Been here 5 years now, and it's the best place I've lived
I do not envy those who place their quality of life in the middle of a pissing contest between Bezos and Musk.
This is really cool, and very similar to a hierarchical note taking app idea I've been kicking around. Kudos to Aardappel.
Unexpected evidence of a new particle at LHC
It's not as crazy as it sounds. Compositional programming tools and intent parsing is a remarkable combination. Simple process based tools can be driven by voice interface without much hassle.
There's also zypper from SUSE/openSUSE.
Gusto is hiring engineers in SF and Denver to build payroll, benefits, and HR
It'd be cool if the US and other involved countries weren't so wary of China militarily. If we didn't have to counter their military, that could free up money to buy more of their exports.

It seems kind of silly to threaten, however obliquely, your customers.
No one is saying you can't make money in China anymore, only that the data coming out of China is really bad considering their huge growth over the past 20 years. They have a growth target between 6.5% and 7%, in the U.S. we would kill for that...but in China that is very much subpar.