skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well the facts about health are true because they come from the World Health Organization of the United Nations, which compiles health-related data on all countries. It's a reliable source.

You're right about not running countries like companies - I was just making a point about management style. It's important to consider ideas from all sources and toxic to tie yourself to ideology. Free market, socialist, etc. - fundamentally, these are all methods of solving problems for people, and there is nothing wrong or controversial about borrowing the best ideas and practices from each. I think most people would agree that a government should marry itself to finding solutions, not ideology.

[1] http://www.who.int/countries/cub/en/
Hear hear.

It's really hard to empathise with some of the issues until you can experience. I never realised the issues aging eyesight causes - until I aged! I'm long sighted. I can mostly still see fine, except my life long trick of moving things to arm's length no longer works - my arms aren't long enough any more. Or the distance is now such that the tiny text of the instructions or ingredients is now too small.

Aging sucks :)

I imagine the day-to-day frustrations are very different for someone with short sight, macular degeneration or the multitude of other eyesight disorders.

Android is terrible at being accessible - I can change font sizes, or zoom the website, but crucial elements don't. Plenty of apps "know best". Or there is some limit of zooming the website or its font. Or you zoom and it completely screws up the columns. In ten or fifteen years, perhaps less, Android will be useless to me. I would need a magnifying glass to use a phone! It's not an issue now, but I can clearly see where it will be, in my forseeable future.

There's quite a few colour blindess simulators out there (http://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simula... http://www.etre.com/tools/colourblindsimulator/) but none of them that I ever found let you plug in a URL.

I'm not aware of scientifically sound vision simulators - we need some. Same goes for other senses and disorders.

Given how the web, and technology, work it should be easy to do much better.
Huvudmeny: Main Menu

Frysrum: Freezer

Maskinrum: Engine

Fryshus: Cold Storage
It'll depend on the codebase of course, but I think it's a lot less work if you're using the flux frameworks that seem to be popular with modern JS apps.

I think it's interesting that Elm and ClojureScript have chosen immutability as the default. I wonder what other languages have chosen this.
Opera’s $1.2B sale: Shocking underdog victory or cruel twist of fate?
Single letter change
It's Swedish. Heading says "Main menu" and the boxes seem to be rooms marked "freezer" and "cooler/freezer" as well as "freeze house". Upper left you've got the outside temperature.
I definitely agree, but Monument Valley only costs $4. The DLC is another $2. I'm totally OK with the length considering how inexpensive it is.
This resonates with me. I've already been planning to delete my LinkedIn account soon. Just having it and maintaining it has more cost than it provides me value. I'm just doing a few preparation steps before I do it (basically, a transition plan, like exporting all the valuable to me information from there into something I'm happier to maintain).
While that is a fair consideration, for practical reasons there are very real dangers to ignoring inequality within the borders of a country. With great inequality history has given us many examples of sever political instability leading to violent revolutions and sometimes wars.

It will not benefit the rest of the world if say the US, collapsed due to severe internal conflict. There has been studies showing that high inequality actually hampers economic growth. Thus inequality in the US is not necessarily to the benefit of poor people elsewhere.
I can only guess it's people who think of their IP as a password. Like, who's going to guess the IP, right.
From the comments section:

Richard Rider 8 hours ago

Before you get all mushy about the Menlo Park firefighters with their pittance of a salary, go to this link to see how much these typical CA "public servants" are paid (and these are old figures that have since risen):

http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/menlo-park-fire-pr...

Scroll through the 8 pages of employees. With benefits, the top guys make over $300K a year. Scores of these firefighters receive well over $100K in cash annually -- plus benefits, which includes a pension for 30 years' service that is usually HIGHER than their regular salary.

And remember this: 72% of America's firefighters are VOLUNTEERS. In CA, we've all but outlawed volunteer fire departments in all but a few rural enclaves.

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In global perspective these salaries are very high and it is probably also contributing to high house prices.

I don't live in the US so I don't really have any opinions on this but I suspect those getting the short end of the stick more likely are the people working in Starbucks than these guys.
Aren't most of the expensive staff those who contribute the most to a company's success? So why would you cull there? I mean what's the thought process behind firing those and keeping those who contribute less?
Anecdote of one: Looking back, I've been depressed most of my adult life, from 20 to my current 58. A few years ago I went to CrossFit for a couple years. I went from not being able to do a single pullup, to being able to crack off 20+.

It didn't help. For me. I still wanted to kill myself, and all the while I went to the gym I felt it was pointless.

Again, that's an anecdote of one. The cause of my depression and someone else's, and the effective treatment, are potentially very different.

Great if exercise helps a particular depression. But if it doesn't, the that person is fit and depressed.

A mental health professional is the best bet.
Lots of humans are Chinese.
This happens with any chronic illness especially ones where the cause and treatment are vague.

"You need to do X."

Suffer from a chronic illness and you'll get all sorts of unsolicited comments from strangers to give up or get more Y. While perhaps we'll meaning these comments are grating, overly simplistic, and unhelpful - most people have tried everything under sun and more. Their medical issues aren't as simple as you make them out to be.

Exercise is probably helpful for someone moderately depressed or just feeling a little down. Probably not very helpful for the seriously depressed. I know it was unhelpful and somewhat harmful for my [very serious] depression.
Wait, if the bad influence of riff raff is kept out, what's to explain the staggering teen suicide rate in Palo Alto? It's the best place in the world! Our high cost of living dictates it!
>LinkedIn’s own employees don’t see the value of updating their own LinkedIn profile!

Huh? It's a company of 8,000+ people, and a random screenshot of 4 profiles leads you to this conclusion? In any company of thousands you're going find at least some people that don't find utility in the product that company is creating. Surely that's obvious? You'd need to actually perform a proper statistical study to know for sure.
> you might risk losing some people forever as their skills become so obsolete

This is likely why I'll likely never be able convince myself to take a break from programming until retirement.

Unless, of course, today's chatbots evolve to write code better than we do. Or at least cheaper.
It's refreshing to see the rentier class admitting their political goals so directly.
This makes no sense from a global perspective. Why was Andy keen to reduce job growth in Asia and also reduce technology growth in the whole world? Did he think Americans were more deserving than Asians? That should have been clearly unethical from a humanitarian point of view considering the higher poverty levels that are still present in Asia.

If local=better then perhaps he should have focused on job growth in California and worried about companies that export their growth phase jobs and expertise to other parts of the US - especially underdeveloped parts which won't contribute much back except cheap labor. That's also costing Californians their jobs. What makes Iowa or Arkansas more important than a booming megacity in China?
Came here to say this. I stopped reading at the second sentence.
I would much rather have another airport built than another prison.
Don't forget ostriches who use walking as their only means of transportation.

Also remember our friend the kangaroo. Oh and the T. rex.
The seems like the kind of thing you'd expect to see implemented in Redox.[0]

[0] http://www.redox-os.org/
Right. If you know the person well, you can probably make a reasonably good decision if it will help or hurt. But on a random internet message board, we don't. Undoubtably there are some people listening who would react as you've described, and some who might actually find a benefit from getting outside. So, if you're listening and suffering, go see a professional. Just keep in mind that if that seems impossible, start by getting yourself out the front door.
Haskell Build Environment at ThoughtBot [video]
His comparison implied that actual sex is 'better' than pornography. It's more sensual. Draws harder on the emotions, and involves more drama and mess than is depicted in pornography.

If anything pornography is a whitewash of the rich tapestry of sex to make it into something bland, banal, and utterly mechanical wherein you can slot the entire act into single categories and stick them on a website.
Could be a research or decoy honeypot.
Be careful, industry subsidies can violate WTO rules and get export markets closed off. America has treaties with lots of countries promising not to do that. Those other countries also promise not to do that. If America violates it, their trading partners will too and the global economy will be hurt, including America.
Having a plaintext ledger of yourself is always worth the time invested. The author of Beancount (another plaintext accounting tool) wrote a doc comparing Beancount and ledger http://furius.ca/beancount/doc/comparison

Personally I use Beancount because the BQL query language and the beancount-fava project. Just look at http://fava.pythonanywhere.com/income_statement/ and see it for yourself.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jawn
That may be true, but in Spain pornography is shown daily after 11pm. Any minor who can stay up late, and has access to a television will see it if they desire.

Essentially the same is true in the USA or anywhere in the world, any minor who has unrestricted access to the internet can see pornography.
Unix and the entire Unix OS/process model is an impediment to "direct manipulation" programming.
If a company builds something useless, it's not my money, so I don't care. Gov't projects spend tax money, so I care.
A cool word I probably overuse is "sketch", which I've only ever known to be used on the West coast. I'm in Vegas, which is landlocked in the desert but we seem to be a bit of an extension of The Left Coast, Vegas being the only blue region of Nevada. As far as I can tell the word percolated down to us through alt and underground culture, primarily hitting my network through early 2000's trading of skateboard VHS tapes. A lot of our memes came from those vids, 2005's Baker 3 being the apex of that cultural transference (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Skateboards#Videography).

"Sketch" is a bastardization of "sketchy", and depending on which of those variations someone in my town uses to describe a person or a situation, I know whether they'll share certain cultural touchstones with me.
Pascal will definitely use HBM in it's initial release, the cut down mid range versions later might come with GDDR5/GDDR5X.

Anyhow atm HBM doesn't seem to offer much other than increase the cost and thermal envelope of the package.

Nvidia for 3 generations now have been continuously shipping cards with lower memory bandwidth (with heavy focus on compression) than AMD even without HBM and continuously not only remaining competitive but managing in most cases to be the top performer.

Memory bandwidth is already not being saturated even with GDDR5/4 @ 256bits, HBM has some other benefits than raw bandwidth but those for the most part aren't very noticeable as far as gaming goes.

For compute the memory performance is almost completely irrelevant as you are working with very small batches and the biggest latency is in the compute operations them selves most people that build compute setups tend to under clock the memory considerably in order to save power (which can be used to further overclock the GPU) and to reduce the thermal output by as much as possible as they usually stack multiple cards into a single machine.
I found this paper incredibly interesting, and I think I'd love to work in research in this area. Does anyone have some resources to learn more/keywords to search? I'm currently a biomedical engineering undergraduate, so the most relevant course I've had has been Digital Logic, which I absolutely loved and did very well in, but I'd really appreciate advice on additional courses to try to take.
A very positive article about the de facto symbol of racial segregation and police profiling in LA.

For a somewhat different perspective you may refer to:

https://vanwinkles.com/los-angeles-police-department-helicop...
Unaffectionately referred to as the “ghetto bird,” the endlessly circling police chopper is as powerful a symbol of “Los Angeles” as the Hollywood sign — though it represents a much darker side of the city. As its unflattering pet name suggests, the choppers don’t usually hover above million-dollar homes in Malibu. They patrol-lower income neighborhoods spread out across the city.

http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/08/12/growing-up-in-t...
nothing—not Deney Terio, not Philip Bailey—competed with the ghetto birds. Helicopters, lots of them, often pulled my gaze away from those houses. Cops in the sky. Almost always at night, the police helicopters roared by with bright lights that ripped through bedroom curtains and past the squeezed-shut eyelids of men, women, and children. And they’d come so low, I imagined feeling the chop of the blades against my numb cheeks. My stomach vibrated with the rumbling, and my heart skipped and I forgot to breathe as sirens wailed so loud and so close and swirling blue and red lights reflected off my bedroom’s yellow and green floral wallpaper and I prayed for it to be over.

Ice Cube - Ghetto Bird
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhsfn9IyiLQ
Why, oh why must you swoop through the hood
like everybody from the hood is up to no good.
You think all the girls around here are trickin
up there lookin like Superchicken
At night I see your light through my bedroom window
But I ain't got shit but the pad and pencil
I can't wait till I hear you say
"I'm going down, mayday, mayday."
Personally I’d love to have native apps for media-intensive and “app like” websites. Why? Well, for those sorts of sites a native app will easily perform better and their existence would allow me to dedicate my browser to more lightweight/traditional sites focused on delivering text and images.
I knew a group of friends who would use the word "donkey" for many many things.
There's also a crap ton of malware on the Play store
Sometimes when people say "keep your resume up to date" what they actually mean is job change preparation more generally.

Keep your resume up to date; give some thought to what you'd like your next job to be; do that learning/practice/professional development you've been putting off because it wasn't needed for your last job but might be for your next; make sure you're still in touch with your friends at other companies whom you've been meaning to catch up with but you've both been busy; consider whether there are any company perks or equipment you've become reliant on and decide what you'll do if you lose them; and look over your finances to make sure your arrangements reflect your expectations for the future.
I absolutely love graphical explanations for concepts. Keep 'em coming!
The high valuations for these companies can only be explained by the expectation that they will maintain their market-share for years to come. But the fact that they're willing to throw so much money at buying out the competition is, to me at least, a red flag that their market position is actually fragile. When Facebook bought Instagram for a billion dollars, they weren't interested in any of Instagram's engineers, technology, or infrastructure, just in defending market-share. Other than for the bad optics, everyone at Instagram could have retired shortly after the deal for all they cared. The threat was eliminated. This isn't a sustainable practice. I can't help but feel the whole thing is a game of hot potato. Greater Fool Theory in action.
This is a thread of generalizations heaped upon already heavily beleaguered minorities, given that most people who suffer from these generalizations are women and trans men.

Here are some links, to pieces regarding people who have had kids and startups, really the only people who're qualified to comment on the subject, and you can choose to educate yourselves (or, you know, not):

http://www.californiababy.com/meet-jessica.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/business/nurturing-a-baby-...

http://mamalode.com/story/detail/an-interview-with-michelle-...

http://fortune.com/2015/06/22/founder-startup-hidden-pregnan...

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/02/05/tinsel-founder-aniy...

This is your bonus piece: http://madamenoire.com/599068/pregnant-woman-finishes-psych-...

Finally, I'm going share a story about my friend from grad school who wrote her thesis while 7-9 months pregnant, landed a tenure track faculty position in the physics department of the university where she teaches straight out of grad school, gave birth, returned to successfully defend her thesis, and she currently has 2 incredible children and a 25-person lab. Her partner is a very talented chef. So, you know, two demanding careers.

I honestly don't even know what else to say, other than suggest that a better more fruitful question would be, "What can be done to help technical founders who are pregnant and/or have families?"
I have learned many things about programming which in retrospect, would have been much easier to learn if I could have taken a course on it and ask someone questions. Unluckily, I had no mentors, but I wouldn't suggest anyone turn down mentorship if they are offered it.
Computers are all the same now. I often think about that. Especially since I've hauled an old SGI box from work to home, encouraged by someone here on HN. Systems were actually designed differently, let alone the OS and CPU architecture differences. Buses, graphics, memory, almost everything was different from system to system. Now, it comes down to bland server boxes and a race for that power/performance ratio and which OS you're using among a few. On desktop it's not any much different. Sure, systems are extremely powerful now and are getting more so. It's just that homogeneity and dominance of intel&clones kind of killed all the fun out of it. I'm not holding out any hopes for ARM either.
Fascinating article. I got a little bit into the gme a couple years ago - just enough to get a taste of the crazy depth availble (and dedicated grind required to get far) before realizing that it was probably not a game I wanted a lose a couple of years of my life to. I had no idea about board maximizing websites though.
This post is terrifying.
I'm fairly sure I'm depressed, but I feel like I have to hide it in order to protect my mom, who is also depressed. She's been dealing with her depression for about five years now, and thanks to software I've been able to support our family for the past three years (I'm 22), which is fantastic for her and my siblings, but at the same time it makes me feel like I have to be an emotional/financial anchor for the family. Because of all this I've gotten very good at suppressing most of my emotions. I have a hard time maintaining my friendships and meeting new people, and I can't help but resent my own family for something that is really not their fault. They in turn resent me for being cold and distant.

Anyway, sorry for ranting, the article just made me feel like sharing this, for a change.
"Mrs. Calment, physically active all her life, rode a bicycle until she was 100"

That should probably have been a warning sign that she wasn't going to drop dead any time soon.
The difference is the ability to act. If you want to fix the environment, you need the cooperation of many other people to have any kind of dent.

A person which a huge amount of money and power doesn't need the coordination of anyone; he can act alone, and make a meaningful impact.
This isn't something I've used, but the low latency people on the Mechanical Sympathy mailing list seem to talk a lot about pinning cores to particular processes. This paper seems to have a lot of the same underlying considerations.
In my circles (think east coast top-tier university) this is being replaced by "suss", from "suspect". This comes directly from the internet.
Are you suggesting that wealth inequality is lower now than it has ever been?
32Bit wide memory access per channel which is GDDR5, GDDR5X uses 64bits.
Not at all - see senior dev engineer salaries at Google [1]. High 2xx seems reasonable. I may have missed GP's comment about being in finance, otherwise I don't see the relation to finance salaries.

1. https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Senior-Software-Engi...
Kiki Stockhammer.. I haven't heard that name in a long time! Video Toaster basically opened up a possibility to go where you could go with, at least, 10x as expensive SGI+Software at the time. Well, at least 60% of where you could go with an SGI, which was very good at the time. It was disruptive in every sense you could imagine. PCs and Mac were still a distant dream away from video.
Account created 3 days ago, 4 posts, -7 karma. I'm thinking troll.
I'm also from outside the city (30 minutes) and recognized it exactly as described in the article. I've never heard it as a replacement for "the shit", though -- go figure.
It's a bit tricky because the issue here is absolute vs. relative.

The comment you link wants us to think: $100k/year? That's a lot of money! How could anyone be in trouble with that much money? Let's not do anything else for those greedy bastards, they've already got enough! And in absolute terms, it is a lot of money.

But then you consider the relative value: $100k in Menlo Park is not actually very much money at all, given how expensive it is to live in or near Menlo Park in the first place.

And while it's true that there are other people who have it worse, the idea is not to say "how dare you focus on this person, that person over there has it worse", because that leads to never doing anything for anyone (there will always be someone, somewhere who has it worse at any given moment, and thus it'll always be possible to distract effort by shaming anyone who looks at anyone else).

The idea is to ask why it is that such a large amount of money (absolute) terms has such low (relative) value, and whether that's something we should fix, and how to fix it.
dork?
I was being a little bit ironic about the riff-raff. (I was hoping this would be obvious in the context of a discussion of how firefighters and teachers can't afford to live here, but HN tends to be a little humor-impaired.)

But I don't see why you would think that the teen suicide rate would have anything to do with how desirable it is to live in Palo Alto. People get depressed for all kinds of reasons, but how nice your neighborhood is is very rarely one of them. The high suicide rate in PA is tragic. But it doesn't change the fact that PA is a nice place to live if you can afford it, and one of the things that makes it a nice place to live is that the density is low but the wealth concentration is high.