skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Many people are just completely excluded from the 'official' unemployment statistics.

Every country reports unemployment similarly. The system we use has classes, so yes you can look at both U3 and U6 and the still the US comes out on top, if compared to the same class. The US's high employment rate is unquestionable, as much as you hate it and wish it to be worse.

>. Mean GDP per capita is fairly high BUT median, which is a much more important metric

Real Median Household Income is almost excactly the GDP per capita in the USA.

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/MEHOINUSA672N

https://www.google.com/search?q=gdp+per+capita+usa&ie=utf-8&...

>Greece and Spain are far from 'feel good socialism'

They absolutely are. Their programs are unaffordable, especially in Greece's case. The government is the biggest employer there and literally writes checks it cannot back because its bullied by the unions and leftist electorate to do so. Eventually you need to pay your bills and the Greeks simply cannot.

> Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, where quality of life and happiness is regularly rated as higher than the US.

Because people are naturally racists and in ethnocentrist cultures people are happy. White loves white. Why is that a plus to you? Melting pot life will always have more strife. Also those countires are a fraction of the size of the USA. Denmark is a mere 5m people, about half of the Chicago metropolitan area. Compared that to a 330m juggernaut is silly. Sweden is about the population of the Chicago metropolitan area. Germany has a multi-payer health care system just like the US does, its much more to the right than the other countries you mentioned.

>Yeah, that worked out magnificently in 2008.

Every country has economic issues that come and go. The US has been the lead performer since WWII. We're seeing the destruction of Greece right now with no real way out. There's very different than the once in 30 years recession almost all economies suffer from. Your precious Germany had some bad dealings both political and economically in the 30s and 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. I guess we arent allowed to talk about that ,but anything in the US's history is fair game, eh?
This might be asking for too much, but why not use more of the image meta-data than these computer vision techniques?

If I were blind, I really wouldn't care that this is an image of "two people, smiling". Facebook has facial recognition, tagging, and locations. It would be much more valuable to me to say "Peter and Laura smiling at Channel Islands State Park."
Reddit Steps Up Anti-Harassment Measures with New Blocking Tool
Rational Reproduction
Is Tfl the focus of the election ? I would vote for anybody who decides to build more bike leans and pedestrian-only places instead.
20 free deploys a month? Is every update a deploy?
Maybe using upvotes divided by age as a metric would help with the first problem... although I suspect the distribution of upvotes over time is some kind of exponential decay... hrm.
As somebody who works on a data exploration platform (Looker <- disclosure), I'd say that far from making us freak out, it makes us super happy (which is why we're so excited to partner with Segment).

I can't tell you how many potential customers are crazily excited about the idea of centralizing the data that all their apps produce into one central warehouse and putting Looker on top of that, but are stymied by the middle step of actually getting the data OUT of the vendors' APIs and IN to their own warehouse. Being able to point them to an off-the-shelf solution for that problem is a big win for us.
Yes, and a word count limitation for the original post!
Software teams ship more often with JIRA Software and Bitbucket
I suppose you could look at the quality of the application (without any guidelines being set) as part of how you'd like to select companies/founders? So those who are capable communicators and can clearly explain what their business does (or will do) stand out vs those who can't.
Back Catalog Sales Overtake New Releases
Bonus points for the most creative pull requests. Chocolate starfish, rusty sherrif's badge and brown eye are all missing.
Why not increase the number of states? That way there is more political autonomy for smaller groups. There already exists a large political divide between, say, West and East Washington; upstate New York and NYC; Bay Area and other parts of California.

Instead of those population centers exerting their will upon the rest of the state, it would be better to have more & smaller political units that better represent their people.
Ah, the Scunthorpe problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
Yes-- even regardless of whether or not you are invited for an S16interview, you can still apply again this way.
Simple question: If we've already done a Show HN can we do a Apply HN?
A couple questions:

(1) I notice that your pricing chart mentions storage. I'm wondering what that typically would consist of? Only thing I can think of are static assets as I imagine a codebase — even with a million npm module dependencies — wouldn't come close to 1GB let alone 100.

(2) Is it possible to back your apps with a database/datastore? Say I want to use MongoDB with my app. Would I need to purchase a third party service and set the MONGO_URL in the env? Are there any plans to offer database services as add-ons?
Why don't you use read-only media (CDs, DVDs) for your master key (backup)?

Those are very hard to temper with, while USB sticks are trivial to temper with (be it accidentally or by someone with malicious intent).
It's definitely outdated, or at least location dependent. The average rent in Manhattan in 2/16 was $3,850. Landlords won't rent to you unless you earn 40x the monthly rent which is $154k. In Brooklyn, the average is $2,716 which ends up being $108,640. (http://www.mns.com/brooklyn_rental_market_report)
I wouldn't blindly use this as a blacklist for spam etc, lots of words here like "vagina" might be OK on a medical site or even some racial slurs if a news agency is reporting a quote etc.

Definitely a good list to use as a starting point.
Oh I do. But I hear this a lot more than I see it, especially in the Midwest without a degree.
This doesn't address the poster's issue: If you reinstall every time, the results won't always be the same (not that I personally hold this as a big issue, I'd consider it on the programmer to freeze their package.json)
Will there be a new toplink for "Apply HN" submissions? I think random sorting on that page would be a good idea to encourage all submissions get an opportunity for discussion.
Yep, they are different things.
> Well, that is We the People who have to vote in this case.

Well, you go on and boot out the current incumbents, and then vote in the next wave, and see what happens.
I feel it would be less drama-inducing, and probably as effective, to run a lottery.
To be fair, they would also be freed of the health care costs that are currently well above $10k/year for your example couple.
Agree that it's only one part of the data lifecycle, but if you don't have your own team of engineers to build all those connectors, you can't even get to the point of being able to transform your data.

We at Looker (disclosure: work there), are totally focused on making the transformations fast, flexible and powerful. But without the data to transform, there's nothing we can do to help customers. So we're super psyched that Segment is stepping in to fill this void and get the E and L done, so we can T.
May be i did not look at right place. There seems to be no accessibility support ? Is it something that is planned for the future release ?
I suppose they can remain separate forever. I'm certainly ok with owning a separate computer for games and movies.
Multi-desktop window pinning is a nice addition. I've usually got YouTube or Netflix running on a second monitor, and switching desktops always meant those windows would disappear. Now that I can pin them, virtual desktops will be usable for me again.
>or downloading an old browser that is still usable in 32bit

Are you implying newer browsers don't work with 32bit? Chrome and FireFox run as 32-bit and all IE versions still use a 32-bit renderer. These things are true on 64-bit and 32-bit machines, at least on Windows.
Hilarious. See if you can find:

- a word from the 10 commandments

- a great jazz album from Herbie Hancock

- a James Bond film

- the surname of a US presidential candidate for the 2012 republican nomination
I think this feature would be a perfect fit for a Popper.js plugin!
For anyone thinking of using this: You will never be able to make people not say “bad” things.

“I want to stick my long-necked Giraffe up your fluffy white bunny.”

http://habitatchronicles.com/2007/03/the-untold-history-of-t...
I see a lot of 'entrepreneurs' who spend their time getting their fb friends to vote for them in local startup pitch competitions, they don't actually spend any time making a company, but are very effective at getting votes.

The HN community might just be a better barometer, hope to see this experiment work out and bring attention to worthy and unnoticed startups.
Oregon Trail Generation: Life Before and After Mainstream Tech
Does this exist for other programming languages (personally looking for Python and Java)? I love this cheat-sheet style reference.
So you'd make recommendations based on "watching" something, as opposed to actually using it?

Good call.
The term "personal branding" is an oxymoron.
> Tell me again why well-off American programmers continue living in that country without the most basic of human rights?

My family. I have a dream of moving to Iceland, Norway, or Sweden and becoming an expatriate. My wife and children do not share that.
Self-driving delivery vehicle startup Dispatch raises $2M seed round led by A16Z
They are just tagging, but there are ML solutions for describing in natural language.

Demo: http://googleresearch.blogspot.ro/2014/11/a-picture-is-worth...
sounds like my suggestion was a bad idea. (won't let me delete).
Any chance of some clarification around the limits of the free tier?

> 20 FREE deploys per month

So I can only run the `now` command 20 times each month? What are you using to track how many times I've run it already? IP? NPM username? Package name?

>1MB size limit per file

Is this at deployment time or is this also enforced at runtime? If I deploy a 900kb sqlite file, then add 200kb of records to it at runtime, what's going to happen?

> Perfect for open-source demos, classrooms, tutorials & testing.

Are 20 deploys per month really enough to use in a teaching context? I'd love to use this tool in the web tech module I teach at my university, but I think most students would burn through 20 deploys in a week, let alone a month. Is there any chance this limit could be re-thought for teaching purposes?

I wouldn't mind if some of the other restrictions were changed, but free tiers that halt development til the start of next month don't sound great for learning to me.
Anyone who takes this to mean that "in the next ten years, it will be possible to produce a contact lens that has a camera and a powered display capable of any resolution that involves like triple-digits pixels in the horizontal and vertical, and, god forfend, an actual battery for both, for any price including $50M per lens," is dreaming.
my favorite story on this was back in BBS days this one board would change the f word to "gently caressing" and it really changed the tone of heated arguements.
Tigers declared extinct in Cambodia
Three steps to help you build the next ‘Uber for X’ app
I totally agree with you that many corporations seem rather greedy. I wish those corporations were more nuanced, too. For example, I don't mind if Intel and AMD make locked down CPU and GPUs for entertainment computers, but it would have been nice if they also made some open CPUs and GPUs.

I wonder if this greed will be profitable for them in the long run? Obviously, most people don't care whether their hardware is open or not. However, a tiny minority of (very) computer literate users do care (a lot). Will it have any impact if this tiny minority abandons the x86 platform?
Many scientific “truths” are, in fact, false
I think we're on the same page to some extent. What I meant by 'ranking by comments' is that we want the ranking to depend on the quality of the discussion. That's the one thing that can't be faked.

That's how the ranking of HN stories works now. It's a combination of upvotes and human curation by users (e.g. flagging) and moderators.

So there's going to be some combination of technical and non-technical factors. How exactly will that work? We don't know yet. Let's see what happens and figure it out together. That's part of the experiment: we'll figure it out in the open and adapt to feedback. But let's wait until we have some data to look at.

FWIW, my experience with HN is that genuine community interest is relatively easy to recognize.
Quick Start to Coding AI
What's the incentive for helping you pick the next big startup? What if you gave users a trivial amount of equity for their input?
I don't believe that drug abuse is a result of not learning from punishment. Looking at it in that light seems counterproductive to me. I have made a lot of questionable choices with regards to drug use, and I have lived and been close friends with with addicts of all types. I've seen addictions to heroin, alcohol, benzodiazepines, and even weed, and one factor is always consistent. People who develope serious addictions are those that use drugs as a way to solve, or more often hide from, their problems. This may sound slightly cliched, but people who use drugs to enhance reality don't have the same problems as those that use them to avoid it. My personal litmus test is if you think Xanax is the greatest drug ever, you should avoid most drugs like the plague.
> That's a laugh. They get paid handsomely to leave.

Fair enough. I was trying to make an analogy about the leaders being held responsible. If you can think of a better one, I'll change it.

That said, I can tell you from personal experience (as seen in a friend) that nearly any corporate executive who gets booted by the board or CEO will be tremendously bruised and hurt by the ordeal. Yeah, it's a punishment most of us would bear for a x million dollar retirement/severance package, but it's still no walk in the park.
Remember when Apple said hell had frozen over when they launched iTunes for Windows?

This is that moment for Microsoft.
Was this list written by a guy?
Apply HN: Bubblin Superbooks
I talk to people, online and off. Like this.

After a ~5 year period of strictly avoiding mainstream media, I do now occasionally read non-political stories from Times, Wapo, Wall St Journal, etc, but I'm very cautious and aware of potential biases when I'm doing so. And I limit my total consumption of those sources to a few stories a week.
> planned cities in Pakistan, well-developed waste management systems, advanced ship building, [...] nuclear weapons

One of these is not like the other...
Some fixes are just too small to ever be mentioned:

- "We polished the Wi-Fi flyout UI and fixed an issue where text entry into a Wi-Fi password field was noticeably top-aligned rather than centered."
I wonder if such result might be a result of some methodological error (not representative sample, some metric calculations biases, click frauds, etc). Otherwise this is rather sad article :(
> - the surname of a US presidential candidate for the 2012 republican nomination

That one is a bit of a special case. His name is a swear word because it's his name. As a protest against him, people decided to make his name into a dirty word, and seem to have succeeded.
Bag. Duck face. Nails. Duck face.
Minus antialiasing, the stencil buffer version of this technique has been described in the Red Book for a long time: http://www.glprogramming.com/red/chapter14.html#name13
Please add options to use Windows Azure as a warehouse!
I love reading stuff like this. I disagree!
Agreed. I don't use any of those services. Seems the product integrations limits the customer pool quite a bit
>Jeff Fischbach, a forensic technologist for the defense, said there is no evidence that the child pornography was ever seen by anyone who used the computer, much less Gartenlaub.

>The government’s own forensic expert, Bruce W. Pixley, said he could not find any evidence of the material being downloaded onto any of the computers, the defense noted. That means it had to have been copied onto the computer — but by whom is unknown.

This guy was still convicted regardless, not to mention the fishy nature of the case.

I've always thought that so-called "Advanced Persistent Threats" or state-level actors—considering the ease and degree to which they can own most targets—are very likely capable of planting incriminating evidence with such precision so as to appear forensically sound in virtually every regard.

In reality though, it seems all that's required is removable media, rudimentary technical skills, and a dumb jury.
If you want to read on distance field rendering : http://blog.qt.io/blog/2011/07/15/text-rendering-in-the-qml-.... This is used in QML's text rendering (not Qt widgets though).
Probably a top link, yes, but in good minimalist form we'll wait until it's clear we need it. (Edit: we need it. In the meantime, please use the Algolia link I included at the top. It's not like we wrote code for this in advance or anything—that would be cheating :))

Random sorting is a good idea. We'll think about that.
but i want zsh
That sounds like a really good idea to me. It could help normalize things so that an application doens't get dinged for posting at the wrong time, etc.
I think that there's a sense that, like, if you go and endorse a Nike shoe, okay, you might get paid a lot of money, but you still go and do a photo-shoot and maybe spend a frustrating day being filmed doing a jump-shot and have the director saying, "Okay, but can you do that with more intensity," whereas going to a club is supposed to be fun -- indeed, such fun that lots of basically ordinarily people pay fairly large amounts of money to go to it.

So these people are being paid not to, like, fake go to a club in front of cameras and it's work, but literally be paid to have fun.

I expect that the actuality of it is a little more complex than that, but there does seem like there's a grain of truth in it, too.
Indeed. This has been my main complaint with virtual desktops so far.

I've had to resort to dirty hacks with cmd'er and screen to get the same cmd sessions across virtual desktops. This should definitely make things smoother.
I get about the same result using my favorite online Bayesian split test calculator:
http://www.peakconversion.com/2012/02/ab-split-test-graphica...
I'm not sure, but the inclusion of "vagina" would not seem to indicate it, as "penis" is included in the list as well. This seems to be a list of sex related words, without additional considerations.
Are there any plans for Warehouses support for IBM's DashDB?
A Groundbreakin New Declarative Method to Update Object Databases
Aha... Vernor Vinge predicted the device. I never realised the future can become past so fast.
Hey everyone! I manage and run the Fellowship program at YC. I just want to build on top of what Dan wrote about being nice. We’re not asking you to do this because we think it’s good manners. We actually believe it’s the right way to think and act like the best investors.

It’s easy to form some really bad habits when you sit in a position of power to judge the potential of a person, a team, an idea and their execution—believing that you know better and focusing your time on finding weakness.

The best investors don’t spend a lot of time on what can go wrong. They already know the odds are against every startup that ever comes into existence. They already know every startup is a shit show. Those will be the reasons why all the other investors will miss out on an unpredictable opportunity. The best investors try to figure out what can go right. They dream a little with the startup and they then sell that vision back to the founders.

Remember that the big wins in startups come from the margins. For you to find what no one else could have predicted, know that it will take the shape of something that isn’t obvious.

Being nice gives you a good foundation for being open and optimistic, which is what we strive for when we read applications here at YC.

Thanks again for trying this out with us. I'm really excited about what we discover together.
It's just Ubuntu. Apt-get zsh and then install oh-my-zsh (because I know you want that too).
They could have used PCA[1] on their feature set and let a human come up with these; they claim to use machine learning, not that this checklist was generated as a result of machine learning.

Otherwise, maybe they have an algorithm that looked at resulting classifications from learning and flagged inputs with the largest and most consistent variance across classes.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_component_analysis
My 2c: "Upvotes" is too noisy a metric, and will give too much importance to HN ranking. I strongly suggest tweaking the HN ranking model for "Apply HN" posts to be as random as possible.
"Huge tits" but not "huge melons", "nigga" but not "niggaz"? Who wrote this thing? I think this is about 0.1% of the "naughty" words out there, and it's futile anyway (former school sys admin here, I know what I'm talking about ;) This is before we get onto the desirability of blindly blocking words like "nigger" which have different meanings depending on who is using them, ref. "my nigger", or "tits", ref. "blue tits are eating the nuts again".
Not sure if you're joking, but zsh will more than happily run on "Bash on Windows".
Over the years I’ve seen how little ability you have as a programmer, no matter how good you are, at making a difference or changing things that are broken. I simply didn’t realize how little room you have to advance as just a programmer (or even architect or the like); the power to change exists at a level not available to you as a mere delivery device.

Not only will you not have the ability to change much (either about your environment, or in what direction your company takes as a whole) -- you'll frequently find your fate decided by people who have even less general business knowledge than you do, and little or no experience actually managing people.
How can someone tag you if you don't even have a FB profile?

I just tried to tag the fictional "Jimmy Andersefsdfsdfsd" ad it doesn't work....
I hate tipping culture because as a minority, my actions are likely to feed common cognitive biases about group behavior. Uber is less stressful for me because I can pay the agreed upon price and we'll both be happy. I hope reputation systems end tipping everywhere. They allow people to choose to pay for better service ahead of time.
Do you refer to something like this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440665
Heyerdahl was a man of extraordinary capability, but he had a tendency to go off on wild tangents once in a while. It's interesting how those wild tangents were, in a sense, what fueled some of his more spectacular projects.
Thought: in the original Wisdom of Crowds book, an important point was that people's selections need to be independent of one another, otherwise you get bandwagon/cascade effects. I don't know how that could be made to factor in to things.
The Center for Corporate Studies
That awesome dude. I got into amateur astronomy about two years ago when I first moved to the bay area from new york. I just purchased a celestron nextstar 4SE can't wait to test it out.
I agree. Some kind of app that requires users to log in then randomizes what they can vote on.
George Carlin would be proud...
How can it have commercial value if released with a "libre" license?
> Something that it's not clear to me is if this "public art" has been paid with public money

Much of it has.