skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your on-demand delivery to a GPS coordinate idea is the best part of this!

I'm not saying don't do the marketplace thing, but if "40% of Online stores in Myanmar loses sales because the delivery person can't find address of the customer" is true, then you have found an amazing market to tap.

Are you based in Myanmar? Can you describe what it's like trying to get something delivered?

Is this a mapping problem, or a city organization/government problem? How many streets are missing from maps? If OpenStreetMap or Google decided to improve the maps would the on-demand delivery market still exist?

Here's what I'm picturing: A retailer has their normal store, either with WhatsApp, Facebook, or maybe even with you. They include a button that says "Buy with Esobo" which kicks the user into your app. The user gives you their payment information and when they click "confirm" your app records their current location (or desired location and time in the future) and notifies the drivers who have signed up to deliver packages. A driver clicks "confirm", drives to the store, picks up the package, and then drives to the user's location, shown as a point on a Map. You'll be relying on drivers' knowledge of the city for better navigation that you can get from the latest maps. You charge a little bit to pay the drivers, you keep a bit for yourself, the retailers are happy because they made a sale, and the users are happy because they got what they wanted for a small delivery fee.

I think this could be absolutely huge in countries without a strong centralized delivery infrastructure.
Almost sounds like an attempt by someone at GCHQ to get a copy of the book before it was released. Given how popular the book was, this would have been a great asset for "trading" with sources.
Poverty is more than lack of money. Lots of people lack funds, but would violently disagree with you assessing them as poor.

Think about Maslow's hierarchy of needs -- people need a base to function properly. When your home can vanish in an instant, it changes your mental stance and influences your behavior negatively.

Government is supposed to represent the people, not slumlords. We've perverted the notion of democracy into some sort of weird embrace where "the economy" (where the economy is whatever special interests weild influence today) is a priority above the public welfare.

If a slumlord, or a corrupt contractor profiting off of others misery (operators of "nonprofit" social services orgs, private prisons, etc) is happy, democracy has failed.
When developing on Windows, one thing that would make it easier to have the kind of tests mentioned in this article, is to make it easier to access CPU performance counters.

I tried it a little while ago and I had to put Windows into test mode or something like that, and write lots of code On linux it seems to be much easier (for example just run 'perf').

Edit: Joe - If you read this, please ask the Microsoft kernel team to expose the CPU hardware performance counters to userspace. Thanks!
> I wonder how Monopoly would play if you got assessed for Income Tax when you passed Go, or perhaps every fifth turn, instead of when you landed on a particular square.

The alternative game to ur-Monopoly, that is "Prosperity", had all rents split up when a player landed on a square. The property owner got a rent payment that reflected the value of the houses/hotels, whereas the rent on the land itself was paid to a common fund.[1]

[1] http://landlordsgame.info/games/lgp-1932/lgp-1932_rules.html
In Memoriam: Merle Haggard, 1937–2016
I think some reasons products like Needle and Google Helpouts don't make it is the time investment, minimal payback, and the fact that this type of information is generally available all over the Internet for free.
I am surprised. I thought 64-bit ARM was the newness headed to the server farms.
I think that's a very open ended question, but a very good scholarly source describing alternative systems to governing resources that isn't too radical but is also substantially different from privatization and market systems is "Governing the Commons" by Elinor Ostrom. She's got a Nobel prize in economics if that lends her work any credibility.
Any time management mentions "leadership" they are trying to set up a system in which managers, by the nature of their job, are succeeding and every else is failing. No management ever adopts things like superior knowledge or ability or even competence, because obviously they would fail at it. For instance, one of Amazon's is 'hire and develop the best' which has nothing to do with any individual jobs at all. So, yes, 'leadership' buzz phrases are a warning sign. As an engineer you learn to ignore this shit. Follow the money. Can the company hire your replacement? Do they have enough money that they don't need engineers? If not, just keep doing your job and following the engineer playbook.
According to [1], £200,000 in 1822 pounds is £20,207,734.91 in 2013 pounds

[1] http://www.whatsthecost.com/cpi.aspx
We had an alternative in Aotearoa for two generations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_housing

It is possible to house every one. Even very sick drug addicts.
It's something else. Take the old synths for instance, their sound wasn't specially great by themselves, but guys like Kraftwerk and Telex, and Black devil disco club were excited with them and did commit a few good tracks. Then the unstable blur of these sounds became something. And more people try to get this sound back, with some success. Music id like the air, it will fill all the space available.
One thing still bothers me as a techie is that the death of Steve Jobs ranked first, and Dennis Ritchie 8th, I know that Hacker News is about business as it's about tech, but I just think that the contributions of Dennis Ritchie to our modern world compared to Steve Jobs are much bigger, I hope they both rest in peace.
Airline safety is currently in a state where it is nearly indistinguishable from perfect. Accident rates are so low that it's no longer possible to put an accurate number on the risk of taking a flight. And all of this has been done while keeping ticket prices at extremely low levels. It would be remarkable for any change to this to result in an improvement, since there's almost nowhere to go but down.
Except your fantasy of a free real estate market doesn't exist. FED policies, by their own admission, serve to artificially drive up real estate prices, which punish the poorest, who don't own property and are forced to rent. This is a direct subsidy to property owners with the size of the subsidy equal to the amount of property owned. These FED efforts (MBS purchasing, ZIRP, suspension of MTM, QE1-3) to prop up housing also inflate equity and bond markets, further subsidizing the wealthy (while those in poverty who own no stocks or bonds fall further behind).

So yes, people are profiting off of poverty.
Alan Kay: July 2007: A Conversation with CMU Faculty and Students
if WalMart et. al. could, they would pay 3 cents an hour

Sure. Of course they can't, because most of the time even poor people have other options. Also WalMart has in fact supported raising the minimum wage, which is either a virtuous act of corporate responsibility or an attempt to increase the burden on their competitors.

because the government forces the wealthy to distribute their wealth

I just finished my taxes. Quite a bit of my wealth is being "distributed", unfortunately mostly to well-off retired people and on bombs to drop on the Middle East.
That is consistent with a good detector for a rare event - the false positives will outnumber the true positives. This is known as the false positive paradox [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_paradox
There's overall a huge problem of lack of nuance in the national conversation in America.

In response to the overwhelming vastness and complexity of this country, debate has degraded into simple truisms yelled at the TV.

Even in immigration - you're either "let everyone in and legalize all the aliens!!!" or "deport everyone and build a wall!"
Without welfare, the mother would likely give he children up for adoption by responsible people that can afford them. At least she would have that choice, and the choice to raise the children in poverty, thus causing them to suffer, would still be hers.
Section 2 of the spec names and addresses exactly this concern:

> USB hosts and devices historically trust each other. There are published attacks against USB devices that will accept unsigned firmware updates. These vulnerabilities permit an attacker to gain a foothold in the device and attack the original host or any other host to which they are later connected. For this reason WebUSB does not attempt to provide a mechanism for any web page to connect to arbitrary devices.

...

> For this reason this specification outlines two mechanisms that can be combined by the UA before a site is granted access to a device. First, so that the device can protect itself from malicious sites it can provide a set of origins that are allowed to connect to it. These are similar to the [CORS] mechanism and can conceptually be thought of as treating USB devices as their own origins in the "usb" scheme. For devices manufacturered before this specificiation is adopted information about allowed origins and landing pages can also be provided out of band by being published in a public registry. Second, so that the user's privacy is protected the UA may prompt the user for authorization to allow a site to detect the presense of a device and connect to it.
Not a single example given of how the whole business is going to implode. Restaurants always close and new ones always open. This is a poorly written "woe is me the restaurant owner" article that somehow conflates into this ridiculous headline.
If you haven't already, try Indian style Chinese food.
What do you mean by "what if"? It's like asking what if 1+1=2?
This is explained by political topics being a lot more accessible than technical topics. Also given technical topics require investment in them, more specific technical topics have a more limited available audience.

For example for a given topic say Scala your audience of possible commentators and upvoters you must draw from the entire population of HN readers that includes programmers, and from this subset you must draw those competent and interested in Scala.

So of course political topics will always be higher rated than technical topics.
Let's for a second assume that people stay in the same house for 30 years[1]. Why can't they just purchase the house cooperative slowly with each rent payment ?

My grandma in Israel paid rent in a public housing that had exactly such an arrangement, and after becoming a pensioner, she was finally able to purchase her house. And i have no doubt such arrangements are one reason why Israel, a nation establshed from poor immigrants did quite well for both economically and socially for relatively long.
People used that scam on WoW. People would type in the chat channel that they want to buy some item for 200 golds. Meanwhile they put for sale that item on the auction house for 100 golds. Some people would then rush to buy the one on the auction house to resell it to the potential buyer but of course the potential buyer is now nowhere to be seeing.
Well, exactly: it's very hard to drag yourself out of poverty if you have little money.
http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/orders.html

http://www2.pvc.maricopa.edu/tutor/chem/chem151/metric/magni...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude
Why are 'innovative' tech companies still struggling with diversity?
Do you have a phone that you always carry? Why couldn't it serve the same purpose? As braythwayt mentions, there are door locks that work with bluetooth phones.
There seems to be a trend of increasing political posts over time.
No, volatile is not for multi-threading, this is an old misconception: https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2007/11/30/volatile-a...
Is cutting out fertiliser going to change the level of ammonia in our sewerage? Don't we need to take the humans out of the equation?
Read The Anabasis (the Greek version is best) and rethink your conception of exploitation and how the world works, etc.
That shift to linked "interest" pages was what killed it for me as well. My music section used to be a nicely formatted list categorized by genre sometimes with individual songs or composers. Then the change hit and they totally ruined it. Most of my stuff was improperly matched. Sometimes it split up song titles into multiple pages. All formatting and categorization was obliterated. The ones which were properly matched started popping up in my feed, totally unasked for. I never forgave Facebook for that.
Ending state lotteries is just another form of prohibition. It's part of human nature and population will still end up participating in alternative get rich quick schemes.
You are reading too much into votes/karma :-).
While I agree with you 100%, in my area, most of the Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Thai restaurants are owned by people from China. So, we end up with an amalgamation of perverted Asian cuisine on the menus.
Are there games my kids can play and safely get burned and learned by scams like this, using play money not expensive credits from real money?
It's arguable if Steve Jobs should get peace
How Reporters Pulled Off Panama Papers the Biggest Leak in Whistleblower History
I just remembered this gem from the react community! react-magic [1] intercepts navigation and form submission, makes a XHR request, parses the response into JSX, and uses react to update the modified dom elements. I just tested it out on one of my projects, and it had a few issues. I wish this were production ready, because it seems like a very easy way to enhance a traditional server side rendering application.

[1] https://github.com/reactjs/react-magic
Looks like the author corrected the article.
No, I don't want to join. What kind of marketing is this? There are thousand of free apps out there, and in this Show HN page itself!

I suggest that you try to post this app again in the near future, but this time writing something about what your app does.
The Beauty of Error Handling in Scala
I wonder if the inclusion of NVLink in Power 8+ will cause Power to excel in ML applications. It could well be quite a bit faster than x86 just due to the memory/interconnect bandwidth.
Understanding Metrics in the Age of the TSDB
Or that either of them would likely have cared what their ranking was on HN.
Kinda disappointing, really. "Top" clearly doesn't mean best in this case.
No matter what he did or how many mistakes he made, he deserves peace. We all made mistakes, maybe his was much public since he was famous, but that was not the subject of my comment.
I used to skate a lot when I was younger too. That feeling never really goes away once it's been trained and recognized. It just kind of fixates on another thing.

Not being able to get into that flow is a dangerous thing because you'll always be searching.
> Through his theories of alienation, value, commodity fetishism, and surplus value, Marx argued that capitalism facilitated social relations through commodification and the exploitation of labor.

This is remarkably close to the views expressed in the article, but I guess you're being downvoted because you hit a nerve.

Links for the interested:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alienation_of_labor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_value

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_fetishism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_value

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodification

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploitation_of_labor
https://torrentfreak.com/copyright-apocalypse-trolls-attack-...
"Top" rarely means best.
IBM reps love to throw around the "Google is switching to IBM" line. Can they possibly compete with IBM on price? Why isn't AMD trying to reach this market?
Have you tried talking to them directly?
One purpose of speaking to an attorney first is to avoid foreclosing on your options if HR doesn't do the right thing.
Time Travel Is ******* Hard
Panama Papers Leak Signals a Shift in Mainstream Journalism
Why? Does the spall have enough energy to hurt someone?
> If you were to produce something along the lines of that
> for open-source projects that need it, I wouldn't hesitate
> to pay a modest fee.

Try BountySource [1] maybe?

There you can post a proposal for some improvement to an OSS project (a design doc, in your case) and pledge a bounty for it.

If other people have the same problem, they might chip in further, making it more visible/profitable to solve.

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[1] https://www.bountysource.com/
If you consider aging and death in old age as a negative, perhaps you should reconsider your philosophy, instead of chasing immortality.
Oh OK. That's cool.
I highly recommend this course. I think Pragmatic Studio produces some of the best, highest-quality tutorials online for Ruby, Rails, and Elm. React For Beginners is not a Pragmatic Studio production, but they do endorse it, and it definitely falls into that same category of quality and excellence.
Medium and Twitter founder: ‘We put junk food in front of them and they eat it’
Yes, there are. Any sound card that supports XLR connector mics will probably support phantom power and have a built-in mic amp, a vinyl pre-amp is not much different. I use an E-MU 1212m with a microdock, making it equivalent to a 1616m, which offers a "Turntable Input (w/ground lug and hardware RIAA preamp)".

http://www.creative.com/emu/products/product.aspx?pid=19007
This is pretty relevant for me, given that in the last two days my hands/arms have gone completely numb. Does anyone have any other links/tips for keeping or correcting good posture?
Ask HN: Can you really “connect the dots” later in life?
Boy oh boy, that "what if" is really saying a mouthful.
Was talking with an Econ PhD student recently, and it sounds like there's still a gap between economic training and modern statistical methods (for most students). I wonder if a large portion of econ PhD's opting for tech rather than academia will change that (quicker).
For Staff on ‘Naked and Afraid,’ Work Is Just a Blur
I also wonder if some of the requests this statement inspires will be less genuine.
It's indisputable that Steve Jobs is more of a household name than Dennis Ritchie, even among techies, it's likely that Jobs and his accomplishments are more well-known. The other thing to consider is that Ritchie lived a fairly full life, reaching the age of 70. Steve Jobs died at 56. More importantly, he died while basically at his peak...Apple had surpassed Exxon to become the world's most valuable company in 2011, and by all accounts, Jobs still had plenty of ideas and initiatives. So there's a special amount of tragedy involved with Jobs.

There are a lot of unsung engineers and scientists who were happy to keep out of the public eye. One of the things that Jobs did well was publicize himself and make his ideas and opinions known -- and undoubtedly, his attitude and drive pushed Apple to success...coincidentally, such a characteristic gets more notice...so it shouldn't be a surprise that Jobs's death hits more people.
Volatile only affects how the compiler handles memory access. It does not tell the processor anything at all. The processor is still free to reorder reads and writes. You need to use the fence and lock instructions to create memory barriers especially on multi core processors.
Such measures will prevent the state from making a controlled crash landing and will instead result in the state flying straight into the ground at 600 mph.

The Illinois court is just taking advantage of an obvious moral hazard, aren't they? Can't they assume the Feds will bail them out as usual?
Javaslang – A functional library for Java 8+
Hi, sorry for the poor documentation. But please, check out the paper the person above mentioned. We worked hard to make it as accessible as possible. Also, the core of our code is actually here: https://github.com/EderSantana/seya/blob/master/seya/layers/...

If you are a Keras (or Theano) dev it should be an easy read. If not, please drop us a note on github.
Re: the people America votes to become president
Imagine how big the reserve army of pilots would have to be for this to work! Like half the world would have to be pilots. They'd make five bucks a flight.

Now imagine something better: Universal Basic Income.
Say someone decides to mark all the significant events in his life. And notices that it's beginning to spell words.. maybe a neat story?
I'm not. I think questions about the actions of GCHQ merit a serious response.
Seems like the problem the "Coke Can" launch vehicle would have would be debris in the path - sure, there's only a couple dozen atoms per cubic meter out there, but when those atoms are coming straight at you at 10km per second...
ah, I was thinking of a startup, or a company with more strict headcount rules/constraints.
Without having too much hope for it, it should be noted that the first one who catches immortality will make your post look very condescending and outright damaging to progress.
I find it funny somehow invented a dish never found in any menu in China saying other's dish is not "authentic". He is right other did not follow his recipe, but "authentic" is a word I would never associate with most Chinese dishes and resteraunts in US.
Sorry to say: Debian's has advantages, but is a pain in the ass. The focus on security and reliability in packages means both stable and unstable tend to be so far behind head that I rarely find things I want to try are directly supported by the available binaries. Which is not to say Debian's approach is bad for its purposes; I just wouldn't want to use a smartphone app ecosystem designed like that.

Advertising is trickier to wrestle down. I'm not sure in an ecosystem where advertising is allowed, a race to the bottom isn't to be expected, and best of luck banning it entirely.
Mitmproxy
If you believe getting old, and sick, and miserable, and then dying, is good or natural or the way it is supposed to be, then I respectfully disagree with you [0].

[0] https://carcinisation.com/2014/07/13/an-anti-deathist-f-a-q/...
Matty Jac Explores Boston Commons
It seems intrusive - questionnaires, tracking, etc. Very Google.

If you want to find out how to do something, Instructables is probably more useful. That's owned by Autodesk. Autodesk doesn't want to know about your social life; they just want to sell you tools for designing and making stuff.
I'm sorry, I got confused about the thread. I thought this was at Show HN.

Considering it as an idea, I like it a lot. I'm not very familiar with OpenBazaar, however. Are there many people using it?
There was this piece at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

http://i.imgur.com/6uVRUff.jpg

It shows 100 years of days with someone's life highlighted. Kind of sobering.

I want to be believe like fizixer but it's hard to notice any medical changes. I'm 50, what's changed since I was born? I'm no a doctor so I have no idea. Sure I know we've got CRISPR and we've mapped the genome but where are the actual changes? Friends have gotten cancer, AFAICT treatment hasn't changed much. I still get colds. My hair is still falling out and turning gray. Face getting wrinkles.

Life doesn't look like the Jetsons
Well, you can argue that a couple of ways. From the business side, Steve Jobs built the largest company in the world that brings together tens of thousands of people and hundreds of billions of dollars to produce tech products used by hundreds of millions of people. That's no small feat.

Larry and Serge have done a similar feat with Google, for example. Hopefully, Elon is on his way with Tesla and SpaceX.

I really don't want to have a nerd fight over Steve Jobs, I just want to make the point that by being a business leader, one can have a much larger impact than by being the smartest nerd in the room.
For more information, check out Geolibertarianism[1], though Henry George's writings are lucid, rigorous, and energetically written. Progress and Poverty is the best place to start.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism