skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about the UK, but 30 years ago in the US 20% of the population graduated from a 4 year college. Now it's 30%. Access to higher education is becoming easier not harder.

Similarly, more people are eating out in restaurants more of the time.[1]

I think you have a rosy view of the past that isn't supported by evidence.

1. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-14/americans-...
No, we don't have hard data on this. We just notice that of the engineers on our platform, we find that the people who make more money generally don't seek out this kind of data. And the people who are more uncertain about what they should be making tend to be more curious and willing to share.
This is typical Europeans. I as a european hear this from my fellow countrymen all the time. Uneducated fat americans, no style, no quality, they know nothing, europe is 100times better.

Yet most of the major/minor innovations comes from the US these days, then it's Asian, Israel and the last is Europe.

You can counter argue that there's a big brain drain but whose fault it is ?

Europeans are just cocky too busy posturing.
The comments here are really interesting. I agree that I'm not sure why this is news worthy since it seems like companies spend much more than this doing the exact same thing in other verticals. I'm sure Google and Samsung have spent hundreds of thousands, if not millions, doing the same thing to Apple products. R&D includes trying to understand how others do it. Spending nearly $200K to tear apart a Tesla seems pretty reasonable to me.
> how else would we have taken over the whole world?

No other reason than adaptability, eh? Give me a break.
The news is not about the amount indeed, it's basically pocket money for Ford. However, they go in great lengths to acquire a Tesla through unusual channels. The founders edition are very limited and rare and only given to close friends & board members. They wouldn't do this with a new Honda I imagine.

What makes it interesting is to see how the car industry reacts to Tesla's disrupting the industry, which in this case is one reaction (of many). Thats what I think is fascinating.
Email communication, slow, initiator feels ignored.

Slack/chat communication, instant, receiver feels overwhelmed.

The problem is not email or slack, it's the method in which we communicate. We need to make sure we use the right tools, as the author mentioned, knowledge bases, email, chat etc at the appropriate times.

The problem is not Slack per say, it's using Slack for all communications.
Hey, author here. You make a great point. I'll update the examples to be in CSS. Thanks!
Here is the interactive version, explore and filter data to get more insight - https://tuvalabs.com/jpatel3/datasets/0df9f660770247d4a96313...
Isn't the whole idea of UBI that it's subsidizing the lack of good jobs for people who for one reason or another can't land decent jobs? I don't see why someone who isn't being overly productive also needs to live in a location where one could use more productive people.

In other words if a mill worker's site shutdown and this person now depends solely on UBI I don't see why they should feel like they should afford some place in the closest big city if they don't get a job since their active addition to productivity is nil. If they get a job then they may or may not afford a place in that city. Still, it's not "owed" anyone.
Yes it is a fork but the core team is already trying to unfork it. We're excited about that and will try and help.
Standard of living is not dropping. Real wages are dropping, but technology and efficience improvements more than cover the difference. Yes, income inequality is growing, and that is a fairness problem. But no one would prefer a random spot in 1980s USA over 2010s USA, by an objective measure of overall economic wealth.
For years Intel got to ride the rocketship of routine chip-density doubling. For years the new chips were so much superior to the old ones that it paid to replace them and the machines into which they were built.

Now, not so much. I can put a SSD and more RAM in my eight-year-old laptop and make it work just about as well as a new one.

I can switch off the old HP DL380/G5 boxes in my colo, hand them over to the steel recycling guy, move the data to some cloud service, and come out ahead electricity bill vs. cloud bill. I'm not buying many processor chips anymore. Neither is anybody else, except maybe the cloud services. And their bargaining power makes Dell and HP look like the guys in the white-box computer shop down the street.

The processor chip rocket ship has entered orbit; its occupants are now in microgravity. Some other rocket ship will be the next big ride.

It's too bad those folks are out of work. It's too bad plutocrats always behave as if les bontemps rouleront toujours.
Making Bicycles from Memory
Something I didn't realize is that OpenCascade is now LGPL which means FreeCAD doesn't have the weird licensing restriction it once had.
I've sold all of my stocks and RSUs in anticipation of a crash.
Udacity Connect – Face-to-face learning
It would be very interesting to include technology workers in non-profit organizations alongside for-profit corps and startups.
People would switch to Windows Phones, which are fairly popular in Eastern Europe.
> And that's a big problem.

Is it? Then why does it continue? It's a problem for the debtors, but not for the people and system that encourages, enables, and profits from their bad decisions.

Consumers must consume!
I get that distinction, and wonder why the patent isn't solid enough to pursue action against what looks like a direct imitation. If a copy can get so close but still avoid 'infringement' then the patent isn't doing its function properly. Strange.
They closed search in China.
Defence and police although I think that would be a step too far, even for the Conservatives.
If you compare the worst case scenario for hunting (fox hunting) with the best case scenario for slaughter, but often the slaughter isn't fun either. Many animals are very distressed on their way to the slaughter. Even more importantly, the lives they had before that point were probably much worse than the lives of the wild foxes. Farming animals for meat also happens on a scale that is absolutely incomparable to fox hunting. More animals are slaughtered every day than the number of foxes that were hunted in the entire history of humankind.

Secondly, you say that hunting is permissible if you're hunting for survival. Why doesn't the same apply for slaughter? You don't need to eat farmed animals for survival.
We just notice that of the engineers on our platform, the people who make more money generally don't seek out this kind of data. And the people who are more uncertain about what they should be making tend to be more curious and willing to share.
I don't see how going from government management to private monopoly is supposed to make things better. What is the thought process?
Build a Game in Ember Starring Your Cat [video]
Thanks for the feedback.

-Unless you have some serious AI this will need to be done manually by a highly skilled team. Do the economics work when you need lots of expensive labour?

For a near to perfect set of listings, I think you are right, however I expect the fairly straightforward algos I will be using will get 90% there.

Regarding the need for manual work, manual classification tags for each hotel would take around 20 minutes.

-Do you know how homogeneous the interests hotel guests are by location?

This is the bulk of the manual work stated above. Take Amsterdam, there are boutique, arty hotels in some of the poshest districts. Events for this hotel will have to differ from the 5-stars in the area. Tagging the hotel appropriately is required only once and should remain relevant throughout the contract.

Overall, although some manual work is needed, it only needs to be carried out once and takes little time. Once this is done, the events should remain relevant over time
"fu git i've" is yoda speek for the common scenario "f-ed up git I have"
Aren't you ignoring the alternatives which the author suggests have significantly better ROI?
There’s an argument to be made that some datacenter
topologies have segmented their networks such that there’s
no reason for clients to authenticate. I’m generally not a
fan of this approach because over the years I’ve come to
believe there is untrusted code running “in the perimeter”

So I don't think this statement on it's own is necessarily egregiously bad, but I think there are some excellent general take-a-ways that should apply to anyone who's running a SaaS business:

1. "Certain Network Topologies" should be "Most", or at least "Your" network topology. And this statement doesn't need to be confusing: You're going to run sensitive services on your network, you're going to run databases, and those services really shouldn't be exposed to the outside world. Even your applications should ideally not be exposed directly to the outside world, they should be proxied by a load balancer / network gateway that forwards only expected traffic to your service. Make your LBs default to not allowing traffic so that you can confirm this. Use services like ELB and VPC if you're in Amazon.

2. "Untrusted code running in the perimeter" is a situation that you should A) control, and B) aggressively be defensive about.

3. If you're going to go all the way with service auth, you need to think about how safe your secrets are. If your code is shipping with the secrets, then you're really gunning for security by obscurity. Keeping secrets on disk is a security hole. Heck, even keeping plaintext secrets in memory is not fool-proof.

I liked the article, but generally speaking, you really do need a comprehensive solution to service-to-service auth if you want to go down that road, because taking shortcuts is going to just expose you to a ton of downsides without even attaining the upshot. And regardless of if you set up service-to-service auth, you really should be segmenting networks anyways for a host of reasons, and layering auth on top of that. So these two things are inter-related on some levels, but form a layered security approach together :-).
Computers in your clothes? A milestone for wearable electronics
> "/giphy high five" will return a gif of someone high-fiving 30% of the time, and will return nonsense garbage the rest of the time

Try https://rightgif.com/. Although it's one of those products that make you think tech startups have finally jumped the shark, it works surprisingly well.
> control

This is the heart of the issue. If you are in a room that you don't like being in, then leave the room.

Communicating with other humans is difficult. If your team can't come to an understanding about how you have fun together, then you have much bigger problems.
The best possible outcome I could see from something like this is the opening up of the Play Store ecosystem to third party Android forks.

The contention is over Google licensing Android branding and its proprietary apps running on top of the AOSP and requiring them all be shipped together. The problem isn't the OS itself, it is the Play Store hegemony and the fact you cannot reasonably ship an Android phone without it - nobody would buy it. But the store is a proprietary and effectively closed app ecosystem completely under Google's control, thus the issue of monopoly exploitation.

At least, I hope. If they are seriously considering the whole OS as a trust issue that is insane. Anyone can fork or reuse the component parts below the Google app layer with the Apache 2 license. There are even projects like http://www.shashlik.io/ to run Android apps natively on other systems. The only part of the Android ecosystem that in any way really violates user freedoms (besides the proprietary POS blobs every phone manufacturer shoves into a forked Linux kernel with oodles of GPL violations) is the Google apps themselves, but you can always pull a Cyanogenmod and ship a phone without those apps installed.
Right. But a country as a whole is what I am interested in.

I mean iphone costs about the same anywhere in the world ( okay it's sometimes more usually not less (Brazil?)) so there's that...
Only the rare whale can make a huge debt in savings buy spending on digital goods. The real money goes out on car payments, rent payments, vacations, and eating out every day.
they don't allow any other browser engines on iOS
I find the new Macbook with it's 'scissor' keys simply doesn't have enough travel to type comfortably, it's like tapping on a hard surface.
Fabrication of Textile Antennas and Circuits With 0.1 mm Precision (IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters)

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=tru...
Artist's homepage: http://www.daniel-a-becker.de/
Well, they are a FOR-PROFIT Company and as any such entity when the cost of doing business is greater than the Profit (direct or indirect), they need to just close that branch.
You are surely referring to the tentative of several EU countries to get Google to pay newspapers while providing them with free referral links from a product that has no profit for them.
The problem with EU lately is that it's trying to protect businesses instead of consumers. This antitrust review is just another case influenced by Microsoft and Russian Search engines because no user is impacted negatively by Google policies in this case.
These are just the companies that had the most data points, probably because the original posts that the data came from were about Amazon and Google salaries :). We plan to update our analysis with more companies and roles as we get enough data.
Yes, a member of the communist party cadre in certain historical times was separated from the workers they represented. They were full time revolutionaries, no longer part of the working class. This was one of the main issues (in my opinion) with the USSR.

In modern socialist revolutions, the representation must not be separated from the working class. Though, I am also more supportive of tendencies that uphold grassroots democratic behavior. See Rojava for more interesting ideas on that.
Skeuomorphism is coming back. Like Vinyl.
Sure, say portable if that makes you happier. Not that it matters though, mobile programs are the ones trying to catch up to desktop programs, not the other way around.
This is an excellent explanation. Thank you!

It's amazing how much has changed in 10,000 years. I didn't have a good grasp on the timeline.
Brave Developers
This is a real thing. I like to call our current house "our parental overreaction".

Even here, though, there's an easy trade-off. Expensive house in good public school catchment, or cheap house + private school. But, don't do both if you're stretched.
I don't think you understand what 10,000 years ago looks like. These weren't rich European kings, they were leaders of tribes on the cusp of discovering agriculture. In Europe, they lived in caves and tents and hunted with sharp rocks -- they arguably had it worse even than some of the other prehistoric groups in the Middle East and parts of Asia.
Some of the most fantastic environmental fails were incubated in the local pub

For some arrogant interplanetary alignment, lyme disease cases are increasing in my country at the same time as wolves being culled regularly.

Oh how ironic. In which pub were you when you decided these two must be causally related?

Tick numbers are increasing because the climate is getting warmer. Also, ticks regularly use mice as hosts so the mice population may affect the tick population. But neither explanation has anything to do with wolves. In fact, wolf numbers in The Netherlands have doubled over the past year, and we're still seeing an increase in ticks.
It's an experiment and I'm trying to write all my notes in to it.

The problem is the associative/ribosomal nature of information and the quickly missing context.

We'd need to build a brain that gathers and understands context and files in all the cross-connections.
Until google is done with that we are stuck with what's manageable: A hierarchy (folders) with some limited manual cross-links and full-text search.

I'm using the yellow cms, with a wiki plugin:

http://datenstrom.se/yellow/

http://developers.datenstrom.se/edit/plugins/wiki-plugin/

All running in a local http server. It's synced to my phone via Owncloud. On my phone I edit the plain files with JotterPad and sync with Foldersync.

But I'm not super happy with yellow:

- missing a tree view (I hacked together something but it's ugly)
- special syntax for the title (but you can ignore it mostly)
- special syntax for the wiki stuff
- was difficult find the setting to change to .md file endings (bad/missing documentation)
- requires an index.md in every folder

What is really nice: i can drop a file in to a public version of the wiki and send a pretty link to someone.
This sounds more convincing in terms of the history of life insurance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_insurance#Life_insu...

Maybe the article means to talk about the history of life insurance in the USA.
Where do I put mine if I'm a recent grad who makes $0 and buried in crippling debt?
In theory, I agree with you. Everything I know about economics and organizational behavior seems to agree with you.

But it seems that's not how it's worked out in the past ten years, and probably not how it will work out in the next ten years. Google's incredible pace of innovation has not apparently been slowed by lack of powerful competition.
Okay, a first-to-market scenario like you describe doesn't fit with the 'rip off' mentality, and I get that. It's simply herding toward a new market by way of being the first to get traction. Sure, if Amazon Basics sells a 'household paper shredder' it's not like the concept was lifted whole cloth, and the manufacturing diversity is already inherent. That's fine, I see that.

But, that's not at all what I'm describing though, and which is far more destructive: if an actual, innovative product gets copied. If such cases are rare with Amazon as the copying entity, it still matters from a recourse standpoint. So, in a different example, if a company creates an innovative paper cutter, unlike any other on the market, patents it, makes it, and it sells well, this is the scenario: if 15 months later Amazon Basics has a design and functioning clone at a price that undercuts the original, then that should be a case to hash out in court and if violating trade / patent protections, slapped with punitive fines.
Zip software can detect the quantum-classical boundary
Form a Nevada-based LLC specifically for selling on Jet for $500; ignore Amazon.
It's not the act of disassembling that's important, it's what you do with the knowledge afterwards. For example, the team doing the Tesla teardown is now poisoned; they can write up their findings from the clean room and provide them to other engineering teams for implementation (IP issues aside), but they are now barred from working on any derivative technologies themselves. It's a bit cumbersome, but this is how engineering espionage is done.
Apple Hires Former Tesla VP of Vehicle Engineering Chris Porritt
The site is currently built using Wordpress...

I like the ability of having a tiered approach for pricing... I don't think I would ever completely remove the free tier, as my data is incredibly helpful to a lot of people so want to still offer a value resource to all.

Just some better/more advanced stuff for the others that would like more...

Removing ads as a tier is a good idea as well.
So I'm not clear if their complaint was slow model development cycles or new models coming to market. One is, it takes us too long to go from idea to off the line, the other is we don't have enough new car ideas.
Yep, a lot of these issues the OP reports can be resolved by, as a team, discussing how you communicate and what is a priority. That team seems to be lacking clear expectations. Oddly enough, that is a failure to communicate.

If someone does an @here or @channel or even an @person notify for a simple question that is not urgent, that is rude. Non-urgent issues should go in the channels and the person can respond when they get time, or e-mail it to indicate it's not a priority.

I really like Slack, but I do agree that it's easy to get carried away with notifications and integrations and it becomes a lot of noise. But most of these issues can be resolved by talking as a team about how the tools should be used.
> "Honest question, what's likely to happen if you mix plastics?"

It's a good question, and the answer I'll give is that I'm not 100% sure. These links may be of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/science/polymers-why-some-...

http://www.lotfi.net/recycle/plastic.html

If you find any other clear information about this subject I'd be interested in learning more.
How GraphGrid Securely Deploys Neo4j in AWS
Yup, that's the price you pay for having it cross platform and avoiding C++. If I were making that choice today, might lean towards Qt, but I'm not sure. Tk's widgets are really pleasant to use, the last time I looked at Qt it was a lot lower level (may have gotten better, it's been a while).
That's in line with a VP position (directing working for the CIO) at a Non-Tech Fortune 500 company, assuming it means total comp (base, bonus, options).
I know a few people who have worked at Amazon for 3-4 years and they've never let on that their job is awful.

That said, one of them is the kind of person that I would expect to do really well in an Amazonian environment, and the other now works at Nintendo.
The recent "Show HN": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11518921
Not just 401k. Saving is always a risk, because people spend themselves into poverty and claim the same benefits as people who never has income. This is why you pay a higher interest rate on loans than you get on investments -- to cover for deadbeats.

Ultimately, you have to be happy that spenders overlay for stuff, and the interest gains on savings are better than the tax hit, and day-to-day financial security makes you feel good and finances better opportunities -- like you can afford to move for a job or whatever.
Yeah - this type of stuff is what I would expect Ford to be doing. It might be different if they bought a gasoline Subaru but this is a Tesla which is a brand that is supposed to be revolutionizing the automotive market. If they paid twice or three times the price to get something as early as possible I still wouldn't be surprised.
Snapchat's 4/20 Filter Not Exactly a PR Success
Lot of messy data, but indeed powerful dataset.
How hacking team got hacked
When Lexus launched the LS400 two percent of the sales that year came from auto manufacturers. They could not believe how the car was so good. They still haven't caught up in many ways.

*Edit:

Here is more about the history of the car itself: http://ateupwithmotor.com/model-histories/lexus-ls400/
One point I'd like to make is that this is the fault of the developer(s) and not Linux. I've seen this problem in OSX and Windows as well.
tldr: a better hammer is a better hammer, not a replacement for your whole tool chest.
Every time I see that I just wget the script and inspect it. If it does anything too clever, I don't install it that way. If I can't reason about the shell script something is wrong.

It's like being emailed a .bat file in 1999. Would you blindly run it on your Windows box?! I hope not!
Apple's market share in Europe is so laughable they literally can do whatever they want, but not allowing other browser engines on iOS is certainly not grounds for an antitrust lawsuit.
iPhone-like items are a very small part of anyone's annual budget. What matters are housing costs, transport costs, healthcare costs and quality of life. All of which are highly variable depending on location.
these are really good! I have this one..

lg = log --graph --decorate --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit
You could rent an HD movie every night for $20 and it'd still only swing your expenses by $600 each month. If you're making $35,000, that is absolutely huge.

If you're making $150,000 - it really should not be huge.