skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Warren Buffet knows a thing or two about the value of things in the world.

> Gold gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or some place, Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.

http://www.aaii.com/files/images/articles/9298-figure-1.jpg

> gold can also be used to coat a space helmet, make an electronic circuit, make jewelry, coat an object in gold leaf, etc.

If you're actually interested in a hedge against inflation, go buy Wheat and Oil. When hyperinflation hit the German Economy hard in the 1930s, that's what made tons of money.

For as long as humans existed, and for as long as Humans remain on this planet, humans will need to eat. The value of Gold itself? That changes. A thousand years ago, one pound of Gold was worth one pound of salt.

http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/c...
The Martian isn't scientifically accurate, though it's closer than a lot of other stuff. The entire plot device of the storm at the beginning, needed to give a reason for Watney to be abandoned on Mars, was total hogwash: Mars doesn't have an atmosphere thick enough for that. Some other things were questionable too, like the rescue at the end.

Personally, I'd like to see some more movies that really are scientifically accurate, about things in space near the Earth, perhaps one set on the Moon showing a colony there used for asteroid mining and ore refining.
I have a Flash profile in Chrome.
Beating decentralized regulations seems harder. You have to wage the same war in lots of places. Although local regs could be easier to crack. Also if the service is good, it'll get a first opportunity somewhere
Since when did Acquiring McAfee ever make sense for anybody?
I'll happily agree. I was only pointing out that obfuscation of CSS was not happening.
Interesting point. If we are witnessing the end, would we recognize it at the time? Moore's Law has been something we've become accustomed to, so it almost seems hard to believe that it will end even if we are told that it will.

Makes me wonder what research money will be spent on instead of just faster chips.
I once discovered that the person I was talking to hated environmentalists, because in their thinking they wanted to protect the ENVIRONMENT, and not humans.

I tried to explain, "I can't speak for all environmentalists, but I want to protect the environment so that it's habitable and enjoyable FOR HUMANS."

I apparently blew his mind - he'd never considered that as a reason to be an environmentalist.
I don’t think we need to overanalyse Uber and why it worked. It basically is a highly successful raid on the owners of taxi medallions. In the markets where Uber is doing well the medallion owners cartel allowed their share of the taxi revenue get too high. This resulted in the price of medallions reaching astronomical prices - for example NYC medallions reaching over a million dollars [1]. Since Uber and Lyft entered the picture the price of these has fallen to $400,000 [2]. Most (all) other "Uber for X” businesses don’t have such an asset to raid.

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/28/upshot/under-pressure-from...

2. http://nycitycab.com/business/taximedallionlist.aspx
The only reason why I have not been using Facebook is their android app on 4.4.3 burns through my battery.

I still have their messenger app which I use every now and then to keep in touch with friends overseas. I might return to using the regular it in the future.
You lost me at rule #1 - "You don’t recruit and retain male engineers you recruit and retain Wives and Girlfriends".
Who are you arguing against? Most people would say both are very wrong.
Their whole thing about sex in the second paragraph—anyone have any idea, given this, why if I type "sex" in to the app store search I get a good amount of apps blatantly about sex? First one is Sex Positions 3D.
So Intel is dodging taxes as well now?
I've discussed that very thing on HN before. Someone replied with "it's very hard to disrupt something that people don't do often".

I think there's a lot of truth in this. Real estate sales seems to be pointlessly inefficient and overpriced, but it's something that people do a handful of times in their entire life, and they're willing to pay to have their hand held.
I've decided to become the guy that on every HN climate change post promotes the only technology that can restore the climate we had.

There is a way to get us down from 408ppm back to a safe level like 350ppm, and that is Bio Energy with carbon capture and storage:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio-energy_with_carbon_capture...
Longer sets of data exist that are not global in scale. The longest is the Central England Temperature set, going back to 1659.

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

Beyond that, people have attempted reconstruction from other evidence. For instance I found an attempt at a 2000 year reconstruction using tree ring data here:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/pubs/moberg2005/moberg2005.ht...

Assuming this reconstruction and others is sound, it is apparent that there definitely is a fair bit of natural temperature variability. But the recent temperature rise in the last 50 years certainly seem like aberration, in terms of rate of change.
How about "it's just a tool"? You could say the same thing about knives, cars, Tor, Bitcoin or the Internet itself if you wanted.

You can't blame a creator for how a finished product is used. Their vision might greatly differ or it might not exist at all.
Can you make the statement that the economy had nothing to do with it? A business' success or failure is reliant on the economy on a fundamental level. I imagine if college graduates weren't struggling to find jobs and pay off their massive student debts they would have sold more computers, despite the trends working against them.
Thanks...though the whole "GIL being a feature" is sort of a joke.
Bullshit.
It might be true when it comes to copper lines, but not to credit card stuff. Most of the terminals must have at least a few generations of replacements already...

In Europe we had pinless-magnetic-only-sign-here cards and the like and were getting rid of them ~ten years ago
I really, really like that "Why?" explanation page; I feel like many projects could benefit from copying that idea.

Frequently, the first thought I have when I see projects is, "okay, neat, but why does this exist?", and the answer takes some digging. It's wonderful that in this example the answer is made so obvious.
Use Trello in Over 20 Different Languages
Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage
"higher performance" depends on the specific case. I think the Tcl RE engine (Henry Spencer's[0], which is also used in PostreSQL[1][2]) does avoid some pathological cases where Perl/PCRE fall down[3], but PCRE does best Spencer's work in other areas. They also simply have a different feature list[4].

[0] http://wiki.tcl.tk/396

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/functions-matching...

[2] http://www.regular-expressions.info/postgresql.html

[3] https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_regular_expressi...
Walls are so passé. Panopticons have been the modern way to keep people in check since sometime back in the 18th/19th Century in Europe. After all, when you have nothing to hide, you are nothing to fear...
> It is important to note that we only measured who clicked through our ads. That means the irrelevant images could have lower conversion rates on the site. The people who ended up on the SketchDeck site may not need or care about design.

I was really looking forward to this until I saw they were using CPC as their barometer. Bad traffic at $0.87 / click is far costlier than good traffic at multiples of that.
I quiet enjoy reading your posts! As a software engineer without much background in ML/Optimization it was very approachable.

Keep up the good work!
Was recently reported that Google receives 100K DMCA requests per hour: http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/7/11172516/google-takedown-re...
I wrote a benchmark a while back: https://github.com/lox/s3-bench
The services you mentioned only for US, or anyone can access it. For example EU citizens can also open account and set periodic investment?
Off the top of my head: Baupost Group (Seth Klarman), Greenlight (David Einhorn), Gotham (Howard Marks), Renaissance (Jim Simons), Oaktree (Joel Greenblatt), Graham & Newman (Benjamin Graham), Magellan (Peter Lynch), Pabrai (Mohnish Pabrai), ...

Most of these are closed and closely held. Keeping your capital base small with long-term-minded investors (e.g., "family" money) is a huge leg up.
As far as I know, it is an optional feature that both the controller and the drive have to support, to use reliably.
The swiss post does allow you to send any picture as a postcard, even for free: https://postcardcreator.post.ch
Statistically wars have got less and less deadly. The most intense parts of WWI had something like 25% casualty rates, compared with 60% is typical for tribal warfare.
Moore's law may become irrelevant long before it becomes invalid. Without rapid increases in usable computing power, the reasons for upgrading have largely disappeared. In particular the chips at the top of the profit margin curve, where Intel loves to play, are much less compelling.

Intel might eventually find itself in the same shoes Kodak did - when your primary business dries up, there's unlikely to be a follow-on that is successful enough to keep the company going.
The three problems for iPad developers
I have never once used that prompt to catch or respond to an error. It gives so little actionable information. That's what watching the display that totals up your scanned purchases is for. Sure, I guess some people might use that screen as their method for catching an error, but it should be caught before you're given a number and asked if its correct.

Why I think that screen is there is to shield a merchant from someone coming back after the purchase to complain. And I doubt any merchant would use that confirmation to defend an error and risk losing a customer. Which, to me, makes it even more useless.
I'll just stay away from Vice and their products and share my position with people.
>In my experience, companies are not that great at recognizing and rewarding achievement.

Is your opinion the crazy stock grants that are happening right now at big tech companies not due to achievement and instead just political or random?
The stimuls mode is a permanent regime now. It's good in the short term, but I do not know if anybody understood mid- and long-term consequences of this new permanent mode.
Why are recumbent bikes banned then? They're entirely human powered, and far more efficient.
The efficient market hypothesis (the idea that the market is by definition perfectly valued at every moment) is highly controversial, and actively rejected by many finance and economics experts of all political views.
I did, it's a massive distortion of non-issues. What are the _actual_ problems?
You're suggesting that there are straightforward comparisons to be drawn between the Communist Party of China and the United States Government?

That sounds like something that's especially fun to argue on an Internet message board and not all that illuminating anywhere else.
I think the food startup equivalent to Uber would be people preparing meals in private homes/kitchens: There's certainly regulation around commercial kitchens, but it's not obviously bad if a home kitchen is used to prepare a meal: I do that all the time for my friends. But there's a lot of things that can go wrong in a home kitchen too as they don't have a lot of the normal commercial food storage stuff like a blast chiller, so I think that type of startup would definitely invigorate the same kind of regulation fight Uber did.
Wow. I've been suspecting this more and more, but whenever I bring it up or similar, it ends with an asinine amount of resistance and I'm regarded as an SJW, worse, and even unempathetic. Hell, when I bring up some of the civics work I do, people get angry that I'm trying to help others. Parpaphrased statements like, "Why are you trying to help dumb people?" are unbearably common and sad.

Thanks for the article. It gives me a lot to think about (after fact checking, of course).
With a $470 millions operating loss:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-30/uber-bonds...
On top of that productivity app companies are chasing mobile in order to not get left out in the cold, further exacerbating the PC decline.
Computing devices are selling like hotcakes, far moreso than ever before.

But most of them are full of ARM chips fab'd by companies not named Intel.
>"Uber for X" does not mean "on-demand for X"

Agree. "Uber for X" should really mean "Supply and Demand clearing house/exchange for x".

Uber: the x is personal transportation. Demand = people that need to be transported, Supply = people that have room to transport people. Uber provides a technology based solution - a clearinghouse that pairs the demand to the supply for a fee.

AirBnB: the x is short to mid term rooming/housing. Demand = people that need housing, Supply = people that have extra rooms / houses. AirBnB provides a technology based solution - a clearinghouse that pairs the demand to the supply for a fee.

If you find a market that has excess supply and excess demand, but no modern software / technology based clearinghouse that VC hasn't tried, you should go for it - chances are you'll be able to corner the market and become very successful. (Just how much will depend on the size of the market...)
Now with javascript EVERYWHERE and the rising complexity of web pages, web browsing has become one of the most taxing things you can do as far as power use is concerned.

Javascript has become the new Flash!
We have laws against bribing foreigners, no matter if that can be made to look legal-ish in a foreign country because that practice can lead to corruption of a US company.

Unfortunately, the government is a hypocrite in this case, by treating its own mass surveillance as legal.
All that depends on how you define "power".

Judging by the chart under the Self Mastery section, it seems the author defines it as growing your physical, emotional, and mental energy.

Such a result could be argued to be in correlation with the Buddhist proposition of letting go of attachment and desire.

By letting go of preconceived notions, concepts, opinions, or the desire to have power (dominance) over others, we then have all of that energy available to us for creative means which would have otherwise been wasted in anxiety, or saṃsāra.
How Etsy Formats Currency
I am honestly surprised that they hadn't done so earlier.
Airbnb's app is now significantly less infuriating
Actually, it's just UberEats "Instant" and not the whole service.

http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2016/04/19/UberEats-to-end-...
I understand your point about lawsuit settlements being useless and hypocritical, but your main point about competitiveness is obviously not really relevant. There are tons of laws that undermine US business competitiveness in global markets. There are tons of laws that undermine domestic competitiveness too, that's just how our society is set up. Profit is not our first priority.

Anyway, when I referred to your "objection", it seemed like you were saying any laws affecting business outside the country are pointless and wrong. I don't think I know enough about the FCPA to discuss it specifically.
> Yeah, I know what you mean. Existing customers are left in the dark, which is definitely not a great feeling as a paying user of DO.

You get the (new) additional services being provided in part by DO. You're literally NOT in the dark. As an analogy my parents have a house alarm system. It was installed 5+ years ago and they pay a monthly fee. You can bet that the newer television ads for this nationwide company (cough ADT *cough) show WiFi enabled controls and whizbang stuff on the master panel -- their alarm master panel is the same panel for the last 5+ years and has never been touched by a technician.

I can give the same example for my Comcast cable box. It's the box I got when i got the initial subscription. Typically promo codes are for new customers, OR new promotional offers wherein you'll migrate your whole account to a new tier of service.

They aren't going to hand you $10 to simply continue to use their (updated) service for them. While you benefit from the new services anyways.
The PC isn't going anywhere, but the need to update every 30 months has gone away.

It's a sign of market maturity. Intel shouldn't be trading at a premium if it's selling a highly predictable, stable product to a consolidating marketplace.
Oh ok. So it's not really static at all, they're just calling it that because it sounds better. It's simply dynamic type-checking that checks the types immediately prior to calling the function instead of checking them at the top of the function body. Offhand, it seems that the only benefit to this approach (checking prior to calling the function instead of checking inside the function) is the ability to cache the results and skip checking the same callsite in the future if nothing's changed.

Being able to significantly optimize type-checking for scripting languages like this to the point where you can actually run this in production seems quite valuable. But calling it "static type-checking" is simply wrong. Granted, they're calling it "just-in-time static", but that phrase is contradictory, it would be like saying "dynamic static type checking".
For starters, it's different because the US does not in fact hunt down communists, but the Communist Part of China does hunt down, imprison, and torture Falun Gong adherents.
They're focusing on being "the cloud", which definitely makes business sense when you consider that 10% of the world's electricity goes to data centers. Microsoft's next US-East Azure building will be a mile long! I think Intel will do fine if they focus on that market instead of PCs.
Not disagreeing with you, but to expand on your point: the type of regulation that Uber is ignoring is easier to ignore because it doesn't impact the customer. If you ignore the health regulations at your diner, you're sure as shit going to alienate a good portion of your potential customers because in addition to being illegal, an unclean restaurant isn't desirable.

But what Uber did was notice that due to regulation, the taxi drivers were receiving wage X, while there existed a lot of people that would be more than happy to do the same job for less than X. Find some loophole in the legislated price floor that allows you to employ that section of the supply curve and you've got a big profit opportunity. You can't cut corners in an existing, fairly efficient market, and call it the same thing.
I don't speak the language used in this article.

But, are they talking about data structures in a block of storage, or what?

Are they talking about patterns on the surface (volume?) of a cellular automata?

Look at this sentence:

> "With each tick, it doubled the size of the universe, keeping nearly perfect time - until it stopped."

...What? Double the size every tick? As in... 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64?

Don't explain it to me like I'm five. Explain it to me like I'm a developer. Please?
Unless you are fully aware of NSA activities, you cannot be sure of that statement.

Here's an excerpt from Cisco: [0]“Traditionally, a firewall is a routed hop and acts as a default gateway for hosts that connect to one of its screened subnets. A transparent firewall, on the other hand, is a Layer 2 firewall that acts like a "bump in the wire," or a "stealth firewall," and is not seen as a router hop to connected devices.”

I dunno if our disagreement is about the semantics of what a "transparent firewall" is, but the NSA has been shown to filter a majority of the traffic that traverses the USA, so your statements that the USA has nothing like the GFW seems a bit off...

[0]: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/asa/asa82/conf...
Sounds like some of these companies aren't even implementing the automation part.

> But she and another former employee, Alex Gioiella, said the only automated part of the service they saw was the occasional marketing text message.

You'd think that the human workers would at least get served up suggestions by the system if it were actually learning, to make sure the algorithm got "gold-standard" feedback on its dataset.

Especially requests like those for delivery food could be standardized pretty quickly, so that workers would only be handed situations where the "AI" (if there even was any machine learning involved) was uncertain as to what needed to be done.

> But usually, the Hero said, the requests were for pizza or Chipotle delivery.
Pitch:

"x.ai – artificial intelligence that schedules meetings"

Reality:

"A group of low-paid humans (that may-or-may not have been background checked) will read your emails to help you schedule meetings. They will probably not use this information in any way other than intended."

Those feel like two different products that I would make fundamentally different decisions about.
Is half of college graduates being unemployed or working a min wage job picking a narrative too? Is pointing out that wages are completely stagnant and not rising picking a narrative too? What information would you need to receive to admit the economy is not healthy?
The FOSS alternatives are of no use if their use and development can be outlawed.
Ask HN: When is publishing a white paper appropriate?
If your startup is working on an interesting technical approach to a problem, should you publish a white paper to generate interest from developers?

i.e. does marketing reward outweigh cost of unveiling the "IP"?
The new project is here: https://github.com/uwdata/ipython-vega-lite
Both GS and MS (as well as other FIs) are off there highs because of all the volatility in the markets the past 6 months and worries about losses from bad energy loans. BAC, WF, Citi are all off their 12-month highs by a significant margin despite doing relatively well in Q1.

Also, this has nothing to do with discounting the cash flows, it's mostly stock buybacks that's driving all the action:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-19/early-warn...
For GIF postcards, they should print as lenticular images! The GIF would actually play as you angle the postcard.
> but YouTube prefer to serve vp9 if you can decode it, to save their own licensing fees

There are no licensing fees for distributing free/ad-supported h264.
Most of these are excellent pieces of advice, and practices I generally try to adhere to. I don't use schema as much as I used to, but timbre is fantastic, clojure.test is great, and all of the core points are excellent. I've never had cause to use agents or STM, and atoms are best used when enclosing some stateful function.

core.async is also great, but not without caveats, and it also has some strong footgun potential. I've written a little bit on the subject http://blog.goose.haus/2016/04/01/the-puts-and-takes-of-core... and http://blog.goose.haus/2016/04/04/producers-and-error-handli..., with more coming, but the tl;dr is that core.async will swallow exceptions by default and there are a few other gotchas.
If people are looking for a way to use up credit and want to support something useful, run an Archiveteam Warrior. Helps to archive (soon-to-be) dead websites and and isn't too resource-intensive on the provider.

http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Warrior
more complex than that, if they foresee lower earnings, different types of expenditures, etc, etc, you'd need a professional accounting firm to calculate that for you
Conspiracy to commit murder/torture is indeed illegal.
* Square zero.
How can the whole market be overvalued? Prices are relative, no?