skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the biggest problems in the App Store is discoverability. The only options are to search for specific keywords or to browse one of the few lists offered by Apple. User-created lists add a bit of human perspective on the problem of finding related items. For example, on YouTube I consider lists as being very important for navigation.
Yeah except the biggest commodity market is in the Midwest.
Here's one of the shell companies:

http://www.strategiclinkpartners.com/
If you're in a growth market (or a perceived one), the impending influx of well funded competitors can wipe you out.
Most recent Intel cores actually appear to be slightly slower at integer performance. http://imgur.com/a/2fiLF
5 Tips for Big Data Governance and Your Customers
Could you add a link to see the GUI or some screenshots? It would be nice to see the GUI before taking the time to set it up. Great job!
Apple recovered 2,204 pounds of gold from broken iPhones last year
I find it fascinating that Legendary Pictures was funded through PE firms, then has now been sold off to a Chinese firm for a handsome profit.
Consider an alternate comment on an alternate topic: "Sorry Mrs. black female, but on the limits of multiprocessing vs multithreading I'd far prefer to trust a skilled systems engineer who came from old school computer architecture traditions that are scientifically demonstrated to work."

This is an appeal to authority which fails even to cite the authority. Additionally, it's racist/sexist and an ad-hominem because it implicitly assumes that the author - by virtue of their race/gender - cannot be a systems engineer/meditation practitioner/etc.
That's a horrible idea. I stand with those who oppose the mass murder of people, even ancient greek ones.
I don't believe that regular user will care about any problems you mentioned at all.
It's always the would-be tyrants whose followers end up in mass graves.
What case insensitivity are you referring to?
I agree with these thoughts based on the current state of 360VR (or non-interactive, if you will) but I'm optimistic about the future changing this perspective. 360VR for narrative storytelling is in a very early, experimental stage. It's difficult in part because it feels inherently gimmicky. A lot of the traditional elements in the craft & technique of filmmaking are unavailable to the storyteller (or, rather, need to be rethought). Closeups, stylized editing, etc.

VR directors are slowly figuring out the best ways to draw attention / guide the viewer, transition between shots and, most importantly, keep you immersed in the STORY. But, there's a lot of room for improvement in the technology as well. "Simple" things even — such as tracking the viewer's orientation so that the following shot can be focused where the director wants regardless of where the viewer has "travelled" to. Right now, the mass distribution system's for VR (such as YouTube 360, Vrideo, et al which use Cardboard or GearVR tech), don't currently allow for this.

I'd love to see the interactive tools of VR currently used in gaming (like Unity) made available for narrative storytelling. Specifically, it's more of an issue on the distribution side. The explosion in 360VR feels like it was largely due to the ease and accessibility brought on by Google (Cardboard & YouTube 360), now we need these tools to evolve.. and they are, slowly.

tl;dr; 360VR for storytelling is a bit gimmicky currently because it's in a very early stage. I'm optimistic about a new wave of cinematic narratives in VR as the technology evolves allowing for more direction/expression of the craft.
Progressive Transpilation
This would speed up the process, wouldn't it?
Yeah, that's why I think they should just join up with Oregon instead. They probably have a lot more in common culturally (and geographically) with Oregon than they do any place in California.
Like I said, I was born in an era where there were many "closed" proprietary platforms, like the Commodore 64.

It's not necessarily bad, it's just a different philosophy; some prefer computers to be appliances, like their TV or refrigerator, that "just work." Others prefer computers to be DIY-servicable machines, like cars, that require active and regular maintenance but can be improved if one is so inclined.

Just because all the "appliance computer" manufacturers almost went out of business going into the 1990s, doesn't mean that philosophy failed, and the recent resurgence of Macs has proven as much.

I suspect in an alternate universe/timeline with slightly different twists of fate, the IBM PC has died instead and closed proprietary hardware is the dominant paradigm.
I haven't seen this in science fiction before. That's exciting.
Every time I hear one of these Apple stories, I can't decide if I should be amazed by the engineers' dedication or horrified by the management's incompetence.
Stupid apologetic attempt of first world rulers.
"World population needs to decline gradually, though."

Why does world population "need to decline"?
Or even closer to home, just look at those with mental health issues.
That sample size is probably too small to faithfully break down things that far.

Really this is when people got lucky enough (or perhaps influential enough) to be attributed with an invention that is considered historically relevant.

I guess the real takeaway is just to keep trying to do great things
>Sorry Mr. white male authority, but

Was that really necessary?
I wish it was easier to find and install mods.
Nobody is arguing for replacing expert tools with these beginner-optimized languages. Continuing the instrument metaphor, I'd say they're like recorders: being taught in elementary school won't make them ubiquitous in the professional industry. But they're a great way to introduce students to a simple, relatively inexpensive way to create music.
Building a Fast-Growing Startup in a Slow-Moving Industry
Scala seems to do what you want:

val str = s"""
Tripe quoted string interpolation
Allows for $variables and ${method.foo(bar)}
Mixed with "quotes"
"""

Can also use double quoted string interpolation for inline/one-liners where embedded quotes above aren't needed.
Copyright for a limited term makes sense. It doesn't make sense to have copyright extend 70 years after the author's death, which is the current regime in the US.
You can label and the differences between extremely low karma accounts and 0 karma accounts however you'd like, but a low karma account has more power over the content of the site than a zero karma account.

I also don't think it can be easily ruled out that there are additional, higher karma thresholds upon which an account may be bestowed with additional powers (rate-limit loosening, for example).
While I love, love, simple and accessible learning material such as this - I really wish they'd encourage use of using a password alongside ssh keys. Seemingly the only draw to ssh keys for the layman is understandably disuse of passwords, but at that point (and perhaps accompanied by ill-set file permissions) you basically have your password to a remote machine written in a text file.

If anyone is learning something new in this article, please listen to me when I say when running `ssh-keygen` - put in a password. A simple one, I don't care. I promise you it's worth it.
Except there was a group of people who did want to do it - Abi was a company at one point! But the Gnome guys decided to deemphasise it - that was the problem.
No, it'll be free to move. Did you miss the part about a tax credit that I proposed?

As for living with minorities, there's only so much you can legislate, and if you push too much, you get a big backlash and the next thing you know, Republicans control both houses of Congress, state legislatures, and Ted Cruz is President.

There's a lot of things people need to do. They need to abandon hip-hop music and religion too, and they also need to build a Moon base, and they really need to build me a giant mansion in Hawaii. I'm going to be waiting around a long time for people to do all these things I think they need to do....

>Applying radical Wilsonian determination to the US sounds very libertarian.

And trying to marginalize people you don't agree with sounds very authoritarian.
I'm glad that Microsoft is speaking up, especially given their past history:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-c...
> Over the past 18 months, the U.S. government has required that we maintain secrecy regarding 2,576 legal demands, effectively silencing Microsoft from speaking to customers about warrants or other legal process seeking their data.

So should Outlook.com be considered insecure if the US government can access it at any time without you knowing? Microsoft should be able to inform you whether or not your information has been leaked. I hope Microsoft wins.
One epic failure and suddenly the entire discipline of investment banking, which moves mind-boggling amounts of money every day, is worthless?
We're eating resources faster than we're replacing them.

I suppose the alternative is to eat resources at the replacement rate - this is what sustainability is supposed to be about.

Or perhaps some new technology will fix it.
This says that 'Absolute universalism, in which we feel compassion for every individual on Earth, is psychologically impossible' because we need to be able to hate on out-groups to love on in-groups. If we discover aliens might this not hold?
I don't think this is a matter of making programming easier for people who are not interested in programming - I look at this as a study of how "normal" programming could be made to model how the human mind might think naturally.

Non-programmers often need to "program". For example, consider writing email filtering rules. The wording and flow could be improved with the learnings from this study. "Apply this label to this mail and all the ones like it, then archive all of those mails".
They're not. Lobbyists are breaking federal law if they take a congressman out to a nice dinner.

Paying them more wouldn't solve this problem because running an election campaign is so expensive that they spend the majority of their time trying to raise money. They end up taking positions that are friendly to potential donors in the hope that the donors will keep sending them money.

The major problem isn't that they trade favors to lobbyists to enrich themselves directly (although some undoubtedly are), the problem is that they trade favors to lobbyists in order to keep getting re-elected.
Sales/Business Development Reps have an extremely high attrition rate and Hubspot has teams of them. It's not uncommon to have >50% turnover in those departments.
Hah! We have had the same conversation before - see my other answer here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11507583

But I'll add that I've never been able to set it up satisfactorily for everyone in my team to use it on a shared server. Shared installs don't seem to work very easily (I'm sure it's possible and probably easy, but it's very unclear to me how). It would be awesome if it had a daemon similar to RStudio where people can just log in with a user id on a server and it forks off an instance for them.
All true.

Thing is though, it's not about Ted Cruz, or Obama or even the congress. Sure, it's a problem at those levels, but it's a REAL problem at the state and local level. As a super PAC you can have a much larger influence in these relatively less watched elections as you can in a national election. These smaller elections have candidates that aren't as well known and don't have the money to fight back.
Yea but you can't gauge team cohesiveness that well in a single interview (most of the time). I think YC, and most investors frankly, just want to know where the responsibility is and frankly if they have to ask it's a bad sign. All IMO of course.
> Visual Basic also seems quite close

Honest question - what is there about Visual Basic that makes you say this? I've written small programs with it and on the surface it feels close to "C# if someone changed all the keywords".
A flat organization cannot rapidly scale. And sometimes there might not even be a consensus. Having an overriding vote, albeit rarely, is crucial to break deadlocks.

This is not to say that flat organisations are bad. But I don't think they are a particularly good fit for the scale YC companies work at.
> e don't use data-driven approaches to them for the same reason why people continue to hire underperforming assest managers or why they hire over-priced management consultants.

i've got a data-driven solution for evaluating potential business partners, contractors, anything:

https://github.com/neyer/respect

it's basically page rank, with a small twist.

> it's beyond realistic hope that we could actually develop a moral calculus at a national level and use data-driven principles to actually inform the national debate over privacy vs. safety.

i think the key here is record taking, with really simple metrics.
Zero issues with the touchpad. It just works.

Battery life is awesome. I could probably go 6-7 hours, haven't tried though as I'm mostly connected.

As for graphics drivers, it's shitty at the moment. There's no native acceleration is I haven't bothered to recompile kernels as it doesn't concern me (it's a work machine).

Someone else will be getting the same machine soon, so I'll wait for him to be my guinea pig.
> sorry @simoncion...

No worries. It's astonishing how absolutely awful on-screen phone keyboards still are for doing anything more involved than writing a brief human-language message.
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You never went to grad school, did you?
Agree, I could share (a subset of) my sources as could you.

We could even automate it so if my post reader notices several of my sources following another source it will ask me if I want to look at or follow that source, etc.
>What is a "free" market? I think this is the important question. My core belief is that actors in an economy will act according to game theory. Is a free market one with no rules? If so, what is to stop someone from lying, cheating, or stealing? Is a free market a system with a few basic principles?

While clearly defining a free market is an important discussion, I think it out of the scope of this discussion. The direction for the thread was to explore your claim that government regulation in a market is initially introduced to mend a "failing industry". The only way to verify such a claim would be to explore some historical case. As you refuse to identify such a case, defining the term "free market" is a diversion.

>In essence, the government is a sort of corporation of which I received a single share upon birth.

>I simply do not believe that large, powerful, independent businesses will act with my best interests at heart.

Seems contradictory, don't you think? I find it ironic that you believe private businesses would do you personal harm, but you have no similar concerns for government. It is government not businesses who are responsible for hundreds of millions of deaths in the past century alone. It is government not businesses which hold a monopoly on violence and perform their every act, even the ones you deem noble, through the threat of violence.
Absolutely. Very sketchy to try to draw any meaningful conclusions from this data.

Also, what about the people who invent/innovate on a smaller scale, which doesn't get recognized as much as these inventions but is in aggregate perhaps as significant? This analysis sort of rings bells of the "Great Man" theory of history.
Has Compiz improved in the last couple years? 0.8.4 was great, 0.9.8 was garbage. I wrote it off as garbage hijacked by Canonical exclusively to support Unity. (Gnome 3 is pretty much now a fine replacement for Compiz 0.8.4 imo)
This absolutely stinks of seller's agents shirking their fiduciary duty so they can move more properties faster and claim access to an "exclusive" club when they take buyer clients.
I think cognitive empathy (knowing what others feel) is the technical term for what you call "therapist empathy", as opposed to affective empathy (feeling what others feel).

Cognitive empathy would be more about recognizing that the pain felt by racists is real pain. Of course, then an unpleasant moral dilemma arises - should we take such pain seriously? Traditional appeals to empathy say no, since we have no affective empathy for racists (they are far more out-group than blacks). But is that correct?
You're incorrect. If interest rates drop, then the value of the mortgage increases. But without that, you're getting a return from the interest of the mortgage. If you have a strip bond, where you pay a deep discount to the value of the bond, with no interest payments, then your bond does indeed gain value over time.
You sound like you're from the East Coast.
> If we did receive an intelligent signal from an extraterrestrial source, what form do we think or hope it would take?

For unintentional signals, I think it would take the same form of the early radio broadcasts from here on earth. These are likely some of the weakest signals but they have also traveled further than any other at this point.
I have a seriously hard time reading this comment while knowing what Orson Scott Card is actually like. In the frame of who he really is, everything about Ender's game seems like a reflection of an idea of parody or hyperbole of the personality types in the book. That said, it's one of my favorite books.
There is this mystic and frankly mythology that HP's RPN is a superior entry method for arithmetic. It's not. I knew RPN from my interest in math before calculators were invented, so I liked HP's RPN. However the direct correspondence between written math and the way it is expressed on a TI calculator is a huge advantage. I still have an HP RPN calculator. I liked its physical shape and size. I like the shape of its buttons. I likes the quality and feel. However, my daughter's TI calculator with a high resolution color screen (for a calculator) that graphs functions and understands calculus is so much more capable, and it supports parentheses with a standard order of operations so it is easier to go from a problem or equation description and entry into the calculator.

Before Python, I ordinarily used bc (a Unix command that acted as a basic calculator) for simple calculator calculations at my desk. bc was much more popular that the other Unix calculator dc which used RPN. Now I just use python's REPL. I only use a calculator if I'm away from a real computer (which is rare since I carry a smart phone).
I apologize for my snark. I would genuinely like to hear about your grad school experience. Maybe I'm the outlier.
My favorite is when other tech people (investors, etc.) stare at you blankly after comments like, "A PhD is like a startup in many ways."
I like it because the basic tiling is good enough, the spotlight is pleasing, and it's mainstream and reliable (try it with Debian Jessie!). The workspace management is as good as Compiz 0.8.4 was, wouldn't say it's any better (now I'm curious!).
I was in that group. There is so much that can be done just like that.

And Abi as a company was long gone by that time.
More or less. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm
Oracle already did that by not caring one second in providing Java compilers for iOS and WP.

The only thing they are supporting is some hybrid framework that wraps ADP into some Java version of Cordova.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/maf/overvi...

With offers like that, no other everyone that favours native has mostly went C# or C++.
All seemingly great reasons to buy local produce, but you failed to answer his question. How do you know local-joe-schmoe actually has "more pride and care"? I've don't buy apples with bruises, despite them travelling thousands of miles. Better for the environment, economy, etc sure, but his questions was purely about the quality of the product.
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It's not impossible but it requires a long sincere practice to peel off the layers of false identities that we associate ourselves with. These are gradually created starting right from our birth.
However one way it's true because once compassion for all beings (not just humans) becomes our nature, we no longer remain human – we become divine.

That's the goal of all paths of Yoga (Karma/devotion/meditation/wisdom)

The above isn't something theoretical jargon – I know at least one individual living at this moment who has reached to that state by following the meditation path of yoga [0].

0: http://omswami.com
For the Saturn? I think it was well known that documentation was bad. You see where he said about figuring out how to use the second SH2 processor. Not even Sega could figure out how use both of them efficiently(due to poor design) until the end of the system's life so I don't think there would have been useful documentation on that.

The Saturn failed because consumers were burned by Sega's add-on in the past coupled with the fact that the system was expensive and lacked decent dev tools at launch making is difficult to program for.
Edit: this was in response to your earlier message, which you've apparently edited.

No, we aren't (running out of resources).

The price of oil today is moderately higher (in constant dollars) than it was in 1946, but only moderately so.

http://inflationdata.com/articles/charts/inflation-adjusted-...

Pretty much every jump in the intervening years is directly attributable to political turmoil (e.g., war) rather than any real decline in the amount of oil available. Note that today's moderately higher prices are in an environment with active war going on in Syria and Iraq, historically two of the largest producers. If it weren't for that, oil prices might well have dropped below 1946 prices (again, in constant dollars).

Similar graphs hold for other commodities.

According to the pundits in the 1970s, we were supposed to be at the "Soylent Green" stage long before now. We aren't.

Old Man Malthus claimed that we were on the verge of the Soylent Green world (though of course he didn't call it that) way back in 1798.
If I was tasked with creating a system that only benefits those ALREADY doing well in the app store, and hurts indie developers I would come up with exactly what they're proposing.

I really hope this doesn't get implemented. There's low hanging fruit that could really help with the discoverability issues:

More categories
Better search (the matching is crap)
More curated lists
GET RID OF THE GARBAGE (old, broken and outdated apps should be removed)

Fixing those issues, and making a trial/paid upgrade path for apps would help and make developers happy. Unfortunately I guess there's more money in soaking up some of the ad money companies spend on Facebook. With paid listings expect to see Clash of Clans listed for.. everything
> Since I was already using two-step verification, I had to turn it off for the new, two-factor authentication, option to appear.

This can be very confusing and should be made more clear in Apple's documentation the iCloud Preferences UI on OS X.