skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's no way any ordinary insurance policy would cover this kind of scheme. Your premiums can, and should, skyrocket.

There is even another issue with accidents and luxury cars. [1] If you own a luxury car and it's in an accident the value drops pretty significantly vs. a non luxury car (where it still drops of course). With a rental apartment you have to worry about damage but not damage that would cause you to have a significant drop in the resale value.

[1] Recognizing this test is starting with Mini of course however the idea from reading is they would expand to other parts of the brand.
Meh. It could have linked to a website that doesn't suck so bad.
Nexus devices are getting updates for just around 2 years.
All the older devices (including my dear Galaxy Nexus) are left behind. Imagine if your newly bought windows 10 PC would get security updates for only 2 years
I think this is huge because it truly affects what actions people take and each action is a new point in history that may have gone the correct/normal course had there not been interference.
Do you find herbstluftwm to be better than i3? If so, in which way? I've been using i3 for a few years now, I'm VERY happy with it and I'm curious if/how [0] some other tiling wm can be better.
How do people overuse Excel?
This is the first time I've seen something like this, but my hunch is that Stripe is not the first to do it. Has anyone here done something like this? I'm interested in how well this works. I could see how it would be difficult for the team to integrate well into the company.
In a similar vein, installing uMatrix makes you (rightfully) paranoid about what web pages are collecting from you. "Wait I can disable 28 Javascript scripts and iframes and the page loads OK?"
I'm shamelessly using GitHub Desktop and loving it. I guess I'll pass on this project unless there is a way to point GD to a Dropbox-hosted repo.
Hopefully skyscrapers will build more inter-building bridges in the future. I wonder if the confluence of telecommuting, robotic goods delivery, and the penchant for urban living might mitigate the skyscrapers' elevator-to-floor optimization challenge by shifting the utilization pattern to one that sees more inter-floor and inter-building travel instead of ground-to-floor travel. There has to be some fascinating data collected by the elevator companies on the statistics of elevator service (mass, destinations, etc.).
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It won't be deleted, some non profit package will hire some schills to write smooth rebuttals or down vote it to lessen the impact.
a HN thread is not the appropriate place to ask for resources for a project.

There are many OS projects out there with larger needs than an analytics server that have managed to get the support they need. If resources are an ongoing problem you even have the option of applying to join a free software foundation like Apache that has resources.
These people are the exception not the rule, for every person like this there are many times more of those who would take the dole and do nothing with themselves. Basic income might increase the allure of risky proposition, I think in most cases these groups of people estimated some risk/reward function of their endeavours, considering the reward more so than the risk, but there is a healthy combination of the carrot and the stick. Basic income is to do away with the stick, most people need the stick to get out of bed in the morning, admittedly myself included, at least to some extent.
This is pretty excellent. I'm sure there will be turbulence, but this at least makes explicit what many of us try to do anyway when we move through our careers... bring the best people we've worked with, with us. But that often requires all kinds of implicit backroom dealings and influence peddling. This makes it nice and transparent and to the point.

Very cool experiment. Really excited to hear how this goes some day. I hope the good folks at Stripe will post occasional updates about how this takes shape over time. Could be really transformative.
I think they'd judge the team as a whole, rather than individuals. So it would be "Does the whole team average X?" as opposed to "Does the weakest individual hit bar X?"
I kept thinking of Bill Gates while reading this, and not just because both of them turned to philanthropy after building their empires. The only reason Bill Gates is not richer than Rockefeller is because of the anti-monopoly legislation that was invented to stop Rockefeller. Without the antitrust lawsuit Microsoft would have been able to kill off Apple and Netscape in the 90s and kept the web bottled up within Internet Explorer in the 00s.
I originally interpreted his phrasing the same way as you, but I think it's a bracketing thing:

> This doesn't happen in countries unlike the US where "jaywalking" is not a crime or even a concept.

I think it should be "This doesn't happen in (countries unlike the US) where "jaywalking" is not a crime of even a concept" rather than how I initially read it "This doesn't happen in countries unlike (the US where "jaywalking is not a crime or even a concept.)"
Placing [sic] into a paraphrasing is just misleading.

0) You asked, "What information is associated to [nodes and edges]?". In this example, one piece of information is the direction of an edge.

1) I don't think I claimed they were the same. In fact, I am claiming that one can be represented by the other and vice versa. a) yes, that is part of the reason I conject that each graph may be associated with an "infinite number" of computations and/or representations b) also a reason -- there are perhaps an infinite number of languages, interpreters, compilers, etc. (some of which may produce the same result) for a given graph.

2) It was only an observation that the comment I responded to claimed only a subset of the truth. Anything done on a computer can be considered as a graph.
What are the sources for the nonfiction in the article besides Titan?
Bitcoin will grow to precisely as large as is the vacuum of service for those that need it online. The size of that market might be very small (backpage, gambling, and VPS) or very large (improperly licensed direct to consumer drugs and capital flight) It depends entirely on the regulatory subsidy it receives from federal governments, in the form of credit cards cutoffs.
Excellent! Would you be willing to create a Webflow's UI components? Similar to topcoat.io - but with Webflows UI components. I've seen a few online designers but by far I haven't seen any as polished as Webflows. Thanks for an awesome product!
> horrific business practices

I recommend that you read "Titan" by Chernow. Rockefeller is mostly guilty simply of being very rich. During his career, he caused the price of kerosene to drop 70%, and stay down. This was good for the expanding country.

During the anti-trust trial, Rockefeller was steadily losing market share to nimbler, aggressive competitors. There was no need for the government to break it up, it was coming apart anyway.

All businesses rise and fall over time. The popular narrative that, unchecked by government, a business will eventually rise to absorb everything is not borne out by practice.
I was under the assumption that Kitematic wouldn't work with the beta but low and behold it does. I'm not sure what it will do if you have the old Docker toolbox installed at the same time however.
Speaking from personal experience, with the same diet and level of exercise I see vastly different numbers. I've been through the process twice, the second time because I injured my back and wasn't able to exercise for two months. When I restarted my previous regime I found that my numbers stabilised at a far higher range than I'd achieved previously. I went through the same diet process again (for 2 weeks) after which I returned to the same regime. My numbers are now stabilised at the lower level that I'd achieved before.
Drugs are more than just a cruch, it's responsible for more than half of the bitcoin mined every day. It is bitcoin's killer app. People use bitcoin because it's as close as they can get to the dollar.
> ‘Never, ever will I lend my car to strangers.’ Then there’ll be others who’ll love the idea of halving their leasing rate.”

For luxury cars it appears that it would tend toward "never ever". Having a luxury car isn't for practicality and you tend to feel very possessive about what you have and it possibly being damaged. Having it tarnished in some way lessens the joy of arbitrary non essential ownership. The idea that someone might have some heavy perfume or cologne or smoke in or near the car (however prohibited) would be enough to give many people pause. Also what if someone drove the car and by accident left some contraband in it?
> "I like to use this thought experiment when imagining Bitcoin adoption. And then I realise that after all the reading I've done and being fairly technically literate I can barely explain Bitcoin to myself in a coherent way."

I understand the sentiment, but what is there that's hard to explain about Bitcoin? Bitcoin is just a form of digital money. Seriously, for the average user, that's all it is.

We already have Bitcoin wallets, which are the equivalent to your personal bank account. Let's imagine for a second that we also have Bitcoin cards you can use to spend Bitcoin in shops. What difference is there between that and a credit card or debit card? For the end user, very little.

Perhaps the issue isn't so much that Bitcoin is hard to understand, but that money as a concept is hard to understand, or at least it's not immediately obvious how it functions. I'd say the main thing to understand about money is that it is just numbers, but we associate value with those numbers, and in order for us to associate value with those numbers we have to assume others will also do the sane. It is this collective agreement which gives value to money, nothing more. So, with regards to Bitcoin, do you think it will continue to be a valid medium of exchange, and do you think more people will also think this way?
Why Markdown doesn't include strikethroughs (2015)
Talk honestly about things you are working towards professionally.

This has always worked well for me for a few reasons 1) the honesty will show and be appreciated, building trust with your prospective employer and 2) they can make an inform decision as to how they can benefit from your future growth. Both parties win because expectations are set from the get go.

For example, I have a phone interview tomorrow, and I will probably talk about things I am trying to level up on (Angular 2, Laravel and Python/Flask etc) yet, I'm very familiar with javascript, OOPHP, and most of the front end stack.

If you try to fool them it will turn out bad for both in the long wrong. I actually prefer to take a code exam so they know exactly what my weaknesses and strengths are.

Hope this helps.
Beware the Liability of Sharing Your Car with Strangers
Or if you want to cover existing users, just ask during the first interactive invocation, when there is no prior user chosen setting (works for new installs too)...

pseudocode:

choice = no
if $brew_prefix/etc/homebrew.yaml:
choice = read analytics $brew_prefix/etc/homebrew.yaml
else:
if interactive-tty and cmd != "--prefix":
choice = ask-user "enable anonymous analytics (it helps us!)? Y/N: "
write analytics=<choice> $brew_prefix/etc/homebrew.yaml
if choice == yes:
enable-analytics
Unfollow the Leader: Angel Investors Follow Their Own Investing Path
Both history and theory show that free markets do not allocate resources well when the basic assumptions underlying efficient markets don't hold.

In the presence of non-rational behavior - such the the type of decisions people tend to make when making what they believe to be life or death decisions with extremely imperfect (and asymmetric) information - markets do not efficiently allocate resources. Throw in the fact that the decisions are frequently framed in terms of probabilities and made under duress and you've got a whole mess of psychological problems as well, even if the economic assumptions did hold (they don't).

That doesn't speak to a need for centralized planning per se, but it does mean that markets won't do the job correctly on their own.
That's not what I understood from the post.
Ha! Ancap, you're the greatest!
The history channel show (men who built america), the book, a few podcasts with the book's author, and a few clips from youtube from the history channel and biography channel.
Only if mainstream economic theory was correct, unfortunately it is deeply flawed and much of it depends on unrealistic (and at times inconsistent) assumptions.
Nope, VMs are demand paged like any other process.
Don't get me wrong; I can't wait for the future where nobody owns a vehicle and we all travel in autonomous electrical vehicles that are efficiently utilized, monitored and cleaned automatically as needed.

There is still at least one problem left - peak usage.
Be very, very careful with this. I was once brought to a company where my boss and her boss came from the same company essentially at the same time. My boss was considered overly aggressive with wanting to make (good) changes and "spoke too fast" (seriously, grown ass people made that complaint) this, but her boss was pretty much universally hated. That attitude reflected extensively downwards onto me and her. I couldn't handle it and had to leave after four months.
Why would you specifically target a relatively low number of people who have credit cards, when you can accept credit cards, debit cards, Gcash, Smart Money, Paypal, cash on delivery, payment via ATM or bank deposit or online transfer, or even through pawn shops; methods that online stores are using already.
You can run the full desktop version of Minecraft on Android using Boardwalk: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.zhuoweizha...
> Without the antitrust lawsuit Microsoft would have been able to kill off Apple and Netscape in the 90s and kept the web bottled up within Internet Explorer in the 00s.

I used Netscape in the 90s. It was a crummy product that crashed if you looked at it. IE was much more stable. IE was better, much better. Opera was also available, but there wasn't much to recommend it.

As for Apple in the 90s, Apple nearly destroyed itself all by itself. Check any of the innumerable books on the history of Apple.
Your account seems to assume that people will faithfully adhere to the suggestions of any model. In reality, not only have statisticians had a hard time accepting more prediction-centered approaches [1, see comments at end], but these approaches may need to win over practitioners and lay-people in the field in which they are being applied (e.g. how much do doctors value prediction over interpretable parameters).

I like machine learning, and prediction centered approaches--but there are many factors (such as adherence both by doctors and their patients) that are important, here. In a sense, the model needs to take into account "model type" into its predictions, which could lead to a model that predicts disease treatments well, but believes it should not be used!

[1]: http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ss/1009213726
Rereading, I think you're right.

If we make an offer, we’ll make it to all of you, at the same time; you’d all be free to accept or decline individually, but of course we’d hope you’d all accept

This implies individual hiring criteria. It's interesting that they let the group try and solve a problem as a team.

I wonder how this will impact compensation and offer acceptances.
So how much capital do you reckon you need to start a company, and why isn't that amount "a lot"?

A friend of mine got an MBA at MIT and started a company. He had to spend the first 6 months without any income, living off his savings. On top of the capital he needed to start it.
The trust thing has largely been sacrificed to placate the shareholders chasing that 3% annual growth.

This even though said growth only really showed up during the industrial revolution and after WW2.

The first because it was the first ever industrialization, and the second because much of Europe's industrial capacity had been blasted to bits.

In essence, shareholders (and their useful idiots, the economists) expect infinite compound growth while living in a finite environment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_and_chessboard_problem
This idea sounds excellent and definitely some outside of the box thinking! However, if I had a team that I really work great with and trust, I'd probably do a startup instead with said team. That's just me though.

I think this concept might attract fresh grads more and could be integrated into a BYOT internship program.
One Weird Trick to Improve Web Performance
Unless the laws of thermodynamics and the speed of light are wrong, there is only a finite region of spacetime with a finite amount of energy that we will ever be able to interact with. Infinite expansion would require expending infinite energy, and that's just not possible. Not even "proven physics" supports an argument that an economy can "grow exponentially, forever."
> Remember when everyone switched to Homebrew because Fink/macports were "antiquated", a.k.a. not written in Ruby?

Yes, I must admit I chose the word "antiquated" quite intentionally, as Homebrew seems to get so much attention (for now) because it's written in Ruby and the website (http://brew.sh/) is shiny, rather than technical merits.

> It was nice back then. Packages didn't install themselves in /usr/local.

You might enjoy Nix, then -- for that reason, and the following:

1. Everything is stored in /nix/store -- nothing ever touches /{local,}/{bin,lib,share}

2. Profiles are symlink forests that merge multiple packages into one FSH[1]-like tree -- each link pointing into /nix/store. When you install a package, a new symlink forest is created replacing the one at ~/.nix-profile (your user profile, being the default). If you request that nix rollback to a previous "generation" of your profile, all Nix has to do is replace the ~/.nix-profile link to instead point at the previous generation's symlink forest (you can think of this as bumping HEAD in git -- it's nearly instantaneous). If upgrading a package goes wrong, just rollback.

3. Because Nix knows the entire dependency graph, its trivial to distribute a build plan across multiple machines (you can set this up to happen by default)

4. We have a continuous integration server (Hydra[2]) that builds and signs all of our packages. Of course, there's nothing stopping you from building from source (or you could run your own Hydra instance, if you so wish).

[1]: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
[2]: http://nixos.org/hydra/
That's not even the worst of it. Not even a million-dollar policy would save you from the effects of renter having a serious accident:
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/101013...

In the above case, the survivors sued the car-sharing company, the estate of the (deceased) driver, and the vehicle owner. I would not expose myself to that kind of liability without very well established law around it.
Sounds more like they want Matrix, where you just have a bunch of redundant federated private servers in their own network. Everyone ends up with copies of all room conversation history, and it uses Signal for the encryption.
I think you misunderstood the point of the project. It is not making dropbox a git gui, but makes it possible to use dropbox as a remote git server.
if you want a more technical review of the Windows beta, read this: http://docker-saigon.github.io/post/Docker-Beta/

But note that beta 8 was released a few days after that review and already introduced some changes.

Also, for the Windows beta, it very much is still a beta.
Would Tokyo count here? It's a case of if-you-can't-beat-'em though, which probably isn't the example you want.
Very interesting and clever move.

Over my career, I've worked with quite few teams where the team was the only thing keeping everyone at a given company. The chance to move everyone would have, potentially, gotten some very good teams to go.
For anyone wanting to use all this cool stuff without waiting for the release, check out nlf/dlite https://github.com/nlf/dlite which has the xhyve implementation already.
I'm not a hundred percent sure if he has a blog, but rich hickey is the speaker/writer who has most consistently blown my mind our shifted the way I think about programming.

This is probably the best resource here: https://github.com/tallesl/Rich-Hickey-fanclub
I'd recommend starting with "simple made easy"

Also, he created Clojure :)
I think they were aiming for very good (keeping up their 26-11 first half record) rather than undefeated.

The story as a whole shows good humility.
> Graphic Design or Industrial Design departments shouldn't be teaching how to use specific proprietary programs. The principles of those disciplines can be used in any of the numerous tools out there, and the real skills of a designer are transferable.

It's as idiotic as saying that future surgeons should only learn medicine theory on Chrome books. Do you not get that Graphic Design or Industrial Design departments should teach whatever is needed so that students get a job in these domains at the end of college ? Do you not get that students often have to build projects in professional conditions using professional tools ? Do you not get that you don't replace most professional tools in these domains by cheap web based knock offs ? So you clearly don't get why selling ChromeOS books to these students is wasting their money.
This isn't quite a replacement for deb-s3; it's more a replacement for apt-transport-s3 or apt-s3.

I would highly recommend aptly for managing apt repos though. https://www.aptly.info/ Works with S3 too.
> "We have reached a standstill that shows every bit why highly unregulated systems are difficult to maintain (the miners care only about short term profit and are making bitcoin as a payment system unusable in order to secure short term profit)."

Bitcoin isn't completely unregulated. For example, I believe there's due to be a halving of the new block value soon, to slow down the rate of growth. This may have some negative consequences (such as reducing the number of people who mine for Bitcoin), but on the whole may help to stabilise the value of Bitcoin.

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-prices-steady-as-subsidy-hal...
Your business expenses are not my problem. The grocery store doesn't get to charge people when they order too much perishable fruit.

Your of a different opinion, that's your prerogative. Just don't expect everyone to feel the same way. I certainly don't.

I don't care how much you've poured into automating your business processes. That's what you do to increase your profit margins. I only care about two things: My input (time, effort, money), and your output (services provided).

That's just business. If someone is rude, be happy to see the back of them as a customer. Or fire them as a customer. Both those are acceptable. Taking a consumer to court if you think you'd have a case (you wouldn't) is also your right.

It's also their right to take you to small claims, which depending on the state may require you to send an employee to their state, without a lawyer, to justify your actions to a judge. I think you'll probably discover they're not going to be very sympathetic to your perceived right to take people's money just because you have business expenses in predicting future costs.
Not all engineers want to be entrepreneurs ;)
I remember reading a blog post about a year ago where this guy talked about going through a similar process of "applying as a team" at a different company - just commenting now so if someone who also read it (but unlike me actually remembers who it was) can post it here. This is definitely not the first time I've seen this concept on HN, though