skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Practically everything in the world more complex than basic physics is non-deterministic, especially who wins games of skill. Things occur or don't occur with probabilities.

Even if you have a 95% chance of winning each game (unrealistic IMO), the probability of winning 81 games in a row is under 2%.

This is less apparent in other sports than in baseball, not because the outcomes of those games are more deterministic, but because fewer games are played per season.
There is a healthy balance of stick and carrot, they both have their place. But the main motivation behind work is largely stick. Once you achieve a certain level of income it becomes normalized over time and work is done to maintain this lifestyle and the pain from losing what you have.

You have an extremely rosy view of the average person if you think thats how the vast majority of people are going to spend their time on UBI. I imagine people on UBI will act like any other person who I've met whose parents do not kick them out of their home and provide them with basic needs.

In my experience these people are not doing anything worthwhile or ground breaking, and its intuitive to any individual why this is the case. Nobody glorifies or looks up to this subset of the population yet you put on a pedestal the man or woman who has no worry of basic needs by way of the government payout.
> Very easy to fix. Monitor the driver's behavior in terms of the way they use the vehicle (accelerate, brake, etc), and charge them accordingly.

Car2go (Smart) does exactly this... only they disguise it as eco-score (there's some trees on your dashboard and according to your driving style they grow or shrink). Given my last car was an 1994 BMW 318is, it took some time until I managed to get my driving style under control until I got my license yanked away (but that's another, totally unrelated story...)
I agree, perhaps it would be better to compare the iMac's performance against a $4,000 Dell Precision workstation.
I don't know about currency controls but in Greece with capital controls imposed there were a lot of people who turned to Bitcoin to withdraw as much money out of their bank as they could. You can't withdraw more than 420 euros weekly per bank in cash but no one's stopping you from buying as much bitcoin as you like using credit/debit cards.
Here is a good summary of SMS payments : http://www.mobiletransaction.org/what-are-sms-payments/

They are used a lot in countries with dysfunctional banking systems. They aren't encrypted, they use the fact that you're sending a text from your phone to validate that it's you.
Hey, any chance we could get 3 character docker ids? I'm smw on twitter, github, hn, reddit. Would love to not have to be 'smw0' on the Docker hub?
To be honest for me it's all a bit odd. It's like, I just don't fit into socializing in $CURRENT_YEAR with ordinary people. I feel a bit like an old fuddy.

WhatsApp has some weird thing whereby I need a smartphone and a telephone number and shit.

Facebook - let's not even go there.

My ideal communication feels like call > e-mail. SMS possibly as an ephemeral 'i'm outside the museum, i can see you from here' type thing.

Basically anything else I just don't really get (for one on one). IM is so distracting that unless I'm doing something mindless like playing a video game, I'd be better off in a call.
Not sure if this will work. But worth a try. Its $15

https://www.tindie.com/products/freto/pi-camera-hdmi-cable-e....
Basic income as a cure to robots replacing everyone's job? Not too reassuring. I go from working and earning a living wage, to not working, collecting a free check from the Govt. that barely keeps me above the poverty line. Hard to get enthusiastic about that. People who own the robots will love basic income. It prevents social unrest.

The main problem with our economy and income equality is in the way Government deals with corporations. Corporations have the right to pay little or no taxes, and no responsibility to employ people or pay a real living wage ($7 hr is not a living wage unless you're a teen who lives at home). Their lowest wage workers are subsidized by things like welfare programs and the Earned Income Tax Credit. People have the EITC all wrong. The EITC is taxpayers paying workers what their employers don't.
I don't see why; you're tracked like this on nearly every website you visit unless you opt out. This isn't malicious.
U.S. efforts to build next-gen supercomputer take shape
60 hours is easily lost when some piece on your custom rig dies and you don't have apple care.
Bad timing. I'm sure the stock market is fine for people with an infinite time horizon, but I no longer trust it as a place to park savings for 5-10 years that you want to grow in order to buy a house or spend on grad school.
Police using online surveillance to track talk on Flint water crisis
if you buy apple, you pay the extra tax, and the anodized aluminum finish.
I use SoundCloud when I don't have any other options, but I try not to make a habit of using websites that depend on Adobe Flash.
I'm curious to see how this plays out (how much of the logistics will be handled by BMW vs outsourced?)..

I also wonder if the stack fallacy could be coming into play here: http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/18/why-big-companies-keep-fail...
"But I know some things about what words mean, and publishing a paper describing an open source project in March and not having any code available for download in April is just kind of weird, no?
"

This is a lot of assumptions.
For starters, it's all pretty much part of llvm 3.9 already.

"It's good to talk about working out the precise mechanics of upstreaming code. But in an open source project, you'd expect to publish your fork so that other people can play an informed part in that conversation.
"

Actually, no, you wouldn't, at least not in these communities. In fact, in most of the projects i've been in, that's the last thing i'd want or the community would want, because it encourages people to play with these weird hybrid versions, when that's not what anyone really wants. Instead, we'd want people to come to us with design ideas, and use cases, not a fait accompli already written that they expect us to do something with.

I'm not sure what projects you are part of that work the opposite way, where it's "fork everything and whatever happens happens", but it's not the majority of projects i've belonged to nor have i personally found it to be a very valuable mechanism. It makes people attached to their current implementations. When it comes to things like this, a lot of them are written the way they are not because it's a good design, but because they needed to get stuff done. Thus, discussing the use case, and design, and providing example code if people want it to play with, great. Dumping forks on the world, not a particularly useful thing in most cases except for boosting egos, IMHO (there are times it is useful,for sure, but those are mostly rare cases IMHO).

Look at the history of GCC and LLVM forks. Of those who published forks and started discussion about merging those forks as-is, the number of successful merges is near zero.

Of those who said 'hey, we did some cool stuff, here's our use cases and our initial thoughts on design. We have stuff that follows this design we can show but are otherwise happy to figure out the right design and build that", the number of successful merges is near 100%.

So that's what was done.
Could Dark Matter Just Be Normal Stuff That’s Dark? (2014)
Docker 4 Mac is awesome - however running into some issues with running `npm install`, with the container not completing I think due to CPU issues.
Why wouldn't you try to work together with these collaborators and then get acqui-hired. Would probably be a better deal. It's innovative, for sure, but I don't see this as being in the applicants' favour.

EDIT> Actually ... there is a benefit over acqui-hiring. If your teammates are unable or unwilling to forgo salaried employment, this could be a win. Could definitely bring in more experienced people who have families / mortgages, etc.
Hyperbole! What piece could possibly take 60 hours to order, receive and replace?
> There is no reason for individuals to buy/sell Bitcoins other than speculation.

You already listed one other reason - drugs.

> What would be the point in buying Bitcoin with cash/card only to use it on a service that also accepts cash/card?

Only a handful of online services sell gift cards through brick and mortar stores that you can actually purchase with cash. As for the point of not using a card - my main interests in bitcoin as it stands today are:
- I don't have to share my identity with the service I'm purchasing from (to validate the credit card), increasing my privacy and anonymity.
- Like cash, it limits the risk of fraud and dark patterns (hidden fees, reoccurring charges that you weren't expecting, outright fraudulent charges, etc. don't simply auto-deduct from your account - although you can still not get the service you paid for.)

Well done, friction-free micro transactions for some services (e.g. news websites) might actually convince me to start using bitcoin regularly. Of course, that hasn't happened yet - nor do I know that it will happen with e.g. the problems with dust etc.
Why would it necessarily be cheaper? After all Apple has both economy of scale and the capacity to buy up the entire manufacturing run of many of the components. They should be able to assemble a system as tightly integrated as a Mac much cheaper than somebody could go out and buy all the parts for.

A better example might be the cost delta between buying a car from the manufacturer and buying all the parts to make the same car separately and putting it together. The direct from manufacturer car will be far cheaper.
So exactly like immigration to a new country. Interesting. But given the short expected tenure of an average employee these days, I wonder how many are willing to wait for this long pipeline to complete. Getting hired all at once could mean working together for three years starting today rather than starting in a year or two, when attrition is already ripe to occur at the new company.
Lots and lots of dudes out there consider "saying things while being a woman" to be a crime against society.
Hellas Verona mengejutkan
Golang MLLP Library
It does in the latest update. Just run "pinata set native/port-forwarding true" and your docker containers will be accessible via localhost.
Previously this only worked with the VPN compatibility mode, but it's available on its own now.

I also recommend running "pinata set network nat".
> If, as argued above, monopolies naturally "self-destruct" in favor of newer, more ferocious competitors, then regulation isn't necessary.

Absolutely incorrect as it allows for the abusive monopoly to exist for an undetermined amount of time possibly preventing competition more than long enough to do harm. This argument is equivalent to saying all murders die eventually so there's no need to outlaw murder.

Just because something self destructs "eventually" is not sufficient reason to not regulate it and is certainly not a good argument against regulation.

edit replying to below:

> I'm curious what harm you accuse SO of. Keep in mind that SO dropped the price of kerosene by 70% and kept it down.
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Why should I keep that in mind? Doing a good thing doesn't mean you didn't also do bad things so that's simply not a relevant fact in this discussion.

It is historical fact he used anti-competitive practices[1] to sabotage the competition, the harm caused was to those trying to compete with him and it's exactly the reason we now have anti-trust laws.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil#cite_ref-31
This isn't the first time AirBNB for cars has been done. Turo/RelayRides has been doing it for a few years, and most of reports I've heard have been positive. It involves the same magnitude of concerns you get with renting out a home:

> Renters could mess up a home in any number of ways, from making a mess with food and drink, to damaging parts of the interior, to getting in accidents and causing serious damage. Are owners expected to do a full damage assessment pre/post every rental? Nobody will accept any liability otherwise.

> Think of all the nefarious activity a renter could get up to. Domestic violence, noise violations. Drug dealing or trafficking. Congratulations, your home is now a a meth house.
Every place is different, the GP was talking about Indonesia where the folks were in fact shopping online and the challenge was the payments system. In Cambodia with poor package delivery then that might be the place to start. What I was alluding too is that one of the things that makes startups successful is that they seem to be "right place, right time" but sometimes it is simply that they are designed to mesh well with an existing infrastructure.

The trick here is to take something which is is known to work and try to think about what changes would make that thing work where you are. In a country where everyone has a smartphone, you can look at things that you can do with a smartphone you couldn't do with a 'dumb' phone. In a country where there are extremely inefficient transport, mail, or payment systems, then working within what you can there can be a winner.
Between software engineers and salespeople? Really?

A better question would be "what do they have in common?"
I generally don't have a hard time getting hired, nor do the people I work best with. I mean it's trivially true that p(A and B) is probably smaller than p(A) or p(B) alone, but I don't think that's what you were getting at.

Could you be experiencing a bias because of your deal/people flow?
Not entirely true. I used to be an analyst and we would still look at and comment on non-recurring items to understand if they are relevant to the health of the business. In reports, we'd even comment/refer to past non-recurring items. They factor into models if we thought there was a possibility of them re-occurring.
remember kids, christian science is neither christian nor science
Why would speed be silly? That is a business, who saves money with every speed increase.

Also, the end of the article shows the next text is a Mac Pro. I thought commenting without reading was a reddit thing, not hn.
Netscape 4.0 was the peak as I remember. Came with a shiny new logo
Yes, I'm still reading this and I'm not afraid of working by the rules (or learning them). I'm just surprised how fragmented the whole embedded device stack is. The whole software development process could (and should) be more defined. Let me gather some more experience and see if I can come up with something more clever :).
It also skips the part where the team being hired gets a large signing bonus.
> The point is, it didn't happen and never did.

Wrong, it did happen, to Netscape. Microsoft's bundling of IE for free destroyed Netscape as a viable business.
BobTom, I had a long discussion with you on Monday about exactly how we could solve this problem affecting our production systems. Now it's Thursday and you're telling me you have no idea what we decided three days ago? You're fired.
If you care about cats' welfare, I invite you to please watch this video
Reminder - The NSA/GCHQ systems described their use of Google Analytics piggybacking to fingerprint and target users for exploitation.

They also used similar Windows error reporting to monitor what software/hardware users have.

Not that anyone should be snooping on what users do without opt-in permission, but even if we believed that Google "anonymize" it, there are still concerns.

More simply, there's just no reason for you to know what I do on my own computer. It's none of your business and I don't need a reason.
I mean certainly you could build that bidirectionally with their APIs, except for the SMS, though I suppose you could with a Twilio number or something. But the flow is so different. I might exchange twenty one-line messages with someone over Facebook. That would be pure hell in email.
DARPA wants “a public wall anyone can monitor or post
messages on, but only correct people can decrypt.”

Great related talk "Defcon 21 - De-Anonymizing Alt.Anonymous. Messages"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tj6c2Ikq_E

https://ritter.vg/p/AAM-defcon13.pdf
OT, but my first reaction to this article was how much I loved that font. Looked it up, it's Monda, and available on Google Fonts https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Monda.
Already a thing: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowsconta...

Native Docker support in Windows will be available in the next Windows server release, and is already available in the Windows technical preview bits (since TP4).
Change it to opt-in, please.
Most current tools have made some trade-offs to make them more user friendly so they'll actually be used. A perfectly secure messenger isn't very useful if it's so hard to use that no one does.
Among other factors, salespeople have a large variable component to their compensation. They tend to be highly economic animals in a way that most engineers are not. Hence a former boss can easily convince them to join up by making a compelling argument about their prospective earnings.
See gozur88's comment.
Absolute nonsense.

This stinks of a cross between attempting to do PR and having someone who didn't make a spending decision justify it.

As I said elsewhere, the place to improve is in their human workflows, or there is no improvement to get.
> from a small community off the Canadian coast

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Curious how old the OP is because I got a good chuckle out of his comment.
An acquired company's owners also get to pocket whatever the purchase price of the company was, less investors' take. Sweet deal! You get paid for your "company" and you also all get jobs! A team-hired group foregoes this, unless they negotiate an up-front "team acquisition fee".
I'm surprised by HN's response here. I always thought it was common knowledge that a custom PC would be faster than a mac. You don't pay for speed with Apple, you pay for user experience.
Great in theory, unworkable in practice.

The downside to this will be the negotiated rate, and that is the upside for Stripe.... along with the lower risk hiring outcome they also receive.

When time is not on your side your negotiating ability is severely hampered.

There will always be an imperative for someone in a team to "hurry the paperwork" along faster than someone else because they need the financial security of a job etc etc. So unless the "team" is happy to delegate the entire negotiating process to one person with complete authority this situation will be unavoidable. And let's face it, not many people will blindly put their faith in someone else to negotiate every aspect of their next full time permanent position, including whether or not to accept it and give notice at their current employer.

Money isn't everything of course, but this is a sure-fire approach to limiting your income, thus don't think there will be many takers.

As someone else said in the comments here, the more practical alternative that actually does work is called consulting.
The devil you know is better than the one you don't. You'll be joining a team either way.
And the aluminum body connected to that finish. Why not say the tax is for sturdy, light, consistent (if not attractive) construction?
From the article:

"The honest truth is, I have spent just as much time in a Apple store at the Genius Counter getting my Apple machines repaired as I have maintaining my well built PCs."
Show HN: RunJS-SlackBot-A Slack bot that runs JavaScript (es6) in slack chat
Whoa wait they don't use ecc ram?
Having dev servers set up the same as production makes sure that none of the little gotchas pop up that can cause problems. You can more readily guarantee that the version of every part of the stack is the same, and that the configurations are the same. One of the things this lets you do is work deeper in the stack without nearly as many concerns. You can test config tweaks, hand-rolled builds, etc, with knowing that a rollback is just an rm -rf and untar away, or a finalized config change is expressed as a single diff.
I do not work on this project, but perhaps this was the move to have the "VPN compatibility mode" enabled by default.
Have you tried going to the settings menu and disabling?
I imagine this complexity comes from his combination of economic and religious values. Interestingly, it was not uncommon for Protestants to have this kind of dilemma - they were encouraged to work very hard (see "The Protestant Work Ethic") for having success in life was the only indication that one was in god's favour. However, it was forbidden to actually spend one's earnings on selfish pursuits thus many Protestant businessmen reinvested the money into their enterprises which only increased their earning power.
I could see BMW tayloring these vehicles for existing car rental services. Keys are the least convenient part of a car rental. Removing a physical barrier to entry could provide a real edge to sway impulsive customers.
This is how a lot of people, myself included, use SnapChat. The social network dynamic is totally different when the default is to include no one and you manually curate the list for each post.
Thanks! Docker ID is same as HN: woodnathan
Your flippant statement is cute but some people might be interested not having the serial burglars.

I think it's sort of interesting that someone posted some Mother Jones apologia for criminality citing Swiss cheese hypotheses about lead and criminality ..... but wait we have to outlaw lead but any drugs people want to use must be made free ... what about ones including lead? I mean perhaps you aren't making this claim, I just think there are a lot of misconceptions about the utopia that follows from complete legalization and and I think the "we have laws against theft and murder already" are pretty weak for those interested in like having civil society.
Rllab – framework for developing and evaluating reinforcement learning algorithms
This guy managed to edit a 4k video on last years Macbook faster than a much beefier Windows computer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnapaZYD2cU

I think that speaks to the "quality" of the software more than anything. I'm wiling to bet that Adobe Premiere would render that macbook useless. I wonder how much more(I can't imagine how difficult it is to write their software cross-platform) amazing the Adobe suite would be if they only focused on Windows (which allow for these super powered machines).
Literally in awe of the engineering it takes to build something like this, let alone metres beneath one of the world's largest cities