skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sigh... lemme tell ya what they taught us in finance theory class: rich investors are not stupider than average investors; in fact, if investing "for the long term" is the right thing to do, rich investors actually have the resources, wherewithal and the time to do it.

The problem is, as hard as it is to predict the future, it is harder to predict farther into the future; and, once you set up a pot of "long term" honey, people have a chance to reorganize their affairs to siphon off said honey and if your idea is to not pay attention to their short term results, you set yourself up for a big long term surprise. Publicly traded companies are mostly companies that have products, markets, customers, service, etc. Generally, when they are losing money compared to other companies, it does not scream "we're pouring money into R&D, great things are around the corner!"

This boils down to, statistically speaking, short term results are actually the best indicator of long term results. You'd be foolish (statistically) to overemphasize long term hypotheticals in the face of short term losses.

TL;DR that financial markets are too tilted in favor of "short term" results is largely a myth. if it were not a myth, wealth would shift from the majority people who supposedly pay attention to short term results and toward people who ignore short term results leading to the end of the myth.

edit (couple above and): I'm not saying that long term projects and ideas and thinking don't ever pay off; I'm saying that saying that they are undervalued and therefore represent an opportunity is a stretch and requires proof that you most likely will not find if you look because others have looked.
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Dialyzer-Driven TDD in Elixir
The problem with these solutions is that production moves where it's cheaper. If you tax my robots, I'll just pack up and move them to another country where they are not taxed, or they are taxed less.
Government wastes billions of dollars on old computers, report says
There are a lot of assumptions in your response as it relates to manufacturing and the "west". How can you say this will "skip" developed nations in light of current statistics about the US middle class. The US started moving in this direction a long time ago because labor cost more here. We are realizing the effects today and will continue to see worse effects in the long term. You don't see too many of these articles in the US because firing 60,000 people in favor of robots is not viewed as a badge of honor. FoxxConn is using this as a puff piece to appease foreign buyers.
Mr. Thiel’s motivation for being involved in the case is unclear, but his animus toward Gawker dates back to at least 2007, when Gawker’s Valleywag blog revealed that he was gay. Mr. Thiel, who has since publicly discussed his sexuality, in a 2009 interview described Valleywag as “the Silicon Valley equivalent of al Qaeda.” Gawker has since closed the site.

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At trial, the Florida jury was told that Gawker Media was worth $83 million and that CEO Nick Denton, who was personally ordered to pay Mr. Bollea $10 million in punitive damages, was worth $121 million. The company generated $48.7 million in revenue last year, according to information revealed at the trial. In 2014, it turned an operating profit of $6.5 million on $44.3 million in revenue, according to a company disclosure.
"No, the people with the money and land have decided that they like suburbs."

You don't have children, do you?
Remember when they kicked out Ari Jaaksi (for one, I thought he was a GREAT leader).

Then they brought in the son of the former Finnish president (Ahtisaari) and the guy stood in front of the entire program telling us how awesome he was and he was going to reshape the way people use mobile phones.

Good times.
>CRI compares a light source to an ideal black body, not necessarily daylight.

Isn't the sun a pretty-close-to-ideal black body emitter? Is there something specific you are thinking of that makes daylight deviate significantly from black-body radiation? (Rayleigh scattering in the upper atmosphere?)
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Yeah, it won't be pretty on the top end for AMD. But at least we will get to see those high end chips from Intel when AMD puts out something competitive. Intel has been treading water and raking in the cash on the high end for a decade without any decent competition from AMD.
I'm really curious whether that $1B is truly $1B, or if that's the sticker price based on some crazy metrics they have to hit, and the actual value of the deal is in the $150-$250m range (not that that's anything to sneeze at either), plus unlikely incentives.
I would not call tech industry a bubble by any means. However, since my work took me away from Silicon Valley - I have to say there are almost no startups that have really changed my life in any noticeable way. All I have watched happen is my new smartphones and laptops get thinner, and the apps on them switch to flat design language. Glass was neat, more novelty though. Cardboard was cool, also a novelty - plus I don't game so VR doesn't effect me (yet) and on top of that, neither of these were made by a startup - but a huge corporate entity. I thought back in 2010 I would be experiencing my entire tech life through Augmented reality by at least 2015. Needless to say, I am not. :(
"Analog malicious hardware" made me think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
that snooped on americans for seven years...
Online Eye Exam Site Makes Waves in Eye Care Industry
I interpreted the parent comment differently. To me, people who "show up" are those who are present, engaged, and making an effort to succeed in good faith. People who "hand in the work" are those who get stuff done, maybe not perfectly but they give it their best shot. They try. I agree with the original comment that these are crucial elements for success, and perhaps more valuable than raw intelligence.

Thinking is an important part of the job for most people on HN, as you rightly noted, but thoughts must lead to actions to produce any sort of value for an employer. The action could be as "simple" as communicating a thought with others (not always simple!).
Yes, the bets are risky. It is an opportunity to rethink your portfolio like a VC where few investments could return 10x easily and a lot will lose the capital allocated to them.

I think this is better than buying IPO stock in public markets which are so bad these days that only zombie companies are being listed and investors are being screwed very regularly.
> but we survived because ultimately people find a way to make money.

Or more accurately, we just stopped caring about the people who can't.

And to treat our fears about inevitably joining them, the denigration starts. "well, they're just red state rednecks" "Poor folks should just learn more and work harder and pull those bootstraps" "if there's 5 jobs for 10 people, then the 10 people need to go back to school and get degrees, then they'll have 5 jobs for 10 people with degrees, which will be much better"
BUT BUT BUT!!! I spend so much time moving the cursor out of the way so I can read the letter under the pointer.
I think you're overestimating the amount of high-skill jobs people do in the west to be honest.

Like we've got a ton of truck drivers, who'll surely disappear within a few decades, which is just one at most two generations. In terms of policy planning this is a short-term timeframe.

Same for most people who work in retail, from clothes shops to supermarkets.

But even higher-level jobs will change massively. I highly doubt education will stay as labour-intensive. And I've got family members who are attorneys, and when I speak to them they'll tell me a ton of their workload is simply going through legal documents to look up stuff, and then preparing mostly template legal documents. A lot of this is manual work that'll disappear sooner than you'd think. We've already seen examples in this field with the automated bot that helps void parking tickets.

The amount of people that work high-skilled labour is really small if you ask me. I think a decent first order approximation is to compare the amount of people that work at the Walmart or Amazon headquarters, versus their stores and warehouses. For Amazon I've seen numbers that it's roughly 24k vs 240k, and consider that this is a tech-oriented company that's already automated a lot. For walmart it'd likely be 1:1000. Take a Facebook with 12k employees, a leader in a high-skill industry, and it's the margin of error of the employee count of a leader in a low-skill industry, not in China, but right here in the west, like say Walmart (> 1m employees) or say a franchise like McDonalds. These are also Dutch or Canadian workers.
ReactOS has introduced .NET 2.0 applications support
The Thing (Listening Device)
I wonder what Tomi Ahonen thinks of these latest developments.
You've watched far too many Hinton videos.

Cyc belongs to the family of rule-based expert systems. Expert systems were successfully used in medical diagnostics, chemistry, biology and various branches of engineering. Not to mention countless "trivial" applications in planning and logistics for businesses. I could also make a case that DeepBlue was an expert system, and thus add "superhuman performance in chess" to the list.

Saying that results from an expert system don't matter (simply because it's an expert system), while believing equivalent results from an ANN will "explode and solve longstanding challenges" (simply because it's "neural") makes no sense. ANNs are not magic.
How does LukeB_uk know that this is the document the article used to source that statement? Does he have an old copy?

Genuinely curious as the page he's referred me to seems to document a U.S. only feature you need to specifically turn on when you update your status.
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Eventually the pendulum will swing back. The web app model beat out native apps (then called client-server apps) for very good reasons (no install, REST-fulness, simplicity, transparent linkability) but we've become blind to them through long exposure.

As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,

the gods of the HTTP Headers, with terror and slaughter return.
Sounds promising. Are there any hackable e-book readers which use E Ink by the way? I.e. where you can install Linux for example?
How the World's Best Brands Create Desire for Their Products
https://imgur.com/gallery/7drHiqr It's happening.
Because otherwise they pick up a gun and rob the robot-owner.

That's the essential element that the rich folk concentrating capital and eliminating labor are forgetting. When the people have no bread, they do not eat cake. They start chopping off heads, without being very discriminating about whether they deserve to remain attached to their necks or not.
I think if there was no share back requirement you would still have one project that would be the social nexus of the data. Forking and closing the database just to add some trails in Wyoming would not make much sense (as a silly example).

In essence, careful respect for the license isn't the main driver for contribution.

I think it would certainly lead to more competitors, people would take the data and do their own value add, but I think it is quite an open question whether they would be able to actually become considerably better databases.

(I'm roughly indifferent to the share back requirement. I don't think it is needed but given how much support there is for it in the community it isn't worth discussing over and over)
Show HN: /r/AskOuija, an experiment in linguistic collaboration
http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/1/10885500/us-mobile-xiaomi-m...

Again I don't know much about the US market, but they do have FCC approval and it seems that they do have direct marketing sales in the US.
The biggest problem I see is that their phones for the most part are EU/ASIA focused which means that LTE won't work on most US networks, and US only bands won't be supported either.
I was going to say the same thing. People are confusing "continuous spectrum" with "solar spectrum". Try comparing a "daylight" bulb with a normal incandescent. The color temperature of the sun is ~5500K. The daylight one will look insanely blue, very much like a "cool white" LED or fluorescent.

The people that are claiming that incandescent light is "natural" are out to lunch, imho. Maybe it appeals to the cave man inside them, because it's closer to the color of fire?
well, it is worse than just old computers

John Oliver on hbo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y1ya-yF35g
Economies of scale seem like a large win, here. If you own a thousand trucks, your per-truck maintenance costs are less than if you own one truck. Companies that don't want to own and maintain a fleet of trucks will outsource to those who do, but it's simpler to deal with one external entity that can supply trucking than ten or a hundred such entities.
I completely forgot about it, yeah it might be a reason.
Grrr!

Incandescent lights, when heating would be used, are 100% efficient.

They provide 3% light output, and 97% heat output. A single one on provides a great amount of heat and can easily provide spot-heat where humans are.

Instead there's CFLs and LEDs. And CFLs are a great way to spread mercury pollution across a great area. Snopes has a decent article about hazards and response: http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp
Thinking only changes things if it manifests itself as work of some kind.

Perhaps you are a manager of a team. In that case your work is the communication with your staff, superiors, and peers, which must be complete, clear, and timely.

Or perhaps you are a programmer. In that case your work is the actual writing of code, testing, debugging, deploying, and communicating to manage feedback and plan the next round of work.

Knowing how to code up the next great new feature is not enough. It's not useful until it's coded and deployed, and that takes work.
Major DNS provider hit by mysterious, focused DDoS attack
Alibaba Discloses SEC Probe of Its Accounting Practices
Except that I believe you need to turn the feature on:

https://m.facebook.com/help/iphone-app/1499418503612943

Got this from someone else's Google search, apparent it took them less than a minute to find this, their Google-fu is clearly greater than my own :-)
AT&T did a pretty good job of promoting them a few years ago, but my problem is that I had a HTC Titan II, then moved up to a Nokia 1020, then when it's screen broke, moved up to a... oh wait. Exactly like you said, there was no upgrade path.

They didn't release any new phone models for something like 3 solid years. At the same time, the Nokia purchase removed HTC (who was at least somewhat enthusiastic about the OS previously) from the Windows Phone ecosystem.

So if you're a die-hard Windows Phone fan, they went 3 years with no new phones for you to buy! It's no wonder the OS is struggling. And while the Nokia 1020 is a fine phone, I loved, loved, loved my HTC WinPhone and it's a damn shame I'll never be able to buy that combination of hardware and software ever again.
Looking for a masters degree focused on renewable energy
I am not a physicist or an engineer - I seek a masters degree and I would like it to be relevant to my career in renewables. Finance and policy seem to be the governing forces that drive/halt renewables and distributed generation. Are there any schools (departments, professors) where these areas are covered?
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Totally agree. It just amazes me how quickly big names go under.
That's easily remedied with the little salt packets.

Too much salt on the other hand...
To make this point a bit more strongly, there's a type of coffee called Kopi luwak that sells for $700/kilogram.

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

This coffee's claim to fame is that the beans have been eaten (and then excreted) by a cat-like animal called a palm civet.

Now, does that high price mean that most people want to drink this coffee? Nope. Most people would avoid it at all costs. There is a small group of connoisseurs who enjoy this coffee. The price is high because, as small as that group might be, the (tiny) supply is insufficient to satisfy their demand at any lower price.

Similarly, there's a subset of people (mostly, though not exclusively, young, single, and childless) who actually enjoy living in dense urban environments, and will drive up the price accordingly. Those people are not the norm.
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Is a prenup a good idea?
MySQL 5.7+ performance_schema. Putting global_status to good use
In my experience, Nokia Here and Apple Maps both trounce Google Maps when it comes to routing. Google still has an edge on POI, but other than that I never touch it.
The demo you came here for

https://webgazer.cs.brown.edu/collision.html

Click around the screen where you're currently looking to calibrate
The sun provides a spectrum with a temperature of roughly 6500K, domestic lightbulbs produce something more like 2700K up to 3000K. The biggest difference between incandescent and CF/LED lights is that the spectrum from an incandescent bulb is quite smooth, whereas other lights tend to have a much spikier spectrum meaning you may see some odd colour effects from them and certain materials.
Except the OP posited we'd all be safer if everyone carried guns on a plane. If it was to merely transport them and they aren't used, I'm just unclear how it makes anyone more or less safer?
Perhaps the answer here is to have a donation receiving autonomous corporation on etherium that then provisions the nodes automatically.

Note: I'm aware that'd be a lot of effort to set up and might not even work, but the idea seems fascinating in theory.
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I feel like JS is an expected part of the web just like HTML and CSS. How can you build engaging web applications if you are not even allowed to rely on standards like JS (e.g. if the user turns off JS)?
I've been a huge fan of Douglas Adams since I read the Hitchhiker's series in High School.

My personal recommendation is to grab the audiobook version that's read by the Douglas himself. As an American, there's a little bit lost between British/American English and some of the humor is missed (sometimes changes are even made -- in the American version of the book that I have "Biscuit" is replaced with "Cookie"). I'm an audiobook junkie (speed reading has killed reading fiction for me) and I usually stay away from books narrated by the author because the quality of the narration suffers. Such was not the case with Adams' narrations -- they're excellent and I picked up on several things that I missed from my original (several) readings.

I was very sad when he passed -- a heart attack while working out that was probably complicated by his legendary drinking. It was almost sadder when the latest book came out as evidence that nobody could pull off that series but Adams.

The books and the author are endlessly quotable (and recognized by nearly every programmer I've ever worked with), but my favorite of his -- from the Dirk Gently series -- is "Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all." I use it every time a project is proposed that someone thinks is "nuts" or "impossible" and it sits on the background of my Visual Studio code editor as a reminder. :)
I'm going to go ahead and guess that the only way the CopperSpice executable is 115mb is by doing a static linking with no dead code removal of all of QT, vs. dynamic linking for QT and Verdigris.

Not sure if that's a requirement of CopperSpice or what, but I'm not sure we are comparing apples to apples in this case.
Note that the former head of the Windows Phone group during the WP7 and WP 8.x timeframe, Terry Myerson, is now the head of the Windows division as a whole. Probably would have looked really bad for him politically if Windows Phone were shut down too soon after his promotion.
Computing a secret, unbreakable key using Quantum Key Distribution
Most photographers understand the color temperature differences between incandescent/tungsten light and daylight, and have to account for them by setting their camera's white-balance (manually, or automatically).

So it comes as a shock to me that a traditional incandescent bulb's coloring matches that of natural daylight.

http://lowel.tiffen.com/edu/color_temperature_and_rendering_...
Acquia introduces (+open-sources) Bolt, dev tool to generate Drupal 8 projects
Donald Trump's demand that Apple must make iPhones in US actually isn't so crazy
That would be a lot simpler:)
I'd prefer he engaged on the actual technical criticisms
Eyes don't point a things we look at as accurate as a mouse does (they only aim within the fovea, about 1 degree angular, corresponding to about 1cm on the screen) and eye trackers are often far worse.

This summer I built a system that uses slight head movements for refinement, allowing hands free mousing as fast as a trackpad. However, eye trackers good enough for the system to be pleasant cost $10000+. I have ideas that would allow it to work with a $100 eye tracker, but even then it has the downside that the computer vision for your mouse will peg one core.
People complaining about LEDs being too "bright" or "clinical/sterile" were too bothered to look into the different color temperature options. The annoyingly bright bulbs are around 5000K brightness which would make a home at night feel like a fully-lit classroom. I have 2700K bulbs which give off a much cozier incandescent glow: http://blog.batteriesplus.com/2013/seeing-things-in-a-differ...

Sure, the bulbs take about 1/5 of a second to turn on, which is not instant, but the cheaper LEDs can take up to 2 seconds to reach full brightness. You have to buy a better made bulb to get the quicker "on", which means spending more money. People only trying the cheapest LEDs available are the ones complaining the most about them, I'd assume.
Praise it!

With the death of those thousands of jobs, we now have tens of thousands of new jobs, all filled by the billions of people, and boy is it great. Our work is more fulfilling as we get more done in less time in ways that improve the world while earning money that buys magnitudes more than what it used to. People are healthier with mental health at an all time high since the great shift of 2008 when the majority of humanity reached the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

I work 10hrs/wk at double the total pay what it took my parent a 60hr week to do. My commute is 10 minutes where his was 40. My healthcare is 3000x better and costs 1/100th. My house is three times bigger and 5x as energy efficient. All my friends live nearby and have similarly awesome lives with growing families across the board. Nobody has to rent anymore either.

/s
It is interesting to think about how this commercial product might have to fight the anti-incandescent laws. Would this bulb be illegal in many states/countries right now?
The goal for coffee roasters and shops is consistent coffee. With machines you could get personalized coffee.
On the flip-side, (again, anecdotal sample-size-1) I've noticed a definite improvement in battery life after uninstalling the app, and I definitely don't needs any of Facebook's notifications to propagate through via the app.
Not really that useful in places that are already hot, or heating while you want to sleep.
The devs are so badass, they constantly mention that they will allow miners to accept any currency for gas fees if it is feasible. Most of us who have some Ether are comfortable with this move too, ironically our hedge for this scenario is to hold some Bitcoin.

Because, Ethereum will prosper not when Ether has a high market cap, only if it can become robust enough to provide a decentralized platform to run code for a variety of apps and services.
I think FB does matching with phone number, if they have your presumed phone number in your contacts, it will link you in the graph