skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am curious to see how a16z's investment results eventually pan out. I don't believe any of their funds have gone through a full cycle, nor have they experienced a down market, so its still too early to declare him a top dawg.

They returned their first fund twice over ... in three years.

http://fortune.com/2012/07/24/nice-ira-andreessen-horowitz-r...
Fairly recently discussed on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11672023.
What time of data are collecting in your system if you don't mind me asking
> you're right, but that's Steve Jobs you're talking about.

Steve Jobs had many talents, but what I think people don't appreciate is that Steve worked very closely with his PR people. Most recently he'd worked closely with Katie Cotton for decades, from Apple's 90s "fat Elvis" years to its resurgence.

If you've never worked closely with PR folks, it's largely a "boots on the ground" exercise. Yes, there's the "vision stuff" and the storytelling, and part of what they do is help get that messaging across in consistent and interesting ways. But much of it is long-term network and relationship building that the PR person leverages in short bursts — product launches, damage control, etc. It's an interesting and tricky job, and people who can do it well make for great allies.
Ask HN: What is your experience with Scala?
Hello,

what is your experience with Scala language? Do you like it? Would you use it for your next project? Are you thinking of something else?

Cheers,
Wiktor
Ask HN: Building a website with event calendars, registration, and payment
I need to build out a website with class calendars and the ability to register for different 1 time classes, with the ability to allow the user to pay on line and get them registered for the class.
Should I use something like paypal or braintreepayments?

This isn't a 1 time event, but basically an ongoing calendar that people can register for different days/times.
Anyone have any tips of suggestions?
I worked a short internship as an analyst at a mid tier regional VC that was affiliated with a larger well-known Sand Hill firm. I won't claim to be an insider, nor will I claim to be especially knowledgeable about VC or visionary of the future. But I will tell you this: your description of Marc Andreessen as a lucky know-nothing fits 99.9% of VC partners out there, even in the top tier firms. They are all bumbling bufoons, spouting fortune-cookie wisdom and clinging to their solitary past success as an entrepreneur with unparalleled hindsight bias. They are completely unable to critically analyze anything. You could throw that description against any wall in Sand Hill and be guaranteed to hit at least one VC partner.

The thing is, the description doesn't really fit Marc. I don't believe in hero worship; I don't think he is invincible, nor do I think he is especially prescient about the future. And I don't give credence to everything he says as if it is some sort of unique nugget of wisdom. But he does do one thing well that the rest of Silicon Valley hasn't figured out yet: He forms his own opinion and when he likes something, he throws his whole weight behind it.

The rest of Silicon Valley relies heavily (and by heavily, I mean solely) on social proof. It's actually quite amusing to watch a forum of partners from different firms sit in the same room and listen to a pitch. They rarely listen to the pitch, cause they are so fucking busy looking around the room to try to gauge the reactions of the other VCs in the room. They are incapable of making decisions for themselves. They will only decide to invest if they see other VCs investing.

This groupthink behavior of most Silicon Valley VCs has a real effect beyond it's soundbite-ness: It bounds their upsides. If you are only willing to invest in a company if other investors also invest, you might get slightly better at picking winners, but you end up taking smaller stakes in those winners, and you end up spending more for those stakes because you essentially are bidding up their valuations. This kills the power law distribution of returns that is supposedly obvious to the VC industry. It dooms these firms to making the approximate same level of returns as everyone else in the industry.

Marc has been a successful entrepreneur no doubt. Even after three very large successes, you might be able to attribute that to luck. I still consider that to be mostly irrelevant. Marc has no problem throwing big money around to acquire as much as possible in a promising firm, and he gives zero shits about what other VC's think about the investment. This behavior is inherently risky. Throw your weight behind losers and you go bankrupt. But he got in on the ground floor of some of the biggest exits in the last decade, and the ground floor is where those power law exits really pay off. This makes him different, and worth listening to, even if you ultimately disagree with him.
Using Amazon Auto Scaling with Stateful Applications
I'm sorry, what? Last vestige? That's not even close to being correct. Off the top of my head, here are some websites that still have a separate mobile domain: YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, and a whole host of smaller websites as well. Granted, many of these do some kind of automatic redirect, so that you're redirected to the appropriate domain for the device you're using regardless of the link you follow. But none of them do the kind of responsive-design-and-media-query approach that you're talking about to differentiate between desktop and mobile.
Any other formulation is disingenuous. We don't know that the Earth is the center of the universe. Hell, even Elon Musk said we might be in a simulation a few days ago!

Ideally, you should also tell the kids which evidence suggests a theory.

Elon Musk: The chance we are not living in a computer simulation is 'one in billions'

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...
It can appear anywhere you have a clean horizon, such as while flying. It can be so dramatic that any time I hear of green light moving in such a situation I point to green flash phenomena.
All of this discussion is sort of funny from a historical perspective. We're no different from the people in the 1950's that thought we'd all be using flying cars by now.
Definitely! Thinking about building a natural language query API over sports data, similar to Statmuse [0], but the whole thing kind of depends on having data in the first place.

[0]: https://www.statmuse.com/
Hedgefunds?
"During my more than 50 years in the public eye, I have met hundreds of renowned celebrities, artists, athletes, and world leaders. But only a handful embodied the self-sacrificing and heroic qualities that defined my friend and mentor, Muhammad Ali. A master of self-promotion, he declared early in his boxing career, I am the greatest! This kind of boasting enraged many people, just as he’d hoped, ensuring a large audience that just wanted to see this upstart boy taught a lesson.
But it was Muhammad who taught the lesson because, as he once said, It’s not bragging if you can back it up. And back it up, he did. Again and again. And not just in the ring. Part of Muhammad’s greatness was his ability to be different things to different people. To sports fans he was an unparalleled champion of the world, faster and smarter than any heavyweight before. To athletes, he was a model of physical perfection and shrewd business acumen. To the anti-establishment youth of the 1960s, he was a defiant voice against the Vietnam War and the draft. To the Muslim community, he was a pious pioneer testing America’s purported religious tolerance. To the African-American community, he was a black man who faced overwhelming bigotry the way he faced every opponent in the ring: fearlessly. At a time when blacks who spoke up about injustice were labeled uppity and often arrested under one pretext or another, Muhammad willingly sacrificed the best years of his career to stand tall and fight for what he believed was right. In doing so, he made all Americans, black and white, stand taller. I may be 7’2" but I never felt taller than when standing in his shadow.

Today we bow our heads at the loss of a man who did so much for America. Tomorrow we will raise our heads again remembering that his bravery, his outspokenness, and his sacrifice for the sake of his community and country lives on in the best part of each of us."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
A wild hypothesis here. One thing I noticed in "pre-Western" diets that's absent from modern ones is unpasteurized dairy. All milk sold in Western countries is pasteurized (treated thermally to kill most of its bacteria). If you leave on a shelf, it will remain unspoiled for quite a long time compared to unpasteurized, but when it does spoil, it becomes completely undrinkable, with foul smell. Unpasteurized milk, on the other hand, has a much shorter shelf life, however the spoiled product is acidic and yogurt-like, has no foul smell, and is (mostly) safe to consume, even by people with some degree of lactose intolerance (it has had most of its lactose converted to lactic acid, hence the sour taste). This so-called Soured milk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soured_milk) is extremely commonly consumed in many Eastern European countries that don't have Western food safety standards.

While there may be other beneficial (to the immune system) things happening in Russian Karelia, I can't help but wonder if the absence of unpasteurized dairy is the single massive thing that causes failure of gut microbiomes in the modern world.
What type of data would you be looking for?
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National borders exist to pen poor people into reservations of poverty
oh, because science that is "proven" is indisputable...

You understand that humans are fallible, right, including when it comes to "proof"? Just go read Thomas Kuhn again.
Can't say I know what the US curriculum is mostly like, but I was taught about the Bohr atomic model before learning about how they figured out why it wasn't exactly right and we talked about how Newtonian physics was superseded by relativistic physics. There are better ways to express the scientific ethos than to just prefix every statement with "maybe".
How to recruit a developer
I like them both a lot. But what else could I say? Fortunately it's true.
Are we not the center of the observable universe?
This was a problem I was trying to solve as well and theres a pretty elegent solution that this project has implemented partly already. The "render to string" is also a proof of concept that the indicates "unknown" types can be fullfilled by a "renderer". So long as he allows generic "renderers". Within a more free form environment like nativescript[
1], this library can be one of any that can be used. I was planning to implement blessed and nativescript uis but these can often be very painstaking tasks. If the developers on this project are committed, the sky is the limit!

[1] https://www.nativescript.org
Let me know if you need any help. We built a machine learning service called hopdata and I have been looking for a sports API to link into so we could do something similar to fivethirtyeight.
http://www.hopdata.com
Yes ... I think that should not be allowed (bring down the machine by a non-root user process). In Linux CPU_GROUPS/MEM_GROUPS can help, and the fair scheduler has improved the situation a bit from the old days where a fork bomb will bring the machine down.

But limiting the # of spawned children is possible using not so complicated ad-hoc solutions, but I guess it depends on the specific problem.
> you have to bother to think up a good message to send them

Soon you may not have to! https://googleblog.blogspot.sg/2016/05/allo-duo-apps-messagi...
I was actually on my way over to comment that I enjoyed his impromptu AMA on books at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11803165.
The problem with a very loud pinger would be battery life; in order to be audible over large distances, it would require much energy and hence either work for a shorter time than today's boxes OR be heavier (which the airlines would hate for the added fuel consumption; in addition, the extra mass would make it harder to crash-proof it sufficiently)

The whole problem becomes a lot easier to handle if the boxes were more or less guaranteed to detach from the body and remain afloat; then they could ping a satellite and we'd know just where to look. That requires orders of magnitude less energy than transmitting an acoustic signal underwater.

(Such devices can be very small; the PLB I carry whenever I work offshore is the size of a slightly clunky cellphone and yet will let rescue services know my position to a few dozen yards minutes after I fell overboard - as long as I try to not do my man overboard-act too close to the poles, where coverage is spotty-ish.

Affix half a dozen of these loosely to an aircraft, be prepared to handle a ton of false alarms - and we'd know where planes come down at sea more or less instantly.

Matter of fact, it'd be so quick the first sign of trouble an airline was likely to get would be rescue services calling to ask whether they are SURE their flight such-and-such didn't crash at, say, 61 degrees 32'11.4752"N, 14 degrees 11'37.8531"W 47 seconds ago?
Maybe this http://www.greenes.com/html/feynman.html

EDIT: or this directly from his biography http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm
He certainly doesn't still exclusively do that. Tickets for his current tour are sold through Ticketmaster.
That's no different than now, except the money will go to the artists and producers and not some useless middleman with a fast web scraper.
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I think this is like asking for 'Right to redressal for hurt feelings'. Simple economic logic dictates that those who pay highest for music/sporting events get privilege to watch that live.

These fans seems to be asking for Right to watch live. What if less popular artists/sports teams ask for Right to Audience? I think government should start looking into that also after all there must be lots of mediocre artists/sports persons/chefs etc looking for patrons.
I'd really like to read your paper. Everywhere I've found it referenced has a paywall. Is the full text freely available anywhere?
Thanks! I meant for future comments (editing closes after a couple hours). By the way, if you want to give yourself an extra editing assistance, you can set 'delay' in your profile to between 0 and 10 minutes. Your comments won't appear to others until the delay period expires. That's what I do, because often I have to physically post a comment before I notice something that shouldn't be in there.
Sounds good. What type of data would you want to get from a sports data api?
"Knowing" is generally considered to imply that we think something is beyond reasonable doubt. If you can only speak of knowledge in the sense of logical entailment, the word would be useless because then nobody knows anything. Words like "maybe" and "possibly" would also become useless, because they then apply to all knowledge. A distinction that doesn't distinguish between things is not a useful distinction to make.
The inability to predict exactly how a complex system will behave doesn't mean we can't predict, accurately, certain characteristics about what will happen.

If I light a piece of paper on fire, I might not be able to predict the exact shape of the flame at any given instance, but I can be pretty damn sure it will end up as ashes.
Yes, but they allow new posters to be anonymous by simply not blocking usage through Tor.
> but I can't apply that same logic to a stadium whose cost was largely borne by taxpayers with the promise it would enrich public life.

Maybe if they charged market rates for tickets the taxpayers wouldn't have to pay for the stadium.
Respect for building something on your own. It's just that I don't know if what the world needs is another javascript framework.
This is wishful thinking that the genie can be put back in the bottle, that copying will become harder and that the good times will return to the major record industry.
It's still in progress but it gets better on each release. Even better that the new version is using TypeScript!
I'm having fun playing 3D tic tac toe and other games on a Shibumi set:

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/13434/shibumi
It happened again, already. Harper contributed the largest deficits and the biggest total new debt of any PM; and he started -before- the 2008 crisis.
What is this solving?
I did all that except the milking by hand and the rare showering (grew up in 36-40 °C place), in addition to being barefoot in the mud everywhere, and all I got for all that is a propensity for catching the flu every year.

My brother grew up when we started moving out of this sort of environment (so he had 4 years less of this) and he falls sick much less than I do.

My guess is that other factors dominate.
I would build a REST client for it and pipe all the data to /dev/null.
HN's rules don't work that way, partly because formalizing them would merely turn them into a long list with an infinite number of loopholes to be exploited, and partly because we'd die of boredom if we tried.

Users here are simply expected to live by the spirit of the law—civility and substantiveness—when commenting here. Snarky one-liners that characterize a (vague) opposing view as "killing human beings" fail the "civil and substantive" test. Plus there's outright rudeness in comments such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11663455 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11651181, which has no place here.
I was equally surprised when I learned that creationism was also subject to debate in american public schools. In France, this would draw some major criticism, even in private catholic schools where they are allowed to talk about it but genuinely stick to the state syllabus.
Your willingness to quit.
Why not do a dutch auction? Tickets go on sale on day 1 at price $x. Every day the price drops until they reach price $y. If you have plenty of money and want the absolute best tickets then you can pay extra to buy earlier in the sales window. As long as $x is high enough, scalpers don't have an incentive to buy tickets because the market has already shown there aren't more buyers for tickets priced higher than the current value.

If necessary you could stagger your sales so the cheap seats don't go on sale at all until the price for the expensive seats drops below some threshold.
I like the idea and the story, but it felt like there were dozen of characters, and everything revolved only around them. As if there was only one restaurant, one journalist, one bodyguard, one of this and one of that, and somehow they were related even before the story began. That would be perfectly fine for a sci-fi, superheroes, or where the story needs it (Sense8), but here it felt a bit strange.... Though that to be said, once you accept this little peculiarity, the show was good, and I'll watch the 2nd one too...

And to get back on topic, it definitely brought to my mind the idea how one country may quickly become isolated, because of puristic choices driven for a better life for the whole of the humanity. That by itself would keep me watching it.

And thanks for mentioning it!
Critical mass has to be coming soon with JS churn, right?
Been doing it full-time for nearly six years. This one stunning trick I picked up has really been the best lesson learned, and many of the startup founders here may enjoy:

Make more money than you spend.

Sorry if I just hurt your book sales.
The fact is that React is extrodinaitilly bloated, you can only have one instance in a single environment and you are highly dependent on using libraries that are forks in order to target new environments (like native, blessed or rbg).

React isnt some God given wheel that needs no fixing. Competition is a great thing to have
I find the dichotomy between simulation and reality a bit absurd.

A simulation is just as real as the reality that hosts it, and it only differs in it's fidelity to the inspiration. The same can be said about fractals.

Let's assume we do live in a computer simulation. Then what? The fact that this knowledge doesn't change a single thing about the way we should do things means that it's not particularly interesting or useful. The same is true regarding the debate of free-will.
Deceptive headline. Second sentence of the article:

>Two in 10, or 18%, report getting news that way often.

So it sounds like the headline statistic includes anyone who has read even a single news story they found on social media. That's totally different than what's implied.
Click "PDF" on the right side and you get https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.04504v1.pdf
Yeah thats what I was thinking. A rest api to interface with all of the data
I've gone as far as writing "Hello World" and that's about it. My initial impression of Scala is somewhat favourable, but I am a little concerned by all the optional syntax. I keep thinking that Scala is going to turn out to be a "write only" language as a result, although I'd be interested to hear more data on that point from people who have actually used it extensively.

Would I use it? Maybe. I don't know it well enough to do anything substantial yet, and lately I've been more focused on learning R, Octave and brushing up on Python. But there is a new Scala specialization that just showed up on Coursera that has me intrigued...
Regarding Statoil.
The government currently owns about 1/3 of it. The oil income for the state does not come from the profit of the company but the taxes they put on the companies that extract oil (which is about 80%) and the sale of licenses through Petoro.
Selling Statoil (and the other ones) have absolutely no comparison to what Thatcher did in the 80s if that is what you are insinuating.

Regarding the power, the majority of the plants are owned by Statkraft, a 100% government owned company and is most definitely not privatized.

Flytoget runs well because even though it is owned by the government, they have had a very hands off approach and let them operate without interference. The same can be said of Statoil, the only reason it has done so well is that the government has been mostly hands off. My father was in the top management before retirement and has been very clear on this. Whenever the government tried to interfere it just made problems.

In essence, as a fellow Norwegian i disagree with you on these subjects (and some of what you write is simply not true).
I have a blackberry (BB10 based Q5) as my personal phone. The reasons for this are manyfold, and I migrated from Android. I love my Q5 it does everything I need really well... except for FB and Messenger - there's no native apps. So I am now in the situation of trying to convert my friends to something else for chat, or change my phone.

It will probably be the latter.

(Written via my Blackberry)
There have been many, many discussions about Scala generally over the years. You might want to try the unofficial search engine (http://hn.alogolia.com/) and ask again about something more specific, or more current.
Not much of an improvement, IMHO, to warrant all this grief.
This isn't the government compelling a viewpoint.

Imagine if there were people who insisted the moon were made of cheese. You wouldn't frown upon their views not being "heard" in public schools because it's bullshit.

No, schools don't need to teach every hypothesis. The scientific community should consider them and arrive at a consensus. It has. Many years ago. Schools should teach about that process and the end result. There is very little ambiguity on this issue.
> Robert Tables

> Database Engineer at Oracle

> bobby@example.com

Nice one. I'm surprised you let him into your database.
I must have missed that section where Kuhn explains that fallible evidence is worthless and that everyone should just believe what they want.
Another "tool for thought" essay, about J: www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm