skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I analyzed the top 100 habit formation apps, and none of them form new habits
Good question. My bandwidth is pretty limited right now. And I like to learn by doing a practical project. So I guess the better question is which one "first"?

Edit: I updated the title.
For-profit colleges and universities get rich by sinking students into debt
I imagine the hope is that the company keeps growing, so the share price will rise that way.

Also, the company can buy-back shares to keep the number in circulation lower and to increase the stock price, or it can consolidate its shares by merging them, so each shareholder receives one new share for each two old shares.

Lastly, if you're looking at stock charts, the data provider will usually adjust historical values to take into account dividends and splits, giving you an accurate view of what the price would have looked like if the number of shares issued had never changed.
>responsibility, self-reliance, and self-determinism

and you feel that an employee better exemplifies these traits than an entrepreneur?
Yep, if your backup software doesn't have historical snapshots where you can jump back to a certain day, you are just going to write bad data as your backup and only have bad data to restore.
Yes. If life can't arise, neither can intelligence.

Our universe is massively hostile to both life and intelligence.
Not the first time this year https://archive.is/mvVUo http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/03/10/amazons-w...

Although this was longer and more severe.
Let's say the girl in this video [0] decided to sue Gawker. I'm going to just assume that she doesn't have the means to stand up to their army of lawyers. Is Gawker the rich person buying the law in this hypothetical?

[0] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3488027/Gawker-edito...
It has been 11 years since your last attempt then - have you checked it for improvements since?
so does that mean there's no equivalent of `pypi` or `npm` for go? Or is the point to not impose any requirements on the user?
I do. One guy I know (Dan Kegel) posts interesting stuff there, and so does Torvalds. It's a very low volume, high signal stream. I don't use Facebook because it's a very low signal (approaching zero) stream and I don't want to waste my time with that crap.
GraphQL has momentum
Honestly, I just use

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width: calc(33.33% - #{$spacing-small*3/2});
margin-left: $spacing-small;

&:first-of-type
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margin-left: 0;
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Well simple
> The key fact that the article ignores is that the shareholders collectively own the company. So if they all decline the dividend, they are effectively electing for the company they own to hold the cash (that they own by owning the company).

The other thing that they can do is use the cash for stock buybacks. And it's all (theoretically) equivalent: the company and its cash pile are worth the same amount of money either way.

Of course, questions arise in practice like tax treatment, and the fact that people who own businesses in practice don't want to own as much cash - that's what bank accounts are for, no need to glue them together - or whether companies systematically overpay for stock buybacks because they do it while the company feels prosperous as opposed to times when the stock is affordable.
US has a good stream of immigrants coming in. Last I heard immigrating to Japan is a lot tougher. I wonder why the Japanese govt isn't opening the gates up to keep the population growth of young people at a steady level
Bitmap Index – when to use it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11822260
On the "Github as an IDE" topic, I would like to share my own extension that may act as a companion to this. It lets you click on module import statements (for Go, Python, Javascript and Ruby) and be taken to the imported module source or documentation: http://fiatjaf.alhur.es/gh-browser/
I rarely use either G+ or Facebook, but that feature was indeed a big drawing factor when I originally tried out G+

Could you not do the same thing with Facebook now that it has "Audiences"? I have a "Gamer Friends" one where I could post about DOOM or Overwatch and not weird out "normal" people

Not that I post there as we use Telegram.. but in theory I could
I was wondering EXACTLY the same thing today!
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I enjoyed this, although it was mostly over my head.

I'd suggest adding definitions or simple explanations for the acronyms. There are a lot of them, and I spent quite a lot of time Googling as a result.
theres no debate when someone starts with "go back to your country"

the other commentor rightfully pointed out that this is a deflection rather than a counter argument.
So what became of it? Did anything stick?
The new Sequencer tool that replaces Matinee is the big new exciting thing in this release. If it goes as planned we'll see a lot of animators using Unreal without ever needing or caring about the gaming side of things.

I'm still learning Unreal for game dev, but finding the Blueprint system quite difficult to get to grips with. Coming from javascript, I thought it would be easy, but I never seem to know what node to connect to what module for the outcome intended. I guess I will stick with it. I felt the same when I first started with Jquery, I hated it for months then began to enjoy it.
Considering the limited time you have available, I would suggest learning Rust as a means of getting more bang for your buck. Go offers very little over other similar languages, whereas Rust will yield copious food for thought and will change the way you approach software design. Rust has unique features (memory safety expressed via type system, borrow checker) not present in other languages, and definitely not present in Go, making the time investment a good one.
Chapter 168 – Profit, Wealth and Your Desire Part – 11
I would rather have sleep pods.

Things that instantly shut your body down as much as safely possible, make a backup of your memory, perform any necessary repairs (including anti-aging), inject you with highly efficient nutrients, and you're good to go for an entire week before needing sleep again.
Sorry to be pedantic, but you mean 9AM EDT or just 9AM Eastern Time if you want to say "9AM in New York" which is what most people mean.

There are still areas of Canada (Southhampton Island) and Central America (Panama IIRC) that are on EST year round.
I use it all the time.. to sign into sites I don't feel like making an account for
In that event, AWS would respond by saying:

The EC2 has responded, and informed me that they do not provide analysis of individual issues in AWS infrastructure.

They referred to the AWS SLA that states that "AWS will use commercially reasonable efforts to make Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS each available with a Monthly Uptime Percentage (defined below) of at least 99.95%".

The AWS SLA is available here:
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/sla/

(The above is a part of the response I received when I attempted to ask AWS about sporadic reboots and outages on one of my instances.)
Something like 40% of online shopping searches start on Amazon. In 2012 it was about 15%.
I don't think he has Gordon in his name. :P
Node.js fixes the bottlenecks fine but is a bit memory and CPU intensive and can sometimes encourage bad coding practices. It also doesn't take advantage of multiple cores very well.

I'm probably not going to switch production services any time soon but I don't want my skills to stagnate.

Also, I edited the title a bit to clarify this wasn't a flame either or question. Although based on your comment I don't think you read it that way.
Odds are we're living in a simulation, says Elon Musk
Depends on how one defines the use. I prefer it over every other general purpose networks: in fact, I've never had an active Facebook or Twitter account. However, I have not posted in public on G+ for a few years. I have hard time keeping up with the info flow from RSS and GitHub, which leaves little time for G+ or HM, and knowing that others are no less busy I really don't want to bother people with my musings unduly. 1594 days on HM that resulted in only a dozen or so comments can attest to that.
The US toppled their democratically elected government a while back and the Iranians (rightly) hold a grudge and are highly suspicious of any US foreign policy.
Musk’s remarks at conference imply Tesla has huge autonomous car advantage
Lessons Learned by Mike Curtis, VP of Engineering at Airbnb
The FAA Gave Us a List of Every Drone Pilot Who Has Ever Been Fined
Trying to fix “slacktivism” – putting charity donation button on news articles
http://smallchangegiving.co

hi, my startup puts charity donation buttons on news content. the point is so your social media followers can donate "small change" to a related charity after seeing an article/video. trying to solve "slacktivism".

check out the explainer vid. really want to hear your criticism and hear whether you'd use it.

thanks in advance
I have a feeling that these recent attacks on Thiel have more to do with who he is backing politically rather than this lawsuit.
In addition to the enormous difference in difficulty, there's a correspondingly enormous difference in utility. Suborbital is good for some light tourism and brief science experiments, but not a whole lot. Orbital is extremely useful for things like communications satellites, to the point that a lot of people will willingly pay hundreds of millions of dollars just to put something up.

Blue Origin's vehicle is basically a fancy toy, while SpaceX is opening up space.

Of course, Blue Origin is working on opening up space too, they just haven't got there yet. Once they start putting things into orbit, I'll be tremendously excited for them too.
That sounds like a lot. Simple because it sounds also interesting: Why did you have to use your tapes each day? Unreliable filesystem?
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Open-Source vs. Proprietary – Keeping Ideology Out of the Equation
Marketplace did a story on exactly this phenomenon:
http://www.marketplace.org/2016/05/02/world/why-are-there-so...

To sum it up:
"Mattress stores have low overhead, low labor costs and higher-than-usual profit margins, Sam Woods said, Senior Vice President of Sales and Operations for Mattress Firm.

“If you sold three or four beds a day, and your average ticket is $1,000, that’s a $4,000 day, times 365. All of a sudden you’ve got more than a million-dollar business there,” he said."
I would have to imagine that a massive corporation like Amazon has automatic detection of issues with tier 1 services like search.
you have the power to improve your own living conditions. you are not a victim of the city you live in. give it a shot, buddy. i'm rooting for you. i believe in you!
Horribly misleading title here. Blizzard is exempt from one tiny piece of the sandbox, namely the sandboxing around access(). Which is nearly irrelevant.
Ansible and Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial
Not only bandwidth, but also disk.

And don't forget the CPU throttling, noisy neighbors, IOPS and what not.
You are misinterpreting what I said. New technology is great unless you are FORCED to use it. The word "FORCED" is the key here. Google was forcing youtube users to sign up for google+, you could not add comment until you had google+ account. This is forcing. There is no better way to make people hate your stuff if you are pushing it to their throats against their will. And who knows, maybe I would love google+ if I came accross it before ever using youtube? They did not give me that chance.
It could be that this was done for Blizzard's iOS games, and OS X just happens to share the code.
Nope - I deleted my G+ profile last night.

I accidentally created a profile years ago, when it became a part of Google Apps. I took one look round and haven't used it since.

It felt like work to use, and seemed like it was built for Google's needs to counter Facebook and collect joined up data on its users rather than a compelling platform for its own sake.
> What's the alternative? Stop extending credit to risky borrowers? Force lenders to lend to risky borrowers at subsidized rates funded by tax dollars or through coercion?

This seems to be a lot of people's answer. There's this weird claim that payday loans and bad car loans and similar are caused by "greed!" when the companies making them are operating at tiny profit margins. High default rates dictate high prices (which forms a vicious cycle, but that can only be broken from the outside).

The most 'predatory' thing about most bad-credit loans is the fee/repossession system, which tends to be sloppy and abusive because the borrowers are too broke to fight it. Uber has sidestepped that almost completely with a no-consequence termination scheme.

The push to ban or cripple access to low income loans can really only be justified in two ways. One is that these loans are somehow corrupt, but we're not talking about balloon mortgages here - these companies are dealing with principal-agent problems like the home lenders were, and they don't have profit margins to give up. The second is that low-income people are too dumb to make good decisions, so they take these loans. It's a patronizing stance that shouldn't pretend to be uncontroversial.
I used G+ actively for many years (more often than Facebook, in fact), up until a year or two ago when a format change caused it to suddenly take up far more resources -- I use fairly old machines & use them heavily, so having some hunk of javascript taking up 100% of one CPU is grounds for ditching a site entirely. If Google would improve their performance for that site, I would still be using it regularly: it always had a better signal to noise ratio than Facebook or Tumblr.

Today, my only involvement in G+ is as an administrator for a handful of communities (mostly relating to the fandoms of 60s and 70s countercultural figures -- one of a handful of subjects where, like tech, the G+ communities are more active and have a better signal to noise ratio than FB).
> whether this frame on the bike is better for aerodynamics than a more continuous but wider surface

It's certainly worse but I don't think drag is a driving design consideration for this bike. Those holes undoubtedly there to reduce material/weight...
because then we would be more ignorant of how the world was operating.

(Clearly you care or you wouldn't have wound up in this thread.)
This headline is such an invitation for a cruel "chopped off all fingers" joke.
This is also an example of a repeated game, so over time if they maintained their strategies, investor B would own the whole company.

Also depending on how the company operates, there is another element of game theory because the controlling shareholder could elect to cancel all future dividends. if you're the newly minted majority shareholder, it's probably in your favor to do this immediately. In that case, the Nash equilibrium seems to be both parties choosing the stock dividend (and effectively getting nothing).

While the 2 shareholder example is an oversimplification in this example, after enough plays of the game (i.e. dividends) a large shareholder could take control of the company if the other shareholders always choose cash.
Yeah. We port Windows applications to Mac at work. A couple years ago when Apple switched on a more stringent code signing requirement, we found many of our ports worked without the updated code signing, while some others would warn about an invalid signature. It was clear there was some internal whitelist for old, known signatures which had picked up many, but not all, of our ports. User friendly, I guess, but pretty ugly.
not having kids is a privilege i suppose.
Why would they when they were (apparently) 90% of OwnCloud in the first place. What stopped them being open in the first place?
My understanding is (was) that each group can choose to enable RSS if they want. I seem to remember Go having RSS and Dart not (or vice versa). When I asked the one that didn't, they said they choose not to enable it (in order to draw people into the site).
> "571B Banana Slicer"

Wow, turns out that's actually a thing.
This looks like the kind of structure generated by an algorithmic solver when given a motorcycle chassis as input, mount point definitions for mountain bike pieces, and material data for their custom "Scalmalloy" material.

Kind of a weird hodge-podge, but nifty looking. :)

Anyone know which software they used for the material optimisation? solidThinking Inspire?
Of course money matters in justice, as it matters with everything else. I can't imagine a system in which it doesn't matter. Perhaps if the Bar Association cartel was broken, lawyers would be less expensive, but there needs to be a kind of mechanism to allocate the judicial resources of the state.
Yeah, and in order to use youtube you are also forced to get broadband internet and a computer... I'm sure you hate those things too.
I don't understand why everyone complains about Google+ being a "ghost town." Google+ has become a vibrant social network for individuals of common interest, cliques if you may. Vibrant, active, and engaging communities of science-enthusiasts, technology geeks, developers, politics, writers, etc. are all reviving on G+. There are tons of interesting people on G+ who post frequently and make a bunch of rather interesting and thought provoking posts. For example, one Googler whom I follow, he's active, and always interesting is Yonatan Zunger[0]. John Baez makes some very educational and interesting math-related posts[1]. There are many others.

[0] https://plus.google.com/+YonatanZunger

[1] https://plus.google.com/117663015413546257905
Bitcoin’s Competitiveness in Kenya [an exposé]
I would love to play HOMM3 from the browser the same way as I would play other MMORPG games. In that sense HOMM3 is not available to be played (is it?).
Signal and Google Cloud Services
GOG connect
As Rich Hickey argues[1], 'simple' can be an objective statement. Though I agree that without an explanation of what exactly makes this library 'simple', the better word may be 'easy'.

[1] https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
After read the announcement I still can not figure out the reason to fork? I tried owncloud and found it uses a lot memory and then gave up on that.
I do, although rarely.

One ex-colleague of mine whom I was connected with at FB left that site and is only available on G+, and in anger I "unfriended" another ex-colleague on FB whom I'm still connected with on G+, and there is no way I'm going to send a friend request on FB (I've only ever sent a single one myself). That's because I think my anger was justified. Don't send me friend requests if you then basically tell me you don't like what I'm writing. I was not angry enough to sever the connection on G+ too, however.

Since I only use FB as a "bookmark service" where I post links to stuff I want to remember myself ("sciency" stuff mostly, zero politics or personal information) it does not really matter much to me.

Very few connections on either website (FB or G+) post much that I'm actually interested in, which is pretty limited: Anything posted that's not a science or engineering topic (and nothing superficial from the mass media, please) is just noise. I don't know those people well enough to care about their private lives - when I do care I would not use FB to exchange such news.
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Transmitting every piece of audio the phone receives would kill your battery in less than an hour. They absolutely need to do the "ok, google" detection on board and the reason for differential adoption between various phones seems to be that for always on with reasonable battery times they need to do it on a DSP rather than the application processor.
unfortunate that google pushed g+ the common login together with g+ the social network, -before allowing multiple identities.
Barriers to Innovation
What's wrong with toys? I think that's what this is supposed to be.
Folks... How many years was Amazon not profitable? And what is that stock worth?
“Of course we think women should be allowed to drive,” said Jill Hazelbaker, an Uber spokeswoman. “In the absence of that, we have been able to provide extraordinary mobility that didn’t exist before — and we’re incredibly proud of that.”

Of course we think women should be able to drive but we have no problem doing business in and with a backwards repressive society that doesn't believe that women have the same rights as men as long as they give us money. Besides such inequalities are a business opportunity since those repressed women need rides. Hey Uber how about "disrupting" the farce that is the Saudi Royal Kingdom.
Except in Thiel's case, there seems to be a strong concurrence of moral justice behind him. Your example would get none of that.

Philanthropy assumes a common/public good.
It would mean something in a profitable company as growing the workforce and keeping a company profitable is a considerable challenge.
Why is this in free fall down the front page despite 36 points in less than an hour?
Google still provides G+ results in search, so it does benefit some of your posts if you have a blog
Nope, again you are misintepreting. Youtube was built on top of internet. If there was no internet there would be no youtube. Since youtube was introduced before google+ was invented I would say your example is rather wrong and a bit aggressive.
If you're only interested in spying, sure. If you want the phone to respond when a user says "ok, google" rather than a minute later it wouldn't work.
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So much for 3D printing being the harbinger of inexpensive, home-made objects >.<

But in any case I'm more curious about the design approach, which others are suggesting involves optimisation. Could be, I'm not sure, (could design such a thing in solidworks by hand) but I'd love to read about it. For instance I'd love to know if it takes into account wind resistance, and if so, do they use fluid mechanics simulation to test it? Is it compared with real-life wind tunnel results? The combination of 3D printing and simulation/optimisation is a really interesting avenue for future design and construction.
Is “Uber for Trash” Silicon Valley’s apocalypse–or its best bet yet?
Do people get fired over things like this in the bigger companies?
Indeed, the GNU/Linux devs very often uses G+ as blog platform but also there are some communities around the GNU/Linux stuff like elementaryOS[1][2] or WorldOfGnome[2].

[1] https://plus.google.com/communities/104613975513761463450

[2] https://plus.google.com/+elementary/posts

[3] https://plus.google.com/+WorldofGnomeOrg/posts
My analogy was comparing the CPU to a car, so I do consider the gearbox. An engine, no matter how many RPMs it can turn, is pretty useless without the vehicle.