skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it was a good way to introduce the notion of living for positive impact. And it is certainly helpful for people who feel like they "aren't doing anything good with their lives" to see ways in which they maybe already are, or could be.

That said, it felt a bit "all of nothing" in the sense of picking a single strategy for impact rather than trying to be impactful all around. There is probably a place the the "7 habits of highly impactful people" piece somewhere.

The final bit that I'd suggest would be having an impact without drawing attention to yourself. A number of really great people I know do wonderful things without having to deal with the issues of public accolades. A friend of mine who became wealthy though Sun stock and good financial management of it, made the mistake of donating directly to an organization he wished to support. And while the donation was not considered "large" by him, it was the largest donation this organization had received so they put a big thank you in their newsletter. And that resulted in literally thousands of other organizations pestering this poor guy for donations. Ever since that time he has made is impact less direct and harder to trace back to him.

It walks a very fine line though, between a person believing what they are doing is helping and outside validation that it actually is. Fixing that communication channel would be big win for getting more participation.
Can you make your product stand out by aggressive social media?
BASH3 Boilerplate – Templates for writing better Bash scripts
It's not just about use of land resources though, it's about greenhouse gases (methane) generated by cattle. Beef is just about the worst thing you can eat with regards to climate change.
I have been using an Oculus Rift for a few weeks and the experience is breathtaking. For example, there is an Apollo 11 educational game where you get to experience the mission from the point of view of Neil Armstrong or Michael Collins. I think it is hard to argue that "experiencing" history isn't far superior than reading about it. And the pure games like EVE Valkrie give you a cold sweat they are so immersive. Just my The cost right now are high, but no more than an iPhone. I think mainstream isn't too far away. My $0.02 at least.
Because then you can't open it in the same tab. With a normal link the user can choose how to click, with a forced new tab they can't.
I'm not defending the top 1%, but that corresponds fairly closely to the percentage of overall individual income taxes collected from them (45.7%)^1. People and politicians like to bemoan the top 1% for not paying their "fair share", but that's a significant amount of tax considering 45% pay no income tax.^2

^1 http://www.bankrate.com/financing/wealth/what-does-1-percent...

^2 http://www.marketwatch.com/story/45-of-americans-pay-no-fede...
Any thoughts on where the best opportunities for those you'd describe as solists (not a term I've heard before -- I initially read it as "soloist") currently lie?
Is this a community/culture issue where you can keep things in check if you make a concerted effort to dissuade people from using something too much?

Sort of like Rails was big on testing, which was generally a win.
I told the authors that they could make it a Show HN after they explained it's part of a project they've been working on for months, which included an exhaustive literature review. That's a lot more work than a garden-variety blog post or article, and the intention behind Show HN has always been to let people share their work.

So while you're definitely right that by default a Show HN needs to be more than just an article, in this case it's a borderline call that we let through. HN is a spirit-of-the-law kind of place.

Edit: I forgot to mention, and don't see it elsewhere on the page, that 80,000 Hours is a YC S15 nonprofit. Sorry; should have made that clear.
Scaling training to large clusters enables training bigger neural networks on bigger datasets than are possible with any other technology.
There's plenty of vegetables that aren't loaded with starch, especially the really bad sorts of starch. In fact I can only name a few that are that bad for you. Russet potatos, mostly.

There are a lot of pretty sugary fruits, even after you account for fiber.
In Process Monitoring for Additive Manufacturing
PostMark also has a helpful (and free) service that parses and summarizes the DMARC reports: https://dmarc.postmarkapp.com/. (And you don't have to be using PostMark to use this service.)
Hey Tom, we have that second step because we often deliver free workshops to people at their universities. Just this week I was emailing people who told us they are at universities in London to let them know about date we will be available to meet them personally.

If you just click anywhere else on the page, the popup will close and you can get back to reading the page! :)

I understand pop-ups are annoying, but without them I don't think 80,000 Hours' model would be sustainable (we couldn't show much impact and so donors wouldn't fund us).
Is it a mistake for Verizon to buy Yahoo?
I always assumed that when people talk about gradient-descent, they actually mean L-BFGS, i.e. a quasi-Hessian. After all, it can be used as a black-box algorithm that only needs to be told the gradient. At least in quantum optimization, the "simple" (non-quasi-Newton) gradient approach almost never works, whereas L-BFGS does just fine. So, I'm confused why in machine learning, the situation would be different, or why one would choose not to use the "for free" enhancement that L-BFGS provides.
There's a good fungus based chicken nugget, do you know this one?
That's what the test net is for.
To add, this form of mutual preliminary research should really be a standard approach, followed by a remote first contact. If everything goes smoothly, then things can me moved to the next level and a personal meeting can be arranged. Much better than blindly bringing people in, sometimes from hundreds/thousands of kilometers/miles away only to find out within ten minutes this was all a huge mistake. You're wasting your time, their time, money, electricity/fuel on nothing and it's highly inefficient.
I have had good results with more expensive hammocks which are intended for backpacking. They include (1) a netting attached to the lower portion which forms a cocoon of sorts and prevents against bugs and mosquitoes and (2) a rainfly which hangs from the same cable but is not attached to the rest of the hammock and can be taken out of the way in good weather.

The brand I have had good results with is Hennessy (http://hennessyhammock.com/).

I have not done hammock shopping in a few years, so maybe there are better, and certainly cheaper, options. For example, you are unlikely to need a bug protection or rainfly if you intend to use a hammock indoors.

Good luck!
I agree the trade off is not in favor of privacy and tech saavy users tend to live far away from the regular users needs.

But it's also that people value most things over privacy. To me, valuing the hability to express yourself on facebook over freedom is not a good bet. Just like valuing the hability to smoke over your health is not a good one.

I do understand why people do it. I have my share of similar self-destructive behaviours.

Still it's commun that important things like ecology, freedom, health are discarded over confort, convenience and quick rewards.

And privacy falls exactly in that category.
Did Sea Level Rise Cause Fiji's “War Towns”?
They have more than one hit:

Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, Hay Day, and Boom Beach.

And arguably, they have a process for generating more hits like this.

edit: added Clash Royale
Clash of Clans recently made changes to make the troops cheaper, cutting in to their revenue. They were trying to push Clash Royale as their new cash cow and loosened the reins a bit on Clash of Clans. Hopefully Tencent will keep up that trend and not reverse it.

P.S. If anyone is looking for a good clan on Clash of Clans, check us out #29OPCGCY
This is the announcement for the full rollout on the Web.

Access to the Reddit image host was formerly app-only. When the partial rollout occurred on test subreddits (including defaults like /r/pics), the number of submissions from the Reddit Image Host doubled. However, the market share of Imgur submissions remained unchanged, and in the weeks since then, the market share of both services has not changed at all: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f73AWzKsYrK7vFdJ3yJN...

It will be interesting to see how the full rollout affects Reddit globally, particular as Imgur's redirects are becoming non-user-friendly.
Mediachain Automates Attribution Online–Here’s How
I think this could increase the kilowatt/person ratio and still be a net win for our climate. Eating less meat as a society reduces our reliance on animals, which as husbandry reduces so does the methane output. Methane is a significant contributor to climate change, although it dissipates relatively quickly so is much easier to recover from than CO2.

So to me, reducing methane is more important than reducing total energy used (as long as we're using renewable resources for energy). If we're burning coal to produce eco-friendly plant burgers, then forget it.
Nice to hear the voice(s) of reason and common sense.
I've had the good fortune to try an Impossible Foods burger. It really does taste like meat. I'm not sure I would say it's indistinguishable from a beef burger. But I would definitely have a hard time telling it apart from a ground turkey burger. Or an ostrich burger from Fuddruckers.
The importance of simplicity and efficiency in building an effective UI
Yes, given the level of competence of the staff at Apple stores, it seems unlikely there could be a worthwhile coding camp at that venue. Apple would need to bring in some much higher caliber people.
|The most surprising thing was how his approach (arrogance, hyper-confidence, indignation, loud speaking voice) made nearly all the non-technical people in the organization convinced he was a world class technologist. In reality he had pretty poor technical judgment and many fairly counter-productive prejudices which he was convinced were best-practices. His disdain for QA led to most of the embarrassing bugs the company had suffered, often because of his boorish intimidation of the QA team and disregard for process.

I've seen this several times and I cannot get my head around it. It is easily one of the most dissapointing things I've encountered professionally. As much as I can figure knowledge workers are just a market for lemons and it's all luck of the draw if you have to deal with one or not and no amount of proof you put forward will convince others that someone is a lemon. Doubly true if the person you're trying to convince has invested their ego in them at all.
I don't think macOS is targeting touch screens -- and it's not a combination of OSX and iOS. It's simply a renaming of the OSX system.
Apple lobbying against Fair Repair Act
Pay Per Delivered ‪#‎OTP‬ model is here...
It's good to bring up other sources, but not good to start off with "bullshit" and finish with "some of us [...] actually give a shit", as if others don't. That is rage rhetoric, and we don't want it in HN comments. Even if what you say is all true, the effect of the truth is drowned out by that of the rage, which is infectious.

Here's a summary of what we do want, written by the founder of this community:

Comment[s] should be written in the spirit of colleagues cooperating in good faith to figure out the truth about something, not politicians trying to ridicule and misrepresent the other side.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7445761

I've always found that to be an excellent way of putting it, and it's on the short list for additions to the HN guidelines.
Scale: API for Human Tasks
you forgot their latest and greatest - Clash Royale, generated $190mm in revenue in the first month out
> It's a GMO, and people who're vegan on principle often don't like that.

That's okay! They're already vegan, so clearly they've already found a way to eat a meat-free diet that works for them.

Carnivores are a much bigger market to chase than vegans. These new meat substitutes are targeted at converting more carnivores, not making existing vegans happier.
> Elixir is a pretty big language

Compared to? Perspective matters a lot. It is definitely bigger than Erlang but I would still classify it as considerably smaller than languages like Scala and C++ and still smaller than Ruby and Python.

> It is essentially a big pile of macros

Since "a big pile of macros" is not quantifiable in anyway, I have decided to check for macros and function definitions in Elixir source and I got 1687 functions and 169 macros throughout the whole standard library. It is roughly 10%.

The Kernel module (imported by default) has 60 functions, 78 macros, which is, for example, considerably smaller than Haskell's prelude (about 300 last time I checked?).

Considering things like `defmodule`, `def`, `defp`, `case`, `&&`, `in` are regular macros in Elixir instead of syntax keywords (as they would be in many languages), I wouldn't personally call it a big pile. Although I agree that's a matter of perspective and that's why I decided to measure it).

> the barrier and number of concepts that you have to get familiar with is huge

I definitely agree with this. There are functional aspects, like pattern matching and immutability, the concurrency aspects and the OTP bits. There is definitely a learning curve although most patterns, as you said, are necessary for building the kind of systems Erlang/Elixir enable you to.
Quorn?
It's pretty close to chicken. But then again, chicken is also relatively easy to emulate since it doesn't have a lot of flavor or texture.
Oh well, I guess it's better to polarize the public, and have some that really hate you and others that really love you.

Kind-of like the US presidential candidates right now :)
> It's a GMO, and people who're vegan on principle often don't like that.

I don't think they care about people who are vegan on principle. They want to sell to meat eaters.
Beginning Serverless Framework V.1
Yes, reminds me of discussions of whether I "like" alcohol:

"You don't like alcohol? Even when we dilute the heck out of it by mixing it with lots of sugar and fruit flavors? Crazy! I definitely like alcohol, although only Smirnov Ice and cosmos, for some inexplicable reason..."
Indeed the dialogue should go into this direction. Two (or more) people exchanging their experiences to see if they share the same values and can potentially join forces in this case.
That's not contradictory at all. The report says that the number of people making more than twice the median income has increased, not that those in the upper middle class are doing better.
not sure why i got a down vote for this
If i may ask, the Ng course - how much prior knowledge did you have in the course?
> I also doubt they will ever make a "joint" effort again.

Well, there is such an amount of money. F-35 is not the first jack-of-all-trades fighter. Remember to F-104.
The law is very complicated, but it generally gives regulators that actual power. They can make demands to specific banks. They can even make demands to specific banking systems; like, a regulator can go to a bank and say "You need to make your AML system do Y instead of X."

And the bank has to do it or they end up like HSBC. In fact, that was exactly why HSBC was fined billions. Regulators told them to do specific things, like use Form X in Iran instead of Form Y, or classify Mexico with risk measure N+1 instead of N, and they didn't do them. This is all in the various public records.
A smart thing to do would be to run it in an iframe with the sandbox attribute so that it doesn't get access to the page's or origin's data, but that wouldn't protect from local denial-of-service attacks against the browser that infinitely loop or allocate tons of memory.
What really pisses me off about this is I can't provide proof anymore that I made use of OtherOS. The later updates removed that functionality.

I remember at that time I was so excited thinking I'd get to use my PS3 as my main machine, my game console, and for bitcoin mining -- and a bluray player. I desperately wanted it to be my entertainment center for all purposes.

Sony didn't want me to be a happy customer.
>There's a pretty direct inverse correlation between the cost of a hosting service ($5/mo VPS vs. minimum $200/mo colocation of a 1U server) and how much outgoing abuse traffic has been sent from the particular netblock assigned to the enduser customers. Cheap hosting company = poor IP space reputation.

Eh...this is pretty much bullshit. Unless you're running your own, good-reputation AS (or happen to know someone running a clean AS who can either lend you an IP or announce a clean block for you), the /25|/29 assigned to you by your colo provider has just as good a chance as being dirty as that VPS providers.

Your colo provider is also more than likely happily delegating blocks to one of those cheap VPS providers out of the same larger netblock your IP. Chances are even good that you'll be given a /26 or a /29 that used to be used by one of the VPS providers.

If you see a provider offering "up to 256 clean IPs!!!", those aren't clean IPs. Those are, at best, greylisted IPs bought on the cheap and at worst /22's rented from poor rep /16's and rebadged in the hope no one will notice
I've turned off the university page redirect for now until we can evaluate whether it's overall a positive.
I agree. Although this generally cause another problem: people start reacting over fear or habits, not because they become conscious of the problem. Which means:

- if the problem take another form, they won't act;

- if the solution needs to be adapted, they won't do it;

- when the problem doesn't exist anymore, or your understanding of the problem is very different and you realize you fought the wrong battle, it will be impossible to realocate the ressource to it. Worst, you will get discriminated if you do.

All in all, education is good, but as long as people don't generally care about the way the world works, no matter the specifi subject, it will be fighting a never ending battle.
And, in your opinion, what is the _main force_ in a good programming language?
Or maybe the top 3 :)
Beyond Meat's ground beef really surprised me by how close it was to ground beef (texture and appearance are great, flavor needs work). The chicken strips somewhat less so, but still enjoyed it.
I don't know how successful VR will be in business, but I think that's sort of tangential to this discussion. I am convinced it will be very successful as an entertainment product. Some companies have been experimenting with VR apartment tours, room planning, architecture demos, etc. Not sure how successful those will be.

I agree that Hololens is closer to "true" AR. That's why I said VR is more ready for public consumption, because you can go out and by a Vive right now, and it works great. Hololens isn't out and might not be out for a while, and it's not clear how well it actually works right now.
Has YouTube begun censoring channel on psychedelics?
That is not a good reason not to do so.
Working a day job to pay the bills, and building a startup on the side.
If there's one thing I've learned on the internet, it's that it's hard to please everyone. ;)
I'd also be curious to see what the energy impact is of the various methods. LZFSE wasn't just designed for speed, it was also designed for energy efficiency.
Yeah, I'd be happy to be wrong, I've been casually reading about these devices since the 1980s and understood the problem to be more or less unassailable. I will likely still buy one of the new wave headsets at some point because the tech is really cool. So maybe there is a point that is good enough for casual use by large numbers of people. I had friends that couldn't play Wolfenstein and Doom when they came out due to motion sickness.
What does being "vegan on principle" mean here? What specific principles are you talking about?

Some vegans do it because killing animals is morally bankrupt.

Some vegans do it because raising livestock is unsustainable. There is not enough land on earth for everyone to have a meat diet.

Some vegans do it because it's healthier. In general you can expect to ingest less toxins by eating lower on the food chain.

I'm not sure what vegan principles are violated by GMOs. I don't know of anyone who is actually against GMOs, the debate is around labeling them not banning them.

Personally I don't understand why someone wouldn't want to eat pesticide/herbicide drenched food. It's how we're going to feed the third world.
So... is it a bad article title?
How exactly is ground chuck roast heavily subsidized? Is it any different than the subsidies for agriculture that make up meat alternatives?
It's not clear from the articles I've read. Here's one that references some of the research:

http://educationnext.org/all-together-now/
I would like to get rich from working on an easy software project that will make me a lot of money for not a lot of effort.

Does anyone have an idea like that? Thank you.
Yes, sort of, but not really a new problem. Low budget hosting companies have had poor IP space reputations and outgoing spam problems since such a thing as a hosting company began to exist, 20 years ago, way before there was such a thing as an x86-64 bare metal hypervisor or a VPS. The lower the cost the less clueful the customers. The problem is more on the google and MS side.
It is interesting that you mention military experience. The best manager I ever worked for had been an Israeli commando officer during the military service portion of his life. (If you remember the rescue at Entebbe, he was in the "Plan B" unit that was staged and ready to go in without the element of surprise should Plan A fail. Happily, Plan A worked.)

So what made him a great manager? 1) You never had any doubt in your mind whatsoever what he wanted and when he wanted it. 2) He then asked you if you had everything you needed to get the job done. And then he listened to what you said until he was certain that he understood, and got you what you needed or adjusted the plan.

When you think about it, failure to do those two things as a commando officer means having to write unpleasant letters to parents.

I mentioned this to another friend, also ex-commando (Royal Navy Special Ops Diver "We taught the SEALs how to do it.") He told me he often spent days thinking about exactly the right words to articulate the goal to his unit.
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11894368

I'll repeat my opinion: this is a really dangerous move for Mongolia, and one I hope will not be emulated by other states.
Right, then you can have some supporting code automatically handle the remoting.

Once you've gone to the trouble of automatically generating the glue between the local interface and the remote object, it becomes simple to interpose further useful things - security checks, transactions if you're using a relational database, and so on. You can even have the glue code lazily instantiate the service components, so you don't need to actually load them until a client makes a call.

You'd want a cool name for it, though. Extreme Java Binding? Enhanced Jet Bus? Excellent Joy Bringer?
If you can't reverse it you can't seed it anymore and BitTorrent breaks

Even if that's not the case they'd just switch from grabbing a hash of the entire file to finding sub-hashes of the file or other fingerprints. You'd have to do a lot of corrupting to make this worth it.

If adobe premiere can sync my audio tracks when one is barely audible and the other has background noise you better believe there's a service that can find stored movies against a database of files

Also if you're already using BitTorrent why are you sharing these files on Dropbox et al