skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But if you ask the city's protesters, high school students and favela residents, “safety, peace, celebration and joy” are the last thing on their minds. There is little appetite for the Olympics, as seen in signs at occupied schools and community organizing in favelas in response to forced removals to make way for Olympics facilities. Police have increased violent armed raids in the favelas. Anti-impeachment activists have been met with pepper spray and arrests.

Olympic games don't bring sustainable prosperity and economic benefits, especially for the poor -and the poor knows it. As someone born in Tokyo, I am somewhat concerned about 2020 as well. Sure, Japan is not Brazil and Tokyo has no favelas. However, economic inequality is creeping up in Japan, the anticipation for the Olympics is driving rent and property prices, and most construction projects for the games will probably prove to be a waste of time and resources.

I have nothing against the Olympic Games. I think it's one of the most inspiring, unifying events that we have in a rapidly divided world. That said, the pros must be weighed carefully against the cons, and I am not very sure if it was a good idea for Rio in 2016 or Tokyo in 2020.
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Maybe. But the whole SV startup model of "try lots of things" and "fail fast" doesn't really work if there aren't big hits to bankroll all the failed attempts.
I agree completely. That said, even in row-crop systems there's an incredible amount that could be done to build in more functional ecological complexity. For example, see Matt liebman's work at Iowa State.
Looks like a solid phone, my only issue is the lack of GSM frequency bands for use here in Australia. Half of the frequencies we use for 4G LTE aren't listed so data would be congested and signal would be weaker.

Otherwise, I'd totally put this as an option for my dad's next phone alongside the 6P. Both look to be really great phones.
Yeah, OO interface for sort from Go's standard library is crap. But why reflect and all that magic? I was expecting something based on function literals as a decent way to sort truly arbitrary data and not break context.
Just wrote a post discussing this phrase and other interesting ones in his memo https://medium.com/@SVSpeak/deciphering-satya-nadellas-ratio...
No, Wikipedia does not accept first-party posts as notable, from my understanding. Me mentioning it on my personal blog would also be insufficient, it has to be a third-party publication that is itself notable enough.
Uber Developer Platform joins hack.guides() for 2016 tutorial contest!
You can use your cell to tether your personal machine if you are allowed to bring one.

You can also just buy a 4g enabled tablet and use that unless you work in finance.

If your workplace wants to monitor its own network that is pretty normal for any company over 50 employees. Most of the polite ones will tell you that they are monitoring.
Anyone else having trouble with this? Some characters not showing up. Chrome 51 on Windows 10: https://i.imgur.com/TTNQSOA.png
The practice of creating accounts on a site and making "real" seeming posts for a long time so that when you want to flip the switch and use them for something corporate, they look like they have a background and aren't flagged for being 1 day old accounts with 1 corporate post.
This was my point. It's just not intuitive, and I only use the site once every few months, so I have to figure it out again every time.
Imagine Orlando (Cover of Imagine by John Lennon)
I can't believe there is people who have the audacity to chastise strangers for sometimes feeding their kids a cheeseburger, apple slices, and chocolate milk.
Even if the accounts behind the likes are 'fake', isn't the page/brand still getting exposure mindshare? Namely, real users will see that your brand has N likes, where N is hopefully a number that resonates with real people who'd be interested in your content. It creates an aura of legitimacy in their minds, which says 'someone else also likes this'.

There is a thriving, if questionable, market in fake Twitter followers, for example. People wouldn't buy fake followers if it weren't effective.
LIquidPiston Unveils Tiny but Powerful Rotary Engine
I think it depends on the person's mindset. My wife was thrilled that I got her a CZ instead of a mined diamond, specifically because she is against the atrocities of the diamond trade. I feel the same so it was a no-brainer. She would have had less respect for me if I'd given in to DeBeers' propaganda and marketing, not to mention the financial folly of spending a chunk of my savings towards a sentimental rock.
From what you've described, it seems like i2p would satisfy the requirements of your first paragraph and Freenet would satisfy the requirements of the second. Both of these networks have been around for over a decade, so they're not as in vogue as newer projects.
DTU Biosustain | Copenhagen Area, Denmark | Onsite | Full-time | VISA

Front-end Web Developer for Synthetic Biology Design Platform

With advances in synthetic biology, genomes can now be edited at unprecedented speed and fidelity allowing making multiple changes in the same genome at the same time. This increases the need for computational tools to design cells and communities of cells analogous to the tools used in Computer Aided Design (CAD) of cars, buildings and other man-made objects. The European Commission has awarded 6.3 million Euros to a four-year collaborative project to build a CAD tool for data-driven design of cells and microbial communities. Applications will range from human health to sustainable production of chemicals.

Our web stack currently, in no specific order: AngularJS, ECMAScript 6, Redis, Python 3, Flask, PostgreSQL 9.4, Socket.IO, Docker. The application is very front-end centric so most of the work will always be done in JavaScript. The API is written in Python and our scientists write most of their algorithms in Python. We currently use AngularJS for the front-end, however this is not set in stone.
As visible on our GitHub org (https://github.com/biosustain), we are very dedicated towards releasing most of our tools as open source software.

We will help with getting a VISA, as well as with administrative issues related to relocation. Our working language is English. We are a very diverse workplace; 70% of our staff have an international background.
The salary depends on qualifications and needs to be agreed by your union representative -- so I cannot give an official range -- but a rough personal estimate is DKK 450k-600k.

So if this sparked your interest, come and join a diverse team of scientists and engineers to work on something that matters.

To read more and apply, go to:
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Sorry to hear - hope everything works out for you!

"Can I ask how you ended up at OpenAI?"

Certainly. I had heard of OpenAI from their first announcements, being a regular reader here on HN. I later saw on Twitter (when I was on the job hunt) that they were hiring and it seemed like an interesting place to work. I applied directly, without any references (other than being visible here on HN).
I'm pretty sympathetic to the gist of your comments here (e.g., microbial ecologies, local food production,etc.), but probably fall on the 'need more and better tech' side of things when looking forward along several global trends. Population growth and movements and climate change are two such trends.

I'm reaching here because I dont recall the details but I seem to remember reading about Indian grain production needing to industrialize in order to satisfy its near future domestic demand.

I'd love to get some recommendations for books dealing with large-scale food production (not saying 'factory' but rather 'national', for example) from an econ perspective.
'We're in a Bubble'
linkedin hasn't been a good candidate for low volatility. always possible that they thought it wouldn't move, but there are much less volatile stocks out there
If anyone else wants to know the significance of this device, it allowed for the argument to be made that any device should be able to be connected to the network, provided it did not interfere with it. It paved the way for non-AT&T equipment. The FAX and answering machines were allowed as a result (many people/industries still cling to these ideas; they are the reason voicemail hasn't gone the way of the dinosaur). Skype used it in '07 to

"petition for rulemaking was filed with the FCC by Skype, requesting the FCC to apply the Carterfone regulations to the wireless industry—which would mean that OEMs, portals and others will be able to offer wireless devices and services without the cellular operators needing to approve the handsets. However, on 1 April 2008, FCC chairman Kevin Martin indicated that he would oppose Skype's request.[3]"
Yes, and the general consensus towards death is against.
Parents point is that just like any other kind of death, suicidal death is a problem.
The 1st amendment doesn't say anything about being "well regulated."
Looks like Angular 1.
Where do you live where McDonald's sells vegetarian wraps and grilled cheese?
Phoenix is Modular
I didn't know they had barrels 5000 years ago.
Manycore and Accelerator-Based High-Performance Scientific Computing(2011)
In that case I would add HeidiSQL to that list.

I use it with Wine in Ubuntu.
I guess it depends on your standards. Back in college I cooked a ton of meals in just one pot. Cook some ground pork, drain, cook rice, add pork and frozen veggies. Probably costs $10 to make 5 or 6 meals.
To add context: An hour later in a different thread wtf_is_frp wrote he/she is a jobless student.
I took the course at UIUC (ECE 408) 2 years ago. While the assignments weren't too challenging, I thought they were thorough in covering the material from class, and the material from class came straight from Professor Hwu's book.

Plus, the final exam was extremely harsh so I wouldn't have called it a joke.
The “Hoare Logic” of CSP, and All That ( GO ) [pdf]
The real problem I see with ever using Google's product is that their history with keeping products around hasn't been very good. Now, I'm sure they won't pull the plug on Gmail anytime soon, but I'm not that sure about Drive.

I realize the same can be said of Dropbox as well. But like Gmail is to Google, cloud storage is to Dropbox.
16-18 million records destroyed in a fire in 1973:

http://www.archives.gov/st-louis/military-personnel/fire-197...
Mostly basic software engineering tasks, helping put together some test beds, maintenance, and stuff like that. The researchers there will be doing the heavy AI lifting, which I am not very experienced in (at least as far as NNs, of which I only have a basic working understanding). Still I'd like to take it as an opportunity to dabble further with AI if I have any spare time, maybe flushing out VQ's emergent AI / proglog-ish language some more.
Being able to link apps into iMessage is probably a lot more interesting to most developers than APFS is. Very few developers will make a dollar off APFS.
I will save the time of my fellow HNs: the author says that he need to have an AR-15 because of tradition.
California Overtakes France to Become Sixth-Largest Economy
Microsoft Patch Tuesday – SANS Internet Storm Center
> which tries to filter out suicidal employees

The cynic in me says they don't particularly care about the high suicide rate of assembly line factory workers in China, as long as said factory workers don't off themselves while on company property or at the company dormitory. Because that's bad PR, guys.
Basic software engineering tasks mostly (not research). :)
Thank you, I am honored!
'Money That Is Quickly Gained Is Quickly Lost' and Payroll Psychology
Twitter Invests in SoundCloud
The code base looks nice and easy to navigate. I didn't see any license mentioned - I'd suggest stating one clearly for those considering to build something on top of it, or to contribute.
Alibaba’s Jack Ma: counterfeits “better quality” than authentic luxury goods
What’s Causing the Bot Craze?
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From what I've heard, they have been more focused on selling to Enterprises...as they should. There are only so many people who can be paid customers; Enterprises provide a much more predictable (and larger) stream of revenue.
Small UAV turbojet engine developed in Japan
I already vote from wherever I like by mail.
Show HN: A JavaScript Tool for Database Diagramming
SimAnt Manual [pdf]
The flip-side: Specialization is for insects.
Money for Nothing, Kicks for Free
And interestingly they were not any slower.
Added it to the Compiler section:

https://github.com/melling/ComputerLanguages/blob/master/com...
The politicians know they can never get past the technologists; not because they make them so much money, but because they're smarter than they are.
> “The valuation of $1 billion – not as insane as the [$15 billion] valuation placed by Microsoft on Facebook – was jaw dropping.”

lol
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we sell our soil moisture monitoring through...

http://www.mywildeye.com/wildeye/
The problem with bubble statements is to what "bubble" refers to.

A startup with seed money is in a complete different position from Uber/Pinterest.
Just because the bubble hasn't burst yet, doesn't mean we're not actually in a bubble. That line of reasoning irks me a bit, but still, it is laughable how the imminent bursting of the bubble has been predicted for nearly a decade.
My first thought, too: Friend-zoned.

Just went through it again, recently. Love her. She loves me. But, as a friend.
The Microsoft LinkedIn acquisition seems to have positively signaled investor confidence, in spite of calls that the sky is falling. Whatever odds there were for a "bubble burst" are probably lessened by this purchase.
Well, that is the problem with people predicting the future: they may be correct on fundamentals but the world is a chaotic place and predicting just when something will happen, even if it is likely to happen in the future, is a bad bet.

I personally believe that the current economic regime, requiring constant growth (and large growth) for health is not sustainable. Am I willing to bet on when the next big economic crash will occur? No.
I wonder if the frequency of "We're not in a bubble" articles tracks its counterpart over time.
You just proved the point. You're arguing socioeconomic cirumstance (which I think should be helped out) over race. If you're solidly middle/upper class, shouldn't matter what colour you are.
Once "the bad guys" are in control what makes you think they are going to give a shit about the regulatory tradition of the internet up to that point?
IMO, cloud storage is the most reliable way to store data, and Google the most reliable

Does Google publish any durability numbers? Amazon claims 99.999999999% (11 9's) for S3 and Glacier (and considerably worse for EBS volumes). How does Google compare?
The problem is not just DR, but anything that can result in data loss. There was the one where they'd delete stuff you didn't mean to [1], the one where they got stuff back by the scruff of the neck [2]... i can't be arsed to look further back, but I'm pretty sure shit happened earlier as well (and I'm just looking at GMail). And of course there are tons of horror stories about accounts disabled or deleted for commercial or other unspecified reasons, because once you put your trust in another entity, that's it, they can do as they please. Their track record might be as good as anyone's, but it still has a few holes and people should prepare for it rather than considering "the cloud" as a magic bucket.

(disclaimer: my life would probably be ruined by losing the gmail account I've held since private-beta days, because life is short and I'm shit at sysadmin; but there's a big difference between a lone old geek and large organizations...)

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2548010/Has-G...

[2] http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/03/01/googl...
Sure, but that's only a competitive advantage with, what, 10% of the market at most?
Ah! You are correct.

I was licensed well before that, and missed that change.
I think you're on to something. If I were them, I would be working furiously on killer features that the others can't duplicate for whatever reason instead of wasting time on email and pictures. Cross-platform support is a good example, but only applies to OneDrive and iCloud.

Some stuff that comes to mind (unfortunately other competitors have gotten a jumpstart on almost all of these):

- Self-hosted solutions (for enterprise).
- Privacy features.
- Push hard(er) for app integrations.
- I like your idea of hosting games / apps. Storage upgrades will then go from a nice-to-have to a must.

In the meantime, their competitors are doing the same thing. Seamless cloud integration for Google Office, MS Office, and iWorks is hard (impossible?) for Dropbox to replicate.
Apparently they spoofed UTM tags by opening hidden iFrames after a shopper clicked a competitors ad. Lawsuit details: http://www.businessinsider.com/document/575feb558d3eae0d080e...
...you BAG your groceries at Aldis? I just normally grab a few of the empty boxes from the cereal section.
If the intended insinuation of this essay is that somehow there aren't a bunch of seriously over-valued companies out there, or that there isn't a long-overdue downturn on the way, then I'm afraid I can't bring myself to agree.

People young enough to have never been through a downturn in their professional career are usually in denial right up until the moment it happens. And the people who try to call the bubble early, as funny as it may be to make fun of them as is being done here, are usually the ones who have been through it before, see it coming early, and try to warn everyone, even though no one ever listens (too busy enjoying the party!)
I'm disappointed to see this from Sam.

After Twilio filed for IPO, someone wrote a "here's what Hacker News said about Twilio," which only focused on the hilarious-in-hindsight but negative comments about the startup (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11786464). Naturally, it got massive retweets from venture capitalists who espouse the haters-gonna-hate attitude.

As dang notes in that other comment thread, this kind of argument doesn't look at the other side at all: there have been some seriously shady dealings going on with unicorn startups. IPOs are failing. And let's not get started on Theranos.
The success of the game developer industry is ignored in more conservative industries.

I just used C++ for a script last month and I got a glorious increase in performance.

Not to mention that C++11 is, in contrast with C++98, a joy to write.
If a bubble lasts over 10 years, is it really a bubble?
In his defence it feels like lotus notes development has had at most 2 FTE allocated to it for the past decade.
Why is it bad for employees? If they were granted stock, and the company thinks it will be a big player, then they have effectively invested in the company, right? Pretty sure a company like Dropbox has sizeable cash compensation for employees apart from equity.

I guess I do see your point from a risks perspective. If I was an employee who cashed out because of IPO and invested all that money in index funds, then my risks would be greatly reduced.
Markets can stay irrational for longer than you can remain solvent. Just because the bubble hasn't burst, doesn't mean we are not in one. Of course the converse is also true, just because the market has been going up doesn't mean it will go down. It will be interesting to see what happens if the Fed ever raises the interest rates.
Still, it's really frustrating that we have to pay intermediaries for their centralized infrastructure in order to have general-purpose private conversations, even though we have the technology to do it on a peer-to-peer basis.

I understand private traffic isn't in the spirit of amateur radio, but it's frustrating that the only alternative is to go through the oligopoly of cell-phone networks.

I still have "cyberpunk" dreams of wide area mesh networks between peers, owned by no one, available to anyone who can cobble together the right equipment. Obviously we'd need some limitations to keep people from stomping on each other's traffic, but surely there's a middle ground.
Possibly, the defining aspect of an investment bubble is the popping.
Can it really be a bubble if everyone thinks it's a bubble? Who would invest their money in something if they thought it was a bad deal?
If it bursts, then yes.
This is pretty much the story of Diamond Foundry [1], a Bay area synthetic diamond company funded at ~ $100M to date [2]. Their marketing emphasizes the attributes you list in your last sentence.

[1] https://www.diamondfoundry.com/about/

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/diamond-foundry-raises-money-...
If you say "we're in a XYZ bubble" for long enough, you'll eventually be right.
PDFs for papers to ongoing Computational Linguistics NAACL 2016 conference
If it pops, yeah. :)
There has been too much recently of government agencies losing data due to "crashes" or "inadvertent" deletions. For example the IRS, state department, and now the Air Force.

A really easy way to fix this is to make a law so that if government data such as this gets lost, then the cabinet level person responsible for overseeing the agency immediately loses their cabinet level position and is barred from further work with the federal government.

This would do wonders to align incentives all through the federal agencies when it comes to data safeguards.
I would only object to that part of the article, as over-inflated:

The 3270 hardware also came equipped, as standard, with the ability to "physically" update a small section of the remote screen buffer (including its text colour, background, input behaviour and other attributes) using a "Write" (modified) command, instead of needing to retransmit the entire screen buffer on every change (anticipating Ajax software technology that re-emerged some 22 years later for web 2.0 based applications and now utilized for online spreadsheets and most other recent applications for similar reasons).

Claiming that the 3270 anticipated Ajax is really, shall I say, "interesting".

I implemented a multi-user chat (similar to Linux talk) on a 3270, so I do appreciate the addressable location feature.
And the program listing is: http://naacl.org/naacl-hlt-2016/program.html

I am two days into the conference. Many papers on deep learning neural networks for NLP. Good stuff!
Could OSX just have a way to disable negative caching completely? All it does is troll me when I'm on bad wifi and the DNS lookup for www.google.com gets dropped and that negative response is cached. Can we just stop doing that?

I can't recall the last time I had a positive cache entry issue, but the last time the dropped DNS lookup for www.google.com happened to me was like 2 days ago...
I'm betting I could find articles arguing against being in a bubble (like @sama’s) from each of those years as well. There will likely be a deflationary period in tech in the next decade, worse than the small recession we witnessed at the transition between 2015-2016. But I don't think tech is so separate from other market sectors anymore, so it won't (IMO) be a tech-specific thing, just a normal market cycle.
Could you expand a bit more on what you'd like to see in a whole-systems redesign? I'm currently trying to work out what is going to be the next "evolution" in our farms operation (~10000acres in Western Australia).

In regards to your 4th point, our cropping systems in Australia are a bit different to the states. We already grow crops in a rotation, Wheat, Lupins (Nitrogen fixing) and Canola. Depending on where your farming your might also be growing cover/summer crops.