skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quantifying the subtleties of knowledge as experience increases is difficult. For instance, one might understand the details but not compositional complexities. Or vice versa. But comparing the two situations is difficult and inextricably contextual.
how about something like Getaround? https://www.getaround.com
Not to mention Craigslist and eBay destroyed a huge chunk of newspapers' revenue streams.
Here's a CPU profile from my Windows desktop (Chrome, v. 51.0.2704.103) if it's any help to you: https://ameo.link/u/2hr.cpuprofile
Mattermark Daily – Monday, June 27th, 2016
But if the result of the system burning is that the poor can't afford food, because there is very little, they don't benefit no matter how much wealth the wealthy lose.

This is not hyperbole. Everyone seems to be assuming that "burn it all" only does minor damage. (The wealthy lose 10%? That's your definition of "burn the system"?) But succeeding in trying to take down the system really takes down the system. It's not just the kind of minor blip you're talking about.
Some municipalities have put in sidewalks that have removable slabs at each corner or more often.
Thank you for buying those sets (bike riders, collectively).

The tech eventually filters down and I can now buy wheelchair wheels like http://www.spinergy.com/content/wheelchair/products
Interesting. Would you mind elaborating? What are the relative environmental costs of these pollutants? How did you arrive at the abatement figure? (I skimmed your links but it didn't leap out at me.)
You are thinking of the earth. The Internet is penguins all the way down.
I've experienced the same. As a consumer, what can we do? Complain on Twitter? Leave one star reviews?
>Nobody wants to build street lights or a subway station in the middle of an Iowa corn field, but reasonable infrastructure where people actually live is important.

Should people who live in that corn field pay for a rail system in DC?

>PS: America seems to have forgotten that infrastructure drives economic development. From dirt roads to high speed internet society's live and die based on past investments not what happens to rich or powerful people.

Infrastructure that make sense enables economic development. But not all infrastructure makes economic sense. Sure, you can stimulate economic growth in a place by pouring a bunch of money into it. But how much growth did you suppress in other places by taking money out?
Having grown up in rural US, where owning a car is a necessity of life - 15 miles to the nearest store on 45mph roads with no sidewalks - and now living within Seattle, it's not quite so bad. Taking 1 bus to another city costs as much as gas to drive there and back, so commuting feels more expensive on top of feeling less convenient.

If you don't live inside a major city, or if you live in a car-friendly area, parking and storing your vehicle is very cheap - often free. Parking and insurance combined may be less than $200/month.

When you have a family, or a business group, traveling by car has the added advantage that the rest of the group is unable to become separated from you along the way. Sorry to sound tautological or pedantic, but it's an often-overlooked point. It's almost like putting your family into a ZIP file - on arrival, everyone will still be in the car, nobody will get lost on the way or take the wrong turn. Like young classmates holding a rope on school outings.
Regardless of how strong Airbnb's legal standing is or isn't, they are the definition of a company who believes it better to ask forgiveness then permission. I believe that maxim is all fine and good when you're a person who cares about the well being of others, but when it's a corporation whose only goal is profit or growth it has the potential to be extremely detrimental to society.
What are some incentives that could be offered to the people who currently inhabit Australia?

How could they be persuaded to believe in such a plan and help carry it out?
What a niche.
Re: server resource wastage. That's a great point -- and someone in Jeff Dean's talk asked the same question. So, the small optimization that he mentions is to send the query to the replica after 2ms telling it which server it was sent to originally. Similarly, tell the main server which replica would receive the query 2ms later. Then when one of them starts to process the query, they can directly tell the other one to cancel its execution.

This trick would save a lot of repeated effort while still improving your query latency. For more, listen to Jeff Dean's talk mentioned on the blog.
Parag Khanna: global connectivity and urban meccas: http://www.paragkhanna.com/
Alex Harmsen here, co-founder at Iris Automation. Happy to answer any questions and share more about how the drone market is changing!
You can build a model perhaps if toxicity of emissions, how it spreads, absorbs, affects human body are known.
I'm not a medical professional but a fellow sufferer, so you should probably take this all with a grain of salt. It's more than likely you'll see a psychologist who will administer cognitive behavioural therapy; essentially the rational examination of your thinking as described above. Although specific treatment modalities somewhat depend on the nature and severity of your anxiety disorder.

If your anxiety is more 'phobic' in nature (i.e. it spikes when you're exposed to specific stimuli) , a therapist might inter-weave elements of 'gradual exposure therapy' in as well. For instance, if you have severe arachnophobia, you might start off standing on the other side of the room to a large spider in a glass cage. Then you might stand half-way across the room. Then next to the glass. Then touching the glass etc. But CBT is the workhorse of modern psychotherapy, and can be quite effective for anxiety suffers.I'd also suggest steering well clear of any therapists that use psychoanalysis/psychoanalytic theory in their practice. It's arguably a non-falsifiable pseudo-science.

Unless your anxiety is so acute that you can't function on any normal level (like the time I didn't leave my house for about 2-3 weeks), I'd hold off on medication and try your non-chemical options first. To be clear, I'm not one of those people who thinks that 'unnatural drugs are bad maaannnnn', and have in fact been prescribed (and taken) meds at various times. In certain circumstances, for certain people, they are the only option and they can be a god send for some. But in my experience the pharmacological options for anxiety are are pretty poor. There are really only two mainstream choices: anti-depressants like SSRIs/SNRIs, which are rarely effective for anxiety and take 6-8 weeks to have any effect. So you end up on a very long-term course of trial and error.

The other pharmacological option has traditionally been benzodiazapines (valium, kloponin etc.). Again, unless your illness is extremely acute, I very strongly urge you to never go down this path. They're very physically and psychologically addictive in the medium to long-term (sudden withdrawal can even result in in grand-mal seizures), and you will experience 'rebound' anxiety when you stop taking them.

Lastly, although not a cure, a few lifestyle changes can vastly improve your quality of life while you're seeking out profession treatment. The big three are exercise, regular sleep and mindfulness meditation. It's difficult to start at first, but if you can make even 1 or 2 or those a regular habit you will see an improvement in your life.

Anyhow, I really wish you all the best. Anxiety sucks, but fortunately there's a growing number of ways to make it suck less.
Right. :) And you are welcome!
The static typing example seems weird to me. I did not read the entire linked summary but only the first five and last three papers discussed there and they mostly hint at at least some positive effect for static typing but the author of the summary essentially just dismisses the results for various reasons. I am not saying that all the judgments in the summary are necessarily wrong but overall that summary seems a pretty strange basis for saying that static typing is worth nothing. And the author of the submission is also the author of the summary.
Notice the companies you listed. They are/were the absolute hottest companies when they raised their rounds, and are still some of the most prominent startups around.

Put another way, they have negotiating leverage.

The ones with the leverage (including YC backed companies) have to lead the charge to change the status quo and "the standard". The average startup doesn't have the leverage to do something nonstandard. The fact that YC has come out in support of 10 year vesting periods and is making it a standard is a massive step forward.
> find something you enjoy and find a way to earn a living doing that

If that is what is called "retirement", I've been retired since I was 15! Thanks for finally opening my eyes to that! I guess I don't need those 401ks and IRAs now - I'm retired already, so no point in saving for retirement.

> If you'd enjoy it even without earning money, then the argument is that it's not really 'work'

I'm not sure redefining words to have weird meanings specific for one's argument is going to convince anybody in that argument.
>>The shareholders would still be richer and don't have to fear punishment

This is actually an interesting thought. What if they did have to fear punishment? Perhaps in the form of having a percentage of the settlement/regulatory fees passed to them via their brokerage accounts. A mechanism like this would mean that potentially shady/unethical corporate behavior would be reflected much more strongly in the stock price, since holding onto those stocks would carry risks beyond just the stock price temporarily going down during lawsuits.

It would also put immense pressure on corporations to not do shady shit.
It seems more like a project to explore the philosophy of tech. What's in the box?

Edit: Perhaps the box is the art and the outputs are commentary on Art as a Commodity?
Free speech rights are a stretch here. I wonder if you could make a viable case for the 3rd amendment though (to my knowledge it has never been done).

Strictly interpreted, the 3rd amendment prevents the government from being able to force homeowners to quarter soldiers. If you think about the real intent of the bill though, it's obvious that the mindset is "you are free to use your own house without government interference."

Realize that at the time, HUGE numbers of homeowners informally had a room or two for boarders to supplement their income. It would have been considered ridiculous at the time for the government to say you couldn't lend a room out for money, which is probably why this interpretation was not formally codified.

It's a stretch, but amendments have been interpreted in more creative ways to accomplish personal-freedom goals (think, right to privacy -- interpreted as an implied constitutional right, but not mentioned anywhere).
Or take another alternate view: if you want to have a lighter bike and you don't want to pay for it, lose body weight instead. Then you'll be both lighter and fitter. Only once you've lost as much body weight as you can reasonably lose does investing heavily in a lighter bike make sense!

Naturally this doesn't, of course, diminish the fact that lighter wheels give you more bang-for-the-buck than lighter anything-else, due to the physics described in the article. But if the difference between heavy, cheap wheels and light, expensive ones is a few hundred grams and a few thousand dollars, losing a pound of body fat is likely a better bet.
It's a good idea.

Maybe YC should talk with the founder of Zappos, Tony Hsieh. (They probably have already for all I know.)

He's investing millions into the old Downtown area of Las Vegas in an effort to transform that part of the city's economy. Not sure how it's turning out. Maybe YC should just add themselves to that effort.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/freeenterprise/2015/08/03/tony-h...
The type system question is different from the psychological examples: the problem is not people misinterpreting evidence, but that reliable empirical evidence simply does not exist. Papers on the matter are sparse, completely uneven and full of methodological issues.

Personally, I'd argue that "statically typed" vs "dynamically typed" does not even make sense as a single question. There's more difference between Haskell and Java than between Java and Python, and an experiment comparing two identical languages with and without static typing won't tell us much beyond those two languages. (I recall seeing at least one paper that did this; it's probably worth reading, but not for making broader conclusions.)

Moreover, there simply isn't a compelling way to measure most of the things that programmers actually care about like expressiveness, productivity or safety. Existing measures (like counting bugs, lines of code over time, experiments on small tasks often performed by students... etc) are limited, full of confounding variables and quite indirect in measuring what people actually care about. I've looked through various studies and experiments in software engineering and while some are compelling, many are little more than dressed-up anecdotes or "experience reports".

It's especially hard to study these things in the contexts that matter. What we care about is experienced programmers who've used specific technologies for years applying them in teams, at scale. What's easy to experiment on is people who've just learned something using it on tiny tasks. Observational studies that aim at the broader industry context are interesting but hard to generalize because of confounding variables and difficulty of measurement.

In the absence of this sort of evidence, people have to make decisions somehow, and it's not surprising that they overstate their confidence. We see this in pretty much everything else that doesn't have a strong empirical basis like questions around organizing workplaces, teams and processes. Just look at opinions people have about open offices, specific agile processes or interview procedures!

Another side to the question is that languages inevitably have a strong aesthetic component, and talking about aesthetics is difficult. But you're certainly not going to convince anyone on aesthetic matters with an experiment or observational study, any more than you can expect to accomplish anything like that in the art world!
Depends on your point of view. It's also detrimental to society if every new idea has to prove its viability while following the rules written for (and often purchased by) the previous generation of technology. It'd be a lot easier to get stuck in local maxima that way. Some ideas would never get traction, because getting the rules changed requires power and traction in the first place.
> Syntax highlighting is nothing like that. It's one-size-fits-all. All types/keywords/whatever get the same color. It doesn't support font changes.

That's if you have a crappy editor. Emacs supports font changes for syntax coloring since... forever? ;). Here is a test I did just now:

http://i.imgur.com/Xrgaixu.png
I've written several times in the past that only companies with substantial negotiating leverage against the gatekeepers of capital can afford to buck what is considered standard.

Hence we've only seen the hottest companies achieve 7-10 year exercise terms. https://github.com/holman/extended-exercise-windows

I've argued that as a cohort, YC is the best candidate to make a large push against VCs and make 7-10 years vesting terms an industry standard. Learning that this is now the case is incredibly exciting. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11198991

harj 119 days ago | parent | on: Fixing the Inequity of Startup Equity

We're excited to make 10 years the new standard option exercise window for startup employees. Each of us have personally experienced someone close to us dealing with the stress of trying to exercise their options within 90 days and it sucks.
We'd like to see more companies making this change, we'll be keeping the public list of YC companies who have either implemented or pledged to implement an extended window, updated here: https://triplebyte.com/ycombinator-startups/extended-options
The source is MIT and Apache, but that doesn't mean the binaries you get from MS are redistributable.

For anyone asking this question and not getting a sufficient answer, the safe route would be "build from source, then distribute that".
It's called the hivemind; people form a collective intelligence instead of independent narratives. This is partially the fault of news, which is quite opinionated these days, and also our willingness to take these reports at face value and integrate them into our knowledge as Truth. (On the positive face, this is called "word-of-mouth") The cure is skepticism, but you know what they say: "no one likes a skeptic".
This article is short on facts to back up the accusation that there #1 is in fact a problem and #2 that it is in fact due to some lack of appropriate training #3 by an overwhelming monoculture of "white guys"
That stored procedures scale badly is different from if they perform badly.

With application logic on separate stateless app servers, you can quickly spin up as many of those as you need when your site goes viral. If it's in your DB, you can't.

If the stored procedures are fast or slow doesn't really enter into that equation. It's about the difference between 1 and N.

I actually did work at a startup that got into serious trouble because much of their application logic was in the DB.
IRS hacked again – say goodbye to that PIN system
If you discount all the hypothetical environmental costs that at best guess are just that, guesses. And, if you were to consider this penalty in a somewhat satirical manner, it would have been cheaper for VW if they would have been killing the consumers of their cars.

I understand the punitive nature of the penalty and its amount, but the amount seems somewhat egregious given the fact that all VW did was violate regulations of a government body. Uber is constantly praised for skirting or directly violating state or local government laws and regulations, yet is seen in an overall positive light for the supposed benefit they are providing society. This is the government's heavy hand making an example of VW and it's violation of regulation.
Show HN: LeadBoxer
Yes, certainly a connection to Literate Programming there. Probably why I like the idea (http://akkartik.name/post/wart-layers). That said, I think wysiwyg is a huge deal here (http://akkartik.name/post/literate-programming) because it makes the difference between maintaining a document for others vs yourself.
Meh.

Terms of art will always borrow and re-define colloquial language. Do programmers aspire to 1984 because they re-appropriate the word functional?

Defining an explicit list of "terrorist organization"s may or may not seek to redefine the term terrorist, but it is not tantamount to willful restatement of established historical fact (a la "always been at war").

No one would seriously would assert that the term-of-art definition of terrorist == the dictionary denotation of terrorist. That is the meaningful line in the sand between mere rhetorical ploy and outright democratic totalitarianism.
Except when the cloud runs on Illumos and FreeBSD .
Thanks for that. I'd heard of it a while back but that's a nice update.

I love the final lines of that article:

Brent Ryan, who teaches urban design at MIT, says Songdo proves a universal principle. "There have been a lot of utopian cities in history. And the reason we don't know about a lot of them is that a lot of them have vanished entirely."
Ask HN: Current state of parental internet control?
Good day all,

I'm doing some research for a friend who's kids are starting to use the interwebs, and was wondering what the current state of parental control packages are, specifically:

1] What would HN recommend (off-the-shelf solutions - see below)
2] How well do the packages work that you've actually used
3] How do they compare costwise

I'm capable of setting up a proxy and filter for them, but for their own reasons, they would prefer off-the-shelf solutions (Windows and/or Mac).

As always, thanks for your input!

EDIT: If HN is aware of off-the-shelf solutions that will cover an entire home network (in the way a proxy solution could), please do share.
>In this day of internet and seemingly constant change, I think it's hard to recognize that change is less drastic now than it was 100 years ago.

Much of today's change is cosmetic, or a matter of added convenience. Flight, electronics, vaccines, antibiotics... those kind of changes affect how you really live.

People in the early 20th century imagined we'd have rocket ships, ray guns, 600 year lifespans, and robot servants by now because they were projecting forward based on the speed of change in their own time. Near as I can figure the pace of technological development really slowed down in the 1970s and has continued slowing.

Whether this is because something fundamental has created stagnation or, as Tyler Cowen proposed, we've eaten all the low hanging fruit, I couldn't say.
Every generation of new immigrants has always pushed hard to close the door behind them. Welcome to the club.
Okay. Go for it! Start a business in Kansas. I'm just some guy on the internet.
They probably wouldn't pay the $15B fine if they weren't allowed to sell cars in the U.S. anymore..
Nice![1] What happens when you quit and restart?

[1] No need to get personal, though :p
As feature sizes shrink it becomes much more difficult to create rad hardened integrated circuits. Modern DRAM just barely works at ground levels of background radiation, let alone what it would see in space.
All the income happiness data seems to stop shortly after 64k. Hardly evidence that there is no plateau.
This all sounds a bit paranoid to me.

Although I don't like all the spying that goes on either, I don't believe that there is a conspiracy to remove ADHD from the population. If ADHD or another personality disorder is helpful for some reason, eg for programmers, then it will remain.

As long as people can do their jobs well enough and better than someone without ADHD, the "powers that be" will allow them to remain.

Bosses aren't giving psychological diagnoses, they are simply monitoring that the battery hens are still laying enough eggs.
And also generates more upvotes.
If it's any consolation, Jira's issue blocking feature is pretty broken too.
Why use a hashmap vs the built in golang map?
No idea what "using big data" means. Would highly recommend against buzzwords for the sake of buzzwords.
>Strictly interpreted, the 3rd amendment prevents the government from being able to force homeowners to quarter soldiers. If you think about the real intent of the bill though, it's obvious that the mindset is "you are free to use your own house without government interference."

that's a real stretch. that would nullify all zoning ...
Airbnb is an unlimited well of bad PR. They need to start whacking people with a clue-stick.
What do you mean? Do you normally have pages and pages of pull requests at one time?
Poll Finds Opening for Third-Party Candidates as Clinton, Trump Remain Unpopular
Perhaps you could elaborate. The site already has a decent responsive mobile interface.
Handling TCP connections in Elixir
in racing I've heard this referred to as "unsprung weight" or mass. Makes it a little easier to find more information if you're interested.
Maybe? But then again, the 2nd amendment doesn't allow nuclear weapons, as interpreted by the Supreme Court.

Would be easy to interpret it as, the right to use residential properties for lodging purposes (hotel, apartments, B&Bs) cannot be violated, without letting you set up industrial operations.
An easy way to see _all_ contributors of a repo, not limited to the top 100.
I think the 3rd amendment is about as clear as it gets. Unlikely.