skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's called chemistry and no, it usually does not start from apps and models, real life interaction instead.
Is there anything like reinsurance; e.g., VC firms cross-investing in each others' portfolios?
Interesting to see the scientific pursuits of someone I only know through music! Gentle Mystics is worth checking out -- it's a wild blend of some sort of alternative electro swing with influences of gypsy jazz, hip hop, and chiptune.

That said I think I personally prefer the solo work of Merlin's brother and bandmate Cosmo Sheldrake. You can certainly see the influence of biological science on his work as well, which includes songs about tardigrades and pelicans and moss. I'd recommend giving the Pelicans We EP [1] a listen; it's got some really varied and interesting influences as well.

[1] https://soundcloud.com/cosmosheldrake/sets/pelicans-we-ep
There was a huge controversy when Facebook announced free basics. Here is a good source if you want to know more,
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/02/12/466...
It is a standard I've heard from lots of people, it goes "How do I know if my breakthrough will be successful?" Answer, "When it has twice the performance and can be sold for only 10% more."

It speaks to the question of moving someone from a known good technology to an unknown technology. I believe the first place I heard it was in a talk by Geoffrey Moore on evaluating startups but since then I've heard it repeated again and again. What is more I've seen it in action (or inaction) where companies of "better" products which didn't move the price/performance needle enough, didn't get enough traction to succeed.
Why would you expect them or anyone to do that? Facebook is not a charity.
It's a linux install after the windows 10 fiasco. Probably my fault not to have the image viewer installed. And XFCE not to provide one, altough they are lightweiht so it makes sence.

Why did you assume the computer was old?

Edit: also mfw.jpg when HN answers are the same as 4chan
I had an early 2011 MBP from 2011-January 2016, worked fine.

I've since upgraded to whatever the latest model is, and I've donated my old MBP to my parents, who are happy to use it
Wrong, after differential pricing was banned, at least two Indian telecom operators began offering free Internet access (with a data cap and speed limit, but no restrictions on which websites you can visit).

Aircel is one, I forgot the other.
Three years is pretty long for a laptop that sees daily use. That's just the reality of having a physical device that you bring with you everywhere -- it gets beaten up. Also, don't forget that there are basically no user-replaceable parts left, including most importantly the battery. Three years of daily use is enough to significantly degrade batteries.

Meanwhile, most of the components in my desktop are older than three years, and it's doing just fine.
Were the employees who received MacBooks selected randomly/arbitrarily, or was it by request?

A pretty key point to consider, since people who prefer "non-standard" technology tend to be more tech-savvy users, who require less support.

I'm sure that Chrome users also call the help desk less frequently than people who use Internet Explorer (or Safari for that matter).
It's both isolated and largely residential. Not a lot of large stores, just a lot of University of Chicago buildings. It's the most isolated place in Chicago where white people are willing to live. Source: 40 years old, born in Chicago, live in Chicago, attended Ray School and Kenwood, sister taught at UofC, never had a driver's license.

Also, Chicago is a designed garden city, enforced by zoning. It's largely and intentionally built up of huge residential arrays of city blocks, a half mile to a side, separated by boulevards where all businesses are packed. So, if you live in the middle of one of these blocks, it's 10-15 minutes of walking to see any business. If taking away drivable areas were accompanied by changes that allowed businesses to be built within those areas, like corner stores, I guarantee that groceries wouldn't be a half-hour away.

edit: that's what I get for reading comments before the article. Chicago is perfect for superblocks. It pretty much has them already.
+ all the screenshots appear to be captured in an automated fashion. I browsed ~20 tiutles and havent found one correct screenshot, everything shows emulator window starting a game instead of actual game.
I don't think anyone is expecting them to ever release a 17" laptop again. Looks like you'll be putting Ubuntu on a Windows laptop whenever this one dies.
Not really but sort of. Counterfactual historiography at best represents a sort of "reproducibility" for historians. They can't conduct experiments on the past.

So, when someone asserts "Hitler caused Holocaust" some enterprising graduate student comes along and writes a thesis on Hitler's willing executioners and argues counterfactually that if Hitler wasn't there, Holocaust still happens.

That doesn't mean at all that Hitler did not cause Holocaust or that the "eliminationist antisemitism" German culture caused Holocaust. I wish you had chose a less value-laden example.
Virtual Reality: The big moneymaker
VCs are just doing the same investment strategy that record labels used to do... before file sharing decimated their mechanical royalty agreements. For every Britney Spears, you had 10+ other acts that could barely produce a break-even single. It's highly Pareto-driven.

Combine that with the fact that 2016 has only seen 7 tech IPOs...

And the fact that investment in sub-25M cap is dead thanks to Sarbane-Oxley/Basel III...

And GDP growth forecasts being cut by the IMF...

The only thing propping up the tech market right now is the fact that Apple, Microsoft and Google hold 23% of all U.S. corporate cash. Exit strategies pivot around whatever initiatives these three players choose, which means they, in essence, control the direction of tech innovation without having to acquire a single business. VCs will automatically organize their investments based on the acquisition habits of those three players in the hopes they get caught in the net as well.
That's a very aptly named PIE chart.
this looks like it-

http://www.walkingrandomly.com/?p=6187
Russians (Great Russians, Russish, русские, великоросы) were speaking their own native languages. For example, Putin is Uyghur. He is Russian and his native language is Russian, but Russian is not native language for Uyghurs.

The longer explanation:

There is three kinds of "Russians". Rus`, Rusyns, Russians.

Rus` lived at Baltic Sea. Rus` means "red". They were warriors, i.e. their life was to fight, trade, and collect taxes. Their native language is unknown (probably, Old Norse). At times of Great Epidemic, they left their city (now known as Old Russa, Старая Русса) and "concurred" South and started to govern it, so territory of current Ukraine got name "Rus`". Slavish colonists at these territories got name "Rusyns" (русины) (see below). At time of expansion of Rus`, North people was concurred and paid taxes to Rus` (Лаврентеевская летопись, ст 4. об. «А вот другие народы, дающие дань Руси: чудь, меря, весь, мурома, черемисы, мордва, пермь, печера, ямь, литва, зимигола, корсь, нарова, ливонцы, - эти говорят на своих языках, они - потомство Иафета, живущее в северных странах.»). They got name "Russish" (русские). This was time of "Great Rus`", so North Russians are also known as "Great Russians" (Великоросы), while South Russians (Slavs) are also known as "Little (Core) Russians" (Малоросы).

Summary:

* Rus` - possibly warriors union or Varangians, native language (probably): Old Norse.
* Rusyns (Ukrainians) - Slavish colonists governed by Rus`, native language: Slavish.
* Russish (Russians) - native Europeans, native language: many, probably Finno-Ugric and others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rus'_people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangians

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staraya_Russa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruthenia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rus'_%28name%29#From_Rus.27_to...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finno-Ugric_peoples

NOTE: -in, -yn, -an means "he/she" (modified "он" - "he"), -yny, -iny, -any, -ini, etc. - "they" (modified "они" - they) ("y" as in lynx). So Rysyn (русин) means "he is Rus`", Rysyny (русини) means "they are (people of) Rus`". Russians means "they are Russia", "россияне", but selfname of Russians is Russish ("русские").

Moreover, Russia is Greek name of Rus`, given by Catherine II (born in Prussia) to Moscovia, because Russia was used at West as name of past parts of Great Russia. Nikolai Kostomarov wrote something like "LOL, we are Russians now" at time of rename (ДЂло въ томъ, что названіе Руси укрЂпилось издревле за южнорусскимъ народомъ. Названіе не возникаетъ безъ факта. Нельзя навязать народу ни съ того, ни съ сего какое-нибудь имя. Это могло приходить въ голову только такимъ мудрецамъ, противъ которыхъ мы недавно писали (1) и которые намъ сообщили прекурьёзную новость, какъ Екатерина II, высочайшимъ повелЂніемъ, даровала Московскому народу имя Русскаго и запретила ему употреблять древнее свое имя — Московитяне.)
Ok, not great and definitely under protest (I guess I scream at the ceiling). At some point, we might need to go to Win 10 and a built PC for Adobe. Might be good training for a PC Hardware class.

Its one year closer to being EOL, plus Apple has been on a bit of a no software support for older models streak. The money needs to stretch as far as possible, we're not rich.
It's important, but the market share of Vim is roughly inverse porportional to how important it is.

Anyways, yeah, Radare isn't super usable. I'd guess I only understand 10% of it. And Radare2 is in active development, and wasn't totally ready for prime time, which is what I thought the usability comment was about.
Found a better link: https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/07/autopilot-in-tesla-model-x...
You guys & gals do such good work over there @ archive.org and don't get nearly enough credit. Thank you to the entire team, I have to imagine that it's one hell of an effort to do all the stuff that goes on at The Internet Archive. Please, please keep on doing what you do!
How long did the Mac Plus form factor (and 16 MHz 68k) stay on the market? Much longer than 4 years. ("Mac Classic" anyone?)
It seems that a potential solution to this, as various economists have proposed, is "helicopter money". In other words, have the central bank print money and distribute it to the people. The main criticism for this is that it is irreversible -- there would be no asset to balance the liability on the Fed's balance sheet. But this is an extremely simple problem to solve: monetize government debt. In that case, we would no longer call it "helicopter money", and recognize it for what it is: basic income. Despite all its flaws, basic income inspires a wide variety of Internet discussions about social justice and robots (as if automation is something that just started happening now, and not at the beginning of the 18th century) but ultimately it can be understood as a tool of monetary policy. And if you manage to hand people free money and yet the economy STILL doesn't grow, and inflation STILL doesn't rear it's head -- guess what? That's a GOOD thing. That's called... utopia. So maybe we should stop caring about GDP, and measure progress with a different metric: how much basic income can our country stably generate?
On a suspicion, I checked, and yes, this is the son of "morphic resonance" biologist Rupert Sheldrake.

I'd love to be a fly (agaric) on the wall at one of those family reunions!
https://caddyserver.com/ ! With Let's Encrypt built-in.
I bought my rMBP in late 2014. At the time, I just needed a laptop, Windows or otherwise as I mainly use Linux. Other than the rMBP, every laptop that I could physically get my hands on was flimsy junk. The keyboards flexed, that plastic around the screen flexed, the screen was not steady in the open position. Even my workstation (Lenovo w530) for work is a hunk of flimsy plastic. It's just crazy.

Maybe things are different now? Or maybe I didn't get my hands on some better ones, but how can companies sell so much junk?
Seems to me that it's not really beneficial for most small software publishers in that case. They can just use a variant of the script I posted above, I suppose.
Four ways AWS Lambda makes me happy
For casual and most technical users[0], Apple machines are still way ahead of the competition in all areas that matter: available software, quality of OS, build quality, portability, battery life...

Why should Apple mess with a good thing? The market supports selling the machines they have at the prices they ask. No need to spend NRE costs on new kit.

[0] Meaning Web devs, engineers, and scientists, most of whom can't stand Linux. The only thing that matters in software is the experience of the user.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12240380
p50 is 15" and that is acceptable (for me).
Windows seems to suffer from a Law of Conservation of Awesomeness. It's like they can't improve Windows in one area without making something else significantly worse.
Not a single computer sold by Apple meets the minimum spec for a VR experience, nor the next crop of AAA games.
What does that mean to the creative that used to prefer Macs for their content creation?
What does that do to the brand long term?
What do they (or you) mean by "real computer", just out of curiosity?
>criticism of this analysis is his wild overstatement of the benchmark return. Where in the world do you get 8% safely in equities and/or real estate?

I agree. It's true that most VC funds have poor returns but so do most hedge funds and most mutual funds. I don't know the success statistics offhand for private equity (Carlisle Group, Blackstone, etc)

How do VC funds compare to all other types of actively managed funds?

Even Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway "only" had returns of ~9.6% (not 12%) annualized return from 2005 to 2015[1] which stated that $1000 invested 10 years ago grew to $2496 (~2.5x).

[1]http://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-berkshire-hath...
If you don't work remotely, I suggest a Mac Pro. Mine has 64 GB of ram which is rarely not enough.
Is 'fast enough' worth it for an expensive laptop such as a MacBook Pro? I'm not sure.

Personally I'd really like to see more powerful GPUs in MacBooks...
To an extent, but IIRC it's pretty well documented that mending/repairing/making yourself was a lot more common in the first half of the 21st century. There's lots of popular writing from the era on how to make and mend things that no one but a dedicated hobbyist/maker would attempt today.
I just looked at some bargain basement Dell desktops and laptops (in the ~$400 range) because your comment made me curious. Both desktops and laptops come with Intel N3000-series processors, which were released last year.

So no, Dell isn't selling anything that is nearly as outdated as what Apple is selling, for substantially more money.
I'm not writing it. When I finally leave, I won't be back (all my family has long moved away) and it will probably take a bit to decompress. Not as much as the first time, but I had to deal with politicians then and I really don't think it helped my mental health. I still have a box of papers from that era and revisiting that for a book would not be a good thing.

I had questions answered by a local authority. Data breach would be interesting because it would go federal pretty quick.
El Capitan improves performance compared to Yosemite, just as Snow leopard improved on Leopard, but if you look into more than two generations of the OS the trend goes the other way.

I currently have two apple laptops, an old macbook that came with Tiger and use it to test beta versions of OSX. It's running El Capitan right now but is almost unusable.

My main computer is a rMBP that came with Lion. It worked better (faster, snappier) with Mountain Lion than it does with El Capitan.
Any person of Indian origin successful in west becomes local celebrity unless that person makes his dislike for India very public. India as a nation has very few contemporary role models to look up to so either they resort to mythology or look for successful PIO in west.
A movie, music, dance video combined as one?
Bloom filter would make sense here. Efficient way to tell the server what files you already have
Street food chef's stall becomes world's first to earn Michelin star
Imbusy.xyz
I have half a dozen desktop PCs from 2000-4 in use in my house. I had to update the graphics card, but a Core2-Dou at 3 GHz with a decent graphics card will run virtually every program in existence. Recently I went from 2.4GHz processor to 3GHz processors, 15 bucks on ebay ;-)

I don't get the obsession with notebooks. Why do I want to spend 4X the amount of money for something that last 4 years if I am lucky. For the <1% of time I am not working from my desk? In meeting I prefer people NOT to bring a notebook, this way they pay attention and I can get them out of the room and back to work faster.
or it could be the fact that you don't have to install an antivirus. I have a Dell at work and the company policy is to have mcAfee installed. It prevents a lot of stuff from working (need to use virtual box 4 for example)
Love it! Going to try it out!
A lot? A phase that doesn't have perspective... What about their families and general patriotism and kinship with their birthplace?
Another problem is that, as recently as May 2016, a brand-new 13" MacBook Pro from the Apple store is loaded with Yosemite. It's a totally crappy first-use experience to discover you are on an old version of the operating system.
Ah so just magically make money appear. Not by tax policy nor by fare hikes (which people certainly do protest against, wildly).
They want laptop or desktop form factor. "Those are real computers and I need a real computer for my work." Believe me, I was going to get the Carpentry class to build nice stands with monitors and keyboard holders. It would have been epic.

Surface might be close, and we haven't bought an iPad Pro yet.
Show HN: A visual way to screen for entry-level programmers
Do you really think they have pipelined stock that is over four years old? Wouldn't that represent a massive failure in many regards? It'd be interesting to see a disassembly of a Macbook purchased new today to find out when the components inside it were actually assembled.
I feel like this is happening a lot more recently. A great episode comes out on some podcast I'm listening to, then a slew of articles reiterating the same content comes out the following week. In a way, it feels like theft of someones hard work at researching a new topic.
Yes. New Thinkpads have CPUs two generations newer than lates rMBPs
Gave mine (iPad, not pro) to my dad. Wife had one, I guess it's in some drawer or something. We lost it in the house.

Never found a decent use case for the thing. Dad loves it though.
A bunch of closely related dialects, I suppose?

Russian is a bit like Sanskrit, a compilation of certain features of dialects spoken in different areas, so that the mix is mutually intelligible across them, without precisely matching any.
Here are a few exceptions

https://www.sqlite.org

https://github.com/antirez/redis
Why, though? Lifetimes are dictated by the physical processes that govern wear, and computers wear out fast: we pump a whole lot of electrons through them, and because we want them to be faster and faster have made them less and less fault tolerant under heavy load.

Make no mistake: ever since the AT/XT days the useful lifetime of a computer has been in the three year range because of the nature of matter and the physics we exploit to make digital circuits do what they need to do. Can you still use a 20 year old computer that runs Word Perfect 5 on MS-DOS 6.22 and isn't really made to do much more? Of course. And of course, you'll still be able to run OSX Panther on a 2005 MacMini for years to come, but you can't use those things for anything new or modern, you've created a little time machine that can only do what we wanted to do in 1985, or 1995, or 2005, instead of in 2015 (or soon enough, 2025).

Most of us want to use those new programs that rely on new algorithms that require the faster hardware, or old algorithms that massively benefit from faster hardware - we want spreadsheets to take less than seconds, not more than minutes, for ever-more complex work; we want games that run smoothly, not "not at all" or at 1 or 2 frames per second; we want our internet browser to start when we tell it to, not after a period of time that is long enough to wonder whether it even started at all.

Things all have lifetimes, and for computers that lifetime's about 3 years, and has been for decades. On the upside, computers are ships of Theseus: most of the time, we can just swap out broken parts for new parts, including faster parts, so really the lifetime of a single, unadulterated, intact computer is three years, but with a few hundred bucks every three years, we can keep pulling it back into the modern age until at some point nothing of the original remains - and the lifetime of THAT computer is much, much longer.
Free Basics isn't internet, it's a walled garden controlled by Facebook. Comparing what Google and Facebook are doing in India is comparing apples to oranges.
In Moscow, and other Soviet cities there are "superblocks" already. It's called "microraion" [1]. A huge block of apartment buildings with a ring of driveways around every building, and a lot of shared spaces like playgrounds and such.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdistrict
I currently use Github Pages and Jekyll. I did this because it was free and dead simple. At some point I'm thinking about moving it over to Amazon S3 because its cheap, highly scalable, and a good excuse to try out Amazon S3.
On the one hand, no matter how obscure one's beliefs are, the Internet enables us to find others who believe the same thing.

On the other hand, no matter how obscure an illness may be, the Internet enables us to find others who have the illness and may be able to provide help.

Among the billions of us connected and searching and sharing, the I surmise that the chances that there will be others who are also searching for the same thing are pretty close to 100%.
Trello and Asana are pretty good.
Because Docker is enough and it does its job well? :-)
No languages are pure, although some languages in modern times have official national bodies trying to keep them as 'pure' as possible (like French), they're still not 'pure' in any way.

But English is especially hybrid. Some think that contributed to it's global popularity as a second language, but I think it's probably more just a coincidence that England and then the U.S. were such global powers, and not related to characteristics of English.