skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, I'm the linked PyCon speaker!

It'd be good to know what additional information you'd like on the "how". I think at a high level I addressed that in my talk, but if it didn't make it across or you needed more information I'd love to know what you need. Ideally I'll turn this into a blog post at some point so it'd be great to have an idea of what extra info is needed.
Ask HN: Where/how to meet co-founders?
Better said, How did you meet them?
I would rather pay $200 for a refurbished Thinkpad t420s and then $150 in SSD /RAM / wifi card upgrades than $750-1K for a brand new laptop.

My last Mac Mini went 4 years before I upgraded to the current model, and honestly there's not a lot of performance difference between the two, at least for my use cases.
It was worse than insulting, it would have limited the people using it, to the small list of sites (compared to the whole Internet) decided by others. It's like saying to someone: here's a free communication mechanism, you can only use it to access services run by us ... and in the process, be made to view our ads willy-nilly. For Internet newbies, it also has the side effect, that many of them might not even get to know (for a while, or ever) that other / better sites existed.
Ancient Chinese Megaflood May Be Fact, Not Fiction
It would be interesting to analyze central bank interest rate vs inflation and test for R2 r-squared errors.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-05/central-bank-death-...

https://www.imf.org/external/np/pp/eng/2013/041813a.pdf

There might be diminishing return for every new credit money created which in turn leads to lower growth.

It is also not certain that low interest rates will lead to inflation. If you were a big company and suddenly got a lot of cheap credit. Would you A) increase the wages of your workers or B) invest in cheaper production through automation? What does choice A) or B) yield for consumer prices, do they go up or down?
Interesting statement in the article: "Though modern science finds minute variations in the speed of light in a vacuum or empty space..." I thought that this was a largely discredited hypothesis - is there more recent research in this area?
No nExcel ? The whole Office Suite is available on MAC since at least a decade.
"Mac mini? Coming up on 2 years without an update. And we lost the quad core options."

Also, they dramatically reduced its utility by removing the optical drive.

It is stupefying that you cannot buy a mac mini with an optical drive. It's ridiculous. It takes most of the interesting use-cases off the table and makes many other use-cases a pain in the ass.

I would have kept buying mac minis, continuously, every 3-4 years, forever. Instead, I bought two of the fastest/latest ones with optical drive and that's all I'll ever have.
> Driving in and having to explain yourself at the reception is another story.

I wonder if the paramedics do some of the work and notetaking a triage nurse would do in a crowded ER. They certainly have a lot of that stuff ready to hand off when they roll into the ER.

It's odd, in a way. In the area I live the hospitals typically say that walk-ins get the same level of priority in the triage process as patients driven in by EMS but no one who is not employed by a hospital's PR department would agree with that.
You totally don't have to be stupid to believe completely insane stuff. Though they can employ logic, brains aren't logical; from what I've read and observed, it seems a person's response to new information is a function of how well that information fits into their existing belief structures with modification by their emotional state.

I'm not interested enough in the flat earthers to have looked into what keeps them in their beliefs. However, thanks to someone's comment in a cognitive dissonance thread here a few months ago, I do have a deep personal interest in doomsday cults. Turns out people of all backgrounds can believe the craziest shit if they were groomed to believe it from birth, or if believing the crazy shit is easier than believing that the majority of your information intake has been straight lies, or if your entire social network is predicated on believing.

The only thing someone being a flat earther tells you is that at some point, their cognitive biases catastrophically failed them. There's a whole world of phenomena that could be the cause.
Do you have this SO post?
> I think it has been the business model from the beginning.

The delivery business might have been their plan and ambition from day one, but their business model right now is taxi supply/demand matching.

> Having a multinational, on the ground door-to-door delivery service really is a moat.

What? I said that they don't have a large moat now, I wasn't talking about a hypothetical future.

> But the only way the money that have raised makes any sense to me is if they do have some kind of defensible advantage, and I could see it working for them in the logistics market.

No, they raised that money to build this advantage, they don't have it yet. Their investors gave them money in the hopes of getting in on the next Google. They might succeed, but it's anything but certain.
or SQL for that matter.
Same same, but different.
It would definitely be quite a bit harder, but all of those languages will have had some degree of Latin and Romance borrowing so they'll still confer at least a little benefit.
I am a mother of two sons. I raised them with the idea that affection required mutual consent. I was very big on that. At some point, I stopped worrying they would accidentally commit date rape due to a tragic misunderstanding. I also stopped worrying they would be molested or otherwise taken advantage of.

I have heard that where the English Bible says "The meek shall inherent the earth," the French says " The nonchalant shall inherit the earth." I prefer the French version. If you have clear and healthy boundaries, you can sidestep a lot of unhealthy expectations with little to no drama.

I was a full time mom for a long time. I cannot imagine writing a letter to my sons. I raised them. I know they got the memo. I don't need to leave something in writing of this sort.
But as an author of the Slovianski pan-Slavic language, I don't feel like this is a bad thing. Everyone who contributes on the forum has their own dialect:

http://s8.zetaboards.com/Slovianski/forum/38184/

I prefer merging y and i, for example (although I don't always follow it myself, I experiment a lot)
Why is it hypocritical? As you say, a lot of Indians do like to work abroad, and someone who has accomplished the very best of that particular ambition would definitely be of much interest to the Indian public.
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Interesting! Great find on the selective inference, I should have known to look. Tucking this away for when it is needed.
What about the FAQ on the linked page? They seem to have highlighted what changed.
I really want the GPU performance, my mid-2014 MBP can only output to a 4k monitor @30hz
While this is true mathematically, I prefer to think about the opportunity cost of not having a UBI. I (like perhaps many people on HN) basically wasted my 20s trying to make rent while I worked on my shareware game company. I basically failed at that and all of that code went obsolete before it earned me income.

Had I had a relatively small UBI of perhaps $12,000 per year, I could have met expenses long enough to get ahead of the curve. I wouldn't have spent that time burned out and getting sucked into dead end $20,000 per year jobs that took all of my time and energy.

So for me, not having a UBI and throwing away a rather prolific 20 something probably cost the US GDP growth whatever my business might have contributed for a decade, say whatever a typical game developer salary might be (perhaps $60k/yr), call it $600,000. That could easily be 2, 4, 10 times that much if we grew enough to hire other employees.

By not investing in the workforce like the country did with public works before the information age started in 1980, my generation (gen x) lost out on at least a 5x rate of return. My struggles happened just before Prosper and Kickstarter got big, so I ran up staggering credit card debt. Had we chosen a more progressive route, even at a 20% tax rate I would have paid the government back what it paid me, with the bonus of life sucking a whole lot less.

I think a UBI might be one of the few things that can raise the 10% startup success rate because it attacks burn rate directly. It would also allow startups to focus on things more meaningful than video games and social media apps because it wouldn’t just be about trying to get enough F.U. money to get left alone anymore. I had always planned to save enough to be able to work on AI and alternative energy, and now with consistent hard work I have a chance of doing it, but with a middle aged realism that is just not helping my motivation. To be 20 again and told “go do all the things” is one of my deepest wishes and I hope it happens for future generations.
Doctors have to evaluate what patients say, too, and they're forgetful or clueless at least as often as anyone else. If the cost-benefit analysis favors having Watson (or whatever) around, great, if not, great, just another decision to make.
With Pidgin you can use many protocols, including ICQ or almost forgotten XMPP that's still not that bad choice (in combination with OTR). Aim of this discussion is which protocol gives the best chances for secure and private communication with E2EE.

Would be cool to see Web client for Signal that do not depends on Android app.
Seems to work fine for -1:

f(-1, -1)
= sum_{n=0}^b 2^n (floor(-1/2^n) mod 2) (floor(-1/2^n) mod 2)
= sum_{n=0}^b 2^n * 1 * 1
= 1 + 10 + 100 + 1000 + ... [in binary]
= ...11111 [in the 2-adics]
= -1
SSH with Facebook Auth
This is very true its destructive to the environment to just be zombie consumers buying more "stuff". If you would be given carbon emissions as a currency and then you could choose to spend it. Products may be different. A long lasting product would be cheap and a short lasting product would be expensive.
yes, you are correct. drawing from the example in the README you could 'delete' "bounjour" assuming it had the same fingerprint as "buongiorno", subsequent lookups for "buongiorno" would thereby return negatives (assuming it was entered only once). the original research paper makes no explicit guarantees of no false negatives, the invariant can only be maintained if prior to deletion of an element it is ensured that the element is definitely in the filter (e.g., based on records on external storage).
right, but there's a reason we run clinical trials before accepting that something is superior to standard of care. It is really, really hard to manipulate a preregistered clinical trial (not that people don't try) and incredibly easy to manipulate train/test/validate results.
Well, enterprise environments are in many cases are not early adopters. They may need to comply with different standards, policies or guidelines that make technology adoption slower.

There might be a division in your company dealing with newer technologies. You can try to switch there, or try to join a startup that is more akin to your technology preferences.

Regardless of what you prefer, I strongly suggest that you join a meetup (see meetup.com) that is related to your interests. You will be learning new things and connecting with people that share your interests. If you lack the time, hang out in IRC channels and join interesting conversations.
A very vague comment but here goes: IIRC Italy is a pretty significant partner in ESA projects, maybe there are some interesting challenges in that space?
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Or even car rental companies themselves could be strong competition. They already have fleet management skills that uber lacks completely.
Sorry, I meant to say US/Tech media. Most of them re-wrote what Facebook told them.
I already gave really good examples. Repaving roads that are still viable through regular maintenance.

There are plenty of examples and most have to do with encouraging the replacement of goods that normally would still be considered useful. For instance all the cars that were crushed for cash, with the only requirement being they were still fully functional.

[EDIT] Keep in mind, inflation, a tax on all wealth, was being used to destroy wealth, in the interest in spurring further economic growth. It just so works out that industries and corporations closely aligned with politicians were the economic winners. Shocking, right?
I think that's a tempting conclusion to draw, but it's not quite right. The standard interfaces of Go reduce the pain, but the design principle ("Don't do I/O in parser or state machines") remains solid.

The reason for this is basically that I/O and protocol logic are separate concerns, and whenever they start influencing each other too much they impose costs on each other.

The best example is actually testing. If your protocol code includes calls to Golang's `Reader`/`Writer` interface methods, it causes a few problems.

The easiest thing to see is that it causes testing problems. For example, for each call to `Reader`/`Writer` methods, in addition to testing all possible reads/writes (a protocol concern), you need to test all possible I/O failures (timeouts, closed connections, weird kernel problems) in order to actually cover the complete failure space.

However, if your code doesn't have reads/writes mixed in with protocol logic, your testing scenarios are much easier. Bytes just come in and go out. Reading/writing problems aren't an issue.

This is just basic separation of concerns stuff, but it really does help, even in languages with "blessed" I/O mechanisms.
thanks! It seems obvious now that you point it out, but that's how most good ideas work :-)
I've heard it claimed that there's an analogous verb volapuki 'to babble, talk nonsense' (but never seen someone use it).
Thanks

> I assume that trhway is from Russia.

I have given up on categorizing trhway :-)

> It is law in Russia.

OK, I see. I only googled in English which might explain the lack of results. (The closest thing I found was that there was no possibility of appeal for the convicted.) Still a bit confused as to why Russians would create a law about the results of the Nuremberg trials.
This comment made me laugh, but the sentiment is actually painfully accurate. There is an actual term for it: 'Jugaad' [0]; resourcefully making use of anything available to get what you want.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad
Does that make any of what he said less true?
> You don't even need to take your hands too far away from your keyboard position to use it.

But that's still the crux of the problem. The advantage of a trackpad under the space bar is you can manipulate it with your thumbs without moving your hands off the keyboard. Best (for me) is a keyboard-only interface, but if I have to use a mouse the trackpad is the closest to keyboard-only that I can get.
Oh, you might be surprised
So I'm trying to play music from "Turrican" because the Chris Huelsbeck sound is awesome:

https://archive.org/details/Turrican_Musicdisk_19xx_Andromed...

How does that work? I don't get any sound. I don't know what to do. I can select items in the upper menu by click, but I can't get anything else done.

Clicking on the audio button (which shows disabled audio) shows a popup "This button only works once the emulation is running" - well, it is running.

"Fullscreen view" does not do anything either by the way.
That would be an amazing thing to emulate. We still have to work on printer support for DosBox though.
The Tesla would have stopped on the road itself, with hazard lights on.
Well, that depends on the dose, doesn't it?
> I don't think there is much controversy here, and the community recognizes the importance of adopting this language change (I read through the RFC and don't remember anyone against it, just differences on the scope of its meaning).

I'd read through it again. I see various people raising fundamental objections to adding the ? syntax for at least the following reasons:

- Not visually distinctive enough (easy to miss)

- Too visually distinctive (noisy, ugly)

- Unnecessary, try! is fine

- Prevents using the ? symbol for something else

- Should have a normal exception system instead (i.e. early return is implied on every call)

- Should have monadic bind syntax instead, like Haskell's do

Which is fine; when you invite everyone to express their opinion, you get a /lot/ of opinions. There was still a pretty broad consensus in favor.

The RFC: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/243

(note for anyone using 'search in page': the issue page hides hundreds of comments in the middle unless you click a button, which even then only reveals 200 at a time; search for "not shown")
nah its biggest strength is to use as IMC for tissue sections ;-)

but yes, reading more carefully, I suppose you're right. Then again, orthogonal validation is not a bad thing.
Skylake supports HEVC (H.265) codec making it so much more battery efficient to encode and decode video [1]. Smaller battery consumption also means less heating issues, so that's what keeps me excited about "ultra modern" computers that none of the MBPs has.

[1] https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2015/12/11/codecs-are...
I doubt a Dell XPS will last longer. The problem with non-Apple laptops, with few (and expensive) exceptions, is the build quality.

It's 2016, people treat laptops like any common electronic household item, and the majority of non-Apple laptops, especially Dells, start to look pretty ragged after less than 2 years.

That's why MacBooks tend to have a decent resell value, whereas you cannot even give other old laptops away.
In addition to the other good observations..."quarterly capitalism" has reduced risk appetite.

Furthermore, we live in a very regulated world. Rules can be beneficial but tend to also slow progress
If you are serious about making your own programming language, I would strongly suggest to target the LLVM.
I don't know if this is that link, but it fits the bill:

http://testyourvocab.com/

It gave me 36,800

I'm encouraged that there are more words for me to learn
The posting guidelines to not limit NH to discussions of technology.

"Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
I have tried to comment on this several times but cannot say what I mean : my last try...

This is a fairly big deal for me - not because Michelin awarded a street vendor a star. I don't think this is a stunt, Singapore has sufficient vibrancy in this market that someone was going to be worth a star once they started looking.

No this is a big deal because of the golden future of humankind. Somehow it's possible for all humans to live safe middle class low energy democratic not in a war zone lives. It's a 5% chance maybe.

But it means that to do it we need to raise the lives and lifestyle "bottom" billions. This is the goal of the UN millennium goals and their new follow on work, and it is worthy - and this award, while not really about the poorest of the world, is about how we are spreading the wealth, spreading the capability. A street vendor has the supply chain, the training the market to cook Michelin starred food. This is a tiny tiny hint that we can do it - We can pull everyone up to the golden future

I know there are a million objections to this - but to bastardise William Gibson, the golden future is here, it's just unevenly distributed.
Summary: "Bloomberg Beta tends to ask two questions of its potential investments: 1) Do you have access to your own user? 2) Do you have access to a data set that's yours?"

Business today: can you cut off their air supply, or can they cut off your air supply?
The sun setting at different times depending on longitude seems to be a pretty obvious hole in the theory. I'm curious how the flat earthers justify that, although not curious enough to actually research it.

You don't even need to go around the world... just call an East-coast friend from the West coast a couple of hours before sunset... "hey is it night there?" "yep" "OK, the world must be round then!"
Machine learning and unintended consequences
The end of globalization: international security implications
Food, clothing, and shelter?
> It’s worth noting that instruments were being tuned to this scale well before the invention of logarithms. I assume it was done by ear or perhaps by geometry, not by algebra.

Well temperament wasn't known before 1681, there were predecessors that came close but none used the the twelfth root of two.
Logarithms were introduced by John Napier in 1614 [1], the twelfth root of two
was first calculated by Marin Mersenne in 1636 [2], well temperament was introduced by Werckmeister 1681 [3].

> Around 1600 Simon Stevin did attempt to calculate numerical values for the pitch intervals by decomposing 12th roots into combinations of square and cube roots; his results were not flawless.

He had the right idea but not the right math.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Napier

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_root_of_two

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_temperament
While it's true that centralization does have its problems (nobody wants a Soviet style system), I feel that you are conflating political issues with the original point, which was that giving out money is unnecessary if access to basic services is guaranteed. I do think that's an interesting point.

On the political side, since the Soviet system we have seen some incredibly effective centralized planning from China, who have an arguable 3000 year nominal history of political meritocracy and no democratic hangups. Also, we now have new options emerging through technology: direct, lower cost referendum-like voting on a broader range of issues being one.

Finally, "real money" is a very loaded phrase... just because a government guarantees a scrip does not make it any more real than, say, Bitcoin or human time. What drives fiscal systems, fundamentally, is the shared belief that a dollar acquired today can be useful if spent tomorrow. If you look at the key properties of money - ie. medium of exchange, unit of account, and store of value - then what the centralized, universal access to basic services proposal removes is all three properties of the handout: exchange, accounting, and storage.

What are the impacts here? Exchange: people are properly accounted for by the government when seeking services and cannot ask for things they do not use personally. (This could be seen as positive, but could also be seen as negative if the government is particularly inefficient at scheduling the supply of services.) Unit of account: There is no need to account monetarily for services that are provided, instead they are simply recorded has having been provided and the supply-side costs (medicine, food ingredients, etc.) are accounted for as standard. Storage: Society as a whole has an interest in allocating efficiently the resources used in basic services (shelter/food/medicine/education) as this is cheaper overall and results in less wasted resources; allowing recipients to store and hoard these is probably not in society's interest.

Overall then, perhaps there are some positive points in avoiding executing UBI in terms of cash handouts, and instead focusing on services. Of course, the real gotcha is going to be transition and utility ... without major society-wide restructuring, the cash-based approach promises a far simpler path of transition.
That $600k of production is based on the idea that you would have worked at some point, and people would have consumed your work. That is very different from "let's all stop producing and consuming."
I think this might be more a reflection of the income disparity between the Indian and the Western market. People have a lot more disposable income in the West, which allows them to actually purchase the things being advertised.