skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What keeps this going is that each VC thinks they're better than average. Most of them are wrong."

Only some have this belief and only some of those are wrong, but it isn't what 'keeps VCs going' generally. That would be the high pay and our prestige culture.

As to the point about interest rates, you may be correct, but for the conclusion to follow we need an account of why capital makes yield chasing more aggressive in the private vs public markets. With public markets on all-time highs, cost of capital there doesn't look historically expensive. I suspect that you are correct about rates distorting the private market but for different reasons.

Source: am a vc, am professionally obligated to speak with vcs.
It's not that users are being tricked, it's that it doesn't deserve to be called "free internet". And if the happy ending here is getting a "social package", and still no real internet access, that's not great either.

Limited text-only access can be a great hook without restricting it to a particular site or tiny set of sites.
To elaborate - we measure the price of the big mac, but put no price a) finding the big mac b) finding the cheapest bigmac (both of a and b are easier, but there is no way for the McBurger chain to capture the value of this) c) discovering bigmacs are actually bad for you, abstaining from them and saving a ton in healthcare costs later on, and also living longer (thus, consuming and producing more over ones lifespan).
Twitter experiencing serious problems
Wouldn't this give Facebook indirect control over your server? If Facebook wanted to they could just ban your account. Or change your password. Also it is far more likely that a hacker is going to gain access to your Facebook account over well protected SSH.
I tried to read this book but never quite understood it. What's it really about?
So let's correct your statement:

1. Every Mac since the early 90s has had support for color management

2. Most people doing serious color work have to buy a more expensive, professional-quality display – as has long been the case on every platform. This was a staple of reviews for printing, photography, scientific/medical imaging, etc. publications, along with comparing color calibration devices, and a big reason why CRTs persisted longer those fields than the general market.
I can't patch stuff unless Binary Ninja works, and I can't get it to work unless I can patch stuff! :(

I'm afraid I'm not knowledgeable enough to do it by hand. I can make a jump always fail by setting the instructions to NOPs, but I can't recalculate offsets and things required to turn a jne into a jmp...
I've given On Intelligence and The Alchemist as gifts.
I am having this same problem does anyone have an idea as to whats happening? They cant trace an email address or username and its saying there is no account with my username?
Once all the robots take over we'll probably need Universal Basic Income https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
> UBI

> sitting around

choose one
Maverick, by Richardo Semler. I must have given away a dozen of this book to various people. Very inspiring if you are looking to build an organisation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maverick_(book)
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2011/12/four-futures/

Take your pick, or interpolate between them.
> It is not a good idea or polite to only speak one language thinking that people should talk your language because it is "universal", which usually means your country has intelligent nuclear weapons and drones that can draw any other country on their knees(or so you believe).

What's not polite is being prejudiced against an entire continent of people you've never met. If I happen to ask whether you speak English, I'm probably just trying to find the cheese aisle.
So I guess it will integrate well with uvloop http://magic.io/blog/uvloop-blazing-fast-python-networking/ ? (which is lacking an http parser :) )

May I dream that this + uvloop + asyncpg [0] and we can start to have something to build simple web services à la tornado that leverage python3.5?

[0] http://magic.io/blog/asyncpg-1m-rows-from-postgres-to-python...
Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman is amazing.
I am the author of one such library for the problem of writing parsers (particularly for binary protocols). The declaration of the protocol structures are separate from anything involving I/O. Not trying to push it too hard but it is one approach: https://github.com/digidotcom/python-suitcase

There is also Construct which has a different syntax but is similar in many ways: http://construct.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

Both suitcase/construct are definitely better suited for parsing binary protocols -- In my line of work, that limitation hasn't been a deal breaker. With suitcase, at least, I haven't done much work to optimize performance (mostly because if I cared, I wouldn't be using Python).
Optimizing the Home Assistant mobile web app
Thanks Jason. Amiga Emulation is still a PITA, and hopefully this makes it a little bit easier to play the many classic games that the Amiga played host to. Or just use Ultimate SoundTracker :-D.
> work for a US or Israeli company

Why an Israeli company? I assume you mention the US because of the salary in SF and other tech hubs, but it doesn't seem to be comparable in Israel, nor higher than in cities like London, Berlin or Stockholm.
Yes, many people will move to rural areas where a lack of competition for land will keep housing prices down. So BI will be good general welfare program for those rural lower-paced areas.

But if one wants much income beyond the BI, they'll still be lured cities for their economic opportunities. Housing competition will still exist there, and thus we'd expect housing prices to stay in line with what people can afford by rising. So the economic divide between the rural poor and urban rat racers will actually increase.

I think much the interest in BI comes from urban rat racers frustrated with making rent, wishing for a relief from that pressure so they could take time off. But simplistically adding money to the situation will have the opposite effect of what they want, just as how college loans fucked up college tuition.
Cookin' with Coolio
Very cool. Coincidentally, I watched this fascinating talk by Suzanne Simard only yesterday, on how trees 'talk' to each other... http://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_simard_how_trees_talk_to_ea...
Great write-up, esp on the T&C's. I actually avoid auto-pay and paperless billing most places because of funny things in the T&C that sound worse than default rights/expectations I learned in business law a long time ago. Knowing their lawyers wrote it, I'm sure it wasn't there for my benefit. No thanks. ;)
"Make you contacts count", to a couple of cousins who will start working soon.
Instead of waiting for climate heroes, let's look in the mirror
Poor people do not have more children because of "boredom." They have more children because they are less educated and because of higher infant mortality rates.
The way I deal with the lack of focus was to simply stop reading HN, /r/programming or any programming blogs for about six months. I just focused on working with the tools I knew and stuck with them, whether they were the best or not. I wasn't constantly distracted by new shiny stuff, wondering "Should I have used X instead?" It gave me a lot more confidence as a programmer. Instead of wondering whether some framework or tool would solve my problem, I remembered that I can solve those problems myself. That's what programming is. It's not just plugging frameworks together. It's actually solving problems with your brain, and that's the fun part. After that experience, I can follow tech developments with a lot more detachment. I'll sometimes get into things that genuinely look to solve a problem I'm hitting, but I don't feel any compulsion to use the latest, bestest stuff. And I enjoy programming much more than I had been.
It depends on the module and the car. Some cars power the ODBII port all the time. Some dongles are smart enough to stop drawing power. I had cheap Bluetooth dongle that drained battery a couple of times when left plugged in for week. Better one doesn't cause any problems.
Intelligence isn't equally handed out. Especially the analytical kind required of engineers/programmers. Not everyone can do those jobs. As the market price for the truck-driver demographic declines, new sectors will be able to afford to hire them, but they largely won't become engineers.
One thing I would take issue with that was mentioned in the article is that I don't think 'data analyst' is a very good title for getting a next job. I was a 'data analyst' (though it was really a software engineering position) for a year and a half and got very little interest in my resume until I got 2 more years of software engineering experience and changed the job title on LinkedIn to be Software Engineer (Data Analyst).

Recruiters rely on keywords extensively, and hiring managers do, too, to an extent. "Data analyst" is not a keyword that opens doors. Use "software engineer" or "data scientist" if they are applicable.
That has been changing over time. Traditionally there was a bias towards the classic french style restaurant for exactly that reason. As dining trends have changed over time there's been a push to focus more on just the food.
Can you explain why those are contradictory?

Surely some people will opt to not have a job at all, if they didn't need to worry about maintaining a minimum quality of life and that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Yes, but that's because you cherry-picked the decade with the lowest return.

Over the past 50 years, the average return on investment for 10 year periods has been [1]

1956 - 1966 9.21%
1957 - 1967 12.81%
1958 - 1968 9.91%
1959 - 1969 7.74%
1960 - 1970 8.08%
1961 - 1971 6.97%
1962 - 1972 9.83%
1963 - 1973 5.97%
1964 - 1974 1.29%
1965 - 1975 3.31%
1966 - 1976 6.66%
1967 - 1977 3.65%
1968 - 1978 3.24%
1969 - 1979 5.92%
1970 - 1980 8.50%
1971 - 1981 6.55%
1972 - 1982 6.70%
1973 - 1983 10.56%
1974 - 1984 14.61%
1975 - 1985 14.12%
1976 - 1986 13.62%
1977 - 1987 15.09%
1978 - 1988 16.13%
1979 - 1989 17.34%
1980 - 1990 13.80%
1981 - 1991 17.41%
1982 - 1992 16.08%
1983 - 1993 14.85%
1984 - 1994 14.32%
1985 - 1995 14.83%
1986 - 1996 15.23%
1987 - 1997 17.90%
1988 - 1998 19.04%
1989 - 1999 18.05%
1990 - 2000 17.30%
1991 - 2001 12.81%
1992 - 2002 9.26%
1993 - 2003 10.96%
1994 - 2004 11.95%
1995 - 2005 8.98%
1996 - 2006 8.33%
1997 - 2007 5.84%
1998 - 2008 -1.36%
1999 - 2009 -0.95%
2000 - 2010 1.38%
2001 - 2011 2.88%
2002 - 2012 7.03%
2003 - 2013 7.34%
2004 - 2014 7.61%
2005 - 2015 7.25%

So yes, you historically could just invest money in the stock market and get rich, and you will probably continue to be able to do so.

[1] http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/...
The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley
I am pretty sure that is the way business has always been. JD Rockefeller didn't get rich playing nice.
Books by David Mitchell. Possibly the finest modern literature author alive.
Can confirm this issue, my browser ended up download an text/html 404 response.
You want to make your way in the Computer Science field? Simple. Calculate rough time of amnesia (hell, 10 years is plenty, probably 10 months is plenty), go to the dusty archives, dig out something fun, and go for it. It’s worked for many people, and it can work for you.

Ron Minnich
Yes, Java is a superior dev env. And then some says something like "We need DI aspects with our annotated IoC!"

Spring (and others) is an exception (stack trace) obfuscation framework.
BS in Statistics? If you don't have one you are very likely not a data SCIENTIST. You will be data guy.

I know that some meteorologist have used normality in forcasting. This is an example of why you cannot become a data SCIENTIST. Another example; applying regression to your data. If you think that regression is as simple as its formula then you need at least 4 years to understand what I mean.
Economically, the main advantage of automating is paying less for the same.

So, if there were the same need for engineers than for truck drivers, even in aggregate, automation would be a lot less compelling.

Putting it more straightforwardly:100 engineers in California can automate several hundred thousands of jobs in the whole country.
I am a cyclist and you hate me
Diaries of Holocaust Architect Heinrich Himmler Discovered in Russia
Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking. I pay it forward.

Stopped smoking six years ago and haven't had the desire to start again since. it feels great.

I actually played the nintendo DS adaptation of the book, which was also available on ios for a while.

it turned all the points the book was trying to make into a series of minigames that really illustrated the principles beautifully.
The Elements of Style by Strunk and White. I've given it to just about everyone I've known who seriously wanted to be a writer, journalist, etc. as well as some folks who just wanted to write better. It's a small, beautiful, book about writing better. This is the book I've gifted the most.

Several scifi books have also been gifted to friends, mostly Asimov (both the Foundation and Robots series), Herbert's Dune, and Clarke's Rendezvous With Rama.

Also, gifted a copy of Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad, which is my favorite book about my favorite bands (and the American punk scene of the early 80s). The recipient was too young to remember the scene from that era, but was open to understanding why "punk" isn't so much a style of music, but an ethos.

Every book I've gifted is because I really love the book, and really like the person I'm giving it to.
Not rare. Wrestling with Maven and Spring pretty much dominates IT-style development.
I created a post that's more likely to get wider attention from the HN audience [1]. So far it's not clear to me what's happening, it doesn't look like there's any kind of ISP or geographic pattern. Just in case though, it would be helpful if you could share your approximate region and ISP.

[1] http://adrusi.com/twitter-experiencing-serious-issues-for-ce...
Just searched on google and found this page with exact same problem. Twitter find no account with my email or phone. What is happening?! :(
How does persistent state work with this? For example, what happens to my saved games? What if I update the image (for example to pick up a Steam update)? What will happen to those saved games?
There is no "Old Russian" language. You are talking about Old Church Slavonic language which is created by Saints Cyril and Methodius to translate Bible.

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

PS.

Quote from (English) Wikipedia:

The official language in Moscow and Novgorod, and later, in the growing Muscovy, was Church Slavonic, which evolved from Old Church Slavonic and remained the literary language for centuries, until the Petrine age, when its usage became limited to biblical and liturgical texts. Russian developed under a strong influence of Church Slavonic until the close of the 17th century; afterward the influence reversed, leading to corruption of liturgical texts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language
It's not inside a mall, it's in a hawker center, a complex that doesn't have traditional shopping and is literally many levels of nothing but small one-man eateries.

Saying that it's not "street food", I think, glosses over the context of what these things are in Singapore.

There was a concerted effort by the government at some point to bring what were "street food" stalls in the western sense into regulated hawker centers for hygienic reasons.

There's almost no "street food" in the western sense in Singapore, for a combination of that reason and the fact that it's bloddy hot outside. While Hawker centers usually don't have AC, they at least tend to have fans everywhere, which makes it a bit more tolerable than eating food outside in the street.

It is street food in the sense that it's all really cheap food that's prepared almost instantly, you can eat it in a hurry, and the Hawker centers are all in major thoroughfares.
I don't know about the US, but here in Australia, truck driving is an "old man's job". The average age of a truck driver here is 47, apparently. Automated trucks probably won't get here in time to dovetail with the natural retirement of these drivers...
Looks like the stars are for the food and the forks and spoons are for everything else accoding to this anonymous inspector interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J2YpV2442w&t=3m42s
Cool jQuery plugin for notifications, prompts and confirmations
The 48 Laws of Power
Yeah, I've been thinking lately as well, why are we doing that? I mean as a society? (I recall a phrase said by someone, that we are consciously building a future nobody wants to live in.) What exactly are we getting from that?

Ultra-rich, namely car companies owners and shareholders, will become even more rich. (Why are they doing it, by the way, don't they have enough super-cars, mansions, yachts already?)

What am I getting from it? Basic goods will become 7% cheaper? Who needs that? I am happy with current prices.

And then dozens if not hundreds of millions people worldwide will lose their jobs and even more the very means for their existence. What will be the impact on their families, communities?

I may be terribly wrong but it seems like yet another round of value extraction by a small cohort of ultra-rich from general society.

There are technologies that are genuinely useful, like space exploration, scientific projects, disease fighting, urban development, planetary computer network, and so on.

And there are "comfort gimmicks" like refined sugar (and sugary drinks), tobacco, toasters, etc. that produce effects from which people living consciously and healthy would want to get rid of. And that are propelled only by "economic factors". Which are a paperclip maximizer.
Having unique data is incredibly important if you are going to build a business around better data analysis. You can live without direct access to end customers, but without access to unique data you are just playing the game of my people are smarter than your people.
Yes that's a great book. I am still amazed how well it worked for me. I was a chain smoker smoking 40 cigs a day, and then I read the book and poof! I stopped for good.
New Microfluidic Chip Will Be Able to Replace Muscle-Nerve Connections
> I never felt like I have more bugs in dynamic typed languages. What I felt is that I don't have to waste time writing stuff like ArrayList<Whatever> when just something = {} works perfectly well in practice.

Java is a pretty terrible language when it comes to static types. If you have a language that allows you to work with types in a succinct and expressive way, you end up with a powerful modelling tool that can help you reason about and design programs. The side-effect of this is to have far less runtime crashes (you know what cases to check for, like nullable data), great documentation for your future self and your fellow devs, and a greater liberty to do large scale refactors without worrying about breaking things.
> Screw traditional investors, move to the “cloud”. We should be able to find better access to capital that isn’t looking for 12% returns. Can’t we find investors willing to get a 8% stable yield in a $1B+ fund diversified over hundreds of startups?

8% return means returning 2x in 10 years. The author /already told us/ that 85% of venture funds are unable to do even this. How will this "cloud" diversified fund do better than 85% of funds?
While I appreciate your sentiment and objectives, in this case we are talking about Singapore - one of the most affluent Asian cities. The standard of living, health, safety is probably better than most Western countries.

As other have pointed out, if awards like the Michelin one can provide recognition and support for actual third world countries, then it will start to make the difference you are looking for.

I eagerly await to see if we will see street vendors in places like Vietnam, Cambodia, Bali, Bangladesh etc. being nominated/winning stars.
Do Not Dollar-Cost-Average for More Than Twelve Months (1997)
Thinking about thinking.
Why didn't Seymour Papert's learning revolution happen?
| but it's worth reminding that the effective income tax for the lowest 20-40% of earners is negative

Can you explain why this is so? Interesting way to put it..
Is it? Say Google did not take the initiative. Would it be better that people have no internet whatsoever than to have Facebook for free? Moreover, it is each individual who should decide what is better for him, Facebook or nothing, not you nor their government.
Not to discount the efforts of this chef, but is it not possible that the organization called Michelin has done this in an attempt to stay relevant with the growing East-Asia market?

It kind of reads like a touch-your-heart story that will increase brand-presence of Michelin and the validity of their ratings of food.

Who knows though...
You're being downvoted but I do agree with the overall sentiment, people do underestimate data science not realising you have to be an expert of the field (statistics, ML, etc) in order to truly be a "scientist" otherwise, you'll get stuck on the first non-traditional problem you face.
Anything that reduces the number of trips by cars in the city reduces pollution. The downside of their approach is you increase the amount of travel time in car for anyone that makes a trip thus increasing pollution citywide for each trip on average.
Just checked your account. It is back up as is Kanye West's.
Each are edge cases and nothing which can't be fixed by further work.

>The concept that every driver can/will be replaced by an autodrive bot is naive.

The premise is that the driver aspect will be removed, the things you mentioned are not strictly what a driver does.
I'm sorry. It's just that I live in this communist country and get to experience the dysfunction daily. To me, communism just means ultra capatalism with censored Internet, so these jokes never make sense, even in the context of HN's rabid American-centrism.
Ahh... The sweet taste of the Amiga without the hell of UAE4All. Yes, it really is that bad. No, really.

Now, if we could get saves (prob. not happening), I could run Ultimate SoundTracker in the browser...
Obama administration releases redacted version of drone policy
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (Papert)

Since this was discussed here recently (in sad circumstances), I'll just say that everyone who might be involved with kids, either as an educator or parent needs to read this book. And it was great to read when I was a kid, too!
Mount volumes that correspond to save locations. The volume should be persistent so even if the image changes the data will remain.
Can you share your approximate geographic location, along with which ISP you use and your twitter handle?
That's true in the US and Asia, but not in Europe, where you will find that the majority of three star-rated places aren't in big cities to begin with.
>I think SPDY might be a workaround for a bit; it's still supported this year right?

No, Nginx dropped it (they only offer HTTP2 since 1.9.5) and Chrome dropped it from the client too this year IIRC.
Peopleware

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0321934113/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_1Y6P...
"At Home" by Bill Bryson.

"Quiet" by Susan Cain.

"Hackers" by Steven Levy.
It's about the thing it's about.
Engineers Create First Implantable Dust-Sized Wireless Sensors
Can you explain "more effective"? The 2016 Thinkpad X1 Carbon is significantly lighter than any MBP and still allows a user to replace the battery using a screwdriver - they are consumables after all.
You think he/she created an account 2.5 months ago in preparation for shilling when this link was posted?
Sure. I'm living in Turkey and my ISP is Turk Telekom.
> I don't get the obsession with notebooks. [...] For the <1% of time I am not working from my desk?

It turns out, many people spend much more than 1% of their time not working from their desk.
Misbehaving by Richard Thaler. It's like Thinking, Fast and Slow except more hilarious.