skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> An actual end to mass violence and cruelty

People need to be more self sustained. We need technologies that will empower people and communities to rely on themselves and not depend on systems that are outside their control as much. I think that efficient agriculture in the hands of small communities, solar, 3d-printing, open sourced robotics and AI, open source and creative commons in general would help ease a lot of this tension. Violence comes from disenfranchisement and being socially marginalized, but if each community could stand on its own feet, this would be much less the case.

We need to reduce the gap between the super powerful and ordinary people to have a less polarized society, and I fear this will not happen through politics, but rather from technological empowerment. People are living today at a much higher standard than a century ago, and we have all seen the benefits of putting an internet enabled mobile phone in the hands of everyone - the things we could do today that we wouldn't have dreamed of 40 years ago... We just need to spread the benefits more evenly.
Well, cache doesn’t matter when the page is almost a quarter megabyte, but you have only a 64kib connection.

The majority of time spent will be on getting the 170kiB AMP lib.
Spring Boot Angular 2 starter 2.0.0 released (with docker support and live demo)
I know this is HN and all, but do we need to provide references, links, papers and medical proofs about every single statement? I dont think it would add much to the discussion.
The very strange writings of Putin's new chief of staff
The carburetor in your grandfather's car had close to that many parts, let alone the rest of the car.
"The end-to-end digital audio stack will allow for higher quality audio"

Highly unlikely. For starters, most people already use cheap earbuds which negate any advantage whatsoever.

Plus, environmental noise is practically irrelevant over the short distances of a headphone cable, so you're not gaining anything by going digital for the lat few feet.

In theory, headphone manufacturers could attach matched digital-audio converters (DACs) that take into account the headphones' characteristics, but in reality, I suspect blind A/B tests will reveal nobody can tell the difference.

The reality is the potential upside is meager, and the potential downside is huge.
I am very saddened to announce that I am quitting Tor
Atlanta did just that. Regardless of the higher poster who only considered a correctional facility but the village was always intended to be used by the local colleges for dorms and that is what happened. The stadiums were put to use by local professional teams the the Olympic Park area still remains mostly in use from the fountains to newly built areas. Even SLC's village went to schools.

People still keep downplaying just how isolated Lake Placid as compared to both where people are and where people want to be.
The Kardashian of Founders.
> Where should one draw the line?

Engage in self reflection and be honest with yourself, something I doubt Trump does.
Intel Licenses ARM Technology to Boost Foundry Business
As a programmer I always write code considering if a new guy wants to take over my code, he should be able to understand it and use my code with as little complication as possible. Things should be simple enough that when a new guy takes over your code he can be onboarded soon and doesn't have to ask someone to explain him the magic pattern or secret sauce to under teams code.
Whoops, it shouldn't be marked as a dupe—I've removed that. Unfortunately the later submission had the lion's share of the upvotes, so we had to pick it as the merge target.
This is true for pretty much every aspect of life though. I think massive success for an individual should already imply this.
I'm willing to bet no more than one in five of the commenters in this thread, when the dust eventually settles and the reply links disappear, will have managed to get the joke.
Interesting -- would love to compare one of these to e.g. Lambda. Would you mind sharing a link to one of these services?

Edit: Also, as a peer comment pointed out, Lambda (and the like) have other differences from traditional shared hosting as well. I'm not convinced Lambda is all that similar to the shared hosting I remember from the '90s.
I can see the seeds of Microsoft's failure in Ballmer's response to the iPhone question. He talks about how the device can "do email" and "do web". They were check off items. Apple didn't say "our device can do email" they said "you can get your mail wherever you are." They weren't the first to offer that by far but they talked about the customer: the end user.

Ballmer also talked about his customer: the enterprise CIOs (and for the phones, the carriers, not the end users).

Apart from the money-losing Xbox division I am not sure Microsoft really has ever had an end user orientation. Not surprisingly, given Ballmer's background, they are a 20th century industrial concern, more like a car company than anything else. That served them very well when the field was young and the companies that were computerizing needed all the help they could get -- and so were willing to be dictated to.

By the way I also liked the buffoonery of saying that they have a "respectable position" in the "high end" music player business. In another appearance he touted their strength in the "hard-disk based music player space." It reminded me of Steve Jobs claiming that NeXT was dominant in the "business workstation space". Let's define a niche and fill it...backwards!

(Ironically Zune did have a number of interesting features (dare I say "innovations") but the customer base was too smart to care about specs. By focusing on gimmicks they ignored the hard work of making a product that people actually wanted to use.
Say hi to Curse, the newest member of the Twitch family
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I don't know why Dropbox doesn't let me pay a few dollars a month. I don't need 1 TB but I would pay for 50 GB … there's no such offer.
>shifting from a few percent Spanish speaking to 1/4 in just three decades

Where are you getting that? The current percent of native Spanish speakers in the US is only about 13%, and the majority of them also speak English.

Immigration from Mexico has dropped off and the number of Americans of Hispanic descent who speak only English at home is rapidly increasing.

Virtually all immigrant children learn English in school, so it's very likely that the benefits of learning Spanish will decrease over time not increase. Historically the 3rd generation of US immigrants speak only English, and the current trends suggest that will happen with Hispanic immigrants as well.
Intel fabs to churn out 10nm ARM chips
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Using vim in 'noredraw' mode you don't need high refresh rate, 9600 baud is fine.

Well, I'd say even more - these days when usual attention span is like, I don't know, 5 seconds? having a device which is restrictive in this regard, might be a very positive experience.
> The core thought is that people trade up for comfort (including privacy), but that they lose out on the overall bonds with other people that are what really makes us happy.

The fundamental importance of high quality bonds with other people is something I wish was emphasised more.
The following TED talk describes a pretty interesting research experiment done over a long time frame which essentially comes to this conclusion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KkKuTCFvzI
Intel Demos Self-Contained VR Headset with Positional and Hand Tracking
power and privilege help too.
Highlights from DARPA's AI vs. AI CTF Hacking Challenge
Seeing how he behaved while getting to his success i don't think he should be idealized. I would rather listen to what Elon Musk has to say about future than Mark Zuckerberg.
Maybe I misinterpreted the title, but I thought this was going to be an article about the rise of case studies. Instead, this is a marketer's post (case study..) on how to better package them.

Also, if you happen to work for Sketchdeck, some transparency there would be nice. Your story history is full of Sketchdeck submissions.
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It's the local EUR price including VAT for the 1 TB subscription I guess.
Aussie cops reportedly hacked U.S. TOR users during child porn probe
DigitalOcean to begin charging for Snapshots
But don't you need a Google account to download the app on the Play Store?
BUT what about the psychological value of _feeling_ like you're getting a deal, even if you aren't actually getting one?

E.g. People from this research actually experience more pleasure when they believe a wine is expensive: http://time.com/money/3846874/expensive-price-tag-cheap-wine...

> “Expectations truly influence neurobiological responses,” write the authors.
> Immigration from Mexico has dropped off

Mostly due to the recent US economic downturn and the poor distribution of the returns of the subsequent aggregate expansion beyond the upper classes. That's probably not a durable trend unless the US economy continues to be miserable for all but the elites.
This probably says less about Venture Capital as it is practiced today (or, say, a few years ago) by sophisticated investors and large funds/endowments that can plow money into VC simply to meet some asset allocation / correlated return metric.

But it does have, I think, a lot to tell us about the role of startups in the larger economy in the medium term. For instance, it adds important data to discussions about crowdfunding.

Read the Kauffman paper posted on this thread, too: familiar conclusions in much more detail.
I work in an office. I could not be more isolated.
Same, seeing or reading about more misery never makes me happier, just worse. Watching happy things makes me happy. It's the only reason I watch a stupid show like Ballers on HBO or Bollywood movies. Not necessarily deep but they are happy and fun.
I find this to be a very sad comment.

Life, and love, is far more than an exercise in evolutionary psychology.
>I see. So you've completely transcended any desire for physical attractiveness? Impressive.

So you've transformed my argument into the ultimate straw-man? Impressive.

What I've said is that we are (and have been for millennia) far more nuanced that merely following evolutionary urges.

Even the "desire for physical attractiveness" that we have today has little to do with "big boobs, lots of fat, she will endure and raise healthy children among snow, animal predators, and scarcity of food", to the point that it's not even much relevant anymore.

There are people who like women with small breasts for example, contrary to naive evolutionary-instincts conceptions. And all kinds of sexual preferences, even down to kinks, that are are adopted by tens of millions, and don't have anything to do with revolutionary urges and instincts. Including, of course, being gay, lesbian, etc.

Heck, at this point, the movies and star system drive our sexual preferences towards appearance, etc, more than evolutionary instincts. Fashion too.

>Did I say anything about men or women in particular? I said its desirable to have a mate who can provide for offspring

And I said even that's not related to fancy cars and suits for the huge majority of people.
> I find it interesting that you think this about becoming an Olympian, but not about being mentally stable and happy.

Now hold on, you never said anything about mental state, we're talking about a healthy person choosing to be happy here (or at least I was). If you have depression or stress disorders or anything of that nature then yes, obviously more is required. The flip side of that: Someone who is otherwise in a fit mental state can choose to be happy in the way we've discussed.

> That's quite a caveat. Self-discipline is a fairly nebulous thing, how are you going to evaluate it? What is it chemically?

Why do we need to evaluate it?

> Why do some seem to have less and some more? At what point would you stop saying: "Just get more self-discipline" towards a problem?

I think a lot of it has to do with how you're raised and the values you're given in your developmental years, but like anything else it's something that's practiced and honed. I'm not perfect by any stretch, I have down days like anyone else.

As to when you stop, I feel like that's connected to this:

> This looks like a claim, but I'm not sure what you're supporting it with. Some people have very poor brains, where does that fit in in your hypothesis? Should this have been prefixed with "healthy, standard brain"? Because that cuts out a pretty big chunk of people.

And:

> Why is self-discipline not recommended for people with depression, anxiety, etc., if what you're saying is true?

Which yes, I am talking about otherwise mentally healthy people but I'd disagree with you that such a statement excludes a lot of people. I think a lot more people are what we would say are "normal" than not.

> The core question here is this: if it is all so available, and so straightforward, and open to everyone, and requires one to simply be human with a brain and nothing else, why is it, then, that nobody does it? Why do people choose to be unhappy, why do they choose to be fat?

Well speaking as someone who's also working on being way too fat for my own good, it's because that's what we're programmed to be. Growing up poor food is the only luxury you really have so every celebration, the good times, are built around big meals and as such I have an issue with comfort eating. It's getting better but just like cultivating happiness it's something that takes constant self policing. The nice thing is, the happiness went first, and that makes comfort eating less necessary by itself.

As has been said elsewhere in the thread, advertising, a huge part of all our lives is built on the idea of convincing people who otherwise wouldn't be aware of a product that they need that product to be happy. Is it such a logical leap that this constant barrage of messages would make people unhappy if they weren't consciously aware of the message and why it's being used that way?
Higher-order abstract syntax
Paradoxical Habits of Wildly Successful People
A screen grab of the notification email sent out can be seen here[0].

There seems to be no official announcement on the blog so the link here could be updated when that is released.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/POT1FjV.png
It's a way forward at least, sometimes things has to be done. It's a good way to keep legacy, and to cleanup code.
They block non US phones for now
You think we're not adapted to live longer because it takes us 60+ years to die after the only ~14 to become fertile? That seems like evidence of us being adapted to live longer. We are actually the longest-lived land mammal on the planet. So why on Earth would you conclude the opposite?
In this [1] Tim Ferris podcast Peter Thiel states about Zuckerberg (paraphrasing here): "the more time you spent with him the more you realise it is not luck."

[1]http://fourhourworkweek.com/2014/09/09/peter-thiel/
That's another way of saying you can reinforce delusion with money. It's only positive if it's right.
Ford unveils roadmap to full autonomy in five years
You're right, don't make a big war, but think of it as micro functions.

Also if you're going to use spring check out this guide. https://cloud.google.com/appengine/articles/spring_optimizat...

its relevant to aws lambda as well.
What’s new for designers, August 2016
There are a number of frameworks that should make migration between services pretty reasonable.

Check out Serverless https://github.com/serverless/serverless . It'll work for Lamba, google cloud, Azure, and IBM Whisk

If you look at AWS's own framework Chalice https://github.com/awslabs/chalice it basically has you import Chalice where you would otherwise import flask, making it fairly easy to switch to hosting yourself later if you want.
"It takes 4 seconds to generate a colliding 32bit key id on a GPU"

source: https://evil32.com/
Model S catches fire during promotional event
Love this, good work. Some suggestions (these are my own little quirks):

- (desktop) Zooming is on the cursor, rather than on the crosses at the center. Don't know if that's a maps thing or not. Kind of annoying to position location on the center, then zooming to where ever the cursor happened to be.

- would love it if it showed the duration of the day (HH:MM:SS) (in addition to the time of day for sunrise and sunset), and also the duration between {astronomical, nautical, civil} dawn and dusk.

All that being said, this is a really good app.
No not at all. However I want to build a specific product and would like to learn something new while doing so.
Consider the following: What type of world would ours be if everybody tortured cats for fun? Intuitively speaking, would that be a "good" world, or at least one that is more "moral" than our current one?

Morality itself may not be universal in the same way that protons and neutrons are - it's unlikely that CERN will ever find a fundamental particle that interacts with humans to produce moral behavior. That being said, it isn't necessarily impossible to conceive of a (universal, consistent, intuitive) code whose rules maximize some moral good[1] (whether that good is pleasure, longevity, number of M&Ms per capita, etc).

We can argue back and forth about whether moral goods are social or universal (I personally think that it depends on the moral good being considered), but neither option seems to detract from the core calculus of moral philosophy - whether or not someone ought to do something. If that fundamental question resonates with you, then you've just made a moral consideration. The trick then is to understand why you've made that consideration, whether or not it is a consistent one, and what first principles inspire it. If you think that question doesn't resonate with you, you might be an amoralist[2].

[1]: I apologize for re-using "good" here - I'm using it in the sense of resources, not the moral sense. In the context of (utilitarian) moral philosophy, moral goods are those resources that we ought to maximize.

[2]: Bernard Williams has written very extensively on amoralism, and particularly on the inconsistencies that amoralists must concede upon being presented with their own behavior. Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy and Morality: An Introduction to Ethics both contain great passages/chapters on amoralism and its inviability as a philosophical model.
If it takes 100 years for one man, it will only take a month for a company or community ... Some problems can't simply be fixed by one man alone. And it's better to own little of something then all of nothing ... Look at for example Elon Musk. He only owned like 5% of the companies he started once they where sold.
Also Facebook only had a few thousand users when Zuckerberg started to bring more people in to work on it.
> It's like trying to explain why you'd want an umbrella to someone on Arrakeen.

Or, in this case, like trying to explain distances in feet to a non-American. :)

Good thing there's units(1).
Got server load averages? how much ram is used?
Haha, happens to me every time. Seems like a Chrome problem on Mac.

Always need to kill coreaudio process before a call, just to be sure.
There's plenty of evidence in the links I posted for a large effect of high concentrations of circulating soy compounds in the body. I don't doubt that it is a non-issue for most people consuming normal amounts of soy. The issues I have, and they are not well studied, is 1) what do concentrations look like over long periods of normal-to-higher consumption of soy products(like long-term usage of Soylent, nearly 100% soy protein) 2) is there an additive or synergistic effect with other, stronger hormone and endocrine disrupting compounds like those found in some plastics and plasticizers, your exposure to which is effectively impossible to eliminate in modern life. Neither of those two are well studied, and I'd personally like to try and reduce my exposure to either situation.

Most people don't care, and that's fine, but there is evidence it could be a problem.

Edit: I'll also add that to be fair to Soylent, they use Soy Protein Isolate, which has drastically reduced levels of soy isoflavones compared to straight soy protein. That alone probably reduces any potential harm to near-zero, but I personally like to reduce my exposure as much as possible, so as long as there are alternatives that are equal or better(as there are with soy) I will reduce my exposure. YPRCMV(your personal risk calculation may vary).
Ask HN: What's the best way to do lighting in 2016?
Of all the areas where project hacking has exploded lately, it seems that lighting might be the one with the most new (or at least novel) options.

I'm working on a school bus, but I think this question applies equally well to a stationary home or small office.

Here are some options I'm considering:

* Digital LED strips. But what kind of micro-controller solution? Something strong, like a Raspberry Pi? Or something power-saving, like a NodeMCU?

* Analog LED strips?

* A propriety solution like the Hue?

* "Traditional" LED bulbs?

And then what of the nuances - what's the best way to achieve suitable lighting but without too much workspace glare?
He still could oversee it in non-profit organization. This is not an argument at all.
>All of these things except maybe Tom Waits are indicators of reproductive fitness. Why do you think your brain is structured to prefer these characteristics in a potential mate?

Why do you think different men/women have completely different preferences on those things? Except if "reproductive fitness" is subjective, which defeats the whole argument...

>Hardly. We've only had effective birth control for a few decades.

We've had romantic (and even platonic) love, annal sex, gay people, and tons of other things besides arranged marriages or fucking for reproduction since at least ancient Greece...

>What planet do you live on? In fact, billions of people have had children!

One or two or five. They've had sex 100s of times.
I enjoy cooking and baking but even I would say that the only argument needed for "outsourcing your entire meal prep and having food delivered to your house" is "I don't feel like doing it myself."

I'm not posting this just to be a jerk; rather, I think that too often we spend time trying to justify a behavior that is not at all damaging, but somehow seems "bad."

If you don't like doing X and you can afford to pay someone to do it, then go ahead, do so and get on with Life.
I haven't forgotten. Even today, creating dynamic apps in flex using xml and actionscript is easier, more performant and saner than using HTML5. If only the flash player wasn't a minefield of bugs and security vulnerabilities. :(
Other studies posted here have mentioned that LSD can increase activity in the brain that is similar to what is seen in a child's brain. Does this mean then that LSD or other drugs could be used to increase learning potential in the elderly?