skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He gave his own facebook stock to his own charity. If you've ever owned a corporation, you know just how cynical, contriving, and conceitful that move is.
Even Boeing has a stake in this! Seems like the success of Pokémon Go is helping out lots of companies
No questions, really. Just wanted to thank you for your writing.

It must have been about 10 years ago that I spent a full night reading your ruby essays. It must have been the most engaging writing on programming I've seen.
It's weird people (guys generally) are so paranoid about soy with so little data, yet don't avoid sugar or red meat which actually have well documented and scary health affects.
$20K first novel Kickstarter: Sold 1,319 books, made $4,369.14 in profit
Clarification: I mean to say that they have done well, but it's not just because they're really good at importing olive oil.
If you are married, 2 incomes, and reasonable high up the ladder you could eventually get something.

I'm not going to argue that's a reasonable set of requirements to get a house, but it's possible.
Seems like this could have been easily preventable if they had gone through their standard channel that they themselves created, their "package management system", to freeze their auto scaling groups...
Yeah, they just might.

I was thinking about how to value companies like this over the weekend: fast growth, huge revenue, where it all gets eaten by opex. In a normal business you just look at gross profitability and assume a lot of opex will lead to long-term appreciation of the equity but, software is so damned competitive that it's like they need to keep plowing cash into opex just to stay relevant (vs grow the business)

In any case it's hard to fathom that a company with $400MM in ARR can be going public just now...nowhere near unprecedented given the recent huge financing rounds but man, that's just a big company, no two ways about it.

EDIT: One more comparable I've been watching a lot recently. New Relic is on track to do about 230-250M in the next 12 months. Their aggregate common is worth something like 1.6B right now, so your "5x revenue" might be a little conservative, I think they'll get more like 6-7x, and likely even more as consumer companies tend to get more interest from individuals because it's a name they know. My over/under on aggregate equity value at IPO is ~$4bln, will be interesting to see how big the float is.
Ask HN: Will Facebook support support Markdown in status updates, etc., soon?
I've seen articles and other references to it (e.g., https://twitter.com/cristina_tnv/status/753233662070681602/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) but it feels like waiting for Godot.
Hey, I’m the author and one of the engineers who worked on this feature. Happy to answer any questions. :)
Because, at least for some people, it put their minor problems into perspective. After which they apply the proper amount of emotional response to minor problem.
Intel Made a VR Headset and It's Totally Cord-Free
Only two buyers came forward to bid on Gawker
Start a company by calling your users dumb fucks. Then make it so that it copies MySpace, a shit-fest. Then make it so that you can spy on girls. Thumbs up on that life plan. Shitty life plans work for the privileged.
North Country Community College in nearby Saranac Lake basically has that market covered, and there are fewer than 40,000 people in all of Essex county. People tend to underestimate how rural things really are up here since we're in "New York". It's a beautiful place to live, but it's also very conservative, not very diverse, and reliant on a few very temperamental economic sectors like tourism.
I've read Learned Optimism, Seligman at no point makes the recommendation that overly optimistic people should be less optimistic. He doesn't seem too concerned with accuracy, he just says that optimism will make you happier and more productive, so you should pursue it.

He comes very close to explicitly stating that mild optimistic self-delusion is good, because it will make you happier.

He acknowledges depressive realism, that is, the finding that depressed people make more accurate judgments in certain situations, but doesn't really address it.
Cool. On a related (albeit boring and irrelevant) note I'll admit that it does hurt a little to see my earlier submission labelled as a dupe :)
Please leave HN if you are going to post emotionally charged, baseless, unfounded, irrational thoughts. I've learned nothing from your comment and I'm worse off for having read it.
How Not to Waste Your Vote – A Mathematical Analysis
Lots of reasons[1].

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=Why+wouldn't+you+put+tomatoe...
I call those people "friends", and people typically have somewhat different criteria for friends and lovers. Not that they are mutually exclusive.
Except that Dropbox is better than a series of scripts. Soylent is not. Soylent suffers from being something less than the sum of its parts. It is undesirable
Ford plans mass-market self-driving car by 2021
Why would the helicopter-parent syndrome be less of an issue with social media?
The point isn't whether Apple or Samsung had monopolies. They didn't need them. The point is that Microsoft didn't have monopoly leverage, and they did need it.

Why did Microsoft need monopoly leverage? Because for about 20 years, that had been the way they won in new markets: they entered the new market, found a way to leverage the Windows monopoly to give them an edge in that market, and went on to win a dominant position in the new market.

So when the time came to try to dominate a new market without that edge from leveraging Windows, Microsoft didn't know how to do it.
Look at this planet from space. Do you see any state borders? I do not.
This specific tool `stack` has a minimal feature-set for taking a function in any language and putting it on an HTTP endpoint. Nothing else included ( by design ).

It supports the same style of coding microservices as Lambda, except `stack` also provides actual HTTP streaming interfaces.

Check out the echo examples here: https://github.com/Stackvana/stack/tree/master/examples/serv...

An additional interface over `stack` could be used to support any cloud function style ( including Lambda's )
http://examine.com/supplements/soy-isoflavones/ Specifically section 9. Also http://examine.com/nutrition/is-soy-good-or-bad-for-me/

Based on that and other reading I've done I wouldn't be worried about occasional soy intake, but ingesting every meal of nearly pure soy product as one might if they used Soylent could be cause for concern for males.
The point of Soylent is that not only do you not have to "make" anything, you also don't have to shop for things like fresh bananas. You also don't have to clean. Planning is minimal (order more Soylent when you run low).

I've yet to find as low friction sustenance as Soylent. It's the first food I can have without disrupting whatever activity I'm doing.
I wonder if this will make you feel as 'full' as the soylent drink? Generally liquids do a much better job of making you feel full quickly, which would reduce your desire to eat something else.
Just one more data point,

Soylent powder = 2000 calories per bag, 64 dollars for 7 bags ~ 219 calories per dollar
http://nutritionstudies.org/animal-vs-plant-protein/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_amino_acid#Relative_...

the prevailing theory (which makes sense to me, fwiw) is that protein from meat has a much closer amino acid profile to human muscle compared to protein from plants.
In a portfolio as large as Calpers, doesn't putting some money in an asset that has a 10 year return of 5.6% not a bad idea? I'm sure they need to be diversified.
People lose respect for government when it places weed in the schedule 1. It clearly doesn't below there.
Maslow's hierarchy is way too generalized to be of any use.

I would argue that it's not really a pyramid hierarchy, but more of a pool from which happiness and satisfaction is drawn, where some segments can compensate for others. The only indispensable one is the physiological one.

Even Maslow himself states:

>Maslow states that while he originally thought the needs of humans had strict guidelines, the "hierarchies are interrelated rather than sharply separated".[5] This means that esteem and the subsequent levels are not strictly separated; instead, the levels are closely related.

Like all psychology of the mid 20th century (its essential infancy), it was merely an attempt to categorize some societal patterns without any actual data or studies, but from empirical observations of an extremely narrow view of a westernized society.
Timing nutrition around exercise and rest
I am looking for articles or research related to the optimization of timing the ingest of nutrients around periods of rest and exercise.

Basic idea is this:

You work out on Monday, Wednesday and Friday early AM. Let's say you lift for a couple of hours from 6 AM until 8 PM.

When should you ingest nutrients in order to optimally provide the body with what it needs to repair and grow? What nutrient mix is necessary and in what quantities in relation to body mass?

It seems reasonable to assume that the body will not benefit from anything you ate 24 hours earlier, say, Sunday's breakfast for a Monday 6:00AM workout. How, then, should nutrition timing, mix and quantity change during rest days in order to, again, optimize for the delivery of what the body needs and not overshoot.

The hypothesis here is that eating the same meals every day with total disregard of the physical activity taking place does not seem sensible or optimal.

If you work out hard on Monday morning and will sit in front of a computer, couch, sleep for most of the 48 hours following your workout surely you don't need nutrients at the same intensity, volume and mix as you did a few hours before and a few hours after the workout.

Does anyone know of literature/research in this area. Not necessarily interested in "gym wisdom" from the likes of typical bodybuilding sites. Most of that stuff isn't reliable enough to take seriously.
Scientists found Zenkerella, one of the most ancient and mysterious mammals
Was recently reading about the photography "Golden hour"[0], and this is very relevant. Bookmarked - thanks!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_hour_(photography)
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WW3 USA MAY BE OVERUN BY CHINA,BUT SEE FINAL PART OF BLOG
>Talking to them, learning their past, their character, their preferences, their favourite Tom Waits album, etc?

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?

> Which we've managed to separate from pure evolutionary urges to reproduce at least some millennia ago.

Hardly. We've only had effective birth control for a few decades. Society hasn't fully caught up to this yet, let alone our evolutionary programming.

> You'd be surprised, billions manage to have sex with billions without having children

What planet do you live on? In fact, billions of people have had children!
Dumpster diving is a lot of fun! I love it since it strokes my anti-capitalist tendencies in just the right way
Your statement is all about you, it's about your feelings. The fact that you feel compelled to make this statement again is about you, not me.

Now you make this follow-up, which I will summarize as "You're not special!" And again, this is actually about you, not me. You feel compelled to point this out. You feel some kind of discomfort with other people voicing their experience, and this propels you to tone police them.

That is entirely your bag, and I am not going to carry it for you.
I remember seeing some studies that suggested a beneficial effect of childhood second-language tuition on both childhood and adult verbal intelligence and language learning. But I unfortunately don't have a reference to hand. Perhaps someone else here will be able to find one.
Hubert Dreyfus's views on artificial intelligence
Probably yes, but not when that 5.6% is coming from something inherently low-liquidity and high-risk.
Optimism is just one side of the story.

A modern and experimentally grounded system of "emotional styles" is provided by neuro-scientist Richard J. Davidson, in his book "The emotional life of your brain".

A bit more nuanced than the "Big Five", he maps emotional traits along six axes: resilience, outlook, social intuition, self-awareness, sensitivity to context and attention.

Optimism would be "outlook" here, which is interesting because it's a different thing than resilience. Being optimistic isn't the opposite of being pessimistic, it's two different skills.

There are neurological explanations for each of the traits and there are exercises given to move your mind along each axis.
His low point was when Yahoo offered to buy FB for a billion dollars. Dark times.
> Human being are just complicated ways for strings of nucleic acid to replicate themselves.

And from that evolved mechanisms for learning, consciousness, culture and technology. Amazing creative power in such a "small" task. I think the drive for survival is the root cause of all the other reinforcement signals that drive the brain development, such as the need for food, sex, sleep, companionship, learning and so on. Shaped under the influence of these reward systems, the brain evolves to create the subjective, intelligent and ineffable experience we all know we have but can't properly explain.
So, you want to Colemak
A Framework for Data Exfiltration
> So who doesn't want that, right?

What about privacy? Doctors in my country (France) are legally obliged to respect the privacy of their patients and the confidentiality of medical data. A third-party cloud service, not so much.

Edit: To be more precise, I'm not saying that medical apps can't be done right. I'm just disagreeing with the implication that an efficient medical app is automatically a good thing.
I think checking out Python might renew your enthusiasm. It's pretty damn cool.
I would anticipate that if the 5.6% looks much worse when risk-adjusted to reflect that it's in illiquid speculative assets.

Besides, if I'm not mistaken, that trails equities and bonds over the period.
I guess the situation is different for an existing holder of common vs. someone who's buying at the IPO. Thanks for pointing that out...I've spent too much time inside trying to figure out what my options are worth (SV in general, not Dropbox) ;)
It sounds like the problem isn't venture capital returns as a whole, but that Calpers can't get into the best funds for structural reasons related to the need to publicly disclose fund returns. Not surprising it underperforms if it can't get into the best funds. This data point isn't therefore very valuable for assessing Venture Capital returns as a whole which is what the headline implies.
Citations are not baseless:

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=mar...

See the revenue here:
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOG/key-statistics?p=GOOG

You should leave HN for trying to suppress truth and free speech.

If you disagree with someone copying and pasting myspace, essentially, and then calling their users "dumb fucks" you need to leave HN, now.

In principle, you do not call fellow humans "dumb fucks". No decent human being disagrees with this.
“WE HAVE MET THE ENE MY... AND HE IS US” Lessons from Twenty Years of the Kauffman Foundation’s
Investments in Venture Capital Funds
and The Triumph of Hope over Experience

http://www.kauffman.org/~/media/kauffman_org/research%20repo...

(The whole thing is good read)

>The Kauffman Foundation investment team analyzed our twenty-year history of venture investing experience in nearly 100 VC funds with some of the most notable and exclusive partnership “brands” and concluded that the Limited Partner (LP) investment model is broken. Limited Partners—foundations, endowments, and state pension fund—invest too much capital in underperforming venture capital funds on frequently mis-aligned terms. Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. We found in our own portfolio that:

- Only twenty of 100 venture funds generated returns that beat a public-market equivalent by more than 3 percent annually, and half of those began investing prior to 1995.

- The majority of funds — sixty-two out of 100 — failed to exceed returns
available from the public markets, after fees and carry were paid.

- There is not consistent evidence of a J-curve in venture investing since 1997; the typical Kauffman Foundation venture fund reported peak internal rates of return (IRRs) and investment multiples early in a fund’s life (while still in the typical sixty-month investment period), followed by serial fundraising in month twenty-seven.

- Only four of thirty venture capital funds with committed capital of more than $400 million delivered returns better than those available from
a publicly traded small cap common stock index.

- Of eighty-eight venture funds in our sample, sixty-six failed to deliver
expected venture rates of return in the first twenty-seven months (prior to
serial fundraises). The cumulative effect of fees, carry, and the uneven nature of venture investing ultimately left us with sixty-nine funds (
78 percent) that did not achieve returns sufficient to reward us for patient, expensive, long-term investing
.
This is great. You know what would really take it to the next level? Tides! It would be awesome if micro-adjustments along the coast showed the times of low and high tides. My parents, who live along the coast, would use it multiple times/day. Most tide applications are a little too complex for their needs.
It's like Calorie Mate Balanced Food Block, from Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. That's humanoid chow for Japanese salarymen. Like the Soylent product, it's in very plain packaging. It's not as soy-heavy as Soylent; it has wheat flour and wheat and soy protein. Some milk and egg powder, too. Tastes like shortbread.

This is quite successful in Japan, and often found in vending machines. The manufacturer doesn't recommend living entirely on the stuff, though.
BlockBlock – Display an alert whenever a persistent component is added
How much do you have to carry during your rides? Never used tablets, but I should look into them.
This wall of unformatted text you posted doesn't look like a good idea.
"The Google AMP Cache is a proxy-based content delivery network for delivering all valid AMP documents. It fetches AMP HTML pages, caches them, and improves page performance automatically. When using the Google AMP Cache, the document, all JS files and all images load from the same origin that is using HTTP 2.0 for maximum efficiency."

So the proxy learns all about my traffic patterns, usage stats and userbase.

It looks like you can't opt-out of this feature or at least I couldn't find it.
This analysis is called "deconstruction", i.e. understanding the cultural background and the advocacy of the author. This not only applies to news, but any media- movies, literature, art, etc. Supposedly people should learn how to do this in high school.
I don't see why: if anything, I'd argue that it's just a layer of metacommentary. Just as not all articles are equally informative, not all opinions are equally informative.

The quality of the downvotes depends on the quality of the community.
Some of his best work was his collaboration with Jodorowsky on the Incal books. Surreal, gorgeous, and colorful.
> The thing we tend to overlook about our inner dialog is that we actually have very little control over our thoughts. You know you have a problem when they become suicidal, because healthy minds simply do not have them.

Tell me about it. I've had suicidal thoughts pop up in my mind, unbidden, for over a decade now. From time to time, at LEAST once a week, I'll just start visualizing putting a gun to my head and pulling the trigger. Or jumping in front of the train. Or bashing my head in with a rock. All quite vivid.

And I can't just turn it off. I don't tell a lot of people about it because it frightens them. They've never experienced it before, so they don't understand that having the thoughts doesn't mean that I want to kill myself or will attempt to do so. So mostly on my own, I've been working for years to reshape my internal landscape and to revise the story that I'm telling myself. It's slow going. I've practically become a functional psychologist through thousands of hours of highly motivated research. And I'm in therapy, too, which is a new development. I realized I had reached a plateau where my own solitary efforts had stalled. I wasn't going anywhere.

But over the years I've seen improvements. We can't control our moment to moment thoughts, but we can, over time, change the patterns. We can change the story we tell ourselves. But it takes time. There are no shortcuts. Patience and hope, those are key.
AYP is out. The goals looked good on paper, made good sound bites for the news, but weren't realistic. NCLB is out too. The new thing is the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
Show HN: Take a look at my startup Makerloom at www.makerloom.com
Is the photo below the future? Zuckerberg zombies living in a virtual Plato's Cave.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/02/22/16/3173A83C0000057...
As pointed out in the articles comments as well, Verge ended up with a more confusing headline than they intended. From as far back as the HoloLens, Microsoft said that Windows Holographic, the libraries and UX that HoloLens runs, will be a part of every Windows 10 install.

The questions that have remained have been what exactly that meant and the actual news in the article is that Microsoft has demoed announced one of the obvious uses of Windows Holographic which is that it will support a wide range of VR/AR hardware, including some new mixed reality projects from Intel ("Project Alloy").
Was it a real charity or non-profit e.g. fund?
Just to highlight what I think is a pretty important point in the source:

> Most well-conducted meta-analyses come to similar conclusions. The evidence is too weak or varied to come to the conclusion that 'soy reduces testosterone'.

They go on to say that it could be linked, maybe, but probably only for drastic over-consumption. In short, even with study there isn't enough information to come to a real conclusion so effects are probably minimal if at all.

Also, interestingly,

> The 25g of soy protein a day is consistent with the claim that "Soy protein can reduce occurrence of cardiovascular disease" which is approved by the FDA for products with more than 6.25g soy protein.

Which has a ton of sources and supports soy will help most people. The effect may not be huge, but it's more well documented.

Over all, it seems people are better off eating more soy.
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Also, Walter George Bell did a quite interesting book on the 1665 plague outbreak.

At times a bit dry, it still provides the best account I've read on the plague and how it affected both londoners and their rulers.
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>another quarter on health, education, liberty and peace in the developing world.

At least for part of it, in the US, almost half of spending is spent on welfare: social security and healthcare[0].

The problem is more nuanced than just "cutting defense" to make it 29% instead of 25%. I'm a pretty liberal guy, and I think a public option would eventually be cheaper in the long run than obamacare or what we had before, but I am under no delusion that simply throwing more money at the problem will fix it.

Academia requires more money, I agree. But what accounts for a quarter of spending already requires new ideas, not more money.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget#/...
See the second paragraph of http://sophia.systems
The mystery noise driving the world mad
Flying cars, deep sea habitats, space habitats, clean energy, hair style robots, fully coordinated jam-free personal traffic.

An actual end to mass violence and cruelty would be infinitely more valuable than any of those things (except for clean energy).