skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And yet central banks keep pumping money into the supply side. It boggles the mind. Why? Why not pump the money into the demand side?

Central bank monetary policy is a fairly limited, blunt tool. It can make borrowing cheaper, which in principle has effects on both the producer and consumer sides, but it can't really focus all that well.

Focussing stimulus is more government fiscal policy than central bank monetary policy, but those are controlled by different actors.
Social Capital is what makes the generation of content valuable. I have no doubt there are millions if not billions of people who could write poetry or songs alive right now who have never done so and even if they could, nobody would read. Ideas are cheap. It's execution that matters and by execution everyone means: can you work with a team of influential and able human beings to make this idea valuable for others. A computer outputting content will never do that. The only thing AI would have going for it in that sense is that maybe people will dazzled by the initial idea that the computer is really really smart but even so there are a great many really really smart human beings right now living and producing ideas that you likely couldn't care less about. So I don't think computers are going to get far without friends in this regard. We have systems in place for helping us make friends. They don't.
Really? Because in my world, life is about doing what makes you happy, as long as you aren't negatively impacting others. If you want to write that great novel: do it. If you want to finish that huge programming project: do it.

It may mean sacrificing other things in life to accomplish, but if that's what makes you happy, the sacrifice shouldn't be a big deal. If making that sacrifice is too great, then it isn't what REALLY makes you happy, is it?

Now the "do whatever I want" thing works for a short period of time, but at some point you get to the end of the doing everything you want, and realize if you shit on everyone around you, you still aren't happy. And if you don't come to that realization... well... the rest of society is going to figure out how to deal with you and you probably aren't going to like that. not doing bad is just as much about self-preservation as anything else for those people who don't have a moral compass.
I'd believe it. Mostly as a pressure release valve from the Bay Area rent insanity.
To be sure, this scene doesn't come until like 30min into the movie! :) The first act is all the poor Charlie and golden ticket stuff.
Enhanced BPF is integrated in Linux 4.x series -- as in, it is part of the kernel, and everyone who deploys on Linux will be getting it once they upgrade -- and provides similar capabilities.
Some are suggesting that 5G adoption will enable services that will need compute to be near the cell tower, or the backhaul. Services such as low latency AI based assistants and autonomous vehicles. Sorry I can't find the articles I've read on this.
Bees Get an Unlikely Ally: Monsanto
Well, from the point of view of the Central Banks, creating any kind of economic activity is a plus, regardless if it'll be viable longterm for it's employees or if its "true innovation" (not noise). So the money faucets are working as intended. Given how anemic our economy is compared to other post-recession economies, I suspect it'll stay that way.
It is an interesting idea.

There just seems a lot wrong with the presentation of the benchmark comparisons...

Specifically where is a full suite of comparisons as compared with other libraries for time and space, insert and retrieval. Hell, I make those graphs for other people's code, let alone my own.

Usually when you come up with a new algorithm it is typical to be so over the moon to show how it compares all around. I'm not seeing this here and that is a red flag.

I'll definitely give it a whirl though as it sounds promising, although I'm personally more interested in order preserving hashes.
> You seem to be attaching a moral axis to the decision on whether to raise capital

Which part of their comment makes you think that? I don't see it, and I'm curious about how it's coming across differently to others.
At least they didn't use lowercase.

“Lowercase letters?” Erlich says, “Every fucking company in the Valley has lowercase letters. Why? Because it’s safe. But we aren’t going to do that.”
USB-C isn't thunderbolt.
The combine port is a different story but USB type-c is available for all USB revisions since 1.1.

USB 3.1 allows for comaptibility with TB under certain configurations, it also has a DMA and PCIe pass trough on its own.
That, or for speed, or in order to take advantage of already extant library functions rather than reimplementing them in Emacs Lisp, or some combination of the above.
yes but it is buried in a longer and more eclectic video.
Print your own 3D Lucy to work out how the famous hominin died
That's Linux today. Upgrade. ZFS + DTrace capabilities.
The thing is, I don't think that we need to kill everything to fix this. You can certainly fix the ruby compiler so that monkey-patching is fast, and you don't have to deoptimize for this sort of thing.

Call/cc, OTOH, should be dropped from Ruby. It's caused a great deal of pain for the devs, and it's not nearly as important as it is in something like Scheme. They could implement the similar (though not as cool) shift/reset, and have much of the power of call/cc, an easier implementation, and perf that's practical.
> (And such regulations disadvantage EU companies, as a non-EU company with no legal nexus in the EU has no obligation to charge such taxes.)

This is not true. You can read
about VAT MOSS and the non union scheme for more info.
The guidelines already say that: Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

I guess it can be tricky to have the same taste as the mods when it comes to deciding what is link or clickbait.
lol, WrkRiot just posted this response
https://www.facebook.com/WrkRiot/?hc_ref=SEARCH&fref=nf

WrkRiot is considering legal action against a disgruntled former employee who has launched a slanderous campaign against WrkRiot and some of its employees via social media.
While it is not our policy to discuss personnel matters, we want to make it clear that this former employee was fired for cause. Signed affidavits from current employees attest to this former employee’s failure to perform her required duties in the workplace. In addition, they attest to her participation in an attempt to undermine or oust certain members of management.
This former employee demanded a sum of $50,000 upon her departure. Under no verbal agreement, contract or any other type of covenant was this person entitled to such a sum. After learning that WrkRiot would not pay what it considered extortion money, this former employee began her campaign of slanderous of activity over the Internet.
WrkRiot believes this former employee’s writings have led to dangerous situations for many of our employees through the leaking of personal information and through threats being made over social media from others who have taken the former employee’s misinformation as truth.
We regret having to spend time and effort on this when there is so much to do in the development of our unique application. However, we want to make it abundantly clear that the slanderous writings of a disgruntled former employee do not represent the truth about WrkRiot, its management or workforce. The racist, sexist and abusive comments our employees have received are inexcusable.
Further, we want to make it clear that we will seek any and all legal remedies to end this campaign of slander.
> I'd rather pay taxes to Apple, Tesla, and Google than the US government. At least they're competent.

Welcome to the Cyberpunk era, where nations are private entities ... I can't wait to play CD Project game by the way.
If it were to be successful, Apple would inevitably find itself paying the majority of the fine, even if it's after the fact.
And its discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12376805
I think you have not understood the meaning of "basic income". It means everyone is issued fiat currency sufficient to supply necessities, i.e. super-poverty housing, food, clothing, medical care. End of story. The money is just printed tokens anyhow, so it is inhumane to deny people in need if you can just print it. The down-sides are inflationary effects (but in the new normal, deflation is a problem, so that is actually good), and fear of damaging work-ethic (a moral hazard). I consider that if the work-ethic is obsolete, it is maladaptive, and needs to be put out of its misery.
Anyone remembers: South. South. West. Look. Pick axe.

for the same reasons I'm having mixed feeling about cucumber and similar testing frameworks (BDB), that also rely on semi-english language to do things. It looks cool, and enticing, but hard to sell (to others), even If I myself am super-excited to see it in action (just because how crazy it looked the first time I saw it).
This should not be news to anyone in the industry.
They are not slums when the people are not living in poverty.
Humans also have another pretty large corpus of input data: their entire life experiences.
I've settled on just having a simple Markdown file* in the root of every project I work on where I list (a) the tasks I or the client wants done and (b) notes on discoveries and bugs I want to keep track of for later. I have tasks lined up in a section called # Tomorrow that I rename to # Today when I want to tackle them. The tasks I put in this file usually derive from whatever pm tool the client or my team is using.

* I give all these files a special extension so that they're easy to ignore in my global gitignore and give syntax highlighting in my editor
How much to buy a vote in Congre$$?
On a similar vein, one of my favorite Wilder reactions, from Young Frankenstein: "that goes without saying."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuHw5ivCs1A
Yup, exactly.

I don't think they're a source of materials used in the project (my first guess) because they can be found quite far away from the site, are present across varied terrain, and lack road access and indicators of work (eg tailings). Such uniformity in natural features always piques my interest. Will just be one of those endless mysteries of the desert, I suppose.
The notion of "competing" with AI seems fundamentally broken.
And yet, 90% of the money is still inside SV.
Hacker News has always had a side interest in the arts, probably due to Paul Graham's influence (see "Hackers and Painters").
I think this is really valuable. Just today I had a non-tech co-worker who needed to understand Regex for some tool we were using. I did the regex for him and (very briefly) explained it. Now this might be something he can more easily grok and use a translator (+ regex101.com to verify) to create more complex regex's he might end up needing.
> The Google X moonshot factory is struggling to get products out the door

Isn't the whole idea of a "moonshot", in this context, a project that has both a long window before any payoff, and a high risk of failure. So isn't this a very much "water is wet" story?
Regarding RAM, with laptops, you're often restricted by what the chipset will actually support, and that's the case for MBPs (still 16 GB as far as I know). Soldering or no soldering, that's the real problem.

The actual bitch is soldered battery. Mine (2012 MBPr) is still giving me two to three hours, depending on workload (and sticking to Safari for browsing, which makes a massive difference in power consumption), but a replacement would make me more comfortable. I can't imagine what Apple would make me pay for that.

A secondary annoyance is the proprietary SSD interface, which dramatically restricts the choice of hd vendors (for my model, I think the total number of vendors is still 1; I believe a couple of other vendors do support more recent models). I currently live in fear of this disk giving up the ghost before Apple will actually release a new MBP worth buying.
> Is there any actual evidence this is true? A memo, or even a documented conversation?

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richa...

> Tell me again how this supports the argument Western countries forced drug prohibition on China when the reality was exactly the opposite?

I made no such claim, nor do I consider it historically supported.

> "At midyear 2013, 90% of inmates had a current or prior violent or serious felony conviction, and 16% were registered sex offenders."

Now you are narrowing the discussion to prisoners. Yes, felons with a record of violence tend to be incarcerated at higher rates than those without. However, making someone an unemployable felon is a kind of low-budget open-air life-long prison, or better, torture, which destroys the productive capacity of the victim.
Just give FreeBSD a shot!
The resume written by Swift – a full-stack engineer & desginer
An Epoch is a division of geological time and needs to be reflected by something that is visible in the geological record. That's why the article mentions nuclear testing, chicken bones and soot from factories and power plants. It seems like AI would be something that could be very difficult to distinguish in the geological record, at least based on what we know now.
Pixel Gun 3D Hack and Cheats
interesting.

by the way, i got a google security warning on chrome trying to get to one of the nektra blog pages: Google Safe Browsing recently found harmful programs on blog.nektra.com.

also, have you considered an open source anti-virus program at nektra ? One based on stuff like what's available here: http://www.nsrl.nist.gov/nsrl-faqs.html
You and I have different ideas of innovation. You are likely thinking in a capitalistic sense of a view (disclaimer before I get thrashed on: I am not thinking capitalistically) perhaps you can name me a few particular up and coming companies YOU think are doing imperative, highly-important and highly-beneficial things for us humans? Companies that, 10 years from now, will be so imperative to our survival and well-being that they will fit directly into the Maslow Heirarchy of Needs?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Ma...

I scroll through Tech Crunch regularly. My honest observation: 95% of tech-startups are, as I said earlier, F-U-G-A-Z-I-S. Companies that fuel narcissism. Companies that are spin-offs of companies that fuel narcissism. Companies that perform services for other FUGAZI companies. Ad companies. Companies that provide streaming, so millions of Americans can watch Kim Kardashian on their Mac. I don't want to be a philosophical hippy, I am not one of those, but nobody here can deny that all of this is a pathetic coping mechanism.

Why are we coping? We are coping because we are a too primitive and unevolved monkey species to take anything to the next parallel. Even something such as space exploration is science-fiction, meeting a different species of life? Science fiction. Some sort of child pipe-dream we've learned from Hollywood (another FUGAZI)

How about something to help us find a slight meaning to existence. Isn't this the root-goal, at it's core? I look out with clear focus on the surroundings, but I do not understand. Then I go back to FUGAZI-land. It's imperative I figure out myself, but society is an obstacle (despite it's perks)

To sum it up: 95% of Silicon Valley is a primitive coping mechanism.
Now that's epic.

> Tesla Road Trip Savings: My 27,615 mile (the circumference of the Earth is 24,901 miles) 48 State plus Canada road trip cost $8.37. I had to pay for electricity 2 times, the rest was FREE thanks to the Tesla SuperCharger network. There were about 180 SuperChargers when I started the trip. There are now almost 300 in the USA. Gas savings assuming a 25 MPG car using a national average of $2.75 a gallon = $3037.
As cool as this, like a lot of folks here I don't see how a pickup and a gooseneck wouldn't be a better (probably cheaper) option, even if you had to renovate / shop around for the gooseneck.

I know a whole lot of folks who live this way, mostly itinerant musicians.

While this is a much nicer build-- I think it's quite beautiful-- it is a lot closer to a custom conversion van most folks I know have much different, less successful experiences with DIY RVs.

To the folks who cite "stealth" as a rationale here, there are a lot of reasons why you might get kicked off a patch of ground... one persons "hack" is another person's criminal trespass. There are a lot of great places that you can camp out without getting hassled and without relying on other folks footing the bill for your plumbing and pavement.

To the folks citing mobility, I still don't see how that kind of van is more mobile than a pickup.

So while I think that it's really cool-- I gotta say that I think it would have to be cheaper / easier / more reliable to buy a pickup and 5th wheel or similar.
Serverless computing and Microservices
Trends in Version Control Land: Open Source
How does one determine a 10x vs a non 10x (outside of anecdotes)?
> Is that true?

Yes, and that's the reason why

- g \in O(f) is an upper bound on g

- g \in Omega(f) is a lower bound on g

- g \in Theta(f) is a "tight" bound on g, or both an upper and a lower bound at the same time
Yeah, but there's got to be a less needlessly overcomplicated way of doing this. It's ridiculous.

As for call_cc (or to use its "real" name call/cc, or call-with-current-continuation), my usual response to those that propose dropping call/cc (usually proposing shift/reset or similar as a replacement) is "over my dead body," but that's Scheme: supporting weird experiments is part of Scheme's job, and there's at least one high-quality implementation of Scheme that uses Cheney-on-the-MTA compilation, which makes call/cc fast enough for Real Work. In ruby, the situation is different: call/cc is slow, expensive, and Ruby is a language for getting stuff done, not academic experiments about control structure.
I'd disagree with your statement that "the van isn't a big deal" in your last sentence.

If you feel that you have to be upfront with everyone about living in a van, it sort of becomes an enormous part of your identity, which I would call a big deal.
Mind posting more pictures of the van? I've always been intrigued by this lifestyle. :)

Congrats on the adventures!
Something similar:

http://verbalexpressions.github.io/
The title confused me until I clicked through and realised it was just talking about US software developers (and someone’s since edited it - thanks!).
Not quite in that range -- but Veeva Systems took a single, $4M round[0] and went public. Current market cap is $5.2B (and was about 15% higher immediately after their IPO). The founder's shares were worth north of $500M at that time. [1]

[0] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/veeva#/entity
[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexmorrell/2013/10/19/who-got-r...
Moral: don't use users' contact lists to bootstrap or enhance social services. Barring strong differential privacy implementations, it will cause problems.

Implementing a 'what friends do I have on this service?' feature is one thing. Retaining that data and feeding it in to the recommender is very likely to cause this kind of problem.
This is already being done, and has been done (in secret) for a while:

"Secret Cameras Record Baltimore’s Every Move from Above (bloomberg.com)":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12347595

"Additionally, they discovered that when the suspect walked away from the shopping center, he’d passed in front of a ground-based security camera. Accessing that footage and reviewing Cooper’s mug shots on file, they found a possible match."
> I still don't understand why companies avoid local taxes.

I would invite you to sit in local legislation and see how local taxes are enacted.

Specific to this scenario, you have a Sovereign nation (Ireland) that has it's tax laws, which Apple (presumably) is complying with. Then comes a bigger body, the EU, challenging Ireland's original tax laws.

If you're Apple, what do you do? You're doing business in Ireland, so why not follow their tax laws which have obvious benefits.

> Their fiduciary duty is to act in the best interests of their investors.

And if you paid every bill collector who came up with their hand out without first doing due diligence, you would be in breach of that duty.

Apple specifically did business in Ireland because of tax break incentives.

Apple, You, Me, and anyone else have no obligation to pay anymore than the barest minimum taxes legally allowed.
I have a tesla and somehow in 4 years of ownership have not had to replace my drivetrain (anecdote, blah blah). But earlier, Tesla had a goal to get people back on the road faster, so they had a deliberate policy of replacing drivetrains since it was so easy. Now they decided it was better to just fix minor issues. Result is not so many drive trains have been replaced since then.
My favorite database by far today is LMDB (B+Tree).[0] Performance is insane, and very low-variance. Reads scale linearly with core counts, and it has a lot of useful index types and knobs to get maximum performance.

What am I most looking forward to using later this year? ScyllaDB[1] and CockroachDB[2], both in conjunction with LMDB.

[0] http://104.237.133.194/doc/

[1] http://www.scylladb.com/

[2] https://www.cockroachlabs.com/
How Do We Save the Salton Sea?
There is a PulseAudio extension that writes to both Sonos speakers and Chromecast:

https://github.com/masmu/pulseaudio-dlna

DLNA is some sort of standard, maybe that's what Sonos uses. I personally just use their phone app though.
Meet the Man Who’s Making Good Eggs Profitable
h/t r/themakingofgames

A NBC News piece about Sierra Online in 1983; brought back lots of great memories, and feels like the 80's version of the feature piece on a startup unicorn: http://www.nbcuniversalarchives.com/nbcuni/clip/51A17175_s01...
It's not really free today. If you buy less than the 85kwh battery, it costs $2000. If you buy 85 or higher, it's included.
Object Composition with SOLID
What? Was he charged directly because he wasn't reachable on his cell phone?
1tb SSD can be picked up for under $200 on Amazon
The graphics card are mobile GPU they are smaller and are placed into our proprietary housing which allows it to connect to our modular standard as well as cool the GPU using our unique technology
People keep saying this in response to ".COM is owned by the USG no matter what" and it's not true.

The USG's ownership of .COM does not in fact enable them to intercept Google Mail requests. The reason it doesn't is that if you get a CA to issue a bogus Google Mail request for surveillance purposes, Google will put your CA out of business.

Chrome has mid-high double digit market share. No matter what the DNS hierarchy says, and no matter what some random CA says, Chrome ships knowing what a valid certificate for Google Mail looks like. When you try to tell Chrome something is a Google property that isn't, Google finds out, and they take action.

It used to be they only did this for non-Google properties if you asked them nicely. But now there's a protocol that automates it, called HPKP.

HPKP does not give a fuck what government is currently in power in Libya. If a CA starts issuing bogus .LY certs, that CA probably isn't going to be issuing certificates for .LY --- or many anything else --- for much longer.

This helps everybody, not just the people running Chrome. IE doesn't support HPKP. But every single person running Chrome is participating in a certificate surveillance system that will light up if someone makes the mistake of feeding them a bogus cert.

Google is also getting the ball rolling on Certificate Transparency, which directly monitors all certificate issuances from participating CAs. Browser vendors have shown a willingness to force CAs to participate if they make any mistakes at all.

This is a problem that is in the process of being solved. DNSSEC is a MONUMENTAL STEP BACKWARDS. Thankfully, it isn't going to happen, but we can make that not-happening even clearer and faster by noticing when people talk positively about DNSSEC and then challenging them.
So, just like Apple.