skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> here's just a chart of NASA's cooked GIS data vs RSS

Or how to show that you don't know anything about that

And you talk about religion?
Lobbying, crooked NGOs, corruption, price gouging. There is something completely rotten in the US healthcare system.

If this were free markets and capitalism, wouldn't the response be a flood of alternatives at 1/100 or even 1/10 the price since the base ingredient costs pennies, and not this self serving and crafty effort to leech tax payer subsidies? This is organized corruption.

When you let people feed on others desperation you create demons. This is the biggest argument for socialized healthcare.
I guess I'm thinking less about the state of the technology deployment (which will always be in some sort of play), and more about the political/bureaucratic organizations within the government and their focus. It feels, from a very, very outside position, that the gov't (NSA, et al) used to put more resources on systematically figuring out how to move defensive side work forward. Maybe the orgs that used to be tasked with that were reorged or demphasized, I don't really know.
You can contribute to a non-deductible IRA and then after a (short) period convert it to a Roth IRA. If you don't have other traditional IRA funds (the basis is pro-rated across all traditional IRA accounts).
Good point, I edited that out.
I guess I'm just not in a position, where I need news faster than Google News. Which seems to do just fine for me. If the only value Twitter is providing to people, is low latency news article posting, then I think they should position themselves to be that, instead of the 99.99999% of crap that just spread around. Thoughts?
Point taken. I edited it out.

And... just to go a step further. My comment included the word 'easiest' to describe how to find out someone doesn't know what they are talking about. IMO, if someone starts talking about timing the market, I know right away that they do not know what they are talking about.

Other indicators are much harder to diagnose. A self proclaimed market timer is just the easiest to identify.
Thanks for the replies everyone. I'll definitely save this link and pick up the book when it comes out!
Invest in crowdfunding products ;)
https://www.starterstreet.com/
First part isn't true, either. There's no reason why the Earth couldn't end up like Venus or Mars, and it could well do so in a few hundred million years. Habitability is a confluence of luck, there's no constraint that it has to last. It's just unlikely that we could cause harm on that scale, yet. Climate change won't wipe out humanity either, it will just inflict a tremendous amount of pain.
I worked for one of the Sharks specifically in dealing with their Shark Tank investments. It is not a lie. The verbal agreements on the show are just that. This founder is saying things out of spite because his deal fell through in due diligence, which in my experience is 100% on the founder almost all of the time. Founders will hide things like law suits, giant piles of debt, etc thinking that the Shark teams won't find it. Or sometimes the product has serious flaws that the founder wasn't transparent about on air.

I stopped working for the shark before "Beyond the Tank" came out so I can't speak to the sharper image thing.
Ask HN: How do you describe organisation wide data structures
I am looking for a way to describe data stored across 50+ systems, each one is managed by a different part of the business. So I was thinking some type of plain text markup language that can be collaboratively edited and results in some type of visualisation of how the data connects to each other.

I was considering building this language myself but it would be good to hear if there are tools that already exist for the purpose.
Because it makes for a better clickbait title.
I would disagree - prior to WWI there was no income tax. Further, not every state implanted income taxes (some still don't have any)
It definitely does better than many of the rest, in my experience, and for sure it has better defaults and chooses its violations carefully and generally wisely. In fact, I wrote the first draft of a paper on this specific topic:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hw_0edCtZ8D4FYhc6oNRTAXm...

delineating some of the more difficult and surprising violations and some possible remediation steps.
> The perceived monetization "problem" is painfully and frustratingly easy to rectify if Twitter would simply embrace their role and stop trying to compete in the social media gutter.

I'd love to hear you expand on that point
China is a country with expansionist mindset and a single minded focus to steal technology from others. USA might collaborate with China but after benefiting from USA will China reciprocate I think the answer to that is "NEVER".

I think American decision to not giving China access to ISS is political and knee jerk but might be a very pragmatic one too.
My friends and family expect jerkface but technically nuanced shenanigans from me. If I didn't start posting on the Facebook and twitter after I died my friends and family might think I faked it.
Thanks for point that out. It even says right before the graph the month also was 0.98 degrees Celsius warmer than the mean August temperature from 1951-1980.

Why would they do that?
I had a similar "dumb" 1 million dollar idea, but with a emoji money and a Twitter bot called Terence: https://twitter.com/helpterence

Sofar he has raised almost 8000, but I'm also looking for a way to get it out there!
This sounds like stealing
If you look at it based on what the contributed things are actually worth, it’s more like 50 25 25.

The US just happens to be very inefficient in space investments, because lots of politicians try to use it to get jobs into their states
May this planet somehow be saved for us and our posterity if Trump becomes president.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12513082 and marked it off-topic.
Their motives are entirely relevant. Especially when they speak out against it. The most prolific site ever, has the word PIRATE in it. I mean come on.
Understanding the Psychology of Programming
obligatory George Carlin bit. . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjmtSkl53h4
Nobody's touching this huh? I will give it a go. While I don't agree with censorship in any form I think the message about trying to meet someone in real life instead is OK and could have been circulated on it's own without resorting to implementing a block.
> The big example is railways - all the original investors lost their money.

Can someone build up on this?
Love or hate the guy, but Martin Shkreli has a good point here on the EpiPen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoMlxVimwiU

Basically:

That $600 is a value to save your life
- much cheaper than an ambulance / hospital stay

That insurance companies should cover 100% of it
Unlike Russia or Islamic Terrorists China has a very clear cut objective of expanding its boundaries. It first captured Tibet then parts of India and now it is claiming South China sea.

China is clearly number 1 and very alive threat to USA and americans would be wise to be skeptical about China at all steps.
> I would much rather have the US in that role than any other country in the world

You would rather see people like Trump gain the power over that, than a possible future federated Europe?
Ask HN: HN Content Filter Stats
Guessing everyone that's been on HN any meaningful duration has since the error message that you're "submitting to fast" - but honestly not sure if it is a good filter; meaning if 80% of the users with reps over 500 get this message on a daily basis, to me this is an issue.

What percentage of submits are rejected by this filter, and are the submitted comments/stories logged and reviewed to see if the filter is working as designed?

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Here's the exact error message for search engines:

>> "You're submitting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks."
Yes, you're right. We wish to make them mutually supporting in future (so that the SEO benefits of FAQs will be available to the website).

There is a demo available at http://www.askite.com.
Absolutely, we're 100% corporate focused right now.
We also got some interest from companies who want to fight against other companies' patents just so they have a better portfolio than their competitors. That's not our utopian use of the platform, but in the end, if patents that shouldn't be granted are revoked, we're happy!
Elon Musk Wanted a Race. Now He Has One
Good post I agree with your sentiment.

Adding to this, food delivery startups are another great example of this. I call them "VC subsidized lunches." Me and my friends installed half a dozen apps, each of which have given anywhere from $25 - $500 (!) in promotions, i.e. free lunches.

The irony was having actual lunch with investors in which they didn't pick up the tab...
ARIA Roles and Attributes: How to Actually Use Them
The company I worked for at the time this site gained notoriety would field several calls a week from individuals and companies both wanting to have a clone of that site built thinking they would achieve the same level of success. About the same time I had an investment group contact me, via a close friend, to build them a Match.com clone, except their time frame was 3 months with a budget of $15k. I told them that they lost their damn mind. Didn't hear from them again. People are dumb!
Movie about immortal sea judge Peter Thiel
Actually we did, but nobody is hiring for C64 Basic and assembly anymore.
If your company doesn't do any 401k matching, how worth is is to put money into it vs. regular investing? In my case it's likely I may want access to the money before retirement age, so I'm not sure what the best option is.
Travel itself takes so much energy, it has to be the primary thing or what's the point. But work expects to be the primary thing if that's what you're doing.

I think the only way to do digital nomad would be bug bounties, or something like that where it's an at-will contribution.
I've found this pretty useful in finding the best locations to do astrophotography: https://djlorenz.github.io/astronomy/lp2006/overlay/dark.htm...

You can use the same general approach for Aurora photos if the solar activity is high enough for your location too.

My favorites:

https://ryanbritton.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Aurora.jp...

https://ryanbritton.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Sagittari...

https://ryanbritton.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Galaxy.jp...
“That's cultural rather than religious” is a rather sweeping claim to simply assert without support. The interplay between religions and culture is incredibly complex and deserves more than a facile dismissal.
Knowing that adage doesn't mean you understand markets especially well, but not knowing it definitely means you don't understand markets.

I had a friend in college who played World of Warcraft. When the first expansion was announced, he invested $10,000 in Blizzard stock. His reasoning? "It's going to be awesome and sell a lot of copies!"

He didn't understand that the stock price at the time he made the purchase already reflected that information (that there was an expansion coming out soon).
Facebook and Discovering Your Sensitive Contacts in Two Easy Steps
I would implement pre mature optimization if I were you.
No, that money would have been in a 401k, so you would lose out on the initial benefit of not having paid taxes when you contributed if they raid Roths.

But, if you've already maxed out your other tax-advantaged space, and you have more money to contribute, there is no reason not to put it in a Roth instead of a regular taxable account, assuming you are eligible, because then you can have tax-free growth at least(worth less than tax-free contributions, but still worth a lot).
This is very interesting, I'm curious as to how this works outside a controlled environment like the CIA.

What sort of arbitration process do you have for judging the quality of evidence and the degree to which evidence agrees with hypotheses?

What's to stop trolls from spoiling the process through the above methods, or through adding extraneous hypotheses to confuse the process?
Love silly twitter bots like that. This is adorable!
That's what I try to be mindful of regarding Roth. How strong is the promise that it won't be taxed? Or maybe it isn't taxed, but new fees are introduced as a roundabout tax.

Like a lot of retirement thinking, it's unsettling to think about the negative scenarios.
A few of that here in New Zealand.
People pick a grave of someone who would have been their age (ideally a baby as they won't have many documents associated with them). Get a birth certificate and use that to get more documenta. A member of parliament did it once. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Garrett_(politician)
I don't think he will. You can't work your way down from that, you have to design the product with the end market in mind. My bet is that electric cars simply are impossible to make at a $20k price point approaching anywhere near Tesla quality, in the same way you won't be able to make a decent electric bike for $300.

Probably the same way Ferrari is, no point to make wide acceptance of that brand.
> 75 people in a basement somewhere

A basement large enough for 75 people in the bay area might bankrupt the company by itself.
This sounds like an excellent excuse to plug my Brainfuck IDE.

http://maulingmonkey.com/brainfuck/

Ahh... it's a work in progress. I should probably add an option to disable my optimization passes, for starters...
I'm not so certain, his targets meet the "official victim" requirement, they will be free to choose the loss value which is unlikely to be Conservative, means of identification is likely met as it is a simple as accessing email addresses and even though they attacks have been called simplistic and the weaknesses well known they will claim that sophisticated means were used by virtue of a computer being involved. This on the face of it seems worse than weev as there were multiple targets involved.
I think https://www.offensive-security.com/information-security-trai... is probably currently the best bang for the training buck...
Since only the mods will be able to answer that, you should probably contact them by mail: hn@ycombinator.com
Messy Networks for the Internet of Things
I'm saying that an arbitrary number of exact replicas of a master can magically appear on the network believing they are the one true master, identifying themselves as such, and expecting to act that way. Additionally, an arbitrary number of database masters expecting to participate in the cluster may show up or leave at any time. That is somewhat nontrivial for even modern databases to deal with.
This article says what I've been thinking/trying to explain to people about this.

Before the iPhone, the only people who had/wanted smart phones were "uncool" business people[1].

And I think its the case with bluetooth headsets right now.

[1] - this may or may not have been the case, but it was definitely the general perception at the time.
You have to think about it in terms of what you get out.

Let's say that you deposit $4,000. You've paid $2,000 in tax or 1/3rd of your money. That grows to $20,000 (5 * 4,000) which you can put into your pocket.

Let's say that you deposit the entire $6,000 into a traditional IRA. That grows (at the same rate) to $30,000. You take that money out and owe the government 1/3rd of that money so $10,000 goes to the government and you pocket $20,000 - the same amount.

So, with one exception, they come out the same assuming the same tax rate at both times. You're paying more tax to the government, but the amount in your pocket is the same.

The one exception is that the cap is the same for both. So, if the cap is $5,500 and you put $5,500 into both, you'll get more out of the Roth. 5,500 * 5 = 27,500 in both cases, but in the case of the traditional, you'll still owe taxes. So, in effect, the Roth has a higher real contribution cap (even though the caps are nominally the same).

Because the government didn't set the Roth contribution cap at 2/3rds of the traditional cap, you can effectively contribute more.
Idk... I felt that it kind of took an extremely long time to get to the point. But that might just be me being critical about long, redundant sentences like this post is...
I found the only thing that helps is having a strong team lead who identifies this and has the authority to nudge people back on track.
Very interesting, although they were lucky it was very niche.
Pretty reasonable to believe he was dead. Plundered is the wrong word, if you are gone for 11 years.
>The problem with Twitter is that the demolished their developer ecosystem

I honestly don't think that matters that much. Yes it sucked to be the developer of a profitable Twitter client, but from Twitters point of view, those clients where potentially in the way of profit. Unless Twitter charged the third party clients for access to their API, how where they suppose to help Twitter make money? Increased user based? If Twitter can't make money on the users they have now, getting more won't help them.

So many people claim that love Twitter, it's their only source news, the way they keep in contact and so on. Fine, pay Twitter $20 per year, that seem reasonable, and it would keep spammers and trolls of Twitter.
It would be dramatic tomorrow, but maybe not in a couple of years when Twilio's identity business is more mature.
Forex, Binary Options and Cryptocurrency can return in months what traditional investing takes decades to do.

I know which I prefer.
The Economist has a knack for getting on the case of sectors / companies whenever their price is at an extreme - and being wrong. It's actually a good contra-indicator, as we've seen with oil, shale, gold, more recently Deutsche bank, and now Twitter.
Bernstein :)
He changed his product. That was his choice. It was also his choice to appear on Shark Tank. Two times.
That seems like an awesome resource! I can't believe all those courses are free.
If you don't already know SQL or dplyr, I think you would find dplyr significantly easier to learn. Some people who do know SQL well have commented that they too find dplyr easier. I think this is because the scope of dplyr is much smaller than SQL and it is designed specifically to facilitate data analysis.
I think he meant 'Reconsider...'
Exactly. It's a national prestige thing, as most manned space programs tend to be. But for China's case they are going very slowly. In ... something like 17 years of operations they've only flown 5 total manned missions. They're not trying to conquer the galaxy, they're just slowly maintaining and building on their program.
Thanks for the link! This is a fascinating read.
LOL, sure that makes sense. Cheers.
I'm coursing a research/PhD access master degree and all I can tell you R is one of the most popular tools. If it is used in your university go for it.

It's not just the features of the R programming language. It is also free, open source and can be integrated easily with many external tools. For example you can make a paper using Markdown(RMarkdown) and convert it to ->TEX->PDF. Or you can use Rmarkdown to make a presentation converting it to ->TEX->beamer slides. Or just output a html document/webpage. It is also well integrated with online databases and resources.

While it's true that it can be a bit less intuitive or not as visualization focused as compared to some other tools, it is just as powerful under the hood.

Other open source tools like python are good for programming but when it comes to data analysis they can be a little bit cumbersome. For example, python is quite object oriented and for straightforward purposes with low reusability the amount of code needed can be large.

There are other tools like Matlab, Mathematica, SPSS... Matlab is good at visualization and Mathematica has really nice features aimed to improve understanding. However these are closed source and cost a lot of money to you or the university.
Why Do Volunteer Work at an Animal Shelter?
It basically just came down to space on the phone AND they waited just like us for how many years for the "industry" to make Bluetooth not SUCK?! The industry failed and Apple moved on by making it not suck.

Enjoy your corded headphones.
Interesting, any references?
'I hope the concept of cultural appropriation is a passing fad' (Lionel Shriver)
They haven’t, that’s the point. US companies on average got fines an order of magnitude lower for the exact same thing, or worse.
Thanks, I appreciate it!! They're a lot of fun to create as well, you never know how people are going to interact with them.

And I really hope that some day Terence's campaign really takes off without me really noticing it.
NY State Proposes Cybersecurity Regulation for Financial Services Institutions
yeah imagine if Elon, Richard Branson, and Bezos combined forces and open sourced everything they discover in relation to space travel -- totally democratizing it. -- We'd get a lot further in half the time...my money's on Elon getting there first though.
At least the solution was more straightforward for Ulysses.
5 hours of listening time on the AirPods…
This latest book by R. Penrose might be of interest to those looking for a serious analysis of what is happening to the theoretical physics research today: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10664.html.
Angular2 – Beyond the DOM with WebGL and WebVR
> Apple doesn’t give a shit about neckbeard hipsters who...

This is always what we hear from Apple advocates trying to justify a bad decision on Apple's part.

"Apple doesn't care about third party apps, they want to control the experience on their iPhone, so no app store"

"Apple doesn't care about multiple resolutions, that's fragmentation"

"Apple doesn't care about market share, they care about revenue"

... ad nauseam.
Couldn't you just file taxes anyways? Would you suffer legal repercussions if you tried to file taxes and they were rejected because you were dead? As previous cases indicate, being found to be alive by the government isn't always adequate to cause them to declare you to be alive again, so you could be both dead and a taxpayer.
Indeed, the main problem in genetics are not related to handling data, but require major experimentation, even at cellular level, not to mention higher ones.

Not much CS can help with right now - the most useful tools (mass fuzzy searches and molecular simulations) are already there.
But if you call it socialised it's anti American.
> in my case it's likely I may want access to the money before retirement age

In that case always max (currently $5,500/yr) a Roth IRA first, because you can withdraw the principal before retirement.

Second, if your company 401k offers loans the typical (maybe this is a legal thing?) max I hear is 50% up to 50k total. You're making a loan to yourself that pay back into the investment. Keep in mind if you leave the employer you may have to pay off the loan...

If you really might need access to your money it's probably best to stick to Roth IRA + taxable (non-retirement) investments.

Another thing about 401ks is the fund choices can sometimes be shit. If they're all high expense rate funds I don't even bother. These days the companies I've worked at typically offer one or two halfway decent index funds, YMMV.
>But I think people moved onto other platforms and most (of the cool people) left.

Moved onto what platforms? Left where?
I think this should be opening sentece, after which a lot of people can just skip all other investment advice: "Only invest money you won’t touch for 10+ years."
Not sure. I see it as news distribution + a little chatter with friends. Others might see it differently. You don't see any use for it, really, so others might see uses in the other crap, as well. Sometimes streamlining a business or model results in something worse than the original mess.