skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Synth Pioneer Don Buchla Has Died at 79
Shooting around F/8 will lead far greater sharpness than f/2.8 if you're focusing on infinity
For an audience that might be interested in being a bit more self-directed, take a look at the approach of the guys at http://tastytrade.com.
This is true to some extent, although I have found that the automated "Tax Loss Harvesting" being offered by some roboinvestors more than pays for their percentage fee.

Should I also be performing the work of checking several times a year if I should be making sales, recording the losses, buying equivalent securities, and bundling that into a form for the IRS?
I keep getting marketing emails from Udacity about their nanodegrees. Some of them sound pretty attractive (like the ones related to self-driving cars) and I've been tempted to take them. Glad to hear an actual review from someone :)
I think it sucks that people are so bad at hiring. Fuck you airbnb, stripe, and google for rejecting me.

For airbnb and stripe founders : FUCK YOU (you privileged fucks) for not giving me even a chance to interview for you guys, and filtering based on where I did my undergrad.
Twitter should do what Odeo did. Odeo was failing, they started working on other ideas. One of those sideprojects was... Twitter. In the same spirit of experimentation and discovery, Twitter should work on tiny sideprojects and make more small bets.
People who actually understand information theory know why that argument is facile.
Entrepreneurship Through the Lens of Venture Capital (Stanford MS&E 476)
Why I Don't Use React Router
I was specifically referencing this part of advice:

> No 401k Offered:

> Open a traditional IRA or a Roth IRA. The traditional IRA contributes pre-tax money, the Roth IRA post-tax money. The upshot is that if you believe your marginal rate at retirement to be higher than your present rate, you should pick a Roth IRA, otherwise, you should pick a traditional IRA. If you don’t feel like forecasting that, take my word for it that 90% of you should have Roth IRAs.

I don't see many people where Roth IRA makes more sense than Traditional yet they say 90% should go Roth.

Assume I make 100k and I put in $5500 into traditional... I would have to earn about $8000 to have $5500 to put in my Roth IRA after taxes. Having all those years to grow that "extra" money seems much superior to me even if somehow you amass so much money that you are making more in retirement than during your working life UNLESS you suspect future tax brackets will be much higher. I suspect that is a typo and 90% of folks should choose traditional...
The vote wasn't to join the EU (EEC), it was to allow the public to leave the EU (EEC) they'd recently joined, if they weren't very disinterested in doing so at the time :)
Can you share some examples of these projects?
Your comment is overly aggressive and rude - it has no place in a community like this.
Note that the Scottish devolution referendum of 1979 had a minimum threshold of 40% of the electorate. This meant registered voters. If you want to make a fair comparison to brexit, 37% of the electorate voted to leave.
Well, unless he's just sitting in a jail cell in Gitmo.

But I agree, Occam's Razor. That being said, cremation and don't tell anyone where the ashes went.
Ha, yup.

Going back to Turkey, I really enjoyed my time there and it didn't fit into the developing country stereotype since the middle class seemed to be doing alright and there were plenty of outdoor leisure activities (my personal marker of how "developed" a country is). If the political situation was better, I wouldn't mind living there at all.
I was thinking the same thing. Something about Twitter's model makes it virtually impossible to follow as a user (too much of a firehose problem), BUT news organizations who can afford to pay someone to sit on Twitter all day can find useful content on it to report.

But if users lose enough interest, there won't be anyone to do free reporting for the news media.
> It's plausible that well-connected, politically active people would both be likely to donate and likely to be appointed to important positions.

Legality here is not my concern.

It is like nepotism. Sometimes the son should replace the father on merit. He is, after all, more likely to be active in the field and have connections without trading on his DNA. We still recognize that this cannot be a general rule if we care about outcomes.
The US taxi market was a shitfest.

The rest of the world, not so much.

All that's really happened is that Uber side stepped some of your shitty laws. The efficiency gains, etc is all bullshit, not much has changed here in the UK apart from now you can use an app rather than a phone call. They turn up a minute or two quicker, wow. Uber are subsidising our rides a bit at the moment so it's like 20% cheaper for now. I hear prices go up after a year or two.

As for taxis during peak time, rich people can now pay more for priority pickups with surge pricing. That's not a plus for society, it's a plus for rich people.
A taxi driver has to rent a medallion and a car (because they can't just use the one they already own) and needs to charge extra for trips across city limits (because they're barred from picking up anyone in another city). It's not predatory pricing when your lower prices are due to lower costs.
Questions to ask in your next startup interview
>> ..maybe May will press the red button and launch Trident at Brussels

Far too expensive; it would be much cheaper to just switch off the Eurobond clearing houses without warning.
Yes, but remember, people like Klein and Snowden are traitors working on the payroll of the Russians against US interests, and...

Man, I can't even make this stuff up.
It's a time-consuming but relatively harmless foible.

I guess it's partly FOMO, partly habit, and partly the slightly positive aspect of following a routine. There are the odd days when I just skip them all, but it does leave me slightly irked.

All in all, it's not the worst thing in the world, although I wouldn't be upset to grow out of the habit.
Ask HN: Are plain resumes still relevant today?
I am a Computer Science student in last year of my undergrad. While preparing my resume, I came across two conflicting sets of advice. One recommends a plain resume with minimal formatting, with black text on white background. The other set argues for using a modern looking resume built via sites like enhancv.com.
This made me curious: Are plain resumes still used by developers?
The might be applicable to some, but if he works in finance, there's a possibility that the compensation is heavily performance-based, and high enough that it is much smarter to focus on maximizing that (while investing/saving it) than it is to spend non-existent free time on side projects that might pan out to something eventually.

At a certain level of income from a job, it can very much make sense to pour everything you have into it to maximize your personal return while you can.
A number of startups are trying to change this with things like automated testing (though imo they are currently doing worse than the status quo).
> Working all the time is practically essential for most startups.

No wonder why almost all of them go straight into the wall, head down.
Ask HN: I am torn between whether I should do MBA or not. Thoughts?
I work for one of the BIGCO. I am debating with myself whether I should go for MBA or not. I need some guidance from people who have done their MBA.
I have bachelor degree in Engineering. I don't like or don't want to get MS degree. My academics are good and I can say I have a good chance of getting into top 10 schools for the MBA.

I am Manager in my current role and have 10 years of experience in software development. I want to move into executive management at a mid size or large company. I will be specifially looking for eMBA as opposed to MBA option.

1. Does it make sense to do eMBA?

2. I did some research for MBA salaries from top schools and it seems that MBA salaries are in range of $125k to $150k. I make around same range right now without MBA.

Is doing MBA beneficial for big jump?

3. Last question is, what is best way to get into executive management ?
This situation shows why, unfortunately, movements like Brexit are inherently legless. Here we have a case of a British citizen breaking a British law on British soil, yet being abducted by a foreign justice system under treaties that have destroyed national sovereignty. Yet because the UK is currently pushing back against one such agglomeration of power, it will actually supplicate harder to a different power rather than simply acting as its own country!

(And I say this as a USian who is actually concerned with the disastrous effects that exercising world jurisdiction is having on our own society. Why bother spending the effort to secure computers when you can just assuredly throw the witches into cages for decades?)
As a pharmacy company, wanting to charge a higher price for my products, doesn't it sound like an excellent strategy to outrage my customers, get them actively protesting, only to present a solution that many of those outraged customers will support while continuing to allow me to charge my higher price?

This feels like a House of Cards-like strategy: take up an unpopular selfish position only to later use its most vociferous opponents as leverage in maintaining that strategy.
EE bonds don't have 'prices', they have fixed yields if held for 20 years.
What is your goal, as in, what type of job would you want to have post finishing either option?
There's no way OP is getting into a "top 4" company without preparing for algorithms questions.
Right, so the correct classification is traditional and Roth, not 401(k) and Roth.
While there is definitely rent-seeking to combat, it's also true that the restricted-supply exists because we already tried the unregulated version and ran into problems. At one point it was creating painful costs (e.g. congestion) which were externalized onto everybody else.

http://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2014...
What you're describing is the ILEC CO.
Because "taxi" is very bad branding. As a test, casually ask the young Uber driver in the Prius how he likes being a taxi driver. You might get some visceral reactions. If Uber were thought of as "taxi", things would start to unravel for them.
> Here's one discussion that I don't think could have taken place on another social network: https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/771434850863583233.

I don't understand at all why you think that is the case. I don't even spend that much time on G+, but I get linked there every once in a while and I've seen plenty of discussions of equal or higher quality (generally higher, because the character limit is incredibly damaging to quality conversation). Obviously Twitter has more by volume, but the assertion that that kind of conversation is even close to unique to Twitter is really bizarre. Hell, I've even seen conversations of that quality on Facebook occasionally (and tons of times on smaller boards). Even complaints about lack of anonymity on G+ (and certainly on smaller boards) have been based entirely in ignorance for the last several years. It's really easy (and policy-compliant) to make and use a pseudonym on every network I can think of that I've seen high-quality conversation on (with the possible exception of Facebook: I've never tried pseudonymity there).
Mathematical Paper Folding: An Interview with Robert Lang
The thing that made me realize the lawsuit is frivolous is that his basic contention here seems to be that he didn't realize that the show would be replayed over and over for years.

Have you not watched television in the past decade? They're still re-running shows from the 50s! Why would you assume they would throw away the free-at-this-point old episodes? Does ANY non-news show do that?
Not sure about the historic accuracy of this, but this scene [1] from Andrzej Wajda's Danton (1983) depicts the household of Robespierre and seems apropos.

[1]: https://youtu.be/kcwmrh-R7T0?t=3m25s
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> There aren't any research projects, and you won't ever operate at the cutting edge (WaveNet!) at Udacity

Besides doing specific research, the CS grad curriculum at most schools is hardly cutting edge either. Sometimes it lags quite a bit behind the real world because of faculty being more focused on their own research vs teaching.
Municipal ISP forced to shut off fiber-to-the-home Internet after court ruling
There are definitely reasons to support hiding information, but the simple act of it being hidden does not make it immoral if you bring it to light.

It is trivial to form the moral argument for the opposite argument: say I am a corporation (for instance DOW Chemical) and I have a right of personhood in my country, remove negative articles about me from the internet.

If a judge orders it Google will do it, they dont make a moral argument back to a court order(generally), and at that point you have taken critical information away from the greater public (say, that the corp is poisoning people.)
Sure it is. People don't have babies because they can watch porn and that's the same thing.
Really? Why not explain why this is wrong instead of just attacking. I could very well randomly generate material "owned" by someone. As the size increases the chance goes down to being very low of course.
> Sarah Palin's Alaska

Any comments on that one in particular? I wasn't a fan of Palin politically but I saw a bit of the show and she did seem to genuinely love Alaska and want to share it.
I hadn't really considered it like that. I also brought up the subject of dilution and they sort of skirted round the topic, so your comment regarding it being easier to screw me out of than cash may be quite a a pertinent one.
Unfortunately, the idea of government assisted monopolies rarely makes it into the net neutrality debate. :.
Ride sharing is like airlines. Even thought the providers might make huge losses and little profits I think it serves a very legitimate and real need. It is here to stay. I only expect their shine to go down a bit. More opaque pricing, more penalties etc. etc.
Alternatively, it may mean confronting the fact that you've never really sat down to examine your values and find out what it is that you truly want in the first place. :)
MSN maps and dialup RADIUS logs put a murderer in prison at one point. It turned out nobody else had printed a map of the area the body was hidden.[0]

[0] http://murderpedia.org/male.T/t/travis-maury.htm
If there weren't standards, how could readers parse them?

There are lots of different symbologies (ways to encode data), each with its own benefits and limitations. The one most familiar to U.S. consumers is the UPC code.

Most pro sports and event tickets also use barcodes. Ticketmaster and Tickets.com use different symbologies from each other.
Cremation has no (or very little) precedent in Islam, along with a more contentious history. The USG found some rather obscure (IIRC) precedent for water burial in Islam, which allowed them to argue that they were performing proper burial rights to prevent backlash.
There are many, many types of software engineering roles. Perhaps you are just applying to the wrong ones. Maybe you're not a good programmer? I can't say. But even if you aren't, that doesn't mean you can't be a good engineer. You mentioned sysadmin experience, so perhaps you could focus on a DevOps or SRE role?
In the US, I could always make a phone call asking for a taxi. They would tell me it'll arrive in 90 minutes, and the odds were 50:50 it would never arrive at all. That's not because of any shitty law, that's just gross incompetence in incenting their drivers.
We don't know whether Pi is a normal number. We assume so.
Serverless Code Patterns
A similar app I've used is SimplyRain [0].

[0]: https://rain.simplynoise.com
This would be pretty great, but so would real healthcare reform where businesses were simply required to publicly post uniform prices.

I think a fundamental problem of trying to privately implement this idea is that medical businesses have an extreme amount of overhead simply to deal with insurance companies, but they don't precisely ascribe it to insurance as payment. From a doctors' office's perspective, the "actual cost" of providing you cash service still includes paying all their back office rather than just actual services rendered.

Coming from the other direction, you have high-deductible plans that effectively do this in many more words. Plus that whole tax subsidy that fueled the growth of this institutional cancer in the first place.
Something people don't talk about much because many people might not even realize it is that after your first job most people find a job though their professional network. It's hit or miss interviewing cold.
Facebook is a walled garden w/ no anonymity. Privacy (specifically, most posts are only seen by friends of poster) can be good but it can also stifle discussion. Google Plus might have been good (and got some notable adoption among academics initially) but could never accumulate enough of a network for a variety of reasons. Reddit actually has a lot going for it for these purposes, but doesn't work well for "personal brand" building, so doesn't get much uptake among experts.

Other social networks I can think of are mostly focused on sharing pictures and experiences among close friends.
Yeah, back when I thought about this (I'll disappear, and _then_ my ex will be sorry! 19 year olds aren't overly wise) the plan was to disappear while tramping (hiking). Although making it authentic would be hard - you'd have to pick an area where it's too dangerous to thoroughly search by foot, if they can get in there with dog trained to find corpses, then they'll be able to discount the area - and you have to be able to leave sign that makes it look like you entered that area, but not leave sign that showed you exited. Footprints are the big one here, so my thoughts were to exit on deer trails in socks, carefully.

There's also a few rivers I know of that have a reputation for keeping bodies - one of them[1] took my brother-in-law about five years ago and there's been no sign of him since. But, it's a bit harder to do that one and exit the river without anyone seeing you.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_River
It does. For years.
The Politics of Transhumanism
>doesn't solve sugar over-consumption or bad dental care

I though you just said that tooth decay isn't still a public health concern, now it is?

Are you saying the WHO is wrong? Based on what evidence?
With the later versions of bluetooth I don't have a problem with that. Also, we haven't seen this in the wild yet so I'll reserve judgement and praise.
http://math.stackexchange.com/a/216578
Same here in Northern Nevada. It snowed in Tahoe already.
Airfare is cheaper than it was in the past. You can still get good service but you have to pay more.
>While I can't speak about investors, I personally know of one highly-respected niche company that seriously favors candidates who have one of the "big 4" on their resume (AmaMagaGooBookSoft or whatever they're calling it these days).

Is it Valve?
Rich people contribute more to society, so the second order effects of benefiting rich people end up benefiting the larger population as well.
Scribd is desktop-unfriendly. Not sure what's so horrible about just including the text directly in the page.
Between pitches, production takes long breaks where Mark Cuban and the other talent have nothing to do, but sit and wait.

TV production is not very exciting. Post-production even less so. A lot of sitting and waiting. A lot of looking through useless footage to try to find the juice.

I have worked in TV for over a decade. I am leaving Santa Monica to move to Mission Bay in San Francisco in November. I hope not to work on another TV show for the rest of my life, but God laughs when we make plans.
Why should you compare using your overall rate in retirement? Is there some assumption here that most or all of your retirement income is coming from tax-advantaged accounts? That's probably the wrong calculation to make for high earners.
Closed Source Engines Are a Big Risk
This would be a best-case scenario for them. While personnel costs will stay the same or increase fleet maintenance costs will only decrease over time as driverless tech gets cheaper. If they get to the point where their dominant cost is maintenance of an autonomous driving fleet they will have won the competition for the future of transportation which is today in its infancy.
This is a popular stance especially among entrepreneurs. "We're here for such a short period of time, might as well do something meaningful."
Amazon minimum discount percentage filter is broken
Disagreeing with Norway being socialist doesn't make neosocialism not a thing. Not wanting something to be a term doesn't stop it from being one.
I think Uber has complicated what is a simple business. It connect Taxies and Riders. I have never understood Uber's insistence to build a back office around it. Why not just act as a platform and let all taxi companies, independent drives etc. use your cool shiny app ?

Uber should have been more like Yelp. Something that connects rider and drivers while letting riders know what to expect. At the moment it is like Yelp that wants to run all the places listed on their website.

Besides there is absolutely nothing Uber that might help them be a monopoly that a service like Google or Facebook is. Since they have made themselves a physical company they have exposed themselves to politics that will destroy them at least in some markets.
A quick tour of GitHub's new GraphQL API
I knew it had been and appears to still be, but I believe it's been already decided to end, if not already.
For development, perhaps. I am speaking about actual usage.
Optical fiber transmits one terabit per second
Because some laws are criminal (police and fines and jail) and some laws are civil (rights holders sue for loss of earnings).

Me downloading a movie is normally civil. This new case turns it criminal.
at this point the elephant in the room is the extinction of humanity. I'm guessing we have 200-500 years left.
Not a boy scout then. Always be prepared!
G+ was good (a lot of academics were using it heavily for a while and I think John Baez, for example, still is), but it never accumulated much of a userbase (the reason I don't spend much time on it and probably the same reason you don't).

I don't think the character limit is a boon. Sina Weibo removed it, and that seemed to go well.

edit:

One thing I forgot to mention: I use Twitter lists a lot and have various ones assigned to different fields (econ, genetics, politics/current events, microfiction, etc.). Twitter search can filter by list, so, eg, I can see any idle comment any of ~70 economists has ever made about: real business cycles, endogenous vs. exogenous effects, moral hazard, regression discontinuities, etc., at least on Twitter. I can't really do that on Facebook (no real search, right?) or G+ (might have something similar but not enough people using it).
Do you like writing code?? If yes, you're in the right field. If no, get the hell out as fast as possible.

Some of the best developers I know couldn't pass a whiteboard interview if their lives depended on it. Conversely, the worst developer I ever worked with absolutely dominated the whiteboard phase of his interview.

If I were you, I'd look outside of the big four. There are plenty of amazing companies out there doing some very interesting things. Hell, I work for a company that I guarantee you've never heard of, but I work on the most interesting problems that I've ever encountered.