skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you explain why that is? Most people I know who have anything like a computer background from school learned the standard MS Office suite; they then went on to jobs where those skills were useful because their companies also used the MS Office suite. What's the advantage of teaching fundamentals using software the student is less likely to see again?
If you make $10,000 a month why do you need to charge $500 for this book? ;)
Twitter lost me when they dumped on their ecosystem. The changes made to the platform in recent years are obvious grasp at straws rather than anything revolutionary. It's clear that investors have become Twitter's main concern – to a point where even something like a paywall or subscription wouldn't surprise me.

Twitter does not need to have as many employees as it does, and has them solely to rise to some zero sum pissing match.
Tesla Autopilot safety row escalates
I don't agree at all. The American startup has lots of time for ping pong, foosball or hanging out in a chill out/game room, or a social with beers after an all hands weekly meeting. Also flex work hours are pretty common in my experience and lots of startup tout those as a perk.
I wish you had a sample chapter to review before plopping down $500.
I recently listened to a fascinating Radiolab episode which is the interesting flip side of this. The episode was about a girl who couldn't prove she existed (from a legal standpoint).

http://www.radiolab.org/story/invisible-girl/
When you make under $132,000 but were still able to contribute $18,000 to your 401k.
Megahertz Mania
It's very simple for me I just think that one day I'll be dead and that I just wasted my life and the only option to change that is to create something that has value to me and that motivates me.

But the more I think about it ... I guess it's fear, it's the fear of a meaningless life.

Eat, shit, fuck, breath, die ?

No thanks
A good rule of thumb is: if you ever see something in the media that cannot possibly be true, it really isn't true - it's just the media doing above-average fact twisting on the story.
Sort of reminds me of the UI from the movie Her. Fully integrated handheld and ear piece
You are viewing the 3rd party clients as a negative. This was their greatest asset. Instead of destroying them, why not give them an SDK? If they put that SDK to show promoted tweets and other adverts in the stream, they could have sold far more inventory and still have all the metrics they need to show advertisers.

Instead, they destroyed them, destroyed the user growth they provided, destroyed the engagement they provided, and worse destroyed far more earnings potential they could have had if they instead just worked with all the clients to get the ad placements in there. They tried to copy Facebook and how they did things, but instead destroyed their most prized asset.
Having to take the time to write them down in a clear manner is a major benefit of text media (e-mail).

Half of the time, you end up not sending the e-mail because you found the answer while organising your question.
I was really excited about some aspects of AirPods, like the IR sensor that could detect whether you had them in, and pause audio accordingly.

Then I saw a photo of what wearing AirPods looks like from the front (http://www.iostipsandtricks.biz/wp-content/uploads/1473/7957...)

Apple will still sell a mountain of them, because Apple is really good at changing peoples' perceptions of what looks bad, to looking good. The Apple watch is a perfect example. Square watches with rubber bands never looked cool. Motorola innovated a round digital face with the Moto360, and Apple responds with a square digital watch, with a rubber band.
bad because its censorship.
good because porn is bad for your brain.
> If all this makes you worried about China's long-term cosmic ambitions, then you are not the only one.

Classic psyops. A non-manipulative variant would follow up with "So and so nation/organizations have expressed their worry that ..".

So "you are not alone" but do you know the 'company' you keep?

Of course BBC "News" is an old hand in the propaganda business.
Here is a google translated version: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
> Have some exposure to outside of the US markets.

This is the part that kills my ability to "set it and forget it". So many things bother me about this. I know I have to do it (because Japan), but how much and on what markets?

* I don't like the idea of investing in emerging markets. Having grown up in one, I know how shady those can be and how cooked the books are. Growth is often an illusion. If an emerging market is "promising", I'd rather wait until it achieves developed status.

* Developed market indexes are dominated by Japanese stocks, which have gone nowhere in almost 3 decades. You have to accept that a good chunk of your money is going into a no-growth sink.

* I don't know what to expect from Europe. Or even Canada for that matter. When I look at those countries from a distance, I see that 1) their large corporations have been established looong ago (i.e. no new ones are created) and 2) heavy taxation and regulations in those countries doesn't seem to leave much room for profits, at least not as much as in the US. I'm probably wrong though, so please educate me.

I know home bias is supposedly wrong, but the American market is well studied, well known, highly liquid, and there's a cultural aspect to its growth in that its part of the general population's mindset to invest in it for long term goals. I don't think that's the case in all (or even most) countries.

Part of me wants to go full jlcollinsnh/Bogle/Buffet, folks who say you don't need international diversification. Another part of me wants to go as blind as possible into it and just invest in a "world index" ETF like ACWI or VT. And yet another part of me wants to do something in between but has no idea what to do :)
"Before the iPhone, the only people who had/wanted smart phones were "uncool" business people[1]."

I think this is demonstrably untrue. Blackberry's were popular with regular people as well. BBM was huge amongst non techies, at least outside the US.

The problem was they were too expensive. Which is why Blackberry released the Pearl in 2006 which was entirely a consumer product.
Question - is it fair to use the 8% historical market average when doing these calculations (which include some of the most spectacularly productive periods in the American economy)? All the predictions I've seen going forward look like the average will be much lower (at least for the current generation), and a rate of 4-5% means you need a much larger nest egg to drawdown a livable amount each year in retirement.

Edit: It's not clear from the essay, but I'm assuming Patrick's 8% rate is not adjusted for inflation (based on his 40k drawdown scenario - the other 3-4% would cover inflation).
A Peek into French Signals Intelligence
The way I understand this argument is that Apple is now a fashion company that makes beyond fugly bluetooth ear penises that would not be out of place in 2005 during the bluetooth dongle-in-ear era, but that are allegedly 'sexy' simply because they're made by Apple (or possibly because of their phallic nature, not sure). This is why you can't expect decent technology from them anymore.

Seems plausible.
This! Kosovo (and all of Balkan conflicts) are an ongoing tragedy, drawn around ethnic and religious lines.

The article doesn't appear to clearly state that the refugees were largely ethnic Albanians and of mostly Muslim faith, same as the host population.

That's very different from taking in large numbers of culturally dissimilar refugees and successfully integrating them into your society.
It's a video course. $500 is a small investment to make to see if real estate investment might be worth considering.
If someone isn't going to invest $500 in learning about it, they probably shouldn't consider real estate investment.
Yeah it is like criticizing newspapers for not selling as much paper as notebook manufacturers.
Good point. It's pre-release. So, I'll be adding much more content, including a sample video.
You're addressing like 10% of the article. The article lays out tons of issues, including:

1. Shrinking product - this isn't about comparing to facebook, it's about comparing to 2015 twitter.

2. Unhappy employees - especially high turnover at the top, which is universally a bad sign.

3. Unhappy users - users spending way less time on twitter.

4. Unhappy investors - stock price is wayyy down.

5. Happy competitors - a lot of the "cultural significance" is moving to instagram, snapchat, and others.

Twitter isn't a successful medium sized company, it's a large company that is in trouble. Maybe it will become a successful medium sized company one day, but that process will be painful for a lot of people.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12516190
Not really. The vast majority of their ads are in the timeline. I don't see why they couldn't just serve those to third party developers. If the third parties try to block or prevent them then you revoke their API keys. Done.
Arctic sea ice coverage is at its 2nd lowest on record
>On August 15, 2007, the case was heard by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and was dismissed on December 29, 2011 based on a retroactive grant of immunity by Congress for telecommunications companies that cooperated with the government.
IMHO providers should be required to charge the same price to all patients. That's not to say hospital X should pay the same as hospital Y, just that X needs to charge the same to all it's patients for a given service/procedure and Y needs to charge their own price for the same to all their patients. If you have insurance, then they need to be charged the same too. This would go a long way to promoting competition and price transparency.
Disclaimer: My day job is in edtech.

Minecraft has shown to be a good tool to teach students about different topics. During this years ISTE convention, I talked with a lot of teachers who used Minecraft as a teaching aide. To the point of using Minecraft graphics on their worksheets. I saw a math worksheet where instead of counting apples the student would count creeper heads. The teacher said the student engagement raised after using the Minecraft graphics. Ultimately it is a great tool. MS will find ways to make money off of that. But there is much worse software out there's being sold everyday to naive school boards. Software that does not help teachers engage students in the way Minecraft does. You will not believe how awful most edtech software is.
So here's a small, low-res JPEG of it...wtf
CFCs had relatively cheap, equivalent replacements, and did not make up the cornerstone of many national economies.

The damage they caused was disproportionate, compared to the economic benefit of using them over alternatives.

The nature of the ozone hole also didn't let people hide behind nonsense like "The climate changes naturally" and "Well, there are natural sources of carbon" and "The climate was different in the past."
Tesla Sues Oil Exec for Impersonating Musk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sogen_Kato
But it actually is true in this case.
Albanian here. What the article omits, or misses is that most refugees during the Kosovo war were Albanians as well. Same language, same culture.

We had a large house and my parents hosted 7 people (two families), during that time. One of the families were actually long/distant cousins.

Now, this is not the same as hosting Syrians refugees. I think very few Albanian families are willing to host them in their own homes. Albania itself is a very tolerant country (religious wise, as most people are not religious themselves or are atheists), and we think of having a large amount of people coming from arab countries as a regress in the freedom and quality of life. They are a lot more conservative, and coming from a completely different culture which will not be compatible with a tolerant one like Albania's.

I think few Albanians would want to put up with that. Very limited numbers yes, massive 100k+ numbers, no way.
Thanks, I watched the video. I totally agree about avoiding news and being low information. Unfollowing all my Facebook friends so I have no feed has been great. I was until recently ignoring a lot of news but due to boredom have allowed myself to get sucked back in.
>Enjoy your corded headphones

I will, thanks

Sent from my Galaxy S7 Edge
I run a twitter feed with tweets about my local area, and gave up on using their geo stuff entirely to find relevant content... It's quite ridiculous.
You clearly have a viewpoint you're entrenched in - and you're pigeon holing this into that.

Uber is a bad investment to you - but a good investment to others. If in the end they successfully become one of the first firms to have a self-driving fleet, then they'll likely be able to make a tremendous return on their investment.

And maybe they won't, maybe they'll fold before then. But saying that this was all the fault of Fed policy is nonsense.
The reference was to start up jobs(which I and others have disagreed with the OPs statement) as opposed to "most" jobs.
Agreed. They can also lose it in the same manner as a "flash crash"
Every laptop I've used stays on if I plug it in and take out the battery.
Actually, check this out: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjwWT1Xy3c4VWM_cpbXXY...

It's a playlist of all the free YouTube videos I've put out about real estate investment.

Similar, but better, more focused content in the course.
If you make more than ~$62k (single earner) and have an employer 401(k) program, you're not eligible to deduct traditional IRA contributions. (Non-deductible traditional IRA contributions get a worse tax treatment than a taxable brokerage account.)

At very roughly $120k-$130k (single earner; I forget the exact figure) you're no longer eligible for Roth IRA contributions. However, you can make non-deductible Traditional IRA contributions and then do a Traditional-to-Roth conversion (not "recharacterization"). This is known as a "Backdoor Roth IRA contribution" and is legal and explained in nauseating detail on the internet.

So:

> Under what conditions could this occur?

If you make more than ~$62k, have an employer 401(k), and contribute the maximum to it, funding a Roth IRA is a good idea.

(Unless you have an existing traditional IRA balance which would make backdoor Roth funding counter-productive due to the pro rata …. blah blah. If you don't have an existing Traditional IRA balance it's not a problem.)
I recently attended a conference organized with Jean Jouzel (vice-president of the IPCC) who said the Paris Accord was a success as in it allowed us to get out of the Kyoto Protocol mindset which had binding targets for only 37 countries nothing whatsoever for the rest of the world.

Another conference led by an economist studying climate change/economy interactions stated that we still lack two things to start doing something effective against climate change:

- Compulsory and audited accounting and reporting of greenhouse gases emissions for all countries. What are you doing anyway if you don't known who emitted what and when to start with?

- Some sort of internationally agreed on economic incentives to push the economy in the right direction. An example would be to have fossil fuel producers collect a tax (which would be reinvested / shared in some way)

Short of this we have no binding target and the 2°C limit remains wishful thinking for the time being...
A neural net writes poetry about mortality
Also, don't listen to one person. Do your own homework.

https://medium.com/@blakeross/wealthfront-silicon-valley-tec...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9856151
He could write code just fine (he passed the interview) but he couldn't seem to grasp engineering. He couldn't look at a mock or a system diagram and figure out how to translate that into code. Given multiple approaches a problem, he wasn't ever able to formulate the advantages and disadvantages to each (and would inevitably pick some crazy, obfuscated approach).

Maybe it was just lack of experience, and he'll eventually come into his own -- but he definitely wasted an unacceptable amount of resources for a small company.
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this is basically how all business works. nothing is real until the money is in the bank. and until it is, there's a million things to go wrong. it can still go wrong after, too, it's just less likely.
Their products might be available, but not the company. You are responsible for finding a broker that has reasonable fees.
The Apple Watch isn't cool.
Oil Exec Pretended to Be Elon Musk with Hilarious Fake Yahoo Email
People didn't want smartphones because they weren't particularly useful, and data was extremely pricey. Blackberry changed that and others followed.
Key Takeaways from the DMEXCO 2016
You obviously missed the point, even when identifying the incongruities of your assessment.

Inspite of that, ANYTHING is better than systemd.

edit: Having something like LLVM as a first class daemon, compared to something like systemd is not even comparable. It's like... evolution. systemd is like taking corporate backwash and trying to clean a pristine pond.
The Thrill of Losing Money by Investing in a Manhattan Restaurant
On-device motion tracking for immersive VR: Freedom from wires
BMW, GE, Others Put $80MM into Carbon to Bring 3D Printing to Mass Manufacturing
Energy density of gas (at conventional pressure) is 100x lower than that of a charged battery. Storing gas instead of electricity might not be such a good option.

Otoh, a gas tank requires only O(E^(2/3)) material, while a battery requires O(E) material, where E = stored energy.
I didn't realize this was a thing! Thanks! I'm looking forward to trying it out.
Are you seriously wondering why some people might think (although it hasn't been said once in this thread by anyone other than you) that taking people's money with an argument that you'll use that money to make more money, then failing to make any money might have a moral component?

Saying that Twitter expected success is just both a projection and an anthropomorphization on your part. As you are not psychic, and as Twitter is made up of a large number of people, not a person with expectations, you have no way of knowing if any of them expected success as they marketed themselves for more cash.

They either deceived investors or are failures. Take your pick. It's just odd that you can't even understand how someone could see a moral component to it.
> I simply cannot fathom why he would state that.

Me either, unless he assumes:

1) His audience is all tech workers, and
2) all tech workers are making better than $62k (single earner) or
whatever the higher married-jointly exclusion is.

That's not so unreasonable.
sorry, but "always be in the market" is a rule predicated on a period of history that's been especially kind to the good ole' usofa. there is absolutely no guarantee or even reason to believe in a guarantee of the same going forward.

here's something to think about, and i know i'll take downvotes to hell for all this: if everyone agrees and everyone is investing (for retirement etc) identically (long stocks bonds whatevers), what are the odds it's "cheap" or represents future extraordinary gains?
I looked at Twitter, they make bank.

It is a viable business and platform. It has a 13 billion market cap that is difficult to defend.

When it trades at a 3 billion market cap and $1.80 per share on the other hand, it'll still be a success story making money hand over fist.

Its the existing shareholders they are worried about.
Some ideas for positive action:

"What can a technologist do about climate change?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10622615
Honestly, until we have week-ish long battery life and background radiation charging, I'm not ready to ditch all my wires.
TL;DR: stronger competition
They celebrated with a nice dinner afterwards though: http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Cassidy-...
It's the new iDweeb. Whether Apple can make this a fashion statement remains to be seen. The iWatch didn't really get traction.
What if Apple's secret plan is to sell fashion accessories that tie onto them?
> What? Uber is just a black hole?

No, obviously zigzigzag was describing the perspective of the investors. The implication is that their return on investment is lower than the investment, i.e. their money is "lost forever".
This is the part that made it make sense to me:

https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/1200/1*N9h4FVkyYoZ...

[Image of person wearing earbugs; text "Wireless headphones. Finally untangled."]

Tangled headphone cords aren't sexy and never will be. Removing them altogether is the logical next move.

I just wish the replacement was better than Bluetooth.
You're definitely not a weirdo edge case, I think we all feel something like that around email, facebook notifications etc, and it's something we very consciously want to avoid in our product.

Each Daily Calm session is available for that day only, so you either listen to it or you don't. If you do come back to the app every day there's something fresh for you if that's what you'd like (you can of course to a regular session too). If you don't use the app on any particular day, no big deal, there's no backlog of content for you to stress about catching up with!
I think the bigger risk will be associated with extreme weather, all over the globe, not just in the middle. We're already seeing that ramp up big time.

I fear that long before the oceans rise substantively, crop killing heat, crop killing cold, crop killing floods, crop killing drought and crop killing storms will strike so widely, frequently and randomly that it will be difficult to reliably produce food anywhere.

I haven't seen much science on this specific topic yet. I'm just intuitively extrapolating how quickly these food-destroying '500 year' storms are ramping up. We've had something like 6 '500 year' storms in the US so far in 2016.
Very interesting breakdown of how your bill gets broken down. If your bill is $100,

- $37 went to staff (plus your tip)

- $29 paid for the food & drink you consumed

- $15 went to the landlord

- $6 went into supplies & maintenance

- $5 went into bank fees, insurance, & workers comp

- $5 went into other costs like utilities & permits

- $3 was left over for operating income
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Bleh. It was a good life story, but you could write out the conclusions either way, and the article is mostly successfully defeating a strawman. She makes a good point: if you define "understanding" narrowly, such as "whatever it takes to score well at Common Core", then it is important to realize that it is inadequate. Fluency is missing, and important.

But it's really just playing with definitions. I'll attack the contrapositive strawman: rote repetition and practice is useless if you don't first understand. You can memorize multiplication tables and the algorithm for multiplying multiple digit numbers, and yet make orders of magnitude mistakes without batting an eye. 40x25=100, right?

I would say that you need to understand the basics, then gain fluency, and from that gain an understanding of the depths and nuances. And I think her life story could back that description up just as well as it backs up hers.
But certainly its available to everyone to negotiate during the interview process no? I have also seen people "become remote" after some time on the job, so its also possible to negotiate after that fact I would think.
No, Wealthfront and Betterment are not active fund managers. They invest your money in a variety of index funds and rebalance it often. Due to their hugely managed sums they can do a lot of tricks to try to improve your yield while still being broadly diversified.