skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok so first directly to your point are some envelopes I found recently that my Grandma had with what would have been potentially valuable stamps from the 1960s when stamp collecting was in its heyday. What actually happened is that many people were excited by the unusual prices paid for stamps at the time and hoarded what they thought would be valuable stamps in the future. (it even hit pop culture: the 1963 movie Charade is about someone who smuggled millions of dollars on a sheet of paper of priceless stamps)

As a result, when I was pricing these recently, they were apparently collected by every other 1960s hobbyist and put in a shoebox. You combine that with the fad of stamp collecting waning and now the first-issue, day-1, limited-edition 55 year old stamp is put up for a few dollars (and usually doesn't sell even then), because every one of them were snatched up.

Second, here's two other of my near-million misses:

I was in an early talk in the bay with what eventually became YouTube.

It went like this "yeah that's fine but what about real player? They tried all this already. On demand video isn't a new idea. Just another flying car. I wish you luck."

Then there was the time I worked in Venice and there was this small company called snapchat and i was like "isn't this a busy and well established market already? Don't consumers have things like MMS, imo, and a myriad of other options?"

Who knows, maybe if I did join then my dismissive pessimism would have been instrumental in their failure on some alternative timeline.

I think the right analysis here is that both companies succeeded because the demographic of who could access the technology and for what purpose changed ... so the same idea in different hands did different things. It really opens up the analysis when considering these as essentially commodity startups.
3000 photos of Pippa Middleton are flying across the internet
Awhile back I remember reading an article that found many addresses with 10,000 BTC (I might be mistaken on the exact number) deposited into them all around a similar time frame and the coins have never moved.
Correction: 75 cents ;-)
I know a lot of people in that income bracket. I don't know anybody with a 7 series or an estate in a gated neighborhood. They're comfortable, but more like Audi A3 than 7 series.

Few lawyers (or consultants or bankers) can make $500k in Iowa City (or even Seattle for that matter). Someone with a household income of $120k can easily afford a 2400 square foot house (that's the national average for a new house) within 30 minutes of work in a good school district near Des Moines. I'd estimate same combination takes an HHI of around $300k in the DC metro area. Jump to $500k (at that bracket you're losing almost half in taxes), and you're wearing nicer suits and saving better for retirement and your kids' college, but saving $100k per year isn't going to let you quit your job and live off interest any time soon.
It would be helpful if the article would cite an example of what it is purporting to report. Otherwise it's pointless.
If you define wealth distribution strictly against individual people. You can report on distribution against anything really, in this case addresses. I agree with your point and most naive readers will assume distribution is per person.
I agree with a lot of what he's saying, but at the same time, why does it matter? Does every book need to be easily enjoyable as light reading by anyone who is literate? Joyce was highly educated and exceedingly well-read, and he wrote (in his later works especially) for an audience similar to himself on those points. The only downside is it limits his potential audience, similar to how a writer of obscure fanfiction or someone who blogs about niche subjects limits their own potential audience. His particular niche was writing for literature nerds.
> Your last two works have been more amusing and exciting to write than they will ever be to read.

Oh how true for so much code, unfortunately.
Creationism’s Reappearance at the Texas State Board of Education
How the UK does it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_British_Class_Survey
Interesting. Is there a guide for someone who's not a PCB designer to get his raspi project as a custom board ?

I want to make a raspi remote controller that controls IR devices around my house via a web app. This would be a perfect, but I have no idea how to get it into a PCB design.
Yep! It's a multipattern engine so we use an NFA--slower than a normal engine, but effective when you have thousands of patterns to search for in binary streams. Since we are often searching binary, we'll encounter text fragments in lots of different encodings, so they're all compiled into the NFA. We wrote a paper about its Unicode support: http://www.dfrws.org/sites/default/files/session-files/paper....
I know. I read De Lorean's "On a clear day you can see General Motors" (1979) and Lutz's "Car Guys vs. Bean Counters" (2013).

Lutz makes a key point about automotive. He says that all the functional needs from automobiles have been met. You can buy just about any car from any make and get where you need to go reliably. Now it's all about the things which drive non-rational decisions about what car to buy.

Self-driving changes that. It's the first big change in basic car function in decades. That's going to have a big impact on the automotive sector, but nobody knows yet how it will play out.
Reply fail, see above.
1% in the US is about $200,000. So, you have a household income of $400,000 and are struggling?

I'm curious, what are your main expenses?
I thought about what could go right. It's going to be huge.

It'll be memeable instagram for commodity VR. 10 second FPV clips will become the next creative currency- the new 140 characters. It's an untrodden and instantly democratized new medium, but could only get the needed network effect if it's backed by someone with Snapchat's clout.

By the time useful AR comes to market, Snap will have all the best creative content.
I think people actively dislike bicyclists.
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Everything clever seems obvious once you already know it.
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I agree.

Also, they went to the Mall of America to get opinions. Malls almost by definition avoid having the extremely poor (who can't afford anything) and the extremely wealthy (who certainly don't need to go to a mall to buy things).
Printing wolf on the box would see them some careful handling too, for a while...
This, I suspect but do not know, may be a failing of the current direction of NL AI solutions. Selecting and using datasets to train NLP systems is a hard thing, especially if you truly treat it as a pattern to be learned rather than an enhancement of an underlying description of the particular language you're trying to learn.

Are we headed towards a time when deeply trained networks seem to work in an acceptably large number of cases, but how and why are unknown and susceptible to fatal flaws that rarely but catastrophically reveal themselves? I suspect that is the case with the current path of machine learning but hope I am wrong. It just seems to me that the inevitable results of certain efforts in machine learning are magic boxes that "work" but no one understands why or how, which smacks of the days of medicine prior to an understanding of the germ theory of disease where certain efforts at sanitation due to the belief in "ill humors" did improve health but were based on utterly false underlying theories, and those successes tended to reinforce other false solutions that did not improve health but in fact was harmful.
>Compromising backbone routers is actually fairly simple.

Yes, the state of security on routers, even some rather large routers is embarrassing, but when routers have business-critical amounts of bandwidth? they are attached to pagers.

Regardless of what you think of us, the folks attached to the pager, when you start messing with big important routers, at least if you mess with them to the point where it interferes with the business needs of the people who are paying money for said routers? you are going to wake us up. You are going to have a really hard time using these routers for much more than an hour before there is someone on-site trying to fix it.

Sure, the state of security for monitoring is also abysmal. if you wanted to put in per-router effort, I'm sure you could take my pager offline when you take my router offline. but customers will notice, customers will complain, and at almost every place where I've been on pager, there have been alternate routes to get to me. Hell, I once woke up to a very excited office manager shouting and pounding on my door because the whole office was down, I was sleeping in, and my pager wasn't charged. It freaked the hell out of my roommates; the office manager had a thick accent, and was built like someone out of a HK action film. They thought for sure I was gonna get messed up because I owed someone money.

But yeah, I mean, sure, with sufficient subtlety, you could use a small amount of the available bandwidth on a poorly-monitored backbone router. And a lot of them are poorly monitored. But my point is just that once you start using them hard enough that it interferes with the business needs of the people paying for them? Regardless of how terrible the monitoring system is, people will notice. Security isn't the only thing that is embarrassing on those routers; businesses are used to this shit failing, and even if most people don't know what to do beyond turning it off and back on, when there are dollars involved, there are procedures for getting someone who does know how to fix it on-site.
Who Actually Won the Moneyball Revolution?
Look at this rich guy, always complaining.
Try not to laugh
Sorry, the title missed the bigger draw for me: This was written by H.G. Wells! The title should make that clear. This was not just anyone asking "Who the hell is this Joyce...?"
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This page explains the symbols:
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-america-divided/

(Ugly as sin though)
Yeah, I get that. But it turns out that they're wrong. Are you suggesting that shippers try not to break things purely out of courtesy? Maybe, but I think incentives aren't aligned such that that can go a long way. With no other feedback, they want to get their job done quickly so that they can move on to the next, and get paid for moving more things.

If they're doing this purely out of courtesy, then yes, I could understand that being wrong about the fragility of bicycles could lead to such a disparity of broken things, since they pay no consequences for being wrong. However if there is a simple insurance policy, which I can only imagine any business would have with a shipping company, they are paying consequences for it, and they would have reason to learn, and try to treat bicycles a little more like televisions.

Apparently this isn't happening, but I don't understand why.

EDIT: I would add that the only explanation I have is that bicycles are less expensive than televisions. This implies that putting a television on the box leads the shipping company to believe that they have to put more time (aka money) into care for the box than they actually have to. This is what lead to my comment about fraud.
compared to what, your favorite standard library ? note there are different modules..
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> No, it's a thing that we've been inculcated into believing to be something that "just happens." Actually it happens for systematic and structural reasons.

Wha? Thousand of years of history would prove you wrong. The more laws we pass, the more people with resources can abuse the letter of these laws to seize advantages for themselves, and their friends/family.

Refer to the Melian dialogue: "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must".

That's just human nature. And I'm not just saying poor as in happens to have no money.

Even if I were tossed out onto the street right now with nothing, I'd do ok. I have friends and family who will look out for me and give me a place to sack out. I'm still decently young and in good health, speak english fluently, and have a good degree.

Now if you have no resources, you are teetering on the brink constantly. No law or policy will be able to change that, due to human nature. No inculcation is necessary, at the root of things we're just animals squabbling over scarce resources.
Yeah, I can't abide using an actual handset for more than the shortest calls, a headset is so much better - for a landline, or even a mobile.
I have a few comments:

My main experience as a patient tells me that one major area of improvement comes from the utter lack of coordination there in on the part of hospitals, insurance companies, and pharmacies to get me the meds I've been prescribed. How many hours do I need to be on the phone? This is "just" at home, though.

In the hospital, I often have just as hard a time to get all my meds because some of my meds are so specialized that the in hospital pharmacy doesn't have them, and I have to bring them from home. If I come in due to an emergency, I am likely to forget them. Thus, additional problems can come about from not having these meds.

Those aren't what most would consider mistakes on the parts on doctors or health care professionals, though, that's institutional blockers to my health care. Do they get counted in this?

As for mistakes on the part of human workers, I wonder just how much is from workers not washing their hands. Anecdotally, a lot of people I know complain that doctors are loathe to do that and other cross-infection control procedures that are simple, but repetitive.

Another barrier I see (although not exactly a "mistake" from one person) to good care is how much effort this can all take, and that it often necessarily means taking time off work. Taking too much time off means you may get fired, etc. Is this taken into account?

I suppose many of my concerns are not direct causes--not getting your meds or getting to the doctor to figure out a problem early on means you miss the opportunity to prevent or fix an easier problem. Then have to deal with it as a full-blown disaster, which means more complicated care, and more opportunities for mistakes in the OR.
I would take a modern QT app over an electron app based purely on memory usage alone. It is no comparison from the potpourri of apps I have tried using both technologies.

Yes QT is more work. But it's kind of like the old adage, you get what you pay for.

Both platforms can be made to look ugly or pretty or inconsistent.
Is that above or below two yachts with a helipad each?
Looking forward then to the deluge of DApps coming to Bitcoin using Multisign and nLockTime, just go to http://dapps.ethercasts.com/ and copy paste ideas to Bitcoin using Multisign / nLockTime, should be easy peasy. Oh yeah, and all can be done with Multisign & nLockTime, so I wonder why Counterparty and now Rootstock are implementing Ethereum's virtual machine, strange.

Wish you and your partner in crime stopped spreading false information and just focused on Bitcoin. It should stand on its own merits not on dishing other projects.
This is quite confusing then. My knowledge in philosophy came from a single semester of philosophy in college, so I am no expert, but from what I remember, one of the things philosophy addresses is proper definition of terms under discussion.

What is "nothing" that he refers to? The "something" that the physicists are taking about is essentially mass and space, which you can't really argue are not things. The "universe" is spacetime and its mass. I think that is as far of physicists go when they claim whether anything came from nothing.

This[0] seems like a good source, although it'd be nice if philosophers can vouch for it.

[0]http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nothingness/#WhyTheSomRatT...
There were a few of them in mid-2000's. Lindows/Linspire is the first that comes to mind [1]. SuSE also had paid versions [2] (the free download was delayed for some time after major releases).

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20030207074123/http://www.lindows...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20040803022103/http://www.suse.d...
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Americans don't have the baggage of nobility so don't have to wedge the class system into a historical (but no longer relevant) model. In the US all that matters is money. It might come from your parents, it might not.
Sorry that's just not correct (to my knowledge at least), as John was always working on gate-based quantum computing and is currently pursuing designs based on resonator-coupled Transmon qubits (the X-mon refers to the geometry of the qubits, which provide four capacitive ports to couple them to resonators and fast flux lines). The next milestone for their collaboration is the demonstration of "quantum superiority" using a 40(-ish) qubit processor to perform an algorithm that is beyond the reach of current supercomputers. The real effort comes afterwards though as the system needs to be scaled up in order to be useful in any real-world task.

The quantum annealing example from the Google research blog seems to use normal quantum gates to simulate the nearest-neighbor interactions in a spin chain. The nature article is currently down but it seems they use "Trotterization" to simulate the spin chain using one- and two-qubits gates.
Unfortunately, the boy who cried wolf will apply if this is more widely adopted, and then pity the poor folks who order TVs.
For what it's worth, I really enjoyed Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan, even though it may be considered a popular economics best seller. I though it offered a great introduction to a field I knew very little about.
> 2 - Cannot subclass Data classes

I know why you want it, I've always had that in scala where a case class is also not subclasseable.

But trust me it's a extremly bad idea. A data class should be final and only contain data. there is no reason to subclass it and if one day valhalla will be coming, it's even a worse idea.
being roughly straight on a log-log plot is a necessary
but not sufficient condition for power-law behavior

Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1062, p.15

pp. 24-29 have nice log-log plots of various data sets, along with whether they can plausibly described as power law distributions. 'Wealth', interestingly enough, looks like a pretty straight line, but fails the statistical test badly.

Btw, if you just take logs and run a regression to estimate the exponent, you get a highly biased estimate.

In general, it's much better to do a direct statistical test, although the method described in the paper is somewhat involved.
I think, in general, that US and UK ideas of socioeconomic class are different. The UK puts much more emphasis on the "socio", and the US in the "economic".
Will this not be solved, partly and in a sense, by hologram keyboards? It seems your wish for a physical keyboard is not due to an enjoyment of the tactile nature of it but rather that it's quite hard to type on an in-screen virtual one.

Hologram keyboards would still seemingly require a surface to type on, though, so it wouldn't solve everything. One might imagine a future where the phone is in your pocket but a hologram screen + keyboard appears (somehow) in front of you. I'm just thinking out loud here.
I once overheard: "Not sure if you want to take your own life? Call the police and they'll help that right along."
Ask HN: Recommended platform for small discussion lists?
I could readily start a Yahoo Group for this, but I suspect that would flop in tech circles. What options are currently available that would not have techies turning their nose up at it?

Thanks.
When blekko was purchased by IBM Watson, I was amused that IBM's list of allowed licenses for the "blue wash" of our code included WTFPL.
See liveops. http://www.liveops.com/

They've already done this. And from their careers page (http://www.liveops.com/company/careers-jobs) they are characterizing their operators as independent contractors, if I am reading the verbiage correctly.

(Source, I interviewed there and received an offer which I declined)
An open protocol can also lead to an inconsistent user experience.
In the year 2016 I still have no idea how to send an image from one XMPP client to another and be sure that the sending side will receive it.
In modern closed-off systems this is braindead simple.
Part of this is due to how fragmented XMPP is, which I would again argue is due to its openness.
A Lexus SUV is a luxury. Some would argue that living in the SF is as well.
Maybe the resulting increase in shipping insurance payouts will finally force logistics companies to actually give a fuck about their quality. It's about time.
This should help you get the gist of it? https://www.reddit.com/r/blackpeopletwitter/
Agreed, I could name the colors for the swears as fast as the initial one where the word was the same as the color it was printed in.

Also there's a trick to doing the Stroop test where the colors don't match. Look just above the word and slightly out of focus, that way you're just naming the color of the blob instead of fighting yourself to read it.
IMHO this link is infinitely more inspirational. http://omrelli.ug/g9/gallery/
The west side of Chicago is a pretty safe place to be if you're a white dude on a bicycle with a backpack. But it's an incredibly dangerous neighborhood for the locals, who are among the poorest people in the region.
Isn't the notion of "upper class" in Britain usually based on peerage titles or being related to people who have them, as opposed to business ownership? A small business person is almost the epitome of middle class, to the point that impoverished aristocrats would never stoop to such an occupation.
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HN tries to de-emphasize authors in titles. The year should be in there, though, to cue the reader that it's probably a historically interesting author. We'll add that.
I thought Interstellar was fantastic and would fall into the plausible realm. Same goes for 2001. Star Wars...certainly not.
Good news for you, if you're willing to spring for it: http://www.foliosociety.com/book/SAE/sound-fury-william-faul...
Patents: landmines for creative intelligence!
$2,000 Custom PC vs. $4,000 Mac Pro
Unless it's some case sensitive trick, I'm looking for alternatives to it.

It's hard to believe that 99% of opensource based network analysis is relying in a single alternative. There use to ve CVEs and RCE announcements from time to time for libpcap. Maybe we're in front of just another perfect target. A widely used, security related, main column.

Someone knows if the codebase is well audited, specially on changes, new protocols, etc?

Is there any difference, running tcpdump/libpcap in linux or let's say, do it in openbsd, if there is a libpcap 0day?
As far as phone quality goes,

cell < landline < skype

For me, having a conversation on a cell takes some effort, and it's tiring. A conversation via landline is much more comfortable, and skype is best. This is all due to the voice quality.
Sorry, if you have some suggestion in howto make it clearer, please, let me know.
> Certainly in Britain, class has almost nothing to do with your income or bank balance.

That's fine and indicates you're using a more historical definition, but doesn't make the parent comment accurate. A decidedly lower-middle class individual can start a business and this will in no way suddenly push them into the upper class. If they make millions, they still won't be upper class by your definition unless maybe they do so well they somehow get a lordship or at least a knighthood out of it.
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