skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, you think that children should be vaccinated by law, but that adults shouldn't because they might be allergic, and they'd only find out when first vaccinated.

But... you believe they should all have already been vaccinated.

Hm.
Skip to 1:05:00 if you just want to see the launch and the in-flight escape test.
Your question seems along the lines of "if beaks are so successful, why don't all species have beaks?"

All animals are the way they are because of a combination of random mutation and environmental pressure. If a trait is successful in one species, it doesn't mean it will occur in another species. If it does occur in another species, it won't necessarily be reproductively beneficial depending on environment and other factors specific to the speices, so may not ever become a generalized part of the species.
Patching on Windows 7 is just as bad.

I let my Windows 7 PC go several months without updates, because it seems like no matter how many I did, there were always more when I restarted. So I finally had a brief scare with a file (opened up something inside a rar package that was disguised with a .jpg extension but was an exe) and decided I needed to get up to date.

It took a week of updating before my damn computer was done with them. I had over a hundred packages to install, but I wasted several days where they would show as being available, yet when I would try to download them, the progress bar sat at 0% for hours without ever moving.

A few days of googling and trying again, I finally got a few "roll-up" patches to install (which still required leaving the computer alone for 24 hours, mind you), and then I was able to actually get the rest of them to download. Restart and all is well, right? Nope. As soon as they were done and I restarted, I was informed that I had a dozen new ones to grab. Download, install, restart. Rinse, repeat. At least four more times. It was absolutely ridiculous.
In my experience lot of aging population feels that it's desirable to have such devices, that these could give them assistance to memorize tasks or do them automatically (e.g. closing garage door). There is many positives if it's implemented with ethical considerations.

> People aren't dumb, they know these devices aren't magic.

Yes they know that they aren't magic but for the most part they don't know how they work - so it's essentially black boxes with deceiving trade-offs, also almost no one reads TOS.
For those interested, Andreas did an interview on the Amp hour a while ago. http://www.theamphour.com/254-an-interview-with-andreas-olof...

Congrats to everyone at adapteva. I remember talking to a couple of researchers who were using the prototype 64 core epiphany processor who seemed excited at how it could scale. I wonder how excited they'd be about this.
>Agriculture is ugly, and always will be.

Dairy farming has come a long way. Automated farms already exists where cows just wander into a shed at their leisure and are automatically milked.

http://www.abc.net.au/landline/content/2013/s3863064.htm
While the number of goods might be limited, the quality is not. If you have more disposable income, you are just as likely to spend it on a better car, a better house, a better laptop, a better phone, etc. Higher quality goods require more complicated manufacturing, more resources, more workers, and longer supply chains. All of which employ more people.

I'm not sure the quantity of goods is limited either. Looking at a supermarket today, the diversity of goods for so many niche purposes is incredible. And the internet has increased it an order of magnitude more.
Why is this a bad thing? Aren't we looking to institute an universal basic income?
Love it when YC alumni's do AMAs!

What was your growth rate for the first 3 months of launching Gobble and how did you acquire your first batch of users?

Also, "I just searched my email for "sit this one out", "going to pass", "won't get there", "not the right fit", and "not going to get to the finish line", and I think we're at 200+."

Is that "200+" denials for VC/angel funding??
I think you should be allowed to sign a contract explaining the risks, and releasing all private and public institutions from any requirement to render aid in the case that you're in an accident, or that such aid is to be rendered at your expense.

Then by all means, leave off your belt. Making a stupid choice and then making the public pay for it though? No.
Any relationship with what in .jp is called hikikomori ? (Just viewed through a different lens?)
Interesting paper. It actually concludes that reasonable seeming (IMO) definitions of mobility give different results on the question of whether mobility has increased or decreased (or stayed the same) since the 70s.

"Based on all of these measures, we find that children entering the labor market today have the same chances of moving up in the income distribution (relative to their parents) as children born in the 1970s.

"Although these rank-based measures of mobility have remained stable, income inequality increased over time in our sample, consistent with prior work. Hence, the consequences of the "birth lottery"---the parents to whom a child is born---are larger today than in the past. A useful visual analogy is to envision the income distribution as a ladder, with each percentile representing a different rung. The rungs of the ladder have grown further apart (inequality has increased), but children’s chances of climbing from lower to higher rungs have not changed (rank-based mobility has remained stable).

...

"Together, these two facts can be used to construct various measures of mobility. For example, if one defines mobility based on relative positions in the income distribution---e.g., a child’s prospects of rising from the bottom to the top quintile---then intergenerational mobility has remained unchanged in recent decades. If instead one defines mobility based on the probability that a child from a low-income family (e.g., the bottom 20 percent) reaches a fixed upper-income threshold (e.g., $100,000), then mobility has increased because of the increase in inequality. However, the increase in inequality has also magnified the difference in expected incomes between children born to low- (e.g., bottom-quintile) versus high- (top-quintile) income families. In this sense, mobility has fallen because a child’s income depends more heavily on her parents’ position in the income distribution today than in the past."
As the value of employment declines, it is unsurprising that fewer people choose to work. I would recharactetize the 'crisis' (why it is a crisis was never articulated in anything but thinly puritanical moral terms) as the natural consequence of increased elasticity in the demand for employment (caused by improved benefits, shifting social norms) combined with reduced payoffs for employment (stagnant wages).

I think that's overly reductive, but I'm having trouble pinning down why (in the terms laid out by the article) there is a crisis rather than a shifting market.
Protein is a big scale that varies a lot - if you're working out or need it to sustain your muscle mass, then it's fine. It's the leftover protein that becomes a problem.
Facebook also grew, specifically, on the appeal of Harvard / Ivy Leage / Selective University association. Part of the reason for being on the network was to 1) show who you were and 2) associate with a high-affinity social cohort.

I've been pointing this out for years, recently ran across another source, at Unz, who makes the same observation.
How does this become top post with only 79 points and 21 comments posted 1 hour ago?
He keeps harping on government benefits but besides Social Security and Medicare there's not really any welfare to speak of in this country. So I don't know what these men are supposed to be living off of.
It's not likely that any of these employees can reasonably claim a tort or breach of contract here. The company messed up, but luckily it's not illegal to disappoint your employees.

Not that I think Theranos should not face some consequences, I just think drawing the line would be highly fraught.
If a person is choosing not to work, why would they change their mind to work on public works projects that tend to be manual labor?
It seems to me that so-called "herbivorism" is spreading from Japan into all of Western civilization, a result of commodities like video games, pornography and social networks sufficiently simulating the context in which rewards are pursued by the sort of employment that is strangely absent in the current male labor force.
People work and go into business and otherwise partner with people who can capriciously screw them over all the time, that's how businesses work. You can put a certain amount of things in contracts and internal procedures but ultimately you need to trust your partners/boss/employees not to screw you over. The App Store is no different and many people build their businesses around it because it is a huge market and Apple has built up a lot of trust that mistakes (presumably like this) are corrected and AFAIK they do not go around wantonly destroying people's businesses.
Udacity open-sources additional driving data
An animal is also terribly inefficient at converting water and feed into human-consumable nutrients, because it's optimized for survival and reproduction.

The vat based solution is more scalable in the long run, and not impossible (we do it with beer).
And they have their smart watches too.
What do you mean what's left of the business, the money on the balance sheet?
The article lacked empathy to the point of myopia, and misused a number of statistics - most blatantly, the government's job seeking numbers, that is heavily massaged to keep the unemployment figures appearing as low as possible.

It was just above the level of a hit piece.
No, we are just arguing about it on internet forums.
They are living off the disproportionate wealth of their parents, the Baby Boomers, in my experience.
What is troubling for me is the scale of this. If you could use your phone to map your private house with this library, that is very neat and nice on some level. But I guess in the future everyone will have in their phone app for this (enabled by some additional sensor or via image analysis), and some 3rd party (say some future search behemoth) will collect all this data. That is kinda troubling for me. When you think benevolently, this is very cool. You could have targeted ads for furniture that fit your rooms, and mix and match well etc, but there probably has to be a negative side to this. Just paranoidly thinking out loud :) no need to downvote ...
Having some purpose in life is important for mental health and general well-being. A basic income isn't supposed to encourage idleness.
very trumpian
That's more than 1 upvote per minute, pretty high. The 2nd story has 55 votes in >1 hour.
Democracy only works in a growing economy.
>> Donald Trump, is perhaps perverse evidence that some of his army of angry men are at least healthily unhappy about the loss of meaning, self-esteem and masculinity that is a consequence of chosen and protracted idleness.

This is a part of my theory as well. There are several groups of Americans who have had a bad time of it over the last 10-15 years. Many of them/us fall into more than one group, whether its chronically unemployed, or paying more than $20,000/yr. for health insurance, or staring at a $160,000 tuition bill per child. Many voters feel neglected by policy makers and point the finger at lobbyists and elected officials becoming too, say, symbiotic in Washington. Trump calls them out, and his outlandish proclamations of wrongdoing and wrongheadedness resonate. When you add these groups up, it turns out to be a lot of Americans because, in my view at least, this has been going on for a long time.
X-ray Telescopes Find Evidence for Wandering Black Hole
I have a master's degree and 20 years if experience in engineering and design but my income and work are always under threat. I doubt these men who are not working wouldn't like to have income if we are honest we can admit that just because you're willing and able to work does not mean you get to have a job. Plus once you hit 40 they are always dumping you for juniors or interns for cheap.
Some of the datacenters I visit have signs on them forbidding people from having Samsung Note 7s on the floor.

"Keep them in your car," one of the signs said. Hmmm, maybe storing them near many liters of gasoline isn't the best idea . . .
Putting Time in Perspective (2013)
What about price discrimination? Should that be legal or illegal?
The most frustrating part of this whole situation is that this is going to cause VC deal flow to be impacted for those entrepreneurs who actually know what they're doing.
Human biology is hard. We don't have a cure for AIDS, baldness, acne, heart disease, cancer, the common cold, etc.
The "idle" in the title refers only to being unemployed. George doesn't care what you're doing while "idle" -- the tone of the article is that if you don't have a job you're not a "real man".
>> Once 3D printing evolves to the point of being suitable to print everyday items

That won't happen any time soon. Sure, you can print household items like a cup, plate, and possibly silverware but so many household things are made out of materials that aren't really 'printable' (a pillow or couch for example) or complicated devices with components (headphones, a can of air freshener, a laptop), manufacturing plays a role in all of those items.
As someone who hates the idea of a 'cinematic universe' this doesn't inspire confidence.
The GitHub post about GraphQL indicates it's more efficient (on the server) when people use GraphQL instead of REST.

To me - looking to provide API access from a new project soon - that sounds like a good potential win.
"However, the increase in inequality has also magnified the difference in expected incomes between children born to low-(e.g., bottom-quintile) versus high-(top-quintile) income families. In this sense, mobility has fallen because a child’s income depends more heavily on her parents’ position in the income distribution today than in the past.

Since the appropriate definition of inter-generational mobility depends upon one’s normative objective, we characterize the copula and marginal distributions separately in this paper."

It would appear we have different normative objectives.
A great, widely-used, dataset that teams can benchmark against is a superb start. Kudos to Udacity on this. I'd love to have a blind test set as well that teams can test and rank against.
But what about patents?
>> and loads of people stick around, largely because their parents want them to stay or because they don't want to leave everything they know.

We've really fallen as Americans, too eager to stick in one place. 2-3 generations ago many of our ancestors left everything they had in their home country to come here with nothing more than the money in their pockets and shirt on their back.
yes but to be fair blatantly lying has been their business model from the very beginning
Gobble is my second company. With my first company, I bootstrapped and never raised outside capital. I got introduced to a consultant by a friend and I paid him to build our first product part-time and help manage an engineering team in India and I contributed front end and simple back end code myself. The initial MVP (minimum viable product) of a company is typically very scrappy and taped together. If you know how to write software, you do it yourself. If not, you can do it in a very scrappy way and do not feel ashamed to do so. Ideally, ad especially with consumer applications, the initial focus is just proving your concept and seeing if it will get any traction or make any money, before investing heavily in a fuller or more perfect product.

With Gobble, I discuss the answer elsewhere in this thread. Two engineers were moonlighting with me to learn RoR and see what it was like to work at a startup. We built a very simple website to display meals and collect sales for a few months. That basic site, along with PDF mockups I designed of our future product, was enough to raise seed money. I hired one of the engineers full time after I raised the funding. Then, I started meeting everyone I could in my extended network and recruiting the rest of the team.
+1 this would make a kickass Don DeLillo book.
I don't necessarily think this is a bad thing, but it would be nice if the non-working time were allocated better. Instead of XX million people not working, get everybody working, but only 3 or 4 days a week.

It's kind of sad that we're more efficient than ever before, but instead of using that efficiency to give everybody more leisure and improve their lives we're forcing people to work crappy, low paying service jobs where they're struggling to survive.
When the website owner decides to use Cloudflare in front of their site, it is absolutely their responsibility to ensure that it's configured properly. Not Cloudflare's and certainly not the user's.

And for that matter, it's entirely possible that they consider this correct behaviour. They may have a poorly written dynamic RSS feed that doesn't cache for instance, and want it protected.

Moreover, Cloudflare provides plenty of ways for the website owner to avoid this behaviour - the global security level can be adjusted, settings for individual endpoints can be adjusted, even settings for individual IP ranges can be adjusted.

As a user, you have no idea what settings the website owner has selected; it seems rash to blame Cloudflare in that context.
NSA contractor charged with stealing top secret data
You're absolutely right that this stigma exists and needs to be challenged but I would add that in my experience one, although certainly not the only, reason for this stigma is that many working class people don't feel that the more educated classes have much respect for the kind of labor they do. I think US society in general views a lot of working class jobs as rather undignified and the stigma against education in these communities is in part an unfortunate reaction to that.
...and to encourage the hiring of felons.
It's already required in some industries, e.g. those that extend credit.

https://consumercomplianceoutlook.org/2013/second-quarter/ad...
They could still stay open and not accept Medicaid/Medicare payments. It would just be terrible for business.
I often like to preview how text works as I work on it.

e.g. if I bold this, does it look out of place
or to check that internal links work.

However, I currently just use my normal text editor and open the output in a browser (if compiling to html)/terminal (if compiling to man pages)/evince (if compiling to pdf)
While I totally agree, pure politics is probably not appropriate here.
gotta get all those (imaginary) points!
She is right about one thing, "Silicon Valley", is the worst thing that has happened to the decentralization and distribution or the powers of the internet. Their entire motive is centralization and monopolization.
Is it just me, or does your comment not parse?

commodities... sufficiently simulating the context in which rewards are pursued by the sort of employment that is strangely absent in the current male labor force

What? What does it mean for commodities to stimulate a context?
>> you need to make these jobs easier and accessible to more people, thus paying less but employing more.

Wouldn't a greater number of coders with lower abilities not work very well? Today's 10x programmers would become 20x or 50x
You can't hold a phone by its holographic keyboard. That means you'd have to type with one hand. One of the big advantages of physical keyboards is the ability to type with 2 thumbs, or even 2 hands on devices like the Psion 5.
Techstars to Launch Accelerator for Music-Industry Tech Startups
this is at a time when Obama is bragging about our low unemployment rate (as it is an Election year)...

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000

often we can construct the narrative first and find supporting data later. what cross section does he use here in the Washington Post?
I implemented a few exchanges. We had the legal requirement to record all changes. For liability. What did you know and when did you know it kinda stuff.

Tamper evident transaction logs (rolling hash) were sufficient.

I don't quite see what blockchains (proof of work, consensus protocol) would add.

Is there a use case for tracking prescriptions? Not a provider, so I'm just guessing.
some browsers add .com automatically, try again with example/1234
This is an excellent reason for developing on an open platform, such as web.
One of those groups who have had a bad time of it, for example, is African American males. If your theory doesn't include race (and racism), it's woefully incomplete.
I haven't done any calculations but this is pure BS. With the situation almost a inverse square law, a significant portion of the earth would have to be liquefied for this much energy.
I flew Emirates last week, and the preflight announcement about electronic devices said use of all devices was ok, except Galaxy Note 7 which need to stay turned off during the whole flight. I can't imagine much worse PR, when yoir products are routinely called out by neutral third parties for being an actual hazard source.
Well said. Political and intellectual elites tend to attach negative connotations to the word "utopia". Perhaps they feel that the very concept of utopia attracts undesirable attention to the bleakness of our current status quo as experienced by the average person.
Application Security Game
Ask HN: Is it possible to learn web dev/programming from videos?
Can you learn mainly from video tutorials? There are lots of seemingly great paid ones out there and some also free ones. I'm having a hard time with reading but seem to be able to grasp concepts from videos fine. So that rules out being a complete idiot. Can I learn enough to be employable as a web developer/software engineer? I haven't put aside enough time and taken learning this stuff seriously because I have doubt about videos being enough but if I can learn mainly from videos I will commit more time to this. I don't have a problem reading small amount of text like the description of what a function does and I can read Hacker News.
Lenses for Fun and Profit
And I don't see how making phones for someone else is a bad thing. It shows you know what you are doing.
The artificial synesthesia is nicely done.

Wish this doc was around when I built a balancing robot.
To those downvoting me -- note the usage of the terms "infantilization" and "emasculation". You don't really have to read between the lines to hear what George is saying, you just need to look those words up.
Ask HN: How to know if my ego is the greatest motivation on my carreer?