skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see anyone doing this currently on a large enough scale, but I'm hopeful that the crashing costs of renewables, which will push the price of electricity down, will be a catalyst for implementing energy-intensive carbon capture and sequestration methods (currently being experimented with in Iceland).
> I'm impressed with how quickly Niantic achieved a playable experience.

I have mixed feelings about this, didn't they drop more than half their peak user base to achieve playable experience?
It often happens that those parents in addition to $1m also "lend" a vast amount of knowledge of how certain social structures and systems work, and how to operate efficiently within them. They also can serve as a "trust provider", which is a great thing to have when executing business transactions.

If given the opportunity to choose between those things and the money, I would take the "inside knowledge" every time. So even if (for some reason) you decide to limit the amount of money parents can "lend" to their children, it still won't solve the issue of disparity.

p.s. You think Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos got to where she was couple of years ago (before the fiasco unfolded) just because her father, a former Enron employee, gave her some money?
I don't think the parent was implying anything negative about the Russian Government's abilities.

It is however the case that the Russian Government is in fact not as competent or substantial in scope as the NSA at what they do. The NSA is easily the leader at network exploitation globally. It's not remotely a close competition and Russia knows it, which is why Putin railed so heavily against the Internet after the Snowden leaks. The NSA has a true global intelligence scouring capability that Russia could only dream of. Russia has a small fraction of the systems of data vacuuming in place across the globe that the NSA can make use of without any effort (courtesy of countless major nations that feed the NSA, including the other four eyes). In terms of sheer skill, I'd like to see the argument that the best of the NSA are beneath that of the best of any other nation. Based on what Snowden revealed, the NSA was at least ten years out in front of Russia and China in what they were doing.
Why American men specifically? Is it that women tend to be in careers that are less under threat in the next 34 years? Or, are they similarly affected here?
Often when it is a class project the department or the professor's lab can collect the payment as a sponsorship instead of the students. Still sketch, but arguably at least the company is forced to pay someone for the labor, and arguably better than the company getting work for free.
This was posted a few days ago, discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12584747
AIUI, it's because the expensive part is not basically updating an internal database when money changes hands (no sending of BTC required), the expensive part is, to take WU as an example, operating half a million brick and mortar locations in 200+ countries.
A diffuse reflector like the moon behaves differently than a specular reflector like an ordinary mirror. A specular reflector will preserve the image but a diffuse reflector will destroy it.

To get a little technical, if the Sun is reflected by either a diffuse or specular reflector, the integrated surface brightness over 4 pi steradians surrounding the reflector will be equal to the integrated surface brightness around the same point if the reflector had not been present.

The difference is that in the case of the diffuse reflector, the specific intensity becomes isotropic, but in the case of a specular reflector, the specific intensity is unidirectional. Now, from your perspective somewhere off to the side looking at the reflector, you only intercept a small fraction of the magnitude of the specific intensity in the case of a diffuse reflector. But you intercept the entire magnitude of the specific intensity if the alignment is right, and zero otherwise. So the surface brightness you're able to observe is unchanged in the case of a specular reflector (if the alignment is right), but is reduced by the solid angle subtended by the reflector as seen by the source divided by 4 pi.

So it is not surprising that if you take a magnifying glass to an image of the Sun in a mirror you can start a fire. But this doesn't mean that you'd be able to use a diffuse reflector like the moon to do the same thing. After all, a white baseball is also a diffuse reflector and is reflecting the Sun's light on a sunny day. But I doubt you will be able to put a magnifying glass to it and light a piece of paper on fire. But you should get a big Fresnel lens and go out the next time there's a full moon and prove it to yourself! (The big Fresnel lens will be fun for a lot of other experiments, too.)
The third sentence:

> That all but ensures that 2016 will be the year that carbon dioxide officially passed the symbolic 400 ppm mark, never to return below it in our lifetimes, according to scientists.

So permanently as in our lifetime which is really the only type of permanence that matters.
I asked the same question the last time this was posted. Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12585129
Sorry, sounds a bit like you're copping an attitude here. There's a lot more to software developement than any one or two things (scaling issues? complex infrastructures?).
Don't be complacent and think because you've done X, you know all about Y and Z.
I once worked with a guy who started with a company at age 16, did a lot of stuff, wrote a lot of code (went to work for amazon after that actually).
Turned out a lot of the things he did, although valuable in the moment to make the sale, were terrible for the long term viability of the product. This kids unguided decisions literally set the company back years when growth took off, and the app couldn't scale, and security holes were gaping.

Just be wary of thinking you know it all, this applies to everyone, regardless of age or experience.
Q: "What's the most important human drive?"

A: "Familiarity."

Sometimes you've just got to fake it til you make it. Since the real world is working okay for you now I feel this advice is appropriate. I've been there. Heck, I'm there now. I'm looking for a new apartment and I have to convince myself it's okay to rent a nice one! LOL

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edit: I read your other post talking about PTSD and, yeah, do look into therapy. There are lots of different kinds out there. I recommend going to a few people before settling down with one or two. And even then if they're not helping, keep looking. There is a huge variability in people who hang out a shingle as therapists. Some are magic, others not so much, and it's different for each person who will be able to help them the most. Speaking from experience here. :) Good luck, God bless, and hand in there.
It's not that misleading. Pure waves and pure particles are dual to each other in the mathematical formalism, though actual physical phenomena are neither.
I applaud Amazon for the offer. That being said…

> Amazon will award the winning team $500,000.

This is hugely under-paid for a worthy winner. AI startups are sold way more these days; Amazon would benefit tremendously from a novel technique in that domain.

> Additionally, a prize of $1 million will be awarded to the winning team’s university if their socialbot achieves the grand challenge of conversing coherently and engagingly with humans on popular topics for 20 minutes.

This emphasizes further how much those students would be ripped off. Their success is valued at half that of their university, even though they are already paying heavily for that university.

More to the point, a bot that fits this description is a major achievement, beyond Siri and Cortana — which both have a much, much larger value than a million dollars.

I understand that the point is to convince universities to grant their students more time to work on that project, and universities tend not to care about pocket money. However, this ⅓ / ⅔ cut is unbalanced.
The schadenfreude is real.
This is basically how Stellar works (https://www.stellar.org). It has its own coin, but that coin is meant to be used basically as the grease on the wheels of transferring money rather than as the money itself.
One problem with organic produce is the shelf-life making speculation potentially tricky. I could see a role for futures and prediction markets to hedge risk and better find the market rate. Check out Augur for example https://www.augur.net/
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Wealthy people tend to have different attitudes about money than others, which has a strong influence on their ability to accumulate wealth. This is expounded upon in the book "Rich Dad Poor Dad". It's worth a read, especially for people who are not wealthy but aspire to it.
As much as I love C# & XAML, I have trouble imagining why I would use this stack instead of writing JS/HTML5 directly.
That's where you have to make some assumptions given the galaxy type. As with a lot of distance techniques in astronomy, there is a lot of uncertainty. This is one of the reasons that surface brightness fluctuations are not a very popular method.
Pithy versus Not Pithy Problem.
Consider Zoho. I have my new business running on it and it's all free. It was very easy to set up my business' domain to be used for email. I still have a grandfathered Google Apps account for personal email, but I'm even considering switching that over since I really only use GMail and Drive, both of which have Zoho equivalents.
Thank you for clarifying. Virginia, and not Tennessee, I take it. What that means is that few, if any, in Loudon County, VA are middle-class. It does not mean that you need $25 million to be middle-class in Loudon County. It means you need to be rich to live in Loudon County.
> if you know you have more than one shot, you're more likely to succeed on your first try

That is most likely also one of the reasons, why there are more (successful) Entrepreneurs in the US than in Europe. At least in Germany, when your first startup fails, you are broke and nobody will give you any funding any more (not to forget, that to get your first funding, is much harder in Germany).
No its the Sam Vimes boot theory.

"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars.

Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socioeconomic unfairness"

A real word example is my Barbour jacket cost around $600 but it will last 30 years
Confession: I hoarded 192 rolls of TP for Y2K.

Frankly, I don't like Chavez, but enough is enough. Time to get an aid concert going and get some TP to Venezuela!

Oops, spoke too soon -- http://fusion.net/story/308479/venezuela-blocks-humanitarian...
The typical trajectory is to take YC's $120k for 7%, gather some evidence that the idea will work, then raise $1-2M for 15%, then get it really working at small scale, then raise $10-20M for 25%, then scale up. The farther along you are, the more money you can raise for a given amount of equity, so it makes sense to raise money in stages.
If I didn't make a mistake, we are looking at removing two trillion metric tons of carbon dioxide per ppm. That is probably not a small feat.

EDIT: Of course I made a mistake, it is probably more like three trillion metric tons, I mixed up fractions of volume and mass.
My first idea was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_climate_change , but that cites a 550 ppm threshold.
It's a symbolic number because for as long as we've known about CO2's effects on the climate we have been in the 300s.
Well what I'm saying is that it doesn't have to be the internal database. It can be a completely decentralised system. I send you $50 and you open an app and just walk up to the first money guy that you see on the street. Why do we need physical banks?
I beleive this is a critical issue and one we should be having a broad national debate about.
Sklml: Easy coarse grain parallelization
I read it as tech that is hard to build because of barriers to entry and an assumption that there isn't a good way to iterate rapidly.
Don't forget that you'd have to do that in an entirely carbon free way and cease all current carbon emissions. That's not happening in our lifetimes.
Ask HN: Where to learn “advanced” concepts in Functional Programming
I have only recently started delving into functional programming seriously (for a little over past half year), and I see people talk about things like monads, and applicatives, and arrows, and ... (you get the idea).

I can code an work quite well in functional programming languages like Haskell, Scala, OCaml etc, and have been able to handle scenarios where such ideas are used, but it has been in an ad-hoc-based-learning way.

I'm basically looking for a good place to start reading all these more "advanced" topics/concepts in Functional Programming, so as to get a more serious grasp on them.

I would be grateful for any books/videos/talks/etc. which might have the same.
Hm, how long until there are Linux drivers for this ?
>> Nintendo would much prefer if "mobile gaming" still meant Game Boys but the world has already made their decision and they can't stop it.

I'm not sure this is entirely accurate. The Nintendo 3DS (I assume what you mean by "game boy"), has been a very successful product for Nintendo. And sales of the 3DS have actually spiked as a result of Pokemon GO.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12607932 and marked it off-topic.
I don't think the findings are all the flawed -- you see similar %'s in other developed economies. It's not like Lawrence Summers just extrapolated the data and relied only on that!
Yeah, i never complained about the servers because of that, but the app was also really buggy from the beginning.
"DropBox was hard-tech when it came out; they reverse engineered the Finder so that your DropBox folder would appear like a normal Mac folder. "

This, IMHO, is a really bad example.

This is pretty much just a few days of sitting in GDB for the right engineer[1]. Now, maybe it require people experienced with debugging tools, but it's really not "hard tech". Now, productionizing it so it works on all versions, yeah, a bit trickier. but again, none of this is at the level of basically "understanding how to make custom bacteria that do a thing", etc. If this is the example you mean for "did stuff people assumed was impossible", then i strongly disagree.

""Software where you need to use scientific-method trial-and-error to build core pieces of the product.""

This, IMHO, is way too low a bar. By this definition, the clang compiler we built for windows is "hard-tech". While it requires time and energy and trial and error, that is not hard, in the same way the dropbox stuff is not hard.

It is known that it is possible, and requires the reasonable application of good engineering skill. That engineering skill may often involve the scientific method trial-and-error, but you know you will eventually get there.

The same is true of dropbox, and in particular, your finder example. The only thing unknown is the timeline, and even that you can take a reasonable stab at if you have good enough engineers.

[1] I did it before they did, and i wasn't even the first. Plenty of people have made this happen :)
The value of YC isn't the money, it's the publicity. Just look at the front page of Hacker News - I've seen 8/10 of the top stories related to YC companies. Demo days give you immediate access to the press.
Because they're an asshole about it, and because they're ignoring the pure luck advantages they had which made their success possible. And it doesn't matter if they've offset the losses of their previous tries, they still took multiple tries (in and of itself not a problem), which is something most people don't get.
I do mean display monitor, not temperature monitor.
Because it would be silly for nation X to hack nation Y using private servers in nation X. At least route it through A,B,X,C.
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I am a whisteblower. My company injects ads, monitor user behaviour, cheat affilaite system etc to make money.
The company name is Sterkly and Revizer. You may also knows us as Sambreel. We got sued by Facebook in 2011.

The company is Revizer from Israel which merged with Sterkly from USA to form another entity named Avantis.

The company and it's partners have made millions without anyone knowing.

WHAT DO THE DO:
- Ad injection - we insert ads into white spaces in a browser and match it to look like the site

- Pop-under - easy money

- Pop-Up - easy money. Good for distributing pc and virus products that annoy you till you call the call center or buy it online.

- White space ads on Facebook

- Search injection into Google Bing and Yahoo. We make our listing look just like theirs and we make millions from this.

- Selling user browsing data to 3rd parties. This is easy as we track all users.

- Blocking Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer functions. They update their product to stop us so we inject software to disable updates and so we can keep the user for long time.

- Stuffing computers with affiliate links to earn money. We use this with Ebay, Amazon and many large ecommerce companies.

- Auto-enabling our ad units without user's consents. We do installs of our software with companies below. The software we installs looks innocent, but after we get into the network, we change the file and now can install on a computer withou user consent.
The graphics are both indeed circular which makes them look alike, but the meaning is completely different.

In the OO graphic, it's representing a single cell organism, hence the circle. This is not the complete application. It's encapsulating the state of a single process, and only through externally interacting with the organism can the state be inspected & changed, all based on time.

The circles in the FP represent domain logic, the inner most circle represents your high level business logic. This is the complete application. Then translating your logic to the next lower level domain, until the physical hardware layer is reached and your program becomes something concrete and runnable. This layering resembles an onion, which is also a circle.
By those that use a single compiler, on a single OS and never had to deal with UB bugs.
I would also recommend trying Calm - personally I preferred it to Headspace. Both teach a non-new agey version of Mindfulness Meditation, and there is plenty of science that shows it to have a lot of health benefits.
Ironically, very few money managers manage to even do as well as the S&P 500. Everyone thinks they can do better, and wind up falling short.
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"After you."

I'm not the one complaining that there isn't a phone catered to me.

"I was just agreeing with another poster that there is a market out there for something beyond that without going to the full smartphone-and-apps, entertainment-device model. "

There really isn't, though.
This summer I was working on a userspace network I/O scheduler in Rust, and to avoid allocations, modifying the top element in the heap in-place was necessary. It dramatically improved performance of my scheduler.
Your "ferry" would have to be a minimum of several miles long. It would be a motorized section of road.
It could be a good way of dumping extra load in a renewable national grid.

Spec the grid so that in low supply situations (low wind, low sun) there is enough power to cover actual demand 90% of the time. Then whenever there is extra power, (windy and/or sunny days) you redirect that extra power into carbon capture/sequestration.
Congratulations on all the good work to everyone!

Trying it out now.
First, I think you're using more of a 'wise' mind than you think. You've (1) recognized the emotion that you are feeling and have acknowledged it, (2) thought about how important it was to you, and (3) compared it with other thoughts. To do all those you actually do have to experience the emotion and it sounds like you've got a hand on that.

Second, not that your frustration with a clerk is not important, but when I was explaining not reasoning yourself out of emotions I was thinking more along the lines of intense anxiety. A few years ago I had an interview with a cool tech company for a position I really wanted. I was so anxious I threw up in the elevator (...sigh...) All the logical thinking in the world didn't help me.
I assume that intern means intern, but I'm sure that "work with existing employees to collect and load the data" means data entry.
I tried Zoho for a few days and had problems with e-mails not getting delivered and other things I can't remember right now. I'm not sure but I think that it showed some IP addresses as blacklisted at mxtoolbox.com. And I did setup SPF, DKIM and DMARC.
Sorry to hear about your problems, but it was inevitable.

Back in 1997 I commented on the AOL Apple Forum that Apple should dump the creative community in favor of the larger consumer market. At the time the creative market represented about 1.5% of total computer usage. Mac market share was 2%, but only in the US. Everywhere else it was non-existent.

Not that I had anything to do with it (I didn't) Apple did just that, and today its the world's largest, most profitable tech company. Beyond computers, Apple manufactures iPhones, iPads, Beats headsets, Ear Buds and Air Buds, Apple Watches, and Apple TV. Apple also offers on demand movies, TV and music, not to mention books and news.

Twenty years ago you couldn't open a Mac catalog without be deluged by creative programs and accessories Adobe was a big deal, today not so much. Most people recognize Adobe as the developer of a crap media player

I want to thank you very much for supporting Apple back in the day. I did too, with a 27 person electronics and software development (Linux) firm. It was hard back then because field support was virtually non-existent (unless you did graphics).

Frankly, the creative industry's need for specialized softwares and extremely powerful computers makes me wonder if you and Apple haven't come to a fork in the road, where each goes their own way.

I wish you the very best.
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I am so used to my laptop keyboard, that even when I do plugin my real keyboard, I end up using the one on my laptop.
Nope, ringing is the effect of a high-pass (or band-pass) filter - it's the opposite of smoothing.

JPEG looses information by quantization, not low-passing. It is true that small high frequency coefficients will get rounded to 0 during quantization, and this does save quite a few bits. But the ringing is just from being imprecise about each DCT coefficient, coding a value that is either too large or too small.
Write.

All those concepts don't matter if you don't have where to apply them, and if
you do have use for them, you'll learn them soon enough. It was quite visible
with a nice paradigm of aspect-oriented programming dozen years ago
(from imperative programming field); it looked like a good idea, but there was
nowhere to put that into use sensibly, and AOP eventually died.