skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that codes are simply a lookup into the structured version of the above document; they aren't "parseable" any more than an MD5 hash is parseable, but they uniquely identify a combination of conditions. As other posters have noted, the complexity required to implement that lookup table is an intentional barrier to entry.
With those candidates, there is no "lesser of two evils" in my opinion, though the media has us believe so. That is my point. My point is about media bias and, it's rampant.
How does one save if they don't make money in the first place? There are plenty of affordable places that you can buy a house at near minimum wage, but when that minimum wage job goes away there's nothing left.

In my experience, people don't have very much bargaining power even if they are financially stable, own a home and have savings when a force such as globalized trade comes through town - there is no bargaining power big enough to avoid shutting down a plant or a business, or moving it across state or country lines.

People need income before being able to save, before being able to purchase assets regardless of their price. Whats more likely is that a factory that previously paid 400 people $10 an hour would rather pay 20 people $30 an hour, and that 380 people have no negotiating power.
Since then, competitors caught up, and Apple's quality of both software and hardware has started a steady decline.
Doctors name treatments that bring little or no benefit
Standard Chartered has some 3 million lines of Haskell, but they don't use GHC, they have their own internal compiler.
Thanks for looking up that info. I was curious to see how accurate these kind of predictions from IDC were. 20M units for iPods alone vs a prediction of 18M units for the entire industry. Interesting.
Great article. I wish Apple had as strong a direction today as it did back then. Or maybe something big is in the works. I'm mostly concerned about the future of the Macbook Pro. Thoughts?
It's not just real estate. I'm not sure about today, but in the 2000s when I worked at Intel, they owned their own jet planes. They had so many employees flying between certain cities they had locations in, that it was more cost-effective for them to operate their own mini-airline.

Outsourcing stuff always costs more, because you have to pay for the profit of the company you're outsourcing to. It's worth it when it's something you don't do that much of, or aren't very good at, but if you do a lot of it, it's worth it to do it yourself.

For an extreme example, think about printing: is it worth it to outsource all your computer printing needs to a specialized printing company? Or should you just buy a laser printer for $100-500 and do it yourself? It doesn't take very much printing for it to be a massive waste to pay someone else to print stuff for you.
If you want to see short sightedness of nerd experts in action, look no further than this gem here

https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...
Good choices.

I'm not a big classical music listener, but if I had to pick only one record to listen for the rest of my life and everything else would be gone forever, it would be the Goldberg Variations by Glenn Gould (1981 recording if I had to choose). No other piece of music has ever had so strong effect on me. Not even close.
An analogy for it might be someone complaining about their ex on Facebook. You can still complain in private and voice your opinions when it's relevant but doing it in a public forum without prompting just screams immaturity. I mean it does have a chilling effect but I don't think that's always a bad thing (people's reaction to this post being a prime example as to why)
Deal is when an electric car with 150-200 miles of range is cheaper than a gasoline powered car, then for the vast majority of people the next car purchase will be electric or a plug in hybrid (twice the mileage of conventional). Assume 12,000 miles a year for a mix of cars

% Type mpg gal/yr ext
50% Electric -- 0 0
25% Plug in Hybrid 80 150 X 0.25 = 37.5
25% Non-Hybrid 30 400 X 0.25 = 100
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Total 137.5

100% Non-Hybrid 30 400 X 1.00 = 400
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100% 400

So the mix of electric, plug in hybrid and gasoline results in a 2/3 reduction in gasoline consumption.

And that's in the US. In countries without domestic oil production the choice will be made for you.
Graphene based ultracapacitors could give lithium-ion a serious challenge
I think this is overlooking another potential factor: Rich culture is better than poor culture.

A college dropout who has grown up rich is going to be more likely to value knowledge than a poor person, will have been exposed to more money management, and being rich is positively correlated with making good life decisions.

Contrast that with poor culture, where we know that the inverse is true in many cases:
Knowledge is not valued to the same degree -- or at least not the same type of knowledge. Money management might have been understanding how to live paycheck to paycheck (which is a valuable skill, but not the same as understanding how to save). And being poor is positively correlated with making bad decisions.

The more that I unlearn my "poor person habits", the better my life becomes. While I always enjoyed learning, so much of my time was spent on useless, consumerists things. I binged on television and video games. As recent studies have shown, rich people were more likely to have been doing something productive (networking/reading etc.) with that time.
We've been spending some time in the UK and really think the ecosystem in London is impressive and growing with real companies doing great work. We haven't invested any UK-based startups yet, but have funded many UK founders, if that's worth anything? :-)

We wanna invest in folks early. The fund isn't for investing in B's or C's or later, since there are plenty of people who are good at that.
No One Is Buying Smartwatches Anymore
Time to patch in a pan-dimensional baka-hammer.
While unwanted virtual contact may be scary to some, it is not "contact" as defined by language and does not constitute sexual assault.
Just a small reminder that personal opinions (like CmdrTaco's comments) are not the same as sales forecasts. To many of us, it was lame.
/r/boardgames is pretty much always a positive community, unless you proclaim your love of Munchkin. Anything interesting news or links about board games tends to get posted there too. But there's also people asking the same questions over and over again (I like blah and blah, and don't like blah, what should I buy next?), but I don't mind that personally.

I remember specifically when GamerGate discussion was poisoning just about every video game community and someone tried to bring it to the board games subreddit and tie it in with board games, and the admins made an executive decision to squash it. Probably one of the best things they ever did, because the board has remained very civil and friendly since.

I've had good experiences with /r/keto too. I almost never check anything else there anymore.

But yeah, niche subreddits.
Given the number of aging Rockers tuning down to Eb, I thought the article was going to make a physical stamina argument :-)
I do enjoy spending long amounts of time browsing the archive of WBW: http://waitbutwhy.com/
If you are using GHC, the newest version (8.0.1) actually supports duplicate record fields with the [DuplicateRecordFields](https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/users_gu...) extension. Check it out!
I would think a few days 3-5 days if his death was due to natural causes (aneurysm, heart failure, etc.)
About 1 out of 3 startups from our last fund were not YC. Many came from warm intros, but a few I scouted and found myself. I went out and recruited Bannerman to YC personally (they're focused on security, which fulfills a key role on Maslow's hierarchy of needs), for instance, and then later invested afterwards.

Cold inbound emails haven't worked well for me, but that's where software down the road should help.
I've been interested in ATT, but the community is significantly smaller, and the community is a big part of the draw of TVT.

What disgusted me was what TVT said in response to ATT. There was a thread essentially claimed it was a weird XXX trope site that was ripping them off: nobody corrected this perception, and nobody even disagreed, despite the fact that looking at the FAQ for five minutes would have made it abundantly clear that this wasn't the case. The mods then said that ATT "didn't deserve any more attention or discussion" and pretty much outright said that mentioning it further was asking for a ban.

It says something about a community when they aren't mature enough to discuss their competitors and legitimately assess them, instead constructing strawmen and saying that anybody who talks about it will be banned: TVT, of all places, ought to know better.
Yeah, there’s an enormous difference between software exploits (cognitive biases) and hardware exploits (drugs). Although both are basically an infringement on free will, even if someone plants an idea in my mind, I’m still much less vulnerable than if they give me something (alcohol/GHB/scopolamine) to force me to be more suggestible.
I have no idea why this laughable article/idea persists, but the actual answer about 440 Hz is completely commercial and mundane.

Decisions made by the J.C. Deagan mallet instrument company at 1770 W. Berteau in Chicago are the sole reasons why A=440. I once worked in this building, still called the Deagan building.

The company made chimes and xylophones and instruments. They had customers all over the US. Each symphony in each city used a slightly different reference tuning. Philadelphia used 442, New York 438, etc.

This fact forced Deagan to retool their machinery every time a different order came in. This cut into profits. The owner, J.C. Deagan urged his customers to standardize on one reference tuning. One reference tuning meant one set of machine tools for his machines and no time or money spent retooling.

Deagan got results only when he contacted James Petrillo, the President of the AFM - the national musicians' union. Petrillo made it a work rule that A=440, overriding the conductors local preferences.

This was in 1910. Therefore there are no nazis involved.

http://richsamuels.com/nbcmm/deagan/index.html

Hey internet: don't be so goddamn gullible all the time, okay?
OK. What might you or your friends have found to be more helpful uses of time? It doesn't have to be in a classroom setting. Or in your experience was the curricula more-or-less sufficient and you consider something(s) else might be better targets for improvement/change? I would like to understand your perspective better.
How Amazon counterfeits put this man's business on brink of collapse
I'm guessing you've watched a lot of Star Trek? I figure this is just the human mind's wonderful proclivity towards learning patterns.

I was actually thinking about a similar but less subtle example: I use a transit system that involves tagging on and off with an RFID card (Clipper on Caltrain). When you tag your card, it makes one of three different noises depending on what happen—and I couldn't possibly tell you which one corresponds to what. But if I'm actually using it and I make a mistake, I notice immediately because I'm so acclimated to the pattern it normally makes!

If I hadn't realized this, the UI for the system would have looked absolutely terrible. The different beeps are the auditory equivalent of "mystery meat navigation" but even worse because they don't carry any semantic meaning at all. But because I always use the system in the same way and the noises were consistent, it actually works really well even if I never consciously learned what noise corresponds to what.

(The fact that there are wrong ways to use the system is bad design, but it's a function of how the whole train system is set up, not the fault of Clipper's designers.)
One could argue that it wasn't necessarily the pepper itself that tore the hole in that individual's esophagus. Rather it was the intense, repeated vomiting that caused the rupture. The pepper only caused the hole by proxy.
Your link also says that the Dunning-Kruger effect does not quite work for Asian cultures. I wonder if these persuasion tricks aren't also tied to culture. Do the tricks work in places/cultures were trust is generally low?
The stuffed giraffe, I presume.
You can train your brain to remember pitches. Try humming your favorite song, then play it and see if you picked the right key. I did this as a game with a friend one afternoon with maybe 80% success rate across 50 songs.
Thanks for the note. I'm happy to talk more — garry@initialized.com.
Note that this is a very indirect way of harming someone: eating peppers has (likely) caused vomiting, violent vomiting has caused rupture of the esophagus.

This is similar to saying that walking can cause fat embolism (a life threatening condition): while walking you can fracture one of the long bones in your leg (e.g. your femur). A rare complication of long bone fracture is fat embolism.
I am not sure I understand your comment. The article claimed that the change in the number of startups had a materially bad impact on the economy. I claim that small business and startups, collectively, have only a small impact on the economy -- and that the article's data didn't support its conjecture.

Of course Google, Apple, GE, Exxon (Standard Oil) and Boeing were all startups at some point, so without startups you don't have an economy, but the breakout in terms of affecting employment is in the large companies. So yes, google hiring is good for you and is believed by many to be good for the economy in general.
It's not what you know, it's who you know.

If you're a poor kid that manages to mingle with the rich and famous, I'd imagine you'd have some pretty good opportunities come your way too regardless of education.

That's the real factor here. If you're connected, you can sell your shitty web hosting to all your dad's friends, and you can have doors open for you with minimal effort.

Regardless, there are rags to riches stories - sure, if you're poor you will probably have to play life in hard mode, but it's pretty cool to say "I started on $4.75ph, and now I make $100ph". There will still be struggles however - it's hard to buy a house when none of your family can act as guarantor, and you may have to help family members out every now and then.

In the end, we all die, and life is what you make of it. It's also nice to remind ourselves every now and then of how much better off we are than 90% of the world still.
Then again, people have said that since the first iPod.

I need more 10 more hands to count all the "iPod killers" and "iPhone killers" that were stomped.
Cannot agree more. I think the usual example of quicksort also falls under this category.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7717691/why-is-the-minima...
I've been through so many of these - but not Sixty Symbols. Thanks!

Also interesting is Crash Course, made by some of the same folks as SciShow. Really more for high school students, but interesting enough that I don't mind them repeating information I do know and I pick up on new stuff.
KCluster.io hosted Kubernetes service now supports DigitalOcean
10% on food and fuel is not the same as 10% inflation overall, though. Rates are likely to remain low, no more than 1-2%. A bit of wage inflation coming through would be good but unlikely. I wouldn't panic just yet. There's still time for the financial services industry to get the message through to their friends in the conservative party that this is a bad idea.
>To many of us, it was lame.

Compared to what existing at the time device?

I had Nomad like devices and they were crap.
>I'm mostly concerned about the future of the Macbook Pro. Thoughts?

Check out the announcements on Thursday.
We've definitely funded hardware and hardware that's software-enabled. The economics and and execution required are very critical, so the bar just gets set higher, I think.
I think the braking is a feature not a bug. See the "reaction time" I'd assume that means that some just aren't reacting in time to not hit the car ahead.
First, contact can mean communication with someone. Second, the internet has moderators all over it because merely saying ugly things to or about people can potentially cause real world harm.

The article admits that no actual physical contact occurred. I agree the term sexual assault is problematic. But it is the norm for there to not be a ready made term for completely new, previously unavailable experiences.

Anyway, I am planning on stepping away from this discussion. I find it galling that it is being limited to simply dismissing what happened to her as if her fear and upset don't really count because "it was just pixels on a screen."
But was this due to the heat, acidity or some other characteristic of this cross? Or was it because he swallowed a pepper whole and it tore a hole because it went down sideways? You have to remember how much and how fast people shove things into their mouths during these contests...

I can't find anything that tells me why it happened.
I really don't think that most JS programmers write code without declaring variables. Anyone using strict mode, ES6, or ESLint/JSLint/JSHint is already forced to declare variables appropriately.

Personally, I think the benefits of let are worth killing off var. I have honestly never seen an example where hoisting has been more clear than the alternative (declaring variables before they're used).
A similar thread here: http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apples-new-thing-ipod.50.... I have to say, I felt pretty much the same way at the time...
There were also CD players that could play MP3s burned on a data disc. That bridged the "capacity gap" - 640/700 MB was a lot of MP3s at the time, especially since people used lower bitrates. Remember, the first iPod was only 5 GB.

The big problem was the interface, it really sucked to try and navigate a couple hundred MP3s on a one-line display.
Erm. My blog runs on it, it's the demo site :)
Most brokers allow you to borrow money against stocks. It's typically called "margin."
Want people to behave better? Give them more privacy
This is cool! I always wanted to make something like this for intersections and randomize the response time in an effort to prove whether or not people who pull out slower at red lights cause others to miss the lights or not. Just a neat experiment as well!
Totally! Never directly associated that with watts though.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your frustration, but we can already produce many fully functional proteins (often in non-human cells) from their genes. It would be a magnificent feat to be able to know and produce an entire organism (familiar, not novel) from the letters on the page. Arguably, that's an important step to being able to do the kinds of designer genetics that people seem to be very interested in for making sure their kids are born without certain disease alleles.
At least we didn't decide to really test our descendants and use the same mine for both!
Just had this problem last week with the sweet home. I ended up being from a sporting goods store instead of Amazon, but I pretty much knew there was going to be some rust from the long storage time of the discontinued product. It turned out to be only a minor issue.

It's a little frustrating how really I can look at a website or product line and reliably make a judgment like "they made a good product in gen 1/2, but now they're in the gen 3/4 cash out phase where they cut costs and make huge margins on the product before their reputation catches up with the new cost-cutting." It shows how often I see it.

My wife and I are missing some significant things in our apartment, but I intend to keep dragging my feet so I can acquire high-quality things as I get the time to research and the money to buy them. Disposable crap isn't worth my time.

Then again, maybe all the mid-30-something's here are laughing at me right now because I'm just doing what everyone does once they mature and become experienced.
"you can start using it right now" if you don't care about IE8, IE9, IE10, and many mobile browsers and are willing to ignore 20% of your customers.

e.g: http://caniuse.com/#search=let

const does not have block scope in those browsers either, but will work, adding to your debugging confusion.

template literals and multiline string has no IE support at all (you need edge: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...) so you can forget most most enterprise clients

Similar things are missing for most features from the article.

I wonder how many JS dev have to answer to actual customers because none of my clients in the last decade who would have accepted to have a possible failure on 1/5 of their visitors. Are they all bloggers or working in hype start ups ?
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Compared to any device that had a USB port and hence actually worked with our PCs.
Support it at the $200 level and you can have them add whatever icon you like.
As the Japanese say, the nail that's standing up gets pulled out.
Is the car new? Why isn't the dealer offering to loan a car during the repair time? Or is that not something that is done there? It is what I would expect in the USA.
From the US here, but close enough to the border with Mexico to have grown up eating spicy foods. I agree completely. I have been growing peppers for a while now, and selecting the pepper for a dish is a lot more than choosing the level of heat. There's a wonderful variety of flavor to be found.
My impression from having tried it briefly is that it's not great at real-time stuff because of its lazy evaluation. Do you find that to be true, or is that not an issue in real life?
Because it requires a core assumption of anti-intellectualism.

It doesn't bother you when friends and family are sold on something that is baseless and are completely opposed to actually researching it and at the very least becoming more skeptical about it?
I think you mean Apple's quality of execution has gone up and down.

There was no prelapsarian apple-of-perfection: they released amazing things and also released utter turds.

I've been pretty much exclusively Apple for 20 years (laptops) and phones (since they shipped them), and the watch (vs other fitness trackers I've used). In the aggregate they haven't sucked as much as the alternatives.

In other places (servers, wifi base stations, office software, music software) I've switched back and forth and currently don't think Apple is worth it. It doesn't have to be a religious issue.

Oh and the original iPod? It was amazing!
The ambiguity in this claim made me chuckle:

"The amount of issues we've addressed with Model X has fallen by 92% in the last 12 months..."

Does that mean their ability to fix existing issues has fallen by 92%? Or does it mean that the number of outstanding issues has fallen by 92%?

Words matter.
I didn't think I would like charging a watch every day, but I have the watch charger next to my phone charger, and I charge my phone every night, so... it works for me.
You raise some really interesting points. I've seen similar as well. But what I draw is not so much that there's an IQ gene (though I'm sure that there are genes that affect brain physiology in some ways), but more so that there are known genes that affect compulsive behaviours which can trump rational processes e.g. addiction, risk-taking.

And while I'm sure lifestyle factors (including nurture, environment) may impact the "degree" to which the expression of these genes "take hold on behaviour", the overall probabilities are more likely to be based on the genetics. I'm thinking similar to how genes increase likelihood of getting cancer, while behaviour/lifestyle can affect treatment outcomes.