skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the problem is a lack of ideas for a better prison system, it's that people don't care. Most people assume that they'll never be in prison and that the people who are deserve what they get—and that's if they think about it at all.

If a politician does come along and try to change the system, he's got to convince a lot of his colleagues that don't have a lot of reason to do anything, and he's got to worry someone else will come along and tell voters he's worried about making life good for criminals instead of better for good people.

There's just no incentive.
This is not going to end nicely. Forget about the fact that Steam is pretty much insurmountable for a second, but this a space Facebook doesn't belong in.
@ricw - here, a very quick and dirty comparison, iPad3, dirty keyboard, watch, focus/exposure locked on rim of the watch.

https://goo.gl/photos/9FM2c9JZRcDitPdd6

Watch full screen for best comparison. Taken in dark office, with just a desk light.
I definitely don't think it makes sense for early stage startups to work with a vendor - there is too much iteration happening during the search for PMF. Where we see it start to make sense is when the company is hitting acceleration. At that point it doesn't scale to do side-by-sides for training. It becomes necessary to manage large number of high-turnover employees and become really good at hiring and training them. It's really specialized. Most tech companies that have scaled - Uber, Amazon, Google etc etc use outside providers. Which isn't to say that even when we get brought in (usually at around the 6 person mark in the blog post) that we don't spend a TON of time making sure that the communication between the front line agents and product/engineering isn't really good.
How can it be self evident? You made a statement saying `Some are appropriate for some situation but not others`

You've listed one example of Flyweight, but without any sources to backup the claim it's appropriate when memory is constrained.
A look at the Postgres themes
There is a quantitate difference between "sorry our bad, we'll let you out of prison" and "sorry our bad, you're still dead". Which one would you prefer?

It's wrong to believe we can (or even should) have a justice system that doesn't make mistakes. Human fallibility exists.

"some people who must be killed."

That's a moral opinion.
It doesn't. Every species has its flaws, and humans are self-centered, egotistical, greedy and vain. Until you find a way to genetically engineer those traits out of us, it can't be done.

I predict, however, that if you do that, those behind the genetic alterations will take over the planet and run roughshod over all the mindless bastards that used to be human...

Kinda like what the Nazis wanted to do.
This gets rather pricey fast, but I just cannot get over how cheap and ugly it looks.
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> I'm a serial startup CTO

Is that a bad thing or a good thing? Like, have all your previous places closed, exited, what?
I just want to say, I only came for the comments, but clicked after seeing people report so many downloads that it went over your rehosting limit.

The pictures in the PDF are absolutely stunning. I encourage everyone to have a look.

If anyone needs a quick spoiler (a pair of comparison images I copied from the PDF into a gallery for you) here you go:

http://imgur.com/a/THJbf
Haha, finally I can have a desktop version of FarmVille.

Really tho, this is emblematic of the endemic problem with tech monoliths misunderstanding their audience. It somehow reminds me of a planning deck I once saw for supporting "party planning" mode where the actual use case was "porn mode" but the bizdev had to make it pc.
The target audience for Gameroom is not the same as the target audience for Steam; it's the people who play Farmville or Words with Friends - not the product of Triple-A game producers.

Think parents of Steam players, if not Steam players themselves. Sure, there will be some bleedover - after a long day of ganking noobs and insulting moms, some people think it's nice to sit down to a casual game and buy a vowel or a cow.

If FB can make Gameroom stick around, it will be profitable. Farmville has stuck around for 7 years now and most people would snerk at the idea that it's "a real game". But it's target audience doesn't care about the snark. They have fun.

The real worry here should be how FB is losing it's focus with the shopping pages and the social pages and the game hub and the blah and the blah.

You know, just like what happened with AOL and Yahoo. They were big for a long time, and then they suddenly don't matter much anymore.
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Hey HN! I want to hear the arguments as to why this is or isn't a positive development for society. Not whether or not it's the right business decision, or whether or not they should have the right to do it.

Any thoughts?
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I would also draw a distinction between B2B businesses with Customer Success needs and B2C businesses. Perhaps I should modify the blog post to reflect the assumption that this is basic question-answering support, rather than technical support.
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Average gamers in CoD are not average gamers. So there's that.
For IoT there's a package for that
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Though SPARK gives you stronger guarantees than rust.
Does this imply yCombinator's returns will go down?
I think this is great for the economy. It's one more venue for small businesses to get their products to the masses and it'll create jobs as these 'stores' will need to be updated and managed.
See, I think it would be cool if I could do it without flipping my account to a business account, but at the same time, then I'd think Instagram runs the risk of empowering everyone the ability to assign monetary values to things quite inappropriately, at least from a cultural standpoint.

On the one hand, I like the idea of being able to pawn off a cool gadget I found.

On the other hand, I don't like the idea of seeing pricetags all over people's profiles, or worse, seeing people sell mementos or sentimental items on a social media platform so very in-my-face just to turn a quick buck.

The latter strongly outweighs the former for me, so I suppose I'm glad this appears to be limited to business accounts.
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Would North America include Mexico in this case? (It's a sincere, relevant question, not a pedantic one.)
I think some might argue that any sort of service that gives customers more choice is a good thing, but recent research seems to be pointed in the direction that too many choices available is causing anxiety [+] (which might outweigh the utility the additional choice is providing).

Its good for Instagram, and its good for the economy. Society? More data needed. I worry its going to turn into Tinder for purchasing, and it simply greases the pipeline of purchasing things you don't need with money you don't have in the name of social status ("We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.”) [++].

[+] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-tyranny-of-ch...

[+] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/oct/21/choice-...

[+] https://www.fastcompany.com/3031364/the-future-of-work/why-h...

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Already doing both R and Python in equal proportions, thank you for the suggestion anyways.
This seems like a natural way to monetize instagram for accounts that I follow. I would take this over ads any day. If I like a business enough to follow them on instagram, then I won't mind being able to purchase something from the account.

For instance, I follow King Arthur Flour for their scrumptious baking recipes. It'd be great to be able to go straight to their online store to purchase some of their harder to find ingredients like Boiled Cider.

One thing I hope they do is make it so everybody can get in on it. Say you want to be able to sell prints of your great photos, how awesome would it be to have a built in way for customers to do so? Or have a brewery and want to sell some t-shirts?

That said... will this taint the instagram experience? Youtube feels increasingly optimized for profit-making and seems be crowding out some of the more "just-for-fun" type projects. If too much of a social media site focus on profit it becomes just another mall and less of a social setting.
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You're failing to mention 99% of those Dell laptops have REMOVABLE batteries which is why they're smaller. If the battery runs out you could have multiple charged ones in your bag, which is what we all did when we knew we'd be stuck in a datacenter for a full day.

If your battery runs out on the macbook, you're just done.
Show HN: Neofetch - A fast, highly customizable system info script
Some people are just more optimized for multithreading

I can hardly fathom the solar Babylon Musk has conjured up in his head
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Back in the first dotcom bubble, we had FuckedCompany.com. It tracked these sorts of things on a daily basis.
I think what we learned from this story is that either someone fabricated logs and lied to create a story; or that we have some "trusted" people who have access to NSA level information (e.g. Logs for all DNS requests) who are willing to create a fake story for a political cause.
Slightly off topic but you may also want to check out Leslie Lamport's classic Teaching Concurrency.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/t...
Agreed on all points. Good sleep and the first couple hours of the morning really set my pace for the rest of the day. For me those hours include meditation, daily review/planning and mental exercise over coffee, and some sort of intense physical exertion.
It's not failed for a lack of stores on Linux. Both Steam and GOG sell Linux games, The gaming ecosystem on Linux just doesn't compare to that on Windows. Driver support isn't there, AAA/AA game support isn't there, backwards compatibility isn't there. It is much better in recent years than ever but I think this is a knock on effect from the general resurgence of PC gaming as a whole.

Trust me, I'd love it if this weren't the case but Linux gaming has been pushed as least as long as the Linux desktop, and I don't see either getting much more traction. It's a chicken and egg problem.
I think the name Instacart is already taken.
What made you decide to build Async in house?
My complaint about the popular feed is that it's mostly tweets and Pinboard doesn't name Twitter links anything useful. It would be awesome (for the popular tab and for my own Twitter bookmarks) if Pinboard would use the text of a tweet as the bookmark title.
Is there a mirror for the actual review?
Why games were designed to not need AI
I saw a level of immaturity of thought.

I stereotyped that to China being behind still scientifically. They don't yet culturally have a scientific mind.

But it was an OK read I thought.
cognizant is firing people in US, top level cleanup
Can the part-time Data Scientist be remote?
I'm in no position to discuss the actual service, but was really surprised by the citation requests at the bottom. If you use the service, please cite these 6 papers. If you use the data, please cite these other 2.

Is this a new norm that's come about from publish/perish since I was at uni? I've always assumed that you cite what you actually refer to, and even if you just cite as a reference to describe a working project, surely one suffices. Six though?
So as to be fired?
This is really cool! I wonder if there's any intersection between this and MIT's Concept Net (http://conceptnet5.media.mit.edu/) somewhere down the road.
Thanks for another great post Garry. This is also perfectly relevant advice for talking about your business in general, not just for YC (investors, prospective hires, etc.).
Short text understanding? God, I just want a decent thesaurus.
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Most professors cease updating their websites post-tenure. :) I can pinpoint the date my former advisor got tenure based on the last publication on his website...
I really hope Instagram or the merchants go with Apple/Android pay integration. I've gone through the hoops of image->link to shop in the profile->search for the item, only to bow out when faced with the tedium/inevitable spam of creating an account on the merchant's site.
I'm not publishing any papers but I imagine that if I were just using the service as opposed to reading a specific paper I would be at a loss for what to cite without being told.
This is just called Free to Play. Look up how much money TF2 made on hats.
The creator of said site posts on HN from time to time, under pud. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pud
For me, Pinner's share extension blocks the app's UI while it's saving still in iOS 10.
Every minute spent reporting that "X said Y but there is no evidence for this" repeats the lie and is a minute taken away from presenting legitimate information.
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you take the red pill, you read Marx, Althusser, and Adorno and your eyes are forever opened. you take the blue pill, you agree with the posts up voted above mine and go back to sleep. your choice, kid
I'm in the same boat. I'm dreading moving Ableton to a Windows 10 rig, but it's my only option now.
I am a JS programmer and I have mixed feelings about this. I am not entirely sold on the stuff that comes after async/await. In particular, I am curious to know what folks here think about cancelable promises [1] and the try...else block that might be introduced. Or about async iterators [2], where you can `yield await` stuff.

[1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-cancelable-promises

[2] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-async-iteration
Someone figured out how to optimize their exchange of labor for money. I'm very happy for them, and hope we can all make such great exchanges. This fellow sounds like a real go-getter, and we need more such inspirational people.
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In what game, precisely?
Seriously, these platforms are all known for it.
I've pretty most major triple-a multiplayer titles in the past 15 years, and they are all like this.

Do normal people exist? Sure.
Are they the majority?
Uh, no.
:)
It's not even a close contest.

This is even pretty easy to see.
Pick 100 random top youtube videos of these games. Count the amount of racism, what have you going on in voice chat, team chat, whatever.

I say 100 just so one doesn't say "well, it's just these guys".
It's everyone.
Pick any triple A title with multiplayer.
This should be a monthly thread.
Ahh FuckedCompany.com

I remember when I sat in an interview for a position at marchFIRST in Melbourne, Australia. And when it came time in the interview for them to ask "Have you got any questions for us?"

"Yeah, look this is kind of awkward, but I've seen marchFIRST mentioned quite a number of times on this website called fuckedcompany.com... Is that indicative of any issues I should be aware about?"

"Oh, don't worry about that, thats just our american parent company"

"Oh great"

So I accepted the offer, worked off-site for 3 months, and then marchFIRST went chapter 11.

Should have paid more attention to that damned website.
In the same vein as Reddit's ELI5 (Explain Like I'm 5) For Us Laymen (FUL) on this topic, why can't Apple/Google currently default to a Full dropdown to 2G and give the option for by choice users to never allow dropdown to 2G (or 3G/4G) at the OS Level?

Is there a legal mandate (911 Surface Area increase), a hardware impasse (phones physically can't) or is it a company decision to not allow (for whatever reason)?
The real world throughput of the internal SSD on the new MacBook Pros at 3GB/s will be 6 times faster than SATA III. Additionally you could duct tape four of those Crucial SSDs to the lid and connect them with a single USB3 hub and get the same performance as SATA III — and it would be smaller and weigh less.

I expect that will even be a likely third party snap on product given the upgrade in what the new ports make possible.
At the center of a uniform hollow sphere the force will be precisely 0.
This article doesn't give us enough information. How many hours overtime did he work? How many hours a week? How much pay gets doled out to janitors? Etc.
> “We believe GIFs are emerging as a format that consumers love and will be really important to advertisers as well,” said Barry Schuler, a partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

Do these clowns really believe the shit that comes out of their mouths? Giphy will never make anyone a dime; gotta wonder how they duped people into another seed round.
One of my favorite sites back in the day! I remember checking it daily to make sure my employer wasn't there. Fun times! We seem to be missing that edge--that deep cynicism and unashamed negativity--this time around.
The best way is to use symmetry. Ask yourself, which way would the net force be directed?
Lots more words, but we're back to the exact same place we were before: there's active exploitation of the bug, and you think Google should hide that fact to give Microsoft breathing room. That is an... unorthodox position to take.
What I'm ultimately arguing here is that: even after the regulators step in and make make them give a fuck, I mean really give a fuck, and they are forced to fix the low hanging fruits, these botnets or other similar machinations, will still exist. In fact, if we assume the regulations work and actually make things harder to exploit, we can add in the knowledge that the price for using and creating IoT botnets will go up - possibly making botnet creation a more lucrative career than IoT defense. I'm saying we have a technical conundrum that regulation can't regulate away.
The real disappointment here is that more people aren't paid proportionally to the amount of time they put in to their jobs.
If BART is like other public sector jobs in California, his pension will be based on some percentage of his average pay, including overtime, for his last few years of employment. Say hello to the $200K per year retired janitor.

Yeah, California won't have a pension crisis in the coming years...