skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because that's not what we started the company to do. See how this works? Yes: we could have made a bunch of money doing some variant of Starfighter that none of us were really committed to. But life is too short. Erin and I like what we're doing now instead, and Patrick likes what he's doing instead.

I feel like this is every HN discussion about "rates---comma---raising them": a mean-spirited attempt to convince the audience on the site that high rates aren't really possible, because if they were, the person telling you they're possible would be wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice. Once again: Patrick is just offering a more refined and savvy version of advice me and my Matasano friends gave him, and our outcomes are part of the record of a reasonable large public company.

This, by the way, is why I'll never write this kind of end-of-year wrap-up post (and, for the same reasons, why I'll never open source code unless I absolutely have to). It's also a big part of what I'm trying to get my hands around for the Starfighter wrap-up post. When we started Starfighter, everyone said "you're going to have such an amazing time because of all the HN credibility you have". But pretty much every time Starfighter actually came up on HN, I just wanted to hide under a rock. Even when the site is civil, it's still committed to grind away any joy you take either in accomplishing something near or even in just sharing something interesting you learned.

You could sort of understand an atavistic urge to shit all over someone sharing an interesting experience that was pleasant or impressive. There's a bad Morrissey song about that. But look what happens when you share an interesting story that obviously involved significant unpleasantness and an honest accounting of one's limitations: a giant thread full of people piling on to question your motives and life choices. You can't win.

It's like the worst possible version of "tall poppy syndrome", where the small- to- medium- sized anomalies get chopped down, but Elon Musk is a demigod.
> Russia is a country that heavily censores the internet and opresses its own people. That's a good enough reason.

That's relative. Compared to the US, they are not friends of degeneracy, but they are friends of piracy, for example. It's like a different set of freedoms, which reflects their different culture.
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I traveled like this with my family with 1 kid and a pregnant wife as well as with two young kids. I really enjoyed how having young kids acted as an ice breaker with people in other countries.

We tried to stay in each place for at least a week at a time.

We're wanting to settle down a little more now so we can have a stable social life and do more things like gardening, but I also know someone who has 3 kids and lives out of an rv with his family.
"degeneracy" ?! :(
Isn't that more dependent on your distro than anything else? On openSUSE Leap 42.2, my default is 3.0.1.1, and I could add the less-tested but realistically fine KDE:Extra repository for the latest version. Fedora seems to be shipping 3.1.1 as well. Arch and openSUSE Tumbleweed are also on 3.1.1.
A sysadmin I work who has had Apple-everything for years (iMac, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iPhone, Apple Watch...) with walked in last week without his Apple Watch.

Asking him about it, he pulled out a new Pixel and said it was for op's very reason. In particular he noted that the pixel had a much better DAC than any one iPhone he'd ever had - and in particular that it could drive all of his higher end headphones. He also mentioned that the new iThing adapter has it own DAC inside the adapter... it's apparently powered by the lightning port with its own drivers - and that he had tried it out anyway but found it incapable of properly driving any of his nicer headphones.
We'll be looking to add some simple to use database type functionality. We've only recently launched, so expect the product to develop over the coming months.
I have the same gut feeling about dairy. I think we humans are the only specie that drink milk from other animals (not 100% sure about that) and you don't have to be lactose intolerant, you can also be allergic to milk protein(s).
And we might be the only specie that drinks milk in adulthood too.
Degeneracy? An interesting term to use. Nicely ambiguous.
Papier looks neat, thanks for sharing!
There are a number of miscalculations which mean contributions would never have funded these schemes.

One is the number of years people live after retirement. Another is that pensions (due to their terms) have outpaced wage growth significantly so current contributors can't fund them. Finally, a pension relative to final salary is difficult to fund from a percentage of mostly from early-mid career wages.

In the UK, many public sector organizations have been privatized. Early privatizations often took the pension liabilities with them. As the employees who were members of such schemes leave the scene and current organizations must choose between meeting obligations and making a profit, I expect to see the companies look to duck out of obligations perhaps by packaging obligations into a spinoff company and then watching it go bankrupt.

A lot of retirees I know are pulling money out of these schemes using the new option to take the money as cash. They then put the money into buy to let as a kind of annuity on the basis that even if they'd get more money from the scheme in the long run, they aren't a position to take that kind of a risk. Hope they have insurance.
That's an interesting point. I just checked, and China is about 56% urbanized, whereas the United States sits above 80%. If we assume that China will reach the same levels, that leaves another 250 million people yet to move to urban areas. Even with the aging population, then, it may be able to use those spaces.

Otherwise, it may be able to take advantage of anti-immigrant sentiment in the developed world. That's what intrigued me about your point. China has started to invest in African infrastructure, so why not leverage that to supplement its population when the aging curse kicks in?
Unfortunately I have a life saving medical device that only is compatible with the iPhone. I switched from Android to the iPhone 7 because of this.
As far as I know (correct me if wrong) most censored contents are about gay propaganda, gambling, pornography, etc. Is that right or is there anything else?

On the other hand, VK and Telegram host loads of pirated content and they don't seem to care much.
As someone living in the USA, I understand the temptation to do this - but now really isn't the right time to turn ostrich.

Staying educated on what's going on feels very important to me right now - especially in order to keep an eye out for opportunities to make a positive impact.

Classic quote comes to mind: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
I developed BriefTube.com - It's an instant video summarizer (better put TLDR; for long videos)

I use it a lot myself, mostly for lectures on youtube and coursera.
It's really just a temporary and pretty easily reverted DoS, so it's more of an annoyance than anything of a serious security exploit.
> Aside: Three years? I wonder how long before there's a reasonable chance that some of the purchasers died before the release?

Assuming all his customers are roughly 20-40 years old, the annual mortality rate is ~0.1% IIRC on average (mortality rates, because of the exponentiality of the Gompertz curve, only begin substantially increasing post-40 years, up to the ~90s with annual mortality rates like 10-50%). So then the 3-year mortality rate would be 1-(1-0.001)^3=0.002997001 or ~0.3%. So roughly you would need ~334 customers to expect 1 death over 4 years (100/0.3, since 333.3333333 * 0.002997001 ~> 0.9990003332), with the full binomial distribution covering 2/3/4/5/6 deaths as well (but not much higher with any meaningful probability). I forget where I read it, but I feel like I remember that at least 1000 people pre-ordered the course, in which case the mean number of deaths becomes more like 3 with up to 9 deaths, etc.
What are the underscore operators here? I'm curious, this may be an established convention but I have not seen it before
There is an easy fix for that problem.
http://www.mx.dk/diashow/10018/10018-nxKHn_DMNPJM9YkDieCiyQ....
How was the game boy able to do the OAM scan in 20 cycles? You need to do 2 memory reads per sprite(status and y location), times 40 is 80 reads, means 4 reads per CPU cycle.
Heh. As a dude who makes his daily grind with java, I am convinced this is what happened with java from 2001-2010...
I don't think this is going to happen any time remotely soon, even if apple wants it to.

Going completely wireless would also destroy the current accessories market. No dongle or converter to fix it either.

Also apple already did change the connector for the iPhone once.

The iPhone will go USB-C because the rest of their products have. They can stay dumb and alienate their consumers, or finally start integrating with the world.
I think they're milking the western economic structure of as much resources as they can, and will re-pivot to an alternative economic model once they have exhausted the world's willingness to fund it all.
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"mass media corps actively supporting their candidate"? How? By wasting hours of coverage on irrelevant emails instead of relevant policy issues?

https://shorensteincenter.org/pre-primary-news-coverage-2016...

Look at figure 7, Clinton media coverage 84% negative in tone, twice the ratio as Trump's!

Now compare that to the many millions worth of free coverage that Trump got, because he knew how to exploit the media's lust for controversy.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/10/26/study-confirms-netwo...

100 minutes of Clinton emails vs. 32 minutes of policy issues for all candidates combined - who do you think benefits from that, the candidate with realistic policy proposals, or the one who wants solve all problems by building a wall?
Are strict administrative cities the right comparison?

We have 50 MSAs with 1 million+:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Metropolitan_Statistic...

I think they aren't the right comparison either but quite a few cities are at the center of a larger built up area.
Well done. I hope I can do the same. Do you think I can ease off sugar in small steps, like substituting candy with sweetened tea (agave syrup) ? I also heard that lemon juice helps when you get a sugar craving.
"..but now I believe religion is very important."
as in keeping society structured.

Closet Atheism, trying to keep religion around because the social alternative is a hard vacuum.
The problem with not watching the news is that when you socialise with other people, your discussions will be one long string of Aleppo moments ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOT_BoGpCn4 ) because the newspapers pick some random thing and make it super important, shaping the discourse of people while completely ignoring other events that are just as important if not more important.
I don't know what you had edited it to, but the current title is both true to the title on MeFi and doesn't really tell the gist of the story, which is "LiveJournal servers now located in Russia; purge of dissident accounts alleged" or something like that.
What are some of these opportunities?
Here's some chilling photos of a few of those empty cities:

http://www.businessinsider.com/these-chinese-cities-are-ghos...
In my previous devshop, we had a similar situation RE: contracts. At first we had a lawyer on retainer to handle the relatively complex contracts that we signed with companies.

Eventually, we moved to a format of having a 2-page "contract" which basically specified our rates, gave a few short sentences on the most important topics (rates, billing policy, IP licensing, liability), and used this both as a "price proposal" as well as a final "contract".

This worked very well for 85% of customers. Another 15% were either specific situations, in which legal counsel was required, or were (usually large) companies that had a fixed contract which we could either accept or not.
Depends on the project - so many factors

Desktop or Web?
Data, Graphics, Game or something else?
Who is the audience?
Need to be expendable?
Platform specific or agnostic?
Input/output considerations?
Single user, centralized or distributed data?
If Internet/network what sort of connections will you need to support AS A MINIMUM?
If planning to use commercial tools, can the audience handle the distribution/licensing requirements, costs?
Update considerations - if a closed source single user, consider how updates will deploy in the platform you choose.
Any special hardware you plan to use (i.e. pinpad, signature digitizer, fingerprint scanner) these will be a BIG factor on what you choose, sometimes such devices will narrowly define what is usable.

Many of these are not much a problem by using more tried and true languages/platforms than something new as many of those issues have solutions you can just Google an answer. Going toward the newer/shinier platforms might get you an edge in some feature but may completely ignore other factors.
If anyone is looking to jump ship, DreamWidth is a fork of LiveJournal.
You're right about Iraq, but I thought TARP actually turned a profit? http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/19/news/companies/government-ba...
It's China that heavily censores (sic) the Internet.

Russia just censors, but it's on par with the US, India and other countries. They just don't get their fair of TV coverage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_and_survei...
Rolf Dobelli's "Avoid News" articles are very relevant here.

http://dobelli.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Avoid_News_Par...

http://dobelli.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Avoid_News_Par...
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In my view there are a couple of factors involved. First, it's my impression that it keeps getting more and more competitive. Job security is being whittled away.

Second, we've left the century of physics and entered the century of biology. Most of what you read about, regarding the "reproducibility crisis" and so forth, has to do with the medical and behavioral sciences, which have grown in relation to the physical sciences. It's to the point where, when somebody generalizes about "science research," it's likely to be about life science, and a few of us physical scientists realize that we're an insignificant exception.

I wouldn't say that life science is better or worse than physical science, but that it introduces a new set of problems that may take a few decades to address. One difference is that the life sciences seem more dependent (for now at least) on weak statistics.

Disclosure: I'm a physicist in industry.
I definitely dispute the idea that homelessness is what drives construction in the United States. And I'd argue that in some cases building goes on "ahead of demand" in the USA as well, though it admittedly takes a lot of capital to do so, and of course it doesn't occur to the extent that China's planned economy allows for. (It also faces the same pitfalls; see Atlantic City, NJ for example.)

I'd also submit that constructing buildings which never get occupied (or don't get occupied until they begin falling into a state of disrepair) is totally senseless regardless of scale.
This is getting Orwellian. America's nation building is unique and special becuase Russia never does that and invading a neighbor is totally a different kind of thing. And Russia is justified in this behavior because it's neighbors don't trust it and are aligning against it because they don't trust Russia due to literally decades of the kind of aggressive Russian nation building that Russia never does.

Your whole thesis only makes sense if you look at the last 9-10 years and ignore the rest of history.

I mean, I seriously doubt the FSB cares about HN or even knows what it is, but if they were to put a plant here to spread propaganda...
Do you have plans to actually respond with some kind of positive action? Just reading the news is akin to doing nothing.

To be clear this is not a jab, rather the observation that this is how most of us will respond.

I read the news then I think, "How awful and depressing." Then I go back to my normal day only slightly more down.
Do you have sources for the above? I'd like to read about all of this.
I've added a subtitle to the header below my role. That should make it clear.
I think the US has proven that numbers on a spreadsheet mean literally nothing if you've got a strong enough military and control enough of the economic power of the globe. What are we going to do if they decide they're done being the US's manufacturing state? Like, if they literally halted all shipments to the US overnight. It would take us YEARS to rebuild in the US, and in the meantime people would be screaming bloody murder over here (I'm sure Walmart and Target would be thrilled to have bare shelves). It would collapse our economy as well.
I can totally sympathize with the feeling you are having. Mainstream news has become too celebrity oriented and sensational for my tastes.

So what I think I really want is better news. The PBS news is more suited to my tastes, but the form is too long for my available time. Some news is visual, most can be auditory. And it needs to be portable and always available.
Yeah, it was changed back to original title by mods, it seems.
After 2008 I dropped cable. This is sometimes a hassle for sports, but otherwise it has been a boon. No more MSNBC, FOX, CNN talking head non-sense 24/7. That stuff just sucks you in and pounds you into submission, whether on political topics or "omg the world is gonna end!" type stuff.

I do still scan the headlines from news.google.com once or twice a day and only read a story if the topic is truly compelling/news worthy. This allows me to still have some clue about whats going on without the agita and time sink.
I find that my personal happiness is a lot higher if I don't watch the news. I tend to be a rather analytical person who obsesses over ideas, and I find that ruminating over news or politics drains my energy. Thinking about math or science for a few hours energizes me, but doing the same for social issues wears me out.

Part of the problem is that I feel most people underestimate the enormous complexity of social issues. There's so many variables and so many different types of interactions that my opinion on a lot of issues is "I don't have enough information" or "it's too complex for me to pick a side". A lot of people get upset if you say this to them though, and then they attempt to persuade you otherwise using some well-known argument that I've already researched in depth and found to be largely inconclusive. It's easier just to abstain from these conversations.

I don't think the average person actually likes exploring topics in extreme depth to figure out "the truth"; the surface level conversation is much more interesting to them. How many people have actually looked at the original studies on climate change themselves? I have a hard time imagining how anyone who actually reads these studies could possibly deny the occurrence of global warming. Strong opinions based on weak data seems to be the prevailing theme lately, but perhaps that's just my perception.
If this were true, the supply chain would know about it.
Downvotes? The look of the original website (the URL without the "better" [1]) much closer resembles the original c2 wiki style. The CSS is not even needed in this case.

[1] http://motherfuckingwebsite.com
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The "lots of small propellers" VTOL approach for all practical purposes needs an large area of land anyway. There is no way any neighbours would tolerate the epic levels of noise such a scheme produces.
Going to be completely honest here - this isnt something I can sympathise with.

If you do the wrong thing on any computer system and I'm sure something unexpected would happen.

I'm not saying that "you're holding it wrong", nor do I know 100% what you're talking about, but I don't think its entirely fair to complain like that about a computer system that you're not using 'correctly'.
I think this is super cool contrast with the US government's decision to expand the interstate highway system after WWII. While highways certainly were able to connect American cities in ways which were never before possible, the bet on cars has had long-term repercussions, arguably contributing to the failing of many American metro commuter rail systems which, in turn, created the traffic problems that plague places like New York and LA.

I would be shocked if this doesn't improve the lives of the average Chinese citizen, and I think it likely that a long-term move towards public transportation will help China meet its carbon emissions goals.
I see it that way.

That attitude used to exist back in the 90s, with products like HyperCard, Filemaker, even Microsoft Access. There was a time when it was just expected that development software had a graphical interface builder for developers to use. (Heck, even IDEs for really difficult languages, like C++, had them.)

But "real developers" crapped all over those tools, especially Access. And when "real developers" create programming tools, they don't spend even 10 milliseconds thinking about accessibility or usability or user experience-- look at Git (created in 2005) as a perfect example. There was a time when terrible software like Git was mocked and derided, not praised.

So while back in 1998, anybody could program their own recipe database with drag&drop and a little scripting in HyperCard or Access, now in 2016 they can't. They could try perhaps in one of the "leftover" easy environments, like WinForms, but it's about an order of magnitude more difficult to learn, and if they want to share their solution with someone, they have to learn Git which is about two orders of magnitude more difficult to learn.

The world you grew up in no longer exists, and we move further from that ideal every year. Sorry, but the "high priesthood" concept (make everything difficult and annoying so we can demand more salary) won in our industry, and it won decades ago.
Thanks, I had heard about Straighter but never really read much into it. It looks interesting, will definitely take a look.
People have been saying China is going to crash for a couple of years now. I suppose if you say it every year, you'll eventually be right. All economies have downturns.

However, they already have 12,000 miles (20,000 km) of hsr that carries over 1 billion passengers a year. Most of this was built in a little over a decade. So, it's not a stretch for them to continue at this pace. According to the WSJ, they've spent $120 billion in 2015 and 2016 on hsr. That means that spending is about the same until 2020.

http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2016/07/20/chinas-busiest...

The 1.5 miles first stage of the 2nd Avenue Subway opens tomorrow. That took 9 years and $4 billion. My bet is that China will have 10,000 more miles of hsr before the rest of the 8.5 mile 2nd Ave Subway is finished
Not really, before you could potentially do a bit of economic damage to a company. The threat now is more real to governments as far as I can tell. It's possible for hackers to do real damage and I think that's what scares governments. And those hackers don't actually need resources to pull it off. And if you look at it from Obama's perspective. Say that it was true that this sort of thing played some part in Trump getting elected. Well that means that people like that can damage politics of a country, the most powerful country in the world, with disastrous results. They know the damage it can cause because they have used these tools, and they are scared. That's what new. They weren't scared before.
I'm guessing you're not an American or western European, so you should know that very few people here are going to react warmly to comments calling gay people "degenerate", or lumping them in with pornographers.