skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ringling College who is sharing the video with us, of course is an institution founded philanthropically in early Sarasota arising from earnings made by the Ringling Bros. Circus.

Long associated with Barnum & Bailey, this is the legendary traveling spectacle whose touring will soon be permanently cancelled for the first time in over 100 years.

Anyway, when it comes to Magic Leap, I don't see any way that PTBarnum would be disappointed in their profitability so far.

Without even touring or entertaining very many people at all, they've brought in enough money to start a number of colleges.
This is sadly true and a kind of "bikeshedding". It's why virtually all mobile games transitioned from paid-upfront to the current model of dangling progress in front of the user and offering to pay to relieve the artificial obstacle.

(My favourite line is "This is especially true in the world of Rails and other frameworks, where there is a tendency to treat one's app like a high-level character in a role-playing game, equipping it with epic gems, sinatras, capistranos, and other mithril armor into a mighty "application stack"". )
That's not its job.
This article basically repeats old economic saws of dubious validity. The counter argument is Warren Buffett. Last I looked at it (going back to his Buffett Partnership days), he beat the market every year but one for his first 30 or 40 years. Even better, he was beating the market by an average of 20% a year during his partnership days, and something like 10% a year during his first 20 years running Berkshire Hathaway.

It's not only statistically impossible for Buffett to be a fluke, it's statistically impossible for him not to possess a a skill providing a substantial edge in market investing. Not a "1% a year" type skill.

Nowadays and for the last 20 years or so, Buffett has been managing hundreds of billions of dollars. The immense size of his portfolio restricts his opportunities to a far smaller pool of potential investments and his edge over the market has clearly declined because of that restriction. But he's still beating the market the vast majority of the time.
The theory of relativity and the Pythagorean theorem (2008)
“My 10 Unix Command Line Mistakes”
Generic sentence from newspaper article. I heard Stanford uses Java?

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I feel compelled to link to this[1] bit of writing by Yudkowsky.

Science! It's not a real explanation, so much as a curiosity-stopper. You don't actually know anything more than you knew before I said the magic word. But you turn away, satisfied that nothing unusual is going on.

1. http://lesswrong.com/lw/j3/science_as_curiositystopper/
(not actually my post, just using the same title)
best thing that happened to mozilla was losing the money from google. yahoo pays them almost the same and does not meddle on anti tracking features.

note how every single privacy feature came after google-money. during google-money what did we got? third party cookies accepted as default.

good riddance, google.
Lotus improv – an alternative take on the spreadsheet: sales video from 1990
I wonder what they mean by "tech."
Especially when you end up getting sued for exercising prudence in who you lease to. "Disparate impact"!
I'm on HN way too much. Guess I'm addicted but there are often good posts and even better threads. And many like-minded people.

Sometimes, I try to slow down and when the HN urge comes, I head to some Reddit sub (programming, linux, etc.), they are ok and less addictive.

I also changed the hosts file once (definitely helped).
The claim that taxi supply is sufficient in most cities to compete with Uber aside from on price is clearly not based on much experience with taxis in the US.

I grew up in Australia where every city is served by a small number of taxi companies and central dispatch works great. In every US city I've lived or visited (except NYC) the fragmentation of taxi companies and driver behavior -- most DC cab drivers would refuse to accept credit cards even after it became illegal not to ("my machine she is broken") -- makes taxis worse in every dimension than Uber, and frequently too unreliable to use for things like trips to airports. (In Sydney, I would take a taxi to the airport, in any US city you'd book a van.)

It's not just price -- fragmentation makes dispatch hopeless because the individual companies have too few taxis in their pool and don't hand off bookings to each other efficiently, and local regulations are a nightmare, e.g. in the Washington DC metro area it's painful to get taxis from Arlington (VA) to downtown (DC) and vice versa (Arlington is literally only not downtown DC because Virginia asked for its corner of DC back, we're talking 2 mile rides), and you need to guess which taxi company to use because dispatch is also fragmented and broken. When Uber and Lyft appeared we simply stopped using taxis cold. (Our favorite DC Uber driver was a limo driver who simply used Uber to make money in down-time, and he was clearly not confused about tax and costs.)

I think the idea that privately owned self-driving cars will compete with Uber is wrongheaded but doesn't damage the argument. Any dispatch service that achieves critical mass -- public or private -- can leverage self-driving cars to compete with Uber. I think self-driving cars will vastly reduce car ownership, and pools of automatic taxis will replace them, reduce congestion, and allow lots of car-dedicated space in cities to be reclaimed. I'd argue this threatens Uber's ride-sharing business as much as anything else.

I agree that Uber is almost a victim of its valuation -- it could be incredibly valuable as a virtual integrated vehicle dispatch -- tracking driver and customer quality, vehicle location and capability, and matching vehicles to needs and collecting fares, but by trying to own everything and be valued accordingly it may risk implosion when it fails to deliver.
People often use "its just my personality" as an excuse for bad behavior. Intuitively I think most people know that you have control over your behavior at the very least as well as aspects of your personality. Just like any other activity, you can practice being a more considerate, or more respectful, or less neurotic personality.

There is a weird meme that tech people aren't capable of being "team players" or working with other people. Maybe research will help address that perception; awkward is ok, but we shouldn't accept that techies will be dicks to people all the time.
>If the ratio of 50,000 were to hold for other traits, it would imply individuals who are 53 miles tall, have IQs of 5 million points, and live to be 4 million years old.

That's just not how to do statistics, sorry. First of all, one of those is not like the others: IQ is normalized, the others are not. There are so many assumptions about linearity and distributions here that would need to be a lot more rigorous before anything like this could be said.

See http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/06/department-... for an actual interesting point regarding income and bell curves.
it is usefull but not in a browser.

firefox will never be better than mx or vlc for video. those apps should have chromecast support.
We have managed to keep spam out of inboxes haven't we? When is the last time you saw something slip through?

There is 10 years of training data out there, which should cover everything most politicians and journalists are ever capable of coming up with.
I do remember that a straightforward C++ rewrite of Cassandra performed ~10 times better.

I imagine that a Go implementation would be orders of magnitude less lines of code, resource usage and tree-four times more performant.
so Mentos, chewing gum, and tooth paste may cause problems?
Firefox has had multiple profiles for years too, though the UI isn't as nice as Chrome's. This is different, this is basically profiles that can sharethe same browser window.
OpenBSD Manual Pages – acme-client(1)
If your takeaway from this is most, if not all, investment is pure speculation, you are either very naive or willfully ignorant.

I'm nit saying talent per se is a signifixant factor, but this view suffers frim the sane nakady that a lot if wconomic theories do... an idealized situation/world where everyone plays by the rules. To some individuals, life is not a game, but a winner take all conflict and they will Kobayashi Maru the situation whille others are still playing a game of chance
Speculation is the purchase of investments where you don't have a clear idea of the value of the investment, and are gambling on the direction of the market price.

Actual investment is usually called "value investing", you purchase assets at a substantial discount to their intrinsic value and wait for the market to recognize that value. True value investing is rarely practiced on Wall Street because Wall Street is mostly about the latest fad and charging fat fees to the uninformed. And when Wall Street firms tout themselves as "Value" they are typically just buying low PE stocks, which isn't actual value investing at all.
Isn't mailto: opening Mail.app for you?
I guess thoses artifacts look similar because they're based on the same motion estimation method.

The most artistic use I could find was this video : https://vimeo.com/31774324 :)
Another one : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS_rdl_iVFo
I think they basically delete/change H264 keyframes
Yeah - that's unfortunate. The spec clearly outlines a required minimum key length and it could be easily enforced in JWS libraries to make things more secure.
Ignore that troll account.
That's just confusing numbers that approach zero with zero.

Much like how guessing the lotto number has really low odds, but guessing that their will be a number has very good odds.
This. The relevant Chromium issue report is here [1], and it's been open for years.

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=24690
Then your problem is with the patent system. Singling out Apple only makes you sound like you have a grudge against them.
I am still able to read the article - uBlock, chrome, windows 10 all updated to the latest. What are you using to block ads?
Interesting how the $6 helped him survive the initial onslaught of new customers, since it would have probably been 10x more writes without this $6 throttle in place.

One of his tweets from that same day contains my other favourite line:

> there are worse things than being DDOS'ed by people trying to give you money

(Source: http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/12/the-small-exodus-from-... )
IQ, country, time born, etc are all forms of luck, of course, but it's worth distinguishing that luck from luck of experience that happens later in life.
If that were to work reliably, wouldn't that also catch political expression from individuals (as opposed to just politicians and journalists)? Or are you targeting political speech in general? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what the end-goal is.
It costs money to charge users credit cards. If your app is $1, and you were handling the credit cards yourself, that could easily be $0.30 (and increases for higher prices). Apple gets better pricing than that obviously.. but they also have to maintain the servers that handle/store the credit card data, etc.

And they have to review your app.. which has a real labor cost.

If your app is $50, I could understand the outrage over the price.. but most apps are a dollar or two, and sell little to nothing.. the profits on that have to be insignificant or nonexistent.
I am familiar with the concept of Clojure's reply but I am always wondering how one gets code out of it eventually.
> Study most successful speculators of or times and
> you will see certain patterns and common traits.

Most of the traits that come to my mind are unflattering. The chance of making money by legal means is far lower than by insider trading, or market manipulation.
Wozniak had nothing to do with the success of the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, and iPad, or the NeXT OS that runs on them. Steve Jobs was successful with Woz, he was successful without Woz, he was successful when handed a near bankrupt Apple and forced to turn it around. He was even ultimately successful with NeXT, despite a few bone headed decisions.
Firefox also has these kind of profiles, but he wrote restricted by site, so they'd have to transparently switch as you're using the browser.
You should work in PR. I mean that as a compliment. You've managed to give a clear and intuitive understanding on exactly how it feels to write clojure, and it sounds really nice...

So with respect to the high learning-curve, a few questions:

1. Were there any non-obvious concepts that you wish you'd understood going in? i.e. anything I can do to make my learning-curve shallower than yours?

2. Can you recommend any resources for getting started?
What I find hard to believe is that, after all the issues that German had with the team before coming up with those accusations, those accusations are actually true.

If the personality conflicts arose before the accusation of fraud, I'd agree with you, but it's not clear that this was the order of events. The judge's description suggests that the conflicts arose after the report of fraud, with the implication that despite anonymity the accused (who were the ones with whom there was conflict) immediately concluded that German was the source of the accusation.

So for me, it all depends on whether the accusations of academic fraud of justified. If the accusations are true and substantial, German is probably the aggrieved party, or at least deserving of sympathy. If they are not, he is poisonous to the the lab and should be cast out. Without knowing the details of the complaint, I don't feel I have any way of knowing the probabilities of the different possibilities.

Circumstantially, I was impressed though by the rationality and civility of German's communications that were cited in the judge's ruling[1]. His email to an undergraduate advisee explaining that he was unable to continue his labwork seemed like a model of tact and good communication:

"Hi Alex, unfortunately, due to personal matters I'm off from school. I don't know when I'm coming back. Meanwhile, you have to find another mentor. I highly recommend you to contact Becca (Rebecca Gibbs) for a mentor since she is a very bright scientist (mentored by me) and she was interested in having an undergraduate. This is the most I can do for you at the moment. I'm very sorry about this. My best, Gustavo."

That this was the letter used to justify the attempt to have German involuntarily committed for his own safety (emphasizing "I don't know when I'm coming back") makes me doubt the doubt the "good will" of the advisor. The judge shared this doubt, although it's entirely possible there is further background not brought up in the trial that would justify the advisor's concern.

[1] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:86cjl1...
Check out re-frame [1], too. It's a very thin layer on top of Reagent, but it will help you to get the overall structure just right.

Also, its README is worth reading even if you won't use re-frame :)

[1]: https://github.com/Day8/re-frame
Obvious counterpoint: it's statistically "impossible" for Buffett specifically to beat the market in the way he has. Is it similarly impossible for some person to beat the market in the way he has? Let's call this hypothetical individual Warren Buffett.
> The core issue was that in the 2G era, "CDMA" (the Qualcomm name for IS-95/IS-2000) was built on CDMA (code division multiple access), while GSM was built on TSMA (time division multiple access). CDMA (the channel access method) is more spectrum efficient than TDMA, and has some other nice properties. When the time came for carriers in many countries to deploy their 2G networks, it seemed like a win to use CDMA (the standard) because they could support more subscribers with the same amount of spectrum.

Okay, so I have a stupid follow up question. The company I work for does a lot of work in developing countries (sub-saharan Africa) and outside of major cities 2G is the only thing you're gonna find.

But to my knowledge, there is no CDMA to be found anywhere in these countries, despite what you've said about spectrum efficiency.

So, why is it that CDMA (meaning IS-95/IS-2000) was only ever successful in North America?

Or am I being dense? Could it be that carriers in sub-saharan Africa are actually installing 3G/LTE base stations but limiting the connectivity to handsets to 2G because of tower-tower throughput?

> use our chips in your smartphones and you can still support 2G/3G CDMA networks, which at this point were widely deployed.

So I've heard that a number of US providers (AT&T at least) have already shut off their 2G networks. Does this mean that Apple no longer requires CDMA modems in iPhones because the number of CDMA networks is declining?

You mention that Sprint and Verizon have significant CDMA networks. What is their migration strategy for 4G? To my knowledge the only 4G standard in use is from GSM.
Note that this paper is from Nature: Scientific Reports, which is also published by Nature Publishing Group, but is not the Nature journal you're thinking of. SRep is not in the same tier as Nature.
'Brute forcing JSON Web Tokens tokens in C'
Thanks for trying it. What browser and which version of IOS you are running? I have tested it using Safari on iphones with IOS 7 and IOS 10. Both work fine. If it is a bug, I should be able to fix it quickly.
Maybe in speculation, but Buffett is the most successful investor of all time and his honesty is pretty much unquestionable.
Fundamentally, Yahoo is a charity dedicated to the stealth funding of misanthropic single-founder Renaissance twitter accounts.
People are always quick to criticize GOPATH but when you look at other similar languages (not JIT "scripting" languages but competing ones like Java and C++) then Go is actually reasonably good in terms of the difficulty of its tools.

I think the problem with Go is that it's attracted a lot of developers from languages like Python where you just install the runtime and a shebang at the top for the code then call it as if it were a native ELF. No AOT language can work that simply. But given a choice between makefiles and the Go CLI, I'd take the Go design every time.
Sigh... the pedantry on HN is really tough to bear sometimes.

I'm going to take a wild guess and say that they pull you over... You know: the classic approach.
Libraries and the base language syntax (and semantics) are two different things.
It's worth pointing out that Buffet doesn't invalidate the weak efficient market hypothesis (the usual contender), because he generally doesn't like to trade in the open market.

His preferred approach has always been to buy entire companies, usually private companies, outright. Where there is no highly liquid market, there cannot be an efficient market in the theoretical sense. He prefers to invest when it is actually possible to possess information or insights that have not been widely distributed to other potential buyers via public disclosure. There is a similar dynamic at work in real estate, where local knowledge allows outsized returns to some participants.

The main source of free cashflow for Berkshire Hathaway has always been insurance, itself a risk-based industry. His main advantage has been to rigidly underwrite for profit, not for volume, giving access to cheap float.

None of these things are easily duplicated by regular folks and their advantage diminishes sharply with scale, as Buffett himself has warned Berkshire Hathaway shareholders for year after year.

I admire him and I think he's a useful foil to purely statistical views. But I also think luck plays its part. He's flubbed billions of dollars on both foreseeable (textiles) and less foreseeable (airlines) events.
There is a murky gray zone between actively malicious and fully privacy respecting applications. Applications in this zone are more prevalent in closed source software, and Linux is increasingly being used to run such software.
If only people respected RFCs
you just confirmed what keeps people from uderstanding this truth: confirmation bias.

you just picked one person out of billions of investors. what is more improbable? that he is flipping a coin 40 times and got head all the time or that billions of people cant see what he sees?

also, buffet is the perfect example of why you should not invest, as he beats the market by not investing in the market.
Super Mario Run – design and economical look
> Have you ever worked hard on something for many years and faced the prospect of it still failing?

Not with someone else paying for it, and knowing I'll still be well-regarded even if it fails.
I wasn't commenting to Kafka specifically (I've never operated a Kafka cluster in a production environment), but Java applications in general.
For anyone wondering about the connection between your digestive tract and immune system, note that while we commonly associate the immune system with the blood, the majority (by mass) of your immune system tissue is actually associated with and focused on defending your digestive tract (from bad things you may have eaten).
You can start your own!

https://repaircafe.org/en/start/
You can also type "about:profiles" into the URL-bar, but yeah, that's a rather recent addition.
This article deliberately confuses normal distribution, which applies to such things as height or IQ, and power law distribution, which applies to wealth, social connections, city sizes etc.

I think nobody is surprised about the fact that the largest cities are more than million times larger than the smallest settlements. Or that that top 1% of the largest cities includes the sizable proportion of human population.
These are not events with independent probability. Without Wozniak, there was no Apple.
Ask HN: JavaScript bundlers overflow (webpack, browserify, gulp, rollup js?)
This may be more of a rant. I thought that webpack is the new thing for bundlers and while I was learning it, I found out something called rollup js. So webpack is not the latest anymore ? Anyone worked with rollup js ?
Companies don't really want to pay for the software because every IT manager can go on long rants about idiotic and broken licensing but they will be quick to pony up for a support contract, white labeling, and hosted services.
I am curious why more folks don't use rsa keys anyways? Seems like that makes signature validation even easier (publish the location of the public key for validation). Then your endpoints don't need to exchange secrets at all?
He said unless I say otherwise. First-party isolation lacks customization hooks.
The breakdown of the size of an Angular 2 application
The third paragraph might have been intended to be humorous rather than hateful.
BTW: The Mac motherboard was designed by Burrell Smith, who was pulled out of Apples service department, later when on to found Radius. Woz was an amazing engineer but Jobs had a knack for finding amazing engineers and getting them to build his ideas.
Brave browser for mobile has only benefits. (the one that is based on chrome)
You should quote your sources. These are ideas from Ben Graham.
Thanks for pointing that out.

I'm guessing that it's still a long way removed from "spam", though, right? :-)
cute idea, but a few issues I had:

1. No instructions. I couldn't figure out what to do for a while.

2. No sound? Learning to hear a foreign language is much more important than learning to read it!
Show HN: API for autofilling Dutch postcodes and addresses