skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When people talk about getting their news from Twitter, they don't literally mean they never leave Twitter for information. 140 characters is enough for a headline and a link; you click through to articles that interest you.
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Ok, I'll try using Google again. This time I'll go with the NPR article because they're widely considered a reliable source:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/23/503120449/...

They're even very clear as to who says what. Note, I never claimed to be providing a fact check entry. Rather, the post I was responding to requested, "Is there a news story, social media discussion, some other documentation of the incident?" The answer is, "yes, lots." Depending on where you source your news, you either heard about it a ton or heard about it none, but rarely in between.
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Ford to invest $1B over 5 years in self driving startup Argo AI
These people need to have some kids, and realise not to take themselves so seriously.

I've just been in intensive care with my 4 week old son for 3 days while he has been on a ventilator. Watching the doctors and nurses work does make you realise how unimportant all this social media and startup stuff mostly is.
Perhaps, but I've been surprised at how fast WASM support has moved already, and how committed all the browser vendors has been. Usually there's at least hold-out.

I feel like there may be enough internal pressure from groups in Apple, Google and Microsoft to get DOM integration available, so that they can experiment with compiling the likes of Swift, Dart and C# to it, that it will become a priority once the MVP has shipped.
1. Since He threated the F-35 program with closure, I guess we will see more of these. The US$399,792zn that's been spent so far must have left at least some spare for PR

2. There was an unofficial war hardware porn series on HN a while ago, front page full of Boy's Own stuff, one of them being an article by a pilot who sounded pretty positive about the F-35's capabilities. So this is either a long-running PR drive or the plane actually doesn't suck

3. For US$401,722zn (since it's now a minute or two after I wrote point 1) I'd like to think that we can expect the plane to be, at the very least, OK
Ouch. First, please don't respond to a bad comment by making the thread even worse. Second, please especially don't do personal attacks. Third, please stop posting uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments to HN. You've done that more than once and we ban such accounts.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13617192 and marked it off-topic.
of course, the dynamic nature of modern UIs would have to be a first-class citizen in any competent modern WYSIWYG designer.
I would advise your grandma to go to the genius bar at an apple store, just like I might advise you to go to legalzoom or some other easily approachable service for business and accounting.

The point isn't to start the most successful company ever its to just be able to function and do what you want to do (programming). By your analogy your grandma is willing to navigate a confusing and dissorienting world to get what she wants (probably facetime with her family) but you are just going to sit around waiting for someone else to hand you what you want without any effort on your part to learn something new?

You dont need partners, you just need a business checking account and an LLC so you can invoice companies. I recommend waveapps for creating and managing invoices btw.

Sorry if my tone is a little tough but I read so many defeatist comments in this thread and it depresses me that so many smart individuals willing to do so much good for the world arent willing to invest some of their talents (like relentless google searching and asking questions on forums) in taking care of themselves.
That's often the case in practice. In locations with low cost of living and relatively limited opportunities for tech employment, remote work for a distributed team can pay quite well relative to local options.
> Ship less JavaScript.

Not at all the message I got from this. Because judging by Safari on mobile and desktop, clearly the issue isn't Javascript, it's that for whatever reason, with all the insane resources behind V8 and Android, they're simply unable to get their interpreters to reach the speed of Safari or Edge.

I'd understand if nobody could make JS go fast, but clearly Apple and MS are proving in real-world-ready code that JS can be quickly parsed and executed.
If you read between the lines you may see something. The F-35 still sucks at air-air combat. Period. But if you use its radar and software systems to feed tactical data to the "real fighters" the team becomes extremely lethal. So it's still a giant money sink and they should probably just retrofit some of the older planes with those more advanced info systems.
They were. They were disruptive, sure, they might have cost a lot of people, but eventually they resulted in a better, richer (if not in wealth, at least in terms of value), more scientifically advanced, more entertained and more productive society.
"Forever" is before the space race, before everyone was driving instead of riding, before everyone had the Internet, TV or even radios in their home.

Every step in industrialization has hurt a lot of people, and their number is increasing every time. This time it's going to be millions.

I don't know if that's enough for a critical mass of sorts for some huge revolt, it may be.
I think the point is that at the time of all these innovations (factories, automation, computers) it was never clear what careers people would be freed up to perform.

Surely "web designer" could not be envisioned by the people who were worried about automation 100 years ago, but here we are with under 5% unemployment.
It doesn't solve the problem. I still can't see the PRs and comments stored in github.
You probably love Norm Augustine's writings...
Correct, this is how H1Bs are abused. But companies like Amafaceooglesoft are hiring H1Bs directly and pay wages, bonuses, and benefits that are equal to their US counterparts, thus, using the system as intended. They are also far more likely to sponsor their H1Bs for Green Card status. I personally work on a team at one of Amafaceooglesoft. On that team are 7 people where 2 are former H1Bs and are now Green Card holders and 1 current H1B who is going through the Green Card process.
Just curious, but are there stats on how the comparative income of some professions has changed due to changes like this? I feel like the change in the importance and work done by people in jobs impacted in this way (you mention railroad engineers specifically) hasn't substantially changed the amount such people are paid, but this is admittedly only a gut instinct.
It took them 5 to 6 years to port the original DotA in its entirety to the Source Engine. They added the first major changes to the original game only a few weeks ago. Everything else was just copying Heroes, items and features from a really old mod. Don't get me wrong, I like and regularly play DotA2, but it's nothing groundbreaking.

I stand by what I said. The Orange Box was the last great hurrah for Valve gaming.
You would think someone who was good at this newfangled "empathy" stuff would've managed to start off their comment in a more positive way.

It's all necessary for writing software, but when someone starts telling me one specific aspect of it is more important than the others, then yes, I absolutely dismiss them. It's code for "I can't write good code, but it's alright because I'm a people person and that makes me more important than the ones who CAN write code".

It's just more egotistical bullshit that's more about the person making the statement than anything else.
Console warning, if it helps:

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> If you are the Firebase owner, consider upgrading. (https://wefreelance-prod.firebaseio.com)

I didn't get any further than the WF in my boutique QupZilla browser, with ancient ad-block tech built-in, but extension-free Chrome got to the point where it looked like it was actually trying to load something.
> While the SEC understandably exists to prevent defrauding of investors, this dashboard gives an investor perfect clarity into a company's financial strength and liabilities, and allows for an informed decision to be made without any official paperwork.

No, it gives insight into what has been done in Ethereum using the accounts tied to this "company". If investors are led to believe that this gives perfect clarity, that makes defrauding investors trivially easy by simply keeping things outside of what gets recorded. Keeping multiple books is the oldest trick in the book.
I think it was probably 'gopass', https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13551692
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90% of everything is crap. ~Sturgeon's law
No, and I took it a step further by thinking "There's no operating system kernel on original Game Boy games - they are bare metal with an executive loop!"
Additionally to not being job posts, the titles are heavily editorialized, someone that would break the rule for a normal post.
I've used AWS quite a bit and recently started using GCE for a project. One thing that stands out is Google Cloud Platform does not feel as mature as AWS, some features are still beta or invite only (like Cloud Functions for serverless code). Also, AWS I believe has more data center coverage around the globe.

One major pro is Google Cloud's pricing was much more straightforward and easier to estimate.
Read things less literally and you'll be less wrong.
The 'thought leaders' are the product. They're the reason new people sign up. It would probably be better to implement something like twitch where you can 'subscribe' to someone with lots of followers for a small fee that twitter can take their cut of.
The PEP mentions that they'll be using a linear git history (no merges), but doesn't explain any of the reasons or perceived advantages of doing so. I found this pretty curious because (1) PEPs tend to explain why a decision is made, much like an RFC would (2) it's the really odd choice to make.
I'm not a big believer in live video. Viewers and content creators have to be online at the same time on the same platform. You get less traffic and zero flexibility. People end up looking at replays of a live events. This is not where the money is...

By switching %100 to videos Twitter will avoid bulling and anonymous messages/accounts. Users will have to put their faces out there. Plus it's the hottest topic in 2017... video updates. That might piss off a lot of users at first but will bring in a bunch of new sign ups. Twitter needs a real face lift.
http://www.procrastination.ca ?
The F-35 loses to previous generation fighters in dogfighting. But that's not the point of the plane. If you want a plane that will win in that scenario deploy the F-22.

The F-35 is designed to fly into contested areas ahead other planes, use the sensors to get the lay of the land, relay that information to the fighters behind and optionally destroy any relevant ground targets. In the future the F-35 will also be capable of deploying and controlling a swarm of drones.
Pretty sure that isn't the case, since they always put something like "Join our Team" in the post title - looks like whatever approval process HN has they are gaming
Even worse is the similar pattern of

1. A school produces great results.
2. A consultant comes and mines that school for "best practices".
3. Other schools pay the consultant a small fortune to replicate those practices.

Where the successful school may not even have updated anything in the last decade; they just have a particularly good combination of dedicated staff, helpful administration, and well-supported students. Particularly bad is trying to replicate something from a suburban school full of privately-paid tutors and parents reviewing the nightly homework in a setting where lunch and school supplies are a major hurdle for many families.
except for you, right? You're the special snowflake drowning in the sea of below average social skills.
Tp, a simple text pager in Python
Also known as a make loss order. :(
And now, turning right on a red light is just a cash cow for the slimy red light camera companies. Some areas report that upwards of 95% of the tickets issued by red light cameras were for not stopping for 6 seconds before turning right on a red light.

("In a two-month period in 2010 in South San Francisco, 98 percent of the 672 red-light violations recorded at El Camino Real and Westborough Boulevard were for right turns. Other cities say 4 in 5 tickets go to people turning right at intersections."

http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/01/06/roadshow-right-on-red-...
That's not how I read the comment. I read it as admitting that both things can be (and probably are) true: these sorts of disruptions can be awful and bloody for the people living through them and can also be a net benefit to society. It's looking like we may very well be those people who will be living through the next one of these, so it's reasonable for us to be worried about the awfulness of the transition.
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If you wanted to pay for it, what does it make it?
FYI, the book for this anecdote was Blink by Malcom Gladwell, not Freakonomics, in case anyone is trying to follow the reference.
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'Pretty-printer' is not quite right either. Nobody bootstraps pretty-printers by repeatedly running them through themselves and extending them which I think was kind of the point of the exercise here.
But America does build temples dedicated to past presidents. These hold relics. The faithful go on pilgrimage to be near these relics. Ive seen people pray at these temples, but i assume for the dead president rather than at or to them. Nobody has yet suggested to me that they are literal saints. Important aspects of political life use these temples as backdrop, to imply that the dead president approves of the procedings. This is rather unique in the western world. The line between secular museum and religious temple blurs.

I dont think anyone prays at the batman museum.
The steak in your example might not be a veblen good, but it still isn't a giffen one.

The article states that a necessary condition is that "The goods in question must be so inferior that the income effect is greater than the substitution effect". The reason people are buying more when the price rises is not because of the income effect (which would be because they have less money since the price went up, so demand for inferior goods increases), but rather because they now have evidence/reason to believe that the good is quality.

That's not giffen according to the definition given, which includes a causal factor for the demand curve.
So a meta-fiat currency?
And if someone chooses to work less supply is constrained = UBI.
if someone chooses to work the same demand goes up = UBI.
either way demand is increasing and supply is decreasing.
leading to higher prices.
The trick is to eventually start the more important stuff. If you never get anything done then it all falls apart.
I would definitely like the idea of being able to add a private channel whenever I wanted one. Something like #{myusername}-private-{whatever} and then I could approve or add users to the channel
That threat has many thinkers entertaining the idea of a universal basic income, a guaranteed living wage paid by the government to anyone left out of the workforce. But McAfee believes this would only make the problem worse, because it would eliminate the incentive for entrepreneurship and other activity that could create new jobs as the old ones fade away. Others question the psychological effects of the idea. “A universal basic income doesn’t give people dignity or protect them from boredom and vice,” Etzioni says.

It's funny how boredom, vice, and the indignity of receiving income without continual labor loom in importance if and only if we're talking about technological unemployment. What of people receiving Social Security, pensions, inherited wealth, royalties from patents and copyrights, rents collected on real estate...?

Some people sound like they're planning how to invent enough bullshit jobs to provide everyone a regular 9-5 schedule and a supervisor even after machines are doing all the strictly necessary labor. It's like the worst of the Protestant work ethic married to the worst proposals from Keynesianism, so it's one of those special bad ideas that people from all parts of the political spectrum can endorse. I'd rather trust adults to find their own amusements and purpose, like we trust adults who today have income-without-regular-labor, and trust the robo-police to curb those whose boredom turns to criminality.
Then where exactly do you believe people can legally use this?
Sort of true. They will do the trade, but only if there was already someone in the system willing to make the same trade. HFT firms don't hold positions at the end of the day.
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>> The economist article actually provides a better solution. Visas shouldn't be tied to a particular employer. The employee should be able to transition to a new employer without a new visa application.

I'm surprised by the level of expertise, demonstrated by the economist, given the fact that current H1B system already works EXACTLY THAT WAY. H1B visa holder can transfer to a new employer any time, if new employer is willing to fill in the papers, even without notifying the current employer.

L1B visa is tied to a particular employer (because it just intracompany transfer), not H1B.
Office space is almost never an advantage. There is virtually never any marginal savings, ie they have room for you in the office, you just don't use it. And offices aren't that expensive relative to salary anyway. Even sf office rents are $70/ft2. I see your point if you go remote-only, but that really isn't what we're discussing.

Price for a week in the office in sf: $500-ish flight, 4 hotel nights $1100, $90 per diem $450, taxis/ubers $30/day = $2k - $2.5k. Throw in a $500 team lunch or two.

I agree remote workers can be more productive; I certainly was. However, I used most of those productivity gains to work fewer hours.
It's very simple to let the F-35 look good - stick to BVR combat. The scenarios in which it looked poor was in WVR combat where the F-35 has no benefit of stealth and an excellent radar, but all the drawbacks of stealth (fewer weapons etc)

I don't doubt the F-35 can dominate in simulations where there either is no WVR engagements or there are other aircraft to take care of those.

Also, aggressor aircraft were presumably 4th gen aircraft which leaves the question open how it would perform against other craft.
Why? Cactus article writers can be frustrated with today's insane politics too!
I just fell in love with Django and I am following the tutorial someone posted yesterday here on HN :)
DeepMind AI learns to act aggressive when it doesn't get its way
I turned $1.24 into $1000 of UberEATS credit
A/B testing component for React (universal)
I find it even more effective to pretend I have already completed the task and then bask in the gratification of being done.
Can you explain what you mean?

There seems to be little connection between the category of blue-collar work and programming other than it is a form of 'building'.

The crux of blue-collar work is that it predominately involves physical labor and does not require 'skill'. That's not a literal interpretation, that's the core meaning -- programming is not analogous to physical labor or 'unskilled' work.
Exactly we could have a society oriented around the arts and sciences, pure creativity and discovery instead of bullshit jobs we could put the pedal to the metal in human freedom and innovation.
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>> But

But, but, but...!!1 Now that they are in the field producing results the haters begin retreating to ever smaller and more qualified hypotheticals. I'm pleased with myself for not having participated in the stupid F-35 flame wars that have been raging for years with these people.
I think one big distinction this time around is how quickly things move now. Society can shift in a few generations, no problem. In a single generation, looks challenging.

But now we're talking about in the span of 5-10 years at most. We're starting to get to the point where the bottom end is bumping against how long people spend in college.

As it approaches 3-5 years, what happens? How quickly can people shift, retrain, and re-educate themselves for the new tools, concepts, or fields that are now open to them?

I don't think anyone has any answers.. but it's a line of reasoning we should explore.
https://github.com/julesbond007/Android-Jigsaw-Puzzle started as a weekend project but evolved a little bit. It's not complete yet. A user draws something and use it to create jigsaw puzzles.
I was actually thinking about veterins returning to civillian life at the time, but maybe you're right.
sleep-deprivation is the method I used when I was a bit younger. It shuts down cravings, because the only craving I'd have now is to sleep, made me dumb, but this allowed me to go through some really mundane but unavoidable and long-overdue task. Then 12-hour sleep and I'm back again to collecting new task debt.
Something boring: writing a user API for an app I'm building.
> You frame the disruptions as if they were not a net benefit to society

I don't think he does, though. I'd be much quicker to say that other people frame the disruptions as though they never had significant downsides; I constantly see people saying "most people found new work eventually without too much of a pay cut" as though that implies no one suffered.

More theoretically, we ought to be capable of imagining some net-positive change which causes front-end disruptions so devastating that we can't endure through to the positive result. Imagine rendering 50% of people unemployed in one year and ask whether they would all quietly drift into new jobs, or whether they would set all the data centers on fire and cancel out the progress.

I don't think things are that bad, but pretending a long-run positive exempts you from planning for short-run harms is pretty unfair.
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So us as technologists and engineers contributing towards this AI field, how do we help sustain middle-class? The state of STEM education is unfortunate at public schools here in the USA.
Did you miss the total shitstorm over NSA/GCHQ's bulk collection of internet traffic?

I'd wager over 90% of HN is not fine with NSA keeping a record of all their unencrypted traffic in a datacenter in Utah for later exploitation.
I noticed this too. The combination of a minimalist layout, simple stylized graphics and clear writing made this article a joy to read.
He used to. His comments and posts and slowed down over the years though.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg
Or the inverse -- the Patreon model. Twitter already had the hard stuff down (network effect, verified users). Add some content distribution model and bingo, paid followers.
I don't either, he saw the writing on the wall of how those people rationalized their practice of dehumanizing individuals with religion and abstractions and the enterprisers that would take advantage of it
A far more effective method in my experience has been to focus not on the end product, about which one has a feeling of dread, but on the process. Frame the task as "spend N minutes doing X."

Of course, there is the possibility that you start doing X and just find you don't know what to do with yourself in those minutes. That's useful information! You've just discovered that you don't know enough about the task to get started. Now your task is to write a coherent request for help/clarification.