skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a risk, but I imagine the service would initially allow the user to scan only the network they are browsing from.
Article was sort of interesting, but I think it glossed over the most interesting part.

>long before he enlisted a programmer to build a system that authorities say was designed to cheat the market.

What exactly was the system doing to "cheat the market"?
Definitely, but a spec without an implementation is even worse. It's like saying "we're not invested in this idea enough to implement it". Huge red flag in my view.
I would assume recoupable will mean that you get 100% of sales revenue up until the point you've earned the publication fee back. Then Valve will start taking their % cut on sales thereafter.
This sounds a lot like what Stephen Feuerstein and Tom Kyte advocate for Oracle environments.
This is a longer and more lucid version of a quip I have about my procrastination:

"I can do anything in the world... as long as there's something more important I'm supposed to be doing instead!"
I had been wanting a web app where I could quickly open GPX, KML, and KMZ files to see them on a map. I use it to look at hikes, and some KML files from some experimental mapping tools I've worked with in the past.

This is the result: http://87.is/mapspray/ . There are sample files on this page that can be shown.

The main unique feature of this project is the handling of KML file styles above what is preserved by i.e. converting them into geojson. Since it serves my needs I've ran out of steam on it and it will probably remain incomplete for the forseeable future.
Are you sure there weren't some sort of recruitment effort with at least some of those guys... Though you do see some tech pages out there, maybe because of Hangouts? shrug

I didn't know Tim O'Reilly was on G+ but ALL these recent posts are pop-politics and ugly at that! I thought you were referring to all Google services being tied in.
Ford doesn't seem concerned that a former Google employee's new company will infringe on patents at his former company. Wonder if he's moving from Google's rule based software to an AI solution?

Either way it must have been one heck of a demo to snag that much money for a company only a couple of months old.
Or you can support it but not give them vertically centered content. Screw em. If they want it to be 5 years ago, let them be 5 years ago. FIVE!
Yes, in retrospect I should have corrected for this. Savings has decreased, but only by 5%-7% of income since the 1970's. That hardly seems like it could explain the phenomenon alexander is discussing.

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/personal-savin...
Boy there's nothing half as exciting as reading a dude's blog post about getting banned from a web forum. (Same guy apparently wrote this : https://medium.com/@trentlapinski/the-berkeley-riots-were-a-... )
Yeah, it was the same question I had in mind. The README.md does not do a good job of explaining it.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

-Bruce Lee
So if Facebook ran on Aragon, and the shares got hijacked, tough shit? Zuckerberg can't prove himself? Some guy in Yekaterinburg is the new CEO?
I agree with the first point. The second point, I think, is the difference between a junior and a senior programmer.
Any chance of an RSS feed?
Windows 3.x was wonderful if you had DOS, which was almost everyone did. DOS, WordStar (or Word Perfect) and Lotus 1-2-3.

It was really cheap [1], and it ran on top of DOS, so you didn't lose anything you already had. The big advantage was access to a GUI and new graphical applications. If you didn't like it, you didn't have to run it, but it was always more useful than the old-style character-based DOS front-ends.

The alternatives to Windows 3.x involved paying up to 20x more for a different operating system, installing it, and possibly losing what you already had, OR dumping your whole expensive system and buying another expensive system, buying expensive new apps, and relearning everything.

Worse, you'd be buying another expensive system while losing access to Lotus 1-2-3 (on which your commercial life probably depended).

The real alternatives weren't the 68000-based Amiga/Atari/Mac etc, they were DesQview and DR GEM.

Not sure why DesQview failed. However, Apple did Microsoft a huge favor by suing Digital Research and effectively killing GEM (except on the Atari ST).

[1] From my faulty memory, it was something like $40 when business applications cost $200 to $600. OS/2 cost around $500 and Sun was charging $950 for Unix.
Peter Thiel discusses his book the Diversity Myth in 1996 [C-span Video]
Accenture literally buses people over national and state borders, so yes, its possible. Somehow I don't think that's much more legal though.
Why is the US Homicide solve rate 64% and falling?
Oh wait mysticlabs appears to be the same person as the author, or at least a serious fan.
>McAfee pointed to newly collected data that shows a sharp decline in middle class job creation since the 1980s.

False. McAfee will find a corresponding increase in middle class jobs in India and China and elsewhere for the same time period. The narrative that says automation has destroyed the middle class is demonstrably overstated to the point of being close to false. Employers arbitraged labor rates across borders, pure and simple.

This issue is vastly more complex than the scope of the Wired article which suffers from temporal distortion about what has occurred versus what will occur and when.
>So if consumption went up, income must have risen faster than price.

You're assuming the consumption itself went up rather than paying more for the same stuff. And people are paying a bigger fraction of their incomes for these things. I don't know what this is adding to the discussion besides assuming away the problem, as if nothing ever becomes pointlessly expensive.

>Now, if you're saying separately that it would be great if we could legalize lower priced options, I agree with you. That would be great. But all that would do is make (preference-adjusted) consumption go up more, or perhaps make investment go up even more.

No, that's an assertion that assumes away one possible resolution: that pointless regulations mandate that only the expensive options be offered. It's unlikely, but your model seems to disallow the very existence of that dynamic.
It's part of a set of bigger design changes, Mark Otto tweeted about it: https://twitter.com/mdo/status/830138373230653440
Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as a source in most cases
Yes, and a lot of Government wealth transfer projects would also result in problems where they are unable to help a subset of people. Eg. Obamacare not helping a middle class family with income just above the threshold to receive subsidies but not enough to afford a high deductible or high premium insurance plan

As I said, there can be different mechanisms for wealth transfer from boomers to millennials. Govt directed programs (means-tested or universal) might be preference of some and might even perform better, but they also tend to have a lot of political opposition.

So while we are gridlocked on other fronts, its better to see some transfer happening between parents and children.
I gently agree with the "links to random articles about Flexport instead of actual job listings" part. Otherwise it feels like HN is experimenting with running ads.
I've never found Medium to be a compelling idea, even less so since Williams said:

> The idea won’t be to start a website. That will be dead. The individual website won’t matter. The Internet is not going to be about billions of people going to millions of websites. It will be about getting it from centralized websites.

The course was easy to predict. Publishers move the platform. The platform discovers its interests (i.e. it's investor's interests) don't really align with those of the publishers. The publishers are left in the lurch.

Here's what I don't get: there's absolutely no need to centralise. Hosting a website isn't especially complex. If you control your own site, you control your own destiny. Medium is a pretty CMS, but that's not enough of an incentive to give up control over your publishing platform.

I feel the same about Google AMP: it't not hard to do what AMP does. A lightweight site and decent CDN will get you 90% of the way there. So what's the upside?
> by taking on more tasks than I can handle

In contrast to your experience, I've found this to be an exceptionally poor strategy during uni. It led me to stay up late and wake up early trying to get things done, then to fall asleep in lectures (I once had a professor throw chalk at me). It led me to ruin relationships as I imposed stress on others by failing to deliver on things. Doing this to people is a really shitty feeling.

The combination of sleep-deprivation and self-loathing made it very easy to fall into the escapism and thus more procrastination.
This. Most people by definition are not the very best. Not everyone is a Gary Vaynerchuck.

Most mediocre people we would think suck. Really look at the 50 percentile. Ever interview people with long careers, making decent/good pay, at well known companies, and wonder how in the world they even have a job? That is a an extreme example, but most people treat it like a job, something to get done, provide for themselves and family. That's okay, but they're not that dedicated in being the very best.
The focus in this thread appears to be on the wrong thing.
Intel has introduced a new process here for die interconnects http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/foundry/emib.html

This can be very interesting especially if this can be expanded to other products.
TSVs increase the pricing of certain products by a substantial margin and have pretty high failure rates, they also increase the internal resistance of components and can cause thermal issues.

HBM and 3Dxpoint built on EMIB can reduce the price of these components substantially, it can also make it viable again to split the dies of the IGP and the CPU allowing Intel have SKUs with different IGP configuration including EDRAM/SRAM without having to have multiple die designs.
People had the same arguments against Dropbox (just use rsync) and Buffer itself (just use a cronjob).
I never claimed that Valve wasn't productive. I meant to highlight the seeming lack of discipline they sometimes display. They are a "Jack of all trades" but the master of none. They'll work on hardware or features for Steam that nobody asked for while (sometimes arrogantly) letting other projects (with actual demand) linger.
I would argue that the template system within C++ itself is a partial implementation of lisp, with notably bad error messages.
On the Front Lines of the Power Grid (2011)
Like they pay you extra to have to do it?
Should be marked 2012, this is an old article that I think has been on HN before. Nonetheless, very interesting.

High voltage DC transmission is somewhat scary. It's really easy to create and sustain arcs at much lower voltage than AC, and there are risks from things like electromigration relating to the current always flowing in one direction. Nonetheless, it's a neat curiosity, sort of like the cable car of the electric utility world.
Why are you going to tell your hypothetical daughter that it's fine for her to have gender-segregated events and tell your son that it's a bad thing for him to do so? (Because presumably you don't support men (or whites, etc) only clubs...)

And how do you do it without saying to your daughter that it's because she's weaker than your son and needs help? How do you explain to your son that he's so privileged that he needs handicaps to avoid hurting others? (Especially if he's not actually some alpha-male stereotype who embodies that.)

I see so much potential for accidentally hurting people with this path that I'd rather jump through a bunch of hurdles to make all events inclusive rather than reverse the original discrimination.
That would be a disaster since 7nm won't be available until 2020 or so.

(Also, the White House is probably not a great source for semiconductor roadmaps.)
'eh I thought that way about it at first, too. But I decided to take it in stride.
Found accidentally another glitch near the end of game, in the dungeon where you carry a big heavy metal ball you can throw around.

It ended up stuck on a wall, completely glitching the game. Reloading didn't help. My save was dead. I was devastated at the time :)
Don't mistake/substitute passion for environment.

You can burn yourself out to hell, being passionate in a shit environment that doesn't care.

In fact, you can lose your passion, in those circumstances.

Whatever you do, find a good environment for it. This is an integral part of enjoying what you do.
Ask HN: How many times have you submitted an application to Y Combinator?
Was it the same idea every time?
While there are different, and maybe bigger ethical issues there, at least it is using the system as designed.
>get money by being dishonest; so it's stealing.

That isn't the definition of stealing. In fact I would argue, while it is dishonest, it isn't stealing in slightest. Stealing means you took something, without agreement, that rightfully belongs to someone else. The scheme is more accurately described as fraud than stealing.
Only for some interpretations of Moore's law. The strictest readings count transistors in CPUs. But plenty take it as a general prediction in the doubling of performance of hardware.

Computing things still get cheaper as more tech gets included. For example, Someone working in AI or video games can drop a $1000 on a Cuda enabled GPU and get more than a 10x more performance increase then they could reasonably get with that $1000 3 years earlier. This is much more than the two doublings some interpretations of Moore's law predicts.

Not all performance increases are going to be inside the most complex part.
I got one for Christmas; first thing I did was apt-get install ssh-client.

The built-in keyboard is hard on the thumbs (especially trying to play games?) but can't think of anything else wrong with it in my limited experience so far. You can use an external keyboard or game controller.

The built-in tutorial and help system has a uniquely appealing attitude, I don't really know how else to explain it - it feels right. They've managed to hit their target market right on the bulls-eye! Here is a nice 3rd-party usability tips blog post: http://www.stevencombs.com/chip/2016/06/28/ten-things-about-...
I'm pretty sure they are fairly prolific outside of the crabs use.

In the reef keeping world you can actually keep Pom Pom crabs in your aquarium with their anemones. If they lose the anemone for some reason, they often will find another anemone or even some coral to use.

Here's more info on the anemone they use.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triactis
F-35 Scores Impressive 15:1 Kill Ratio at Red Flag War Games
So in essence you end up with the #channels being filtered by third parties? How would those third parties get noticed. Would Twitter offer them some kind of sub domain or special alias?
Wouldn't it be more social (in the sense that human organizations are often hierarchical/weblike) in this way?

You are a thought leader - you'd want to have your immediate 10k followers to retweet your message to their groups.

If you absolutely needed more leverage, you'd pay for the privilege.
> In English-speaking countries, a blue-collar worker is
> a working class person who performs non-agricultural
> manual labour. Blue-collar work may involve skilled
> or unskilled manufacturing, mining, sanitation,
> custodial work, oil field work, construction,
> mechanical maintenance, warehousing, firefighting,
> technical installation and many other types of
> physical work.
>
> In contrast, the white-collar worker typically
> performs work in an office environment and may
> involve sitting at a computer or desk.

Computer programming is currently white-collar work. At what point are we going to go outside and begin to do it with our hands?

Also, the nature of programming is the ability to automate away white-collar work. We're probably going to need new categories, once many of those are gone. We might end up with engineers, a service-worker class and a managerial/executive class.
Twitter is only useful because "normal" media makes news about notable tweets.
I surely don't get my information from twitter. Would seem silly to get all my information (or "important" information from "powerful" people) from a hundred character sound bites.
Great information.. How about my site http://ferry-bachtiar.blogspot.com/2017/02/nissan-x-trail.ht...
Twitter, RSS, Reddit?
There are basic capabilities humans have, and capabilities machines have. Human capabilities are more or less fixed. Machine capabilities keep expanding.

About half of work done today could be automated with technology we already have. All it takes is wider deployment of the most automated technologies.
The current phase is not because computers are smarter. It's that they're really cheap. If a computer can do it, it will be cheaper than a human.

Next employment area in the US about to get clobbered: fruit and vegetable picking.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBcWZcjXr-I
How a C program naturally scales better than a C++ program
The fallacy you are touting is that it is established fact that the media is misleading its viewers with respect to the pizzagate conspiracy. For this to be the case, both you and the media would need to possess the truth. Since that is clearly not the case, you are once again jumping to the conclusion that the conspiracy must be true, and from there, working backwards to the media misleading people. You are conflating possibility with actuality.

Yes the media has misled it's viewers in the past. The media will mislead it's viewers in the future. But these facts are not sufficient to logically conclude that the media is misleading it's viewers on the pizzagate conspiracy. Journalism is not 100% misleading.

Yes pedophile rings have existed in the past, and will likely exist in the future. However, starting from the position that all organizations are assumed to be pedophile rings until proven otherwise is a complete inversion of our entire judicial system. The existence of other pedophile rings within powerful organizations does not infer that all powerful organizations contain pedophile rings.

Bias in journalism is an unavoidable reality. Choosing which stories to report upon is an example of bias. But the existence of bias does not infer an agenda. It is possible that journalists have an agenda, but it is not a requirement.

A simple analogy is that all squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares. Many of your arguments are analogous to saying that since some rectangles are squares, and we can't directly observe this particular rectangle, we must conclude that this rectangle is a square.
It seems to me the guy is a scapegoat. What he did is likely illegal market manipulation (placing orders and canceling them before they are executed to give a false impression of a price / volume / something else); I am not defending that; but 300+ years?

I really doubt though that the amount he presumably won (much less than $50M) can be responsible for a significant financial event such as a flash crash at a world's major stock exchange. I suspect high frequency traders regularly affect markets in a much more significant ways (e.g., I think generating large volume via zero-sum trades than withdrawing from trading could cause significant pricing swings).
When I read this I wondered it he is being fully transparent with himself. It may be a post full of the truth from one angle but everyone knows the truth doesn't exist in 2 dimensions.
Wind power doesn't deliver DC. The windmills either generate AC at a variable frequency that is then converted to 60Hz through an inverter, or they have variable speed drive trains that output 60 Hz directly (more common these days).

Rotating generators don't make DC.

Edit: to add, using DC for underwater transmission makes sense because the capacitive coupling loss to water is much larger than for cables in air. If you mean using DC cables to collect power from offshore wind farms, then yes that makes sense.
A government censors. A company moderates/prohibits/etc.
I also don't understand why this is illegal. The markets should not be predictable.

People like that guy should be rewarded financially for making it unpredictable.

You don't want to have an economy where only a tiny group of powerful people understand what's happening while 99.99999...% of the population are at in the dark and at their mercy.

A fair system should be simple enough to be understood by everyone or complex enough to be understood by no one - Anything in-between is not a fair system.
I think there's more to conversation rate optimisation than randomly testing variations of a greeting. The price testing you mentioned looks interesting, but a good CRO consultant will do research and figure out the objections manually. Then, instead of having to test an infinite amount of variations with millions of visitors to reach statistical significance, they can test one or two. I call what your tool seems to do "throwing darts in the dark". And if I've completely misunderstood your product, perhaps you've got some optimising to do ;)
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So which other decent game distribution platform is out there? Which does support Linux? Which does provide its own OS?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't that from staging data, not from an LVM snapshot?
I think you've nailed it with this observation. The middle class may be a mile marker on a many millennium journey from self/tribal sustenance to ubiquitous sustenance as specialization, automation and efficiency combine to compress social-economic classes. This assumes an intelligent and benevolent ruling class. The Snowpiercer outcome is possible too.