skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think so; I'll have to look through storage. Drop me a line at {myid} at yahoo.com.

Let me point out that the description here is as understood by a pure-digital person: I didn't seem to inherit the analog gene, and as a teen couldn't grok his deeper explanations ("What do you mean 'the imaginary part of the signal'? We're in the real world; the electrons don't have any imaginary components!").
this article is not good. in particular the way type annotations are lambasted is very weak
Are there any updated resources you've written or recommendations based on what you've since learned?
clort, Thanks for raising this issue - there is an informative discussion in the responses. You might not want to be so fired up about fraud being the explanation for a thing you don't understand very well. Ignorance is perfectly fine - but assuming malice as the explanation is not going to serve you or this forum very well.
I refuse to pay for youtube to watch pirated material something just doesn't sit right with me about that

ymmv
"Bolt"? They really couldn't name it something more identifying and clever than the self-driving bolt?

I came here thinking they were attempting some way to make things self assemble. "It's a self driving bolt. You don't have to use a screw driver to screw it in it does that itself."

Besides, GM building a self driving car feels like letting the people who make plastic grocery bags make doors for safes or something. Sounds dangerous and it just sounds like it'll cause the name "Bolt" to stand for "run away suddenly out of control."...
This is likely more indicative of society:

A. Becoming more computer-literate and going straight to sites as opposed to always Googling it before clicking, even once familiar with the URL, which won't correlate to usage

B. Visiting the site enough for AutoFill to take effect, which is ever-so-slightly inverse in correlation in terms of search popularity to site popularity

Here's a FB-related search term people will still use, even with AutoFill for Facebook, as some evidence. The rise is a similar pattern, but lacking the major drop: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Facebook...
From the name, it is more likely to refer to a local newsgroup. I would assume it is/was also for students, not just staff.
...when I think that Microsoft is trying to kill scripting in office...
Prepare to Obsess Over the Future of Home Wifi
Oh that's interesting. I remember being hooked to reddit when it launched. And then after a while it started slipping and was happy to find HN (quite possibly through reddit or maybe pg essays) which was a bit like the original reddit, but much better.
This comment makes no sense at all. Dole didn't offered anything! In case someone may be getting confused about the process: Murdock (who happened to be Dole's chairman and CEO) offered $12 in June (when the stock was trading at $10.20) for the shares he didn't control already. He raised his offer to $13.50 in August.
After yours and other comments, I suspect my information is just really out of date.

Here's some stories I had heard back when I was in college: no cash back or other rewards on the card for students, $2/month on an unused $500 credit line, a $38 late fee (late = paid the day due after noon eastern time, regardless of consumer time zone), and a rate that skyrockets after any missed payments.

Again, these may have changed since then since there's several replies of people with good experiences.
A bait-resistant community would necessarily be bait intolerant. There are many other resources that could have been linked if the purpose was just to discuss Orwell. Orwell has not been voted up to the front page. This article has been voted up to the front page. Suggesting I discuss Orwell but not discuss the ideas presented in the linked article is unfair. The article discusses Orwell within that specific context; it is the substance of the story to which you would have me respond.
Same with Safari on desktop. It might be an interesting framework, but this is pretty disqualifying...
Bitcoin as a Political Tool
It's fascinating to me that modern psychology and neuroscience often confirm the beliefs of ancient rhetoricians like Aristotle and Cicero. What they're essentially describling in this article is the scientific underpinning of some aspects of classic ethos and pathos appeals.

> We decide very quickly whether a person possesses many of the traits we feel are important, such as likeability and competence, even though we have not exchanged a single word with them

Competence is called phronesis - practical wisdom - by rhetoriticians, and demonstrating it is an important part of an ethos appeal. Antonakis, who is cited in the article talks about charismatic leadership tactics, which aren't much different to what's discussed in renaissance comportment guides, including the body language stuff.

The worrying thing is that logos, the rational aspect of persuasion, is demonstrably the least effective technique - also a common thread in classical rhetoric.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modes_of_persuasion#Ethos
Really informative, thank you!
I have literally never heard of Youtube Red before reading this commend. Granted, I live in Ireland, where it's seemingly unavailable but... why isn't this promoted more widely?
Makes sense. It'll be political infeasible to increases taxes enough on the entities that will directly derive the most value from automation--robot manufacturers, businesses switching to automation, etc.

And because most of those profits will accumulate within a small segment of the population, it's not possible to tax the profits indirectly. Not enough will trickle down.[1] And it's politically difficult to increase taxes on the super rich much more than we already do. Taxing financial instruments--which is where the rich move and grow their wealth--is problematic. Taxing income and assets at a point where they're readily identifiable and easily enforceable is the most efficient and most equitable.

Plus, there's ample precedent in terms of personal property tax. Most basic example: some states tax cars. That's probably how a thing like this would be implemented--not as a type of income tax, but as a property tax.

[1] Lower prices of goods and services notwithstanding.
A 37signals type of business is completely different to a venture business. It depends on what you look for in life, and how you prefer living your life.

I personally couldn't care less about potentially having billions in upside. $10-20mm is enough for me to do whatever I want in life.
If you are trying to achieve a more neutral or less noticeable 'natural' light, combining 'No Color Pink' and 'No Color Blue' can be very effective.

http://www.stagelightingstore.com/33-No-Color-Pink

http://www.stagelightingstore.com/60-No-Color-Blue
> it's the OS that prevents that from happening.

Not quite. Its more about the difficulty of writing the code. A lot of OSes aren't realtime which can be part of the problem, but a careful administrator can tune Windows or Linux to be "more realtime".

Consider this: most hardware is set up to DMA to RAM through the northbridge. It never touches the CPU, the hardware just writes the data directly to RAM (indeed: this is a good thing. When the CPU is executing from L1 cache, it isn't touching the RAM anyway).

Then, the CPU gets an interrupt, and then it can read from RAM.

It takes roughly 60 ns alone to access DRAM on a modern processor (https://software.intel.com/sites/products/collateral/hpc/vtu...), plus whatever time it took for the DMA to happen.

NOW the CPU finally has the data in its cache and can start calculating.

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To fix this issue, you DMA directly onto the CPU's cache itself.

http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/...

That takes special device drivers, a lot of optimizing, a lot of thinking about latency.
This article from 2009 by Matt Cutts (formerly the web spam guru of Google) was submitted twice: https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/write-google-spreadsheet-from...

The high water mark was nine points a few years after it was written. The first submission was completely ignored.
Yeah I think they missed the "..on a GM" portion of that sentiment. There are plenty of people going and buying six figure cars, clearly. However, spending six figures on the Chevy brand would feel weird.
Until they recently (and abruptly) closed, I had a house account at MyFitFoods. You put $500 on their house account and got a $25 bonus, and was able to make food purchases from it. When it ran low you could top it up.

A similar comparison would be prepaid cellular phone service. You put money on the account and draw on it by making calls.
It's like everyone builds a political army from its user base, steering it by manipulation with algorithms and bots.

This works since the beginning of humanity, I don't see why it surprises people that new technology resorts to proven methods.
Holy crap, I didn't even know I felt this way, but seeing it spelled out in front me I totally, 100% agree here.

Google, FB, etc. are a bit pretentious. You are world saving because you can afford it - you run companies with huge margins that rake in billions of dollars per QUARTER.

Let's keep it in perspective - you do it because you can, you're not successful because you do it.
Grade inflation: why weren't the instructors all giving all A's already?
EIA.gov effort to inform kids about energy and the environment rewritten
This brings to mind the Debian Code of Conduct #2. Assume good faith.
Distribution of political views doesn't matter. Unimodality is instead a requirement on each individual voter's preferences. You can't have "anti-centrists" that prefer both extreme left or extreme right to center.
Heads or tails: impact of a coin toss on major life decisions and happiness [pdf]
That is odd. Maybe it's an in-joke alluding to database triggers or something? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_trigger
Why are they so slow on releasing YouTube Red in more countries?
I suspect they won't. If I worked at Theranos, I would certainly be looking for a new job. The only question is, if having Theranos on my resume is a negative, or if I need to say I was backpacking across the Andes during that time.
More like it's become ubiquitous.
Why is Elizabeth Holmes not in jail? She lied blatantly about their blood-testing medical equipments which can potentially kill people with wrong testing results, and delayed treatments. One of her employees committed suicide, partially because of the pressure she put on him. Why is she not in jail?
Bolt is their electric model. They are adding self driving tech. Why rename it?
That depends on the platform. The youtube app on xbox is prone to screwing up after a mid-video ad. Not only will it fail to restart the video, it will make that specific video unplayable until youtube is killed and restarted.
So who are the main investors? Seems like a prime opportunity to name and shame.
Too late, I've already given up on watching anything on YouTube unless I'm desperate. Yeah, I know there's YouTube Red. But at $120/year, well, that's a Netflix-level subscription, and I don't get even a tenth of the value I get out of Netflix from YouTube.
Genetic Associations Between Personality Traits and Human Reproductive Success [pdf]
> Who told you that

The first of the site guidelines of course: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you want to understand what HN is you need to understand Paul Graham. pg is a hacker, programming language designer, startup founder/investor, and voracious polymath—so all the factors people are mentioning in this thread were there from the beginning. HN's function was to furnish pg (and anyone with similar tastes) with interesting things to read. This principle—intellectual curiosity, just like the guidelines say—has always been the main driver of HN.

HN is at its most valuable to YC simply by being as interesting as possible. That idea is counterintuitive to some, but to people like pg and the early HN community it's as obvious as water. Happily, YC is still run by people who know that the best way to optimize HN for business value is not to.
Sure, he’s an angel investor, so of course he, like any VC, needs companies to be big, fast. But this is very seldom what’s best for the company. As Joel Spolsky called it in Strategy Letter I¹, they want to be Ben and Jerry’s, not Amazon.

① https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/12/strategy-letter-i-...
Y'know, sooner or later someone's going to write a "shaming attempt blocker".

It would improve quite a lot of the internet, although on some magazines you'd be left with only the ads.
Agree. Another factor is mobile usage. The % of users that use Facebook _exclusively_ as an app is likely trending up as well.
>> If you type "how to leave" into the Google search window, "how to leave Facebook" will be the first suggestion.

Am I being too critical for thinking someone writing an article like this should know that Google searches / suggestions are personalized? Just because its suggested for them does not mean its universal.
It's better for society if they make a run at it. What difference does it make if some investors make back $500k off their $20 million investment?

But if there's even a sliver of a chance at having a healthy, innovative medical diagnostic company out there, that's a huge potential upside that multiplies a relatively low probability.

I suspect given Theranos' history, some people would put that probability at zero or close to it. But I doubt it's zero that seems unrealistic.
20 years after Dolly
This is a very short article with very little to back up the claims that these things are actually lacking and why it's a bad thing that they are.

I mean sure, it's advise but honestly:

> So, please Nordic founders with your fantastic design and culture skills, please have greater ambition, stronger conviction, and ship more often.

Nothing in that whole article helps you, as a (Nordic) founder, to achieve any of it. Considering this is coming from a VC, maybe a bit more "how to go about this" would be helpful instead of the blanket "you just kinda suck at this" statement.
How do they take it? Do they accept it or show resistance?
Cybercolonialism.

I don't just mean that as a snarky crack. It's worth pondering the idea a bit. They've been headed in this direction for a while, but it's becoming undeniable.

(Remember, Facebook is more than just America. They and their stock valuation aspire to be global.)
It's quite effective, tbh. Stealing phones is still a way to net loads of money if you know a buyer who doesn't give a damn about the source. Hard-reset the phone so it appears clean and off you go.

The only vendor that actively prevents the usage of stolen phones is Apple, because the owner can remote-lock it even if the phone gets wiped via iCloud.

The ideal way would be if network operators cooperated by maintaining a list of "supposedly stolen" IMEI codes and alerted police if a matching phone tries to log in into the network.
I've been a happy Capital One customer for the past 7 or so years. Though I've never paid them a penny of interest. Just my 2 cents.
The example wasn't just houston, it was other cities too with zoning.
Or why police need to announce that they smell weed before bashing in your front door to check. Or make a statement that they heard someone screaming for help before bashing in your front door. Or make a statement that they heard gun fire so they can bash in your front door. My point being police don't always need a warrant to enter a place. Just like they don't need warrants to MITM cell towers.
My feelings exactly. Moreoever, how do they still manage to have 220 employees? What kind of person would continue working for them with even the tiniest clue about what they're doing?
I am a technical person but probably (a good deal) older than average here on HN, and to be honest, I cannot fully agree to the statement "[...] seems to value smart, clear, concise, rational arguments, and sees through the BS" (unless the emphasis is on "seems").

Don't get me wrong, my point is certainly not that HN is the opposite of this description - I just don't find it very different here from other interactions I have. If anything, I sometimes get a bit of a "full-of-myself" vibe in some comments here, more than I'm used to.

That's just a personal opinion, though.
Welcome to 2012.
> Have the social network aspects of Facebook been destroyed by fatigue

Combating this is partly why Facebook bought WhatsApp and spun out Messenger into its own app.
I also think they missed the mark on "six figures". If that car costs six figures they are DOA. The most expensive part of self-driving cars (as I understand it) is the LIDAR, and I think those have come down to sub $10,000, and Tesla has more-or-less figured out how to do self-driving without it.
Someone who cannot afford to leave, I suspect.
The years later resolution is a court dictate. I'd hardly call it a feature, like short selling.
You seem to have answered your own question, but you live in Ireland, where it's unavailable: if you live in a place where it is available, it is difficult to not know about it, because YouTube tries to up-sell you on it with house ads.
Crossfit might kill you, but as a user there's no practical downside to ad blocking. Faster web? Less chance of malware? Less annoyance? Heck, a product marketed as doing all of those things could probably be sold all on its own if not for the meta-irony of an ad for an ad blocker.

Seriously though, this is a good thing. Everybody needs to know about and install one. It should be considered a part of basic internet literacy.
Here's the official word on it : https://www.sec.gov/answers/gopriv.htm

The part that is usually not explained is that there are state-by-state, and company-by-company, mechanisms to compel the left-over minority of shareholders who do not exchange their shares to be "squeezed-out" and paid the same cash value everyone else got. After this all of the shares are held by the private owner and the security is delisted/unregistered from the public markets
Zerocoin implementation bug
Being laid off is better than quitting. Comes with all sorts of perks from what I've heard.
Theft: A History of Music – Free Comic
Linking is also very easy to do incrementally, but for some reason incremental linking is not popular in the Unix world. GNU ld and Apple ld64 can't do it. GNU gold can do it, but only if you pass a special linker flag, which typical build systems don't. LLD can't do it, despite being the spiffy new thing.

So you end up with big projects where most of the time taken by incremental debug builds is spent linking - relinking the same object files to each other over and over and over. Awful. I don't use Windows, but I hear Visual Studio does the right thing and links debug builds incrementally by default. Wish the rest of the world would catch on.
There's such a variety in comments that both of you could be right. And I think we unconsciously quickly skim to read the kind of comments we enjoy reading.
The actual wire format: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON/blob/master/strategies/Softwa...

Somewhat similar to Dallas 1-wire.
These are some of the most profitable and largest companies in the world. It's like laughing at google, 'just a web search engine company', for expanding into maps, self driving cars, a mobile operating system that dominates the world and so on. This is how you expand from 'just' a 'spam your friends' service to something that is a lot more. It's called having goals.
Imaginary numbers are pretty easy to understand, once you realize they're just a 2x1 matrix, and that all "imaginary numbres" math are equivalent to 2x1 Matrix linear algebra.

Roughly speaking, you need 2-degrees of freedom to represent a circuit: the voltage and the current. Instead of throwing "two numbers" around all the time, we create a complex number.

We call the two parts of the number "real" and "imaginary", but really... they're roughly lining up with "voltage" and "current". We just call them "real" and "imaginary" because that's what all the math guys call it.

A "purely imaginary" number in phasor world is when the current is +/- 90-degrees out of phase with the voltage. (180-degrees out of phase means the current is simply negative, going backwards).

A "purely real" number happens at 0-degrees (positive current) or 180-degrees (negative current). "Purely Real" numbers line up exactly to all of the DC-voltage experiments from beginner-level electronics.

As it turns out, all circuits are made up of resistors, capacitors, and inductors can be calculated using "simple" addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with complex numbers.

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The above is a gross simplification of whats going on. More details can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phasor
I have used AppEngine, off and on, for many years. The advantage is getting auto-scaling and robust data stores automatically. The disadvantage is some degree of technology lock-in and that you can host less expensively using a provider like OVH or DigitalOcean.

EDIT: another good thing about AppEngine is that the 'free tier' will let you run a low traffic site for free, or very inexpensively. IBM's Bluemix is another service with a generous free tier.
> No one is going to hire her for anything anywhere else;

Yes they will. She'll pop back up in a few years. Maybe in a hedge fund, VC/PE firm or something, but she will. For an example of this see Kaavya Viswanathan.

She's in the club now and she's towing the line, it's hard to get kicked out of the club when you're towing the line.
While hiding unsafe parts of code behind safe interface works great in Rust,
especially that ownership / borrowing rules expresses much more than is
possible in other mainstream languages (in Java you wouldn't know if you are
the owner of collection returned collection, or maybe it just a view, etc.),
there is one thing that I never seen addressed in this kind of arguments:

Writing unsafe code in Rust is harder than doing it in C/C++, because Rust
introduces a whole new class of undefined behaviours that is just absent from
C/C++. See [0], [1] or [2] in general for examples.

[0] http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2017/02/01/unsa...

[1] http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2016/05/27/the-...

[2] https://github.com/nikomatsakis/rust-memory-model
I know someone who works there and despite his high level of talent and unusual skillset is having problems finding another position because of the black mark the "Theranos" brand is having on his resume. He's been looking for more than a year. :-/
And the Teslas are nicer cars to boot.

But it probably isn't a great comparison, at least not until we see what the GM cars can do and then the Teslas prove out equivalent capabilities (without the benefit of $50,000 of sensor hardware).
Wonderful. Thank you for sharing this. We spend so much time talking about the working conditions (open office, lighting, HVAC, etc...). The people and the work matter so much more.