skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Understanding emerging trends in global research collaboration – as it happens
Agreed -- the new "productivity" applications are a disaster. If you shoot RAW, you have to either stick with an old version of Aperture, or switch to Lightroom (typical Adobe crap), because Photos doesn't do lens profiles. If you want to create a bound book, you can't use Pages, because it doesn't do inner and outer margins, only left and right. For now, it's less work for me to stay than to go, but Apple needs to pay more attention to their software.
What you're looking for: https://daqri.com/products/smart-helmet/
> And Keras was far more annoying because it wants scipy, which wants BLAS, and I don't use Anaconda. I haven't gotten around to that one yet...

Christoph Gohlke to the rescue: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#scipy

I also don't think that the numpy installed via pip is using mkl, so his version of numpy should be faster too: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#numpy
That's not it, see my reply to adamnemecek.
> The answer would be rigor.

Nonsense. Back to the original question, the reason why economics has influence is because it involves money. The people who hold the purse strings talk in that language, and those people always pay themselves first.

Sociology could have perfect rigor, beyond that of any other disciple, but it would never have the influence of economics.
Does he say how much it cost him upfront and how much it costs him monthly to do this? Really inspiring!
Wow, every other posting of his there is blogspam, preceded by a one-sentence introduction:

http://futurewavewebdevelopment.com/wp/author/brucewhealton/
The university gives students access to cheaper housing than they could find on their own. Not sure how that is any different from say, providing electricity for the classrooms. You need both electricity and a place to sleep to attend school no?

> Well, there's your problem

Sure, but that isn't going to change anytime soon. Just giving up on any problem because "whelp, no universal healthcare" is not a productive way to live life.
Curious what art apps she uses in Windows and what she'll transfer to in Linux?
No knock warrants are not "vanishing rare events" and having nervous cops point weapons at you is not pleasant. And people get arrested for prescription drug abuse all the time, and plocue have the "discretion" to arrest you if you are carrying certain drugs without your prescriptions on you (don't worry if you work in the DAs office, warning only).

So you might not be concerned about getting trapped in the maw of our now enormous law enforcement machine, but plenty of people are given virtually every adult in the US has committed a felony at one point or another because of one crazy law or another. Not only do I not want Google or Facebook using automated algorithms to pit me in the maw, I don't want them sharing that data with Palantir so it can do it either. That gives for Chase Bank, Verizon, etc.
Good. I paid the $120K for my education and co-signed a loan for a friend (big mistake) for $10k for her education that I ended up paying off because she was a dead beat.

There has been a huge disturbing trend in the US in the last 30 years or so: you're not responsible for your actions; it's always some one else's fault.

You choose to go to a high priced school and study something that offers no marketable skills or is hyper competitive and only a few positions exist, why should I, as a taxpayer, fund that? - that is your choice.

I wanted to study physics, because I love the subject, but when I entered college, I evaluated that my job prospects were low, especially with merely an undergrad degree. Instead, I studying electrical & computer engineering, and I paid off my student loan debt 4 or 5 years after leaving college.
> But to treat it on par with the natural sciences is fraudulent.

... because economics is a natural science?
> The ACA has turned off a lot of people from the idea of government managed health insurance. Many people, myself included, saw the quality of their coverage decrease because of the ACA.

It's weird how true this is. The ACA is the one thing that has accomplished the following : there was public talk on the streets about how democrats/Obama suck several times due to the ACA :

the two weeks when employer contribution became effective

then when the plans got changed in California and people had to choose

and finally when the plans were adjusted

In a lot of other places the employer mandate (which cause quite a few people to lose their jobs because their employer was forced to fire them, esp. in small businesses) mattered more. But Obamacare and the incredible cost increases it brought for everyone should be looked at as a failure.
> have you ever met a CEO who was not a psychopath?

Thanks for pointing this out.
Extensive discussion from when the article was first published in 2016:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11463434
"the great 28" was part of my musical "coming of age" in the 80s, and I definitely annoyed the heck out of everyone else in the house practicing along to that double album.

this is one of those people whose influence and impact will be felt for decades to come (like les paul, hendrix and many other icons)
Windows 10 is not free. The "free upgrade" period is over. MSRP for Windows 10 Home is $119.
Another area where Google Glass has shown to be very useful is in medicine. You can put a pair on and have a specialist walk you through a interview or examination. The poison review toxicology podcast had an interview with a who had significant success using glass in this manner.

http://www.thepoisonreview.com/2016/03/19/tpr-podcast-episod...

Obviously it needed to be de-googlified to make it HIPAA compliant
FYI two days after writing this article he shut down his startup https://medium.com/@OmidAminfar/the-end-of-my-rewarding-star... so while I am not disputing the accuracy of his statements there may be other factors as work as well.
But unfortunately for Debian 8 users, it is not compatible with the python3-gdal provided in Debian 8 and fails to work with a runtime error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./tv", line 82, in <module>
SAMPLING = {'nearest': gdal.GRIORA_NearestNeighbour,
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'GRIORA_NearestNeighbour'

* https://packages.debian.org/jessie/python3-gdal

timg built and ran as-is on Debian 8 with the libraries that it needs.
In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13848470, and specifically in these subthreads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13848884

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13850914
Although I can appreciate the comparison in terms of amount of money in each, I don't know there is tremendous waste in all three, or that the source of expense is the same in all three.

What they do have in common is being seen as indispensible or essential services. I agree they also all have tremendous bureaucracies.

For example, I think one primary source of costs in healthcare (strangely almost completely unaddressed in the current healthcare law debates) is lack of competition. Licensing laws and government regulation over procedures and whatnot stifles effective choices in healthcare.

There are many other problems too, like lack of transparency over pricing, and an inversion of the normal economic decision-making process (for example, instead of the buyer having fixed costs and benefits to choose between, they are often at best only given the option of accepting or refusing the service).

Education is a bit different, IMHO. There, you have businesses using degrees as checklist criteria and pushing off real training onto schools; schools have become administratively topheavy. Rather than being faculty-driven, they're increasingly administratively-driven (it's not uncommon to have several deans of a given college, for example). States, which have historically funded universities in the public interest, are cutting that funding and pushing costs onto students.

I guess my point is that I don't really see the solutions being the same, nor do I see simply cutting funding and "starving the beast" as the right solution. Education is already underfunded, and what tends to happen is that administrators cut other positions over their own, or over relinquishing decision-making authority to democratic processes.

Too much discussion has focused on who pays for healthcare, and in what way, or how much. It's important but not really helpful in the long-term, because the real problems are in transparency and overregulation. It's ridiculous, for example, to assume that citizens can take responsibility for their own healthcare if the government explicitly prevents people doing just that: by preventing them from making their own healthcare decisions, preventing competition, and raising regulatory hurdles to new services (e.g., in the form of drug regulation, overly strict laws about who can provide what service, and what hospitals and manufacturers must do). So we end up with a system where you can't refill a harmless medication you've used for years without getting approval of an overpaid provider, but can get a harmful opiate from that same provider when another service (from a different type of provider) would be more helpful.

The amount of money being spent in these areas is not really the problem; it's a symptom. Just cutting spending on them will not really address the problems, and may make them worse.
The JavaScript engine is open source:

https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore
I think it's a lot easier to sell a consumer experience than an enterprise device. And you can tell a consumer how to use a product, whereas an enterprise expects the product to meet their needs.

I wanted my Glass to help me with my business flow (namely, being on call at work), but it wasn't built to do things like... Connect to a non-Gmail account. And Google's requirement of uploading every photo I took meant I couldn't securely take work photos with it.

I have one of my best pictures of my chinchilla because of it though... Only way I've ever been able to hold something with two hands and take a picture.
That brings up the question, why is work in the metropoli (not a word, apparently, but it should be) of America and not the heartland?
I think you should only call a program an accelerator if they invest at the start in all participants. Otherwise a word like incubator or competition probably makes more sense.
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No, a tax on the rental value of land would move the demand curve over to the left. This would reduce both rental incomes and selling prices. ie a reduction in demand. So the rise in rents would be cancelled out by the fall in selling prices. ie No inflation.

Landlords do not currently claim most of peoples disposable incomes. That ratio hasn't, nor would it change because renters get more income via the BI.

Landlords would in fact be keeping a lot less of peoples income once equilibrium has been reached.

There are no difficulties in separating the value of location from that of the buildings. Easy to do. Besides as far as LVT is concerned, its the structure rather than value taxed that is important. But I'd need to write more than I've got time for here to explain why that is.
The irony is that economics is merely a highly-specialised branch of sociology. Economies are part of how our societies work.

I remember my high-school chemistry teacher saying "don't tell the physics teacher that chemistry is just a highly specialised branch of physics!". It's the same with economics and sociology.
Chuck Berry, Pioneer Rock'n'Roll Guitarist, Dies at Age of 90
The split one is the Ergonomic model, that's probably what they're talking about. I just switched to the same one from a fairly nice mechanical keyboard and it feels a lot better.
Oh my

I always have my www.* domains alas to the site without the www. by default. While you assumed people will almost always think they're different, I'm assuming people will almost always think they're the same.

I wonder how many people get frustrated by being redirected from the www to it's naked counterpart before spamming refresh and leaving in defeated frustration... Uh oh
krita, gimp, inkscape
The lender actually assumes most of the risk. In the case of a default, there's not generally much or any assets for them to go after to liquidate.
I suspect you'll see some real world versions of this sort of thing from truckers when self driving semis get some traction.

Truckers are very well organized, both officially via unions and informally via radio shows, newsletters, online forums, and the like.

Not that it will accomplish much, but it will be a lively transiton.
"[Truck drivers] typically live paycheck-to-paycheck while employed, and then suffer a big step down in income when they retire with only social security."

Uh..... Doesn't sound like the ideal job you're making it out to be to me...

If turnover is so bad there's got to be a reason, thus the job must not be as cushy and perfect as you claim. If 100% of people are quitting their job there must be something very, very bad about that job.

Anyway, the point of that article was for some moron to say how awesome ESOPs are. I once worked for an employee owned company, ESOPs are no silver bullet to a toxic work environment. They aren't going to do anything at all on their own. If you go to a shitty company to work for and make them an ESOP that doesn't do anything. ESPOs help in that better companies to work for are the ones who tend to consider being employee-owned.

$54k is median salary, not starting, entry level, salary. Your starting salary is more around $35k-ish, from what I've seen.

Where are these magic 5 figure sign on bonuses for people without a CDL? Are you a truck driver? What was your sign on bonus? Did you have to get a CDL on your own time?
Brin: Looking back at Heinlein's Future History, coming true before our eyes
I think this is a failure of internal management on Microsoft's part. There aren't ads in the file manager because Microsoft-as-a-whole decided they should be there; there are ads in the file manager because the OneDrive team wanted more users, didn't care about alienating people from Windows-in-general, and had the power to put ads there.
Oh looks cool. Haven't tried it before so I wonder how it compares to the AR of hololens.
To be fair, Google's AR example of Glass was it's marketing concept video, but never shown or advertised as a feature of the released product.
Every time someone brings up sales volumes, they don't seem to connect the shitty updates with correspondingly shitty sales. Of course the Mac Pro sells in low volumes; it's a frigging 4 year old computer now. Same with the mini. If Apple updated these on an annual basis (just the cpu/gpu etc) then maybe sales wouldn't look like shit.
FYI: It's spelled Penney.
Exactly. Many youngsters I meet today who were inspired by more contemporary guitarist usually don't realise that their heroes were in turn influenced by Chuck. He was definitely one of the 'founding fathers' of modern guitar playing.
Much like the housing collapse, banks have been mandated to finance to people that can't afford it for student loans. The blame doesn't solely lay with the banks. The government is at least equally to blame.
I don't want most of those posts to disappear either. The moderation comments you're referring to are more targeted than that.
I wonder if we'll eventually see a world where the former Uber drivers who are slowly being lulled into dependence fight back when their jobs are automated away. Autonomous vehicles could be an easy target in a lot of ways, especially when unoccupied. Slap some electrical tape on their sensors, chock their tires, or confuse them with clever tactics like this.
Will never forget that time Marty McFly taught him how to play rock and roll.
Bomberman 3D FPS Online Multiplayer in your browser
You might have heard of the Uncertainty Principle? Basically it says that ΔxΔp ≥ ℏ/2. Well the principle is more general (look up Fourier analysis) and it can be shown that ΔtΔE ≥ ℏ/2 as well.
I'm shocked that you got that username less than a year ago!

But "cypherpunk" is >9 years old, and inactive.
I think that, in general, I do weigh threats to my life from the state (ie, threats to my liberty) more heavily, and I think that such a grading curve is necessary for freedom to prosper.

...and it's not just accidents. What they did to @aaronsw they can do to any of us.

But interestingly, I do actually sometimes have trouble sleeping for the other reasons you mentioned. I live in a school bus, and driving it is, naturally, a source of anxiety.

I also carry a multimeter and always check before we plug-in at campgrounds (this after finding some pretty bad wiring).

But all in all, your point is super sound.
Some time ago a Rust version of these kind of programmes was presented here:

https://github.com/nabijaczleweli/termimage

A useful additional script:
#!/bin/bash
for i in `find $@` ; do termimage --size 150x33 $i ; done
I'm surprised that the article doesn't mention anycast, which is more or less the "correct" way of using a CDN on an apex domain, since for the user's purposes it's just a static IP address.

I find anycast to be convenient even for subdomains, since it isn't affected by things like DNS caching, (although things like edns-client-subnet apparently help with that).

I'm actually currently looking for a CDN for my website. I don't like www (just personal preference) so anycast is pretty important to me, but there don't seem to be a lot of providers offering anycast for decent price. The closest I've seen is Google's Cloud CDN, which out of all the CDN's I've tried (a lot), is one of the best, but for a small site like mine I tend to get more cache misses than hits (simply due to eviction).

Maybe I'll write up a blog post about this issue :)
Currently on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13903824
And then they say that Linux is the non user-friendly OS...
Weight is an issue. The two devices are not completely comparable.
When you skip showering, is it because of lack of energy or you just "don't feel like it"?
What did you use for money? Savings?
Sucks to be a windows user
This was never really a reasonable or valid concern... The camera was never on when the screen wasn't, and the screen was very visible when on.

And the recording capabilities of the device were way overstated. Not just because of battery life, but heat. Trying to record video with it felt like putting yourself at risk of setting one side of your face on fire.

In fact, considering recent concerns with exploding batteries and the size of Glass and how hot it could get, perhaps the biggest marvel is that Google avoided even one Glass exploding.
So? I claimed neither.
I have the same feeling with linux's experts and systemd.
A bit of Occam's Razor might be called for before suggesting hidden agendas and IP theft by foreign governments.

It sounds like a new program that overpromised, didn't plan well, and struggled to deliver would have been a similar experience.
As well as one from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12219599.
There was one study together with Paul Vogt which also allows agents to establish which sensory channels to use for communication as well.

This is language grounding in a very pure way.

I think it's important not to restrict those channels. We communicate nonverbally, by touch, by smiling, by whistling, by scratching, by walking funny, by writing, by painting, by love.
That would be as criminal as taxi drivers slashing Uber tires, or artisanal craftsmen burning down factories.
The forced reboots are especially amusing if you consider them in the context of the fact that the Windows NT series was long touted as being so stable they never require rebooting, while 9x with its minimal memory protections would need to be rebooted often if your applications weren't well-behaved. Meanwhile, year-long uptime was a common occurrence with Unices (including Linux).

It seems Microsoft does not value uptime anymore either.
Have a Unicode Δ and a Unicode ℏ for your future use!
"most of the interesting research being done in econ is outside of theoretical macro"

I'm not sure why that save economics from the discussion, when it's the theoretical macro what have a huge influence in the life of billions of persons and the title of the article we are discussing is "If Sociologists Had as Much Influence as Economists".

The libertarian comment is uncalled for, as most of the comments here don't express a political view, only criticism of the discipline.
From the links:

>"eating a handful of lentils as a snack every now and again probably wouldn’t be any more problematic than eating a handful of cashews, but that’s just not the way people eat lentils."

>"Legumes (beans, lentils, chickpeas, split peas, etc.) aren’t, by any means, the worst thing you can eat, but they don’t make the ideal meal either."

"The paleo people" also think a diet of 100% meat is unhealthy. Your links do identify what the paleo community associates as unhealthy traits in legumes, but both of the links advocate constraint not abstinence... unlike say... Twinkies or Wonder Bread.
Time zones are dumb
Wow I am hearing this name Yext for the first time ever. What do they even do?
> Of course, it’s just a regular car he drives into it for demonstration purposes.

Because a self-driving car wouldn't have any reason to drive into the circle, so it wouldn't get "caught".

The actual reason a regular car is used is because this is an "art installation" and not a serious critique of self-driving algorithms.

A more effective trap would be a "no entry" sign on a one-way street (or one side of a dual carriageway), positioned so the car can't see it before entering the street.
Is there an affordable Google Glass like floating screen. With the number of people walking looking at their screens, it makes sense to just gave a floating screen in a nicely design spectacle. No camera, just a ui to see your phone screen and something to track finger movements and tap.

We already have people who have Bluetooth speakers, no reason to also not have a tiny screen near the eyes.
We lost the battle already: https://www.crowdsupply.com/raptor-computing-systems/talos-s...
According to that page:

"Google Glass has the potential of giving us a new perspective on telemedicine. However, the use of this device presents several problems, especially involving data security, patient privacy and HIPAA compliance."

"Using Google Glass, the consultants were also able to send and receive high-quality pictures of EKGs, pill bottles, etc."

"Although it is possible to send and receive photos using cell phones, computers, and tablets, Dr. Chai made the point that such technology is not HIPAA compliant."

So, they used it to Skype with their attendings, and it has the same compliance issues as ... normal cell phones, computers, and tablets - which absolutely are HIPAA compliant, if you're using secured hardware provided by the hospital (like all the laptops and blackberries used by insurance company employees carrying around identifiable patient data). Hospitals cheap out, though, and make you BYO - which is not a problem I envision Google Glass being a solution to.

Going to the cited publications didn't show any additional benefits.
I'm not a Hackintosh builder, have considered it many times. From the video's I've watched, the big trick, especially if you use Final Cut Pro X with OpenCL, is to avoid NVidia and use AMD Radeon video cards. Supposedly this makes the build process a lot easier/less finicky, and even faster. Can anyone confirm?
I guess I'm just simpleminded and think that you should just pay your debt that you agreed to acquire..