skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read the book "Why Nations Fail." I found it to be poorly organized and repetitive. But the biggest problem I had with it was that it suffered from the fallacy of the single cause. The authors tried to attack every other theory about the prosperity of nations in favor of their one thesis. Their arguments against other theories seemed weak and poorly supported. While I think there is truth to their hypothesis that economic prosperity is related to inclusiveness of a society, and they presented some sound arguments for it, trying to say it is the only cause is a bridge too far in my opinion.
Doesn't work for me. Whatever message I try to encode, I get a "This deck already exists..." error.
> [is being assertive] compatible with intellectual humility short of actively lying

I think so. There are a few humble people at the top. Take Lincoln. He wasn't ethically perfect but set the bar pretty damn high for both success and humility.

In your example the only choices are be definitive or lie, but are many choices in between.

Check out Merkel's statement about Trump right after the election. She's supposed to congratulate and welcome the new leader of a close western ally. Truth is she's disgusted, is she forced to lie? I think she did a great job not damaging the relationship with her statement, while still signaling her concerns.
More info about this: http://stackoverflow.com/q/25612262/331041
Bailout by Neil Barofsky is very good. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00818J57W

For critical responses to Graeber's book, the Crooked Timber seminar on it is well worth reading. http://crookedtimber.org/category/david-graeber-debt-seminar...
Designing Facebook for Mobile VR
I quite loved my small stint developing in Adobe flex. I have to admit it.
There is no evidence that he is, so it does not matter what you do.
Thanks for the reply. My comment was in reference to the Visual Basic Calculator program described here: (perhaps "VBScript" was not accurate)

https://barrgroup.com/Embedded-Systems/How-To/State-Machines...

That VB calculator is shown as an example of "The Problem" with event driven programming, but I just see it as an example of why poorly designed programs are hard to reason about and buggy.

I did not see the coffeescript / Python calculator.
There was a Coke machine connected to the Arpanet in the 70's
Technical Analysis of the Great Rowan Atkinson Death Hoax of March 18, 2017
The sad part is that being nice like this is a good way of being taken advantage of.

Let me be a realist and say that stuff like this does not matter. Nice guys finish last. The universe will not care. I guess I'm saying so what? Somebody else will just ripp off billions off of people and nobody will care. Somebody else will defraud, cheat, backstab people and "good people" will applaud him. These guy is wasting his time. Those homeless people will back stave him if he turns his back on them.
Under what doctrine or reasoning can you compare the DWB hospital strike with My Lai or intentionally striking hospital ships as a matter of policy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike#U.S....
Just to get the ball rolling, whilst I'm biased (Londoner) I still think the UK is a good place to start a business.

For one London/Manchester are fantastic places to find a quality working space and good talent and at prices far more reasonable than say Silicon Valley which is an incredibly expensive place to get a startup going.

Furthermore as far as investment opportunities go, the sudden drop in the £ (~20%) has made UK assets like property (and startups) proportionately cheaper - as a result UK startups are more attractive for foreign investors. It's one of the reasons the UK property market at least is still strong and why the other shoe hasn't (yet) dropped.

One issue however with having a SaaS type startup in the UK is that if you're purchasing a large amount of cloud capacity in $ terms you're going to find yourself disadvantaged compared to your American competitors. A way to mitigate that might be to have your customers pay in $s rather than £s.

Regarding the surveillance laws issue I think the UK/US face the same problems. Governments are able to make sealed requests to companies for data without being challenged in both countries and it seems to take an Amazon or Apple to be able to push back. I doubt many small American companies have as much success saying 'no' to government subpoenas.

From what I hear Germany is meant to be much more privacy friendly than the UK or US, so if your startup is contingent upon that then I think Berlin might be the place to go.

These are pretty dark days across the world unfortunately and the pendulum of company regulation and personal liberty swings back and forth from country to country. Sometimes making the most of the location you're in can be the best choice. Best of luck.
You're right about Trump. Multiple bankruptcies+divorces, his first act as President-elect was settling a fraud suit.

Hillary Clinton was a Yale Law grad, successful lawyer, Walmart board member, First Lady, Senator and Secretary of State. She was 20 times the Most Admired Woman in America.

I'm familiar with equivocation. It really doesn't impress me.
For general background if you haven't heard the term.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet

More specifically they'd buy into the idea that everything would be better if they just did/bought/adopted X. And they did this a lot with everything; technology, processes, organization principles, etc. During my short time there they adopted scrum, then extreme programming, then back to scrum, they switched their development from monoliths to extreme micro-services (one verb/service), they reorganized the teams 3 different times based on different principes... this continued ad nauseam.
Or even worse, "h-t-t-p-colon-backslash-backslash..." from people who were used to saying "c-colon-backslash"
Thanks, we've restored the title. Submitted title was "Don't Take Your Startup to YC".

Submitters: if you editorialize like this, you're breaking the site guidelines as gus_massa pointed out, and will eventually lose story submission privileges here.
> As for Rule Three, it is for the non-Calvinists who reject Rule Two, "who are not paralyzed by guilt and who are too uneducated to express their resentment legally." For them "there is only one possible form of expression: to break the law, by engaging in criminal activities such as murder, armed robbery, violent assault, rape and the smoking of marijuana in pipes or home-made cigarettes." Followers of Rule Three end up in prison.

This feels really out of touch. Aside from the stilted language ("home-made cigarettes" in 1999, really?), lumping people who use marijuana with rapists and murderers is absurd. Might as well lump in people who jaywalk.
It's funny, I'm an industrial electrician and my smart phone is my handiest tool. I can take pictures from awkward spots like up a pipe behind some bus bars, even thermal, download a manual and keyword search my issues. Video chat with more/less experienced employees to problem solve. Use my phone to trouble shoot cellular issues (m2m iot). Remotely configure network systems. Use OTG cable to serial interface with rs232/485. Scan a barcode of existing hardware,compare it to new hardware and order it online. A LOT of mobile technology is wasted on company's thinking I want this to snap a highlight reel of my weekend and other trivial shit ....When what I really want to do is take a picture with my device, save the location of picture and send it to all parties concerned and document my time.
> I think one of the big problems with glass was that they picked the wrong sort of people to be early public users

Totally agree. As awesome a technical achievement as Glass was, it was the product of 20 years of work from some very odd people (MIT's borgs) that literally wore desktop computers on their backs prototyping it, ignoring all social convention in the process. While their insights were valuable for their particular approach to wearable computing (HUD-based, data recall oriented, etc), that approach isn't the right approach for the mainstream, nor are they the right brand ambassadors.

Google's perennial issue is they're a technology factory that thinks they're a consumer company. The goto market strategy Glass should have adopted was in enterprise, where there are many valuable use cases like ones in this article, and Google could have refined it there. But Google isn't good at picking markets or any form of understanding marketing, so they decided that a bunch of geeks walking around cafes, bars, and restaurants was the right way to go. sigh
I've never heard of YC pushing founders to do something with their startup that the founders didn't want to do. Perhaps there have been corner cases but it's definitely not in YC's culture.
On the flip side, any OS that restarts without explicit user confirmation is broken.
Also note that https://www.opencyclemap.org/ has been available for quite some years, based on OSM data too.
In addition, sociology as a practice seems to tie itself deeply to activism. When it does so, the credibility of sociology as a scientific pursuit weakens.

Compare, for example, at Colombia University, the Department of Sociology homepage http://sociology.columbia.edu/ and the Department of Economoics http://econ.columbia.edu/. The sociology page features a huge image of a protest of the recent immigration executive orders. The economics page, on the other hand, features upcoming talks like "Iceland's Road to Recovery" and "Modern Financial Markets: The Role of High-Frequency Trading". The sociology department is signaling that they're passionate about ideological issues, while the economics department is signaling that they're focused on understanding and analyzing.

People trust scientists because people believe they are willing and able to divorce their emotions and vested interests from an objective pursuit of the truth. Sociology seems to fail that test time after time.
Calling Hololens "real AR" when the FOV is the size of a postage stamp and needs a large computer just to power it is like calling a Ford Fiesta a supercar.
This is an ad... Why is it on the front page?

The article brings absolutely no value.
amazing, how does one get to know certificate security when its scattered over a gazillion of RFC's ?
Not to diminish what the guy is doing, but why does it matter that he's an Apple Engineer? They /could/ mention it in the article, but why does it have to be in the title? In fact, that's pretty much a pattern these days. "Google Engineer did this". "Apple Engineer did that". You'll never read "$random_company engineer did that", but "Dude did that" or at best "Sofware engineer did that". What is it with the cult of big names? Really? That the guy works there has very little to do with what he did (which is awesome).
I find it a hard sell to say that any — and every — user should learn every platform of choice they use well enough to be able to modify it.

In fact, I might say it is our duty as developers to make sure the default version of our program is good enough that almost no user should have to change it.

And I believe Windows accomplished that, at some point. Then some asshole decided to add ads to it all, just to squeeze a few more cents out of the users.
I have the same feeling about the "just use a VPN" argument against net neutrality. That sound you hear is all the normal people in the world being thrown under the bus.
It's because of this misfeature that I've decided I'm going to build my own Wi-Fi router, which will hard-block any and every IP address belonging to Microsoft.

I've been late to work before because my Surface restarted to install an update, it got stuck rebooting, and my alarms didn't go off.
Ah, seeing the tic-tac-toe graph and comparing to yours gives a much better idea what you're trying to do. Interesting! Thanks.
Not sure how to say this without sounding harsh, but if you've been in tech for over a decade and you're still competing with bootcamp grads, you're doing something pretty wrong.

Bootcamp grads can cobble together a basic project, usually having seen only a very high level view of 2-3 programming languages (javascript, python, ruby, etc). The bootcamp doesn't give meaningful experience on software architecture, fundamental topics in CS, deep knowledge of languages and techniques, or even softer things like project management.

I would expect a 10 year professional, on the other hand, to have a very solid understanding of a few languages and technologies, knowledge of advanced technical topics, experience shipping real world projects, managing junior developers, etc.

So you are either severely underselling yourself, or you don't have 10 years of experience but rather 10x 1 year of experience.
If you read the start of the article you'll see we do that as well. This only applies to people that don't use netlify for DNS.
If this was the original goal, they sure took a roundabout way to get there. MS's hololens is/was aimed from the start at this kind of market. Snapchat's glasses are at the other extreme, as illustrated by their marketing campaign featuring mostly attractive naked people:

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=snapchat%20spectacl...

I'm not sure Google had a plan at all:

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=google%20glass&tbs=...
> I doubt there's any malware in there...

Famous last words. Unless the builds are verifiable, they're not trustable. Open source doesn't do you any good if you don't know that the binary that you download and run doesn't do something weird.
Snap did a good job limiting supply and building hype for the rollout. Now that Spectacles are generally available, I have reason to believe that sales are below expectations.
For those who may be interested: the way to turn this particular trait off in Windows 10 is to mark all of your Internet connections as "metered connections." Windows will no longer download updates unless you specifically ask for them, which you can do when you're not in the middle of a big project.
Finally a startup can have a byline of "Made for love in <city>" and actually mean it!
Chuck would have been (in one way or another) the inspiration for almost everyone who plays guitar today. Aside from "Stairway to Heaven", the opening riff to "Johnny B Goode" is one lick that almost every guitarist learns to play. I've been playing that lick for 40 years, but still can't get it to sound as cool as Chuck did... RIP.
This about all of the tech recruiters that contact you for employment. Now imagine yourself being one of them. That's what entry level sales is like. You are dialing for dollars all day, every day. You might get a better sales gig if you stick with sales long enough to kind of get it. If you don't like competition and hassle, sales is probably not for you.

If you can afford to pay for an MBA out of pocket, maybe it'd be a good investment. If you need to borrow a ton of money, your going to have a bad time after graduation. Trying to pay back a lot of money after graduation sucks, especially at a time where you're trying to experiment and take risk.

You might fair better if you can get into a top 10 MBA program, but you should think about exactly what you're going to get out of an MBA program. Think about this. Don't focus on what you're going to learn in an MBA program. Focus on the employers that actively recruit from a school you're considering. If that list of employers and the positions the recruit for looks appealing to you, only apply to schools that have an impressive number of companies who recruit for jobs you'd want. Then work your butt off to get into one of those schools, and develop the profile needed to be one of the people those companies recruit. Any other path is far too unpredictable to make any solid bets around.

Source: I was a tech recruiter, and got an MBA (not in that order).
It's just another kind of bait. 'Name recognition' is a thing for a reason.

Striking another tiny blow for modesty in titles, we've taken out 'Apple' above.
Ah I see - maybe I should find a better article to demonstrate the 'State Explosion' Problem.

I thought you were referring to my live demo: https://bitwrap.github.io/#octothorpe
Please don't do religious flamewars on HN. Whether or not God is real, that circle of internet hell is, and we don't go there here.
If you don't mind getting tracked, then you probably won't find it creepy.

I, on the other hand, get annoying letters form my bank saying I never open their emails, so they won't let me password reset via email anymore. Uh, OK, I'll waste the bank's money calling, I suppose...
I consider an operating system that randomly includes ads on their OS tools far from 'not bad'.
One of the key settings in cyberpunk lit is where corporations are more powerful than governments..

We are already there in some ways. Take the situation in the UK where, say, apple don't pay any tax to the national govt -- this is a perfect example where a massive corp is more powerful than a govt. There is absolutely no way that the uk govt could change the situation.

There are a few options they could try, but they would all fail and so they're not even attempted as trying and failing would be an embarrassment and admitting that they're powerless.

The options?

Take them to court? The govt would run out of money before they even got into a courtroom.

Sales ban? Unless the cost of stopping doing business in the UK is more than paying tax in every other country who would immediately take the same steps if it worked then they'd just leave the uk.

Guilt trip? Sure, people are annoyed but it's barely a news cycle at a time and everyone will still pay 1k for the new iphone (8 is rumored at around there... apparently).

That's even before you read about the revolving door between govt and big corp and the toothless ACOBA.

The lobby/'campaign donation' culture in US politics is an even stronger litmus, to me at least, that in contract to your view the future has come, and the cyberpunk is in it.
> It is up for debate how much the rocket sent to Mars has given back on the investment

ISRO actually has a commercial satellite launching arm that does make money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antrix_Corporation
I agree that FOV is very small but all of the hololens software runs on the headset itself. It works untethered with it's own wifi and battery.
Either Screamin' Jay or Arthur Brown (see: Fire), I would think? Then again Chuck did really bring the showmanship. The TV series Metal Evolution has a nice little episode on shock rock if you find the topic interesting. With that said, I'm not big on eulogizing so I'll steal a friend's Facebook post:

Now free of his corporeal confines, Ghost Chuck Berry can watch you pee wherever he wants. Roll Over Beethoven.
Considered a hit by who? The blogosphere? They're not even selling well on eBay.
It depends on what you're doing. Crawling around on or inside a plane, for example, would be a bad idea with a hololens, but perfect for Glass.

It's not a 'one size fits all' situation.
Probably because of the myriad of things that have shaky hardware support on ubuntu.
Well the current current plan is do nothing as far as I can tell. But the original vitrification plan was replaced with a casking plan which allowed the material to be removed (and recovered).

The sad thing is that you don't need a lot of 'high security' around a cave filled with vitrified nuclear waste, you can't use the glass for anything useful. But you do if your cave is filled with casks that can be opened and the contents removed and then aggregated into piles, or wrapped around a truck bomb to be distributed by detonating the now 'dirty' bomb.
That lick is my go to when I'm in the middle of a solo and need a minute to think about where to go (and he definitely plays it cooler than me).

Even if lots of people today aren't aware of him, they're probably aware of the uncountable number of artists he directly influenced. The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Bruce Springsteen [0] immediately come to mind.

[0] Coincidentally, I was watching a video of a Springsteen concert where he was arranging a cover of a Chuck Berry song for his band on the spot yesterday: https://youtu.be/L-Ds-FXGGQg
What if the traffic was masked - say certain "routine" DNS queries to kick off a request to get further commands to run? I wouldn't be worried about facile root kits, but higher quality attacks that are way harder to detect.
This is NBC Bay Area, a news source for regular folks. News provides information in terms their audience can recognize and understand, and most regular folks don't know what engineers really do. It matters quite a bit that he's an engineer at one of the world's most well respected brands, because its not just some regular engineer, but one that is good enough to work at a company people hold in high regard.

'Important person takes time off to work on things of true importance' is another way to think of it - that's a strong story to tell, so they lead with it.
Trump isnt any republican he successfully recreated the reagan coalition.

Its really mindboggling, how he took over the party.
In the youtube video, they mention that moving lights can't cast shadows. https://youtu.be/6kfMVxNSowM?t=3276

That's a significant limitation for a modern technique.

Here's the full algorithm for anyone curious:

> The Forward Renderer works by culling lights and Reflection Captures to a frustum-space grid. Each pixel in the forward pass then iterates over the lights and Reflection Captures affecting it, sharing the material with them. Dynamic Shadows for Stationary Lights are computed beforehand and packed into channels of a screen-space shadow mask, leveraging the existing limit of 4 overlapping Stationary Lights.
If you are inside a plane, you are already should be wearing a hear hat. Probably could mod a Holo lens into a hard hat form factor instead of just a bulky headset?
Also, Soros's The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means, though Graeber's book is what really brought Soros's claims into focus for me. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004HKIFR4
Bruce didn't even change the URL (except to append "-16")!

I emailed the actual author.
In part because it means that a property you take for granted in email (namely, that you can reference it later without it having changed) is violated. (This would permit all sorts of things involving documents being retroactively edited to whatever is convenient for the party sending the email.)

In part because you could use this to implement detection of an email having been "read" when the remote asset is fetched.

(These are just why I find those sorts of emails irritating and sometimes creepy.)
I was referencing domestic travel. Within the US.
Recreating the “Asteroids” graphics with a single-beam laser projector [video]
They are basically already funded by public money, problem is just that the vulnerabilities found won't make it back to the vendors until they are burned.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13810015
NOTE: I've started with 2nd person (to match the article, be more personal and appeal to the reader's conscience), so I'll be sticking with "you" instead of "the contributor".

If you're unfamiliar with programming language idioms, it is likely that your (ultimate, approved) contribution may not be be worth the time and the effort that has been put into guiding you to it. The help may instead have been given to you in hopes that it will pay off with your future contributions. If your only or main motivation is to learn a programming language, there's a greater chance that there won't be any.

Contributing out of sheer sense of obligation is hard. Even worse, it may so happen that you realize that you don't even like the language. Not only is the the time invested in teaching you the project a waste for the project, but the teaching you the language was not beneficial for other projects written in the same language. To stay interested in a project, you should be certain of your interest in some thing intrinsic to the project.

At least be very frank and clear about your intentions.