skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an Australian living and working in the SF Bay and my wife (Russian) and I have noticed the same thing. Americans in general seem to live in a bubble. Of course pretty much everyone lives in a bubble of some kind but the American bubble seems to be stronger than many.

It makes a lot of sense to me though. America, like Europe, has a huge amount of diversity in things to do and places to go. It would take a lifetime to see everything worth seeing in America and I can see why the effort (and cost) of going to say Europe or Asia wouldn't seem appealing when you can go see something domestically like the Grand Canyon, the museums in DC or any of the numerous different cities/states.

So Americans don't have as much reason to travel I think and given that the American economy is so enormous and the country is physically isolated from the rest of the world, ultimately, the state of the world outside America doesn't impact an American as much as it does a European.

This isn't to say that this is right but I think this at least somewhat provides some reason for the way things are.
Can confirm, window motor replacement's not terrible, and Youtube will probably tell you exactly how to do it for your make/model/year (did for our '01 Honda, which is the only car we've ever had power window problems with)
> Before the international banking crisis broke in 2007, the total face value of outstanding derivatives contracts was many times larger than the world economy itself.

Really? I had no clue that it was that bad.
I just ripped the "smart" buttons off my remote and never gave the TV my Wi-Fi password. Wish I could have found a TV that was the same quality without the "smartness" but as another commenter stated, it is basically impossible.
It probably depends on their alternatives, so cities are probably going to have more viable competitors to use than rural areas.

60% seems extremely high to me. I'm sure it's happening at some level, but it would have a significant impact on Uber's growth and it opens the door for the 2nd and 3rd place competitors to get traction.

Also, the rates will drop every time there's a new scandal, so there's a compounding effect to the waves of bad press they've had.
Indeed. What do you think he meant when he talked about not wanting to invest in tech companies in the past? Or did he never say that?
some opinion like the east and the west
That 25 year old refrigerator is almost certainly very expensive to operate. Look at the energy use over time: 1990 -> 2015 saw a halving of power usage (1000 kWh/y -> 500 kWh/y) -- over a ten year lifespan with CA electricity at $0.19/kWh, that's $950 in increased energy expenditure as compared to a new refrigerator. ie it would be close to free.

http://aceee.org/blog/2014/09/how-your-refrigerator-has-kept...

For refrigerators at least, it doesn't make sense to make them robust enough to last more than 10-15 years since it's worth it to replace them over that time period. My understanding is the vast majority of refrigerators are then recycled. All those metals are valuable.
I seriously doubt that we'll ever get to the point that we're comfortable with brain surgery just to upgrade our "connectedness." The real win is some sort of skull cap which can read your brain signals, and communicate with your brain through the skull. Seems impossible now, but I wouldn't be surprised if they come up with a way.

My concern is that we haven't yet gotten smartphones right. Most of us love and hate them. I'd love to have something like parental controls on my phone which I could use to limit what I can do with it: set limits on my usage, control which apps I can use, and limit what I can do with them. There's a variety of enforcement mechanisms ranging from putting in a longer random password and not writing it down, have my spouse set it up, have it setup initially and then come up for review every three months...

But imagine if we all had something similar, inescapable, engaging, entertaining, and utterly addicting in our heads. Yikes. Imagine if you've got notification overload...In your head. Yikes.

No thanks. I'm still trying to get a handle on my damn smartphone addiction.
shoot me an email with your background etc. I'm not aiming for this batch actively but i wouldn't mind a chat. Google my name to get my website an email. it should be the first result
History and Derivation of the Fast Fourier Transform
A fully functional local AWS cloud stack
Funny story -- Yes! I did visit Ohio, to see a VC actually. I was able to get a single VC meeting for the whole trip. Perhaps there are other VCs, but I found just one willing to take a meeting. The odds in NYC were higher. The odds in SF are even higher. I find it difficult to believe there VCs are as accessible in Ohio as they are in NYC/SF.
AC-3 does not offer lossless mode, only the extension TrueHD, which is still covered by patents.

As mentioned in the article, AC-3 is pretty horrific by modern standards. Use Opus or FLAC instead.
Then they should only force the reboot for critical security fixes that are exploitable, and only if they can't just restart that service.

Not for all updates every time :(
> A ton of people are comfortably building equity in their homes

IMO, this is exactly the root of the issue though. You can't bring your home with you when you move. Having your only major equity stored in an illiquid and immobile asset is extremely constraining.

I am sympathetic to the idea of wanting to own a home. I'd like to afford owning one myself one day! But we can't keep pushing housing costs higher and higher on mountains of debt that keep people chained to their property. Maybe getting rid of the interest reduction or enforcing more stringent mortgage conditions aren't the solution, but I think that somehow we have to get the price of housing to go down (and IMO there's no single solution; it's going to involve a combination of zoning reform, mortgage and financing reform, tax reform, and some sort of compensation for dropping property values for people who don't have savings apart from the value of their home).
The concept in this blogpost anticipates a more general architecture. Graphics pipelines are a good fit for dataflow programming, such as FBP [0] or reactive [1]. When you use those styles, the pipeline architecture is more flexible, more straightforward to run concurrently, while the coding challenge turns into one of how to allocate and address different assets, address different types of assets, create and address temporary data, and describe the node graph connecting these things together.

The practical complication in rendering can be stated like this: combine assets A and B and parameter P to make asset C, then (subsequently) combine asset C with asset D and parameter J to make output O. Some of the assets/parameters change with each frame rendered, others are entirely static, and oversight over GPU time and memory usage is needed, so you have to consider which things are loaded when. Then, while in production, a design change necessitates that a new parameter be added somewhere, and it turns out that you have to reorder which things are processed first and add a custom codepath because one of your target GPUs doesn't support the feature you need without a hack.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow-based_programming
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_programming
On #3: Agreed. In my experience, every time someone comes up with some grand design before writing any code, it's built on one or more assumptions about the problem. Then work begins, and one or more of the assumptions inevitably turn out to be incorrect and the whole design gets deflated.
And DRM-free! I'm watching one tonight in celebration.

Sadly, there's practically no documentation online about the Laserdisc physical format.
Nodes define consensus in bitcoin, not miners. If china-coin miners try to change consensus rules in the overwhelming majority of nodes that enforce bitcoin consensus rules, they'll be forked off of the network.
I moved to the west coast from the south because educational and job opportunities were way better. I had finished my bs, but it was a very low avg state school. what i did anyone could. i want to help others but i dont know how.
Oleo sponge invented at Argonne National Laboratory can sop up oil in a spill
The average household can afford a fridge today. How many people do you know who don't have one?
Sounds like someone likes 'collecting' programmers from different languages and technologies and giving them jobs =] Learn it love it or leave it, you're still making money right now so....
Sometimes dealing with HR departments is like gambling. The house always win and you loose.

With insurance you might win exactly when you need it.
> Formalization and proofing is what MATTERS. If you ain't got that, you're basically just guessing

And that's what makes Haskell evangelists intolerable. (Even if Haskell isn't your favourite language).

Go has it's place.

C has it too, especially on devices with > 32kb memory.

I adore Scheme and it's spec, it's expressiveness, and flexibility. Doesn't mean I think it's the best language for running a game engine, though it has been done.

We all have reasons we like our languages, and what they can be, and what they're good for.

But no language is the be-all, and end-all, of languages. There are always trade-offs. It just can't be helped.

Awk is amazing at dealing with small bits of information, quickly. It's a full language, that has been used to write some large programs... But it isn't as well suited to that. As a scripting language however, it's great.

Python is my go-to for prototyping. It can be a tad inconsistent, and more verbose than my tastes, and weaker typing than I'd like, but it works well enough.

Can't we all just get along?
Insurance is not transfer of risk. Having many ensurees takes the risk away. It becomes inevitable and predictable. Simply a cost.
Who have you been listening to and what do you like so far?
You also might be remembering your skills inaccurately. In jr high and high school I also got top grades easily and rarely studied. In college I finally had to. I wondered where my ease of learning had gone, but eventually realized the most likely explanation was that the material had simply been much easier/more intuitive and that I was tricking myself with selection bias.
Because we are trying to tell OP in a nice way something we think he will benefit a mot from rather than just what he seems to be wanting?
Duly noted Cindy! I will be as transparent as possible because life is just better in all areas that way. I am a firm believer that investors and co-founders should be following the same moral compass as myself or I will keep looking.

I love Experiment.com, I've been following you guys since YC days. Thanks for trying something different and leaving a blueprint for my team to follow.

If I don't get into YC, I will get into Hack Reactor or Galvanize Data Science program. For the love of science and all that is good in this world, I definitely will stay hungry and stay foolish. Will do!
AC-3 is a part of many current standards (i.e. is a hard requirement) and has wide hardware support.

Opus lacks both hardware and software support on many platforms (notably iOS) and ultimately, doesn't perform that much better than existing, supported codecs like AAC, which already have to be licensed for other reasons.

I love Opus and it's used by some big players like YouTube but ultimately I don't see it taking the place of MP3/AAC for music or AC-3/DTS for premium video anytime soon.
Funny video
If you were lied to, that is reason enough for leaving. If they lie about the role from the start, they will lie about other things.
PR in a nutshell
I am learning that sometimes people try to defend their ideas by coming up with ways to make their idea work. If accommodating the solution is more work than actually implementing it, it might not be the right solution.
10 Awesome Tech Companies Growing Right Now in Australia
"This video contains content from UMG, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds." :(
“The Clean Code Talks – Inheritance, Polymorphism, and Testing”
This would get me laughed at in any Romanian bank. "You managed to lose a ton of money and now you want to lose our money too?"
From my reading this year: starting out, with his mentor, he invested in companies with poor management the could be improved. He dropped that practice long ago, however, in favor of buying good management along with a good business. Management parachuted in often does badly, since every business is different. He does look for businesses with an edge (such as a brand) that will persist, quite true; even when he doesn't understand exactly what that persistent edge in the market is (he or Munger gives the example of breakfast cereal, that way.)
Both forks may live on. That's what happened with Etherium. Etherium Classic is about $2, and holding relatively steady, with a market cap of $176 million. Forked Etherium (as modded to bail out the DAO) is around $50. (The market cap for Etherium is kind of fake, because the coin generation rate is very fast, and many of those coins are locked up for some period of time.)
My view of San Francisco culture as an outsider is actually quite negative now. For years I thought it was a culture very in line with my own, but after years of watching and interacting remotely with people from that scene my mind has changed.

I now feel it's largely dominated by arrogance. Everyone wants to "change the world" but what they really want is fame and fortune. A San Francisco startup is hilariously not practical. The article cites working hard and living frugally, but startup culture is the opposite. It's ludicrous extremes like having pingpong tables and games and coffee baristas at work. This is not living "frugally."

Worse though, is the idea that everyone is a temporarily embarrassed Steve Jobs who is good at everything, even the things they are completely ignorant of. The disdain for areas they have no expertise in is astonishing.

Meanwhile, the engine fuelling all this, the VCs, have their own agenda, namely themselves. They feed the culture because it benefits them. Most will fail, most people are not Steve Jobs. But the VCs just need one or two successes to make it worth it. It's in their interest to have every possible upcoming company under their thumb. The VCs message is always clear: you won't make it without them. You won't make it without being in Silicon Valley. It's impossible.

It's all very off putting and not at all like the glittering fake picture that the SV culture likes to paint.
Well the first google result for "1u 16 dimms" is a refurbished chassis+motherboard+PSU for a hundred bucks. Brand new costs more but not terribly so; the main cost is the ram whether you go 8 slots or 16.

These SSDs have situational uses but unless you want 10+ TB in one server you can get a system with >50% as much actual RAM for the same price.
Front loaders are the worst. I got stuck with one in a rental . I've managed to make it acceptable by doing 3 things.

First, I switched the hot and cold water inputs. My machine's idea of "warm" was actually more like "very very cold". Now, it gets enough heat. I also cranked up my water heater as high as it would go. These two changes effectively take care of all mildew issues. Don't listen to all of the horrible water temperature advice out there; they advocate for temps that optimize for bacterial growth. Hotter is better.

Second, I looked up videos on youtube to figure out how to make it use a lot more water. This is a relatively simple process that involved unscrewing and removing the case, using a hair dryer for 30 seconds to warm up a loctite covered screw, and turning that scree about a quarter turn. More water is always better.

Third, I ordered a giant sack of Sodium Tripolyphosphate (STPP) from a chemical supplier. Prior to that, I used to buy Trisodium Phosphate (TSP) from Amazon (make sure you get the real stuff). Both require hot water, need about a tablespoon per load, and work extremely well, though STPP is supposed to be better (I haven't noticed a difference). This has two big impacts. Your clothes, especially towels, will feel much softer and nicer. And also, your clothes will stop smelling "good", because STPP is a rinsing agent that helps get all of the soap out of your clothes. The only reason your clothes smell "good" is because modern detergents do a terrible job and the perfumes are added to cover the odor.

If you want to enter a time machine back to a magical era when appliances worked correctly, add a tablespoon of TSP to your dishwasher and run it on the hottest setting.
I'm there to man. Just got into my 30's and things seem clearer now to me.
Exactly. I'm Canadian, and although my friends travel pretty regularly to the US/Mexico and sometimes Europe, I was amazed living in London how often my coworkers would be in other countries. Despite being near the US border, I rarely see people do weekend trips to the states, but it happens all the time between european countries it seems. Maybe flight prices have an impact, but europe just seems completely different culturally with regards to multiculturalism and leisure travel.
>Higher interest rates are intended to slow down the economy by making borrowing harder.

Which is precisely what you need to do to get inflation under control. You may be correct that inflation is too low right now to tighten the screws, but calling interest rates poison is ignoring the reason the fed sets them.
I have lived in both for years. IMHO this is a shallow comparison indeed. Not to be relied upon.
On a microeconomic scale, at least, it should be self-evident that higher inflation benefits debtors, and hurts creditors:

If I owe you $100, and a dollar becomes worth less, I'm better off (since I'm paying you back in dollars that have less real value than what I borrowed).

There is a macroeconomic argument that a predictable and modest inflation rate is good for the economy. Some of the points are:

1) If both parties can accurately predict future inflation, it becomes much easier to negotiate an interest rate for borrowing; if there is much uncertainty about future inflation, then there is extra currency risk added to both the borrower and lender.

2) In the case of deflation, investors will be very cautious, since they become more wealthy just by holding cash.

3) In the case of very high inflation, currency becomes useless as a store of value, so people will rush to convert their currency to something less inflationary.

So if you think that currency should be a useful store of value, that we should encourage those with wealth to invest it in possibly risky endeavors and you want to encourage free-flow of credit by removing some of the risks involved, then those 3 points will be pro modest inflation.

There are of course counterarguments:

A) Free flow of credit has downsides as well as upsides; in particular households with lower net worth have less ability to absorb economic downturns.

B) Forcing wealthy people to invest to preserve their wealth by taking risky investments can create bubbles

C) B+1 means that the bubbles can become highly leveraged.
There are still people working on Modula-2?
Stripe can ask you to shutdown a legitimate product if they get bullied from some other larger organisation. It happened with us and we lost the respect we had for Stripe.
I'm actually thinking about incentivizing the VC firm to respond as well! Maybe create a premium tier, 10 bucks to pitch and get a little feedback. I then give 5 bucks to the vc firm for 2 minutes of their analysts time. It has worked for music blogs and artists, with services like submithub! Of course, this is all assuming there is any value in this at all, LOL, which there may very much not be.
because websites don't look that great on mobile devices and people can't carry laptops or desktops in their hands while going towards the venue.
There is a difference between generalizations, which may have value if shrewdly observed, and shallow stereotypical characterizations. This post was shallow. Pointing that out is every bit as value as snide remarks about Reddit and an equally snide uninformed reading of the piece. Perhaps more so.
Quality for news is mostly about solving the reputation issue
The Labour Economics of Uber in Nigeria and Similar Countries
Generalizations are not equal to stereotypes.
Banking is the single most heavily regulated part of the economy. It is fantastic to claim the financial crisis was caused by solely private actors while dropping the governmental context.
Thanks for your reply. I believe 主語 covers both subject and topic. Since an English sentence such as "John loves Mary." can be understood as e.g. "It is John (not James) who loves Mary." or "John loves Mary (not Lisa)", it might have several formal representations in Japanese via e.g. the use of wa/ga.

Also, see user gizmo686's excellent explanation for one approach below.
Ray Bradbury: How to Find Your Genius
There are some cases where plasticity can be useful. For example: if a particular intention is associated with the neural activity while a person lifts their arm, eventually the person can train themselves to trigger the intention just by thinking of lifting their arm (without actually doing it). This is the brain learning to control the intention instead of the action.
Investors have pumped in a lot of money looking to make even more, but while uber remains a private company it is not accountable to those investors. When management decides they have had enough they just close the doors and take what is left. Just the M.O. you would expect.
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David Foster Wallace on the Power of Introversion
Rescue Boy from Milky House
Rescue The Boy From Milky House is a point and click type escape game

developed by BestEscapeGames. A boy went to the milky house where the place is full of cakes,

ice creams, biscuits and chocolates. He was enjoying by seeing that and went inside the milky

house to see the inner view. Suddenly he got locked inside the house. Now all you need to do is

to find out the key and rescue the boy from the milky house. Collect the objects and solve the

puzzles to rescue the boy as soon as possible. Thanks for playing and have fun and keep

playing.
New accessory on Kickstarter
Super New accessory for iphone 7 on Kickstarter RES: Non-stop Hi-Res Music while Wireless Charging.
https://linkto-blog.com/2017/03/20/iphone-7-accessory-for-better-sound/
Meetup is focused on a lot of things but Sportal is feature specific and focus only on it's main feature (searching players) and as far as the second part of the question is concerned, I would like to have some suggestions from you.

Thanks!
Very true. London is an incredibly diverse international city. San Francisco is, by comparison, a village.
How do you define utility cost - isn't it kind of equivalent to market rate (what it is worth for people to pay)? I can not really make sense of your statement? If the prices are over market rate, how to they find renters?
In which case, the function(s) should really be throwing some kind of error, since they can't reasonably be applied to the input.

But checking !(isUppercase(str) || isLowercase(str)) to see if its not case-able(?) is absurd

Obviously you'd instead want the function notCaseable(str).
Perhaps the yearly targets should accumulate, so that if the actual inflation one year was 1%, the target for the next year becomes about 3%.
Home Remedies for Hair fall
It's bad in a lot of specific ways but I'm trying not to out myself since it's a fairly small company.

The overarching problem is trying to reinvent the wheel because the management thinks we can do things better than the language designers.

The end result is a buggy and generally bad reimplementation of core libraries. ORM, math, dates, full text search. There's a half-baked custom version of everything.
I don't know about impressive, but I'm definitely profuse. :)