skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point is that your true passion may lay outside the market or problem area. In the case of Waste Management/BlockBuster/Extended Stay America the founder seemed to enjoy taking local businesses and figuring out ways to get efficiency at national scale. There is no throughline between trash, videos, and depressing hotels, but there is in the business process that undergirds them.
Frank Culbertson, Shuttle-Mir Program Manager, on the Meanings of Mir(1996)
The Corsair One case[1] would be a great form factor to rival the Mac Pro and have your own hardware inside, if Corsair ever releases the case standalone. Right now I believe the only way to get it is buying the full computer.

[1] http://www.corsair.com/en-us/landing/one
More precisely, worst case latency.
You might find this doc series interesting:

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/rethinking-depression-part-1-1...

There is some discussion in it about the very historical nature of the concept of depression and how it was not "a thing" even 50-100 years ago.

Without saying depression doesn't exist it does call into question the rather schematic and reductionist description of it that we work with today.
Imran Gulamhuseinwala Appointed Open Banking Implementation Trustee
I completely agree, so much so that I claim that "boring" is a positive and necessary attribute for any small solo business started by a software entrepreneur. I gave a talk at Dropbox about the necessities of being boring if you want to start a small business without quitting your day job: https://youtu.be/J8UwcyYT3z0.
And even if they would spend 100% on military, how would that change their threatlevel if they are still totally underpowered?
> Nintendo has every right to do limited runs on some Amiibos.

They have every right to do limited runs, I have every right to do everything in my power to bypass that. I own the console, it's processor and memory after all. This is the nature of writing software that runs on a computer that someone else owns - ultimately, they have every right and power to decide how it runs.
My solution is to buy pricey stuff when there is a substantial difference in terms of flavor between the run of the mill stuff and what you can find from a specialty product. So no to chicken breasts, but yes to steaks... and no to celery, but yes to tomatoes. I'd honestly rather go to an asian market for most of my produce, though. More inexpensive, way more variety, and fresher overall, at least in my experience.
>"Many of you probably don't remember what it was like in the bad old days of those quaint brick-and-mortar retailers before Walmart. You bought something, find out you already had one, or your wife just gone one, or you just didn't need it, and tried to take it back, and they basically just gave you the finger"

Really they "basically gave you the finger"? Or maybe could it have been that they would to have to absorb that loss out of pocket because of their distributors policies?

>" That "wonderful" "personalized" service from mom-and-pop shops? Mostly myth"

That's a sweeping and completely unsubstantiated generalization. My own experience and history informs me differently. I'm sure I am not alone in that.

But yes thank God for Walmart. I don't know how we functioned as a society before we were entitled to return our purchases months later for no reason at all or when stores closed at 9:00PM.
The "Analogue Nt" fits the bill, but it's a pretty pricey option: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/07/analogue-nt-a-museum-...

I don't know how low-latency the RetroN (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RetroN) is but you can use the original games and gamepads with that. I think it's android-based, so it's a software emulator.
In my opinion, Arch currently has the nicest package management system with the straightforward if excessively terse pacman syntax and the wealth of packages in the AUR. Considering this is one of the most noticeable differences between distros, it has made me stick with Arch with no plans of switching to something else. I've heard great things about Antergos as well, as configuring an Arch install clearly doesn't make sense for many users.
Cancer screening skyrocketing doesn't account for a skyrocketing rate of cancer...it would simply capture more of the absolute number.
These are separate variables in the equation. The drake equation multiplies a bunch of probabilities together, one of which is "probability of planet having life" and another is "probability of life becoming technologically sophisticated". A the moment we don't really understand how life starts, so it could be really really unlikely or it could be pretty common. finding independent life events in our solar system means it's pretty common (otherwise it could be 0.00001%).

Here's the full equation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
Becca Longo: Female kicker makes college football history with scholarship
You know they're not going to say, oh there was also a village there with about only 250 mountain people living in it. Hey sorry buddy, you, your children, your goats all die today cause the man in the suit said so. Because they want to push this narrative of ISIS being the really bad guys that need to be killed so you guys be scared of them, we'll take them out for you. These politicians are incapable and uninterested in solving real problems so you take the easy way make deamons and keep fighting them -- war is good money, the politicians can look good fighting the bad guys while not doing anything really and the peoples minds are occupied by this conflict so they don't question you too much. I hate ISIS as much as the next guy, but that doesn't mean these guys are the good guys.

Just replace the name of Afghanistan with with Australia, America or any other country you can think of. Better yet, Saudi Arabia cause that will easily fit with some peoples world view. The first question that I get in my head is. How is this even legal? other than the fact that.. Yea We've got the money and the resources and you poor fella wont be able to hit us back in your dreams, ever. So take that!

I just get a feeling that somehow, non-english speaking, non-white people are not as equal as others and for some people the're doing a favor to them treating them as humans. This is not in the philosophical debaty sense, but in the real tactical sense. You want to throw a bomb at Hiroshima, yea kill a million people and end the war. Today lets drop bombs on some third world country. The great leader is always doing something worthy of praise. How is this different from some crazy north Korean dictator other than more savvy and politically correct propoganda on one side and not on the other. Just cause the US is a democracy this is valid? Cause they are so powerful they can do this and no one will question them... What if some other "Bad" guy did it. What if Putin is doing this kind of stuff. Killing of people is killing of people. This is like taking a shotgun to kill a rat. Sure you'll kill it but you're probably insane.

Just imagine the US as one person and Afghanistan as another person. The first guy goes like here dude, take a punch on the face, there was a fly sitting there I was just trying to kill it. Also, I'll keep punching you to kill flies whether you're sleeping or awake, whether you like it or not.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14110204
Emulators on PC are far more accurate than Nintendo's. The Wii U VC in particular had a lot of problems.
That was funny. I had a bit of a laught. Thanks for that, guys.
Have you heard of the horrible disease called lupus? Consider changing your URL.
Not too much interesting stuff in this interview apart of this:

I hate languages that introduce accidental complexity
such as JavaScript—what a nightmare of pitfalls for
newbies and even seasoned developers.
I love write-ups like this because they are such a nice contrast to the too-common comments on Reddit and HN where people claim that they could rebuild FB or Uber as a side project. Something as superficially trivial as the r/Place requires a tremendous amount of effort to run smoothly and there are countless gotchas and issues that you'd never even begin to consider unless you really tried to implement it yourself. Big thanks to Reddit for the fun experiment and for sharing with us some of the engineering lessons behind it.
> I respect Jeff, TONS, but come on. You're talking the talk, but you're not walking the walk.

iunno man, I took a peek inside his mind via the Washington Post and it's dark
If you go to Macy's for example you still can get apparel at the same price as Walmart (on sale).

Carter's for children and infants is actually cheaper in the Carter's store than the Carter's sold at Walmart.

Competition lowers prices and makes stores and manufactures find new ways to make things cheaper. All to the benefit of consumers.

I look at my phone Bill to realize how ridiculous the pricing is. Pay $100 for two phones. Twenty five years ago a $40 phone bill would call for a family meeting.

So as Walmart and others helped bring down lower prices other areas suck up the savings
Yep, the Spierig Brothers are awesome at these kinds of films. I loved their work with Daybreakers.
The search is consistently broken, but the rest of the site seems to have good uptime now, much better than it once was.
I read it. And I wrote esoteric in the common understanding of the word. Which is different than the original meaning.

And I did not said that subconscious "is well understood by science", just that it is broadly accepted that it exists, unlile gods.
I didn't phrase that well with the use of the word "real". I know some die hard Nintendo fans who purchase two of each Amiibo specifically for this reason. I don't know why, I don't have that same collecting mentality.

I guess it's for the same reason people buy all sorts of stuff and keep it boxed & unused - whether it's star wars figures or Nike trainers.
Nvidia's Jetson TX2 Lands on a Nano-ITX Mobo
Yes, but it's not the only differentiating factor. I think the main difference is that Loop is an interest-based social networking media platform. Swarm is the "check-in" app. Since most interest and hobbies require you to go to a location and thus check-in makes sense. However, we(loop) have a couple of tricks up our sleeves to capture a person's interest and hobbies beyond just checking in. ;).We also have a focus on building communities around interest and hobbies.. btw, we still working on our website. Thanks for the feedback
I was at the Mountain West Ruby Conference in 2009 and someone mentioned the live feed was submitted here, so I came to check it out! I even have the exact link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=528103
Tesla’s electric semi will be revealed in September, CEO says
333 writes per second really is nothing in a world with modern NVMe drives.
Closing Communities: FFFFOUND vs. MLKSHK
Search has never worked. I always use Google site: modifier and have never had an issue.
Some of the Greek words we have might have Egyptian origins.

It would not surprise if modern Greek had many such words, picked up in Hellenistic and Byzantine times. Other European languages less so as their Greek borrowings tend to be from classical vocab, but even classical Greek probably had Egyptian words picked up through trade.
The device has evidently been rooted to allow flashing other NES roms. I wonder if that had something to do with it.
I mean dude, he's not talking to people with medical issues. I don't think anyone would besmirch you due to a medical condition. I think he's talking about people without sleeping conditions, just Gaussian distributed recruits that want to get in. The services will ask and test you on these clear issues like people that can't drink a gallon of water in under a minute or folks blind in one eye. Also, being a night owl is not a medical condition, what your brief comment describes is obviously a medical condition that would disqualify your from the services. You life is not in anyway easy because of it, as far as I can tell from this comment. It's not a big deal. However, if what the researchers say is true about the widespread 'night owl' prevalence in the population, then it is obviously not something that can't be corrected with a very loud and buff drill sergeant, as many many cohorts of incoming boot camps across the world for centuries have shown.
(IANAL.)

Downloading ROMs is almost certainly illegal. Dumping cartridges one owns is almost certainly legal. I'm not saying that you shouldn't download ROMs, just that it isn't legally justified.

The EFF says nowhere at that page that downloading files is legal. It does say that backup copies are.
hahaha... Yes. we realized that. We are working on that. What you think of the app though?
> oversupply of labor

The funny thing is, its the opposite for the low level stuff. Nobody does it, so there's a huge demand, which results in too much work for those who are filling those roles.

Game development is broken for a litany of reasons, but I resist the urge to go into it to keep things on topic. I will say that it gets kids in STEM, and for the youngin's, getting into the low level stuff is a safe bet for a profitable career.
That must be a highly local phenomenon. I had great shipping experiences in rural Missouri, then when I moved to San Francisco they became ridiculously great. I was getting packages the next day long before they started offering next day shipping.

In fact, I agree with other common complaints about Amazon (counterfeiting, higher prices) but still often go with them because I'm confident the product will show up quickly.
Everything you said is true, but I think it is dangerously missing the point.

Yes, everyone "in the know" knows that there's no such thing as "AI" right now, and what we actually have are just statistical models with "bias in, bias out". To us, this news is not surprising.

But that's not how these algorithms are being marketed, hyped, and sold, or how their decisions are being justified. Right now there's a lot of people selling "AI" as an unbiased and better decision-maker than humans. Where this gets really bad is when they start justifying the biased decisions of the machines as, "it's an AI program, so this can't be bias: whatever icky things it decided must be the truth!". That's the real worry here: when the marketing- and hence the policy- doesn't match the reality, and starts amplifying and reinforcing the very problems it was supposed to solve.
Amen. Somehow a lot of comments in this thread are blinded to the fact that the 'commons' are not simply subsumed within the 'market'. The logic of commons is quite orthogonal to that of markets.
Two biggest issues I had walking, later biking, the last leg of my commute were the air pollution and time.

Still, it was good exercise. Now that I WFH exercise has to be more deliberate.
To OP - read this carefully as this is great, honest, kind feedback. Also, to OP don't fixate on the technical feedback - the non-technical feedback here is even more important (assuming your goal is a product people want).

To wsetchell/the feedback giver - kudos on giving great, honest and kind feedback.
Grant was probably the first general who really understood what industrial war entailed and how to fight it. Unleashing Sherman to burn his way through Georgia, and Sheridan to burn his way through the Shenandoah, while grinding down Lee in inconclusive battles of attrition across northern Virginia, striking at the logistical infrastructure of the South, instead of trying to fight the ANV in a decisive battle of maneuver.

It's a pity that the lessons learned in the trenches around Richmond were so quickly forgotten and dismissed by the general staffs of Europe.
Well, sort of. It's forgetting taxes, house prices, and more.

Places where you can buy decent stand-alone homes for $50,000 and/or have no state taxes are rather different from Mountain View and Manhatten.

It's funny how people in the pricey places look at a $100,000 salary and not see how it is, all by itself, plenty to support a large family in a home with a big yard. People living that life look back at the city folk and can't imagine how they could ever afford the same thing in a city -- it'd be roughly $2 million (a factor of 40) in San Francisco.
The idea of AI picking up the biases within the language
texts it trained on may not sound like an earth-
shattering revelation. But the study helps put the nail
in the coffin of the old argument about AI automatically
being more objective than humans

Was... anyone arguing that a model trained on a natural-language corpus would be entirely unbiased? What a magnificent strawman.
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I've bought lots of flash cards, flash drives, chargers, and cables from Amazon and have never had a problem (or they were great counterfeits, in which case I'm not too upset). I don't do much research either, choosing mostly based on search results, brand name, reviews, and shipping/sold by Amazon.
Worst part is they bought every small organic market in each market they entered and closed them before opening a large super market, for example, the The Granary in Monterey, CA.
I think it's because navigating adult life on a bike is a skill people learn while going through university. For everybody else, bikes are just a stepping stone to being allowed to drive.

If you correlate cycling with wealth and education, I suspect that the link with education will be much stronger. It might even be a bidirectional causality, with people who can't wait for earning their first car being much less likely to "waste" years on education.
Yeah, that's a good point. I've had that mentioned to me, but I get annual checkups, and have been told that they'd show up in the annual checkup if I were having that problem, at which point I could change my habits (it's not an acute condition that crops up in a month or something). Supposedly that complication has also gotten less common in the past 5-10 years as newer lens materials are much more oxygen-permeable than older ones were.
> Given the performance and security concerns wouldn't Ada be the natural choice here?

Ada would be a good choice, but it's way more awkward to program in. It definitely has some nice features of its own that Rust should steal asap though.
Just in the last day or so, reporting on some experiment supposedly demonstrating that asteroid impacts on Earth are/were capable of creating the amino acid precursors to RNA.

Yeah, really, this demonstrates nothing, on its own. But, interesting to think about.
I had a similar experience and thereafter avoided 8AM classes at all costs, and 9AM classes if I could at all help it.

Take 8AM classes only if you expect to have no social life to speak of.

Years later I got diagnosed with sleep apnea (apparently had since birth) so the odds were stacked against me from the beginning
Also of interest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel)
> Moreover, when refcounted objects finalize, they recursively drop the refs they hold.

You can (at the cost of some additional complication) make this more deterministic by adding newly-dead objects to a "finalize this soon" queue and chewing through that when you have time (or on a different thread).
Ha. Someone sounds a little jaded with start-up land today :)
Based on the developments in exo-planet research along with discoveries like this over the past couple of years, I would conjecture that life is ridiculously common. But by life, I mean microbial life. I would imagine that multi-cellular life is much rarer, and life capable of reaching human-level intelligence and beyond is probably absurdly rare, on the level of something like one species per galaxy. It's all worthless conjecture, of course, but the point is I wouldn't be surprised if microbial life is very, very common.
Quick CMD one-liner like “which python” command – and more
I have a possibly dumb question. Wouldn't those students also be better off? They work the same number of hours, but later in the day. Unless it's the kind of thing that can't be one hour later?
Not in my experience. Last time I looked on weworkremotely I think I saw fewer remote-relevant jobs there than I have fingers on one hand. ("Remotely-relevant" for me means just searching for C and C++.)
It's not clear whether this refers to products on Amazon that claim to be made by Apple, or products on Amazon that just work with Apple products. As for the latter, I have bought a lot of Lightning cables and USB chargers and batteries from Amazon, mostly made by Anker, and I've never had an issue.
Breaking News: Algortihm designed to learn how humans use words learns how humans use words
The key difference here being the lack of victim, that makes your argument void.
Typeface can have huge effects, as fraktur/blackletter show (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Calligraphy.malmesbury...., via https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackletter, is a nice example)

However, even that diminishes with experience.
I don't see anything wrong if the particular amiibo is out of production. Nintendo can't get your money.

If you can get it, it's a bit more murky... the content is on the disc, you're just telling the game to unlock it. You can do what you want with your hardware. On the other hand, other publishers do this with on-disc DLC, and few people say that acquiring those without paying is acceptable.
Brilliant Control – The Worlds Smartest Lightswitch
Well, Enceladus has an energy source that could perhaps be a source of energy for some kind of living organism. "Able" kind of says that all you need for life is some kind of available energy, which... let's just call that "unproven".
You may also have a package thief.
I don't nessisarily want people to be able to use Mickey Mouse, I want to force companies to stop milking old content. Why innovate when stagnation brings a steady paycheck from old Beatles songs etc.
That's the much-derided "MBA" concept.
I've experienced it in both San Jose and San Diego. Not exactly the middle of nowhere.
The real 'sidestep' in the Base/RNA/Protein/Life theory is the lack of transcriptase and ribosome equivalents. Some theories posit that ribosomes were exclusively RNA-based and developed the ability to self-transcribe at some point. To give a sense of how impactful this would be, if accurate, the central dogma of molecular biology is shown to be fundamentally wrong.

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Going from a string of RNA to another string of RNA is no easy task. Additionally, going from RNA to a protein requires more than just energy. It requires a molecular factory which can commence protein synthesis.

This requirement is somewhat mitigated by the fact that RNA itself can fold in on itself to form useful structural elements, albeit far simpler than protein-based chains.
I'm over 40 now. I realized what you're saying to an extent, but for a long time I assumed that older adults would have the benefit of wisdom, life experience, maturity, etc.

As I've aged, I've been consistently disappointed. I now believe differences in how people behave, according to age, are really a product of generational differences, and that people really don't change very much after they pass 30.
It seems that greasemonkey anti-aede works also inside HN. Didn't know. Nice.
1 job,527 applicants:IT workers in Vancouver frustrated,firms take foreigners
what an unfortunate name. sounds like excrement.