skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could say the same about getting people to save for retirement, but then we tried making 401k plans opt-out and participation increased. We can dramatically change behavior simply by changing the default.

Sometimes there are obvious ways to do this--check here if you don't want to be an organ donor, click this link if you don't want half this raise/starting salary to automatically go into your 401k--and sometimes it's a lot trickier, but it still seems worth investigating in those cases.

It's not obvious how to make exercising opt-out, but I'm skeptical of any claims that we can't non-coercively change behavior until we investigate it a lot and fail consistently.

Some companies provide on-site gyms. Some have secure bike parking + showers. Some provide free or subsidized membership to nearby gyms (if simply subsidized, it could be made opt-out). Even something as simple as providing standing desks could make a difference.

Sure, they're all adults, but their behavior is still shaped more by culture and environment than thoughtful, conscious decisions. Why do I give the government an interest-free loan instead of minimizing my withholding and put it into an interest-bearing account? I know I have the fiscal discipline to benefit from this, but it's weird and not default, so I don't.

Trivial inconveniences are incredibly effective in changing behaviors. In many cases, we can adjust those inconveniences.
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I am an introvert software engineer, but I let my code do the talking and I take on mostly purely technical roles. I am a little shy and awkward at times but I can do my job just as good as if I wasn't an introvert.

I guess it's just about finding the right job for you, my advice would be if you love what you do don't let being an introvert divert your passion. Some of the best colleague programmers I have ever met were introverts.
See that's when I think emoji shine - trying to convey ambiguity over text. In person a shrug can mean a few things, some of which might be harder to say explicitly, for social or mechanical reasons, and an emoji seems preferable to *shrug or (shrug).
I think that disambiguating all of the emojis or even continuing to expand the dictionary so much would make it boring. If the emoji meant the word exactly I'd just type the word, it's much easier than trying to find the right emoji.
The whole thread is him implying I'm an anti-semite for posting a link to the New York Post. Everyone else in the thread is OK with the link, and my summary of it. But all he does is ask 'how long have you beaten your wife' style questions.
Shameless plug: I work at fitness startup, MoveWith (https://www.movewith.com). We are focused on creating audio fitness classes by some of the best instructors. I know that sometimes I don't know what I should do so for me it has been really helpful to have an instructor in my ear guiding my workout, I am biased here of course ;).

I have created a free gift trial for the Hacker News community (no credit card required) to try it out. Hopefully this motivates people to get moving!
https://www.movewith.com/redeemgift/hackernews :)
Look at the archives, this link has been doing the rounds for at least 6 years now.
As someone from a country with a fixed book price agreement, the pricing of college text books in the U.S. seems criminal to me.
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Why shouldn't it, assuming you're trying to conduct serious discourse? I find it to be a huge issue in my life, trying to communicate with people who make unverifiable or false claims is a huge waste of time, not to mention that somehow those falsehoods will be carried on from person to person.
U+1F481 INFORMATION DESK PERSON is often used to mean "bye Felicia" or similar. The emoji's helpful, knowledgeable pose is frequently interpreted as confident, dismissive sassiness.
I am thankful that I went to college just early enough to miss this forced internet assignment crap.
Scholar Google search == scientific evidence (usually :) ).

First link from a query of "exercise dementia": "Exercise Is Associated with Reduced Risk for Incident Dementia among Persons 65 Years of Age and Older" (http://annals.org/aim/article/719427/exercise-associated-red...)

Second link: "The effects of exercise training on elderly persons with cognitive impairment and dementia: A meta-analysis" (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003999304...) (Conclusion: "Exercise training increases fitness, physical function, cognitive function, and positive behavior in people with dementia and related cognitive impairments.")

Overall the balance of the articles seem to indicate positive effects for exercise in both preventing dementia and even improving the prospects of people with dementia. This does not mean exercise is a "magic bullet" to completely preventing or curing dementia, but it seems like exercise helps.
One problem is that some students cheat. They develop and pass around open-source sets of answers. If the problems don't change, then students don't learn as well.
I don't think that is at all true. Some of the most intelligent people I've met were incredibly humble. Some were, ah, not.

You can be brilliant and also a bit of a jackass, clearly.
American Media Are Getting People at Home Ready for War with North Korea
Like Eloi and Morlocks.
I donno, when I see code that works and I don't know why I get plenty scared.
By describing and marketing driver assistance technology as self-driving technology.
I think what's missing in your assessment is time.

Yes, in the short term allowing X in country Y might make country Z feel like they can get away with X. But I think people generally have short memory, and anything beyond a generation (or two?) doesn't quite work that way.

To be clear, I'm not saying you're wrong or proposing an alternative theory. I just think there's lack of evidence that you're correct, and personally I'm deeply uncomfortable with any form of punishment that isn't well-supported by evidence.
Well, whether it's legal and whether it's a right - itself a concept of law, with no meaning outside that context - is up to the state, and the state doesn't seem thus far inclined to decide the question in their favor. Perhaps they will convince it otherwise.
Very fair criticism, I think when I was putting this together I went the mainstream route because I wanted to get broad appeal from people who had never even given the genre a chance, but thinking more about it your suggestions make a lot of sense (i.e. moving through different periods).
A simple google search will provide you with numerous examples, even of Snopes in particular. Here's one[0] by Snopes where the True/False statements don't even match the claim. It's obvious the "fact checker" (i.e. journalist) contorted the argument to reach a desired conclusion.

[0] http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-freed-child-rapist-lau...
I have to admit, I changed several math-oriented schools - but trigonometry is supposed to be standard middle school subject, no? If you don't understand the difference between sin(x) + y and sin(x + y), I can't imagine you can pass a simplest high school entrance exam.

But I guess it depends on the country. US math education, from what I hear, never ceases to amaze me - the contrast between the abysmal level of your schools and the best CS departments in the world is just astonishing.
it's not obvious to everyone but Uber is betting big on self driving cars as well, in form of massive data science effort and route algos. great write up on this by Ben Thompson

https://stratechery.com/2016/google-uber-and-the-evolution-o...
The only good thing is that the database is available via web calls. The bad thing is that the code to render the text is insane (take a look: https://github.com/WardCunningham/remodeling/blob/master/sta...). Even the goal of the 'remodel' (really, more of a demolition) is crazy: 'The original wiki rewritten as a single page application.' That's like saying, 'roast beef, now with added concrete and carpet!'

I just don't get how someone can think the change is a good idea.
I think there are multiple reasons for not seeing as much innovation out of Europe. Based on my experiences in the UK...

1. It's harder to get investment for a startup in Europe than it is in America. Or I guess more precisely, it's harder to get investment outside of Silicon Valley.

2. If you do get investment, it'll be far lower in Europe than in America. This puts you at a disadvantage in fields where marketing spend is increasingly important (like social media sites/apps and ridesharing businesses). I mean, people over here think the amount of money given on The Apprentice or Dragon's Den is a reasonable investment for the next Google or Facebook. That's closer to 10-50 grand than the couple of million some Silicon Valley businesses raise.

3. European investors and accelerators are very hesitant to invest in consumer facing startups. Instead, they prefer giving money to companies who sell services and products to businesses, like say Moz. When I asked a few of them about a user facing social networking company (like Twitter or Facebook or Medium) they said it would require more money than they'd be willing to offer for a lesser chance at a return.

4. Cultural differences. People are less encouraged to take risks over here, with the 'default' being to take a standard job and work your way up to management before retiring X years later with a spouse, 2.5 kids and a dog. If I'd said I'd drop out of university to start up an internet company, people would think I was crazy.

5. The wages are lower, so the best candidates likely don't get involved in startups here. This is at least in part because programming isn't much more respected than retail or office work, at least from what I've seen in London. So those with the interest in doing something big with their life either get into a different field (like finance) or pack their bags and move to America.

6. Finally, I think computer education being so bad for so many years may have had an effect here. If you didn't go to university to study a technical subject (or have an interest in it in your free time), then you likely only know how to use Microsoft Office. A lot of people who'd otherwise be interested in working in the tech industry likely don't think it's interesting work, or (based on their schooling) imagine it's basically Microsoft tech support.
The authors define "Absolute Income Mobility" as the fraction of people who earn more than their parents.

They observe that income mobility, under this definition, has been declining since 1940. They seem to regard this as a problem, which reflects a diminishing level of opportunity for each subsequent generation.

The data they present are interesting and worth further study, but I do not think I agree with their subjective assessment (that this is a problem to solve).

On seeing the data, my first hypothesis is that a major driver here is the fraction of a birth cohort that is more educated than their parents. People born in the 1940s and 1950s are much more likely to have more education (and more income) than their parents, compared to people born in the 70s and 80s. But if you're born later then it is more likely that your parents are "fully educated", in which case why should you expect to be able to out-earn them?
Google's own SLO for the LB is only 99.95%. That is strictly less than 100%. Nothing is 100%.

https://cloud.google.com/compute/sla
Big NGO money isn't on the same scale as big industry money, and it comes with a lot more strings.
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I deliberately didn't want to use jQuery so that it'll stay more lightweight :)

And thanks, Go is absolutely fun to write.
There Are More Than 2 Jobs in Solar for Every 1 Job in Coal
Yes, social anxiety can be crippling. But as you say, you are fine talking with people you are comfortable with. Well guess what? In software engineering over 90% of your interaction is with team members who you will be comfortable with.

Also, sometimes just being an expert at something makes it easier to be confident. You might still be awkward and anxious at a happy hour, but in a meeting or technical discussion you speak confidently/authoritatively, based on your expertise and interest in the subject.
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googles cars have gotten in a few fender benders and side swipes

people have died using teslas autopilot
Decent VPS/Rented Dedi providers, and surely all Colo providers can provide IP failover.

Edit: my point is, if a "cloud" load balancer can't provide the features you want (e.g. TLS SNI) and the "cloud" VM's can't provide the features you need to run your own LB (e.g. IP failover) maybe this is an opportunity to learn that the "cloud" isn't some golden goose shitting out golden eggs.
I love bezier curves. I'm working on rebuilding a project I started in college, a vector graphics editor. The function for determining intersections between two cubic bezier curves, which I found on a professor's website, is absolutely insane:

https://github.com/artursapek/mondrian/blob/master/src/coffe...

It's a wall of this:

c11.x*c12.y*c13.x*c13.y*c23.x*c23.y - c11.y*c12.x*c13.x*c13.y*c23.x*c23.y + 6*c21.x*c22.x*c13y3*c23.x +
3*c11.x*c12.x*c13.x*c13.y*c23y2 + 6*c10.x*c13.x*c13y2*c23.x*c23.y - 3*c11.x*c12.x*c13y2*c23.x*c23.y -
3*c11.y*c12.y*c13.x*c13.y*c23x2 - 6*c10.y*c13x2*c13.y*c23.x*c23.y - 6*c20.x*c13.x*c13y2*c23.x*c23.y +
3*c11.y*c12.y*c13x2*c23.x*c23.y - 2*c12.x*c12y2*c13.x*c23.x*c23.y - 6*c21.x*c13.x*c22.x*c13y2*c23.y -
6*c21.x*c13.x*c13y2*c22.y*c23.x - 6*c13.x*c21.y*c22.x*c13y2*c23.x + 6*c21.x*c13x2*c13.y*c22.y*c23.y +

Maybe there's a way to refactor it, but I wouldn't know because I still don't understand it; I just know that it works.
50, and still programming on the same codebase I started when I was 18.
While I appreciate the token nod towards controlling costs, and the text book scam is a mark of shame that the professoriate class should be deeply embarrassed by, this is a bit like tending to the deep cut on your hand while your severed leg spurts blood in cadence with your fading heartbeat.
I'm not really certain there is much to spy on. They mention cell phones but that traffic is encrypted and if you have the capability to capture it elsewhere (as we know they do) then why bother? There's nothing they could capture that the average joe with an RTL-SDR couldn't
Observations from this article:

- Zuckerberg denied he is running for president in 2020. I wonder what is the reason of his postelection tour in America and his big PR team. [1] I don't think it's possible to be both Statesman Zuck and Silicon Valley engineer Zuck. As the article says, you cannot be concerned with only quantifiable outcomes and at the same time propagate fuzzy human ideas like ethics, judgment and intuition.

- Facebook's motto of Move Fast and Break Things seems to be replaced with Break Things and Test Results. The News Feed has turned into a Skinner box to study the daily behaviour of more than a billion people.

- I get very overstimulated looking at the picture of their newsfeed office for a few seconds - bravo for people being able to be focused and able to write code in that environment!

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-18/this-team...
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"I cannot do it (excuses excuses I know) if there is no purpose. Exercise sake I find the most boring thing in the world and just don't do it although I know I should."

You owe it to your friends and neighbors.

Never mind the health benefits or nicer looks or fitting into smaller clothes - you owe it to everyone around you to be able to:

- run for help

- carry a body

- move debris or pull a hose or help push a car

- (etc.)

If you have any expectation at all of being taken seriously and held as an equal by the people around you, this is the minimum set of capabilities.
If the NSA is targeting some legitimate and happens to intercept other traffic at a device level, then filters it out as not desired... What's the problem? That sounds like them doing their job.

And so far as I can tell, any claim they did more than that is just mere allegation to sound scary.

I'm sick of jumping at shadows every time a spy agency does anything.

The NSA fucked up with overly broad collection, but at the same time, talking with people, it sounds like that's what the majority really wanted them to do at the time.

The problem is political, and has more to do with the public wanting unreasonable things than some need to fear absolutely every thing they do.

The spy agency stuck an antenna on a blimp! Oooooo, spooky!
Good suggestions, definitely all worth checking out.
Japanese citizens may have only 10 minutes to prepare for a North Korean missile
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Arguably. Tesla has not done a good job educating their customers on the limits of their "Autopilot" system, which has led to at least one preventable death.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/28/tesla_autopilot_dea...
My college just started pushing this as well, but missed an important point: some professors already use Creative Commons textbooks. I'm currently using one in my proofwriting class - and my professor demanded we have a print copy. I've only taken one computer science course that required a non-free book, and that was because the professor was the author.
the two positions aren't even a little contradictory. people pay taxes BOTH because they want to comply with the law (avoid prosecution) and because they value public services (some of them anyway).

similarly, there is nuance in each position. self-preservation motivates avoidance of prosecution, but it doesn't prevent individuals and companies from seeking the most effective legal means to avoid taxes, which sometimes is in a grey area w.r.t law and ethics. as well we should consider that while some public services are considered good and desirable, many of them aren't, and which is good and which is not is a judgment that varies heavily between individuals.

this isn't libertarian-land "taxes are theft" stuff. this is the basic social contract that everyone, libertarians and their opponents, all abide by.
I think here ( France ) our profs are required to write a "textbook" for their class.

We get a lot of awesome free material as a result.
I'm glad to see Puppy continue to be updated. When I ran it on a circa 2001 laptop a few years ago, it seemed to have stagnated a bit.
I'd want to start by looking for data about what is happening in those countries – there's probably more than it might seem, especially if you look outside of the English-language media. I regularly see mention about work happening in those countries – and don't forget Canada – but it's definitely less VC-driven as well.

The two factors I suspect explain most of this are the existing concentrations of industry – i.e. SF has such a massive footprint that it'd take years to wind down even if the situation was pretty dramatically skewed – and the lag between U.S. healthcare costs rising far greater than the rest of the world and that reaching the point where people are actually making significant decisions around them. In the 90s and early 2000s you didn't hear it mentioned as much as a decade later, after the double-digit annual percentage increases continued to eat away at profit margins.
Does it require a CS degree to tell the author was joking, or can anyone with a brain do that, too?
I didn't read the entire piece...

People think the autonomous car is going to solve a lot of the current problems; Accidents, Parking, Congestion. It kind of makes me giggle a bit, as I ponder what may happen. That is, the conclusions drawn from "self-driving" vehicles are possibly way over cooked.

The certification process for these cars are going to be very, very expensive. Think about the software involved for the operation of aircraft and the review / testing process then apply it for the road. That is level of scrutiny that will be placed on "self-driving" vehicles.

Hacking, equipment failures, environmental surprises and more will be sure to keep a healthy portion of the public skeptical and possibly downright hostile to the idea for at least a decade, post certification, in my opinion. "Self-driving" will be contained and tightly regulated.

What people on the coasts forget about is, really, the rest of the country. The people that actually enjoy driving, where parking isn't a problem, and congestion takes place in the morning and after work, but only lasts about 5 minutes. Metro areas of > 2 million people don't have much problems with traffic in flyover country... at least not when compared to the coasts.

The counter arguments to the piece are plentiful for the foreseeable future.
> In fact, they even need this for straight lines, but the function is ridiculously easy, so we tend to ignore that as far as computers are concerned

Well.... If it was so easy, why does the algorithm have a name? (Bresenham's algorithm), if it's named surely it must've been "invented" at some point, implying it wasn't as easy?
100% estate taxes are unworkable - the same problem as Prohibition. The Laffer Curve is hugely overstated, but when talking about very high tax rates the incentive to structure around them is huge.

There are all sorts of systems people use to structure around the existing taxes - life insurance, gifts, family companies, trusts, marriages, etc. Unless you sweep away the whole lot (disastrously disruptive in itself), people are going to work round it.
I did the following for http://www.oppsdaily.com

1. Posted landing page in a slack chat (first ~10 users)

2. Posted on the indiehackers forum (+30 users)

3. Got mentioned in the indiehackers weekly newsletter (+150)

4. Posted to hacker news (+?)

5. Posted to product hunt (did not go so great)(+?)

6. Started posting weekly metrics to HN - made the frontpage (+1500-2000)
Wu Tang and Tribe definitely should've been included, bad oversight on my part... I included Dave more because I thought it would be interesting for people to see an international artist, not because I thought he was better than either of those groups. I guess I did have that covered with Skepta though.
> Wow, you sound salty and defensive.

No, he doesn't. You do though.
North Korea has no nuclear program. Period end. Next issue please. Seriously. Iran's nuclear program poses a much greater threat to the United States and its interests. Trump wants North Korea because he foolishly believes he can amp up his dismal approval ratings and he believes the United States hasn't much to lose. That makes him wrong on two counts.
My heuristic is that I budget 2x expected LTV per channel for the initial test. So if I think my customer could be worth $100 over their lifetime, I will allocate $200 to reddit ads, Facebook, etc. If I don't get any movement in the funnel (clicking signup; actually signing up; paying; etc...), then I abandon the channel until I have substantially updated the product or messaging. If there is some movement, then I devote effort to optimizing the funnel, starting from the ad creatives toward each segment of the signup flow
have you thought the consequences of that?

No I'm very serious: we are unable to protect smart TVs. Networked smart cars (because let's be real - Google and co. would want to monetize this with Uber-like services, Ads in cars etc.) are a magnitude more likely to be hacked by both the state actors and rogue individuals (altho I don't see why we make this distinction...both are criminal acts).

The worst that can happen if your smart tv is hacked, is that they can listen and maybe watch you in your living room. If your car is hacked, they can probably kill you and hurt others while they are at it. If this happens on a large scale, it's extremely dangerous.

So while I have no problems with self driving in itself (or with Google for that matter of fact), I have a problem with banning human driving cars on the road without a viable (non-intrusive) alternative.