skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The faith in The Market that some people seem to have has always struck me as odd. It's a way of viewing the world where worth and value are measured primarily by profit. It's also a stochastic model (even if it were perfectly efficient) and will lead to local optima, which may be grossly suboptimal for some or even most people.

Since this view requires looking at profit for deciding whether something should exist or be done, you end up with things like the county north of me: no more hospital. It's not profitable there, they're down to an urgent care clinic and local doctors, mostly GPs. But for anything major, it requires transportation to a facility that's 45+ minutes away on a good day. So for emergency situations you're possibly totally fucked and will have more serious consequences due to the delays (fatalities, amputations due to delays, etc.). For less immediate problems you still have many increases in local economic problems as the infirmed have to travel much further for specialized care. I needed PT, fine, it's 10 minutes from my office. In that county, it's the next county over. You need most of a day off for a 1 hour PT session now. Or you skip the PT session and are less effective and more prone to injury and illness as a result.

"The government", as derided as it may be by some people, largely provides those services which are not profitable generally (defense, police) or not profitable locally (hospitals) or not profitable immediately (education). Those are all financial sinks, but necessary for the overall good of the nation. So the government provides them either directly (public schools) or indirectly (healthcare through subsidies and giving financial incentives to doctors to go to rural areas).

When those services do become profitable, it's generally by abuse of authority or position. The defense industry by milking the taxpayers for all we're worth. Healthcare by hiding the true costs of things and making it hard to discover. Education with for-profit universities (again, by milking the taxpayers, this one by tricking people into getting federal loans for an expensive sub-par degree).
I had heard of one before this... Not sure if the tou allow it anymore.
ec2 is ~easy though, they're just smaller VMs on newer hosts.

I'm amazed that things like SimpleDB are still around and supported even though only a handful of engineers in my ~200 person org have heard of it.
The engineering team working on that all abruptly left their jobs once it hit alpha. They are now traveling abroad and spending more time with their loved ones.
They ask to access your files, and you delete your files. I guess that isn't lying per se, but it definitely is destruction of evidence, which falls under the general heading of obstruction of justice. And before you ask, yes, it is still considered evidence even if there's nothing incriminating there. It is considered evidence because an LEO asked for it as part of an investigation.
Knuth worked on ensuring that the max number of guesses never went above 5. I believe that it's an algorithm, but I haven't looked into this enough yet.

Another way to optimize is for the avg number of guesses. The algorithm for this approach is to choose your next guess based on the guess that will give you the maximum amount of information gain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)#D...).
When was the last time that there was an actual media/public backslash on these matters?
How come Levandowski isn't sued for stealing data? Doesn't what he did to Google considered stealing? I would have called for police investigation for someone so prominent stealing my company's data.
"The window that this occurred in is much smaller than many people realize"

Maybe the default position for all governments (and people?) should be "they did something good at this instant in time". It's kind of sad to view the world that way but probably safer than swallowing the revisionist explanations that are usually offered up.
The nice thing about Usenet is that you had access to real experts. If your question was good enough, you could get an answer from someone that wrote the drivers for the OS you were struggling with or whatever.

Before that, you'd get books out of the library and get a pad of paper and hand-assemble 6502 code and read Byte magazine and if it took a long time, you learned it very very solidly. So I'd say I got a level of deep understanding from hand-assembling code for 6502 that I (as a fogey) doubt I would ever get from any amount of SO reading. Tho my general work flow once I start typing is to google every thing that I can't instantly fix; weird compiler error, cut and paste into search bar, optionally add "stack" to the end and read.
I've heard good reviews. Have had this downloaded on my mobile for a few years now ... should get around to reading it "soon" -_-
And a self-paced course through edX:

https://www.edx.org/course/street-fighting-math-mitx-6-sfmx
I fear we're slowly stepping into paranoia levels of privacy protection. This is my personal belief, I'm aware many people here don't think that way, but here it is: it is literally impossible to live a life in a society without radiating such information all the time. This applies both to physical and digital realms; and as most people spend more and more time with digital services, the two start to blend into one.

So I guess my opinion is: radiating that information is not really an issue, and any problems arising from it are best solved elsewhere, and not by becoming a digital hermit.
Those are reports of the problem - I get that it's true - but do any of those links actually point to product listings which are clearly fake? I don't think I've ever been sent a fake product, or seen any suspect listings. Maybe I'm gullible and have been buying fake all this time?
I'd love to pick the brain of the product owner who decided that 12 hours is the maximum acceptable time for an "active" period. Most people only sleep 8 hours or less, so there's easily at least 16 hours in the day that could easily be used for computing.

How long does it take to install updates anyway? Why can't I just set my inactive period to 4-6am?
For some reason the idea of basic income is very popular on HN and in San Francisco. Thanks for doing some quick math to put the numbers in perspective.
No one is deliberately withholding them out of malice. Practical applications are often convoluted and complicated or too forced. It is like wanting to do triple flips on trampoline before you can jump to sit on it. The sport analogy hold for historical background too - it sometimes help or makes it more interesting, but most often helps as much as knowing history of flips helps to learn flips.

Contrary to what you say, practical applications are easy to be found where they are simple and helpful. They make for fun math hobbyist like to play with and that works nice in terms of making kids interested in math. Unfortunately they do not lead to cutting edge science nor math needed for physics and engineering.
This extent of euphoria would make me nervous if I were an Amazon shareholder.

Yes Amazon is a great company and productizing all these different parts is an excellent idea. I agree that it is their most important moat.

But Amazon is astonishingly mediocre at one key task: Helping customers find, select and configure what they want.

Amazon is not a good fashion retailer. Amazon is not a good electronics retailer. Too much information is missing or incorrect, the product range isn't nearly big enough, configuration options are almost non-existent and there is zero innovation on the presentation side.

In other words, Amazon is not a good specialty store. It's actually a pretty bland supermarket when it could be so much more.
I was a big fan of SimpleDB - I feel like if they would have just given it some love (i.e. feature updates and moving it to all SSD) it would have been a really friendly, scaleable "almost SQL" database. I found it way more flexible than DynamoDB for most data models - maybe I am the only one but I think they missed the boat with SimpleDB, and now it's just been relegated to the forgotten side of AWS.
While ipad do a lot of things it is at best mediocre at all those things. It can do quick mails and chat, but my phone is more portable and always in my pocket.I can watch movies on it, but Chromecast shows it on bigger screen with home theatre sound. I can write a document but it's keyboard isn't good enough. I can write some code but debugging is painful.

It's not just the sales of these are going down, the usage on web traffic tracker has also peaked in early 2015, and is going down since, meaning not only people are not buying them, they are leaving them in drawers and forgetting about them.
Is that really true? I mean, is it cheaper to write programs using javascript and Electron than a native GUI? It's cheaper to port, I'll grant you, compared to something written to target a native GUI. But, hell, even java and flash had a better memory and CPU story than Electron.

EDIT: Ok, to expand on this. Running a small number (< 5) of Electron-based applications on my MBP with 16GB of memory feels like running the same number of instances of Eclipse circa 2005 on my shitty, cheap HP laptop. Nothing else can run alongside them because they're so memory/CPU hungry. But here's the thing, computers have gotten better since 2005. What's the rationale for such poor performance with these apps? my computer has 8x the memory today (maybe more) than that one had. The clock is up by 2-3x. Cores increased by 4x.

There's no excuse for this in final, deliverable products.
The responses to this article (under the "with responses from" heading) are also worth a look.
Is javascript being used as an ORB and this possibly binary byte code is a bit of machine readable IDL ?
The old software system was mathematics; you could be absolutely certain that the code was correct, in a way mathematics is correct. The new software system is like biology; you have to perform experiments to see what the truth is; reason fails.
6 Real Qualities of Successful Leadership and Management
good idea about having the author submit this to OSI...I guess I'll make an issue report on that github page.

But this license shouldn't have any concerns about legal ramifications since it explicitly states that the request is non-binding. So as far as the law is concern, this is MIT license.
It is always best policy in my opinion, to upgrade to the next OS version after the first (point) release. Each new version of the OS (eg, Win 10 over 8.1) has additional security measures not in the previous version. I use Mac primarily and I always do fresh install at the .1 update (eg, 10.12.1 and not 10.12). I run Win 10 on my Parallels VM.
Since you mention "Your Sinclair" you might enjoy this link I posted back a few weeks:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13850548
Books, trial and error.
Las Vegas condo/hotel Vdara, one of the highrises in the City Center development, was designed by the same architect as the Walkie Talkie -- Rafael Viñoly -- and exhibits the same solar convergence phenomenon; affectionately called the 'Vdara Death Ray' [1][2][3].

In a 2013 interview with the Guardian [4], he claims there was not much he could do about the Vdara, as the customer specifically wanted an arc-shaped building; in fact the the City Center development has several sweeping arc forms, like in the neighboring Aria -- but the concavity of the Aria's highrises aren't oriented south to converge the midday sun [5], whereas the Vdara aims them right at the pool deck [2].

For both Vdara and the Walkie Talkie, he claims to have been aware of the phenomenon going into the design but lacked the ability to correctly calculate the impact. Further, if claims are true, for the Walkie Talkie he said: "(...) the original design of the building had featured horizontal sun louvres on its south-facing facade, but these are believed to have been removed during cost-cutting as the project developed." [4]

[1] https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/vdara-visitor-death-ray-s...
[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1315978/Las-Vegas-ho...
[3] http://www.businessinsider.com/the-vdara-death-ray-hotel-is-...
[4] https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/sep/06/walkie-...
[5] http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/36.10834/-115.17640
> Will the middle class want higher taxes so that they can receive little to no benefit? Seems politically unlikely to me.

I think the idea is that you raise taxes such that the middle class sees no difference, the rich pay more in taxes, and the poor receive more money.

In 2015, median household income was $56,000 so you could raise taxes by 18% and the middle class would not feel a difference with a $10,000 basic income for each household. You can do the same thing with 36% and $20,000 basic income.
They _are_ giving a 1 year notice.
People ate already "laundering money" using cryptocurrencies, so banning cash won't fix anything. It will just make it easier for the government to take the taxes directly out of your account. And then invent some new taxes, until you will have to resort to "money laundering" yourself to make ends meet.
Pro 10 user here. Windows started wanting to update last week, but isn't because my group policy is set to notify for download and auto install, so all i had for the duration of the conference i was at was a notification.

It works fine.
One could argue if we went to basic income, we wouldn't need these artificially inflated costs that come as a result of an uncontrollable capitalistic greed to feed shareholders and corporate executives exorbitant amounts of profits. Maybe the dollar could regain some strength. There is no law that says currency must inflate in perpetuity.
+1 for typing in the Star Trek. Typing in source code is slower than downloading some PyPi thing but it lets you learn faster. At least at first.
> Q: What will happen with my existing models?

> A: You must recreate your existing Prediction API models using Cloud Machine Learning Engine. To learn more, please read our documentation about creating models on Cloud Machine Learning Engine.

Slightly edited and corrected answer should be

> A: You must recreate your existing Prediction API models using Cloud Machine Learning Engine. But, you know what? You must recreate it using Amazon Machine Learning, because we might again shut down this service in favor of our next platform. So If you care about your product, move directly to Amazon Machine Learning so next time you will not be bothered by us. And thanks for using it
>Most of all: Have complete control of your destiny. No investors, no bosses, etc.

Here's a useful guideline to add to what you said: unless some person makes way more than the Basecamp founders (e.g. through some unicorn deal or whatever) and enjoys the same freedom to shape their product, then they have absolutely no leg to stand on to criticize their model much less to sneer.

I mean, some startup multi-millionaire/billionaire sneering at "lifestyle businesses" I can understand (though not agree with).

But some ramen eating wannabe sneering at them, it's inane, since the majority don't end up nowhere near as succesful.
> Maybe these Threadripper chips are Naples chips where memory controllers or interprocessor communication controllers failed QA?

I'd be highly surprised if they were anything else.
IIRC the middle class wouldn't need higher taxes to significantly increase tax revenue unless your idea of "middle-class" is making seven figures.
> Not true

I'm not sure what you're referring to here. Autonomous, by definition, covers their autopilot feature as well as level 4 autonomy. I never said they have level 4 or 5 autonomy...

> Furthermore, they were getting their software from MobilEye, an Israel-based startup but cut ties with them last year and are developing their own Autopilot 2 program, which so far has not reached parity with MobilEye's Autopilot 1.

I'm not sure it's useful to compare anything Tesla does with MobilEye's capability. Now I don't know if they've transitioned off of it yet or not but during their corporate spat after that fatal crash last year [1] Tesla said they used additional software and hardware to augment MobilEye's capabilities.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-autopilot-fatal-crash-m...
I've been buying my kids Android tablets for $80 every few years. The iPad was close to $700 when I bought it. I can update Android with an open distribution for a long time after the device is out of warranty but I can't install a browser because Apple decided my hardware couldn't handle IOS 6.

I have an Apple PowerBook G3 Wallstreet that still runs and even has reasonable battery life. I'm not using it because it's simply too slow but I can still load a modern Linux on it. This is how hardware should become obsolete.
This is an assumption based on ignorance.

The "ads" are recommended software. It is annoying that you get a toast notification asking if you want to use office online just as its annoying every few weeks my iPhone asks if I want to buy more icloud.

But what is really happening is that anything with an app store is tracking you to build a marketing engine that recommends other apps to you. The fallacy is that Microsoft is the only one doing this, the truth is that everyone is doing this.

There are ways around this in OSX and Windows.. you don't have to use the store, you can still download stuff and install away and you can still enable developer mode and side-load anything you custom write if you want to use the new API features.

I don't like it when I choose to use edge and every time I go to gmail it asks me to swtich to chrome.

I don't like it on my iPhone that every time I use gmail it asks me to switch to chrome even though I selected the checkbox to use safari.

I'm tired of this conversation being so one sided and biased as it is doing the world a huge disservice.
Thank God for Borland's Turbo Pascal and Object Oriented Pascal manuals. Holy crap.
Why doesn't Craigslist have mobile apps?
I think the transition to a laborless society will be pretty messy. Perhaps we can develop labor pools; unautomated businesses can draw from this labor pool until this class of labor becomes automated. Individuals receiving UBI would be required to register with the pool and give some years of service (as service to society). The goal for businesses would be to automate all labor away.
I think one of the problems facing specifically Walmart is that their multi-decade long negative sentiment at the corporate and personal lives of the executives among social progressives that are strong among the "millennial" demographic in the US undermines a lot of the innovation that the company does.

Thus, if I were in Walmart's position, I would be spinning out separate companies potentially rather than even doing M&A to try to capture the market because I'm not sure if jet.com is really going to undo the damage.

About a decade ago when I was at HP one of the senior executives in the personal computing group was talking about how he demoed a touchscreen computer and people were pretty impressed and asking when it's going to be out and he was disappointed that nobody knew that HP had already released it. Combined with a completely unfocused company direction, anemic marketing budget, and continued obsession with trying to squeeze more money out of legacy markets (like most traditional enterprises TBQH) HP's reputation as a low end commodity OEM with mediocre software in the consumer verticals has been quite solidly imprinted and little will change that perception without clear, obvious direction change to consumers. And few businesses (and more accurately, their board of directors) have the guts to do that.
The general masses neither know nor care about this API. "Business" folks will see they have a year to transition to an improved version of the product.
>The only people to blame are those that don't follow manufacturers instructions.

And even then if you absolutely can't upgrade that XP machine running an MRI then there are best practices to segregate and isolate it from the network properly.

I'm getting a little sick of the people with an anti-whatever axe to grind pretending this was some big sophisticated attack that only nation states can do. This patch was released months ago, there's no excuse not to have it. It was just one of the hundreds of Windows exploits found per year. If admins aren't upgrading their equipment or segregating them properly then that's on them. Note, there was no NSA leak for Conficker, codered, heartbleed, slammer, etc. This stuff will not stop unless admins and management take security more seriously.

No admin, myself included, had any issues this weekend. It was completely avoidable.
I have a few items valued at several thousand dollars. I am going to see if I can do a sale locally maybe even at a high end consignment shop.

There really is a hole in the market for goods in this price bracket.

I would almost want some Ebay certified place that could verify the item and act as an escrow.
Letting in refugees is more about helping the refugees, and less about what's best for the US.
This tool felt like it descended from the gods of software. It's a brilliant tool.
This is exactly the issue. And going halfway will do less than no good; if it isn't enough to live on (at a very basic level), the experiment would fail.

While there are many programs that could potentially be cut to make way for BI, that wouldn't be nearly enough to actually pay for it. (And any complexity added to attempt to reduce its cost, such as not paying it to people who don't need it, starts to remove its benefit and add overhead, not to mention creating perverse incentives in many cases.)

There's also a question of locale adjustments, or lack thereof. On the one hand, "just enough to live on" in Mississippi is quite different from "just enough to live on" in California. On the other hand, should the federal government subsidize living in an expensive location rather than a cheap one? Or should expensive states have to supplement BI? (And that would further cement their position as expensive.)
Government behavior isn't immediately tied to profit (bear with me).

Profit's tied to government (in the US especially), but there's at least a single degree of separation (maybe less so recently). Our democracy still has the theoretical power to change it.

When it's corporate it's entirely inflexible, directly tied to profit (and the economy), and there's little to no requirement for transparency. It's all the downsides of government, with an included layer of obscurity... and also some more downsides.

I think our current administration makes this pretty clear. If left to corporate interests major assets like Planned Parenthood, National Parks, and The National Endowment for the Arts would likely not exist at all (that's just the tip of the iceberg).

Corporate funded initiatives can be completely ejected on a whim when profits are down. With the federal government you can't just remove these things without some level of checks & balances...
It is your opinion, you're even using your opinion to make up stuff about me that isn't true.

I clicked the option to disable this when prompted when I upgraded. It was easy and I've moved on. Life is great, i'm back to playing games, watching content and enjoying my device without it asking me if I want to upgrade office.

(but my damn iPhone keeps telling me to upgrade icloud)