skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems expensive to get set up in every supported country https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204411 https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/tabl... with requirements for a business entity, money processing licenses, etc., and that's before hooking up to local payment methods (credit cards, prepaid cards, mobile top-ups) and paying their fees.

Paypal or some other large entity could probably do this, though.
A fund only has 10~20 bets it can make though. That likely influences the human decision making (could still be suboptimal).

Afterall didn't A16Z catch some criticism for not investing a large enough sum into Instagram (which iirc had 500x returns or something) to make a large enough difference to the fund?
No. Student debt forgiveness was an idiotic idea to begin with. You don't solve the problem of too expensive schools by giving them hands and fists of government money.
People can pick up on social cues much easier in person, however.

Whether it's headphones, or making it clear what a context switch looks like, trivial questions are definitely cut down.
> We need to go beyond high school guidance counselor nostrums like "work hard! study hard!" and really struggle with the issue of how we can contribute.

I think your argument is just as reductive as the parent comment. If we're going to come up with a definition of 'value' that actually helps people make good decisions about how to spend their time, then its too simplistic to say 'all jobs create some value', but it's also too simplistic to say 'the average job is destroying value'.

I honestly think the reason most people don't try to do more good in the world is because it's just really hard and complicated to tell what's good/valuable and what's not.
Teach! You know you have a valuable skill, help others tap into that value
Tower is now also available for Windows too (as a native app): https://www.git-tower.com/
Thank you for doing this. I love the initiative.

Also, your whitepaper is black. That's much better.
It's like anything else. Buy low, sell high.

Capital is cheaper than ever and prices are insane right now. If your goal is to make money, this is pretty clearly not a time to buy in many markets.

Renting always has very significant downsides. You have no control, sacrifice flexibility, and are always exposed to any market price changes in the market at lease renewal.

The rent vs buy calculators focus too much on asset value vs. cash flow.
Ask HN: Which websites do you visit?
Regardless of topic, which websites/blogs/subreddits/newsletters/Youtube channels do you often read/watch (to acquire information)?
I'll admit that I didn't read the link that you shared. However, I'd like to assert that I feel fuzzies yield utilons to the individual in a similar manner as utilons yield fuzzies, each requiring refinement in their acquisition to be optimal. I think it's a more-grey area than your comment or the title of the article you linked implies (having not read said article).
This is a biased opinion piece, not a news article. Subtitle:

"The plan by the Secretary of Education represents the Trump administration’s multi-part assault on public education and the non-rich"

Not HN material, IMO.
The piece also says "Programmers who used Java or C# (when interviewing with us) go on to pass interviews with companies at half the rate of programmers who use Ruby or JavaScript."

I might be reading that wrong, but I took that as "Java/C# devs failed company interviews 2x Ruby/JS devs".

No?
Is it just me do the categories seem a little off (as described here: http://blog.triplebyte.com/a-taxonomy-of-programmers#.i1987v... )

Do you have an anonymous data set of resumes, interviews, and offers that someone could run some clustering against?

While parts of it have self-description bias, it seems like the analysis would be a little more interesting than what you've provided. Possibly you may even uncover what companies really want, rather than what they say they want. Kaggle contest!!!!
No idea why this got downvoted. Because of "universal health care"? The prison system is already universal health care for mental patients and for drug addicts.
You basically have to do all the parsing, but you can delay creating the actual AST and other data structures like byte code, which for us is the really expensive bit.
"It's comforting to think that just going to work and doing your job is actually contributing to something, but I just don't see how that can be generally true..."

I can't imagine how it would NOT be true. Say you buy something from the store. Presumably you're getting more value from it than it costs, if you weren't, you wouldn't buy it. Same with a company. If an employee provides more value than their salary, it makes sense to hire them. Otherwise it doesn't. Sure it's not perfect and wages are sticky and people skate by etc, but you have to be pretty cynical to think most people aren't providing net value at their jobs. Maybe we have a different definition of "contributing to something."

Also:

"...there have been several studies showing that the average company destroys shareholder value on net."

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something or this is a typo, but how could this be true? Shareholder value isn't an abstract concept like love or blue, it's the number of shares in a co*their price. The SP 500 is not negative.
If you have friends on AOL IM, by all means use it to organize which bar you're going to meet up in tonight.

For all intents and purposes that is what most of us do. We share photos of smiling kids and messy homes.

But don't ever kid yourself that it's a secure messenger.

Totally fine. I already don't trust Telegrams crypto.

I'm not saying it is secure, only it works really really well and isn't owned by a known evil entity who for some reason found it worth to pay 19B just to destroy the best messenger app I knew :-)

Also remember: WhatsApp didn't have very good crypto before they changed their protocol.
That's not a circus, it's a dance/art show.
Also the mortgage interest deduction. It essentially means that you pay interest on the mortgage with pre-tax dollars, not post-tax.
The obsession with doing visible social good comes from a certain part of society, reinforced by academic advisors and admissions criteria as a requirement for advancing into the next academic tier.

Nevermind that by merely participating in a marketplace as a service provider or consumer you're providing a social benefit; that benefit's just not as easy to understand and doesn't get you any vanity points.

But if you're on a mission trip carrying a third world orphan in a microloan-built vaccination tent while on the phone with companies asking for food donations, you're just the most selfless person ever - clearly such charity is just an innate part of who you are.
Wow! This is potentially a real gain for us. We have a big in-house, monolithic Rails app.

My initial experiment was encouraging. Boot time in development mode went from ~23sec to ~16sec, and I only enabled it for the main engine that comprises about 85% of our codebase so the real gains might be larger.

Looking forward to seeing what it can do in production mode - our boot times there are horrendous and it's a big deal for things like cron jobs. Thank you to all those who worked on this.
That's a single project, and one of the 2 adoption stories circulating in 2012/3, 4+ years ago (the other was a MySQL load balancer for YouTube or such).

I'm pretty sure there is quite more stuff now, but those known are not much to write home about. Even downloads is not some "huge port" -- the presentation mentions "14,032" lines.
I wonder how long it'll be before the last person who cares about privacy dies. I wager within 100 years, and I wager that person is already alive today.
From the contact I've had with (Mandarin) Chinese, the basic grammar has the same word order as English. You have to teach yourself to interpret tones as lexical information, instead of just emphasis/emotion/flow. You need to learn more characters in Chinese than in Japanese for equivalent proficiency. Deeper into the language, there are more "two birds, one stone" kind of metaphors that are widely used (basically, cultural points that you need to learn, even if you understand the literal meanings of the constituent words).

Those are a mixture of my impressions, and the opinions of friends who speak the language (both learned and native). Overall, I think the most difficult part of mastering Chinese and Japanese is the same: Lack of shared cultural context, if you come from an English-speaking or European country.
Golang is supported for native code on Android. Supporting it for writing complete apps would require developing a large number of new APIs. Kotlin can use the existing Java based APIs.
> Other than Juicero and some sweeping statements about the technology, energy, and pharmaceutical industries benefitting from government research, Tarnoff offers little evidence to back up these claims.

The "debunked" article is not scientific in 100% of the meaning of the word, that's a fact -- but if we go by the message of this "debunker" this means we must doubt every single deduction we make in our lives, on the grounds of what? Oh, none of us can't access all the information on the planet in real time. Legit as hell, lol. Let's face it, none of us is Skynet-like and yes we will always work with sparse data. Trying to make a good use of those is not a bug. It's a damn good feature.

Far too often I am seeing a very perverse and backwards "arguing" on HN these days -- people grossly underestimate our innate human ability to draw rather good conclusions based on incomplete data, and constantly require "scientific proof" about pretty much anything. Science doesn't have data on most of what's happening on this planet however. And that won't change for a long time still.

We make do with what we have. The rest are yelling "give me evidence!" in non-deterministic areas like country/world economics. Heh, OK.
Levandowski is extremely talented. See this video of the autonomous motorcycle he and his team built for the DARPA grand challenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOgkNh_IPjU

I can see why Uber would want to protect him and hang on to him. Still if he did what Waymo alleges he did, he should still have to answer for that, likely in criminal court.
Yes. So in essence, if one zooms out enough, desktop software has to make a comeback in some form.
Otherwise the hooks that saas will establish nowdays will be much more nasty for progress, than anything IBM could ever envision doing.
Oh well in that case I'm no longer concerned /s
I'm as confused as you are. After this very interesting and tantalizing blog post I wanted to get started. But no such luck. Disappointing.
I was wondering much the same thing. It seemed inverted.
Maybe it's just a filter they use, and they don't actually discriminate against non-academic or highly-technical types if they cannot answer those kinds of questions?

Having not got into programming by pursuing CS in university and instead kind of taking the old "hacker" route, that kind of thing always hangs around my neck when job hunting.
Buildings will have an association fee, similar to an HOA. I've never looked into NY condos, but I've seen buildings in Northern NJ with fees at 500/mo. I would guess there is literally a $1k association fee to pay.
Well until now retail investors were shut out of opportunities reserved for VCs even if they only wanted to risk small sums they could afford to lose. Crowdfunding seems like a godsend for the small indie film industry where it's hard to get attention from major investors but donations from friends and family may be insufficient to raise a budget.

I realize the prior rules were there to protect investors from losing their shirts, but simply excluding people without changing the problematic behaviors in the marketplace means that it's harder than ever for small investors to accumulate any kind of meaningful investment capital.
"[branded product] play [song or singer] on [branded service]."

The device and the service are fixed parts of the incantation (as heard), but the artist's name is not. This is the logical conclusion of that.

I suspect it's not about wanting to hear music as it is about exercising power. (As someone else commented here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14375928)
Is it listed as a news article ?

Twice in the header of the page are the words Opinion.
10 Nice Examples of Writing SQL in Kotlin with JOOQ
Current enterprise programmer. Former startup employee here.

I agree that it is quite different at startups. The startup environment felt basically a glorified college environment compared to the large company culture. With that said, I would image eventually all startups have to grow up and embrace enterprise-style processes. Facebook is the example that comes to mind. When they first started, the followed the "Move fast and break things" mantra, but as they aged and took on more and more users, they had to change and become a company that valued reliability over new features. I believe their current mantra is "Move Fast With Stable Infra."?
The same way I keep learning now: reading books, reading my rss feed, newsletters, Hackernews, etc, etc.

There's not much serendipity in any office I've ever worked in; I've always had to do the legwork myself.
> I think it's posing in the extreme
>Nothing amuses me more than a riced out camry with a glasshatter pipe hitting high revs and then just kinda putting off the line. All bark no bite.

Yep
The Physicist Who Denies Dark Matter
Crowdfunding Platforms Crack Down on Risky Campaigns
Is there demand for this in the job market? Like, if you'd go work somewhere and not freelance, are there places where you wouldn't have to learn to work with Adobe Photoshop® and such?
And yet, there must be a supply of hackers to which you donate that money.
When was the last time you used windows? ME? Nowadays the worst thing that can happen is that the task bar icon starts blinking or a non focus stealing balloon popup. (not balloons anymore but don't know the new term)

*Win32 does expose functions to enumerate applications and to give arbitrary handles focus. So an app could theoretically use this to give itself focus but that is far from the default for requesting dialogs or attention and no serious application would do such a thing. Such sleazy applications shouldn't be installed in the first place. Unless that application is designed to be a window manager.
The first place i got 2.99% in 2014 on a 5 year fix [at the time 20% down], second was the house at 2.49% in 2016 on a 5 year fix [50% down], the 3rd an final was 20% down for 2.59% in 2017 [30% down].
Looks like this project made similar trade offs:

> Because the WaveNet decoder is computationally expensive, we had to do some clever tricks to make this experience run in real-time on a laptop. Rather than generating sounds on demand, we curated a set of original sounds ahead of time. We then synthesized all of their interpolated z-representations. To smooth out the transitions, we additionally mix the audio in real-time from the nearest sound on the grid. This is a classic case of trading off computation and memory.
FYI here is a copy of my model: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1esgwYfYhDo0JaFP0qGhr...
JOOQ is such a nice library and DSL that it almost feels like writing type safe SQL in Java.

And it is nice to see how Kotlin enhances it even more out of the box.
Just what exactly are they working on in academia?
Intel Demos 3D XPoint Optane Memory DIMMs, Cascade Lake Xeons Come in 2018
AMD's next GPU generation is almost ready – The Verge
> I spent a few weeks at a really cool co-working space, PaperHub

I honestly don’t get the attraction of co-working spaces for most digital nomads. The costs often outweigh simply working from a cafe or the balcony of your AirBnB – 3G internet is cheap in most of the world now. In my hometown, co-working spaces attract locals who set up small teams with other local freelancers and could benefit from in-person collaboration. But for a solitary digital nomad all of whose contacts are remote, what's the point?
My point is that a political opinion piece has very little informational value.
Look at Rikaichan/Rikaikun (Firefox and Chrome extension names). They're great tools for aid in reading.
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And if that's not a wild enough ride, try land leases.

I can't for the life of me figure out any way to be truly comfortable with a land lease.

NYC real estate is a really weird world.
Not HN material... but I'll bite for a moment: Student loan forgiveness is a terrible idea. It rewards reckless behavior. People who racked up tremendous debt without any thought or consideration to their careers, or their future.[1] Universities and banks should be punished for giving out loans so quickly, with little regard to the students, and for constantly piling on fees, classes, and expensive books, etc.

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/29/your-money/student-loans/2...
(Kicking around an idea to build this:)

Would anybody be interested in a local DNS server that automatically updated its list of black-holed domains through a mechanism that preserved your privacy? (Assuming, of course, a decentralized representation of the block lists.)

Would anybody be willing to sell their attention by accepting payment (BTC), perhaps through a dutch auction, to re-enable a black-holed domain for a time-limited period? (Hand-waving the mechanism for ensuring that the domain was actually whitelisted.)

I'd personally be interested in the former, and would likely use the latter - even though I find it hilariously unlikely that Ad Networks or Web Sites would participate in bidding for my attention directly.
The only way this comment makes sense is if you completely misunderstood what I said.
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Posted 1 minute ago and already downvoted. I think it's a valid remark (even if it's sarcastic/cynical): the parent could have given some more information about why it is so, rather than just stating what any representative of such a company would say as well.
What is a recurrent weighted average (in Japanese)
The Path to Learning Artificial Intelligence
I work in advertising and I don't think it's immoral or unethical.
On the topic of emails, if they're long, I try to structure them a bit like newspaper articles. Start with an executive summary, then say the same thing again with a bit more detail, and then say it a third time with data, if possible / necessary.
Not OP, but I have been doing something similar in Airbnbs for three years ( I was interviewed for an article last year: https://qz.com/643181/ ). Sometimes I move between neighborhoods while working on-site in NYC / SF Bay Area, other times I was a traveling consultant, other times I work remotely and choose where I go. Usually I stay 1 month (reaching 2 months at only two places).

It works because I am flexible about renting studio apartments or rooms in Airbnb-dorm-like houses, and I don't have other responsibilities or attachments. Compared to the up-front costs, commitments, and assorted bills connected with an annual lease, I prefer it.
Mind to share that list?
I'm thinking of this in particular: http://www.latimes.com/projects/oxycontin-part1/

EDIT: also I want to be clear that I don't think journalists are sitting at their desks saying "Uh oh, white people are in trouble! Sound the alarm!". This is great coverage, and it's a complicated issue.
Right, I didn't mean to suggest that Postgres currently mmap(3)s all data; rather, I meant to get across that—in the scenario where you really want to keep all this data laying around as files rather than as LOBs—Postgres would need to have some way to guarantee that the data that's sitting around in those files is always in the state Postgres thinks it's in, if the corresponding file-streams are going to join in the same MVCC transactions as everything else. From what I can tell, that would require Postgres to do whatever it does for each table backing-file it keeps, to each of those files: both on the OS level (at least fopen(3) + flock(3)), and in terms of book-keeping in the system catalog.

Let me put it this way: how much overhead do you think there would be if you split your Postgres data across "ten billion" tablespaces? Because that's essentially what's being talked about here—little tablespaces containing one {oid, LOB} table, with one row, with a "storage engine" that represents that tablespace as a file.

...of course, if you do just (fix and then) use LOBs rather than insist on externally-visible files, none of that matters. :)
As a counter-point, the allegations by Google are that he basically only joined Waymo to steal from them, and sell the stolen information to Uber (via the Otto startup).

I think that's what the poster is talking about.
All of my NYC friends move to different apartments every year or two as well. For a completely different reason though, they can not afford the yearly increases. One friend had a place near Barclays for $2800 and it went up to $3500 in a single years increase.
I've done long term nomadic with my wife twice so far (once in 2008 for 9 months, once in 2015 for 6 months).

It is very enjoyable, but at the end of each stretch I was ready to go home and reconnect with my family and friends.

Personally I found it difficult to feel connected in a place when I don't speak the language, and move every month or so.

Your personal needs may vary. Either way it should be a great time, at least for a while.
"Fortunately, the meltwater did not reach the vault itself, the ice has been hacked out, and the precious seeds remain safe for now at the required storage temperature of -18C."
Everyday we stray further from god's light
Since you mention a YC-like fund for activism projects, and at the risk of breaking a rule i may not be aware of (let me know) I'm gonna quote myself and hope you are interested or know people who may be interested

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OP here, actually floored by the rapidity and variety of responses. Thanks HN.

I'll take this opportunity to float an idea that's been kicking around in my head for a long time.
The premise is to:

1) (this is almost certainly the easy part) build out a platform that is like a two-way khan academy - teacher and student, with at least the teacher having a tablet and a stylus that function well, sharing a digital blackboard, with a video chat optional -- where a student of something in a relatively privileged situation teaches a student of the same thing in a relatively less privileged situation -- where the sessions are stored and rewindable, both video and blackboard input.

2) the hard part; selling it as something to invest in and driving it to a point of having an endowment behind it, like Harvard's endowment, that allows the service to pay for moderation of student-teachers something like $12.00 USD an hour to teach, while subsidizing well-chosen students to have to pay something like $2 an hour to learn

it's been an idea for a passion project for a while
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What's up with this "Ayn Rand fanboys" meme?

I keep seeing this recently and this time I can't even imagine how it could be relevant.
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I'm totally uneducated about things like this. Can someone explain if this could ever happen? What really stops activist investors from demanding logs from a web company, for instance?
One coffee a day after breakfast. Have gone alcohol free for a good 5 years now! Feels better.
I always suspected Mozilla pushed Do Not Track to undermine online privacy. It was a doomed idea from the start -- all DNT does is politely ask a website not to track you. Setting their browser to DNT on did give tens of millions of Firefox users the illusion they were getting a high level of privacy (so they presumably would stick to Firefox) even though it didn't actually do very much.