skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who doesn't particularly like social networking sites, and especially dislikes Facebook compared to other social networks... I'd drop Facebook first. Heck, I only joined because I had to in order to add a page for a business I was working with.

Apple I could drop pretty easily too. An iPhone is nice, but it's not exactly the be all and end all. Any old Android phone could work well too.

Amazon... personally I'd be able to drop it easily, though most people would have more trouble there. That's because nowadays the products I mostly buy from there are computer accessories and games, and the latter is under serious competition from the likes of Steam, various digital download stores on consoles and even the companies themselves selling boxed versions.

Still can't imagine how people buy food on these sites. I mean, do you often like to wait for your food to be delivered? The supermarkets here are both pretty cheap and within walking distance.

Microsoft would be tough, simply because Microsoft Office is really important to me, and I'm really used to Windows at this point.

Google is arguably the toughest one to drop. Why? Mix of services needed (it's damn hard to promote a website about certain subjects without YouTube nowadays, and Gmail is very convenient) and the fact their alternatives are just nowhere near as good for a search engine. Which is depressing given how far downhill Google's own search results have gone recently...

But yeah, interesting to see the stats there.
Interest rates would rise so high only after a significant increase in inflation, which means that your cash savings would fall in real value as well.
Naica Mine is a beautiful place, wish I could be inside some day. I've read that is not accessible to public in general due to constant water flow that has to be drained and a very high humidity.
Apple Music has been growing at a pretty decent rate so that would account for quite a lot of users.

Also it's 10% of people who viewed this page. It's not representative or particularly meaningful to make broader conclusions from.
Agree, but do you think it's 90% market share? I'd guess it's 20%-40% (in the US). That's just my gut feeling though, and not based on data.

Edit: Found some data. https://www.statista.com/statistics/232790/forecast-of-apple... Suggests 30% of Americans have an iPhone. Not sure what iTunes usage is like.
I think, people doesn't necessarily hate the product, they hate the business model.

However, I don't have any realistic replacement business model to offer.
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What languages are quants using to build their models? R, Python, Java, Haskell? Are there any favored tools?
Are you sure that's not the availability heuristic talking? People who accumulate wealth gradually over a lifetime of not getting lattes don't make for flashy stories, and by definition aren't flashy themselves. In addition they tend to be older, because that takes time, meaning that in any crowd that skews younger, the wealthy people will likely have taken the maximized earnings path.
Real estate in Australia is a giant house of cards, that appears to be slowly reaching its peak. Eventually something will give.

- higher interest rates

- change in government taxation

- inability for people to pay higher rents
It is really rather funny moving to the bay area and making a very high salary that still comes nothing near the kind of money you'd ever need to buy a house. People are buying houses cash and bidding over asking and it would still take me over a decade just to make the 20% downpayment. It makes me really not sweat 10-20$ spent on something I might enjoy, like a coffee or ice cream.
I stopped using Facebook and Twitter for a few months. Once the initial pains of withdrawal subsided, I couldn't even remember that was something I wanted to check. Don't need either one of them.
Inorganic population growth by immigration. There are heaps of millionaires in China and the banks are giving them quite some leverage.
this is essentially an apache model or how it came to be. some of internet providers created and funded apache foundation to make a decent webserver that was flexible and reasonably fast, in terms of how fast a C based webserver can be.
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> DailyMail is low brow

That's not why people avoid the Mail, nor its poor/working-class associations. They publish poorly-researched scientific stories, have institutional racism, sexism, & homophobia, & rewrite stories from other news outlets with minimal credit. They also support & push the agenda of the right-aligned political parties (fascists in the 40s, Conservatives, now UKIP).

> Likewise you could praise the Nazi's for their warfighting ability

So this was a fiction put up by the British post-war historians, since many Wehrmacht officers relocated to the UK after WW2, and the military historians fawned over them + the fiction "small force of exceptional warriors attacked and held off the Communist hordes" went down well with the general reading public in the midst of the Cold War. Liddell Hart disputed this.

You can learn from their battlefield doctrines and copy their battlefield arms, but their inability to hold strategic oil resources & coming second in the technology races meant that, despite their fighting, they lost the war.
see also https://twitter.com/DwarfFortBugs
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I have a full time software-ish job (product manager) and I go in and out of being 'productive' vs. consuming (playing games, watching tv, etc). Here are the things that I've found make my side projects work:

1. Start with something insanely tiny - Every side project software or library I've built were ~4hr hacks just trying to get a basic, basic version of something working to see if I could even do it. Example: I wanted to build a web view of the books I've read, so I just installed nodejs and tried to see if I could even get a list of books from goodread. This would be step 1. Step 2 would be getting my books, step 3 would be displaying them in a browser. That's it. Once I accomplished each step, I set out a new set of tiny steps. Nothing huge, nothing crazy, nothing ambitious. Just get started and prove to yourself that you can do it :)

2. Social Pressure - More than anything, this has been huge for me. My current project is a twitch bot that I'm making for my friends' stream. I started working on it and got a basic version that could respond to commands up and running in a day, then they started playing with it and having tons of fun. Now they make videos and want to show them on the stream, they have new ideas for commands, and one of them is even helping me code it. It's been really great :) Another example of this is building a game with my brother. We started working on it together and it gave us more reasons to talk regularly and a shared purpose. This kept me going much longer than the actual game itself did.

3. Choose tech that know or you think is fun - I know this is not the ideal way to build a project, but what you're grappling with is just motivation. Pick technology that you're interested in or one that you know and you enjoy working in. For me that's nodejs and I've been writing things in it off and on for years.

4. Open source everything - by default every project I start is open source. If it's code, I constantly publish it on github. If it's a video, I post it on youtube. Blog post? Put it on medium or my blog. First, it pushes you to put things out into the world and figure out the details of releasing them (like writing documentation!) Second, every once and a while, they'll stick :) My goodreads module I mentioned above has 2 people who are actively maintaining it as I don't have alot of time/motivation to do so. They're still pushing changes and a few months ago, a co-worker stumbled upon it and used it in one of his personal projects :D Very cool!

Hope this is helpful, I've found alot of joy in side projects, even if none of them will likely ever make me any money or bring me any fame/succcess.
"Excessively negative comments"? I don't know what you mean by that. Content-wise, criticism is just as valid as agreement. Tone-wise, yes everything should be civil and friendly, but khazhoux's tone was fine.

You can't downvote submissions, and the post wasn't flag worthy (i.e., spam or off-topic).
Fascinating to see that people choose to drop fb first in most cases. I'm wondering how many are considering WhatsApp as part of fb. In my case I could drop fb and Instagram tomorrow. WhatsApp? That'd be really really really hard to just drop out of touch with family or force them to install something else.
Well, it is technically possible he is at the national average income (not the median wage) and lives in a place where rent is way more affordable than the cities most of HN lives in. U.S. GDP per capita is $55,836.79. That is $44,558 after taxes in Knoxville, TN (I am picking a city, but it could be more extreme, he could work remotely from a rural area in the U.S. or from, say, Belize). This means 25% towards rent is $1163. So, in Knoxville, Zillow says that is a 3 bedroom home.

More realistically, that same amount is a small studio in e.g. Austin, TX.

Now, the trick is that the average income might be $55,836.79, but the median personal income is ~$41,520 [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...
Why is Kotlin a better language for Android dev?

Won't the platform APIs designed for Java look and feel very non-idiomatic in Kotlin?
Any suggestions on how to get started on this topic, or anyons in general? I finished math & phys undergrad, but not sure how to dive in.

I read the relevant chapter from Preskill's Quantum Computation lecture notes (http://www.theory.caltech.edu/~preskill/ph219/topological.pd...), and gave (80% of) the review article "Non-Abelian Anyons and Topological Quantum Computation" (https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1889) a read, along with some of the foundational papers (ex Moore & Reed). Now that I'll have some more time, I plan to pick up a copy of "Quantum Groups" (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-1-4612-0783-2) and learn the topology prereqs over the summer.

My issue is that the field is so new that there isn't an established body of Anyon Literature. Can anyone offer some guidance on how to gain proficiency?
>What good does cutting out your $4 latte out do (maybe $100 per month), when your rent is $2,500 month for a 1BR?

Easy solution: live with roommates. Cohabitation isnt the ultimate indignity, people are choosing to spend $2500 or more when they could spend less than half that. Even in Manhattan you could live uptown and pay less than that living alone, and be able to catch an express train downtown during the week. With a roommate your rent might even be sub 1k.

I know plenty of yuppies living beyond their means, spending $3000/mo on tacky "luxury" apartments, without much leftover even for things like $4 coffees. Cant say i feel too bad for them.

Or live alone somewhere far from the city center. Get a dumpy apartment in Worcester or Hoboken or [insert cheap city near your metro] and spend a couple hours on the train. Wont be fun but you sure wont be spending 2.5k on rent.
How have they been clear about not believing in co-founder meet -ups?
Trading firm Jane Street is well known for using OCaml.

https://blogs.janestreet.com/why-ocaml/
I'm curious what was the biggest issue with whitelisting. Was it about making sure services work, or about standard users' daily work? Did you try to comply on everything, or just have a PCI compliant zone?

Also, do you remember what was the specific reason for failing the audit? This all sounds interesting since you've gone though that experience.
The connections in the first screenshot[0] aren't necessarily from Microsoft. This screenshot shows a DNS lookup for google-analytics.com followed by an attempt to use Teredo. If Chrome is installed then this could be from the Google Update service. It seems unlikely that Microsoft would send usage information to a Google site.

[0] https://twitter.com/m8urnett/status/866353982217699328

Edited to omit needless words
I don't own an Apple product, and have never owned an Apple product. My work is 100% Apple and issued me a MBP, or else I could have said I've never even used an Apple product in the last ~15 years.

Never even owned an iPod or used iTunes.
There's a disclaimer at the bottom of the page.
The only things I use from Facebook are React and GraphQL. I don't care about any of their services, at all.
The insertion performance of Android's new Room library
The same could be said of Microsoft. They could completely disappear and I wouldn't even have to shift to less desirable alternatives.

I don't actually think anything in my life would directly change. I don't run windows, use azure, own an Xbox, etc... but do use a computer heavily, deploy to cloud infrastructure often, and own a modern game console.

I think mostly service providers would be affected.
For the most part, execution does not require high math, but the modeling required to find arbitrage or alpha does.

So for example, managing an index weight fund is simple on the face of it but when and how you choose to rebalance your portfolio can affect your drift. This is the part that requires high math. This is even more important if you're talking a billion dollar fund as opposed to a 100,000 personal account.
I hadn't either but this year signed up for Office 365. Outlook is fantastic on iOS/OSX, OneDrive is much better implemented than Google Drive/Dropbox and OneNote is much more useful to me than Evernote.

Microsoft's release cadence is also fantastic. They are constantly releasing updates all of which contain features/bug fixes that are voted on by users. You can't ask for anything more than that.
Those numbers are reported BY the NYTimes. Do some research before you accuse someone of posting fake news, this isn't Reddit. I even say in the comment above the digital grew by 6%, which is explained in your link, did you even bother to read it?

Use your mouse and select the first 5-10 words in my quote above, right click and search google and see for yourself.
Lots of people, including myself, barely know what WhatsApp is.
I ranked in order of how easy it would be to get equivalent services elsewhere.

Amazon is a particularly good ecommerce site, but by no means alone in its class, and there are plenty of IaaS providers. (Getting locked in to AWS specific products is a bad idea anyway).

Microsoft products already have superior competitors on the marketplace. Retooling and retraining the entire business IT world will cost something, but it needs to happen anyway.

People have been trying to replace Facebook since it started; some new entrant will supplant it overnight.

No one is really competing with Apple on quality. I think it would take a long time for someone to replace its offerings with equivalently polished products, if it ever even happens (the demand for cheap stuff might be so strong that Apple is only viable because of brand inertia). I'd miss it.

Alphabet is unmatched in search, drive, email, and Bell Labs-style R&D moonshots. I doubt it's repeatable outside of the specific time and place from which it emerged.
I understand your frustration as I too was looking for what series of hypotheses her journey of discovery took her through. Alas, this was a (good) human interest piece so that was not the focus.

Assuming this device works, it is fun to think about why this might be. All I could extract from the article is that it sends vibrations and fails for some, requires randomness in others and works at a specific pattern for Lawton.

I am not an expert but what I do know is that Parkinson's can be viewed as a breakdown in the proper transmission of feedback from erroneous predictions. In planning movements, the brain is constantly making and correcting its predictions, sufficient damage to part of this circuit would result in improper gain modulation and ineffective dampening to prevent overshoots. Improper cost predictions might even affect motivation to perform a movement in the first place.

It's not clear how a pattern of vibration might lead to a reduction in symptoms. My best guess is that it's related to stochastic resonance. The noise or pattern from the vibrations, and that the population of neurons responding to the vibrations are different enough might be such that, whatever weak signal there is carrying the proper feedback is now more readily decoded. Whether or not this device works will likely be highly variable, dependent on the state of degradation and particulars of the erroneous feedback control.
So how is Kotlin's interop with native code? I heard it was still pretty bad with Java despite some updates in that department. Swift can handle some API's but for real interop you can go back to Objective-C(++) wrappers with zero penalty.
Fuck the nation, if we want to help the people of Haiti we absolutely should help them flee their location. It may be a workable nation for the Dominican Republic but it clearly isn't for Haiti.

America is politically incapable of a long term occupation, look at Iraq or Afghanistan. Real nation building would require running a country in a profoundly undemocratic way for at the very least a decade, more likely two or three. The US isn't even capable of winning a war of occupation given the political constraints it operates under. If they had the support of 60% of the population for a thirty year and 0.1% protested against it they wouldn't do it. Russia or China might, at a push Singapore, but a Western country? Give me a break.

And don't be a coward with your throwaway. dang may have bowed to pressure with the shut up or be banned to yummyfajitas Chris Stucchio but nothing will ever change if we're all cowards.
This is a very impressive piece of technology. Coupled with a 777-9, a 2 engine plane can have nearly the same number of passengers as the 4 engine 747.

A GE exec told me that 80% of this technology makes up the electric power generators and that one of these units can power 300,000 homes.
I got Win 10 and I quite like it. Apart from the start menu. And the adverts on the start menu. And how slow cortana is. And how slow search is. And adverts in explorer. And adverts for Edge. And how one drive crashes every 5 minutes. And how it won't log me on 50% of the time. And how control panel is somehow split into seven or eight different apps. And the random HD thrashing.

Windows is definitely getting better.
Would Haiti be a good source of cheap manufacturing labor?
I think while most understand why VCs behave the way they do, there's a general understanding that a well run non-traditional fund where investments are made in well-run companies like Basecamp, for example, would over the long run beat the returns of the gambler style that's so prevalent right now. I don't know if that has ever been tried before, if not then we need to wait for the Warren Buffet of tech investing to prove us right or wrong.
We actually have a very effective, natural fix for this kind of Parkinson's symptom. Marijuana.

Look how amazingly (immediately) effective it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4s-6fnLSzE
My co-founder found me, via the local local tech Meetup scene where I participate actively in.

Attending local tech Meetup events is a great way to network and meet others with similar interests.

If you interested, it also pays to make postulates, positive affirmations for life to send you the right co-founder.

People use such methods to find the right personal relationships, but it works just as well in the business realm.
Yeah, article is interesting if you only look at end user products and services, but there's practically no internet without the server infrastructures provided by Amazon, Google and MS.
Again. You're continuing to draw conclusions from poor source data.

A New York Times poll that possibly has only been posted here is always going to skew more towards Apple users who are typically more affluent and higher educated.
There's a plot where they differentiate "quant hedge funds" from "other hedge funds". How are they defining this? (To what extent is this just a matter of quant being sexy and more firms describing themselves as quant?)
If it meets the guidelines, this is likely better submitted as a Show HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Good catch! I misremembered. Still the same reasoning from management, unfortunately.
Source code: https://github.com/uncomplicate/neanderthal
> they pushed outwards [...] into racial minority neighborhoods which didn't, at the time, have a legal mechanism to meaningfully resist.

AFAIK in the boomer years the prevalent phenomenon was the opposite: minorities moving into formerly majority neighborhoods, and the majority moving out. This was known as "white flight".
I'm doing Random Hacks of Kindness this June. http://www.rhokaustralia.org/

There are tons of ways to donate time to charities. But yeah, time can be a factor if you're busy with work projects.

I used to balance military with donating time to an SPCA rescue unit. We did high-angle technical rescue of trapped animals. I did struggle balancing the two time-wise, but ended up being more of a do their website, help with exercises, photography, general dog's body... Great people and I loved helping out.

I'd totally recommend doing whatever you can...
You sound like a ribosome in a follicle complaining "More keratin?! Really?! Can't we make something else?"
Chrome is not installed according to this tweet:

"Also note this is a system with minimal software install, all default windows store apps removed, and nothing running on it."

https://twitter.com/m8urnett/status/866354381012189184
Yes we are all here
90% market share of NYTimes readers? Believable.
The VC crowd in Silicon Valley prizes themselves as great out of the box thinkers while, in reality, they are intellectually lazy and quite conventional.
This is what takes AR mainstream
Sounds like you may be interested in reading Professor Dan McAdams and the general field of narrative psychology.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_psychology
> the modeling required to find arbitrage or alpha does

Not really. Even if everyone is just throwing darts, half of the players will beat the market, and the more players you have the more extreme the outliers will be. Of course, the converse is also true, but no one pays attention to the losers. Both Vegas and Wall Street prosper from this same principle.
There's a chance HN could be artificially compressing the number of upvotes site-wide in order to maintain the illusion of smallness. Reddit did this same thing for nearly a decade.
E.g. Obama's AMA only appeared to have 14k upvotes even though in reality hundreds of thousands of people voted on it.

It'd be harder to get away with on HN, but maintaining the illusion of a tight-knit community for as long as possible is pretty crucial to the site's success.
Companies tend to get punished for reducing margins; this discourages self-disruption.
I generally go through something like the following steps:

* I look at the readme if it exists

* I pull down the project and run any setup steps (install dependencies, start up database, etc).

* If there are tests, I try to get the tests to run (this may lead to additional setup)

* Once I get the tests to run, I make sure they are all passing

* If it's an application (as opposed to a library) I will get it up and running on my computer and play around with it as a user.

* Finally I will start scanning the source code - Starting with the main app, and digging down where it seems relevant.

* If I am looking for some specific functionality, I let that guide my perusal of the source, otherwise it's just looking at the major pieces - routes, views, models, etc. to get a feel for what the relevant parts of the app are.
Major ones include R, Python, Matlab, and K/Q, roughly in that order of current popularity. Matlab used to have more marketshare and Python less.