skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those who like game theory:

By doing this they don't have to consider if startups are suitable for follow up investors and thus avoid the Keynesian beauty contest problem of not selecting the "prettiest" startup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest

> "It is not a case of choosing those [faces] that, to the best of one's judgment, are really the prettiest, nor even those that average opinion genuinely thinks the prettiest. We have reached the third degree where we devote our intelligences to anticipating what average opinion expects the average opinion to be. And there are some, I believe, who practice the fourth, fifth and higher degrees."
Yes, that's what I said. But you chose a simple case. Try subtracting more complex numbers, specifically something more complex for the subtrahend. E,g, 42 - 13, which is XLII - XIII. Not only to you have to convert, but you have to convert both sides, and to either a similar format that can be subtracted, or to a lowest common format as suggested above (which is not roman numerals, BTW, so you need to know two systems, Roman numerals, and the alternate format with no prefixes to use to arithmetic).

And that still isn't event touching multiplication or division, which are very common in simple commerce. 100 coins for 8 chickens, or 60 coins for 5 chicken. What's the better deal? I want 7 of these 3 coin breads. You say that's 30 coins? Guess I should check that...
I can get 100 cents for $1
Without bickering over MU requirements, you'd probably note that MU has been almost entirely ineffective at solving actual care problems with data exchange.

Of 50 state exchanges, most have collapsed, with only occasional use of the ad-hoc implementations and networks that remain. And people dying everyday while vendors like ECW get wrist-slaps for lying to CMS about their MU compliance.

-http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/eclinicalworks-pay-155-...
Gnome Shell seems to remember the last opened one. That doesn't really help when you actually do use Calc occasionally, though.
Has shipping patients with the required information been considered ?
This is a really dumb article
Erm, what? How is calling someone confused a personal comment (I assume you mean attack?). If someone mixes up two things that are commonly mixed up, it's perfectly civil to point out that they are confused. Please elaborate.

Feel free to tell me I'm confused. Because I am.
Thank you, moderator.
I used the version from the Ubuntu Xenial package repositories, and that perl was apparently from November 2015. I guess such is life when you go with long-term support and stable packages.
My only real concern is that it makes 0x123 look like 0×123. Otherwise, pretty cool.
I didn't realize no one had "invented" anything before we "invented" capitalism.
I am seeing this issue 2nd hand and I totally get it. My aunt runs a practice and her time with the patients dropped significantly. She is also unable to see as many patients as she used to before the mandate.

While I've built few nifty tools (chrome extensions and macros) for her to simplify some of the cumbersome tasks, I am envisioning and planning to build a whole new EHR solution from scratch that puts doctors first, as my side project. It's a daunting task and requires expert domain knowledge. Hoping to get an MVP by end of year.
Even though this might ruffle some feathers by making broad generalizations, it's a better explanation than the pizza analogy in the article.
This guy looks young. Usually, it's the older Ph.D.s who veer into crackpottery.

I'm reminded of Linus Pauling: He made amazing, fundamental breakthroughs in chemistry and quantum physics, but when he applied his genius to medicine, we got orthomolecular medicine and mega-dose vitamin C as a cure-all, something which has been roundly disproven by actual evidence.

That said, investing in algae could be a good idea. It has potential as a cheap, high-volume input to synthetic food production.
Anything that has a certain level of utility gets "abused." Problems result, then are solved, sometimes generating huge wealth for the solvers. This happened with highways. This happened with cars. This happened with email. This happened with "The Web." This even happened with print. Hell, this happened many times with agriculture!

How much does anyone want to bet that this won't happen to AI/deep learning? (And would I still be around to collect on the bet?)
Do you, by chance, use Arch Linux?
Web Browser: Firefox

Email Client: Evolution

Terminal: Gnome Terminal

IDE: No IDE by default. Most users aren't developers

File manager: Files/Nautilus

Basic Text Editor: Atom

IRC/Messaging Client: Nothing, let user install their own.

PDF Reader: Evince

Office Suite: I don't really like it, but LibreOffice is probably the best option right now. Personally, I'd almost prefer an option to just have LaTeX and TeXStudio pre-installed.

Calendar: No Preference

Video Player: VLC

Music Player: VLC

Photo Viewer: No preference

Screen recording: No preference
How does any of that help when the real issue is the distorting effect of prop 13 on the market? Insane housing prices are being driven by an illiquid market, adding more housing isn't going to change that.
Are they outdated, or have we merely ignored their wisdom?
It was made by a bunch of college students who were trying to start their own company who got bought by Valve partway through development.
Y Combinator Is Raising $1B for New Fund
Since this post mentioned vim, can we have that as the default and installed editor for command line use? On the demo disk as well as the install. The nano editor is accessible for people like my Dad but he just calls when it is time to edit the crontab so nano only reaches the people that don't need the arm bands. There is a GUI on desktop for people wanting nano.
"to selectively back companies that didn't participate in its accelerator program"
I started with pass and switched to gopass because it automatically pushes new passwords to your remote git repository.

I use a fish script to hook it up to https://github.com/junegunn/fzf for easy search and copying to the clipboard. https://github.com/zabil/thanksforallthefish/blob/6145e98691...
The prison in the article is run by the government
I have the same issue. I do use Calc but the Calculator is waaaaaaay more used.
3D Environments in a Medium Post?
YC has explicitly stated they won't lead Seed or Series A rounds in order to avoid this conflict.

They are intentionally leaving economics on the table in order to better support their founders. At the stage Continuity invests ($15-$50M rounds), YC's early signal is far less important than the actual fundamentals of the business.
Universal links for mobile app, how to make them very effective
I know making them work 100% of the time is difficult but I have seen big companies that use universal links and they rarely fail, take google for instance and their 'share location' feature. Everyone that I share my location with, can either open the link or download google maps if they dont have it and then can see my location afterwards.

Any idea how I can make my link work more effectively? Currently if I send my link to 10 people with the app installed only 4 or 5 users can open it.

Any help is appreciated, thank you
I really like the ligatures in Iosevka ligatures when working with Javascript, especially with `=>` (which it turns into a fat arrow). It's not really that significant, but it's a nicety that enjoy.
Before everyone starts posting her/his own projects in this thread I'd like to pitch my idea to what I personally am looking in this situation: a board similar to https://starters.servo.org/ for open source project where I can learn a new language by fixing bugs/resolving issues that can be ranked from beginner to expert, so you can find interesting projects fix bugs and learn new languages at once.

The link I have posted only covers the mozilla servo project and I can see this concept working with multiple projects/languages/etc.

Of course one would need to heavily moderate the submissions but I think this idea is great. Anyone know if something like this exists ?
> but I think there's definitely at least some effect from the system that should be acknowledged.

Oh I agree. I just don't think it is the sole reason for us being where we are.

The thing with technological progress (and by extension economic progress) is that it snowballs and grows exponentially.

If you took an early middle-age society and taught it the concepts of capitalism and they managed a seismic shift in their society to accommodate it, it would still take an incredibly long time for them to advance.

They might do it a bit quicker because people would be more free to spend and invest in what they wanted, and money would flow more freely, but they would still be limited by population and production power.

Population snowballs too, as does the sharing of knowledge that occurs alongside it and has probably been the number one driver of human progress.
There are no locks involved. It uses two phase commits to simulate transactions. You can read more about two phase commits in the MongoDB docs(https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/perform-two-phase-c...)
When was this written? 1995? They suggest loading Java applets. (2011, apparently, but maybe the original post is earlier.)

(Thing to avoid in web design: just displaying month and day, not year, even if something is more than a year old. Some blogs do that to look cool and current. Then they get stale and confusing.)
Shyp re-focusing on profitability in single market
If You Are Having 3 Hour Long Meetings, Good Sign Your Start Up Is Failing
I'm imprecise with my language because I don't know what I'm talking about really. If financial institutions did something horrible that should've sent them out of business, and they got bailed out, then it stands to reason the next time they figure out a way to do that, they will. So maybe not housing. But I bet there's some exploit somewhere.

So then my next thought is, if I can identify this, I should react accordingly. And I want to buy a house soon.

And those links - 100% marginal tax on all income above $500k!? I like the freewheeling nature of ideas there. Seems like a good place to brainstorm from
I happen to like them, but the only one I'd put forth as a definite improvement is that JS/PHP's triple-equal === operator gets turned into three horizontal lines that take up more vertical space than the double-equal does. That can be the cause of subtle bugs, so I think making that distinction more obvious is a win.
That www thing looks like shit. Just, no.
That's actually pretty common, especially for older physicians or high-volume specialists. There are also some companies working on solutions to automate this using in-room speech recognition technologies like https://iscribes.co/.
This. The default apps from 17.04 are already great. We just need more integration and updates.
Politics is about "the art of the possible" and not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. First the low-hanging fruit, then you keep going.
Most of them still make plenty of sense to me.
Sadly, the original wiki fell prey to JavaScript. What used to be one of the cleanest, simplest, easiest-to-use sites no longer really functions, and it's all due to trying to due in the client what should be done on the server.
previous conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11081575
I am currently working for a product to work with Azure Stack, but can't purchase and receive the hardware to run the devkit requirements in time for release.

Currently I am RDP'ing into an ASDK instance setup by a 3rd party, and this might be setup as a nested VM, but it does not matter as it is not noticeable.

Most likely this type of installation I will use more frequenting instead of keep dedicated hardware around just to run the Azure Stack Development Kit when it will not be used 24/7.
Could you provide a demo of some sort on the landing page? I have been writing APIs for over a decade and still have no idea what benefit this provides. Who does it compete with? What differs it from a starter/seed project? Do I still write code or is it a visual interface? What sort of redundancy and reliability does it have, especially since I haven't heard of the project or company before?

$20/month is a bit much for a side project. For a real world project, the price is peanuts if the benefits are there, but the lack of explanation makes it a non-starter for many companies, I would imagine.

Luckily, most of that seems to be marketing and documentation, which shouldn't be too difficult to update, if the product is working correctly at least.
Would that be valid in a court? Because I believe that's where these papers are going to be used at.
There's not much remote work available. Those jobs are the most desirable and also the very hardest to get. In the past 10 years, i've received 100s of calls from desperate recruiters looking for Software engineers: and every single time, it's because they're looking to fill positions of companies in Palo Alto or San Francisco. Anytime, I ask them to find a position outside of the penninsula or SF, they turn up empty handed (east bay).

Companies can learn from this as well: there's a difference between # of workers working in a field and labor supply vs labor demand.
Couldn't a company that big add a second office in Oakland?
As the joke goes with a Sharpe ratio of 2.0 what marketing department, with 3.0 what investors?
FHIR is probably the best we are going to do for a long while to come.

If you're ever interested in learning more, my company builds the national reference implementation of SMART on FHIR for the Harvard DBMI, in support of the NIH 'Sync For Science' Pilot - happy to talk all about FHIR and data exchange standards!

The participating vendors will be launching pilots this year and things are proceeding well. If we can give them some positive attention for it, maybe we'll see some progress. I sure hope so!

[]https://www.healthit.gov/buzz-blog/health-innovation/nih-and...
It's even better than that too, given their commitment to invest pro-rata. So the money is there if you can get another firm to lead. Because this policy is public, there shouldn't be signalling issues.
> Slaves would have probably chosen to pick cotton, if the alternative was abuse and torture (Which they by and large did.)

So if, hypothetically, there were slaves given the option to pick cotton or be tortured, would you prefer to remove the option that they pick cotton, and force them to be tortured? Because if we are comparing prisoners to slaves and jail to torture, that is effectively what you are advocating for.

Or would you like to abolish prisons in general, since being in prison is comparable to torture in your eyes.
Web Browser: Pale Moon
Email Client: Thunderbird
Terminal: [DE default]
IDE: Geany
File manager: [DE default]
Basic Text Editor: ???
IRC/Messaging Client: Pidgin
PDF Reader: qpdfview
Office Suite: [none]
Calendar: Thunderbird/Lightning
Video Player: SMPlayer
Music Player: ???
Photo Viewer: Viewnior, [DE default]
Screen recording: ???
Is-type API: checks whether values can be parsed as a certain type
That's already the case. You won't be able to enter without a degree or 10 years of experience.
Would you consider the KeePassHTTP solution to be adequate (they have a browser plugin that acts as a password manager using the browser's APIs and the passwords are retrieved after authenticating the plugin with the KeePassXC server -- which prompts the user each time and only entries that match the URL are sent).

They also support copying the password to your clipboard (which they then clear after a few seconds). There's also the automated entry system which basically emulates keystrokes.
Diversification.
Does anyone know the state of LastPass for Applications which would be installed locally onto Windows?
I agree that browser integration is troublesome. To circumvent having to use a browser extension I use rofi-pass[0] which is a external script (using rofi/dmenu and pass), so no browser integration. But it features autofill which is extremely convenient.

[0] https://github.com/carnager/rofi-pass
Nothing you said is wrong, but it doesn't change the fact that quality doesn't sell. Once a game is "good enough" it often comes down to marketing, and the studios putting out for Linux do not control a majority of the marketing dollars.
> I am going to guess base 10 is prevalent because we have 10 fingers ? :)

Yeah, basically. There are other ways to count on your hands though. I seem to recall there are places that count on their hands using the 12 finger joints (or segments), and it works just as well.

Edit: To clarify, they use their thumb to point to the joints or segments on each of their fingers, in turn.
Yeah, that all makes sense, thanks. I figured you were using that 3 year figure with an implicit acknowledgement that it would provide greater or lesser rigor depending on the number of trades and the holding time. Thanks for the resources as well.
In the GIF, you can see the other characters earlier in the ligature shifting around when a character is added or removed to complete or undo the ligature. That would just bother me.
In a sense, I think you are right.

This is a comment from a recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14763198

Is seems to me that the problem is the amount of money flowing into SF and once that dries up, housing prices will go with it.
Web Browser: Firefox, Chromium

Email Client: Thunderbird

Terminal: Termite

Basic Text Editor: Leafpad, gedit

IRC/Messaging Client: Pidgin

Office Suite: Libre Office

Video Player: mpv

Screen recording: OBS Studio
DOJ Places Website Rulemaking on the “Inactive” List
I like switching fonts every couple of years just to keep it fresh.

My font right now is Iosevka: https://be5invis.github.io/Iosevka/ A font generated from its source code. You can build your own variant. It has ligatures as well.

I like that it’s not as wide as many other monospace fonts.
> Games like Braid, while beautiful, innovative, and memorable, don't bring in the money of the annually released cookie cutter FPS games like CoD or Battlefield that are shallower than spilled coffee on your desk.

In way I don't mind that Linux gamers are getting better games on average, because of less mass market mediocrity, but more interesting (usually crowdfunded) releases that are reaching Linux gamers today. However it ties to the next point, of the market size:

> You can say that there are plenty of good games on Linux and everyone should switch but the reality is that the games people want to play are either unavailable or lacking in some way that makes Linux on the desktop a non starter.

That doesn't describe the situation well. Linux gaming is for sure a much smaller market than Windows gaming, but not only it's already viable (as many developers who sell Linux games demonstrate), it's gradually growing. So it's surely not a "non starter" anymore.

However, since it's smaller, having too many games can actually cause a problem, even if it sounds funny. Simply because it will be overcrowded developers wise, and they'll have harder time selling Linux games. So I'd say actually current amount of games healthily corresponds to the rate of Linux gaming growth.
We use it for cases where we don't need that much customization. Everything you do yourself has a maintenance cost (setup, patching, security, monitoring, fixing state, backups...). If that component is integral to your service, roll your own and manage it with your standard config management. If it's a component for an auxilliary tool (say you need a backend to store some dashboard thingy), it's better to use these middleware services.
you could already do that with git hooks and pass

.git/hooks/post-commit

#!/bin/sh
git push origin master
I actually use GNOME on Fedora as my daily driver but will probably switch to ubuntu if they can create a better gnome experience. Please try to ship GNOME that way it's meant to be shipped as far as software versioning goes. Please make quarter tiling and the ability to hide windows decoration a thing.

Web Browser: Firefox

Email Client: don't care, I coded my own

Terminal: tilix (integrates better with GTK3 than GNOME-terminal)

IDE: Builder is good (I use vim)

File manager: Nautilus/ranger

Basic Text Editor: Gedit/nano/vim

IRC/Messaging Client: I use irssi

PDF Reader: Evince

Office Suite: LibreOffice

Calendar: GNOME calendar, but update it

Video Player: mpv

Music Player: mpv

Photo Viewer: mpv

Screen recording: the one thats built into gnome, but make it better (adjust FPS/quality/convert size/etc).
Love that movie.

The house is for a very specific purpose: it's how I want my life to be. Both to live with SO, but also to have space to get an aquaponics setup running.

So that will be happening when it needs to happen regardless of market timing. But if there's a thing I can take advantage of in that window, totally should!

Is random walk on wall street viable on audio (audible) or are there a lot of charts and stuff?
There is negative value in signing up for free trials for things I don't understand on the extreme off-chance I might find them useful.
A computer was asked to predict which startups would be successful
>>> The argument being put forward is that if you are deploying software in certain specific fields then your code should be signed off by a certified professional before it is allowed to be perform it's intended function (which in this case is handling financial transactions).

This is already the case. Try working in aerospace.
> "or is that a nonsense thing to say in the States?"

It's a nonsense thing to say in front of the educated American elite.

Most of America agrees with you, but as we've seen, there is a disturbing trend amongst American elites to mock anyone who is unwilling to sacrifice their families, communities, and networks in the name of career development/personal advancement.

I'm not into most aspects of the populism that is sweeping the US right now, but the elite dismissal of basic family- and community-building is IMO completely real. The brutal policies that result - of forced displacement, of people adrift without support networks - are one of the very real reasons why anti-elite sentiment will continue to increase.
Interactive Mind Map for Learning Category Theory
Lisp programmers know the value of everything and the gas cost of nothing...
to provide diversification
There is a key difference here in that as you say the authorities are doing something. If we had random vigilantes going around mugging muggers that would indeed be a sign that we had a problem.
The Wayback Machine suggests it was originally written in early 2004: http://web.archive.org/web/20040521153833/http://c2.com:80/c...

The page has grown substantially since then, but that initial version already has a mention of Java.
Surprising Ways to Sleep Better
The Impeachable Offense – Lawfare
That you would even consider trying HPKP without running the SSLLabs server test or Hardenize against it (which would identify these defects) is also shocking in itself.
Puff piece.
It seems to be the exact opposite philosophy that HIPAA originally took in the effort to get financial/administrative transactions to electronic formats, which was essentially that mandating interoperability would drive mainstream use.
Both are central functions of banks, debt is not the main one.
I hoped that the fund was investing in companies producing GMO algae to solve large problems: carbon sequestration, energy production, toxin remediation, etc.
Give this guy a Chromebook! See how he gets on without files where the operating system considers all programs hostile.

I was surprised he suggested an offline SQL editor, thought he would suggest command line which is definitely impressive to clients sat next to you wanting to see their programmer doing stuff Bourne movie style.
Hope sells well, against reason. It's a soft way to gamble. Gambling also sells well.