skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"mostly older people and Walmart shoppers

I know your quoting a parent post, but I sometimes wonder if sometime in the distant future people will say thing like: "mostly older people and Amazon shoppers"

Or "mostly older people and Facebook users" etc.
Maybe present an argument instead of ridicule. And to encourage this behavior is equally abhorrent.
There's been no mentions of coin seizures anywhere as far as I can tell. Usually you'd see some boasting about that.

Perhaps these guys were actually smart about their cold storage?
Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana? (1995)
Seven Takeaways from the SEC DAO Report
Good god. Seriously? There are so many much better options, and of course the obvious Git...

I remember working with CVS, it was horrendous; I'm surprised a project of this size is still on CVS.
I haven't read the study, but I would be willing to suggest that another effect could be that removing access to marijuana meant students spent less time high, and correspondingly more time productive.
Can't say that. Maybe he has a dog.
I have some QC20is. They're wonderful, but they can't keep everything out.
BSD is compatible with the GPL. You can use BSD licensed code in a GPL project. The 0verall project is GPL, any enhance,nets to the BSD code may be licensed under the GPL.

The flip is not true.

Using GPL code in a BSD licensed project may not remain a BSD licensed project. The derivative work of a BSD and GPL mixing must be GPL.
That some people are too vain to adopt is not a good enough justification. It is a foundational point of ethics that medical experimentation must be voluntary.
A bunch of us suggested this to Macromedia around 2005. Unfortunately, it never became a popular topic. Adobe took it over and well; turtles all the way down.
This is obviously a really complex and personal decision, but I wanted to focus on this bit:

> If someone is in their 30s, married, but hasn't hit their really time-intensive stretch goals (be it entrepreneurship, financial independence, becoming an industry leader, achieving a senior title, and so on), how should (s)he approach the decision?

Do you really think you'll accomplish your major goals by some point in your 30s? I sure hope I don't - I hope to keep setting and accomplishing (and failing to accomplish) career goals until I retire, if I ever do. And I don't mean necessarily an up-and-to-the-right trajectory, but at least keeping things challenging and fulfilling throughout. I know this isn't what you intended, but it makes it sound like the goal is to get to a certain career "plateau", if you will, and then have kids and rest on those laurels.

I also think it's healthy and a good thing to have your kids see you challenge yourself in your career, to succeed, and yes, to struggle. When they're young, they won't notice, but when they're older, what are you going to say? "Well, son, I worked really hard before you were born so that now I don't have to and we can play catch!" - not a great role model for that child, IMHO.

Even within my local community (far from SV), if I think of some of the most successful tech entrepreneurs, quite a few of them are parents of many children (5 or 6, even!) and had those children long before their businesses became the success they are today.

I don't know if children are as big of a "disadvantage" as we might think. Sure, there are practical limitations, but personally, I found that becoming a parent forced me to become much more focused, prioritized, and productive with the time that I did have available. While the children are young, I certainly cannot be as productive (in total) as I was before, but I have no doubt that once they are older, in school, my productivity will blow away my pre-parental accomplishments due to the increase in efficiency.

As far as risk-taking - this is obviously just an N of 1, but I quit my FT job weeks after our first child was born to go consulting/freelance after a 10-year career as a 9-5er. It's been 3+ years and they've been the most successful and happy I've had. Business is good and I'm also looking into more entrepreneurial opportunities - something I did nothing of when I was single or married without children.
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Rightly. What's to respond to? Name calling? Sounds productive.
I don't think they like GPL, so the number of better options decreases rapidly.
> Maybe I live in a bubble

Maybe?
Where did you see hate for SNAP? GP's comment said Facebook is killing it and speculated that SNAP has no chance against them.

Like 5/6 of the comment is an excellent summary of the call (on a story that is behind a paywall), and then a couple of sentences of opinion and speculation and from that you get HN hates SNAP? I don't get it.
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There is no benefit. They probably have an embarrassing code base that is full of garbage and a bunch of lawyers paranoid about IP. Why would any manager suggest to take that risk that has very little potential upside.

It isn't that it would be realistically detrimental, it just has no value to the individual attempting to change the established course of the ship
Maybe because chemo currently gives you 10% chance, while gene editing at the whole embryo level has 100% chance of resulting in mosaicism.

This more recent work by Mitalipov's group dealt with single cell embryo and still ended up with mosaicism, which I was a bit surprised at first. But when you think about it, this single-cell embryo's genome is actively being replicated, so not 100% of the alleles will be edited.

A way around it, would be to reactivate Cas9 after every cell division event, or maybe applying Cas9 gene-drive to embryo development. Also, I have yet to see a CRISPR paper with ensemble sequencing showing no off-targets. Even all the enhanced specificity Cas9 variants had a small percentage of off-targets.
> The market optimized for a better solution for consumers, and that solution was cheaper labor and automation.

While not optimizing for the externality that those consumers are also the labor that's displaced thus destroying their ability to consume and thus not not a better solution for consumers after all.

The market is not magic, it fails often and it's very annoying to continually hear people brush off those failures with the no true Scottsman fallacy. If capitalism means to you only a perfect free market then it's a meaningless term because no such thing exists and more importantly that ivory tower definition is not what people are referring to when they use the word, capitalism as implemented in the real world is what they're referring to and jumping in and claiming "that's not capitalism" adds nothing to the conversation.

So yes, that is capitalism, because this kind of thing is exactly what capitalists do: they curry for favors from government to get into protected positions to avoid competition. Capitalism is what capitalists do, and this is exactly the shit they do. Crony capitalism is still capitalism.
Well…of course it’s contrived. Like I said, it’s a conversation starter to make people think more critically about what they mean by “natural”, “synthetic”, “safe”, and “dangerous” chemicals.

What I was getting at is that in my experience, people are generally pretty open to rational discussion about that, but not about the underlying visceral squeamishness and distrust.
Keep in mind that it's tax rebate, so Wisconsin is not getting any of that if they didn't lure foxconn to them in the first place.

Taxpayers are actually not funding any of this.

The money is effectively taken from wherever foxconn was gonna build this factory, like China, or Mexico.
Yes, the worst really must be assumed
I am surprised by this article. Jony Ive hasn't appeared in any of the last keynotes. He was just a faceless voice-over on some of the announcements videos.

There is a notion that he spends more time with his family in the UK than at Apple. Seems like he retreated and I am not sure how big his inpact really is. He definitely had more influence on that project at the beginning.

Even if he is still involved with Apple, I, as a customer, couldn't care less about Apple's Disneyland (which is also about a different skill set, the one of architects and not CE industrial designers). I'd rather like to see Jony Ive working on the core of Apple and not its facility management, e.g. the Mac series, Mac Pros, native Apple displays, macOS' aging UX/window management, heck there's still plenty of work in the iOS/iPhone department.
Nobody believes weed will make you better at studying.

Nobody.
I'm thinking it'd have to be a whole new ???BSD.
Significance and size of the effect.

Ban Netflix (and all other video and movie entertainment) and you'd get a bigger for both, less emotive than "Illegal Drugs!!!11!" though.
I want to believe that you're not right, but you might be. I just can't understand why a massive proprietary codebase becoming open wouldn't be a Good Thing
You'll notice most people (of all ages) who have kids will say they are the best thing in the world. Hard work but it's worth it, in their opinion (how could it be otherwise?? How mean/bitter someone has to be to say their kids were a waste of life? A lot).

Conversely, people without kids will fall into two camps: the young who will say they are being pragmatic but probably aren't sure they won't regret this in the future... And the old people who either discovered late in life they wanted kids or not. The latter is the more interesting perspective but I don't think you'll get that many answers from old people without kids here.
I had this question worded differently asked to me when I interviewed to do an undergrad at Cambridge. If you have a rope that is wrapped around earth and you lift it off the ground as much as possible, and you see that it is 10km above the ground, then how long is the rope?

I was not able to answer that question right away, and their hint to draw it helped a lot. I did not end up getting accepted.
It's tempting to decry how we've disrupted the environment in which we live. (Apparently, since there are roughly 200 comments on that theme...)

A more interesting potential cause of the sperm drop would be the human environment changing in a beneficial way. That is, it might be that sperm production is negatively correlated with other competitive traits. If that were the case, then we would expect the availability of modern medicine to drive a reduction in sperm count, as competitive-but-previously-infertile individuals are now better able to reproduce. After all humans are a K-selected species.

Of course this is silly, because not enough time has passed for these effects to emerge in the human population. However, we do see these effects in livestock. Thoroughbred horses released into the wild would quickly die off, since female fertility has dropped precipitously in a breeding context of "if the mare runs fast enough, we'll spare no expense getting her pregnant".
Original site appears to be down, but Internet Archive has a mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20170727012317/http://lucasfcost...
According to the local paper [1], from the top of Mount Diablo (east of SF Bay) it is possible to see Mount Lassen (approx 260 km away). "Although you can’t see Mount Shasta directly, you might be able to see part of the peak, refracted by the atmosphere." (That would be 380 km).

[1] http://www.mercurynews.com/2015/11/24/bay-area-facts-what-ca...
What about all the Wall Streeters bailed out? Those are long-term stable jobs, after a fashion.
Huh. I think this highlights the fact (that I didn't realize until now, really) that I never really considered Friedman an "economist" in the strictest sense — in my view he's more of a normative political theorist, who uses economic models combined with empirical evidence from history to draw conclusions about policy. Though I'm politically & philosophically simpatico, I've never really looked to Friedman (or Hayek, for that matter) for practical economics.
Considering how Facebook still has so many giant monetization levers to pull(Groups, Events, Video, Whatsapp and Messenger) their financial performance is nothing short of amazing,regardless of opinion on the product itself.
IIRC, Gentoo still uses CVS as well (which is arguably more fundamental to the project since it's source-based). The original creator of the OS now works on Funtoo, which is based on Gentoo but uses git.
It is, at least in the sense that it is written by journalists writing for a general audience.

I subscribed for a while, I stopped after the number of eye rolls had gotten too high.
This has been observed repeatedly, Fred Brooks wrote a whole book about it. Everyone says they've read and agree with "The Mythical Man Month" but when schedules loom the first reaction is always to throw more people at it. An expensive hot-shot added late in the project can grind the gears much worse than a green trainee.
This is why some microwave radio antennas point up. They bounce the signal off the troposphere to pair with a receiver farther away than the horizon. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropospheric_scatter
There are truths about networking, whether people like them or not. They are not debatable, they are facts, so there's not a need to engage. If someone doesn't want to learn, there's not much to do.
You won't find anything in any set of economic statistics that can offer the slightest justification for this statement:

"The JavaScript ecosystem nowadays is responsible for the global revolution the same way steam engines were responsible for the first industrial revolution"

That is ridiculous. Here is reality:

1.) Labor productivity has been in long-term decline, though computers did cause a temporary surge in the 1990s. See the charts in this post:

http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/07/monday-smackdown-repu...

2.) Economic growth remains sluggish, especially compared to the post war boom of 1945-1973.

3.) The railroads sparked a massive investment boom. The only time computer technologies came close to triggering a similar boom was during the 1990s.
i've been hearing people complain about the seriousness of this attack vector for years. i'd be surprised if there weren't intelligence agencies that have utilized it already.
Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure.

Yeah, that'll never happen.
>>as soon as Trump leaves

the room. The automation starts as soon as Trump leaves the room after giving himself his little back pat.
Has ZoL made a unified page cache yet? This is a major reason I won't use it.
Why YC?

Its an app focussed in India, I was wondering why would you need YC. It certainly must be a great experience and is a brand among people in startup world (doubt beyond it), but unless you have imminent global plans does it still make a compelling sense. And does the YC brand help you establish a trust factor in India, more than TV advertisements, or celebs like a cricketer or etc as your brand ambassador.

I would certainly want to YC, if I had a product that I want people in US/Canada/Europe to use.
Exactly, I can't believe the number of people in this thread suggesting that keeping it closed is somehow the right thing to do?
Yes, I immediately thought of the final scene of Anathem, when I read GP comment.
Not directly, but many people take weed to relax or relieve anxiety and believe that those things are helpful for their studies.
[1] Chrominator looks interesting. jesg/gowan is the maintainer for PhantomJS GhostDriver, so the API looks extensive. Another project that I heard recently is Navalia [4], which uses GraphQL type of queries to run headless Chrome. Also worth noting is Chromy [5] by a Japanese developer; it's one of the earliest to market (released in early May). BackstopJS maintainer also looks to be in active development using Chromy.

[4] https://github.com/joelgriffith/navalia

[5] https://github.com/OnetapInc/chromy
You know, a bishop is stronger than a pawn, but a bishop never can became a queen, while a pawn has a slim but real chance.

Hence be the boring bishops and exciting pawns paradox.
Source? Or did you forget?
It was the silouhette (before sunrise) that I saw. It looked very much like this: https://beyondhorizons.eu/2016/08/03/pic-de-finestrelles-pic...

Edit: this is awesome, I managed to use http://www.udeuschle.selfhost.pro to simulate the view of Mont Blanc from my city: its exactly 215.2 km away: http://www.udeuschle.selfhost.pro/panoramas/panqueryfull.asp...

And as it turns out this is not the max line of sight, there is the hypothetically visible Grandes Jorasses slightly to the left (221.5 km away). You have to use the 10x zoom to see it: http://www.udeuschle.selfhost.pro/panoramas/panqueryfull.asp...
That's a really good idea! We would be able to build something that allows people to only record part of the conversations.

It doesn't seem like we would be able to provide the transcript without recording the conversation. We need to obtain the audio data somehow to further transcribe it. Even if we do realtime transcription, we are still recording and transmitting the data somehow.

The only way to obtain a transcript without recording is to use a local dictation solution! But you might need to sacrifice the accuracy of the transcript in this case.
While I'm not aware of any study that ties intake of excess sugar to a decline in cognitive function, there was a study that linked diets with a high glycemic index to higher rates of depression, specifically post menopausal as the participants were new mothers:

http://m.ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2015/06/24/ajcn.11...
Walmart was forced to offer $10 an hour because they were facing staff shortages. The interesting thing is that their profits certainly didn't nose-dive after the bump in their labor's wage rate.
As someone with chronic migraines, the question is very much about benefits outweighing costs. Also largely ineffective.
You might want to look at how many of these problems QUIC would solve for you.
Is github itself open source tho?
All of which are not native English speaking countries. Which is gp's point. Someone is mixing English and their native language.
Also engagement for social media is second to none when you get it right.
Undergrad here.

Plenty of people believe this.
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He wasn't too smart, he redeposited some of the coins in Mt. Gox and that's how they identified him!
Looks like it. Aoraki is ~3,700m and this website lists "K2" in NZ as 8,611m (same altitude as the real K2 on Wikipedia - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2).

The Southern Alps are growing rapidly but not that fast!
That looks like a good place to start. It's got a 4205 m peak, which would give 231.6 km to the horizon.

Next place to look is probably at Puncak Jaya in New Guinea, which is 4884 m, giving 249.7 km to the horizon. But there is enough other land in the general vicinity of New Guinea that there could be over-the-horizon peaks visible, so it would take some work to check.
Mauna Kea is 4,207m above sea level and can definitely see the oceanic horizon. Mount Wilhelm (4509m) and Puncak Jaya (4884m) are the highest peaks in the central mountain range on the island of New Guinea, which makes the ocean horizon probably visible from those peaks.

Western peaks in the Andes are perhaps 150-200km from the sea. A tall peak in that portion could probably see the ocean. Chimborazo (6263m) is ~215km from the sea as the crow flies, although there is a large valley ~100m above sea level in the way.

I don't think Hawaii is the best bet.
Humble is opposite to arrogant, not to decisive or knowledgeable.

See also: Dunning-Kruger effect.
An amazing amount of irrelevant comments.
We have the same issue in Australia and it is very much a national issue. The problem with bubbles is that once they've begun and have enough people invested in them it becomes political suicide to deflate. You can't go to an election with a promise of reducing the value of the biggest asset most people will ever own. I doubt you can even win on a promise to stop it inflating further because most people have factored in future increases.

Ultimately I think trying to slow down or deflate the bubble might make things worse for more people than just letting it pop.
Doesn't this study maybe suggest otherwise? (That these students didn't replace it with illegal stuff)
> We’re in no rush to allow any genome editing other than that.

china in particular does not have the west's historical scruples wrt genetic editing and eugenics. i think this 'debate' will last about as long as it takes for the first generation of modded chinese children with two or three SDs on the mean to be brought into the world.
Agree, this is irresponsible to not let us update over cellular

I'm currently on vacation, which means that most of the wifi hotspots I'm connecting to are public. That's a big security risk in itself
Since the SEC investigative report concluded the DAO tokens were securities, one of the biggest questions is: are there any factual distinctions between the sale of DAO tokens and the sale of Ether.

I really can't understand why the SEC spent its time on the DAO seeing as the token purchasers essentially agreed by majority vote to null and void their purchase, meanwhile the Ether sale did in fact become binding.
Well this is exciting, but hopefully it will advance beyond "genetic disease". Or maybe in the future we will be able to expand our definition of that term, to include all genetic predispositions to suboptimal traits? (e.g. slow observation-decision loop, hedonism, sentimentalism/too-much-empathy, neuroticism, etc.)

Either way - hopefully, when this tech is completed, we will be able to accept and enjoy that our descendants will literally be superior beings to us, and not look upon them with too much envy.
Hi, Lisa,

Thanks for your feedback and for providing such interesting facts.

I really exaggerated in that hyperbole. Thanks again for pointing this out.
http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/share/mk/bsd.ow...
What? Wasn't Theranos a scam from the start?
There are a lot of questionable ideas in this piece.

> Nobody cares about which programming language you are using, nobody cares about which frameworks your team has chosen, nobody cares about how elegant your data structures are and nobody cares about how good is your code. The only thing that somebody cares about is how much does your software cost and how much revenue it generates

I agree with this to a point. The business cares about code quality so far as it effects the ability to deliver new features and maintenance, which in reality means they care quite a lot. They don't understand, and they can't express it, but they do. I work on a legacy app now that is so brittle the team takes months to deliver features, and they're buggy and error prone. This team is competent for the most part too.

> JS Fatigue happens when people use tools they don't need to solve problems they don't have.

I think the concept the author is going for is best elucidated by Fred Brooks in "No Silver Bullet"[1] when talks about accidental and essential complexity. The idea that there's the complexity of the domain/problem and the complexity we introduce as part of the solution, such as build systems, cross compilers, mvc frameworks etc...

> The JavaScript ecosystem nowadays is responsible for the global revolution the same way steam engines were responsible for the first industrial revolution

I really can't imagine a scenario where this is true. I'd prefer to see some clarification what revolution the author is referring to exactly.

[1] http://www.itu.dk/people/hesj/BSUP/artikler/no-silver-bullit...
If it were possible to go back and dig up historical data, there was a time period when the drinking age in the US shifted from 18 to 21, thus reducing access to alcohol for high school students. Anecdotally, my mom noticed that her students were coming back from lunch sober. It might be a chance for a similar study.
6snap, also the same author as tinder and insta clones.