skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VCs don't invest their own money. As an LP actually putting up capital, do you prefer your portfolio companies to be run by founders (expert in their particular business, lots of skin in the game in the form of common stock, idiosyncratic compared to your other portfolio companies' leaders, sometimes a little too conservative for a well diversified investor like you), or VC partners (expert in capital allocation, somewhat misaligned incentives, also involved in managing your other portfolio companies, likely too aggressive for an investor with actual downside like you)? It's not that obvious that the latter is an improvement.
I see 2 problems with this approach:

1) IPFS does not work in the browser.

2) People might not want to share because of the copyright issue.
I don't see a clear fraud

Your not being a party to the ongoing case, this doesn't surprise me. I don't think any of us knows enough to judge.

Furthermore, "weeding out fraud" could certainly be seen as "gain[ing] power and control," but it's not the most charitable interpretation.
Volunteers teach AI to spot slavery sites from satellite images
"No doubt Beethoven chided Goethe along these lines, and the most revered writer in the land would not have taken kindly to any sort of dressing down, friendly or otherwise."

No doubt? I'd say no evidence.
Aren't most of these also backportable to Python 2.7? Especially the libraries, where the reason seems to be, "we added a nifty little tool."

If so, then why the breaking language change? Why should I port my Python 2.7 code to Py3 for some libraries that I didn't feel like I was missing?

I'd suggest including more demos of how the backwards-incompatible changes made Python 3 better than 2.7.
I’m a nuclear missile from North Korea that might be going to Guam
45% is the ceiling bracket for income insurance, then there's pension insurance (~9.x%) capped at ~70k income, unemployement (1.5%) also capped at 70k, solidarity surcharge (up to 5.5%, basically redistribution between parts of Germany). Health insurance is separate again (up to %7 capped at 50k).

But with that you have free education including college, health insurance without deductibles & co-payments, continued payment in case of loss of work, kinda somewhat decent-ish retirment money.
"By continuing, you agree that you own the music associated with the account and give us permission to host it."

So, this services simply downloads the files and then add on your server? How is this helping me back it up?
Replacing C library code with Rust: What I learned with librsvg [pdf]
DHH posted about his bad airline experience[1] in 2013. An app for addressing both your experience and his experience is feasible for the HN crowd. Please steal this business plan[2]. tl;dr Today, getting issues resolved places the burden of effort is the wronged. This can be shifted. "Reversing" things does wonders.

[1] http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2013/american-airlines-ea...
[2] https://gist.github.com/iL3D/59df64947d42828d848ebfc1651a312...
The real question is: Why should it be fair? We don't live in an ideal world, we live in the real one. A "fair" tax rate, even if fairness could be quantified and applied, might very well be a rate that causes businesses to flee the country for more favorable rates. If the goal of taxes are to increase the well-being of citizens, I don't see how driving businesses out of the country en masse with them is an the best interests of the public. I'm not saying that's necessarily the reality, but treating "fairness" as the most important consideration is, to be blunt, asinine. What are the odds, really, that a "fair" corporate tax rate is also the one that results in the greatest well-being of the citizenry?

I would sacrifice economic justice for economic prosperity every day of the week. I simply don't care if someone is "exploiting" me if that exploitation actually increases my well-being in the most important ways, and while a lot of people might disagree with that in abstract, I'm willing to be 99% of adults would make the same decision if actually faced with that dichotomy.
I wound up deciding to live in the midwest while working remotely for California companies. Now it's as if my salary has gone up by 200-300%. The midwest gets an incredible amount of hate from west coasters, but meanwhile I'm living a life which feels like an easy paradise compared to the rat race back on the west coast.
In addition to the clarification of intentions, military spending is in fact 54% of federal discretionary spending.

Entitlement programs like SS and Medicare/Medicaid are raised on a separate tax (you can see it on your paystub), and have zero discretion in how they're spent. It's determined by statute and is automatic, not part of the budget process, and the money never really mixes with the rest of the federal budget.

If you take those out, and take out interest payments which we also don't have much choice in, military spending is 54% of the money that's actually at issue when Congress makes budget decisions.

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0177/6150/t/2/assets/Death...
This is worth its weight in gold. Add to that the ability to selectively broadcast the conversation to potentially-relevant people without mutilating the concentration of non-interested parties. Add to that the ability to forward that info to new team members years after the conversations have happened and potentially years after the originator of the answer left.
A week after my son found out Michael Jackson had died. He loves Michael Jackson.

- Dad. Is Michael Jackson dead?
- Yes... (Unsure if this will cause a meltdown)
- That's OK.
- It is?
- Yep. There's two. Which one is dead?
- How do you mean?
- The white or the brown one?
The Hobbit was _not_ an x86 chip, hence the delay its discontinuation introduced.

I was not suggesting that an architecture change was necessary for Hololens, but are there a large range of low-power/mobile x86 SoCs out there to choose from? I know ARM has sucked up most of the oxygen in this particular room, but surely someone other than Intel is working on a similar line?
It does not yet :)
I tried and failed. I used Bing for a few days right after Google pulled the plug on Google Reader. I was really mad at Google. Bing was quite terrible and I went crawling back to Google Search in pretty much no time.
Do you rent or own? I've been looking to buy in the East Bay, but it's becoming extremely difficult to find something that an engineer's salary can afford that's in a good school district and is of a reasonable size.
Ask HN: What are some companies that do a good job acting on user feedback?
Bonus points if they also close-the-loop to show customers they listen and take action. Does anyone stand out?
You can't and don't need to register all the domains, as now there are literally 100sof extensions.
I'm a newbie to tmux but I use it with iTerm and I love it. I use my macbook for work but my dev code/servers are on a linux desktop. When I get into work I ssh to my linux box and type "tmux -CC attach" and my tabs all re-open like normal iTerm tabs and my subdivided terminal windows all restore to right where I left them. It's great for leaving all my watches/running code/tailing logs all open and in panes. It used to take me a couple of minutes to re-setup everything when I got into work but now I just run 1 command and I'm back to where I left off.
Bad assumption on any survey.

Especially electronic.
> Likewise for SF, their estimate is $1250/month, which will rent you a garage or a converted living room with a curtain separating it from the kitchen in the far reaches of the city.

Jeez, this is a ridiculous estimate. I have a 2BR on the edge of downtown that has big bedrooms with bay windows, a solarium, a nice big kitchen with granite counters, quite a bit of living space, and the only downside is an old building.

Me and my flatmate each pay around $1300, BUT that's after 6 years of rent control. The last time I checked, market rent on this place was almost double what we pay. The idea that this is a normal price for anywhere else in SF is kind of silly.
As long were showing off remote workspaces, heres mine. Herman Miller Aeron + 50" 4k Samsung.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BVGgCYMFhF_
I think wind makes more sense at sea than solar. It can operate 24x7 if things stay breezey. In these chosen locations, that is indeed most of the time, and what sets them apart from most land-based locations.

Going to the expense of making a large offshore solar farm which is useless for half the day doesn't seem like as good an investment, even if all the other technical and weather issues were OK.
>I am flabbergasted that as a society we aren't rushing to build a 100 metre wide telescope mirror large enough for us to directly image the spectra of the potentially habitable exoplanets around us.

This is because most of society is still struggling with day-to-day tasks like getting housing, clean water, reliable food, healthcare and dealing with physical conflicts.

Even people rich enough to not be stuck in the short term future have to be concerned with near term risks like political destabilization countries and climate change.

So it's hard to rush to do something like this as a society when we are already rushing to solve acute issues.
Or, it's like expecting a mathematical function to solve itself
I've been working on my chess GUI for over seven years now http://triplehappy.com. I've made a few hundred dollars in donations, but maybe 10 cents an hour is not why you work on something like this, it has to be a labour of love. I do wonder if I am going to be working on this for the rest of my life, there's always more to do....
You can download the files from the server. I'll make it more visible.
According to the folks I've spoken to, they don't do bill capping because they have no way to safely shut down your workloads in any way - they'd prefer to let you know and have you do it. And having that choice is way better than a capping operation destroying your production database or causing downtime for your users.
Very large telescopes can achieve great resolving power, but they run up against atmospheric turbulence, particularly in many of the spectral regions we care about for checking out exoplanets. Radio light passes right through the atmosphere for the most part, which is why you see very large radio telescopes, but they're not very practical for infrared or visible light scopes.

Space-based telescopes are a better avenue. You can achieve much better resolution in practice with a much smaller telescope. There's no atmosphere to block you, and instruments can capture light of any frequency. Cost is the main disadvantage, but delivery of satellites (and maintenance) to space is getting cheaper and cheaper.

All of which is to say that I agree we should be spending more on astronomy. That was your main point, of course. I disagree with the particulars, and think we should be more willing to go to space.
Yea, by the time I left Google, I was making about 50% of my gross pay in equity, and this equity was basically as liquid as cash (the difference being the volatility).
I'm happy to say I think you'll be pleased with the level of critical thinking here. I have also despaired at the state of Reddit.

Though, depending on your interests, some days there may not be much on HR that tickles your attention.
Angellist founder sues Benchmark's Bill Gurley for fraud (2005)
Wow. As a member for 10+ years and a reader for slightly longer, this is a surprising criticism.
Your position is scientifically illiterate but I suppose it's worth pointing out why: It would require basically one gene to control these complex behavioral traits, which is implausible. Moreover, such a strong, population-specific, selective force on the human genome does not exist, which we know from population genomics studies. Therefore, what you are arguing here is factually wrong.
Thank you for pastery. Best pastebin I've ever found, use it more than any other.
So does investing all your money in bitcoin.
Not only am I not surprised that the CEO of a music-based company is at Burning Man, I fully expect him to show up at SXSW as well. Anything less would almost seem like a dereliction of duty.
Basic research is closely linked to patent applications
Thank you for including such a thorough and approachable conclusion. As someone with no background in statistics, it helped me understand the content.

Genetic mutations seem to have similar properties (by analogy). Most don't 'work', but evolution still uses random mutation to build better organisms. Progress is sensitive to the degree of selection pressure: too small, and unfit organisms will reproduce; too great, and even fit organisms will frequently die.

I wonder if there's an empirical way to determine the optimal degree of selection pressure (where "optimal" means the degree which most rapidly improves the organisms) and whether the same logic could be applied to determine what fraction of underperforming social programs to cut and replace with new programs.
This article from 10 days ago claimed that most employees have
a $15 strike price: https://www.theinformation.com/soon-free-to-sell-few-snap-em... (paywall).

Can anyone confirm that most late Snap employees unlikely to exercise options anytime soon?
"Anatomically modern humans have lived on Earth for 200,000 years, and the creatures we descended from have lived on Earth for 541 million years. Stuff as dumb as the moon cycles affect us. How are we going to live somewhere that isn't exactly Earth?"

To further your (good) point about gravitational and diurnal differences, it is worth also considering the experience of native americans in the face of novel (to them) micro-organisms brought in by europeans.

These diseases were not from another solar system and they were related to animals that had local analogs ... and yet they were devastating (up to 90% mortality in some places) to the native population.

On another planet the bacteria, viruses and fungi (not to mention the potential discovery of previously unknown biological primitives) would be completely novel to us.

I wouldn't be shocked if there was 100% mortality outside of containment/quarantine after a week or two.

EDIT: On the other hand, imagine if we found that our genetic code did contain information related to what we found offworld ... wouldn't that be fascinating ...
Yes: https://www.tyracpa.com
The very first one I was presented with was the following perversity:

from pathlib import Path
directory = Path("/etc")
filepath = directory / "test_file.txt"

Overloading the addition operation for list concatenation: fine. Something something monads composition symbol. But the division operation?

[Apparently I don't know Windows very well, since I'm told the following sentences are wrong:] Anyway, I thought Python was meant to try and be cross-platform. On Windows, the forward slash is not a path separator.
You can block it by changing userChrome.css
I haven't checked the numbers but it doesn't surprise me. A car is the most expensive or second most expensive asset that most people own. (And/or they spend a lot of money on taxi/Uber/Lyft/etc.) And most people spend a decent chunk of their days getting from Point A to Point B. Only some of that is commuting.

The cost of not being a subsistence farmer, I suppose. (Somewhat joking, but a big part of what makes modern civilization possible is mobility and a lot of that requires cars. In some situations, they're less important but they're still common pretty much anywhere.)
>travis + allies being more long term

His actions and bad management hardly seem long term based thinking. While you could be right that is his intention, his actions to date, the bad management issues well documented, or his possible participation in fraud, to the antagonistic business practices hardly seem the best "long term" approaches.
I do the same but in Virginia. Unfortunately, living close to D.C. is very expensive so I don't enjoy the benefit as much -- but the work itself is way better than yet another boring government contracting job that you can not talk about.
What about actual science? Where you figure out how to get reproducible results, come up with theories to explain why those results are the way they are, then make predictions with the theories to test on new data?
30 people (ish) for 3 years + 10 million on hardware?

The brilliance of the team... priceless.

The cost of everything, the value of nothing : this is what will be written on the tombstone of capitalism.
> we aren't even in a tech hotbed

That's precisely why you have offices. Real estate is extremely cheap there compared to tech centers such as SF/ Bay Area.
https://outline.com/DTkAZ2

Archive.is as well.
The point is that you don't get to keep much of it. Basically, unless you're making >$200k or so (which is def possible and not st all unreasonable for engineers or management out here) , you might be able to save more post-tax post-expenses elsewhere.

The real game to be in here is real estate. Don't mine the gold, sell the shovels.
iirc JSC folks are blocking explicit tailcalls on TC39
While most venture funds have a 10 year term, almost all are extended for at least an additional two years. The GP, together with the LP's, have lots of flexibility to extend beyond then if necessary, although there are typically negotiations around fee reductions and clarifying the path to liquidity. I have no insight into this particular fund, but it is very unlikely that it is purely fund term motivating Benchmark's desire to exit.
Huh? I've been hanging around Metafilter for many years. There have been changes since it ran on a box under Matt's desk, but "used to be amazing" to "going downhill"? Not seeing it. It's still one of the most civil places around.
Deep blue was just a brute force machine. Perhaps Watson isn't much different, just slightly smarter.
"Travis Kalanick stepped down Tuesday as chief executive of Uber, the ride-hailing service that he helped found in 2009 and built into a transportation colossus, after a shareholder revolt made it untenable for him to stay on at the company."

is how the NYT put it.
Yes, really. It's not obvious to me why would people jump to conclusions like that. For example if I wanted to take things personally from my perspective from that memo, I could also find several points that I can misinterpret and get annoyed about.

Perhaps some people are more likely to see themselves in general statements and fill the missing info with their speculation. It may be the same reason why some people are susceptible to horoscopes or fortune tellers, except that this would be more subtle.
The Google Memo: What Does the Research Say About Gender Differences?
Show HN: Crackle – keyboard layout for programmers
Don't think you deserve to be down voted for asking a reasonable question.

A) Most of the documentation is on the other side of the digital event horizon (so pre-1995).

B) I break apart knowledge about AI (that is, the mathematical and systems discoveries) and AI as a product. The assertion is not that the knowledge failed, but that the product failed.

As you pointed out, the math behind expert systems was solid and functional for certain problems. But the collapse of the product (aided by the popular science press researcher-hunting for whoever would promise the most outlandish things for them) broke the funding channel for anything labelled AI.

As a result, methods used by expert systems lived on and solved problems, but nobody could call it AI because conventional wisdom knew that "AI was a failure."
a, *rest, b = range(10)
print(rest) # prints [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]

In which context could this be useful?
Doesn't seem to be that way in America. At all.
Finding the existence of life on another planet holds MAJOR implications for many organized and unorganized religions. It would tell us whether abiogenesis and life is common, or something truly unique.

So while discovering life on another planet wouldn't answer exactly "why we are here", it would go a hell of a long way in shaping our answers to that question.
I make a bunch of different little services for others to use. Started for just friends, but has grown a bit.

I use it a lot to test out new ideas, and learn from it.

https://www.teknik.io/

Also, I work on a lot of little projects: https://git.teknik.io/Uncled1023
Great, insightful interview. Getting people interested in coming to the library, esp for learning instead of web surfing, is something I wonder about periodically. Local libraries seem to use group activities for young people or rent out conference rooms. One thing going on that you might find interesting is merging libraries with maker spaces. It seems to be getting some results with added benefit of letting people apply their learning in creative, hands-on ways:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/every...

http://oedb.org/ilibrarian/a-librarians-guide-to-makerspaces...

What do you think about this development? And have you noticed any other ways libraries are generating interest that aren't one-off in nature?
No, it's tied to systemd. That was one of the big reasons behind systemd adoption in the first place.
That's...everything that I program that isn't part of my job. A near-universal trait of my hobby projects is that they're basically things that I don't think I could sell. The two that I've put the most time into over the years are an NES emulator and an attempted reimplementation of the Ultima Underworld game engine.

There are also things like a C++ port of some Python code to control a PWM-generating chip (inside the skeletal codebase that will eventually control a quadrupedal robot), and a collection of utilities that mostly have to do with things related to DOS-era games.
NodeVMS alpha: trustless execution of services on Node.js
Rise of the Valkyries: In the alt-right, women are the future, and the problem
> Do you spend dollars today wondering if tomorrow the Euro will be worth more or less? No, so why would you care what the dollar equivalent to a BTC is when everything you buy is priced in BTC?

Moving the analogy a bit: everything we buy is priced in Reais. However, we still care if tomorrow the Dollar is worth more or less, since it does impact the price of several kinds of goods. For instance, the Dollar increasing in value will lead to computers getting more expensive.

In the same way, even if everything were to be priced in Bitcoins, the exchange rate between Bitcoin and USD would still be significant, unless and until the USD ceased to exist.
Google didn't fire someone for supporting Trump.

The police chief/city officials ignoring mob attacks based on politics is indeed a huge problem. If I'm reading the example you posted correctly, and the most recent update [0], a judge has so far dismissed claims against the defendants who would have the power -- e.g. the mayor and police chief -- to tell police to not protect Trump supporters. Did police officers intentionally decide to harm Trump supporters? I suppose the court case will examine that, though it's worth noting that Trump was endorsed by the nation's largest police union [1], so the thought of police being part of a conspiracy to hurt Trump would be pretty surprising.

In case you were unaware of Democrat-supporters who were either fired, or were threatened to be fired, for their support of Democrats, here you go:

- https://www.aol.com/2013/01/18/utah-terry-lee-forensics-fire...

- http://www.cbsnews.com/news/was-employee-laid-off-for-voting...

- https://www.mediaite.com/online/fired-for-voting-ohio-woman-...

- http://www.salon.com/2017/01/20/newt-gingrich-wants-to-fire-...

- http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/09/news/economy/siegel-email-em...

For your own pro-Trump files:

- http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/11/10/boss-tells-pro-trump-em...

[0] http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/15/judge-wont-throw-out-t...

[1] http://www.npr.org/2016/09/18/494451660/the-nations-largest-...