skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really happy to have helped. That kind of company is pretty near and dear to my heart, for all the obvious reasons, and it is very, very in scope for us at Stripe Atlas. Not everything we publish will be laser-targeted to the needs of the Italian diner on the Internet, just like not everything will be appropriate for the want-to-ride-a-rocket-ship folks, but I hope you like some of the stuff coming down the pipe over the next few months.
I'm currently working on a new open source project:
https://github.com/clintonwoo/hackernews-react-graphql

I moved to the US recently so using it to show my skills to employers seeing as I've been working on entrepreneurial things while traveling. I actually found your post while browsing through my clone of Hacker News! I also have a business Shave Like A Boss which sells traditional shaving equipment:
https://www.shavelikeaboss.com.au/

I definitely recommend working on a real idea for a project as you will be able to use it for something in the future.
Show HN: SoundBrake 2.0 – Headphone device alerts you to outside sounds
Unauthorized copies tend to be more convenient, since the days of region free DVD players.

I strongly believe that the convenience of Netflix and iTunes only exists because of piracy, and the industry would never have chosen it otherwise. They'd be stuck on pay per view.
I never liked the narrative of a "broken economy" in articles like these. I think it would be more productive to talk about a process of reversion to the type of feudalism - and associated inequality - that has been the norm for most of human history. That would be a better starting point for discussions about how to change fundamental policies and institutions to promote the desired outcomes.
This would be really great without the audio. Due to the sound of the audio my initial reaction is to be fascinated, followed immediately by discomfort.
do you have the headers for GDAL? Might be in a dev package like libgdal-dev.
Very interesting. I'm intrigued by Fedcoin and how it incorporates the possibility of monetary policy into the cryptocurrency framework. The rigidity and hard ceiling on liquidity of Bitcoin is a major weakness of the currency (I know that Bitcoin enthusiasts see it as a strength) but if technology like Fedcoin can overcome that weakness I'm more bullish about cryptocurrency becoming part of the monetary scheme.
So I do agree with the rest of the comments that the absolute fastest way is to ship the disks and then copy the data. Now that being said if you can't or would rather not ship anything because of disks getting ruined, then the best thing to do is to find a high bandwidth internet connection and use something like IBM Aspera (https://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/high-speed-file-...)

Aspera is used widely in the Movie industry to move Tb size movies around (~2.5Tb). The key to Aspera is that it assumes that packet order doesn't matter so it will max out your pipes and it doesn't have to immediately report back about what packets were dropped and therefore is pretty efficient at getting the data across quickly.
maybe if he owned up to the mistake and maybe hadn't made millions off his deception, maybe if he actually testified about the drugs and methods he used, maybe if he didn't fuck over people on his own team.. maybe i would feel some sympathy.

but fuck lance armstrong.
That's really interesting. We noticed a statistically significant number of declines on debit/credit cards roughly 1 week before Equifax publicly disclosed.
As several people have pointed out elsewhere in these comments, Mozilla has already implemented EME. That makes it seem unlikely that it would quit over the adoption of this recommendation, even though Mozilla also stated that DRM is bad.
Gut bacteria have many functions, and there are likely more out there to be discovered than we know about currently. One of the functions that I find interesting is that bacteria help to synthesize vitamin K, which is required by the liver to build proteins that allow blood to clot. Neonates do not have the gut flora to synthesize vitamin K at birth, which is why they get a vitamin K shot after delivery.

Normal gut bacteria also coat the GI tract, preventing pathogenic bacteria from sticking to the surface of the intestines. This is part of the reason babies under 1 should not eat raw honey (which has C. botulinum spores that can stick to the intestines and produce botulinum toxin), while older kids and adults have no trouble with it.

Along the same lines, a hot (though, admittedly disgusting) area of research in medicine now is fecal transplant for people with a particularly aggressive form of colitis. I believe that the research on glut flora transplantation is also being expanded to weight loss, but I'm not very familiar with the studies.
You are taking a very nuanced piece and summarize it in a way which does away with all the nuance, plus you highlight statetements which were not questioned by the memo itself. Why? There is a point why sometimes, a bit more reading is required to get the full picture. Not everything can be made to fit into the length of a few tweets.

More information, not less, is what's needed in regards to understanding the dynamics and complexities that are impacting gender disparities in tech. The Google memo itself as well as the outcry against it clearly showed that.
Yes, I indeed assumed that everyone considers him to be not remorseful at all. But there should have been a culturally-appropriate sarcasm tag in that.
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You need to get really good at something to arrive at this level. This is the equivalent of saying somebody who scales a Mt Everest regularly, can scale Mt Everest regularly without excessive practice.

Conveniently forgetting all the previous effort that went into it.
I think where I depart from your analogy is that copyright law has been explicitly framed and discussed using the language of morality by both proponents and opponents.

E.g. copyright maximalists say that pirates are thieves, that they unjustly take from content creators what is rightfully theirs.

Copyright opponents will say that this is a cash grab by greedy corporations, that this will destroy the freedom of the web, etc.

Theft, destroying freedom -- these are explicitly moral claims.

You might be right that morality is not the appropriate framework with which to think about copyright, and I tend to agree, although that certainly hasn't stopped both sides from harnessing moral outrage to buttress their viewpoints.
I've forgiven him. He got me off the sofa and onto the bike as a kid and has been a great inspiration ever since. Everyone doped, and I believe including Greg LeMond. Let the man get on with his life.
One trick I learned at university while analyzing a circuit is to identify the various 'design patterns' in it - just like software engineering, circuit design also features a lot of recurring common patterns.

Here is a fantastic post on it:
http://www.arachnidlabs.com/blog/2013/10/17/electronics-patt...
> When removed from the mathy gibberish of "tech specs" meant to convince you that you're getting something you should've had in the first place—"processing power,"

Ummm what? CPUs are faster, ram is bigger, storage is bigger now than it was before. Because time passed. And this is as it should be. This is the way technology works.

I have an iphone 6s, and it's ok, I guess. The battery life is terrible (which the author completely neglects). Physical home button is, again, ok. Someone I know has an iphone 7, and the home button isn't...groundbreakingly different. If anything it's nicer since I don't have to take the time to fully press down on it. I used to have an iphone 5s, and it was way tough, like a tank. I dropped it all the time and it was fine.. My 6s is way more fragile.
Huh, that's an interesting observation --never would have come up with that connection.
No that isn't the point. These variables are often associated with an outcome or phenotype in a statistically rigorous manner. The point is that knowing this doesn't get us anywhere.
> That seems too much for me, too much by far.

Oh, you know, he only came to represent the worst excesses of doping and covering up, so let's give him a pass and welcome him back as a literal spokesperson for the sport!

At this rate Bill Cosby will be hosting the Oscars.
This is true for me too. My parents never took me to a toy shop. They bought what they thought was good and gave it to me. I had a lot of toys.
you mean those that told the truth after they got caught? Or those that told the truth after claiming for YEARS that they weren't cheating, and then later confessed, and threw everyone under the bus? Those people?
Me too. I always go for non-stop if one is available, even if it costs 400-500 more. I really hate getting on and off airplane once I'm settled in. So much so, I pick window seat to avoid getting up for people sitting next to me.

It's a shame because I actually looove take off... so I wouldn't mind experiencing more of that for the price of one ticket. :-)
That's great. Those controllers are awesome, durable, easily replaceable, cheap, portable, intuitive, and have undergone an ungodly amount of user testing. Most importantly the recruits will typically have experience having used them in the past.
In fact, ISTR that a key part of old stories is folks accidentally trampled by horses.

That doesn't say anything about which is worse: horses or cars. I wonder if any study has been done about that. It'd have to be complex, e.g. covering sicknesses from manure, sicknesses from leaded gasoline, sicknesses from pollution &c.
I think it would be more like, use soft toilet paper and wet it to avoid overwiping. It's a good guideline but not a physical law etched in stone.
Ethereum will match Visa in scale in a ‘couple of years’ says founder
> “I can go to any video game store and procure an Xbox controller anywhere in the world, so it makes a very easy replacement.”

Or the Rec room.
I don't know if smart is the right word and I very much doubt IQ is the correct measure, but you do need to evaluate dozens of factors quickly and continuously while driving, always paying attention and updating your risk assessment. It's a mentally taxing exercise and many people can't do a remotely good enough job.
Modern day programming is so much more than just opening up your IDE and churning out code. You have to collaborate, talk, review other people's work etc. There is also a meta aspect to it to improve you productivity at work by looking at your own work from a level above.

You also have to keep learning new bleeding edge stuff to not be out of business in a few years.

Plus doing a lot of side projects and extra work, always opens up avenues for new opportunities and helps you to meet with other smart people who often have something new for you.

All of this is work. And there is no way you can be good at this if you only work for 4 hrs a day.
All you mentioned is not better choice, C++ is not suited for ML / startups (I was a hardcore C++ programmer). As for R & Mathlab, i think they are not suited for ppl with CS background, they are more suited for people with maths background.
I think in steady state analysis (once backup cameras become ubiquitous across the in-service fleet), it's fair to analyze deaths in a year vs sales in a year, even if the deaths don't correspond 1:1 with model years.
My father grew up during the transition from horse to car, and he said people have forgotten about how dangerous horses are - they killed a lot more people (relatively speaking) than cars do.

Just cleaning up the daily harvest of dead horses was a major operation in every city.
Toys 'R' Us files for Bankruptcy
Famous Quotes, and Other Logical Fallacies
When my car was parked on the street and backed into, I was a (financially) injured innocent third party.
Nor mobile chrome.

Guess I'll have to check it out later.
I sat a few feet from Armstrong at the 2012 SAP/ASAUG Sapphire conference as he was performing his keynote speech. This was before his admissions around doping and at the height of the livestrong wrist bracelets etc, but I sensed a fakeness, particularly in his eyes as he spoke.

If Armstrong is worth 100 million as this article suggests he will have no trouble funding a pr campaign of the type this article smells of. At least Bell Pottinger have gone out of business, but there are many other pr firms that will do anything for money. Never underestimate the power of money and the media machine https://youtu.be/-glDd70H5os

It's disappointing to see Outside peddling this sort of positioning.
I can predict the future economy --- one where people earn a cryptocurrency where they earn token by hitting their healthy goals.

Money has grown at an exponential pace in the last few years -- see money.visualcapitalist.com/all-of-the-worlds-money-and-markets-in-one-visualization/

Money is a bunch of bets against bets against bets.

At the end of the day, the poorest person you know has air conditioning,a place to live, netflix, and poops in a toilet --- richer than the richest king of even 100 years ago, not to mention 1000, 2000, or even ~100,000 years ago when our species got started.

When you learn to step outside the fishbowl, only then can you see water.

When you step outside the story of money --- you see it's only a story. Between human beings.

And then you can reassign meaning to money. It's just about to explode
You have one huge image and then use css to "extract" the graphics as needed, please see https://css-tricks.com/css-sprites/
Or Azure ACI.

Per-second billing doesn't add much value to EC2.
Sorry, I threw in tubers after the fact, and didn't mean to imply that they should be eaten raw.
Well, he also was talking about the future.
> i decided the conservatory could fuck off after 1 year.

Yes and no. Remember Picasso: "It took me four years to paint like Rafael, but a lifetime to paint like a child". Being patient enough to acquire the mountains of knowledge, the sound bases achieved by generations before yours, pays great dividends later in life, no matter the field. It's truer for some fields than others, of course.

There are some surprising examples: Mika used to be a classically trained lieder singer, and won a scholarship (if I recall) to the Royal College of Music, which he promptly used to "learn to sing like a pop star" with the results we know today.

Now this is not to say you should do hours of figured bass if you want to be a blues singer (and FWIW, Arnold Schoenberg says in Harmonielehre that he thinks this is a silly way to learn harmony). But there is value in learning common practice harmony and understanding both Beethoven and Richter even if you are going to do blues.

> complaining that creativity isnt present in music just means your hanging with the wrong people

Yes and further, in order to have something interesting to say you must have lived, which is why high school concerts can be so tedious even with very talented students (mine had note-perfect Rachmaninov Paganini variations! what hope have we mere mortals... yet the pianist is now a doctor). Globalisation is also reducing the variance between artists, both because concert halls are standardising star power cross-border, and because people are becoming more alike all over the world. On the demand side, I'd whine about the Instagram generation falling short on the pathos side of things but I'd start sounding like an old man; really variance is the problem, not depth.

The only exception I can think of is of Amy Kobayashi as a tiny child doing Mozart's 26th concerto [1] in a really fresh and interesting manner (this lent truth to something a pianist who had lived through WWII told me, that Mozart could be understood only by children and those on their death beds).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32gsiqbjbk8 - note also the technique, such as the relaxed, freely rotating wrists that Neuhaus says are the hallmark of the best.
Agreed. As a former fan I can say I was duped. DDG/Google Lance Armstrong D... and it will autocomplete to Destroys lives.

http://www.espn.com/sports/endurance/story/_/id/8860572/form...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/cycling/lancear...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gil-laroya/understanding-how-b...
ultrafast and ultra annoying.
While they're not likely to be the best control experience you can possibly get for a given application (as any serious FPS or fighting game player can tell you), the mainstream official console controllers really are engineering and design feats in their own right. This is one of those things where getting it 90% right is easy but the last 10% will make people hate using it.
If anyone is interested in this and haven't heard about it already there's also Python implemented in Python:

https://pypy.org/
> After those CDOs got sold a few times, people lost track of who actually owned a particular loan. When borrowers defaulted, it was in many cases impossible to prove who was legally entitled to collect on the debt.

Sounds fishy. The borrower was paying somebody at least up until he defaulted. Would not that entity be the one entitled to try to collect? Or were loans actually in default being sold around?
I fear the day when a controller in the rec room breaks, and they realize that the reverse is also true.
This is one of those simple ideas that makes a lot of sense. I'm glad to hear there are teams working to reduce costs and improve UX for the military.

Microsoft obviously did a lot of user testing with their controller, but they must have been optimizing for a certain consumer price point as well. It makes me wonder what sort of controller you would have if they spent all that focus on usability, but with the same $38,000 price tag the periscope control panel commands.
https://github.com/awslabs/ec2-scheduler
I don't know that this is true at all. Yes, complexity has shifted, yes today's market is different.

This does not really change the fact that a focused, driven leader can impart a strong sense of company focus and vision that becomes a really powerful driving force. I've seen it, it's definitely still a thing and I don't see a great leader being less important anytime soon.
Any direct link? Do I need to build this mofo?
Not really. The Common Lisp spec is quite a bit more modern than 1958 — and, unlike the several, not-universally-accepted Scheme specs, it's a well-crafted ANSI standard. It does suffer from backwards-compatibility, but it also enjoys the lessons of the past.

Scheme is neat (in multiple meanings of the word), but honestly I don't think it's a good production tool. Being a Lisp-1 & lacking real macros means that it's more suited to being a pedagogical tool (n.b.: I believe that many Scheme implementations add real macros — but without a standard package system and a function namespace, this is not enough).
>If you are just getting out of school and need some house loan etc. won't be bette to have easy access to money? Or do you want 8-10% interest?

Not if everyone has access to easy money, no.

House prices are roughly set by prevailing rents. Take the cost of renting and the cost of ownership and set them to roughly equal. Now, drop interest rates on mortgages a couple percent, what happens to house prices? Monthly payments of mortgages go down, renters and potential landlords see it and try to win bids for houses, driving housing prices back up again.

Much the same thing is, IMO, going on with college prices: since they're largely financed, easier credit leads to higher bids. I'd much rather have college affordable period on a part-time entry-level salary than have interest rate times tuition be affordable on a white-collar salary.

Basically, lower interest rates doesn't particularly help future borrowers. Falling interest rates helps folks who hold assets and can sell them or refinance the debt servicing them.
Various versions of Ruby and Python are. You can expect Ruby 1.9+ or Python 2.6+, that's about it.
This is definitely Bain’s standard playbook.
They've just filed for bankruptcy https://www.toysrusinc.com/press/toysrus-inc-commences-court...
Make sure your clock/date is correct on your system.
Your points about usage of TPB, less convenience, lower quality, cost being low enough - all of them seem to be from the U.S. or first world perspective. In many other countries, TPB or equivalent is very common across classes of people (not just students but also workers in different non-technology industries). Unauthorized copies are more convenient because most people watch media on a tiny laptop or a small monitor desktop (often several years old or low end), where a free VLC or other player will play whatever is thrown at it. Quality of the video/audio isn't a big deal on these lower end, smaller screen and older devices (plus, many people may prefer lower quality for the lower data consumed from a broadband connection).

One might argue that these people would never pay for content and so mustn't be considered when talking about paid content. But given a chance not to jump through hoops and with geography specific pricing, there are ways to get people to pay. That could add up when done right on a large population base. Right now the big content houses are literally leaving money on the table and encouraging piracy (to put it in a different way)!
>>Most of the time they don't write anything interesting.

But they write a lot of thing. And by the law averages something interesting eventually emerges.

They just shift the quantitative process to the non saturated elements in the process.
Deflationary currencies are hoarded, not spent in circulation. Even Aristophanes described it thousands of years ago. That's what advocates of "sound money" need to understand. Sound money is good, but for savings. On top of this you build other, less sound money, which circulates. This is also known as "Gresham's Law".
> Commodities(such as oil, gasoline, natural gas) will increase in price.

How so? QE was heralded by critics as printing new money, leading to a price boost in equities and commodities since the money had to go somewhere in search of yield.

Wouldn't the opposite of QE decrease the supply of readily available USD, so the suppliers with a glut of a certain commodity are then forced to compete for whatever cash is left?
A lot of wanting in the comments in this thread. People really want to believe that one's productivity drops off a cliff after 40 hrs. Whenever I read these types of threads, which so often bubble up to the top of HN, I wonder why people are so energized in trying to convince _others_ that they ought to work less (actually, I don't).
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Pro-tip: If you are doing additive synthesis and want to stack sine-waves in a harmonic series, please scale each successive n harmonic to an amplitude of 1/n. It creates a much more tolerable experience.
I think at the point a company reaches a state like that. Management better expect every single employee to be looking for a way out...
Toys 'R' Us Files for Bankruptcy After Years of Losses
Run a barbell strategy with short-term bonds and equity put options (slightly OTM). The convexity helps you out here - you're far more exposed to downward price movements than upwards.
Undoubtedly!

I play harmonica for fun. I tried to learn sheet music, and gave up in two weeks.

It felt wrong to even begin with. Music is mostly about hearing and feeling. I saw no point in turning myself into sight to music converting meat robot.

After several weeks of tinkering, I was finally able to learn how to play by ear, and I've never enjoyed music more than then.
Great post for learning.

I posted a similar test of sbrk() coding in my rt0 lib [0]. With less trivial examples, it's interesting to see how various addresses change as they're used to keep track of what the kernel is doing to the program's virtual address space.

[0] https://github.com/lpsantil/rt0/blob/master/t/sbrk.c