skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ehhh.

For the longest while, mainstream macroeconomics was grounded on a few insights about irrational behavior. Pre-Keynesian "naive rationality" theory thought recessions would cure themselves as falling demand made prices fall: therefore, recessions caused by "general glut" or "overproduction" would never happen; there would never be "involuntary unemployment".

Keynes and others argued that under systemic falling demand/rising unemployment people would go chicken little and reduce their consumption. That kind of thinking was very very useful and was the basis of how nearly every nation dealt with the Great Depression. To a great degree, it's still reflected in current fiscal and monetary policies.

Textbook macro 101 is actually all behavioral theory: people either consume a fraction of their income (Keynes), of their lifetime income (Modigliani) or of their "permanent income" (the one they're used to in the average and expect for the future.

But this basic Keynesian recipe of assuming consumers behave according to heuristics ran into some rough sand from the 70s on; and a few powerful ideas on the limitations of generalizing psychological insights arose of this period. I think the most powerful of these is the Lucas critique.

To simplify, the Lucas critique says that any attempt to exploit the heuristic nonrationality that economic models in general assume will cause people to change their heuristics. So either economics is fundamentally and hopelessly bogus, or any predictable behavior has to come out of a fixed-point iteration process that may lead to the wrong platonic ideal of "rationality" but leads to Brower's fixed point theorem and game theory.

Thaler comes at the other end of this arc. Has the pendulum again swung too far? World Bank economists have allegedly been misusing DSGE models, for example; but this is more of an institutional flaw that gives entire staffs these crystal balls they aren't. The Lucas critique itself says these models can never predict the future.

So let's recapitulate the pendulum: Ricardo and Malthus used to argue in the 19th century about the possibility of a persistent glut, what the Marxists call an "overproduction crisis". Mixed examples had been seen, but nothing like a developed capitalist economy existed. Then came the Great Depression and the Malthusians rose to the task and fixed the damn thing with the spit and half-baked behavioral psychology you can read in the "General Theory" by Keynes. This works until it doesn't (note that during this period people have also had increasing access to information, etc. rather than behaving as blind mole rats as they might in Ricardo's time) and psychological ad-hockeries fall out of fashion.

Now, in this great arc: Thaler, new Nobel laureate, claims that you can slightly nudge people from Lucasian fixed points. Sure, maybe. My boss is a big fan. The pendulum swings.
Its a free market, and the market has spoken. I think its the right strategy for MS to accept that the market is just not going to accommodate yet another mobile ecosystem. And its not for lack of trying: they've been trying for over a decade now to break into the mobile OS market. They had tablets running a version of Windows much before iPad; they had "Smartphones" running windows much before 2007. There's gotta be something that they just can't get right about mobile OS (or probably its simply the fact that the market doesn't have space enough for yet another proprietary OS).

MS will do a lot better if it focuses on making android betters, supporting .NET apps in android (yay Mono!). Maybe in the future they could revisit the mobile OS thing and have better luck then but for the near future it looks very unlikely.

The mark of a good company is adaptability. Intel went from RAM chip maker to creating microprocessors, MS itself went from creating BASIC compilers to making OS's. With Azure, .NET, Office, Windows etc. I think they have enough areas to make money off. Its just their strategy of adapting windows to mobile devices didn't work.
You should if you have Android and install apps from third party stores / websites. But sometimes even Google Play Store has malware.
I took GP's "irrational" in the economic sense of always trying for the best economic outcome, not the psychological outcome.
is it implemented by using GitHub web-hooks?
People don't care if their frontier is safe. The human drive to explore and stake out new lands has always been much stronger than their need for safety.
The bomb threats weren't limited to her: most of the schools in my town (one over from Newton) got bomb threats. Lots of bomb threats. Mostly at 4:15AM, but some during the school day. Sometimes for three or four days in a row.

Expect more charges to be added.
Immutable build artifacts with Habitat
(By the way, before anyone gets mad at the mistreatment of animals, my cat wore these glasses for all of the two seconds I needed to take the photo, during which time she was more puzzled about what was on her head than in any kind of distress, and continued lounging around after she dropped them.)
If you want to steal bikes from kids you have to play Bully
“As for the funding itself, GitLab says that it plans to use it to add “new functionality for packaging, releasing, configuring and monitoring software.”

Are you also planning to pay your employees market rates now?
Machine learning can do a lot of things, but it won't as long as people are putzing around with the NIST digits.

The missing link is the ability to create training sets.
I have been drug tested to receive Adderall before. I was told by the doctor that they were mainly testing for marijuana. I think it depends on the state.

I did not keep taking the stuff so I'm not sure if it would have been necessary on a regular basis to maintain the prescription.
Github != open source. There are plenty of proprietary software products like HighCharts that distribute with GitHub and have a clear commercial license (https://github.com/highcharts/highcharts/) -- merely saying GitHub is not enough to communicate the license terms.
> voluntarily part-time

How many of them really are voluntarily part-time v. settling for a part-time job because they can't find a decent full-time job?
The new BlackBerry Motion from TCL is all touchscreen, no keyboard – The Verge
That might cover the initial development costs, but then you are signing up for a lifetime of support. $10k doesn't help much if there aren't enough recurring revenues. It sucks to launch an app then let it languish and have to kill it a year or two later.
I fear this will be used to further arguments that programmers create a hostile environment.

I know people in all occupations swear, but this puts the focus on it and allows people to quantify it.

Just imagine the article:

"One report showed that the f-word was used over 5,000 times in a single month. No other profession that's been measured has showed near this level of profane, unwelcome environment. How are stay-at-home parents supposed to feel welcome in this community?"
There are a lot of simplifications that get used in physics and engineering calculations. Ideal electrical circuits, ideal gasses, thin cylinder walls, lossless collisions, etc. etc. Whether or not a given simplification is appropriate depends on the situation (how much accuracy is needed? how close the simplification is to reality? what's the cost of not simplifying?)
At some point certain ISPs were disabling throttling specifically for speedtest.net which is why netflix made fast.com. Perhaps thats whats happening with testmy.net?
Microsoft has been tone deaf about a lot of things... This is a prime example. Not a lot of self awareness on their part. This was cringe worthy.
Show HN: Recreation of RuneScape Classic login screen in HTML5 canvas
I don't think your criticism is very obvious. Can you elaborate?

The Bartle Test is a pretty common tool / consideration in gaming psych & gamified interfaces.
This weekend I had some real nostalgia feeling and wanted to recreate the login screen of the good ol' RuneScape Classic. But it was a bit too much fun so I ended up adding a (not complete) character creation and even some of the ingame menus.

If you're an old RuneScape player you will probably find this pretty cool. If not, then I understand if you don't.

What are your thoughts? Anything missing that should be in it?

And finally... I hope you're not going to copy/paste this to phish for real account credentials. That would be unethical.
The biggest losers are most likely: the bots.

I update my sshd configs untill they're green [0] and love to see the bots fail with even establishing a connection. You can even distinguish the different bot families by their (limited) protocols.

[0] https://github.com/arthepsy/ssh-audit
Sony's new company Rocro Inc. to showcase its software tools at GitHub Universe
By ensuring the proprietary builds are NOT the same.
Risk and reward
That ignores the "We target one random Linux distribution" thing and kinda doesn't address the point that Electron is cross-platform already. I would expect an Electron app to work where Electron works, but admit that I haven't targeted it. Any input on why that might not be the case would be appreciated.
We communicate the license terms by using the license (and the website, and the FAQ, and the Terms of Service, etc), not the link to GitHub. :)

I just realized the GitHub link goes away on mobile (for lack of horizontal space) but, there are many other places on the website where it mentions that the project is open source.
> Microsoft strategy was just bad. It tried to copy the iPhone when it should have tried to copy its own strategy on PC, which is creating a OS and letting other companies build Windows Phones.

That wouldn't have worked either. Microsoft has the desktop market today because they had it in 1981 when the IBM PC was released. Operating systems have huge network effects.

There is very little they can do today that will cause them to lose that. People hate that there is no simple off switch for all the Windows 10 telemetry, but is it causing all those people to switch to Ubuntu? No. They're mostly sticking with Windows 7, and when support runs out on that, they'll grit their teeth and use Windows 10. Because they have no choice. They need Office and Photoshop and Active Directory and some weird printer thing from their weird printer support company and a dozen other things like that. Which kind of maybe have Linux equivalents but some of them aren't as good and all of them have some initial switching cost which would all have to be taken on at the same time. So when the choice comes to either let Microsoft punch you in the face or walk away, most people still aren't willing to walk away.

But with Android the shoe is on the other foot. Microsoft can't dislodge Android for the same reasons that Canonical can't dislodge Windows.
Oh, I'm not optimistic at all that the kind of societal shift I'm talking about will/can happen, at least in any peaceful/gentle way- that's why I said in a best case.

I'm just objecting to the idea that working for a living is necessary for self esteem or self actualization.
Even in the economic sense those things can absolutely be considered as costs. They're harder to quantify but no economist would tell you that the most economically rational decision is to always spend the least hard currency.
I would highly recommend learning JavaScript, php and Laravel a rapid web application development framework to get ideas off the ground quickly. There are a lot of free online resources to learn Laravel and a great community behind it.
This is actually Inspiring me to consider making my own visions of browsing can be improved come to fruition!

Thanks very much for the implementation idea and the source. I'm certainly gonna play with both the product and the code.
I'm not sure what your issue is, but Bartle co-developed MUD before it became a generic term, in the 70s, so his taxonomy of game players is seen through that lens.
I have divine intellect as God's avatar filled with HolySpirit. You are brainwashed retardniggers with attitude.

God says...
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Agreed, bank managers need to face personal consequences for reckless behavior that has negative externalities on society.

I'm personally in favor of criminal prosecution but I don't see that happening. Indeed I'm generally in favor of keeping banks large for returns to scale benefits, but the political perversion of large banks may offset that benefit
Show HN: Rejection Conditioner for YC Applications
Is it common knowledge that they don't?
> The only person who got something out of the Nokia deal is Elop

I think this wasn't a bad outcome for Nokia. Android was quickly killing Symbian, and I doubt Nokia would've been too successful using Android.

They kept all the patents, maps, and $7.2B that allowed them to considerable strengthen their other business.
Hey all,

This is a weekend project that drew inspiration from my own experiences of getting rejected from various applications. Although I personally haven't applied this time around, I know the sinking feeling of seeing a rejection email pop into your inbox and reading the lines "We're sorry to inform you..." I hope you find this useful and welcome feedback to improve on this.
Based on USDA research [0], it seems like an alcoholic spirit will retain 85% alcohol content after being heated by stirring into a hot liquid.

[0] https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/80400525/Data/retn/ret...
Wrapping Subprocesses in Asyncio
What does this comment even mean? If their employees do not like the compensation package they should negotiate better or leave. Have you worked there? Do you know what the total compensation package is or are you just knowledgeable about base salary?

Negotiate if you want better comp. Nobody in this industry is a McDonald's/Walmart wage slave. Nobody is putting a gun to anyone's head and forcing them to work for GitLab.
New ALM System – Rapid Spike (Audio)
Wow. This is borderline unreadable.
> All the local McDonald's here have installed self-ordering kiosks. They're fast and seem very popular. I personally find it significantly easier and faster than waiting in line and talking to an actual human. (And this is coming from someone who hates self-checkout lines at grocery stores.)

I have had fast-food workers mess up my order so many times that I'd rather just give it to a machine.

There are few things more annoying than taking my food to the table, seeing something on it that shouldn't be, walking back to the counter, saying "Excuse me, I asked for no lettuce or tomato", and waiting for them to re-make it.
Does the new round going to help with reliability problems? I use GitHub ~90% of time and I can't recall any downtime, while for GitLab it's very often to see it being unavailable.

I find the service great but it's really frustrating to see it being down so often.
Astronauts are qualified as EMT as part of their astronaut training.
That's true of advertisement as well.
I speak at conferences/developer meetups on a regular basis, and this is intriguing.

I have two primary concerns:

1) When you’re doing a live presentation, making the occasional mistake is not only expected, it helps prove that what you’re doing is really live. With a tool like this, everything might be TOO perfect. Might have to start incorporating intentional flubs into the script to make things authentic.

2) I haven’t tried this out yet, but I wonder what happens when something goes wrong. I’ve had too many live situations impacted by some unforeseen thing. Forgot to clean up the working directory last time I ran the demo, or who knows what. I’d want to have the ability to take over the controls if needed.

And of course, the antidote to #2 is having very carefully planned repeatable steps with a “cleanup” at the beginning or end to prep for the next time around.

All said, very cool, and I’ll be trying this soon.

Edit: Downvotes, really?
If you're having trouble visualizing what this does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4_UhFloISY
I'm looking at Aurelia and really think it has potential
Why? Is CSV easier to write than LaTeX? I prefer something like org-mode tables which are actually easy to write.
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10K is nothing for a decent mobile developer in the U.S. Even at a very low salary of $120K in a major metropolitan city. That's a month's salary. Could he have ported the app in a month working 160 hours?
Two months ago, the internet tried to banish Nazis. No one knows if it worked
Web servers' performance benefit from concurrent programming models. Concurrent programming is certainly possible in Java, but Java/JVM is not particularly well suited for it compared to other languages/VMs, e.g. Erlang.
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I'd rather a site wasted my electricity than my time.
You can judge yourself, their Compensation Calculator is at the bottom of https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/developer/
My professor always said:

"ideas are like hemorrhoids, every asshole sooner or later gets some"
What sources is this argument based on? Don't they have a mainly remote team?
YC Application Advice from African Startups
Nothing new, not a guide, just some links to Tensorflow and some images from popular machine learning videos.
> Profits are either returned to shareholders or accumulated (and returned later).

That's a false dichotomy. The article specifically mentions other alternatives, such as raising employee's wages or raising the number of employees (both of those examples result in more tax revenue for the government as well).
Kenya’s Cryptocurrency Agents of 2017 remind me of airtime p2p networks of 2006
It still works - I can use the time that I don't spend trying to figure out shipping costs to do some work and earn money instead.
Daydreaming is a form of entertainment. They take a minute a week to play, but can take hours imagining - or discussing with others - what they'll do if they win.

I wouldn't recommend it, but I can understand it.
I've hired a lot of engineers and I've seen this a number of times. In my experience once someone gets to the point of interviewing and considering another job, well, they're on the way out. I've done the counter offer and tried to get them to stay a number of times and it just never tends to work out -- they take the offer and then within six months they are out anyway.

What I always do though is try and keep a good relationship with all departing staff so if there's a critical need for knowledge that only they have, they can be brought back on a consulting basis for specific problems. That way people can leave and organizationally you're not stuck in a bind.
No, they can't.

First of all, only paying out part of the balance at once is very different from paying out part of the balance instead of the full balance. A bank can not unilaterally declare that their 100 dollar debt to you is paid by giving you 50 dollars. If they pay out 50 dollars, they still owe you 50 dollars.

But more importantly: No, they can not even unilaterally delay the payout. If you have demand deposits of a million bucks with a bank, that means that you can at any point demand they pay out a million bucks, and when you demand that, they are legally required to do so, and if they can't fulfill a legal obligation to pay, that is exactly the definition of bankruptcy. If they fail to immediately declare bankcruptcy, the management is on the hook for any losses due to that failure of theirs.

Banks might limit what their ATMs pay out per person per day or something, say, but that does not change anything about their obligation to fulfill any requests to pay out your balance immediately. Just because the ATM doesn't allow you to demand a payout of a million dollars, doesn't mean they have any legal option to refuse if you go to the cashier and express your demand that they pay out a million dollars right now. At best they might not have a million dollars on site, in which case they possibly might be allowed to have you wait for however long it takes to move the cash from the central bank to the branch that you are at, but that is certainly not more than a day.
You have to consider this in the context at the time. Yes it would have been expensive, but Microsoft was investing BILLIONS into Windows Phone. Microsoft and partners spent something like $700 million dollars just on marketing for the launch of Windows Phone 7[1,2].

To spend that kind of money on marketing and then not dedicate resources to the actual product seems foolish. And I am not saying they should have done this for only one app. I am saying they should have done this for many apps. If they had created quality versions of, say, the top 25 apps for mobile at the time they would have been in a much better position. I believe they could have made significant traction with business users. Remember, at the time Office wasn't available on other platforms and was (is) a huge draw for many people.

If they had been successful with the strategy and gained market share the partners would have wanted to take over their own apps anyway to enable monetization. But they needed users for that and to get users they needed apps. You have to jump start it somehow.

Now, would it have made any difference? Who knows. But IMO, you either need to not do it or you need to do all parts of it right. You can't go half way on the ecosystem and expect to succeed in an already challenging market.

1: https://techcrunch.com/2010/08/26/microsoft-half-billion-dol...
2: https://techcrunch.com/2012/01/04/microsoft-oems-pledging-20...
> Or , they could pay the tax and use the money (crazy idea I know).

Or just use the super low interest rates and borrow against the money, which is exactly what they have been doing.
Donald Trump now has the excuse he needs to open the floodgates of protectionism
Really cool, I've needed this quite a number of times. Thanks for the tip!
Scrap the mortgage interest deduction
I don't think the problem was primarily the lack of apps but a major reason to use Windows mobile.

With iOS you get the high end hardware and deep integration with Apple's ecosystem.

With Android you get deep integration with Google's services and a wide range of devices in prices and features.

What did you get with Windows mobile?
1) http://www.drumkit.co

2) Built in Objective-C with a custom audio engine in C++. Audio latency on Android was horrible at that time, MS was probably worse. It would have been a terrible app on those platforms if I did port it. This was before cross-platform toolkits existed. It needed to be a native app with low level access audio to hardware. I wasn't going to make an app where you tap a drum and wait 100ms to hear a sound.
I'm right handed and put my car keys in the left pocket, just because I use them less than my phone!
Sounds like he's the guy starting the research / work on it if you cannot find anything else on the matter. Not sure if anyone else is, though others might further inspect his claims by independent tests.
Musk knows that it is not the ideal environment for human health. But Musk also knows that the rate-limiting step is not human health in space, but the cost of getting to space. We can not move forward in making a healthy environment for humans in space if we're not putting hundreds of ambitious, fearless humans in space at low cost per human.
Wow, that really is a beautiful piece of software. I think the compensation it returns for Hamburg is very much on point and definitely fair.
Resistive screens don't help with that in practice. Physical buttons do.
Did everything they could...

Ah, yes. $100 per app. I'm sure that's what most apps cost to produce. /s

It seems like they did a few things, but never actually, you know, paid app developers to build out their ecosystem.