skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We needed quality control as well, something which is very lacking at the moment. The sheer amount of bugs I hit trying to get my daughter's Lumia 650 up was ridiculous.
Put the information on the package. Let consumers decide, irrational or not, there's a market for nonGMO. If you want to supplant that market with GM foods, do it through informing consumers not blending in with food they already trust. The labeling games producer's play with our food is really unfortunate.
More likely Matt knows a lot about running a free software business, which is what GitLab is for the most part.
Yes, though the passive guys can hire some clever marketing people just the same.
Your rainforest of innovation has turned into a factory farm.

If ever any sentence better described YC, its brethren incubators and demo days, I haven’t read it.
This view is ridiculously out of touch with reality. What you're describing is borderline cartoonish levels of evil. You make it sound like white males get together with conferences to discuss new ways of oppressing people.

The theory that explains this phenomenon needs to address how things still go wrong even when nobody has any dislike or prejudice.
Autobahn is a realtime platform to buy and sell currencies.
If only I could properly reprogram this WP8.1 phone I have here, it would've
been much more interesting.

But rooting/jailbreaking (in WP world called "Interop unlock") has always been
awkward and possible only for the most popular types of WP: Lumia, Samsung.

To write programs, it requires me to install Windows 8 or 10 — can't do with
Windows 7 or Linux.

Even if I write a program, this phone requires special developer unlocking
online for "sideloading" two apps maximum at a time, another arbitrary awkward
limitation which can be circumvented by shuffling around with an SD card:
loading an app into phone, moving the app to SD, disconnecting the SD, loading
another app and so on.

WP8.1 does have an ability to install an app from a file directly, but only if
it is signed with special enterprise signature, and that isn't cheap.

Of browsers, only IE and IE-based browsers exist for WP, and that means no
proper customization and of course no ad blocking.

So the platform looked quite hostile to me and I wasn't motivated to explore
any further.
The fundamental problem with this article is it presupposes that America used to love Silicon Valley. I think Silicon Valley loves Silicon Valley, and investors kinda-sorta love Silicon Valley, and the rest of us like Apple and begrudgingly use Facebook, because, well, what else is there?

It'd be nice if Silicon Valley did something other than make software to keep our noses in our phones.
Software is changeable but I think it's hard to change stuff for large applications as well. Just think of the massive work that goes into redesigning an enterprise application that users have been using for years.

It's not that easy..
Building a mobile automation lab (for relatively cheap)
From the pictures in the journal article, looks like he used an Arduino. Would be awesome if he posted the sketch somewhere...
Haven’t read this but if individuals aren’t economically rational, is the collective group? Or because we are organied in a hierarchy of decision makers (e.g. companies) are we always irrational?
There is no anger in the tone. People see it is angry and critical because they are upset by the opinion.
Economics makes no claims about what items, experiences or feelings should be demanded. It’s impossible to say that the students can’t value seeing a 95 on their test or that workers shouldn’t value not touching their retirement accounts. It’s actually a good thing when counterparties want to optimize different variables because it reduces the need to compromise, as the author brilliantly demonstrated in the anecdotes about test scoring and tax-advantaged accounts, and this kind of negotiation is modeled by economists.

The cost of obtaining and trusting information also explains a lot of “irrational” behavior, and it is modeled by economists.

Finally, I’ll note there are markets where buyers and sellers rationally prefer money and consistently act on that preference — simple models are sometimes useful, just like simple approaches in other fields.
Critics are typically ok with selective and cross breeding, and not ok with transgenics. This makes sense as they're in completely different risk domains. I'm far more comfortable with genetic alternation happening via natural mechanisms than by transgenics. The latter relies on the "genius" of the human, something which is inherently fragile.
So... its still going to go bad, but it just won't turn brown? And it won't be labelled, so I won't know its not an ordinary apple?

Sigh.
Isn't that what a warranty is?

I would imagine they have a standard manufacturer's warranty, and if you have a decent credit card, that warranty is usually extended.
Show HN: Digital Legacy, sending messages automatically when you've passed away
Cascading Data Sheet? that it exactly what i'd want. I saw yaml based templating like slim or haml but then thought it was such a shame to see 'div' or 'b', etc in there.
I do https://www.warbyparker.com/. Actually a fan of the build quality.
Wire fraud requires either a ‘scheme to defraud’ or ‘obtaining money or property by fraudulent pretenses’. So the money part is not required.

If proven it’s just an easy way to get higher sentences and thus more leverage in making plea deals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Home

http://www.htc.com/us/smartphones/htc-first/
It’s old money vs. new money. New money doesn’t respect the culture, rituals, and hierarchy created by the old guard. And because tech is printing money it doesn’t have to.
For anyone interested, Scientific American tells a bit more about the enzyme which causes browning in apples:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-why-cut-a...
It's false loyalty. People put up with Facebook, Apple, Google, etc with their fake "we care about you" marketing (could apps stop literally telling me this? it's weird), overpriced, and walled garden megalomania because they are addicted and their other options are mediocre walled gardens (look around).

People aren't stupid, they can sense when they are being used and those companies have treated their customers like cattle for the last decade or more. It's going to come crashing down one day, you can't treat customers with blatant disrespect time and time again and be shocked when they finally leave.
If you’re considering relocation as an option, I think you might find some interesting project (e.g. in Germany) at https://relocate.me/search?query=python#
It annoys me that fruit/vegs has to "look good". Anyone that has grown their own carrots know that the results you get are far from the "ideal carrot" :')

That being said, I believe GMO food is the future. It's safe and environmentally friendly: we can use far less land and water to produce larger amounts of crops.
This is a pretty weak article, and (from what I can make out), a pretty weak study too. Obviously, there's the usual concern about sample sizes (30 people does not a scientific study make), but this study is also self-selected (i.e. survey respondents chose whether to take part or not - obviously a considerable source of bias), and even more worryingly, it appears that the "study" in question is simply a survey where participants report changes in their own use of prescription drugs. So not only are there very few participants in the study - but they're also self-selected, and so are their answers. This is anecdata at its finest and really shouldn't be in a peer-reviewed journal. (P.S. the journal article itself isn't linked on the Chicago Tribune's website at all...).

I really think there is genuine medical potential to be discovered from cannabis and exploited for the greater good - but our enthusiasm to access these potential benefits should not get in the way of doing good science. This sort of badly-executed study just cheapens genuine efforts to do sensible research into its medical value.
KB4046355 Deletes Windows Media Player in Windows 10 Build 16299
This is partly why I've not put much stock into "Surface Phone" rumors, but am listening for whatever fascinating tidbits I can hear from the rumor mills of a "HoloPhone".
When you buy an apple in the store, unless it is labeled as "new crop" it has already been in storage for up-to a year.

http://www.foodrenegade.com/your-apples-year-old/
I think those early SV days were probably not that way. Hard to see Hewlett and Packard or the folks at Fairchild or some of the other firms out there acting the way SV folks act in 2017.

Can you imagine Bill Hewlett kicking some kids off a field because he had reserved it for his kick-ball team?
I love hawker centre food. Especially the uber greasy char kway teow. I mostly hung out with locals, and they didn't seem to be on the chubbier side. But I didn't make formal statistical comparisons with people from elsewhere in south east asia.

Once the sun's down, I didn't mind the weather one bit. I just avoided going out during the day.

It's a great place for barefoot running, and midnight shopping.
I don't see UBI as saying that someone's labour isn't worth anything, it just allows them the freedom to keep experimenting in order to find out what it is worth when applied to different jobs.
IIRC (citation needed) Granny Smith are quite hardy due to the acidity.
Browned apples aren't bad apples. You can currently splash a little lemon juice over them to the same effect (denaturing the enzyme that causes browning chemically instead of suppressing its expression generically).
>States have infant mortality rates on par with Thailand, Romania and Fiji

The reason for this is we are more liberal in what we define as an infant as compared to a fetus.
I agree. It can also go the other way though. I sometimes order almond milk from Starbucks. If I give the order to a human I can make some judgement as to whether they have misunderstood and correct them, or outright ask them to confirm their understanding. If I give the order to the app then the app understands perfectly but I will have to sort out any subsequent human misunderstanding after it's been made. My local branch have got it wrong twice in 5 attempts via the app (they tend to assume I want coffee with almond milk because what crazy person just wants almond milk)
Didn't the iPhone launch US-only?
For the rank and file of tech the problem can't be eliminated until more than 20% of the STEM pipeline is comprised of women. This means fighting sexism at the startup level is useless, you better encourage young people to get into science by making it sexy and not for social outcasts. If there is sexism to fight against it is in education with how maths and physics are painted as "for dorks" instead of showing how you do some crazy awesome things.

For the management level you have two problems:

- people tend to prefer people with technical baggage to handle technical teams. So you're back to the pipeline problem

- for the exec level you usually get older people for established companies. So it is a question of time for things to get better: current execs are from 1 or 2 generations past. Once those generations are replaced they'll mechanically have more women, those who are currently in their late 30s and working on their career. You don't have a lot of 20ish men at those positions.

For the startup founders you just need an idea, some seed money and time.
Yep. They also don't know what to do with him now that his character is, by their own admission, "some kind of fucked up God."

This season was originally going to have four more episodes that would address this but Harmon and Roiland didn't know how to resolve it properly. They admitted that the final episode was originally an arbitrary one which they "finale-ized" to wrap up the season.
I kind of agree and disagree with the criticisms in this thread. For a while in season 2 I didn't watch much of the show for pretty much the reasons given here. Nevertheless, I watched a good bit of the first and third seasons, including the [IMHO excellent] finale of Season 3 that prompted Elon Musk to get into a twitter discussion with the show about singularities and partying like Kurt Cobain. [1]

Rick and Morty are, I think, intended to be more archetypes rather than actual people most of the time, although sometimes their humanity (particularly Morty's, which is leveraged for comedic effect) shows through. Rick is definitely shown to have something of a softer side that he keeps deeply hidden.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15424659
Nope but your argument is the same.
How do you plan on supporting user/process level coroutines and multiple stacks / stack switching within the same turf? Obviously the CPU needs to be involved because you've got all the ancillary belt and spiller state that needs to be switched as well.

For that matter have you guys touched on how stack unwinding is going to be handled yet? How do I implement exception handling, longjmp, CL's non-local GOTO, etc?
Sure, no arguments with the crediting; I was using 'BartleMUDs' as a shorthand term to specify about 3 games (MUD, MIST, LAND) that were based on the same codebase at Essex University, without reference to who actually did what.
The problem there is that a business has employees and those employees don't want to own Windows Phones personally and at the same time businesses don't want to provide each employee a company phone either.
That’s not a priori, that’s given X, this follows. Had the dominant race been, say, Chinese, had the dominant sex been women, there is no reason to think the sexist and racist people would be behaving any differently than they are now.

We still need to stop the racists and sexists. My personal short-term benefit from being in the “right” group comes at the hidden cost of 96.75%* of the world not being treated fairly or given tools that genuinely help them.

* 6.25% of humans are “white”, according to wikipedia
It’s not loyalty at all, it’s just people using the best product available to them. If someone creates something better than Facebook people will use that thing and won’t feel any remorse in switching. Until that happens, people will continue to use Facebook, because despite what Hacker News thinks, Facebook adds a huge amount of value to peoples’ lives.
Apples are more discovered than bred. They don't breed true, so 2 delicious apples that are crossed will produce an assortment of characteristics.

A lot of the commercial varieties have lineages that are high in sugar.
I'm getting pretty tired of Rick and Morty fans blowing the greatness of the show way out of proportion. I love the show, but not because it's "smart" or "nihilistic' or because it references science. It's a zany cartoon with witty dialog, and it's hilarious, but to claim it's more profound than that has so far proven to be little more than reading too far into it. Referencing pop culture isn't "smart" in and of itself, and it doesn't require extraordinary intelligence to recognize.

By the way, Rick is not a nihilist. He might be very careless and ambivalent, but that doesn't translate to any form of nihilism I'm aware of; in the case of the show, he's definitely not en existential nihilist, and it's arguable that he's not even a moral nihilist. The rest of the characters on the show are not nihilists; myopic would be a more accurate description. You want a really nihilistic show? Watch Seinfeld.
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On wages: the lowest pay they offer in London Ontario is higher than my current salary, & I've been given a 10k raise over the course of the past two years. Figured I'd mention seeing people going as far as getting into the topic of minimum wage. Slippery slope

(as an aside, totally for hire)
It was in the same conversation thread:

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> It's a modus-operandi of the Russian intelligence apparatus

I believe that. KGB has been doing that since it was formed. Technically they might not have been sophisticated but they were good at planting stories and spinning narratives. I remember the "US govt created AIDS to kill all the black people" fake news.

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Just below it
Agreed. I would love to see quick progress in that too (that is one of my projects).
> People generally do love Silicon Valley and what it creates.

It's more like they tolerate the 500 pound gorilla in the room because there isn't an alternative.

Non-techies I associate with constantly complain about the poor quality of software, hardware (even Apple's devices, which regularly freeze and fail in all the ways any others might) and support. It's the best we have. It doesn't mean it's good, or that people are "in love" with it.
I think the nihilism fits very well because if you could travel to an infinite possibility of dimensions you would see the world as a very different place.

All the things people argue and worry about mean nothing.
You can't say "white males" on HN without getting slaughtered. I think a fairer way to phrase this is people with power discriminate. Consciously and unconsciously. Doesn't matter if they are white, non white, male, or female. We just happen to live in a society where most positions of power have been historically held by one group.
You don't know how untrue this is, couple of things. First lets start with this qoute

"According to Kantar's October 2013 report, Windows Phone accounted for 10.2% of all smartphone sales in Europe and 4.8% of all sales in the United States."

and then this one

"Microsoft announced new data from IDC indicating that Windows Phone is the second-most-used mobile platform in Latin America."

Lastly, do you not remember the launch of the iPhone? Not only was it only available in the US, you could only get it on AT&T.

There can be many reasons Windows Phone failed, but what you've mentioned isn't one of them.
>The problem with them is that Juciero was an immensely dumb idea that was never checked or questioned and thereby wasted tons of money

Like bottled water. The idea of people paying 1600x markup for something they got essentially free while creating massive amounts of waste when sports bottles already existed. When bottled water came out, I remember thinking, "that's a friggin' joke."

It sure worked out though.
> If someone creates something better than Facebook people will use that thing and won’t feel any remorse in switching.

"If you don't want someone doing cocaine, make a better cocaine!"

> Facebook adds a huge amount of value to peoples’ lives.

https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/185/3/203/2915143/Assoc...

"Face-to-face social interactions enhance well-being. With the ubiquity of social media, important questions have arisen about the impact of online social interactions. In the present study, we assessed the associations of both online and offline social networks with several subjective measures of well-being. We used 3 waves (2013, 2014, and 2015) of data from 5,208 subjects in the nationally representative Gallup Panel Social Network Study survey, including social network measures, in combination with objective measures of Facebook use. We investigated the associations of Facebook activity and real-world social network activity with self-reported physical health, self-reported mental health, self-reported life satisfaction, and body mass index. Our results showed that overall, the use of Facebook was negatively associated with well-being. For example, a 1-standard-deviation increase in “likes clicked” (clicking “like” on someone else's content), “links clicked” (clicking a link to another site or article), or “status updates” (updating one's own Facebook status) was associated with a decrease of 5%–8% of a standard deviation in self-reported mental health. These associations were robust to multivariate cross-sectional analyses, as well as to 2-wave prospective analyses. The negative associations of Facebook use were comparable to or greater in magnitude than the positive impact of offline interactions, which suggests a possible tradeoff between offline and online relationships."

Facebook is toxic.
Snow Leopard was a glorious dream of stability and reliability. I miss it.
All this needs is a little bit of misogyny and a Star Wars reference and this comment would everything wrong with nerds in one post.
Honestly, I really don't really like this pick.

Behavioral economics is extremely popular, especially outside economists themselves. But the problem is that it keeps repeating the same findings. We get it, people are not rational. You can read 150 year old economics books that mention these things. There is a 'behavioral economics' movement every 40 year.

The research that I find 100x more interesting is the research that actually looks at real world institutions and tries to figure out how it is possible that these things work even if you assume irrational humans. Why can you get almost anything delivered in 2 days if every single human in the chain is highly irrational.

The Nobel in 2009 was about those sort of things, but they don't get enough attention.
That's very true for Windows Phone. The animations definitely got irritating.
DMCA: Completely Disregarded by the MPAA?
Problem with that is it sounds scary. Some big companies already are and hide the text on the bags, but your average consumer sees it and thinks it’s full of chemicals.

Personally, I’d rather eat a gm crop that’s been altered to resist insects than eat an organic crop that’s been sprayed with organic pesticides such as (the now not used) rotenone.
It is definitely a counterpoint. If we have no idea how to create the basic functions what makes you think we have an idea of how to make those basic functions incorporate goal alignment?

If we don't have the new branch of math... how are we supposed to bend that branch of math to our will?

I think we all agree that AGI should share our ideal values. What now?

We don't even have a basic self-aware algorithm to work with. What do you propose we modify and how should we modify it to get goal alignment?

We generally don't fund philosophy very highly (and maybe that is a mistake). Right now it is a philosophical question, not a practical concern to which resources can be applied.

EDIT: I don't think we should ignore AI safety at all. I just think our safety concerns should match our technology concerns right now those are physical robot safety and job loss potential. Not runaway intelligence.
That doesn’t solve the issue. It just pushes the responsibility of holding all this data onto the signer instead of the validator, which is a free choice. But signers are usually more space constrained than validators.

And there is no connection between privacy guarantees and this issue. I’m not sure what you’re getting at there.
There's a difference between ideas that seem dumb and ideas that are dumb. The problem is that Juciero was in the latter category. We didn't have to pour millions of dollars into it to figure that out; do you think the creators of bottled water spent anywhere near that much, or over-engineered their product half as crazily?

Put another way, do you imagine that nobody at Nestle or wherever stood up and said "this is a dumb idea" when bottled water was being devised? And how would you imagine the creators of the idea answered that challenge?
Was this in a mailing list thread? Got a URL? I'm unaware of this.
I don't see the connection between paper money and land value tax. One of the reasons economists like taxing land is that the supply is perfectly inelastic---literally fixed to be precise. So a tax can't distort the market.

If you can read German and like some historical musings in this direction (including about money), do read Silvio Gesell. https://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~roehrigw/gesell/nwo/nwo.pdf
Are you sure reinstalling Windows doesn't involve reformatting? Reformatting doesn't usually mean you zero out the drive.