skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Am I missing something or does the author not explain why bring back specifically the $500 bill?

Inflation? "[...] despite the amount of inflation that has occurred since 1969 (a $500 bill is now worth less, in real terms, than a $100 bill was worth in 1969)." -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_denominations_of_United_...

The $500 bill pictured in the article is a gold certificate: "Redeemable In Gold On Demand at the United States Treasury"... Looks like all $500 gold certificates were printed in 1928, as the 1934 high-denomination bills were only used for intra-federal reserve transfers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_denominations_of_United_...
There's someone working towards this as part of the Blink app for iOS: https://github.com/blinksh/blink/pull/281

I could see this getting onto the app store eventually.
> If you think it useful to keep cash stuffed in your mattress in $500 notes, and there's a massive disaster that shuts down all the banks... where are you going to convert that $500 into everyday spending money?

Since the Fed, which issues currency, is, in large part, the banks themselves, if a disaster causes a general banking collapse, you've got bigger problems with the value of your cash than whether you can convert denominations.
I understand the concept of what the data shows and how the all this comes about. However, I find it almost impossible to interpret the map. I understood the parent to have the same issue.
Not here. My sentiment is 'I have no idea what I am doing'
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PL/I is probably the most unpleasant language I have ever had to deal with. It makes C, without warnings, look as safe as a nuclear bunker.

The best quote that resonates with me, has to come from an unattributed UNIX fortune file:

> Speaking as someone who has delved into the intricacies of PL/I, I am sure that only Real Men could have written such a machine-hogging, cycle-grabbing, all-encompassing monster. Allocate an array and free the middle third? Sure! Why not? Multiply a character string times a bit string and assign the result to a float decimal? Go ahead! Free a controlled variable procedure parameter and reallocate it before passing it back? Overlay three different types of variable on the same memory location? Anything you say! Write a recursive macro? Well, no, but Real Men use rescan. How would a language so obviously designed and written by Real Men not be intended for Real Man use?

C, with it's almost-assembly and fairly predictable semantics was an absolute blessing.
Why do people keep giving Magic Leap money?
Cars are a special thing in US trade deals. Free trade or not, the US auto industry gets special protections. This is also true of other countries (Canada, Europe etc) but is most true of the US.
long tail? depends on what you are talking about.

previously, companies couldn't focus on the long tail because there were many limitations. For example. say you want to sell sodas, there are only so many types you can fit on a truck / shelf, etc. Then came the internet, so the idea was you could chase the long tail and sell xyz soda that only .01% of the market would drink.

the problem is, people tend to do things that fit Dirichlet distributions, and a consequence of that is double jeapardy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_jeopardy_(marketing)

the part in the link thats important is that brands with lower market share aka 'niche' products, people also tend to buy less frequently.

I see this all the time dealing with people. someone will be like 'i love x, its the bset, i dont understand why people dont love x so much, people who love y aren't dedicated as i am'. (y being the mass liked thing). but when you crunch the numbers, almost always people who like y consume y more than the zealot x. even more damning, the majority of the time the x zealot actually consumes y more than x.
Fastmail is the best of the non-gmail email providers imo. Plus they're a simple business: you give them money and they give you email. You should check them out.
Is that possible for international flights? My impression is that you're kinda forced to get there super early. But maybe I'm doing this wrong.

I'm also used to doing international flights from cities where the airport is super far away. For example Charles De Gaulle is still a 45 minute train ride away from a lot of useful stuff. DFW's a bit out there too.

The dream is obstensibly Shinkansen-style "get there in the morning, leave in the evening and be back before bedtime" flows. Is that doable with smaller international flights already?
Tesla will let you use their patents for free. They will let anyone use them, even direct competitors. There is no charge.

Any other IP could just be reverse engineered, for the most part.

https://www.wired.com/2014/06/tesla-just-gave-all-its-patent...
It's more like "engineering is simpletons' work; not anything like the deep mathematics of computer programming that I do."
"want your target language to be dumb, tiny, and explicit."

What would be your choices?
Interesting you say that. The creator of elm said he compiles to JS because it is so easy.
But I want another solely for driving around town. The city I live in is barely 15 kilometres (about 10 miles) across. Any of the currently available EVs would suit my needs.

If I want to go out of town I'll take my turbo diesel camper.
Even with a magnetic field, would the moon's gravity be sufficient to retain an atmosphere?
The 2DS XL is more of a budget friendly 3DS, but is it still worth it in 2017?
Fun note for those who weren't aware: he's been known to post here at HN from time to time as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=alankay1
Post a blog on how you pull it off, I'm looking to go this route too. I knew when google bought YouTube it would eventually go down the tube. I got rid of my television years ago but all the standard ads rolling into YouTube makes it closer to old broadcast tv ad experience in one off fashion.
Well, it could be ceramic, which is what some competition cars use, and that wouldn't rust. But I doubt it.
Advertising is the only source of medical knowledge?

News to me. ;-)
This is less "collapse of the financial system" and more "all the infrastructure be fucked and ATMs don't work," as posited in the article.
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As far as I know, it is all patents. Here is another source, as linked in my above post:

https://www.wired.com/2014/06/tesla-just-gave-all-its-patent...
There appears to be a very big demand for a more private world, it seems. A lot of people here do see what's under the hood and it's a natural reaction to want to go back to the good old days when people respected privacy.
فيلم سكس اخوات اخ واختة المراهقة اجمل نيك ساخن
Kind of weird this wasn’t done earlier...
> is that a valid hypothesis ?

No, unless you have some solid studies at hand that would clearly support your „hypothesis“, it is nothing more than a highly biased imputation.

Here is my antithesis: Elixir/Erlang doesn‘t sustain for a small mid-sized org in terms of building maintainable software. Elixir/Erlang requires more maintenance (higher learning curve -> much less clear code -> more bugs -> more developers needed).

Now does this sound like a valid hypothesis to you? Probably not, until I would be able to back my claim by solid numbers.
Send your name to Mars on a microchip
Levi Smart Jacket is the tech we dream of for the future, it could get better
Outlook/Hotmail still hasn't figured it out. It seems to get it 50% wrong, putting important email in junk, and highlighting phishing mail.
While insightful, you very strangely answered a personal question directed at another user. How could you know what they eat?
The Philippines just got its first billion-dollar startup
How We Became the First VR Tour Platform Available in Arabic
Nice! I built a very similar prototype a few years ago when I was working on a mobile app. My test suite would upload screenshots, and I would have a gallery where I could see all the screenshots that had changed. It was incredibly useful, and I wanted to turn it into a side-project or startup. But I was always worried that CircleCI or TravisCI would add the feature and make my service obsolete. I think I was wrong to worry about that though. Percy launched a little while ago and seems to be doing really well: https://percy.io

My new startup has a very large number of competitors, and I've learned the lesson that competitors are generally a good thing.

Appraise looks much more polished and ready to use. I'll definitely be trying it out for my current project. I had a bad UI bug recently where I forgot about scrollbars on Windows (I used offsetWidth instead of scrollWidth.) I would like to take a lot of screenshots on different browsers and platforms, to make sure I don't have any regressions. I'm going to look into using Appraise for that.
Personal finance for hackers, makers, and entrepreneurs
Apartments are tough problems to solve. Their electrical service doesn't supply enough electricity to handle the number of chargers that are going to be desired. So they have to consider something like ChargePoint, which will intelligently manage the load, but then ChargePoint asks each resident something like $50/month just to have an account (their website says "You pay a low monthly service fee plus the cost of electricity.", but the service fee I saw quoted was ~$50/month).
>As the number of contributors grow, and as Wikipedia progressively moves from a no information recorded, to a most information recorded state, we would actually expect contributor growth to fall.

This is true, but I also believe Wikipedia is beset by the Iron Law of Bureaucracy. Over time, the meaning of "an encyclopedia anyone can edit" has shifted from "you can just go and contribute what you know!" to "write what you want, but it'll just get removed unless you spend lots of time learning our rules."
I'm sure they will accept your money all the same.
python3 -m http.server
http://localhost:8000/ # on phone

However, I haven't been able to access a server running on termux on my phone from anywhere else. I suspect servers are blocked by my mobile ISP (makes sense!), but I never got to the bottom of it.

Should work over wifi though.
Long time (but not very religious about it) Linux user here.

What operating system allows you to "not worry about" OS security updates, and how is it different from Linux?
Nearly every remote job I've seen in US citizens only or US timezone only
> But they are now reporting contracts with airlines, including nonrefundable deposits

Partial payments like that are an investment in the chance that Boom will deliver something exceptional; they avoid not being in the first wave if Boom succeeds.

It doesn't mean they think the chances of Boom producing a worthwhile product are > 50%.
Wow, this article's claim that text is what enables us to think is incredibly elitist.

But is it true?

Are illiterate people incapable of rational thought? Oral traditions are deep wellsprings of human knowledge and culture.

Knowledge and culture is not the same as rational thought. Of course you can reason without writing, but the manipulation of thoughts is much easier when you can write them, the same as you can make calculations much more easily when you can write the operations.
Using deep learning for text classification
7 Recommendations for Data Science Leaders (in the Game Industry)
Thanks for building it!
Mistitled? Looks like title should be “Through the Looking Glass
- And into YCombinator”
Some good takeaways here, really love, "where you are now is not where you're going to be." Good perspective.
The Electronic Computers, Part 3: ENIAC
The 5% stake in Tesla Tencent took a few months ago was extremely strategic. Not only did Tesla get some much needed capital for Model 3 production, I'm sure Elon's friends at Tencent were happy to introduce Tesla to the right people in the Chinese government to make this deal happen and boost their Tesla stake. A crucial step as China will likely soon represent the biggest market for EVs (if it isn't already?). Just goes to show every entrepreneur how valuable equity in your company can be not just for access to capital, but also access to people.
I’m not trying to “take shots at” anyone’s parenting style. Merely pointing out that parenting styles and the general societal context has changed very dramatically in the past 50 years, and modern kids in urban areas of rich countries are raised in a way dramatically unlike most kids in history, and in general with much more pressure and much stricter constraints on their time and activities, much more sitting still, and much less unsupervised time. I can’t imagine that this is a very controversial claim, as a simple statement of fact. (Obviously some kids in the past had shitty lives working in textile factories or whatever, but society has decided that forcing children to do commercial work is exploitative, and banned that.)

My kid is 14 months old, but I can’t really predict what his days will be like in 10 or 15 years. I’m by no means sure I’ll want him roaming around doing the stupid seemingly dangerous shit that kids used to do 50 years ago. I’m pretty ambivalent about the form and content of standard schoolwork though, and I don’t know if I will be willing to subject him to 10+ years of it. I never really played video games much, but I can empathize with the kids who would rather play video games than do hours or pointless homework every day.
The Trump family demonstrates why America shuns hereditary rule
I met the International Product Manager for Cincom in a Smalltalk meetup once. She was complaining about the aggressive Pharo folks "badmouthing" Cincom and taking their business. One of the chip fabs previously running VW Smalltalk got taken by Pharo. I heard somewhere else that JPM were unhappy at the steep consultancy fees Cincom was charging, and the lack of VW Smalltalkers out there, but still wanted to keep things in Smalltalk. So it seems these rumours may be true if JPM has joined the Pharo Consortium.
Do you do vim with Gboard/SwiftKey or do you have a hardware keyboard?
I used it for SSH and scripts like youtube-dl. Also for the short time that I played Pokemon Go, I deployed a flask server (to track pokemon overlayed on gmaps) in termux and accessed it from Android's browser. It was sweet.
Thanks. That was a great explanation.
We are charging them at coffee shops, fast food restaurants, malls, with our cars, and anywhere else we can find a working plug. It's not easy but we do what we can because without communications there are no logistics, no deliveries, no banking, no news, and no jobs. I've got communications only a few days a week depending on where I go. My elderly parents who I help take care of have got no communications at all which is an added source of stress. Projects like Loon are essential for all of us (although I don't expect them to help much).

Fuel has been widely available for about two weeks now. Some businesses have been running with generators but it's not sustainable in the long run. Many others are trying to figure out whether they'll be able to reopen their doors in the future at all.
I'm highly skeptical considering Boeing and Airbus haven't been able to make a supersonic plane. This is not software where a couple of smart guys can code something decent up over a pizza-fueled weekend.
Trans-Pacific routes could also use supersonic planes, since longer distances mean even more time savings (Tokyo to Los Angeles in 5 hours instead of 10) and there's virtually nobody underneath to complain about the noise.
In practice it could be the same. I believe that, at some point, more common knowledge about knowledge will reach the masses, making them less like "masses".
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Is there a term for scientific claims made in this way? I saw something similar on reddit the other day where a commenter was trying to prove that a certain chemical was not harmful. It went something like "The reason we think this chemical is harmful is because of this study from the 60s which was done in 17 countries. But one country was excluded from the study because of inconclusive results. Which one? The US! The country that we care the most about, and there weren't solid results here!"
My Youtube account got banned 10 years ago with videos on it I made as a teen that are now gone forever. 7 years ago or so I had tried emailing their customer support which of course didn't get me anywhere. Is there any way I can get those videos back? Unfortunately I don't have any contacts at Google, but if I were to get in hold with someone who works there, is there anything in particular I should direct them to do?

I should be upfront and say that I got banned for uploading a video that was deemed inappropriate. I don't really fault them for banning the account, I just wish they had given me the chance to back up my other perfectly appropriate videos. I know those videos probably still exist on some hard drive on a Google server.
Oh shut. The fuck. Up. I’m absolutely sick of hearing this line. It has been almost a YEAR since our asshole-in-chief was elected. Nobody’s happy about it except the sycophants he shits on, and CEOs, but it’s the situation in which we find ourselves. It’s such a thought-terminating cliché and, frankly, intellectually lazy. Hillary lost. The democrats lost. They had a chance to take advantage of left-wing populism and failed, and they continue to fail... spectacularly!

Now either start organizing politically or continue to sit at home making one-off pithy comments on Hacker News.
it's almost like they are a bunch of nazis or something, man? lollibtardz. SEVEN MORE YEARS KIDDDDOOSSSS.
This nuanced explanation is sadly lacking in many places I encounter the phrase "liver damage". I have frequently read articles which would lead one to believe that things are bad for your liver linearly and are "unsafe at any speed". It's irritating.
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It's actually both. He's also able to buy whole business cheaper than what they'd go for in an auction. And he gets access to deals that allow him to leverage his brand name. (Example: Goldman Sachs https://qz.com/67052/heres-how-warren-buffett-made-3-1-billi...)
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It is the article author's own book. Their list of publications: http://u.osu.edu/zagorsky.1/sample-page/
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Why is it dangerous to allow the Chinese people to buy Tesla cars at market price?
It's false that you have to be a sysadmin to run Linux, and the users here know it perfectly well. There hasn't been a laptop (or desktop for that matter) I owned in the past ~8 years that hasn't worked flawlessly out of the box on the latest Ubuntu/Linux Mint (granted, with the exception of dedicated GPU drivers). And I got everything you mentioned: slick UX, good drivers, auto updates, fast boot on SSD. Granted, no integration with Google services, and I consider that a feature. I also have this little extra:

Owning my computer, as opposed to paying for it to be controlled by Our Benevolent Overlords.
Google's bug bounty to root out vulnerabilities in 3rd-party apps on Google Play
"... this was a bad example. People who really know c++ are having to turn jobs down right now. Fintech is all over my c++ acquaintances."

Yeah, maybe some easier language would have been a better example of dangerously shallow knowledge base.

The basic theme was to give a financial valuation to a knowledge base - in your example, I presume a software engineer who had financial experience and could explain his contribution in financial terms would still have an edge in negotiating a compensation over the one who didn't :) ?
Indian Aviation Visionary Runs into Bureaucratic Turbulence
Great article, just book marked it. Definitely appeals to people “like me” who align philosophically with HN types.

My biggest issue with it, and all diet advice that wants to “give it to you straight, it’s all about calories” is this — YES in order to lose weight you HAVE to burn more calories than you consume, there is no question about it, it’s tautological. But it’s kind of like saying, “in order to stay sober every night, you have to drink alcohol slower than your liver can process.” It’s true...but it doesn’t really answer the question you should be asking, which is “why are you an alcoholic?” The answer to that question is more complicated, but it’s the only question that matters.

Back to diet, when it comes to being lean — why were the vast majority of Americans lean in the 1950s back when almost no one did any formal exercise, especially women, and hardly anyone was counting macros, calorie counting, etc? They just naturally ate about as many calories as their body burned off. Their bodies had a mechanism to tell them to stop eating when they were full. So what’s the difference between people and food 60 years ago and people and food today? No other mammal on earth has gotten so obese as a percentage of the population as humans have. The answer to that question, I’d argue, is the only one that matters!

I think this is why the Paleo diet has taken off so well, because frankly we shouldn’t have to count calories, macros, etc to stay lean — yes, those methods work, but we should be able to simply rely on the signals our bodies are sending us, every other lesser mammal does this, and humans did it just fine 60 years ago.

TL;DR Yes, it’s all about eating fewer calories, BUT how you eat fewer calories has a big effect on whether you can sustain it long term and feel satiated.
Not the parent, but I've been reading the WebAssembly spec and that sounds like a perfect description. It's honestly probably one of the more ideal compiler targets
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I had to sign a binding arbitration agreement to purchase it.

The most egregious bug caused seatbelts to fail to deploy, so I assume there were at least injuries.

I just checked, and I don’t think the exhaust fires injured anyone (it happened 8 times before the recall, and at that point there were zero injuries).
so, not paleo. Does your wife have comments on the paleo diet thesis?
Apparently so does Mars though?
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103509...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15528685
>will continue to limit Russia

Russia doesn't seem very limited to me.

"Russia-China Bilateral Trade Up 30% In Q1 2017" [0]

"Russia upgraded to top rank in world wheat exports in 2017-18" [1]

"In Moscow, Saudi king slams Iran, signs billion dollar defense, energy deals" [2]

"King Salman and Putin Deals Leave the U.S. Out in the Cold" [3]

"Russia, world's 2nd-biggest arms seller, wants to expand its arms sales abroad" [4]

[0] https://www.russia-briefing.com/news/russia-china-bilateral-...

[1] http://www.agrimoney.com/news/russia-upgraded-to-top-rank-in...

[2] https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-moscow-saudi-king-slams-ira...

[3] https://www.rand.org/blog/2017/10/king-salman-and-putin-deal...

[4] http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-russia-poised-to-expand-it...
Different car.
This makes me sad for 2 reasons.

Reason #1: They did a horrible job, this post reads like a list of things not to do.

Reason #2: They still did a much better job than my company. We had a similar rewrite from a reasonably well performing system to a dog slow monstrosity. However instead of acknowledging it was slow, we put on our doublethink hats and deployed anyways. "We" picked a couple metrics that were easier to game (time to first byte) and then we threw up our mission accomplished flag and moved on. We also wrote posts like this bragging about the performance improvements we'd made.

I hate the sort of "techcrunch driven development" that's so big in wanna-be facebook companies. Instead of solving business and customer needs, directors and vps are mostly focused on splashy articles and speaking engagements that make their resume look good.