skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the perspective of a consequential (results-driven) libertarian rather than deontological (morally-driven), it's arguable.

A libertarian generally opposes government involvement because it creates inefficient pricing errors in the economy, such as subsidies. The argument for a carbon tax is that, for those who believe in climate change, it will actually minimize the current pricing error by taking into account the externalities that the carbon will create.

The only question is then what the tax should be priced at, and by whom, in order to accurately reflect the damage.
Isn't the band gap a fundamentally quantum phenomenon?
But that's precisely the mechanism by which supply crises are resolved. A shortage leads to a sharp rise in the price of the material, which creates a profit opportunity for the development of unconventional supplies. The increased supply then resolves the crisis.

You can't assume the lack of innovation when our whole economic system is built to encourage innovation where most needed.
Tbh, we'd likely have a much more equitable society if people only prioritized compensation for their careers.
> Maybe there's an emerging market for robot funerary services.

Truth is stranger than fiction. http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201706090040.html
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Short version: Perl, Delphi, and VBA are the most disliked languages.
If you also support react native using their canvas, it might be a pretty sweet addition. Plotting libraries are somewhat missing in react-native.
The links cover the details. There isn't much more to it.

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/iommu/2017-Octob...

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10027523/
So a homeless person who chooses it is "financially independent?" At some point the phrase just doesn't have a meaning at all.
chart.js isn't perfect, but it's pretty easy to customise and remove/change any element you don't like. I find it hard to believe it was easier for you to create an entirely new charting library than to set the option to remove ticks.

I'm not complaining because it's always good to have options and I really like the look of your library. I just find it a very curious use of resources.

Of course, it's your business and you can do whatever you like with it regardless of whether you have a good reason. :-)
Like Alexa, but cuddly.
I was surprised to see Ruby attracting much dislike. I had the impression that it was a language explicitly designed to be used by human programers to express ideas, although with poor runtime performance. What could be the reason?
Yep, covered that right in my reply. I'm aware I have anecdata, not saying otherwise.

I was actually saying tech is a nice bubble, not denying it exists.

I know enough that go that I've formed a nice community. Whether meeting IRL or not, it probably depends on the "kind" of friend you're considered. Japanese folks tend to put their friends in groups.
> preserve that moment for posterity.

Well for as long as they don't shut down the service, which is going to be hell shorter than "posterity".
I have been working full-time on Kudu since its early development. As others have mentioned, Arrow and Kudu are quite different. Despite the controversial-sounding title of Daniel Abadi's article, his content was actually reasonable and his conclusion in the final paragraph of the article is worth reading. In summary, he acknowledges that in-memory and on-disk columnar formats have different goals and both have their place (Arrow being an in-memory format).

Apache Kudu is much more than a file format - it is a columnar distributed storage engine. One way to think of Kudu is as mutable Parquet, but really it's a database backend that integrates with Impala and Spark for SQL, among other systems. It's fault tolerant, manages partitioning for you, secure, and much more. For a quick introduction to Kudu you can check out this short slide deck I put together over a year ago... it's a bit dated but a good overview: https://www.slideshare.net/MichaelPercy3/intro-to-apache-kud...

For more up-to-date information, follow the Apache Kudu Blog at http://kudu.apache.org/blog/ or follow the official Apache Kudu twitter account @ApacheKudu.
The two questions I ask every interviewer
ITT: Most industries are really bad at sharing data in a standardized manner.

This isn't really that surprising considering that there aren't that many IT trade groups for specific industries. While I hate sitting in meetings as much as the next guy what this really requires is each industry's insiders forming a trade group and agreeing on coherent[0] standards, anything else and we'll be back here next week/month/year complaining about the same thing.

[0]And of course this is where it all falls apart if you can form that trade group, a lot of this hinges on the people acting against their nature, unfortunately.
In the last dot bomb, I was very tempted to buy an Aibo. I’m still tempted and I don’t feel like it’s the same kind of dot bomb.
This is awesome! Are there any plans to launch in Delhi region as well?
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Might be a bad idea of you work a lot.
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English version of the page: http://aibo.sony.jp/en/
Standard Cyborg (YC) is hiring an iOS engineer
We're creating a platform to design custom-fit products at scale.

In our first vertical - orthotics and prosthetics, we have an international customer base (real traction and revenue) and our software is taught to the new generation of students.

We're looking for a senior iOS engineer to join our engineering team (currently 2 people). You will own the iPad app and contribute to other parts of our stack.

Our iPad app is a key priority for us - and will be the primary interface for how all custom-fit products in the future are scanned and designed.

let's talk! jeff@standardcyborg.com
How about owning a real dog? real dog over robot dog anyday for me.
It’s like the fashion industry, nothing new
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I have the original. Its fidget movements look like the new one’s fidgets on this splash page.
Poor performance, and Ruby likes magic. Magic methods and macros scare off a huge audience of programmers in the mainstream world. Rubyists tend to wholeheartedly embrace them, however.
It seems that the survey methodology here maps more to some mix of familiarity and popularity, rather than liking or disliking. They're basing the results on the technologies people indicate as being interested in working with (that's a like) and those they're not interested in working with (that's a dislike).

People are going to "like" the technologies they know and are familiar with. They're going to dislike popular languages that they may otherwise receive numerous offers about. Relatively uncommon languages are going to receive only popular votes since there's no incentive to dislike them. E.g. nobody's getting spammed with recruiters seeking R expertise. This explains why unpopular language also seem very well liked. When considered as a ratio, there's almost nobody disliking them and a handful of people liking them.

I think javascript's position here is the most clear example of the problems with methodology. I think it's safe to say that most consider javascript a flawed and undesirable language (compare to a hypothetical alternative), but at the same time there are a zillion javascript developers who are willing to work with javascript. So the raw number of people willing to work with it for a paycheck outweighs the dislike of the language itself.

Compare this to something like C#. My first thought (before considering the above) is that its lack of popularity was a cultural issue. It's maintained by Microsoft and is probably seen by many as a more corporate and established (in a somehow negative way) language. But then scroll down to their "tag rivalries" section and the real issue becomes clear. The people who most "dislike" C# are visual basic developers!
Moreover, whatever % of global browser share IE11 has, within the market of people who want charts, it's much higher. The simple chart is also the #1 feature priority of every business-IT product manager that has ever existed, narrowly beating "make it work in Internet Explorer".
When i see this pet robot, I fail to see what problem it solves. That's probably the biggest issue: no focus.
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I need something like this for my phone. I never used it but I heard about blackberry's messenger app that brought all the messaging services of its day together, why doesn't this exist on every platform today!?!?! (rhetorical, I know why)
Copyright laws need to be amended in today's digital age.
I watched a TV program almost 10 years ago regarding some kind of yellow sea dog like robot and a senior lady's strong attachment to it. It made me a bit sad. And I would reach that age one day...
Ask HN: How to find a marketing genius?
We are launching in an hardware startup in the cleaning field. We are both very techy. We had no previous experiences on the business side, but apparently we are not so bad there.
However, we know that we will soon need a guy to bring a more detailed analysis of the market, implement processes, and negotiate contracts.
As we have good backgrounds in tech, it is easy for us to interview tech profiles. As we are still learning in business, we don't know how to be sure this is the good guy, and what to expect from him/her.
Would you have some advices for interviewing people in marketing and find which one would be our associate?
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Because cars.

I mean, there's pages and pages to write, but basically it boils down to that. The bicycle existed before the car, will probably exist after it, but at least when cars and fuel was cheap, people preferred cars. So the infrastructure was and is built around cars. And car manufacturing, repairs, etc., are probably a trillion-dollar industry, so they are not really interested in anything that rocks the boat, and influence the political process to try and ensure this.

So on one hand you have a public that says, basically, "my car from my cold, dead hands", and on the other hand you have a giant industry which employs a significant number of Americans saying "we want to sell you those cars". It's sort of surprising there is any other transportation infrastructure at all.

It's not surprising the places you find the most alternative modes of transportation are where fewer people own cars. (E.g. NYC in particular, which I believe has the lowest rate of car ownership in the US.) There's a chicken-and-egg problem at work to get anything else funded.

Expecting the political process to lead us to a solution is, IMO, a mistake. The political process in the US lags behind public opinion by design, it does not lead (and often screws up when it tries). Public opinion needs to change first, then funding will change, and then infrastructure will change.
Then there is no lack of dog or cat cafes in town in most Japanese cities.
So, if bitcoin has no value in illegal trade, what is the intrinsic value bitcoin has left (other than speculative value, that is)? Honest question. To me, a couple of transactions per second with high fees compared to the competition does not sound attractive. Is it the optionality that the devs _may_ sort out the scalability issues and transform bitcoin to something big? Even then you still have the issue of volatility left which dramatically lessens the usability of bitcoin as a currency.
Anecdata: a few years ago I was at a party hosted by an acquaintance who's a town planner. He'd invited a bunch of his town planner workmates. I asked each of them if they owned a bicycle. None of them did. They all had luxury marque cars, paid for by the state.
English link (what you actually want to read): http://aibo.sony.jp/en/
Agreed. This seems like a slam dunk for him and creates bad optics of David vs Goliath for the company.

That said, he did come off as a bit of an unhinged person in his twitter tirade.
Just read Asimov's "A Boy's Best Friend"
A test can still be simple while providing garbage edge-case data.

In fact that’s usually one of my default tests to ensure that I have a well-defined behavior even in these cases.
Note that the data for "(dis) liked language" comes from answers to "language I would (not) like to work with" given by developers on the job market. I think those answers don't reflect so much the developers' sentiment towards the language, but their expectations about future job prospects in that language.
> It seems wrong to categorize the war in Iraq as part of The War on Terror(ism), since Iraq wasn't involved in 9/11.

If that's the criterion then none of the current US military engagements are part of the "war on terror".

That Vox explanation is also BS (as is everything else from Vox). The US has absolutely no issue with propping up authoritarian states, even Islamic fundamentalist ones like Saudi Arabia. The neocons are sales reps for the weapons industry, nothing more, and their members span both US political parties.
> you don't just walk up to people and strike up a conversation

I find this is not really true. This depends a LOT on the context in Japan. If you are in the train or in the street, yeah, it's not the right place to do that. But there are plenty of other places where such interactions happen naturally. Go in a bar? People will start talking to you. Go have dinner in a small izakaya? There's a good chance people will talk to you. Visit a tourist spot? There's a good probability something like that will happen as well. And not just with foreigners, this happens with locals as well.

So, it's far from being black or white. Just like a lot of statements I hear the whole time about Japan.
Great! But it found back some old groups with the same logo as a new group (what a pain if someone changes their phone, but I understand it is for security reasons), took me some tries to find what is what. It's doesn't sync back my older messages apparently, again, probably for security reasons. I was also unable to delete the old groups although they were long deleted from my phone, they popped up there again. After deleting them on my phone, they still remain on the desktop.
Yeah I didn't really get it. It sounds like there's a lot of nickel, just not ... as much cheap nickel as we'd like? Or maybe as much as some people who own certain nickel mines would like? I'm not sure.

It's like any other nonrenewable resource; there's going to be an extraction cost that increases over time as the easily recovered deposits are used up.

But unlike oil, which can only be used once and is then gone forever, nickel and other metals get brought out of the earth and into circulation, and can then be used over and over. So the price of both recycled and virgin nickel will increase until demand is met.

I'm curious when it starts to become advantageous to mine old landfills for all the stuff we used to throw away and not recycle...
It's too expensive to mine minerals and send them back to Earth. Until we are launching hundreds of rockets a day, we can forget about this.
This might be a good companion for elderly people.
Magic is exactly why I stayed away from Ruby. You have to learn some for every environment but Ruby was too much for me. Perhaps because I first saw it with RoR - which adds even more magic.
It is easy to repeat platitudes, but the data doesn't really show it. Take the ten most popular languages: Java - slightly negative, Javascript - positive, Python - positive, C# - slightly negative, PHP - negative, C++ - neutral, C - neutral, R - very positive, bash - positive, Swift - positive.

The interesting correlation here is that languages that are on their way out seem to be more disliked (Perl, Delphi, etc.). There are multiple possible explanations, e.g.: their usage is shrinking because they are disliked; or people dislike them because they are not 'sexy' anymore.
Deep sea mining seems more likely. The most valuable component of ferromanganese crusts, or manganese nodules, was the cobalt, even in the 1970s. More so today.

I don't think that the concept of asteroid mining is totally ridiculous, but I think it needs to be uncrewed, slow, with low delta-v. So even if you had a target asteroid and a robotic mining system all ready to go today, the products wouldn't reach terrestrial markets before a couple more decades passed.
https://youtu.be/sJciRIZQTg4
TVC on YouTube, in case you are interested. I found it on the bottom of the webpage (just a little logo).
For many Americans, myself included, cycling is only something we can do every so often.

I lived without a car for years, and I cycled 15 miles a day for commuting/chores. I developed pretty painful patellar tendonitis, and I went to physical therapy, which helped significantly (but didn't cure the issue).

I'm lucky if I can commute 3 days a week on my bike. I love it so much, I even do it when I'm in pain. But it's not possible to do it every day for me, without serious pain.

However, I'm currently converting my bike into an e-bike :) That will make it significantly easier on my poor old man joints.
Perl is like Crack. Feels so good to use it and it solves the narrow problem so fast. But when you have to go back to it you feel so dirty.
Iceland has some large aluminum smelters and aluminum is 40% of their export income[1]. They do heat their homes with geothermal. It's basically free and when I was there the lowest setting for the heat in my apartment was 22.4C (72F).

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Iceland
Pachinko is everywhere[1]. Especially notable in towns in more remote areas.

Also, girlfriend simulator[2].

[1] https://www.japan-zone.com/modern/pix/p/pachinko-parlor.jpg

[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24614830
> The reason turned out to be that SVM is discarding the guest PAT
setting and uses the default (PA0=PA4=WB, PA1=PA5=WT, PA2=PA6=UC-,
PA3=UC). The guest might be using a different setting, and
especially might want write combining but isn't getting it
(instead getting slow UC or UC- accesses). [0]

That's all it is. Not a big complicated bug, the patch is seven simple lines.

[0] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10027523/
At least you can use messenger.com in a browser and get a decent experience _with your existing browser_.

Good enough for me personally.
Not too far from “Robot and Frank” are we?
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Those are both nonrenewable, use-once resources with fixed (on human timescales) supplies.

Metals are different; they're not really consumed, just tied up in manufactured products during the life of that product. After the product's lifespan, they can be reused. Different calculation entirely.
I noticed when visiting that in scenarios like you mentioned strangers would have no problem striking up a conversation or some other interaction. Nice scenario where I noticed this was when on hiking trails.
"I love pink. I also love to play with pink balls and toys. High places and narrow places are disgusting because they are scary."

Surprisingly not an excerpt from my OkCupid profile, but it might be my opener now.
The claim he was proving was "Japanese companies know how to build products for lonely people", and he proved it well. You are now arguing against the claim "all Japanese people enjoy this stuff", which is not what he was claiming at all.
Yes, devastate the economy. As in, no crops could be grown for multiple years.
Bitcoin's market cap is probably wildly exaggerated. The best evidence of this is the Winkelvii's attempt to start an ETF. That's a way for them to unload their Bitcoins, of which they have over 100,000.

There's no market that could absorb over 100,000 Bitcoins and pay out dollars without crashing the price. Who's going to pay out $0.6 billion in cash?
There’s a huge “counterparty” risk as well. That just about everyone else on the road is driving 2000+ lbs of fast moving vehicle practically ensures a bicyclist’s death in an accident. I sort of think of it as an arms race of sorts. The bigger the average vehicle the bigger you should buy your vehicle.
The audience I pointed out don't leave their homes.
> you don't just walk up to people and strike up a conversation

I'd like to know what world you live in where this is any kind of option. Maybe "my introvert is showing" but I don't even consider doing this. Is this abnormal?
I love perl, but probably only because I am already well versed in it. can do a lot with it and it still is the best option for some things.

I wish perl 6 had a larger community, it actually looks very cool.
Is this in the context of traveling there as a foreigner? I found that quite a few Japanese people were willing to come up and start a conversation with me, but now that I think of it, I didn't see much casual conversation between locals.
Seems like it could just be a bot fetching the link for a preview?
It's not impossible, but:

1. It's expensive, and that cost doesn't work out when you have petroleum available as a fuel and can just carry your own energy supply around easily in a small tank under the passenger compartment. It probably still doesn't work out when you have coal, or coal-derived diesel, or vegetable-derived diesel, or "good enough" batteries, available, because those systems are simpler and don't have the funding problems (most of the cost is shifted to the user of the vehicle, which prevents the politically crippling cost of a public system).

2. When you finally designed a system, and standardized the vehicle heights and worked out all the other issues, I suspect you'd have reinvented electric trains. (Or some sort of essentially train-like system, or a system that's not advantageous enough over trains to warrant building it.)

Basically it's an idea that's pinched between existing technologies that are good enough in their current forms, and has an extremely high implementation cost. The risk-factored ROI just doesn't appear to be there.
Ah. I'd have marked the former as spam too (it's an advertisement reminding the recipient you exist, not something in response to a transaction just committed / something they did), but the latter seems plenty safe.

But then, I have no idea how you'd be correlate the transactional mail to the marketing mails anyway (I'd use separate addresses for that). If somebody added my address to a list I didn't sign up for, any mail from them would just be a reminder they did so... It wouldn't be hard to imagine somebody marking everything in the future as spam automatically after glancing at the sender name.
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Do you get transcripts from dropvox / are they searchable?! (Looking for something like this..)
Their dedicated servers are good, but I have found their VPS service to be unreliable, and their support people clueless. We had an outage every month for a while, and the support people said that it was "normal" to take 30 minutes to reboot an instance. So I think it's a different tech stack and team within OVH.
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This is very normal in most parts of the United States but the South in particular.
The linked Dropbox page appears to be password-protected. Here's the original poster: http://prefrontal.org/files/posters/Bennett-Salmon-2009.pdf
I worked on a team at Microsoft that did the CSV over FTP thing in 2013. So some tech companies do it as well. ;)
I'm really surprised to see Ruby so high on the list. I have limited experience with it myself, but I had the impression it was a generally well-liked language.