skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Great Recession changed a lot of minds

I bet it did. Old study from UCLA:

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-D...

Two UCLA economists say they have figured out why the Great Depression dragged on for almost 15 years, and they blame a suspect previously thought to be beyond reproach: President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

After scrutinizing Roosevelt's record for four years, Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian conclude in a new study that New Deal policies signed into law 71 years ago thwarted economic recovery for seven long years.

Edit: missed an important quote

"Ironically, our work shows that the recovery would have been very rapid had the government not intervened."
It has to be a federal crime. If the bees where pollinating across state lines, then there might be a case. An arbitrary dollar amount doesn’t make something federal.
I have an idea for a new twist on a dating site that I don't have the time/energy to write... if anyone is interested in working on this PM me and we can discuss. Bonus if you live in Denver/Boulder area.
There's a definitive stigma to attending events just to hook up with people. Our local Reddit NYC meetup group actively keeps an eye for people who appear to be doing this, because they keep showing up.

And the problem isn't that they're looking for someone to date; the problem is that they're not at all invested in the group - and if you go to any group with only the intention of picking up a date, that's the vibe you'll throw off as well, and you'll be unwelcome there.
It's not just one userspace. Fuchsia is capabilities-oriented, when apps are sandboxed by default and only get access to the services it has been granted access to.
I just warn you to remember the downfall of "People you may know" ... if there's somebody that I have 500 mutual friends with, theres a good chance I know them and am not a friend for a reason.
I've bought reading glasses (the only ones I need) from the 99-cent store for years now. There's some QC variation, so I always test each pair on some reading material before buying.

Certainly custom-fitted glasses _can_ be excellent, but I've had less trouble with the dollar store glasses, all in all, than with my former $300 custom-fitted ones. And I don't worry if they're misplaced, since I always have several spares cached around the apartment.
Working on an IOS-based dating service which handles your facebook friends, mutual friends and soon to add searching capabilities, people within an 100m radius and people you would meet at events, it has several hundred users right now since beta-launch a couple months back.

Inspired because of things like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16041292

Heres my IOS appstore link: appsto.re/ca/SfGTib.i

Please do check it out and provide feedback!
But here's the thing. You don't actually want relationships with people who are choosing based on appearance.
“the bottom 80% of men (in terms of attractiveness) are competing for the bottom 22% of women and the top 78% of women are competing for the top 20% of men.”

Female sexual selection is a powerful force that creates the male dominance hierarchy.
Yes I have. Your observations are not universal but pretty common. The whole field is littered with a hodge-podge of cobbled-together numerical coincidences fetishised to the level of universal truths. It can be quite embarrassing when one sits down and tries to actually do defensible, provable mathematics. That is why I eventually migrated towards management (of the family firm, not coincidentally). Much of macroeconomics, at least most of it prior to the agent-based models now being produced and analysed, is notionalism.
Data point of 1: probably 70% of the people I match with on bumble initiate a conversation. I think I'm slightly above average in terms of attractiveness
I have a friend near Salt Lake who bought a house on an old property. When looking it over the owner pointed out that it wasn't on city water, but a pipe directly to a spring. A local company sells that same spring water, but he flushes his toilet with it.
This has been my experience 100%. It's super tempting at first, with 1,000,000 free invocations per month, plus paying for compute at the microsecond scale.

But then you run into all of the problems you've outlined, plus, the tooling process for CI/CD to serverless isn't so great (even with frameworks like Serverless Stack).

That being said, I'm personally excited about the managed Kubernetes offering AWS recently announced. The idea of being able to build my own containers and then just have AWS manage them based on pre-defined configuration I've given them is a lot better than the smoke-and-mirrors Lambda gives you today. For example, how can I tell how many Lambdas of mine are running concurrently? How many are warm or cold? There's lots of visibility lost in Lambda as it is today (not to say they aren't working on improving it).
Sample size is 27 responding women. Unless the universe is made up of 3000 women, the error bars are huge.
> The administration is specifically looking at whether it can reinterpret the "may grant" language of the American Competitiveness in the 21st Century Act to stop making the extentions. The act currently allows the administration to extend the H-1B visas for thousands of immigrants, predominantly Indian immigrants, beyond the allowed two three-year terms if a green card is pending.

They might as well do away with the H1-B program all together.

Not all H1B visas are granted for multi-year expirations. Many are granted for 6 or 9 months, and then the employer finds out that they need the person for longer and apply for extension.

Also, the Green Card is tied to employment, so if you stop working for an employer because your H1B expired and DHS refuses to renew it because of this new rule (if it goes into effect) then the person has to go to the beginning of the line / process to apply for the Green Card.

I understand that H1B is a non-immigrant visa, but if this change goes into effect, most people won't even apply for the H1B because it would make no sense. Probably what the Trump administration wants in the first place.
My friends have a lot of success on Tinder. Both guys use it to find one-night-stands, and women to find friends with benefits or one-night-stands.

It is definitely not a dating app where you'll easily find someone to marry, but like anything else.
Bars or Clubs are for people who like drinking and dancing. It's very unlikely that you will randomly find someone there who shares meaningful interests.
>Tinder doesn't supply any statistics or analytics about member usage so I had to collect this data myself. The most important data I needed was the percent of men that these females tended to “like”. I collected this data by interviewing females who had “liked” a fake Tinder profile I set up. I asked them each several questions about their Tinder usage while they thought they were talking to an attractive male who was interested in them. Lying in this way is ethically questionable at best (and highly entertaining), but, unfortunately I had no other way to get the required data.

Unreliable conclusions derived from unreliable "data" that was obtained unethically (and probably illegally; did the pictured guys knew their picture was being used?).

We're back at "my guess is as good as any other".
And Segwit did not move the needle at all.

The BTC chain is SCREAMING for more transaction capacity and the Blockstream team is popping champaign (sic) that they've introduced a fee system 100 years ahead of schedule.

Bitcoin Cash is simply the manifestation of the original vision surviving a hostile takeover attempt.

How anybody can defend a crypto scaling plan introduced by a Bilderberg Group/AXA funded team is beyond me.
Not only that, but his "synonyms" weren't really. A nose isn't a proboscis, and "bespectacled avoidance" isn't avoidance of wearing glasses, it's an avoidance that is, itself wearing glasses. Absurd.
Why? Does every single human endeavor really need to make a profit for someone? Can it not be possible that the Canadian government feels that a Canada with beekeepers is better than one without, and has chosen to allocate some of its money to make it a little easier to be a beekeeper?
> unless you actually think anybody wants the kind of job which is so tiresome it can be done with a machine instead.

Journalists are probably gonna be automated.
Truck drivers as well.

I bet those two categories are not of people who consider their jobs meaningless.

Also, salesmen/saleswomen are being automated by websites. But their job is not beneath human dignity in any sense: it can be creative and highly social.

So this seems to be an over-generalization
Kroger to expand program that cuts checkout lines
While automated reasoning tech is getting better, the barriers have been more on the demand side. Until buggy vulnerable software makes you poor and visibly correct software makes you rich, we'll keep getting the vulnerable sort. IOTA, which rolled their own hash function and then blustered about the problem, right now has a market value of ten billion dollars.

We're starting to see a change in the economics. There's quite a way to go -- I hope we get there intelligently and not as some kind of thrashing reaction to giant disasters.
> yet don't believe these differences extend beyond relationships into things like career choice or leadership seeking tendencies

What evidence can you provide that would lead someone to believe this?
The CPU only executes micro ops, but the "vector decoder" is the only one that uses microcode to sequence the ops.
Human-mediated work often does more than just the job itself. The elevator operator isn't just pressing a button; she is also a greeter, perhaps a conversational partner, or a friend. In terms of "user experience" a human elevator operator is doing far more than just the mechanical act of operating the elevator, doing things that are (still) impossible for machines.

(Of course, there are trade-offs. A human worker is more expensive, more complicated, and can do things like have a bad day, or be a vector for disease. But still, I'm in favor of more "bullshit jobs" like elevator operator, in lieu of universal income.)
Ideally, your optometrist will provide you with a computer prescription for no charge, at the same time they provide you with a distance prescription. If you have a recent prescription, call and ask them for a computer prescription. Their recommendation will likely be “close” to the website linked above, rounded to the nearest 0.25 diopter.

The app is only to measure your PD, which is needed to order lens and find a good-fitting frame. Ideally, you would pay to obtain your PD from a local optician using a pupilometer or other instrument. After Luxottica merges with Essilor in 2017, Lenscrafters may start providing local fitting for Essilor-owned online sites like FramesDirect, EyeBuyDirect. Warby Parker has already unified their online/offline services.

Yes, a lower prescription (which provides 20/20 vision at the target focal plane) is always more healthy than the stronger prescription needed for driving and other distance viewing. For one thing, text will be bigger.

Until the advent of affordable, quality online eyeglasses, most people could not afford dedicated computer glasses, so it was not widely promoted by optometrists. If you ask, they will tell you. Now, most developers can afford developer glasses.
A quote from my colleague: despite the serverless world we provide to our customers, people still want to SSH to access their app.

Also a quote from unknown source: there's no such thing called cloud, it's someone else's servers.
My guess is there’s still enough noise it doesn’t matter.
I started streaming coding on Twitch - https://twitch.tv/mimmingcodes

It’s rekindled my excitement of using the Internet to share knowledge.
Built Commento, a privacy-focused alternative to Disqus: https://github.com/adtac/commento

Right now, it exists as a Github project that you can self-host, but I'll soon offer it as a paid service if you don't want to host and maintain servers on your own. (And maybe even apply to YC, who knows :))

It started out with me reading a blog post [1] and thinking "I can write Disqus tonight". And that's how it began; I had a working prototype in 24 hours (at the expense of a final exam I had in two days haha). Posted it on HN, and it blew up. And then I sat down and made it into a serious project that's now actually used by other people. I've had senior devs from huge companies (like Atlassian) contribute to the project, and I think that's amazing.

http://donw.io/post/github-comments/
Dude, LINKS! My mate was looking for almost that exact spotify thing!
> One of the problems with Tinder is its nebulous ethos.

It's not a really a problem though because people can indicate for themselves in their profiles, either explicitly or implicitly, what type of relationship they are looking for; it can be different things for different people.

> Tinder is brilliant in that it focuses entirely on vanity, ego, and lust, far more so than any of its predecessors.

But I think that misses the main appeal of Tinder, which is that once you match with someone you basically have an invitation to start a conversation with them, and hence are less likely to be wasting your time (or someone else's). IIRC, on other sites, you can simply message any random user and thus are much more likely to spend time messaging someone who has absolutely no interest in you.
Sounds like a waste of resources to me.
> Now go build something. Want to do something with chat? Sure, go read up on IRC and XMPP and Signal and Wire and all that.

Totally. I guess I should have mentioned that for me, at least, the books will be paired with hands-on hacking.

> The idea of reading 110+ books first in the hope you'll then start your epic hack sounds to me like epic procrastination.

Not planning to read book after book by the fire while the computer collects dust. :) For instance, I'm reading SQL books now and have done experiments that I then wrote about. Like transaction isolation levels, deferrable constraints, types/domains.

Lots of fun stuff to build. I find that the books help to give me a broader idea of the possibilities, that's all.
Who cares about the pornography aspect? Of significantly more concern is our societal reliance on video evidence in general.
Ultimately there's no software solution here; adversarial networks will be capable of generating high quality simulations that even they cannot distinguish between.

I'm also struggling to think of any viable hardware solution that doesn't involve in camera black boxes with asymmetric encryption - which is a hack at best.
This is exactly why I left the US after I graduated. Being on H1B is such a huge gamble these days.

Now I am living in Europe, making good money, and living happily without having to worry about crap like this.
I had an opportunity to work for them but declined because I didn't want to look at the content. Tell me: how much of that do you have to actually go through? And to other devs: if you have thick skin and an iron stomach, go work for them.
Nah, the article says they lost $50K, and raised $35K and closed the campaign, saying "Between the contributions and the equipment we were able to salvage, our needs have been met. There are so many great causes to support. Our wish is that this spirit of compassion will be used to help others now. All fundraisers for Wild Hill Honey are now closed. Thank you."
This is really excellent, thanks for sharing. So much remains hidden in today's x86 systems.
The sheer conventional-ness of that idea makes me doubt it (but I don’t know of any data one way or the other), but the article doesn’t strongly contradict or support the idea that women tend to be interested in “non-physical” attributes. There are visual signals of wealth/socio-economic status that you can send with a picture as well. All you need to posit is that there is some kind of attractiveness signaling you can do with a photo, and then the next step (not taken here) is to figure out what that is.
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Every optometrist I've spoken to recommends using reading glasses (usually around +1) when using computers or when reading, even with properly corrected contact lenses.

Personally I use multifocal contacts (the concentric kind), which help a lot with near vision, but I still use reading glasses.
The user in question is here: https://www.reddit.com/user/deepfakes/submitted/

You can see the examples of their work at the bottom of that list. It's very, very obviously not the actual actresses. It's impressive, but not "holy shit, could that really be..?" impressive - there are artefacts scattered all over the faces.
But everybody is...
So get more material!
Two side projects: a budgeting app that is a fresh take on the problem. I'm currently using it for my family's budgeting and once I feel it's polished enough I plan to open it up to users.

Also working on a closet design app. We bought a house that had completely empty closets (not even a basic closet rod), and learned the hard way that existing closet design solutions are all quite bad. I built a very simple one to meet our needs, then from there kept polishing it. It saved us money as we were able to design a closet that met our exact needs and only buy the needed parts. Most/all closet design apps are "package" oriented, forcing you to commit to less or more than you actually need.
>Either they will support running Linux or Android drivers, or otherwise their system will be just useful for Marketing demos.

Are you just saying that, or do you actually believe it? You think all of the phone vendors that write custom closed source drivers for Android will abandon Android if the core is no longer Linux? Seriously? And what, move to tizen? Windows phone?

Be reasonable... Google can and will move to a different core, and all of their partners will move with them.
The cynicism on HN is just jaw dropping.
For anyone who hasn't run across this, Alan has shown up on HN periodically, and the resulting post history is just astonishingly rich: https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=alankay1. Threaded conversations at https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=alankay1.

If you read the threads you'll see that he has frequently continued conversations long after the submission dropped off the HN front page, and many topics have gotten developed further than one usually sees. HN's archives are full of gold and for me this one of the more obvious veins of it.

If anyone wants to spend some time aggregating and collating these writings, as the OP has done from emails, I would see about getting YC to fund the effort, subject to Alan's permission of course. Email hn@ycombinator.com if you're interested.
Started a Saas for active monitoring of API's and browser click flows: https://checklyhq.com
>the zeitgeist of half the American people

I'd like to point out that this is wildly overstated.

~59.7% of eligible voters voters cast a ballot in 2016.[0]

Of those votes cast, Donald Trump received ~46.1% of those votes or 62,979,879 votes.[1] So Donald Trump represents at the least the zeitgeist of ~27.5% of eligible voters.

It's hard to determine how he represents the zeitgeist of non-voting-eligible inhabitants of the US but when you compare his popular vote total to the total population of the country, or ~323,100,000 in 2016, one can claim with certainty that Trump represents the zeitgeist of at least ~19.5% of the country.

I point this out because it is often said that Donald Trump represents half the country, likely because he was the candidate of one of the two major political parties in this country and 1/2 is 50%.

However repeating this falsehood of Trump representing the beliefs of half the country lends legitimacy to Trump and his agenda that is unearned and provides cover to people who would like to believe that the beliefs they share with Donald Trump enjoy some sort of popularity that is more widespread than can be justified.

The same is true of course for Hillary Clinton and those Americans that cast their ballot for her, though of course the breakdown would be very slightly larger in her favor given her winning of the popular vote by some ~3,000,000 votes.

[0]http://www.electproject.org/2016g

[1]http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/21/politics/donald-trump-hillary-...
Is this a discussion about finding people to date, or to hang out with? If it’s just about expanding your social network then you’re right, bars are bad unless your shared interests are drinking and dancing. But it seemed as if this thread was suggesting using social situations that aren’t about dating to find people to date.
What makes you think that is true?
Add to the ever-growing pile of reasons to shorten the duration of copyright protection. James Joyce died in 1941 -- under a sane copyright regime, we would not be having this discussion. _Dubliners_ was published over 100 years ago, and the author has been dead for 76 years.
The article doesn’t actually mention SGI.
If they know what a vegetable is.

Jamie Oliver did a show in the US and kids didn't even know what some vegetables were. Jamie showed them potatoes, tomatoes, carrots they may as well been alien the kids didn't have a clue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGYs4KS_djg
I agree fully with your premise that both sides are driven by interest groups.

Personally I am pondering in that context in how far science is really helping the argument on both sides. The suggestion that there are absolute cause and effects in something as complicated as climate is just for most people (including myself) not beliveable. They watch the weather forcast and see every day that all the science in the world is not even able to predict next week's weather.

In other areas are confronted every day with conflicting studies and recommendations. I am sure trust in science and scientists' interpretstion of things is going is more and more decreasing.
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Careful, though. It costs about a millisecond to do a return trip across the JNI boundary, so don't do that anywhere near an inner loop. Accessing Java objects from native code is also a pain, with potential performance gotchas (pinning, mostly).

An approach I've seen work is to have dedicated Java and native threads, communicating via shared memory. We have some funky in-house code for this, but I think Aeron [1] should be a good open source option.

[1] https://github.com/real-logic/aeron
I improved a lot my side project called @whattheshot, a Twitter Bot that features a quiz around cinema since 2010: https://twitter.com/whattheshot.

It tweets a movie frame every 10 minutes and people have 5 min to guess the movie (from where the frame was taken). I improved a lot of things during 2017. It now interacts in three different languages (English, French, Spanish), accepts requests in DM from regular players, can be controlled by myself through DMs.

The bot can change behavior according to the news/day (like right now, it features shots from movies with fireworks, make-ups, to prepare for the New Year's Eve).

It is based on whatthemovie.com, which I co-develop as well.
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Yep, understand. Thanks for the feedback.

Its more about actual intimacy because harder to find a connection using Tinder because communication is first about building up intimacy whereas people you may know tend to have more of an earlier connection.
I have a hard time believing they'd give up the top nine floors, just to salvage the project. I'm betting they used it to get the extra height (as part of a public space requirement) with the unspoken goal of reclaiming those floors in 10-20 year.
if you sign in, there's a 'use previews' option in config that will replace the live previews with thumbnails
IRIX was nothing if not very pretty. Thanks for XFS :)