skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But you can work hard your whole life and generate tons of wealth but if it all gets taken by other people, then you are still poor.

Edit: or dead. Recent example: http://metro.co.uk/2018/01/23/homeless-man-died-days-council...
Now that I think about it, Amazon would be perfect to do it.

I can't remember the last Amazon package I got that wasn't on of their contract, on-demand drivers. Amazon already gives them packages and the optimal route to take and a pretty good estimate of how long that'll take the driver. They could use that and have the driver pick up/drop off people along their route and know a pretty good time frame the driver would arrive.
I did, indeed. Sadly, the subreddit ignored my submission.
There was a similar sub-discussion on the Datomic Cloud announcement last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16168041#16168743

As an open source product it seems like TimescaleDB is less risky than Datomic. (Not that the comparison is even necessary -- I don't think they compete in the same category apart from both being non-relational DBs.)

[edit:link fixed, thanks! (and thanks for taking the time to correct my misunderstanding re:TimescaleDB as a relational DB)]
You mean like Oracle? Or Sybase? Or Informix? Or Terradata?

Well, I guess you can stick to DB2.
Can confirm. Just like "Kleenex" in some places, Waze has become the generic term for GPS Navigation here in Israel. Honestly, I have no idea why people still use it when Google Maps has an infinitely better interface and no ads.
> The down side is that you aren't going to be getting the upsides you'd get if you used a new technology

True of course. I've found that at least "premature abstraction" is almost a requirement when using persistence. I'm not talking an ORM or anything, but put a service in front of it if you have multiple things needing it, or put an in-code abstraction if you don't. And make each abstraction's/service's operation very specific to its caller. So a simple "fetchMarketData(timeRange, tickerSymbols) -> StreamOfData" will save you so much in the future.
A collection of essays about the future written by HG Wells published as a book entitled 'The Way the World is Going' in 1927.

After my grandfather died I was cleaning his attic when I found the book in a bookshelf.

The essays in the book all revolve around the concept of predicting how the world will look in the future based on certain trends identified by HG Wells.

Predictions of the future by people in the past are always interesting to read, and this book is especially so because some of Wells' predictions are strikingly accurate while others are wildly inaccurate. As a very learned and wise person his analysis is fascinating.

Here are some of the titles of the essays:

1. Man Becomes a Different Animal. Delusions about Human Fixity. (January 9, 1927)

2. What is Happening in China? Does it Foreshadow a New Government in the World? (January 23, 1927)

3. What is Fascism? Whither is it taking Italy? (February 9, 1927)

4. Doubts of Democracy. New Experiments in Government. (March 20, 1927)

5. Democracy under Revision: a Lecture delivered at Sorbonne on March 15, 1927.

6. The Absurdity of British Politics. A Shadow on the Whole World. What has to be Done about it? (August 7, 1927)

7. Baldwinism a Danger to the World. Wanted, a Coalition Government. The Deadlock and the Way out. (November 7, 1927)

8. Communism and Witchcraft. (August 21, 1927)

9. The Future of Labour. The Struggle between Capital and Labour. Controversial Hallucinations. (September 4, 1927)

10. What is the British Empire worth to Mankind? Meditations of an Empire Citizen. (September 18, 1927)

11. The Present uselessness and Danger of Aeroplanes. A Problem in Organization. (February 20, 1927)

12. Changes in the Art of War. Are Armies needed any longer? The Twilight of the Guards. (March 6, 1927)

13. Delusions about World Peace. The Price of Peace. (June 12, 1927)

14. The Possibility of War between Britain and America. Such a war is being prepared now. What are intelligent people to do about it? (October 2, 1927)

15. The Remarkable Vogue of Broadcasting: will it continue? (April 3, 1927)

.....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_the_World_is_Going?wpr...
Never seen Springboard. It's an interesting way to put together a course. Just tape together articles in some sort of progressive learning or categorized topics. I like the learning path concept, it helps you easily see where you might be missing some knowledge.
Please don't create accounts to post things like this. From the guidelines:

> "Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create them routinely. On HN, users should have an identity that others can relate to."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I've heard of a few artists doing this over the past year or so. I think the banning is ultimately useless and enforcing it adds more invasiveness to the already overly invasive process of getting into a venue. A simple reminder before the concert starts that you're an asshole if hold your phone up is as far as this should go, works fine in movie theaters.

Maybe phones should have a feature to take pics with the screen off, more like a disposable camera. They should have that feature anyway.
Every country on the Mediterranean consumes an enormous amount of dairy. Greece consumes more cheese per capita than any nation, and Malta, the island in the middle of the med, comes in third.

http://www.dummies.com/food-drink/special-diets/annual-chees...
Rapper Took Payment in Bitcoin, and Completely Forgot About Ite Worth Millions
On southern Europe there was also other option, (cough) street markets.
> Also, I have doubts about how the Somali system would survive serious clan or national conflicts once they emerge, or how the problem of violence spiraling out of hand would be contained without a powerful central government.

A quote directly from the article, and I can only say, I suppose we are seeing that. Blood feuds, mass killings and kidnappings, rape, ...

This entire source article could only have been written with the sturdiest and most carefully constructed horse-blinders.
The term you're looking for is "temporarily embarrassed millionaire"
This discussion is specially about wealth. Fetal alcohol syndrome is not usually added as a liability on a balance sheet, even if it is liability to everyday living. Everyone starts with a balance of $0.

> Why do people insist on believing nonsense?

Why are people trying to twist this discussion into things it never was?
I am for free travel and work across "national" boundaries. That means I think the U.S. should be welcoming to others, and we should try to work out deals where our citizens can work abroad.

I believe that the best way to avoid war is to invite everyone to the table, help everyone get richer, do better, be more invested in a peaceful world. In the modern world, war is a nightmare solution.
That's a good point. It would be useful to see a comparison to executives of non-social media companies.
Interestingly, Boston Calling won't enforce this rule: http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2018/01/24/going-...

and also - Pearl Jam has released information on their upcoming tour - the tickets themselves will be SmartPhone only (from their Fan Club site, Ten Club):

Ten Club Mobile Tickets: No will call. No physical tickets. In order to distribute tickets more efficiently, Ten Club will be delivering all Ten Club tickets directly to your smart phone. Mobile ticket delivery requires an iPhone or Android smart phone. Instead of scanning a physical ticket at the gate, members will access tickets through their smartphone and scan directly from the screen of your mobile device. Step-by-step instructions on how to access your ticket on your phone will be sent to all Ten Club ticket holders via email when they are ready for mobile distribution. We plan to have this delivered to you by early July.
Looks exactly the same as the EBF format used by the FCC. I wonder if it was designed by the same persons.

A sample:

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Here you are, I think this is what you mean: https://www.remarkbox.com/minimal-demo.html
That's fair. Same can be said for some of the educational tools too.

More of a cul de sac than a dead end.
Unions are there to protect worker rights and to help them gain a livable wage. Even in my last job people were talking about creating a programmer's union to prevent all the unpaid overtime we do.

This type of progress is only going to put alot of people out on the street and make the rich richer.

They are not parasites to the company because the company runs better with people running it.

Simplifying a union's relationship to a company as a value proposition is asinine. There's a bigger picture that must be looked at.

People are more important than machines. Even if we fight alot.
They are an ad company. When people start asking their watches, phones, cars, and voice only devices questions, they need find a way to serve ads.

I already skip search if I think Amazon's Alexa can answer the question.

[UPDATE]

Not sure why I'm getting downvoted. I'm not saying anything that isn't already being discussed.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/23/amazon-is-threatening-google...
Are we talking about the same state here?
Unlike Uber, they appear to talk about a real carsharing system, as opposed to a taxi service with a lower entry barrier.

The prices will be much lower since we are talking about the marginal cost of adding another passenger to an already happening trip - and with full info on where people are going, Waze effectively has an endless supply of trips that are happening, it's just a matter of displaying a pop-up "Hey, Alex is going to the same place as you, do you want to give him a ride for 5$?". So the actual support required will be minimal to zero, it's just a software app to simplify what people already do, not a full transport service.
I'd argue that if they're serving the poor, they're not unusable, they're being used to the greater good.
> Java code needs to be in a class. I can't open up a file and start typing immediately

Since Java 9 not anymore, thanks jshell.
I disagree. I often watch and enjoy crummy-quality bootlegs of bands I could never see live. Sometimes bootlegs even capture of the intensity of a live performance better than a professional multi-camera setup ever can.
> Race correlates strongly with socioeconomic background.

Yeah all he's saying is that socioeconomic background correlates even more strongly with socioeconomic background. And keeping it in economic terms has the additional plus of keeping the correlation consistent as times change.
I don't think anyone's suggesting replacing package signing with HTTPS.
> I feel like a lot of Europeans don't really realize how vast the USA really is.

That's true! And conversely - we (Americans) don't really "get" how compact all of Western Europe is.

A few years ago, I had a friend fly from Zurich to La Guardia (maybe JFK?), and when he landed he called me in Austin, Texas. He said: "I'll get a rental car now - and see you in several hours". I said: "No you won't."
I can relate to this as a manager and as being managed. I been looking into this, do you think Self-Managed types of Organizations reduce the issues with this type of problem of out of date communication style from top down? we are in the 21st century. We don't need to have information coming from top down we need information coming the the bottom up. Our smart devices can do better job than a human manager!
This is a libertarian discussing Somalia. The title sounds ridiculous because the article is ridiculous ideologically-motivated nonsense.
This is one of the reasons I love places like the Alamo Drafthouse, which will outright kick you out if you use your phone during the show.
Nothing is being twisted. If what you mean is that two babies have the same amount of money in their bank accounts, then that's what you should say. Of course, if one said that they would be ignored as that much is obvious.

What you should not say is that "they both start off with nothing". Wealth is more than money. In fact, wealth literally just means an abundance of possessions; prosperity. What dictionary are you using that says wealth is only measured by dollars in a bank account?

By the way, the article specifically mentions health, so...
It seems Assange's enemies win, whether he's in the embassy or in custody of some state hostile to him. He's becoming harder and harder to trust given the mental stress he must be under. It's not very difficult to imagine him being persuaded to support some agenda, as long as it's hostile to his enemies, while before all this, he at least had a fairly believable aura of indiscriminating antiauthoritarianism.
I've had the opposite experience, but this was probably further back then you. I remember trying to call Google to get info about Google maps and it was just a run around. I spent 3 hours trying to figure out who controlled the map tiles behind Apples Maps powered by Google and got nowhere.

Even if you go to Google's contact page now[1] it's obscure and the first thing they try to do is shuttle you off to forums or a boilerplate FAQ. You can't run a consumer business like that.

Google is great at building pure tech products like Google Search and Gmail, but not so good when it's a product where you might have to talk to a human being.

[1] - https://www.google.com/contact/
I'm not sure why anyone would need to feel guilty or worry about that fact though.

People do that everywhere. Toronto is famous for it's diversity and multiculturalism but the entire city is finely divided into various ethnic, cultural, and work enclaves (little korea, little ethiopia, 2x little italys, etc). And it works great for the most part, there's little ethnic or political tension, at least within the city proper.

It's a natural phenomenon. The simple fact is people primarily like being near people like themselves, culturally or otherwise. Intellectuals, working class, artists etc, etc have always grouped up.

Absent some type of grand social engineering I don't see how you could change that. Nor whether the people would be better of with it.

But just because there are enclaves or grouping doesn't mean you need to be isolated in your social networks either. Cities are big places with plenty of people and SF is no different.
It's not just I (key) frames. That would be really bad for quality or data rate. There's an I frame every 1 second, which gives me a place to cut. In general, not just for RetroClip, having I frames is important as it will allow for efficient scrubbing through the video in a playback application.
How so? Texting someone isn't distracting to anyone around you... unless I'm missing something?

Are you really that easily bothered by other people that them enjoying something in a different way than you detracts from your experience?
Luna DNA Uses Blockchain to Share Genomic Data as a “Public Benefit”
Yep. Because they’re ok-awesome in small doses, and that’s all anyone traveling will ever taste.
3 Key Benefits of Data Tokenization in Highly Regulated Industries
Mobile Machine Learning 101: Glossary
> Firms rarely fail for a lack of effort, but rather an inability to adequately consider the complex dependencies of all the things happening around them.

This is why I don't work very hard. Not entirely kidding. What'll make or break the company isn't me grinding away churning out incremental features and fixing tiny bugs. What'll make the difference is whether someone spots the game-changing opportunity, whether it's a product innovation, a business model or a particular partnership. To spot that kind of thing you have to give yourself some space and not have your head down all the time.
It doesn't prevent it. But it does give insight into what is going on in their baracaded situation, and signals for help+information on where it's safe to exit.
Nope - Somaliland is a pretty dangerous place, too. From https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/somalia:

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) advise against all travel to Somalia, including Somaliland except for the cities of Hargeisa and Berbera to which the FCO advise against all but essential travel.

And from https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-tra...:

Violent crime, such as kidnapping and murder, is common throughout Somalia, including in Puntland and Somaliland. Illegal roadblocks are also widespread.
Unbelievably classist. Everyone who wants something different than the author does from travel must be snooty and incapable of appreciating 'real' travel.
OK, high level: you came up with a sound idea about trading strategy and go and backtest it for AT LEAST one market cycle, the more you test the better/robust your system is going to be... After you find a working one, you set your risk level, e.g. what percentage from your capital to risk per trade, the best to start is to use Kelly criterion (usually half Kelly for the stock market) and you go from there...
You can't get rid of hierarchy. It's a natural part of human relationships and how humans organize themselves into societies. To think otherwise is absurd.
Socks also work to tie the leg ends closed. And shoelaces. Especially with thick, stiff, or slippery leg material, with socks you can get a stable knot while sacrificing less air volume. With rubberized gear, you can fold over the end first.

As others have pointed out, beware planning for one environment, and finding yourself in an very different but adjacent one. Warm air, cold water, no pants.
Basically, from what I can tell, nazi is anyone with an opposing viewpoint.

I would also posit the majority of recent political violence is from the Antifa folks who believe they can shutdown their opponents through pure and simple violence.

In fact there was one act of violence attributed to all the "tea party" protests during the Obama era and that was instigated by an anti-tea party person.

For two generations political protests were virtually 100% violence-free until the current crop of kids took to the streets with their anti- trump activities.

Makes me sad really...
Introducing aragonOS 3.0 alpha: an OS for Ethereum protocols and DApps
Great article, although to paraphrase a famous (building) architecture quote: "You can't have a revolution every day of the week."

No one can really say what the right balance is between world-beating innovation and soul-destroying bureaucracy, but it's easier to blog about then execute in a company with 72,000 employees.

But I appreciated the essay, and from an employee POV it's much more satisfying to ship new products than sit in meetings for 6 months talking about process and budget codes.
Beme as a company is ending
Wait, Alexa answers questions for you? It’s always useless for me.

I use it almost exclusively for smart home control.
Doesn't the main Timeline use Vue?
Having worked at places where they paid tons for options like those, and suffering from the inability to move and the difficulty of finding non-company tooling and community around them, I'd say they have the same problem. Point being: if your ecosystem is a single company, it's at the whims of that company's success and give-a-shitness. Non-DB companies and open source communities tend to gouge less and share more.
"It’s hard to do anything there because for any idea you propose, three or four teams will run in shouting that they own that, you can’t touch it, and oh by the way, they’re not working on it for a few years. Microsoft calls this “cookie-licking”, and it’s obviously not good, but it’s very common there. I’ve heard from folks at other big names in the area that a lot of companies have this problem. And it’s ironic, because there’s an infinite amount of work to be done, and yet somehow it’s entirely covered by their existing staff, with no room for anyone to do something new. It’s pretty crazy."

I work at Fitbit and I'm very glad that cookie licking is not prevalent here.
Why? I see the move from independent blogs to universal use of Medium for tech blogging as a step backwards.
7 of the resources aren't even linked. Looking at their pricing, I hope this isn't representative of the rest of Springboard's courses.
There are plenty of options for regulated securities. That are much easier to buy.

Obviously, people don't want defrauded but, if someone wanted to buy a stock they would have already bought one.

Oh, wait the average person can't buy stock in most start ups/small businesses/small projects the lotto is OK though....maybe regulators should look at that issue(s).
Medium is an example of a terrible idea that one cool influencer thought was a good idea. In reality it pimps everyone’s content and controls traffic, directing it to its darlings and withholding it from those who write any descending opinion.
...encourage users to share their genomic information with scientists by offering them “Luna Coins,” the company’s own version of digital currency...Luna DNA does not provide genome sequencing services. Rather, users would contribute their DNA sequencing from providers such as 23andMe and Ancestry.com.
Help the compiler warn you
Bubba can vote, so he's able to represent his own interests. Liu Chu has no voice in the system.

It seems to me that if I have any obligation it would be to advocate for those that cannot advocate for themselves first.
> Race correlates strongly with socioeconomic background.

If it correlates strongly, then why not just ignore race and look at socioeconomic background instead?

> disadvantaged people in this country

They are helping only a specific subset of "disadvantaged people in this country".

> Heart disease kills more people than lung cancer, but there's nothing wrong with raising money to research lung cancer.

A better analogy would be: smoking increases your chance for cancer, instead of saying smoking is bad in general you say that certain cigarette brands are bad.
We want all people to do well. But globalization didn't just help Liu Chu -- it helped many people in the U.S. Maybe we should redirect some of that gain back to Bubba.
> There's hardly anything more annoying at gigs than those dunces in front of you recording some ultra-shitty video that nobody ever looks at.

Au contraire. The people on either side having a conversation about their weekend dinner party whilst Lisa Gerrard does a quiet solo piece are infinitely more annoying than any camera phone. Or a lady with big hair in the first 3 rows sitting on someone's shoulders and blocking out half the stage for half the crowd.
I used to have a boss who had a habit of saying "Data in, data out. How hard can it be?".

Annoying doesn't get even half way close.
> made open source

I hope things work out at least as well as they have for RethinkDB's resurrection/transition! The Riak Users mailing list seems like the best place to follow along: http://riak-users.197444.n3.nabble.com

https://github.com/basho/riak_kv/tree/develop-2.2.5 (November 2017)

http://bet365techblog.com/riak-workshop-summary (October 2017)

>the immediate goal of releasing a known good build as soon as possible [...] all code would be released under the Apache 2 license [...] contact the HLL developers to aid in the dependency and GPL removal

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15182566#15183008 (September 2017)

>andrew_deane_: bet365 have signed the agreement to purchase all Basho IP [...] our intention is to open source all code, help rebuild the community and collaboratively take the development of RIAK forward
Yeah; I'd say a comic strip like this seems useful to argue against the bottom workflow - it advocates spending time delivering 5 separate products instead of 1... But I suppose that's being pedantic :).