skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I knew a guy who was a technical advisor to Intel Capital (worked at Intel). They're not there to diversify, they use capital to advance their existing business strategy in key markets. They often take stakes in companies that Intel are partnering with on technical projects in order to gain some level of insight, control, and eventually to acquire the company if there's a strategic argument for it.

For example, a company might be developing some cool new IP that Intel is considering licensing or is licensing. Intel Capital will take a stake in the company, and then eventually might consider acquiring the company if they want to corner the technology or think it's cheaper than a long term licensing agreement.
Not to mention the cost of the land...

Short of a radical change in how our society works, the only realistic solution to homelessness is going to have to be some kind of decent social housing. Maybe it will somehow be cheaply 3D-printed but the government is going to have to buy the land first. (That, or stop making it exclusive to the rich.) Access to land was the original problem here (since Enclosure Acts) and it has to be part of the solution.
A reinforcement learning based pitch bot would be much better.

Blindly pitch investors random ideas then build whatever they fall for.
maybe join a cooking class or something like that.
Azerbaijan is a major oil and gas exporter so poor farmers are more likely to have first world problems. You were thinking Tajikistan.
Honestly, I can't agree more with this. It's like talking about cars, and then talking about weapons of mass destruction. Its falls in the context of scope, and not creep over that scope. But it is what it is. Keep it separated.
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No. Generally speaking, this kind of low-cost financing only exists in rich countries. In poor countries, interest rates, default rates, and often inflation rates are high and unpredictable. (There may be exceptions, and in particular I've never been to Azerbaijan, but I don't know of any exceptions.)

One element that contributes to the unavailability of financing is the unpredictable nature of many people's land tenure; I wrote a bit about that in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16569078
Only black people museums can have black people things. Racist bullshit.
If by "generally behind the curve when it comes to hardware specs" you mean a generation and a half _ahead_, then yes.
Anti-inflammatory drugs do reduce risk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canakinumab

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1707914
I vaguely recall Windows NT 4 telling me to close the file before deleting or renaming it in Windows Explorer
I don't see how Spectre and meltdown were blown way out of proportion?
Google and Amazon seem to have treated them quite seriously.. Maybe they should have just closed their eyes.
The solution to Spectre right now is "Don't do speculative execution". Meltdown exploits a pretty embarrassing bug in the hardware. One has to wonder how it got through all of the testing/review that must happen before a new design is sent off to a fab($$$). Don't forget that there are 30+ class action lawsuits filed against Intel due solely to these bugs.
I don’t have a good sense for what the “failures” went on to do, they fall off our radar.
>linkers and loaders

Do you mean the book by John Levine? I had read it, it was good.
Those countries have cheap (hydro for Myanmar and carbon for the rest) based energy sources, but are not stable politically nor economically.

Iceland has plenty of renewable energy and a stable economy. With renewable energy your cost is nearly all upfront with practically free energy from there on. It is suitable for long term investment.
I have a running list on google doc where I write down every and anything that pops up in my mind throughout the day that I consider a to-do or inquiry. I organize the document by day and start with three categories: high priority, medium priority, and low priority. I tend to develop anxiety when I think I might forget a novel idea or task because of the other obligations I have throughout the day. Once I write down the to-do/inquiry, I vow to put the thought away until later in the day when I have down time to get more in depth. This has really helped me stay focused on tasks more deeply.

I also maintain a bullet journal. Like others have described, once you get past the frills and truly customize it's functionality, it becomes a very powerful tool for accountability. If you are a paper and pen type of person.
That is not mutability.
Slack is trying to make a vendor lock in, and that's evil.
As far as I know, Ada code using its types of actors (tasks and protected objects) can be made very fast, and more importantly for AAA games, very predictable. The default scheduling methods are good enough for many cases, but with the right restrictions, scheduling can even be statically determined and, in principle, a cyclic executive could be generated by the compiler with the same semantics as the original actor code. Unsure if this is actually done in practice, though.
Yerkes is a special place. I had the privilege of spending the night there as a student, and while I know nothing about astronomy, it was one of the highlights of my undergrad. The gorgeous grounds, the fairytale/museum architecture, the creepy catwalks and spiral staircases connecting the telescopes, the computer room filled with VAXen (only time I’ve seen a VT200 in person), and the welcoming staff made it a hell of a trip. Yerkes embodies the hacker ethos. There’s automation around each telescope still in operation that’s clearly built by staff familiar with Arduinos and home automation rather than some government contractor. The platforms of the domes rotate; one of them is rigged with a handheld barcode scanner to find its place among the labels taped to the outside wall. Clever mixes of the original early-20th-century electrical control panels and 2010s electronics abound.

My friends in astrophysics have worked on equipment in its basement machine shop that is now in space. All of them credit Yerkes with motivating them to enter or stay in the field. There is enormous backlash on social media, and a glimmer of hope that Yerkes might operate in substantially the same way independently or under different ownership.

I’m deeply skeptical of historic preservation, but if there were ever a place that needed to be landmarked, it’s this one.
I have found that my Galaxy Note 2014 is pretty much hands-down the best note taking tablet in my opinion. It's better than the crap that Microsoft and Apple are trying to hawk off. It doesn't have as many fancy apps but for _strictly_ note taking, sharing notes via email, and book reading, it's pretty awesome.

I just wish its price would come down. It's still full price from four years ago :| and even getting more expensive because it's so old
Somehow related: https://github.com/emojisum/emojisum
Dropbox is ycombinator alum. A ycombinator alum doing an IPO is worth bragging about on the front page.
> What's a situation where you would want to take a collection of objects that don't even share a common interface?

I found myself in a situation exactly like this a while back.

I was given the job of figuring out how to validate data in various stages of an ETL pipeline. I ended up writing a Python program to do the work in a fairly configurable manner.

The key to this working was the fact that tuples in Python can be used as keys for a hash table and are comparable. The program would run different queries in different databases, split the results out into key and value tuples, use the key to store the value tuples in a hash table, and finally do some comparisons.

Since it was all driven by configuration, the code that did the comparison across couldn't know in advance what the data types were or how many columns were involved.
That still requires you to know whether either is being called with user-provided values before you can say it's unsafe.

If, for example, someone had a utility which resized user-uploaded images you couldn't say simply calling exec to run something like ImageMagick was unsafe before checking whether it used the user's filename.
NYT is big one that I know, but others include:

News Corp, Sinclair, WaPo, NYT

Other media companies in general.
I'm also intrigued by Fuchsia, but it doesn't look like it's intended as a smartphone OS. Even if it was, without access to the Android app store it'll be no more successful than Windows Phone or any of the other upstarts (and something like a hypothetical Android emulation layer sounds like murder for battery life).
That's why I use Discord, the free tier has _unlimited_ history. The client itself is lightweight, and it's an incremental improvement on IRC in many other areas, as you would expect. Still using IRC of course :)
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Hasn't anyone seen Black Mirror?
This $600 house in Argentina sounds interesting. How much does the land cost?
I'm a beginner, so by all means correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand BEAM is relatively good when it comes to 'soft realtime', and especially when 'latency' is a concern (in part due to per-process GC?).

Am I correct in thinking that this would be pretty okay for most games, AAA or not? Would an FPS be possible (quick updates, small messages)? Or a World Of Warcraft or Sea of Thieves style game with many actors that need sort-of-realtime performance but don't rely on it entirely?

I've been looking into creating a game, and I'm also learning Elixir, so I'm curious what would be realistic when combining both.
Is Fuchsia backwards compatible with Android apps?
> In fact, if your open source software takes many hours to set up, it's costing hundreds of dollars of effort to learn the unnecessary quirks every time.

You can see it as supporting an ecosystem of packagers and integrators instead. Remember it's "only free if your time is worth nothing".
>>"The modern "paleo" diet loaded with animal fat and protein is a modern invention that serves mostly to help people rationalize their taste preferences."

It's difficult to know what the diet in the Paleolithic was but there is, I think, a component of the diet that we can be pretty sure about: occasional hungry. How we use that knowledge it's a different issue.
At risk of embarassing myself, I've yet in my work to come across a good use case for tuples. I always end up either using a dictionary or list<type>. Can someone outline a solid use case for tuples? I usually only hear something like "dynamic types". In thinking out loud, I guess maybe it could be handy in API writing, but I would love to learn a new reason.
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Isn't the complaint about Android as a dev platform related to the frequent vs infrequent developer article that's now also on the first page? Sure programming Android is yucky (I struggled with the flavor/build/whatever hierarchy he mentions just this morning, and it's a mess, and even the examples in the official docs are incomprehensible), but so is programming on every mature platform. I write MFC code pretty much every day, and I dig down into win32 at least weekly. Ya it ain't pretty, but I paid the learning price 15 years ago, and now I know every nook and cranny and I can just get things done without googling every little thing, and chasing down if that answer on a forum from 2013 still applies (or is no longer a 'best practice' o how I loathe that term, but I digress...)

And sure, the 'getting started' examples of every new framework or platform that promises to fix the warts of the previous one look compelling - but then you start building actual applications, and people find out they need to add this and that and by the time it matures we're 5 years on; and it has accumulated just as much (different, but just as much) cruft as the ones before it.
It's happened twice in my career.

Once choosing to do more difficult courses at a more prestigious university. I don't think this was great on my well being in the short term (always feel like the idiot in class) but in the long term being associated with the brand has helped A LOT. So it was probably more beneficial to get worse grades at a "better" uni.

Professionally rather than being a gas data scientist in a small city, moving to a more competitive more established field of web analytics/marketing (with many more peers) in a larger city has lead to a much higher salary.
I find it interesting that you felt that programming had hoops to jump through. It has always seemed like a very accessible career in my experience. I started working as a programmer while I was still in high school and just kept with it. I have yet to meet an employer who has even asked about any particular credentials.
Reminds me of the time I had to program a Z80-based controller board. It came with a non-standard C Compiler where integers were 16-bits long. Of course, I didn't realize this at first (I suppose I could have read the documentation, but...), so I had to figure it out for myself while debugging :)

It was my first time programming C on something that wasn't a 32 bit CPU :)
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The students should be given the option to opt out of the tracking and analysis.

More concerning — is the University of Arizona a state school? If so, it could be required to share all of that data with the state. Which means it will eventually end up in the databases of the LEO, the FBI, etc...

Next thing you know, you're getting pulled over for a seatbelt check, and the cop says to you, "You seem to be going to the student union a lot when there are meetings of [insert unpopular organization here]. Care to explain that?"

Also, what prevents the university from selling the data to third parties like marketing companies?
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It’s dangerous having a handful of companies control how opinions are shared
If you look at the totality of the evidence, even in that one story (where Microsoft then built the app to Google's specifications, with ads, and then Google waited until they released it before blocking it again), the story looks so bad against Google that even some of the reasonable press was starting to notice and report the issue as Google toying with Microsoft.

Here is a link to an overly-well-sourced comment I wrote on this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14835776
Thanks for letting us know. I had a look at your profile to see what the issue was. I think in your case that the biggest issue is location. Currently most of the roles are for people who either live in or are willing to move to one of the major tech cities.

We do have some companies that are hiring for remote employees, but currently the supply/demand is imbalanced there.

Sorry that it didn't work better for you.
Given that those benchmarks running on operating systems, the software(OS) matters.
>And old iPhones remain usable longer than old Android phones.
It depends which Android phone you are comparing with. If you compare with a flagship, it should be head-to-head. But i think that is because of stability/efficiency of iOS over android.
Or chamber.

https://github.com/segmentio/chamber
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> any company who wants to exclude Google puts their entire mobile product line at risk on this play

With the exception of China Inc. No place for Google so far.
Ask HN: What is the state of film photography in non-creative industries?
I do some film photography as a hobby.
I was looking at Fujifilm NEOPAN 100 ACROS - which comes recommended on the website for, among others, archaeological documentation.

As I've been looking at photogrammetry with drones/digital cameras and seen the wonders it can do for non-IT people, I wondered: other than artistical pursuits, what is the role of film photography in 2018?
In my experience the most confusing thing for beginners is adding new files, committing, and pushing in separate steps. It also doesn't help that Google returns links to the "right way" to use Git - meaning advanced large enterprise usage.
I am not aware of legislation, but there are many industries where there are compliance requirements that require monitoring, for example financial institutions, possibly FISMA.
"VP of Eng who doesn't sleep".

Would be really great to remove that description, no one should lionize that behavior.
Did you mean to have a link to keyboard shortcuts in there?

Shaderoo looks pretty cool! Having geometry shaders makes it a very different & potentially more powerful thing than ShaderToy at the moment.

That said, there are a whole bunch of projects out there with the same goal: ShaderToy plus a few features. ShaderToy's value to me isn't really it's features though, it's IQ and his prolific sharing and persistence, and also the large user base. Replicating that and doing better will be a lot harder than replicating and extending the features. I'll be playing with it, and I wish the project much good luck!
To me, re-architecting the Google / OEM split benefits both (disclosure: I haven't followed exactly what they're aiming for with Fuchsia).

If it becomes possible to update to new Android features and security patches without breaking OEM overware, then OEMs no longer have to dedicate teams to rewriting their crap codebases.

Which means they can put all those developers on features instead.

Which is what they've always been interested in and (arguably) better at in the first place.
It really is. It's kind of "I'm so awesome that I learned nothing of value in 4 years at a university". Which is a sad waste of time if true.
AR / VR has been the biggest bust of all tech buzz words in the last decade. The hardware is currently too expensive and awkward for normal use, and the only thing that captured the public's imagination was Pokemon Go, which was ultimately a summer fad. Snapchat Spectacles was a flop.

I think AR will be a game changer, but honestly it's still a long ways out, maybe another decade even.
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Phones are carried and used in places and situations that a laptop is not, this creates a lot more opportunities for theft.
Also contextual Augmented reality Ads could be a thing.
> Laptops and Desktops are, more and more, being reserved for power users and computationally heavy tasks

I'm not seeing this in the business world. Yes, there are some tablets in use, but their numbers are still very small in comparison to desktop and laptop computers. And a huge majority of these users are definitely not what I would call "power users".
Less population density means less specialism. Higher population density allows the ability for some of the population to have the ability specialise (and by mixing with others in the same or allied specialisations in higher and higher populations, can allow increased returns to scale of what the individual is already specialised in).
Multiple return values. Using out vars is so clunky to me (and I've been in .Net for about 10 years now).

instead of "bool TryGetSomething(int param, out MyType outvar)", I rather prefer (bool, MyType) TryGetSomething(int param)
In your profile there's a link to upvoted submissions.
Because it's a YC start up.
Apples to oranges, GitHub provides Git as a service and Git is open source, so you can take your repo any time and host it yourself in number of different ways. It just happens that GitHub is most popular (for now) Git As A Service, probably due to the fact that GitLab had few horrible outages regularly every few months for past 2-3 years and hosting it yourself is/was also a bit of nightmare. Anyway, it's not like that. ;)
https://hub.docker.com/r/accupara/business-cards/

This was originally intended to create business cards using latex. No reason why you can't use the installed Latex for everything else.
Young children deal with memories on perceptual level - images, smells, feelings. Adults deal with memories on a conceptual level - words.

My wife is a clinical psychologist specialized in the treatment of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. For her dissertation, she developed a new treatment that takes these memory processes into account, and it is extraordinarily effective.

Adults in this population are often totally unable to articulate and reason about their childhood experiences, acting out emotionally and developing secondary psychological issues. But it turns out they are able communicate and treat terrible deeply held beliefs through art.

It is not my subject area and I can't explain it with justice, but just wanted to point out that your intuition is on the right track.
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No idea, but I just up-voted you. Your post was helpful to me. Thank you and have a good day.
I made an almost identical program back in 2015 (even the same name!), though only using base64:

https://github.com/andrewhamon/encoji

Great idea, op ;)

Edit: this one definitely has had more thought out into it, specifically I like that the sort order of different input is preserved in the output.
A house, any house, needs to be placed on some plot of land. So as for those who lack shelter, do they already have a piece of land and just can’t cheaply build on it, or is it not having land at all that is the problem
(laughing emoji)
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That is a very complicated question, because typically in the villas miserias the people who build houses do not have any officially recognized title to the land. They may or may not have paid protection money to a local gang for a title, but these are not officially recognized. They may end up paying for the land several times over the years, or not at all, and they may end up being evicted from the land — sometimes with bulldozers — despite having paid someone for it.

On one occasion a few years back, some crackheads who had started building a villa near Ecovillage Velatropa stabbed one of the Velatropans, shortly after allegedly setting fire to one of their outhouses. The Velatropans called the police, who evicted the crackheads and the mentally ill man who had invited them to move in. The next couple of weeks, the Velatropans stood 24-hour guard to ensure that the crackheads did not return. One night I calmed down an extremely excited Cuban who was running to get the village machete — he thought he had spotted one of the crackheads hiding in a tree. By the time we returned in a group to chase the crackhead off, he could not be found.

Velatropa itself is built on a site that previously housed the "villa gay", where a group of some 300 people, initially transgender prostitutes, had lived before being ejected en masse with a judicial order in 1998. The city paid to house them in a hotel thereafter — but only for a week. I don't think the "villa gay" was bulldozed until shortly afterwards, but none of its buildings remained when I started going to Velatropa around 2008.

So the answer to your question is not as simple as a range of numbers of dollars or pesos per square meter. I think it's better understood as an ongoing social process of negotiation of land tenure, among whose elements may or may not be quitclaim deeds, warranty deeds, and fee-simple title.
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You overestimate how hard it is. Amazon did it, and the entire country of China did it out of necessity. As Amazon's ecosystem gains steam, there will be enough third party replacements for Google's apps that it will be easier for others to switch too.
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BMW is using a blockchain solution to track their cobalt supply chain
btw, for those who are design illiterate..you will find that Canva's free pitch-deck creator should solve your needs: https://www.canva.com/learn/pitch-decks/