skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting question I've had recently, which isn't necessarily directly related to the subject of the article is, "how does access to technology affect brain development?"

When I was a kid, my family was dirt poor, in a fairly literal sense. That was the early to mid 80's and while I was reasonably bright as a student, access to technology really did hold me back.

I didn't get my hands on a computer until high school (in '90), and that was a broken C-64 that I had to fix myself. I didn't have a TV to connect it to. I had to earn enough to buy an old black and white TV at a garage sale before I could even get it working.

My whole life I felt that this is what held me back, and so when the time came, I endeavored to make sure my kids had access to technology if they were interested.

But now I see where tech has headed. They've had computers, but mostly pads and phones their entire lives. It seems almost like these platforms have DULLED their imagination to some extent.

I wonder in the coming generations, if we will see some sort of correlation with access to tech in one's formative years. Especially given the intentionally addictive nature of many of the apps that have become popular in recent years. Also as tech has become ubiquitous and cheap, access it not entirely defined by economics anymore either.

Success is far more than raw intelligence. I'll be interesting to see how all of that plays out in the next generation or two.
I don't know what I would model or how - that's why I was asking for pointers :)

And I in addition to economists, I would be interested in seeing contributions from physicists, computer scientists and machine learning researchers. This paper was super interesting - https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03058, as was this - https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.06376

But would like to see UBI specific papers.
>Windows 10 will be our best enterprise platform ever and will enable our enterprise customers to be more productive than ever before, simplifying management and deployment for IT and working seamlessly with existing enterprise apps.

Quote from the Windows 10 launch that the writer is complaining about

>Our Product Design Process ™ includes multiple stages like benchmarking, UX, UI design, design of the technical architecture and development of the project plan.

>We apply the Software Development best practices and operate with a quality mindset.

Quotes from the website of the company that wrote the article.

It seems hypocritical to complain that the Windows 10 launch was full of dubious statements when you are doing the same thing yourself.

>It had a memorable launch, it was honest regarding its objectives, focused on the user, objective and transparent.

Really? This is your argument for why we should look to Windows 95 for inspiration? Who cares about whether a launch is memorable? I doubt that the launch of Windows 95 is actually memorable for anyone outside of the tech bubble, anyways.

Honesty regarding objectives is a somewhat reasonable complaint but compared to Windows 10 I don't see why someone would say that 95 was more honest about its intentions. They seem to be making this a dig at Facebook but I don't see why Facebook should be compared to an operating system in this respect.

I honestly have no clue what they mean by saying that Windows 95 was objective. Transparent is pretty much the same as "honest regarding it's objectives". Focused on the user is a good thing but they haven't made a case that today's products aren't focused on the user.

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*Zt8F-ZqANVVbq4T5VU...

This chart seems to be saying that computers today have less utility than a computer from 1995 running Windows 95. I don't think I even need to describe why that notion is ridiculous.

For those of you that came to the comments without reading the article, don't bother. It's just a poor attempt at marketing by some UI design company.
To be fair, if the only thing they're geniuses as is making a money pit look attractive to investors.
I can almost buy the need to have automated account suspensions, but shouldn’t the appeal at least be human reviewed? When your appeal logic is:

if (true) {
deny_appeal();
}

...it might give people the impression that there’s nobody behind the wheel. I guess this is what “building services that scale” means.
> (This definitely shows people want to cut down on flying time and most people still pay an incentive to reach their destination faster)

As we are going with anecdata I will complete :

- it's not that i care that much of time when choosing stops, I care about consistent awful airport processes. Just getting off the plane is painfull ("Common people get off quicker pleaase")
Toxic baggage...I get the feeling you haven't spent much time reading into the actual science of omnivore diets.
The same could be said of the term graphene, transistor, computer, genetics, probability distribution, bayesian, nueron, electricity, and millions of other words. We can't learn much from the lack of their use, because the lack of their use says little about their validity.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentism_(literary_and_histo...
$750,000 seems cheap for all that access to faculty and IP
Silverlight worked (on Mac and Windows).
Googled it and they are not interchangeable. +1 for learning something
Have you ever noticed how nobody complains about "excess housing prices" when they can easily afford it and the populations that have been living there for decades can't?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law
The transactions are the value. The network has value.
Ah, thanks. I'm actually not in that world, so the general conference schedule didn't occur to me.
Anyone that have Lyme, please look into PEMF solutions such as Ampcoil or Ryfe. It seems to be highly effective in treating Lyme disease.
That fiat money and inflation is not necessary for a thriving, growing economy.
> idiots at Twitter

A constructive comment would have been to point us at good spam filters that are very good at not allowing obvious spam so that we do not make the same mistake that Twitter did and be labelled as "idiots" by the likes of you on the Internet.
>What really stands out are the main qualities that Windows 95, as a product, had and that are not common nowadays. It had a memorable launch, it was honest regarding its objectives, focused on the user, objective and transparent.

Maybe it's because I wasn't paying attention to computer stuff in '95, but I found the author's focus on "a memorable launch" somewhat out of place compared to the rest of the essay.
And what makes them equal?

Wishful thinking does not count. I know no law of nature nor economics that says that demand of money is stable. And if you allow fractional reserve bitcoin banking without regulation[1], money supply would be completely chaotic.

[1] I guess the question is how would you prohibit fractional reserve bitcoin banking? It's not like there exists any regulatory authority that could do that...
I think the image-post all-caps multi-level text followed by a link with just a number at the end might have been spammy looking to a crap machine learning algorithm
Relevant: http://stickk.com
Presumably you get an email or other notification when the build fails. So even though the deduction isn't immediate you still get the immediate feedback that you will be deducted.
Most likely, but then I wonder, what do their 1k-5k (according to CrunchBase) employees really do? A simple spam flagging system (that’ll take care of the lowest hanging fruit aka very obvious spam) can be built even by a single engineer.
Hey @amyjess!

I'm only 23 but I am very much the same as you. All my friends have gone a traditional route so finding new friends outside university is harder.

I've made a few friends from work but politics are starting to threaten 2 of these. I too live in a small town/suburb but never have tried living in a city so I will need to try that!

I think I am demisexual personally so I'd totally be your friend!

I found some friends by taking up brazilian jiu jitsu and that has proven really useful. Find a topic you truly love and I think friendships will sprout up.

Keep killing it!
I would agree with you and I usually feel the same way, however this particular instance makes sense as in fact his users never returned and hes appealing to those people to let them know. If I was following him, I doubt I would even notice the benches go missing from my feed.

Now as for its interest to HN...I thought it was an interesting thing they are doing and I'm glad that I know it exists now.
One world, One currency
Took me a second not to read this as a changelog entry

> impacted ... patches ... key driver ... Amazon ...
LibreOffice suffers the same issues as Star Office and others alike, and I think this is a reflection of how people get rewarded by developing open source.

Adding new features gives you a lot of fame. Fixing bugs and improving things does not.
Nitpick: they certainly weren't 400 meters long as claimed in the article. Wikipedia claims 81.4m which seems more reasonable.

Edit: doh, 400m depth, not size of the boat.
That is precisely the kind of reaction Bin Salman is banking on. By taking steps that appeal to western liberals, but in reality, have very little societal consequences in the context of Saudi, he is putting a blanket cover on the massive human rights abuse/arbitrary detentions in Saudi, and the war crimes in Yemen.

Houthis being armed militant does not excuse the blockade of essential supplies that is leading to the death of thousands of children.
I'll have to look into that. I have a WinForms app I'd love to run on a Linux machine. (Or more specifically, one of my Windows machines I run it on I'd rather be running Linux.)

I have to have a UI, but the UI is not sophisticated, and could likely be migrated to another UI framework without too much pain.

Although... Xamarin still doesn't play nice with VB does it? Fun: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/cross-platform/plat...
Use cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure. Or pay to be colocated in a datacenter -- you don't need to build one. Back up your databases somewhere that only you control.

You'll have to hire some engineers to maintain this, but it won't be as bad as building a datacenter. And it's what you'll need to do to avoid being a sharecropper on someone else's platform.
Walmart was forced to pay $15 Billion by Amazon, I think. Amazon-India is already a force to reckon with in India. They have a ton of customer love in India, and they are killing it. There is no reason for them to buy Flipkart. They did the required to hurt their competitor by feigning interest. Bezos is a master at deception. Well played, Bezos and Flipkart investors. Stingy Walmart has to cough up more money.
UBI is not a universal increase in income.

Moving money from group A to group B means group A has less money. So housing prices might shift with some price decreases largely offsetting price increases in other areas.

Inflation is a different effect where there is a net price increase.
Station F Is the World's Biggest Startup Incubator, Can It Become the Best?
Vasoline is not very effective and sometimes just results in the tick dieing while latched on.
This article and many others focuses on Lyme in the northeastern US, but Lyme has spread to the interior and the west coast. It's in up to 25% of ticks in many western states and around the west coast.

I find ticks constantly on dogs after taking walks/hikes in California/Oregon/Washington, even if they have tick/flea treatment. I've had one embedded in me that was so small and flush it looked just like a new tiny mole had appeared, it wasn't until it squirmed around after being brushed over a few times that I realized it was a tick. They can be quite a challenge to remove properly even with tweezers.

The tick population has surged dramatically in the western states and east coast, largely from an overpopulation of deer, mice, and other rodents, and an increasing lack of predators to those common tick carriers. Ultimately we to allow predators to return to the natural landscape and in abundance, with birds of prey, foxes, coyote, etc to take out the mice and smaller carriers, and we many more large predators, bear, wolf, mountain lion, human hunters included, to reduce the dramatic deer overpopulation.

And yes, thinning of known tick carriers like mice and deer is demonstrably proven to work.

http://www.ct.gov/caes/lib/caes/documents/publications/fact_...
As you are saying, 20–30 per cent of the variability of intelligence is not heritable. In other words, it’s acquired. This contradicts your claim that “[helping them] is unlikely to improve intelligence in the poorer population”. If done correctly, it will improve intelligence.
There are some hacks like this one: https://github.com/ExplodingCabbage/sublime-gitignorer/blob/...
<Charlton Heston Voice> "Automated system" is made of people!
If you know how to reliably solve that easy problem I'm pretty sure they're hiring
> I’m wondering what the idiots at Twitter are really doing.

What if they're not idiots? What if that system is working exactly as intended?
Unrelated: Openbenches, you don't have a single picture of the greatest benches in America? http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/...
Need more Wolves!
Any of the open-source email spam filters? Not saying they’re excellent by any means but they’d at least take care of the most obvious spam there is. False positives can be dealt with appeals - allow people to actually appeal the decision and get a human to review it. I’d take the occasional false positive with a proper appeals system any day over the current cesspool that is Twitter.
How would that be different from the existing spam flagging system?
Integrate random objects in paintings while preserving their style
Google I/O 2018 preview–What we’re expecting from Google’s big show
Exactly. Also it generally relies on every process everywhere to properly handle an error return from write(). If you launch a big pipe from the shell and just one stage goofs this up and keeps writing after error, the whole thing will stall until you Ctrl-C or otherwise manually kill the process group, which will wreck whatever result you were trying to get from the (already completed successfully!) "head" or "cut" or whatever.

Basically it's a very sane robustness choice and one of the great ideas of classic unix. It's just surprising the first time you stumble over it.
Not the point. Besides, 10 years of testing still doesn't prove it's secure. Intel and AMD CPUs, manufactured since 1995 have the Meltdown and Spectre flaws that were only discovered recently.
Artificial artificial intelligence, if you will
Yes, the FDA approves animal drugs as well.
This is almost a shame. If the memory is well below it's expected life then it seems like a good thing to reduce electronic waste by recycling. It seems like detection would only discourage this.
I did not see any such evidence of MIT asking for your, or anybody else's, support though. The article just looked like an opinion calling for a boycott.

https://github.com/prettydiff/wisdom/blob/master/Avoiding_Tr...

> so I'm one of the SJWs now?

Please do not try to troll me. The article and these comments are not about you. I am not attacking you (or anybody else).
Maybe I'm alone here, but I feel like pay per article is going to discourage readership. It now takes the one time decision (aka signing up for the subscription) and makes it into a decision that happens every time you open the site.

There's also a breakeven point with metromile (Google Fi, etc) and a standard subscription. If I recall correctly, they are targeting people who don't drive very frequently, which isn't what I'd imagine publications would want to do.
I thought perhaps 400m was their max depth but Wikipedia says 350.
This is not such a case. More like "Let adults bare consequences of their decisions please".
Handling Fatal Errors in Production on a Saturday Night
Request Network Hub has a 30mm fund available for developers to develop in their eco
The launch is just a sort of introduction, whilst the qualities that made Win95 relevant are the main focus. I don't mean to say that Win95 is outstanding, but it was surely very important at launch and made a difference in computer usage. It's more about its impact than its performance over other operating systems.
Make sure to not kill any opossums that you see too. Many people see them as pests but they eat a whole lot of ticks and while they can get lyme disease, their immune systems are pretty good at fighting it so it's not that common.

They also pretty much never get rabies, which is just cool.
Or, you can spend human time to review a decision like "Delete account with known good history", rather than the current SV trend of 'automate it, fuck it, who cares? We'll wait until someone complains on HN or Reddit'

The first rule is you don't delete user data without consent. The second rule, is you dont delete user data without consent!

And yes, I work in the industry. Bad shit happens, and data can be lost. But trusting some automated 'spam detection algo' and making actionable, irrecoverable decisions on fuzzy math is completely idiotic, boneheaded, and fucking stupid! If you're in that product team, you deserve every shred of scorn you're getting.
"most web designs out there could surely learn a lot from how Windows 95 solved so many problems by thinking about how target users would deal with their product"

They weren't thinking about it; they were actually testing it with users.
Interesting example with retail and CRM (called "point-of-sale" in retail, but I understand this is not your real product.)

You're right that POS is the #1 pain point retailers have, even though you used it only as an example.

I bring this up because the problem is not what you'd think it is.

You can't just "build another one and they will come", because each different business who might be a customer has slightly different needs and wishes to implement the software in a different manner.

For clarity's sake, we run 8 retail stores, and since I have a background in software my partner wanted me to build a POS, since none of them on the market met our needs. I know enough to stay far away from that gig, though, because it's a rabbit hole of custom engineering.

I don't know what your business is or what people have asked you to build, but if it's anything like what I described above, you'd essentially be downgrading yourself from "funded software company CEO" to "paid consultant."

And even if you think you can sell it with minimal modifications to other customers, you better be 101% sure of that before jumping off this cliff.
Aibo – A new story begins
Twitters bot detection "algorithm" is:

For 1 to accounts do
ban account()

A bot will not appeal the ban, while human will appeal!
If you said this in the south, you would get a good long laugh.
Autopsy report already says ketamine overdose.

edit: source is the-scientist.com
Whoever designed how this system is supposed to work (as in, allow the spam to remain) is still an idiot in my view. Granted, I’m sure they have an agenda to justify this (aka boost user numbers as much as possible, even if all of them are bots) but as a user I don’t care - I see spam on the platform and I call them out for it.
+1 for remind and wyrd. Remind is really, really powerful. You can express things like an appointment that fires "every 3 weeks starting May 4th, but if that day falls on a weekend or holiday then {skip it, move it to the following/preceding weekday that isn't a holiday}", and lots more. Wyrd is a really nice console frontend to remind (I just found that there are graphical frontends available too). Finally with rem2ics you can express really complicated things in Remind and then export the results as an iCalendar-compatible format and import that into whatever other calendar you want.

I used screen, remind+wyrd, mutt, and irssi (and even ledger) in school; I got a job at a bigco that pretty much required me to use gmail and gcal, and I stopped using console things as much. Lately I've been toying around with moving my mail flow back into console / console-ish inside emacs.

This brings back all kinds of memories: https://www.roaringpenguin.com/wiki/index.php/Remind_use_cas...
> I can go out with friends in the evening after work, but I'll be a bit slow and groggy.

And this is why the weekends are typically much busier than weekday evenings at restaurants and other social locations.
and Intel was forced to give away Atom to Spreadtrum
I once wanted to have a Twitter account without a phone number attached to it.

It got banned within 5 minutes of being created, I didn't use Tor, proxy or anything shady, a normal Chrome browser and a normal gmail account. All I did was Tweet once (their own localized hell world tweet where I didn't even fill in the text).

Reason was something that amounted to breaking their ToS via 'automated use' or some shit. Of course if I were to provide my mobile number it'd get instantly unlocked, 0 human oversight on that too.

Opening a support ticket sent me their automated crap email saying the same thing and asking for phone number again to instantly get my 10 minutes old account unlocked.

I never heard from a human.

They reap what they sow.

Edit: and by 'without a phone number' I mean I didn't fill it in when creating the account (I don't even remember if it asked there but I somehow got an account open without one), just out of principle of not wanting to give any more information than I need to any service I use. And of course I didn't divulge it after that borderline ransomware situation and my opinion of Twitter has dropped (generously speaking..). It was also my only ever attempt at having a Twitter account, not a secondary account or something like that. I also have a static Polish IP for years now, no other service ever 'caught' me for being a bot, it was in an up to date Chrome on Windows 10, etc.
At the onset of the Industrial Revolution, I don't imagine people could answer similar questions if asked. If we managed to absorb most of the Western world's farming population into massive cities and created entirely new industries, who's to say the same can't be done now?

A massive part of the planet is still "underdeveloped". As these countries emerge from their eternally-emerging state, there should be no shortage of demand that high-skilled workers in developed countries can capitalize on. Creating intellectual property is an extremely rewarding enterprise and one that can be sold to other less skilled nations (as is already the case).
I find this interesting because it helps me to better understand how to get support/results from one of the many popular systems that offer very little.