skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be more specific, I think FB could reach the valuation that it did because Mark Zuckerberg's voting power, not despite it.

He had explicitly talked about the average SV' short term mentality multiple times: "It's still a little short-term focused in a way that bothers me," Zuckerberg says of Silicon Valley. "There's people who want to start a company not knowing what they want to do, or just to flip it." ( https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2011/10/31/mark-zuck... )

When it is time to cash out investors do whatever they can to pump up the valuation of a company even if it ends up creating handicaps for the future. When that happened to FB, Mark Zuckerberg was able to oppose to it.
Ask HN: What % of Open Source commits are from outside devs for consumer apps?
I have a theory that most Open Source contributions come from corporations like IBM, Google, and Redhat where their primary revenue stream is support or search or ads.

The reason we don't see many poplar end-user apps being Open Source is that there's no economic model behind them.

Firefox is the best example but their funding primarily comes from Google.

I also suspect that the vast majority of their commits are from developers paid for by Mozilla.

I think the argument that if you just Open Source your app that you will get commits from the developer community is fallacious.

I'd like to have real numbers to back it up though.
Acquiring the ability to wipe ourselves out with nuclear weapons is the classic example of this problem. The physicists weren't expecting that pushing the boundaries of what was technically possible would result in a very bad escalation of destructive capability, nuclear arsenals and the rest.

Progress in nuclear physics hasn't got a lot to do with progress in human politics and (dare I say it) justice/peace.

Construction technology is similar vis a vis architecture. Revit, 3D printing and advanced materials aren't an automatic ticket to making architectural work that's as good as or better than Angkor Wat. I mean, just what materials you build something out of, and what technologies you use, both obviously contribute to the particular artistic problem that the architect solves. But someone working with very limited technology can produce a fully developed artistic masterwork under those constraints. That's just something we know empirically from looking at the art of the past.

So this is more about never being complacent that what's being made today will match or surpass the artistic high points of the past. That's what the "no progress" concept means to me. There's a level playing field—none of us has any kind of technology that means we can unthinkingly produce work that compares well with renaissance masterpieces. The real picture is quite a bit more depressing that that...
If they are illegal immigrants, what makes you think they would even cooperate with being funneled through official ports of entry?

We have official ports of entry. Building a wall might make it harder for illegals to cross, but they already face substantial barriers. Some of them die every single year while crossing the desert on foot or taking other risks.
So who else should be untouchable?

What purpose does suing anyone for anything serve?

I don’t see too many doctors demanding to become employees (with far less personal liability) instead of independent contractors as they usually are. Getting the best of both worlds is asking for a lot.
FWIW, working in the Joy language you could write this:

[dup *] map sum

And given the definition of sum (the Joy combinator step is like fold),

sum == 0 swap [+] step

There could be a (pre-)compilation transform that generated:

0 swap [dup * +] step

From which the proverbial "sufficiently smart compiler" would generate SIMD instructions. (I'm working on that now, in Prolog. At this point the type-inferencer can already tell that this function expects a list of numbers and returns a single number (it's a "Catamorphism"[1].) But I'm nowhere near specializing the output code to SIMD. My target architecture is Prof. Wirth RISC machine for Project Oberon. However, there's a body of research on Prolog compilation that includes work on retargeting machine code generator generators, so there's that.)

[1] http://joypy.osdn.io/notebooks/Recursion_Combinators.html
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'The same product' is fleeting and ethereal over the long term.
Like I said, Summon will immediately stop the car if it detects even the slightest bump.
The pre orders sold out in 2 days:
https://www.droid-life.com/2019/04/16/samsung-quickly-sold-o...

The numbers aren't public yet, but it's probably low. I don't think they are dumb enough to expect this device to sell anywhere near the Galaxy S10 or an iPhone.

It may not be a huge sales success, but apparently it's above Samsung expectations.
Yes: that is exactly what I was going to point out. Seattle's own housing policies: https://www.citylab.com/equity/2015/07/how-a-seattle-plan-to... are the primary driver of financial strain in the city. Surrounding cities's policies (Bellevue, Kirkland, etc.) are even worse.

The city severely restricts the housing supply; housing costs go up; the people look for a scapegoat; and there is Amazon, handily enough, when the real fault is voters's. (http://cityobservatory.org/homevoters-v-the-growth-machine/).

A real pity: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/09/24/do-millennials-have-a-fut...
In our area, its becoming popular for the hospital (the only one in our area) to be in network, but the doctors who work in that hospital are NOT in our network.
They are not the same thing.

A government program with a dedicated funding system (like, for example, the FAA) is a different thing entirely from a for profit entity.

The tell is that there’s no such thing is “profit” in a government context.
And employees conspire to get more by gaining experience then moving to other companies, differentiating themselves and asking for raises?

You are describing negotiation.

Companies are not supposed to want to raise wages any more than employees are supposed to want to lower wages. The balance is how the market puts a value on different kinds of work and skills.
Heresy! How dare you insinuate Kim leaked her sex tape solely for publicity!
We should bail zuckerberg out and open source the data. Every country chip in a couple billion and its done.
That's a bit of a stretch. But at least the citizenry is able to do so.
If you travel often but only sometimes to other countries the travel part becomes routine and the need for a passport can be forgotten.
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I worked at Wolfram Research and I have sideline knowledge of how hard it is to successfully commercialize a CAS. I personally would wait for NSF funding to improve (it is an unfortunate reality how funding is prioritized nowadays), and perhaps get resourceful about developing your system further in an academic setting- I’ve done similar work as a university student looking for a resume booster.
Populations usually have close to 50% split, although I think there are usually slightly more woman.

Outside of war/post war its unlikely to have a situation where there are 10 woman to each man.
Sorry if it was unclear - this was a large battery of tests, run one time.
Why would anyone wait a few hours after death to do the technique? Wouldn't it make more sense to do it right away, and get the brain into its new medium? Right now there's all the limitations of something that's a nascent technology, but the methods should surely be improved as time goes on.
"Financial pollution?" No, high paying jobs do not drive up the cost of living. Unwillingness to accommodate growing populations and reluctance to building housing is what is what is driving up costs of living.

Most cities would kill for this so-called "financial pollution".
Yeah, I definitely see that perspective. But I also see the trendline of our usage steadily increasing, and the older pricing models would get amazingly expensive for heavier users.

As it is, there are some cheaper options as well (eg, consumer cellular or other MVNOs).
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He's doing his job: keeping the little people in their place.
I usually grimace when Hollywood remakes a classic movie and it is rarely better imho than the original.

But if there is ever a story that needs retelling it's the story of Doolittle's Raiders, they're the original super heroes, who gave America back its swagger after the tragedy of Pearl Harbor.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037366/
>They very rarely end well.

Can you provide some examples of failures?
Not tackling the same problem but in the spirit of removing things and Firefox, you can bring up a url in the address bar, press down arrow, press Delete, and it'll go away

It only deletes that very specific url though, like foo.com, however foo.com/bar will still exist
Considering the translation ID as a "slug" is a good tip to ease choosing the ID. Thanks!
Aren't you breathing super pure oxygen/nitrogen mixture in a fighter jet?
Just wait until you get a reference request on your last colonoscopy :P

Seriously though in general managers have worked in and around technical people before, and their role in the process is to evaluate qualitatively. Are they a good communicator? Do they seem like awful people? They use feedback from the engineers to estimate if they're good engineers. I don't have a deep bench of M.D.s to lean on to figure this stuff out.
in addition to FileVault I have uBlock Origin installed on all browsers and Malwarebytes running. but I have no idea if these programs are working, are looking for the correct threats or potentially have malware themselves. so far so good...
Battleships run Windows. Drone strike missions are planned in PowerPoint.

Microsoft isn’t exactly working from a blank slate of reputation here.
hello, long time seattle tech person here - this article is a bit slanted and doesn't tell the whole story. i for one, however, hope amz stops building in seattle and starts in earnest elsewhere. it is has become a nuisance of a company that the city is becoming too dependent on. it's not healthy for our local economy, and i would love to see the am-holes spread out and infect other cities.
> But in recent years, as Seattle’s citizens begin taking Amazon to task for its role in driving urban inequality, and city leaders push to account for this cost with higher taxes

What the hell? Maybe also mention as house prices rise so even Amazon employees are complaining about how hard it is to buy a house, and rents go up so that even Amazon employees start to think twice, and the number of local potential hires shrinks...(devs in Seattle who don't currently work for Amazon but would like to do so, as opposed to those have already quit or would never touch it)

But no, of course these aspects, the fundamentals of "can I hire people to work here and how much will I have to pay them", are not relevant.
Having been a very happy owner of a 2013 Nexus 7 until I lost it about a week ago at a cafe, the appeal is basically having "one" device that does everything I need (sans a laptop, obviously). I used my phone for all communication and my tablet for e-reading, because the larger screen and form factor was welcome. But having that tablet meant one more device I had to lug around and keep track of, and as I can attest, that made it easier to lose or forget somewhere. If the phone folds out into "tablet" mode, it means I've got it with me at all times.

For me, the biggest barrier right now is price. Having it all in one device is convenient, but for me it would easily be cheaper to just have a year-old phone and a year-or-two old tablet. Hell, given that I paid $400 for my Galaxy S8+, $200 or so for my Nexus 7 (like five years ago), and about $800 for my laptop, I could have all three for less than the cost of this thing.
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In the other news, Microsoft accused of being 'complicit' in persecution of 1 million Muslims after helping China develop sinister AI capabilities.

http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-china-muslim-crackd...
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I think it’s not so much that Google and Facebook will outdo them in this area, but about why they are so much more vested in and therefore better at technologies that are opposed to privacy. Google and Facebook as businesses are all about collecting information about their users and monetizing it, which is inherently anti-privacy. Apple and Microsoft actually sell something (hardware and software, respectively), so the smart move for them is to position themselves as firmly pro-privacy—because they can whereas Google and Facebook cannot (without finding new business models). We will increasingly see Apple and Microsoft using privacy features as a competitive advantage against Google and Facebook. We’ve already been seeing this with Apple quite a lot recently, now Microsoft is following suit.
Afaik I it’s a pretty common term. Altering/monitoring teams often times hit up product security teams for IoCs they can use in their alerting implementation.
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If you mean: some weird tribe that has a population of 10 grown up women and one grown up men then yes, any TFR > 1.1 would mean population growth.

But in normal circumstances you assume that there is an equal number of men and women in population. Or, to be more precise, you assume 105:100 men:women ratio, because that's what statistics show in most countries. That's why you need TFR slighly higher than 2 to have constant population size.
This is a terrible kind of logic. It's better for everyone to be worse off just to make sure some people don't benefit more than others? This kind of toxic mentality is one of the things that turns me off the most from many so-called progressive movements.
Will you know you're dead though? If they have the technology to bring your brain back, they probably have the technology to make your brain think you're still in your body and you woke up.
This idea was somewhat explored in Iain M. Banks _surface detail_, after death, your conciousness would be put into a virtual hell if you 'sinned' in your physical life and that the hells were used as a deterrent
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To miss something is to wish it were true again. I miss Momma; I wish I could see her again.

To regret something you've done is to wish it had not happened. I regret calling him stupid.

Opposites, really.
TBF, I'm sure groups aren't randomly scattered around the place. Still, as companies grow, there is a natural distribution of workers that you really can't overcome, especially if you want to keep people if they switch roles and don't want to relocate.
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"open source the data"

What data? User's data? Algorithms? There's little value in FB's algorithms, the value is simply in its usage by users, content creators and advertisers.

Without those, FB is worthless.
That delay is common where many Hacker News people reside, in places ranging from San Francisco to northern Sweden. It is however unnatural, and people in more affordable locations are still starting families closer to the natural time. My wife and I had 5 or 6 kids in my twenties, and then about that many in our thirties, and then still more. This sort of family becomes impossible if you delay, and you might not realize you want it until well after you can't have it.
They currently ignore them. Not talking fantasy.

When beating heart corpses (technically brain dead but body is alive) have their organs removed, in some cases the bodies go through symptoms of a live human being killed by vivisection. These are generally ignored.

Let's hope our understanding of brain death is fully and completely correct.
The issue here is that being review units, Samsung has supposedly pre-tested them and discarded “bad from the start units”. If 4 of them have failed in 2 days, their MTTF is pretty low.
> Our opinion is similar to Unicode's - Gettext is fundamentally flawed design for internationalization purposes.

Did the Unicode consortium express critics about gettext? Could you provide some reference about this?
Microsoft accused of 'complicit' helping China develop sinister AI capabilities
Still smug and self righteous, plenty of them are anti-amazon in any other discussion and we're just happy to take their support on this. A significant percentage believed the head tax would be too expensive for small businesses (aka didn't even know who would have to pay it).
Due to best screen available.

In that sometimes you only have your phone with you. Outside of the normal status-y nature of high end phones, I could see this being valuable to an exec/management as this would allow them to review Excel documents and PDFs on the fly when in situations where booting up a work laptop isn't ideal or possible (laying in bed, at an airport waiting on flights, etc.). In that particular scenario it is putting a gun to the head of work/life balance, but it is a scenario I could see it used.

I'm interested in the form factor mostly for consolidation: with eGPU, I've consolidated my laptop and gaming desktop into just a laptop that plugs into the eGPU when at home and this form factor would negate a real need for a tablet for reading, video consumption, or what have you.

I personally prefer the Chinese ones where the bend is on the outside (mostly because the Galaxy Fold closed seems like an absurd waste of real estate), but I'm glad Samsung and others are working on this. It isn't a problem really, but it eliminates the need for so many different types of electronics if 2 bigger ones are consolidated into one device.
> Here is a list of the top 100 Y Combinator companies by valuation (why valuation?), as of October 2018. We also included YC’s top 12 exits.

https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/
The idea of an Enlightened Despot is great. The reality of a Tyranny is terrible.

Which is Mark Zuckerberg? Probably a bit of both.
In the US it is very easy to get into a university. It is not so easy to get into a good university.

> Why not just build more universities?

Because enrollment and the numbers of students who can pay are dwindling [1].

> Also why not start a private education company that probably wouldn't be eligible to issue government-accredited degrees (who but medical doctors and lawyers needs them anyway?)

The main reason anyone in the US goes to college these days is to get a degree, not to receive education related to any specific job. They want to get a degree because most employers still require a degree either for consideration or for promotion. The employers require this because they see it (fairly or unfairly) as an easy way to weed out those who would be unqualified. Any employer that would accept a non-accredited degree from a private education company that could easily just be selling certificates (which already happens anyway) probably wouldn't even care if you had a degree in the first place.

> yet would provide university-level education quality and compete the free-market way

I just don't see there being a significant market of people willing to pay full tuition for a non-accredited institution, to the extent that it could afford to hire good professors away from existing universities and be a better option for them than pursuing tenured positions elsewhere.

Compounded with the unlikelihood that students would be able to get reasonable loans to attend a school that could very well be a scam, this seems completely untenable. Students get into enough debt as it is going to accredited institutions with government loans.

1. https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-disappearing-private-c...
Actually, I think Western Washington has done pretty well as far as construction of housing. I grew up in Bellevue and it feels like there's a new apartment tower every time I come back to visit.

Contrast this with San Francisco where people routinely shut down housing construction over frivolous objections.
I certainly see the value in a more hybrid device - this just feels like a bit of a technical "pissing contest" if you will rather than a consumer focussed device.

Again, I'd be happy to be proven wrong - and I do appreciate the engineering involved in making a consumer grade foldable screen.
That’s wrong. There were 6 units referenced in that story.
> articles that cannot be read by the majority of users here.

Given that they have a promotion of 2 months for $1, and the user demographics that a majority of HN users are gainfully employed, I don't think there is a legitimate argument that the majority of the users can't read this - they may not choose to spend that $1 on WSJ, but I am quite positive that it's not a matter of ability.
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> No, high paying jobs do not drive up the cost of living.

They absolutely do. Higher income folks can outbid and outpay for all basic essential services, driving the price of those services higher.

Compare the cost of daycare in Seattle, for example, to the equivalent cost in say Michigan.

> Unwillingness to accommodate growing populations

Seattle is #1 in urban housing construction, nationwide. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/seattle-to... This isn't California, blaming lack of housing construction is not a valid argument.

> Most cities would kill for this so-called "financial pollution".

Their governments would, true. Most of their residents would not, because they'd have to bear the cost of the higher income residents. (See how most people's reaction to the Amazon HQ2 search was, "please not here")
Take out your headphones when you're talking to someone. It common courtesy.
Most people don't manage their retirement funds for good reason, but if you wanted to...

The S&P500 has roughly 11 sectors to it. Each one with its own ETF options. Each one of those sectors is also broken down by industry.

So in Facebook's case, you could get an ETF for the 10 sectors besides "Communication Services". Communication Services has less than 30 stocks. You could get an ETF for specific industries within Communication Services or just pick some of those stocks you like the most to add to your portfolio. Facebook's industry has only 4 other stocks I believe - Google (2), Twitter & TripAdvisor.

Of course the main downside to managing your own portfolio is re-balancing it.

But this is something I've considered from time to time when I feel very bearish on a certain company or industry that I feel my automated portfolio is overweight on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S%26P_500_companies
That's some pro-level pearl-clutching right there. What was it, about fifteen years ago we were pulling out fainting couches over Bluetooth headsets? "Remember when you'd see a person talking to themselves, and you just thought they were crazy?"

Or for that matter, people walked around with earphones constantly stuck in their ears long before AirPods showed up. AirPods just (perhaps) made it more common.