skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Housing and food costs don't seem to be getting any more affordable. There is only so much land to build or plant on.

There is also nothing to guarantee that new labour intensive industries will appear enabled by new technology. Startups are a classic example of this, they often employ extremely few people compared with their valuations and share of the economy.

You could eliminate minimum wage laws to make automation or outsourcing less attractive but with that you have to accept a regression in living standards for a great many people.
Have you used a Chromebook Pixel? I've never once wanted that feature. (Also, multitouch indeed works in apps/webpages that declare it : Google Maps, etc)
If it works like Google-Search, results are not an estimate, or not even random, it looks like it is inflated .... for example, if you navigate to https://www.google.com/search?q=zzzfgh , it tells you 5,900 results until you reach a page where there is no more results and it tells you 484 results (for example, I never seen an estimate that was lower then the real count)
DOL Fair Labor Data Challenge
This is not the normal Google Account password, this is specifically for a backup/restore process.
Out of simple idle language-design-bystander curiosity, can you recall any other times where this class of bug has bitten?
50, I believe. And no IMAP though.
Interesting. Some of my friends play games, but I don't anymore.

That actually seems to be a big disconnect. Among my friends who play games, it seems like all their close friends play games too.
I don't think I've ever seen C++ that inherited an interface privately.

That said, it's extremely common for classes to lack any virtual functions and thus be unusable with dynamic_cast.
What are the chances that this person had the DVD flipped to play the 4:3 version of the film? (Studios sometimes release pan & scan and the widescreen on the same disc, but on opposite sides).
I bet you say that to all the boys.
Deer ticks are not the only kind of ticks.
Ah, this is close to my heart, and I have worked in video and streaming video for ten years, for many companies. Which is why I am so surprised the author does not realize that Netflix is not making this decision--video is supplied by third parties and sometimes this is out of control of Netflix or other streaming video vendors. Sometimes the pan and scan version is all that exists as a digital encode. Generally Hollywood studios are resistant to spending any extra money or labor to put our widescreen versions that customers can't generally discern from the pan and scan versions (and re-encoding costs are often absorbed by the streaming video service, in this case Netflix).

Netflix is generally making a smart business decision here--expanding selection and using a product that appears identical to 98% of viewers--and I say that as one of the 2% who can tell and do care.

In short, the author should know this, and have said it themselves, citing their video clerk experience--customers, if anything, think widescreen is the inferior product.
It seems like crazy overkill. It's not like they're implementing a safe search feature or anything. It seems like Adult blogs will be completely unsearchable by either Google or Tumblr's own search engine. Unless you already have a link to an adult tumblr, you'll never be able to find it.
> The sort of people that start companies generally like doing new things, not executing relentlessly on the same things. But restraint is critical...

I haven’t started a business, but I mean to. Is it really so common to be all about the new? “Restraining myself” would actually mean starting new things when I’m supposed to, instead of working relentlessly on one thing to completion like I prefer to do.
No, there are unlimited amounts of jobs, technology frees people to do jobs that previously weren't done. Read Armen Alchian.
This is not Russia specific... it's like that in most countries of the world.
The State of the Global VFX Industry 2013
> Look at the Man on the Moon crop. It's clearly anchored to the right because the focus of the scene is the guy on the right talking, and since the quiet guy on the left has nothing to contribute to a cropped frame but half a head or so, the sensible (if uninspiring) solution is to show just the one guy talking.

That's etler's point: you seem to be disagreeing and correcting, but all you are doing is restating what he said. The idea is that "clearly" (and we now have this said twice): this is not just a blind crop, this is a crop that took into account something that Netflix wouldn't know (who is speaking), so it is thereby an unjustifiable stretch to believe that Netflix is modifying the movies themselves (which is the premise that etler was responding to, if you re-read mullingitover's comment).
However, the original aspect ratio of these films is 2.39:1, and they're being cropped down to 16:9.
We know that intrinisically motivated people will aspire to do, even if there isn't a need for them too. If we provide for both the intrinsic and extrinsic, we effectively cover 100% of motivated individuals. By making it easy for those with passion to act on it we do all of society a favor. As for the non-productive members of society, it's not a huge issue because they don't need to be productive to live. This means that your right to live is unconditional. Excuse my corniness, but after all, why should there be conditions on your right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Thomas Yorke Slams Spotify Model - Pulls Catalogue
You seem to be arguing, but that's the guy's point: Netflix couldn't be doing this, because the decision in that frame to crop the left off isn't something an automated algorithm is going to do, nor is it reasonable to believe that Netflix has people going through making all of these decisions; the result is that we must believe that Netflix is being given these modified movies by the studios, as opposed it being Netflix's decision to make the modification (as proposed in etler's parent comment by mullingitover).
For the last week, as a test run I've had a Fastmail account that I've been forwarding my gmail to and have been using Mail.app to check my email. Having been a gmail only user for so long, I totally forgot how handy it is to have emails and drafts in many different windows and how pleasurable a zero latency interface is. Granted, my email habits are a lot different and more high volume than when I last used a proper email client, but still, it's refreshing.

This is a minor nit, but most of the really interesting stuff you can do with Sieve requires the 'variables' extension, which Fastmail doesn't support for some reason. Other than that, it's really nice.
Fox Mulder?
Could you move to a part time employment model without legally imposing a maximum on the number of hours each person can work?

I know I would certainly not willingly give up half my hours and income and have to put all of my work in a state where someone else can take over every few days.
Support 1 Hour of Code with Code.org
On Tuesday, Code.org founder Hadi Partovi announced a new initiative.

December 8-15 is computer science education week and Code.org is pushing for 100,000 teachers, educators, volunteers, to bring an Hour of Code to every student."

Google will support the cause by advertising CS Education Week with a link to Code.org on the homepage for an entire week!

CodeAvengers.com and others will be launching 1 hour courses specifically for the event.

How can you support the cause?
Bitcoin offers pretty poor privacy. Bitcoin is basically like using a credit card that posts every purchase you make on the Internet. Now, unlike a credit card your name isn't necessarily tied to the a bitcoin wallet, but realistically you're unlikely to have more than a few bitcoin wallets, and even if you have multiple ones, any transfers you make between them will also be publicly broadcast, so someone with a bit of computing power can likely compute with very high probability what you're doing with your money if they can locate a single transaction they know you have made.
It's not the topic, but rather how the title frames the topic. It isn't exactly neutral. (Compare the actual article title.) It seems that in contrast to article titles, Wikipedia allows redirects containing non-neutral language, and when an article title is deemed inappropriate and changed, they sometimes even allow the original title to be maintained as a redirect.
Although my primary email is Gmail, I recently had the need to get an email for a domain name I own. Since Google stopped offering free custom domain emails, I gave Outlook.com a try.

I was pleasantly surprised. Things seem to make a lot of sense and I like their metro/flat design on the web, easy on the eye.

If you are bored of the new UI changes to Gmail, I'd suggest you check out Outlook.com as an alternative.
> The most effective thing we can do is reduce deer populations.

The disease comes from mice, not deer. Deer do help spread the ticks around, but reducing the deer population wouldn't significantly help with lyme disease prevalence.

I'm actually currently on roughly day 14 of doxycycline for possibly having it or some other tick infection. I got bit on the shoulder by a nymph, found at somewhere between 18 - 24 hours later still unengorged. I then got the 200mg prophylaxis later that day, meaning that my odds of getting anything should have been less than 1%.

I never developed a lyme rash, only a local rash, but my shoulder and arm started hurting within a couple days. I tried to convince myself it was just from using my laptop even though I've never had any RSI problems, or else just from being tense from worrying about it, but it was still sore on and off for the next 20 days. Finally woke up and my whole arm was burning, so I drove down to the pharmacy and had the scrip filled within the hour. It's frustrating though because there's really no way to know if you have it in the first place, and also no way to know if you're actually cured once you finish the treatment. The symptoms did go away pretty much as soon as I started taking the meds, but who knows what that really means.
The size of the spec in part reflects the intensity and vastness of real world usage, having to get into painstaking detail regarding otherwise ignorable issues. It agonizes over minutiae because enough people are going into those dark corners that rules and expectations must be laid out for a profusion of obscurities.

If you have a relatively small number of users who understand the gist of the language, it can be expressed in a few pages.

If you want the language to be useful beyond a trivial description, you'll have to add some complexity, which leads to weaknesses.

If your language becomes world-scale popular, you're going to have to spend specification space dealing with things like explaining that under certain conditions yes in fact a Boolean variable can have a value other than "true" or "false".
Wow, Yahoo not listed there.. burn!
you jumped the shark at 'holocaust denial'. 'apologist' would have been sufficiently hyperbolic. ok...fair enough, no mention of Mao should henceforth be made without detailed discussion of the deaths he was responsible for.
I hope these kind of events help lead up to a critical mass where adoption starts to skyrocket. What articles like these show is that people are starting to have more faith in the cryptography-backed currencies then their own government backed currencies.

Great news for those bullish on bitcoin. (Like myself)
1) I wasn't intending to attack Bezmenov. I haven't heard his message, so I can't pass any kind of judgement/opinion on it.

2) My intent was to lodge my dislike of statements such as:

People don't believe X, but it's ok because X said
that no one would believe him/her.

I viewed it (possibly falsely) as using lack of belief as validation of the message itself. [ This can be done even if the messenger didn't intend for the audience to use his/her statements this way, so it's not necessarily an attack against him/her. ]

3) It (to me) has similarities to statements like:

<statement 1> is true! <opposing group> might try
to distract you by saying <statement 2>, but don't
believe them because it's all lies!

[ Note: I'm not saying that Bezmenov made any such statements, or that such statements are in his character. ]
The 1 hour of code initiative aims to give as many beginners as possible a taste and to demystify "code".

If you would like to register your support for this initiative sign up at http://www.csedweek.org. A cool new video and promo material will be coming soon.
>There is some "lock-in" even without lock-in - some phone subsidies work even if people can leave because they don't leave that much anyways; think of it as advertising expense for customer acquisition.

Yes. Carriers in the US lose, literally, billions of dollars on the iPhone because they've calculated the cost of acquiring a customer is a few hundred bucks, on average, so if subsidizing a phone buys you customers it's worth it.

Personally, I think they've gone overboard, but then again I'm not in the front office.

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-tn-verizon-on-ho...
As I said 4 weeks ago, the reason you see good comments from banned accounts is that people who behave abusively don't do it 100% of the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5926081

If my proposed plan for a new "pending" state for comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6009523

works out, we'll just unban most of the accounts that were banned for being garden variety idiots or assholes, and their good comments can be promoted individually by other users.

Incidentally, when a comment is dead, it's not always because the user is banned. E.g. the comment that seems to have set off anigbrowl

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6060403

was not killed because the user is banned, but because it was a dupe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6058500

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6058489

When you see stories that are killed rather than comments, it's usually because they've been submitted by sockpuppet rings. There are quite a lot of those accounts on HN now, and many of them are smart enough to mix a variety of other sites in with the sites they're promoting. Benologist, who helped us catch some of them, has more details here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6061108
Product dev rule: Don't solve your problem by making it the customers problem
>"But then opponents spoke out: self-described ‘vaccine victims’ — perhaps similar to people today who claim the MMR vaccine causes autism. Back then, they said that the Lyme vaccine gave them arthritis."

Okay, vaccines can harm people. It's a fact, get over it, now let's see an honest discussion with more facts and less name-calling.

>" There were a number of East Coast lawyers who started putting together class-action lawsuits."

So? Vaccine manufacturers are immune from lawsuit. Cases are tried in vaccine court[1]. Awards are paid by the gov't.

> "many drug companies say not they’re not interested in working on one."

There is no excuse for this. If we have to suffer the perversion of market forces seen in our vaccine industry, there should be no excuses for companies who don't want to produce an existing product merely because it isn't profitable enough.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_court
Opensourced GPS Run Tracker for iPhone
I'm looking to see if anybody is interested in this.
It warms my heart to see that this web site is still running.
The problem is when what you ask for is incompatible with how it's done. Hence me today observing a price field in a record containing $9.500000000000000000002, knowing that making the obvious problem there "easy" will result in painful data manipulations elsewhere, and remembering that under certain conditions a Boolean can be neither true nor false. Asking a binary computer to handle non binary data just plain gets weird sometimes.
Why is it a change without some giant announcement is suddenly some sort of secret conspiracy?
No doubt it will be remembered as significant.

But more in the theme of a Newton or Segway rather than an iPhone or iPad.
What I found unexpected about the Raspberry Pi, was that the CPU chip is closed - very little data available on what's in it. Suddenly 'discovered' hardware RNG being a case in point.
Indeed, great reference material. Once upon a time, I typeset his site in LaTeX for better printing.
> Whenever I watch a movie with some of my extended family, there's always someone who asks why the movie doesn't fill the entire screen.

I'm seeing more and more things like this, which seem to fit into a category of "geometrical illiteracy." Making 4:3 video wider to "use the pixels" on a widescreen just looks wrong. It makes people look squatter than they actually are. Many diagrams and animations on Discovery channel shows that supposedly fall into the category of "science education" seem to be made by scientific illiterates. Apparently, the visual artists are looking up all of the terms in the script and description, but who have no real understanding of the underlying concepts. Wildly incorrect geometries are present in the majority of these.

A prime example. The a plane moving as in the animation shown would produce forces in the exact opposite direction!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggP32UJeTHQ#t=865s

If this is what a large fraction of human beings are like, how are we supposed to maintain a democratic and technological society?
A lawyer might be provided pro bono -- but I completely agree with the point you're trying to make.
I wonder if this is part of stroll.js or inspired by or vice versa: https://github.com/hakimel/stroll.js demo page: http://lab.hakim.se/scroll-effects/ hakim.se has lots of cool stuff like that.
Not to mention the whole "oh, you're asking for a lawyer, an innocent person would just talk to us, you must be our guy" bit.
This is also an integral part of the appeal of Demon's Souls and Dark Souls. Even if those games aren't mass market, the developers were clearly surprised by just how many people enthusiastically responded to being handed a game and told 'here, figure it out. we left you lots of clues. also, you'll die a lot.'
Fifth Estate - Assange/Wikileaks Movie Trailer
ping me. t@teddy.net
Small world. Could you drop me a note to my handle at gmail so I can reply?
18. Found it through Twitter (if I remember correctly) about a year or year-and-half ago. It's hard not to end up on HN when one reads pretty much everything tech and startup.
Those comments about the iPhone were correct: the original iPhone sucked at most of the things it set out to do even in comparison to many of the other devices at the time, and was really only very popular among hardcore fans of Apple. The iPhone 3G and then the iPhone 3GS (and possibly even more importantly, iPhoneOS 2.x and iOS 3.x) were really what started to make the device worthwhile. You can't judge a product based on some concept of the potential the product line might have based on judgements of the team and their plans: the comment you are responding to even says quite specifically "if it were released tomorrow"; if nothing else, we can assume Google also believes this, or they may have already released it ;P.
And here I just want stuff to happen fast
What about the jobs that still need doing but people are not generally highly intrinsically motivated to do relative to other things they could be doing if they had free choice?

For example if you gave software developers a bunch of cash and told them to work on whatever they wanted, how many would go and build video games or invent esoteric programming languages (fun but not important) vs how many would want to build (or worse maintain) a system for the administration of taxes (less fun but very important). Hell, how many would even develop software at all vs just take up some other activity of even less value.

Therefor the best way to motivate these people is to extrinsic motivate them with money. However what happens if most of that money is taken as taxation and spent on people who sit around and do whatever they want all day? Do they still have the same incentive to do the boring but necessary jobs?
Instead of checking all of those libraries into your Github repo, can you try setting it up to use CocoaPods (http://cocoapods.org/) instead?
i know, i'm getting around to it
I'll probably see this, because I love Cumerbatch and have personal interest in the tech of the story, but I hope it's more accurate than The Social Network. Good trailer.
I was stoked to get the two letter domain name bp.io a few years ago, and hopefully it'll be my online home forever.
It was a Holocaust - millions died - and you did deny it ("didn't intentionally set out to kill people...a bad system...history is quite complicated"). Zero hyperbole involved. Exactly the same weasely language as you'd find with respect to WW2. What you said here was wrong, factually and ethically.

The people Mao murdered should indeed be remembered over Mao himself, and mentioned whenever his name is mentioned. The deaths were denied at the time and they are all-too-frequently elided now. We need to remember them.
Wasn't there a study in CT where they massively reduced the prevalence of Lyme disease by culling the deer population?
Ars Technica did a feature piece on ALPR systems about a year ago which was also discussed on here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4387657
Wearable computing is absolutely going to be huge.

But there is no way to escape the fact that most people consider glasses and watches to be fashion accessories. And to make the next mass market device you will need to live and breathe fashion. Which effectively means doing what Apple is doing and bringing in experienced people like Paul Deneve from (Yves) Saint Laurent.
Let me put this as clearly as I can. This is very bad advice. I've been in this business since 1996 and I deal with end users and customers on both the buying and selling side. For everything from a standard domain registration (at normal pricing that you can get at your registrar) to high value sales (let's say hundreds of thousands of dollars).

Anything but .com is almost always going to be problematic and will more than likely cause problems. You can get a reasonably priced .com you just have to be creative.

Let me give you an actual sale today that I handled.

I bought both the .com and the .org of the same domain name for a customer (someone who sold their company to google iim)..

The .com went for $70,000. I was able to get the .org for $1,500.

Domains are all over the place and despite what the OP says (I will try to address that in a separate post) there are domains that can be had and sellers who are reasonable.

Getting anything but a .com for a serious site is going to be a problem. If anything makes more sense to tack on a word to what you want (pre or suffix) than it does to get anything but a .com
As far as I know, the immunity only applies for the vaccines listed on the Vaccine Injury Table, which is comprised mostly or entirely of vaccines specifically recommended by the CDC for children. The lyme vaccine, like many other vaccines, isn't on the VIT.
B.S.'08, M.Eng '09

Henderson is one of my favorites; I just went back for my 5-year and he was just so wonderful to talk to.

The FE curriculum never really interested me; I took OR methods in FE as an undergrad and the professor (a surfer-dude postdoc from UCLA, Will Anderson) convinced me that the efficient market hypothesis was mostly right.

After that, FE seemed a little... well, in the words of my classmate Ryan, "like looking at the surface of the waves to see if there are whales humping."
Are you guys joking? I've been reading Hacker News on and off for years and the majority of the people here are squarely center-right. I can count on one hand the number of regular commenters that I'd consider to be on the Left.

Hacker News is for the most part a forum for pro-Capitalists interested in technology.
Being naturally suspicious, I can't help wondering why the Broadcom chip on the Raspberry Pi doesn't have full technical specs publicly available. Seriously, why not?