skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can share some observations based on changes in my own life.

I've always considered myself and safe and considerate driver. I'm quite nice to people on the road and I usually stop for pedestrians even though we have no law enforcement in this regard here in India.

I recently bought myself the most expensive locally made bike available here, which also happens to be the biggest and most powerful on the road (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKuTFO4wXbw). This also happens to coincide with a change of jobs and a substantial 250% increase in pay, suddenly putting me well into the 0.1% in my city.

Do I stop / slow down for pedestrians less often? Yes.

Do I ignore homeless people and beggars more often? Yes, but I rationalize that by telling myself I don't want to encourage them.

Would I take the candy? No. But I might if they were AWS credits that were being used for entertaining children with games. I might not if they were going to the Khan Academy instead.

Do I feel entitled to all this? Maybe. I do try to be the best at what I do, love programming and spent a lot of time learning to negotiate for what I think my skills are worth. On the flip side I've started to assume that everyone has had the same opportunities and possibilities that I've had, and that if they wanted a better life they should have worked harder for it.
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I just (temporarily) moved to Silicon Valley three weeks ago to work as a contractor at Google (fun and interesting!). The whole area of Silicon Valley has a vibe of energy and wealth. My wife's and my permanent home is in the mountains of Central Arizona where the ill effects of the current economy are so clearly visible. It feels good to be at an epicenter of wealth generation, and I am going to enjoy this area as much as possible while we are here.

I used to think that there are compelling economic reasons to start tech businesses in much less expensive cost of living areas, but it is difficult to argue with the success of his area.

It makes sense that Indian IT companies would also want an R&D presense here.
I must be misunderstanding the question. Aggregation of non-PLAY sbt projects has worked from day one of Play 2.0 AFAIK. (That's when I started using both, and we've had sbt projects as bit submodules compiled as dependencies from the start).

I even did a presentation with examples for my local Scala User Group: http://slid.es/samsmoot/some-sbt
As someone who has designed avionics for experimental aircraft and rockets, one of the satisfying highlights, like the salty sticky bits as you mop up the plate of a roast, is designing and building the switch panels.

Just as web-UI design can be an all-consuming obsession to get it 'just-so', you can loose yourself in comparisons between rotary switches - finding one with just the right torque and a satisfying positive click, locking toggle switches, the colour of the panels and the colour of the filled engravings to get the readability good in both direct sunlight and dim red-lit cabins, the pride you take in wiring looms that no other humans will likely ever see. It's of course not all fun and games, people's lives will depend on the quality of that wiring loom, and the spark from an unsealed toggle switch in the oxygen-rich cabin is what caused the Apollo 1 fire ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1 ).

So videos like this are quite a source of design inspiration!

Relatedly: if you wonder what goes into making nice panels and wiring looms, have a flick through this: http://www.rbracing-rsr.com/wiring_ecu.html it's motorsport but it's basically the same story for aircraft.
>No other platform/ecosystem is as straight-forward however

I would argue that both the Google Play ecosystem and Amazon's media ecosystem are just as integrated and easy to use as Apple's.
Yeah, and Amazon's profit margins are notoriously and historically razor thin -- interestingly it's a matter of policy. Redirecting profits to other departments for maximizing revenue generation, which results in completely opaque expenditure/profit reports.

Mobile handsets may be the largest slice of the pie, but that's only because it's so easy to pad the margins.

Furthermore there is value to participating in other industries, even if only to break even. The expertise and business relationships are certainly contributing to Samsung's bottom line in ways other than revenue.
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Better not join Facebook then
Why remove the first word of the article? "Ten Things I Didn’t Know About Google" provides a better explanation of the article anyways - it's a list of 10 factoids about Google.
True, although such strict lock-in seems to be counter-productive. For example - I have iPad (and love reading on it), but I never buy books on iBooks Store. I use amazon instead, because I can easily strip DRM and convert to any format I want and read anywhere I want (should I ever buy different device). iBooks books are tied to apple devices for ever.

This strategy may work for now, but I don't think it's viable in a long term and apple always seemed to prefer bigger picture rather than pursue immediate profits.
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I doubt Paris was anywhere near 60sq miles when it started out as a trading settlement in 250 BC.
"In Sweden, most ATMs is set at a maximum withdraw of 100$, while a few is set at $300."

I think you did a conversion error from SEK to USD. Did you mean $1000 at a time?

The documents you referenced say Swedbank has a max of 8 000 SEK/day, Nordea's is 5 000 SEK/day, SEB has 10 000 SEK/day, and so on. (Under-16s have a limit of 1 000 SEK/week.)

That would correspond more to US$1,000 than $100.

FWIW, I had a limit of $200 or perhaps $300 when I lived in the US.

According to https://www.tcfbank.com/customer-service_tcf-convenience-ser... , a US bank, "The daily withdrawal limit varies by account. In general, you can withdraw a maximum of $500 daily." I think this is typical.

I've never pulled out more than $2000 per week from Swedbank. I do know they are an anti-cash bank, and want to get rid of handling cash. ("It's environmentally better if we don't have to drive the money around" and "It's safer because it prevents people from being robbed.")

Sweden doesn't even really like bank machines. See http://www.thelocal.se/50228/20130913/ - "Sweden second worst in EU for ATM shortage":

> pensioners staged a protest after another automatic teller machine was recently bricked up. Their actions prompted the Nordea bank to pledge to open a new ATM before the end of the year.

> Sweden is among the main countries leading the way for non-cash payments. Several businesses will now only accept cards while some bank branches don't handle cash at all.

> Swedish researcher Niklas Arvidsson recently wrote a report suggesting that the country could be cashless by 2030. However, he added for that to happen a complete ban on cash was likely needed.
Amazon has to compete on price because they don't own the device. They never recovered from the iPod disrupting their CD business. Actually, I don't think they know how to compete on anything else. Their entire MO is avoiding competition with other tech companies by entering business too unattractive for the power players. For example, digital media (books, music, movies) is a terrible business, because bits are the essence of commodity.
An interesting thing to note: Facebook actually hired Marc’Aurelio Ranzato away from Google, where he was working on the Brain project. Prior to that he was working in Hinton's lab at University of Toronto.

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ranzato/
Even if you aren't poor, moving frequently or living on the road can cause you all kinds of problems with traditional institutions. So many things in our society rest on an unquestioned assumption that people 'live' in one place and don't move more than once a year and maintain a steady mailing address.
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Yes I agree. I think the main contributing factor is that it's on television.
Just reading the sections about the GPU code makes me happy I've never had to touch that board, or any Broadcom chip for that matter.

If only people understood and appreciated how _bad_ proprietary system level software is and the terrible way people (read: Broadcom) architect it.
Thanks for sharing this! I've spent only a few minutes in the site and loving it so far!
Glad that you replied and provided constructive suggestions! I know Bhupal Sapkota and Aakar Anil, but never thought of telling them to use their big fan-base to raise this issue. I'd certainly take actions that will make life of web developers easier in future. Please let me know what your email is, or drop me a mail at (my user name here) AT gmail.

Thanks a lot for the four points. Good luck being an entrepreneur soon! :)
Even though I use Firefox, the site says that my browser is not supported and I should download e.g. Firefox http://codepupil.com/not-supported.html
Thanks for sharing this. It really does seem like it is all about execution and not the idea in this particular case. The get one free to start is directly tied to conversions, minimal features versus added features tied to profitability. And above all the App has to be super dead simple to use.

Given that the ideal monetization would be a 'refillable' credit card type deal where you work off your balance and 'refill' automatically when you get below a certain threshold might have problems in the Apple moneygrab pipeline though. Still it works for the NYT so there must be a way to do it.

So discounts on holidays, calendars to pre-setup sending a card on various events, premium features like multi-picture, or instagram like filters, and card-on-demand with things like QR codes to blog entries or something. I could see the feature set that would be interesting but man it would not tolerate a hiccup in the pipeline that is for sure.
> I own http://www.w3fool.com/, the one with missing 's' and you don't want know where it redirects to.

I did want to know where it redirects to. I was happy that my curiosity didn't lead me to goatse or the like.
Agreed. Talk is big, but this person hasn't done anything. Heck, they could have thrown up a wiki and written a little one sentence starter page about each CSS tag in the time it took them to write the post, then ask for contributions.
Why does speed (what, like at most a few seconds?) matter in this case? Just a waste of memory if you ask me.
> If ou take a laptop to China, ...

Exactly.

At a previous job (.edu), we discovered a compromised host and shortly thereafter found that it was the laptop of a professor who had just returned from China.
That's the first thing that popped into my head. I've spent 5 years in that building. Never realized the man continued to be so successful. It's interesting how people who really change the world can be so low-ego.
We can play the word game and throw political ideologies around like frisbees, but the real issue is price controls.

During the Hurricane Sandy disaster there were price caps on gas and the desired effect was to discourage panic buying, but the opposite occurred -- since suppliers had no interest in accommodating the authorities then supply dried up.

It's not a matter of the suppliers being greedy assholes about it, but there were real and higher costs associated with supplying gas to NYC and the surrounding areas. They just didn't want to take the hit to their pocketbooks and I don't blame them.

What also happened was the well-connected people were able to make arrangements for their own private supplies of gas, and those people included politicians, business leaders, and other wealthy people, but it was secretive and supply was restricted to them. The politicians were publicly attacking/shaming "scalpers" who were trying to sell gas at a fair price, meanwhile they were secretly making back-room deals for themselves.

What's the lesson here? Depends on who you ask and what you goals are. Instituting price caps usually results in suppliers losing interest and disappearing, which is probably what happened in Venezuela.

Oh, and a black market of gas emerged. There were iOS and Android apps for finding suppliers and becoming a supplier yourself. I'm usually the first to ridicule statements like "the market corrected itself" but it stands to reason that it applies here quite well.
>Modern turbine engines are pretty automated and don't require much more than the push of a button

FADEC notwithstanding, there are easily a half dozen different ways to start the engines even in normal circumstances, depending upon what ground services are available, ex: Ground cart vs APU, crossbleed air, electric vs air(aircraft dependent).
I use the Personal Blocklist app in Google Chrome to block w3schools.com results. Additionally, I saw http://mdn.io website surfacing in the internet recently. I use mdn.io to get redirected to MDN without doing a Google Search. Examples:

http://mdn.io/parseint

http://mdn.io/window

http://mdn.io/math
"I know this is starting to sound like another labor of love, where I now ask you to hit the donation button at the top of the page and contribute to a GitHub repository. Actually, I hope to make a living by selling high quality video tutorials and other material outside of all the awesomeness you can get for free here at The HTML and CSS tutorial. I plan on making a living at this someday; with your help."

Let's just put that up and center and keep it honest. It does feel pretty bait-and-switch since you even apologized for the open-source feel and are really begging to make your project #1 on web development google searches and make you rich in the process.
This statement is ridiculous. Symbolics is dead for a number of reasons, but Stallman's Emacs isn't one of them. Stallman copied some of the features in Zmacs. Zmacs was one small part of a much larger operating system which, among other things, included industry leading animation software. There were many, many systems (including the hardware architecture itself) that Stallman could not, and did not copy. No company picked an alternative to Lisp Machines simply because it also had something that looked like Zmacs. Your statement is akin to saying that a modern tablet with a web browser makes desktops (which can run much more powerful tools) obsolete.

Symbolics got used to selling hardware for tens of thousands of dollars and could not fully adjust when competitors were eventually able to sell machines for much less. The company also had a couple of bad CEOs, and suffered large financial losses because of a series of bad real estate deals. Efforts to port their software to other platforms were largely unsuccessful.

Lisp Machines were always a niche market because they were expensive, top-of-the-line machines. The target market never really overlapped with Windows. Cheap workstations that could have multiple users eventually became almost as capable as Lisp Machines and thus displaced them.

If you want to credit Stallman with sabotage then mention Elisp, because Elisp is the worst Lisp still in use (Zmacs ran ZetaLisp).
FWIW, my original headline was "Facebook interested in deep neural networks" but it was apparently modded to the headline of the blog post. I consider the modded title more sensationalist (and obvious), but hey...
If only we had some sort of rigorous process for evaluating the evidence impartially, and coming up with conclusions, and constantly reevaluating those conclusions when new evidence comes to light.

Actually, I've heard of something like that - I think they called it "science". Hey, maybe we should put some "scientists" on this question, and see what they come up with!
I can second this. Did a mind map + force directed graph where the lines connected at the edges of each node and each node had to be markup/css (so canvas was out). Making the dots slide around the node perimeter smoothly ended up working best by doing some trig and placing them absolutely within the node div. Super hacky but it was what worked.
Living in a city has become desirable again. People who can't afford to live in the city are being pushed out into the suburbs like Prince George's county. Is that immoral? I don't know.
A lot of the Shark Tank investments seem like bets on the underlying technologies or products, but against the entrepreneurs themselves. When Mark Cuban (for instance) invests in Company X on Shark Tank, he basically buys the founders out of their controlling stake for what amounts to pennies on the dollar, figuring that he can always monetize whatever inventions the entrepreneurs have developed.

From Cuban's perspective, that seems pretty reasonable. He's basically figuring "You got lucky, you came up with something interesting, but you're not the guy (or girl) to make that something work. I'll take it off your hands and let you cash out." In a way, that sort of deal feels more like corporate M&A than it does a VC investment.

As Jeremy puts it in his recap: "If barriers to entry are low, all the startups do is serve as outsourced R&D for the big incumbents who can come in and use their scale to eventually recapture share from the startups who proved out a new market."

That's basically the Sharks' playbook. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the first thing a Shark does, upon buying a controlling stake in Startup X, is take it to BigCo Y to flip or license it.
Interesting thoughts. Social Networking is a "market whim" according to Cheriton.

> Cheriton says he avoids pursuing market whims—he considers social networking one of them—and stays focused on breakthroughs that make measurable improvements to human life

I wonder at what time does he think it would be out of fashion.
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The Importance of Whimsy in Learning to Program
I had a lot of false starts as a programmer. Minor changes to how programming is taught could have made all the difference.
"Plus, while GitHub is lauded for being open source..."

Since when?

For an article that focuses on GitHub, the distinction between "git", "GitHub" and "majority of the projects hosted at GitHub" must be pretty clear.
I wonder how much of that is actually necessary nowadays.
Do you have any evidence to support that? I think the push for ending the height restrictions was mostly coming from residential developers.

Lobbyists can live anywhere (I'm sure many/most live outside DC proper) and, if anything, I would argue that it's increasingly less important for a lobbying firm to physically be on K St or the Hill.
While you seem to admit that "main" English does not exist, you make the mistake of assuming that there is a "main" "accepted". Accepted by whom? The hordes on youtube or twitter certainly don't mind. And no, it is not part of an American dialect. An English litt. major could get reprimanded for using such spelling in their reports, even in America. It is a part of uneducated dialects all over the world.
The tropics right now are cool enough to live in, right? I have hard time believing even +50°C would render the planet uninhabitable.
ChromeCast has been breaking apps written to push to it as well:
http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/21/airplay-mirroring-android...

And honestly, if Google had any intention of having generally open access to it, they would have started with DLNA support, which would have allowed many phones to push to it out of the box. Instead expect it to stay heavily locked down and to only provide good support for getting users on to Chrome and Google Play.
They're getting there but I don't think they're quite there yet. Amazon has no presence on TV or (afaik) desktop, besides web which is pretty poor for music (i.e. no AirPlay integration, no media keys). Google has Chromecast now which is a really good step forward but it's more about streaming seemingly. GoogleTV was a bit of a flop.

Both Google and Amazon are catching up and offer very good services (which may cover your uses - e.g. if you don't use your laptop for music or don't stream music), however they don't offer quite as much as Apple as of yet. Can't wait to see what they bring out over the next few years though.
Is this why the velociraptors at the San Diego Natural History Museum are fuzzy/furry? [1]

My dinosaur knowledge comes from Steven Spielberg so I was a little taken aback when I saw this last month.

[1]http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelbwelch/9294262181/
Retina canvas isn't that hard. Set the width and height attributes of your canvas to be their CSS dimensions * devicePixelRatio, and scale all your drawing calls by devicePixelRatio.

I agree that it's annoying that you have to think about it, but since it's a low-level drawing API, I understand why it's done that way.
Also, he saved 8 dollars by using Amazon. That's enough for another CD.
There are a bunch of similar YouTube videos made by the Baltic Aviation Academy.

I'm mostly impressed with how simple things are, given the number of components involved. Seems to be a fine line between "banks of idiot lights" and flying an airliner with a zillion gauges and dials. There's a crapload of stuff you need to know about electrical systems, hydraulics, backup systems and self-diagnostics . . . not to mention actually flying the crate.
Arguably traffic could improve if people were able to live closer to their jobs rather than having to drive in from a far-flung suburb.
It's not unpredictable; it's been out for three days. You simply have not learned to predict it. But it's very predictable, and I bet you'll be used to it within another day or two.
Since your current job is "not painful" and you don't have a clear plan yet, don't quit. Try the following:

1. See if you can change anything in the current job to make yourself happy - new project ? new team ? Most people quit because they don't like their boss or their peers. If that's not the case, work with them to make it more challenging.

2. Use your spare time wisely for soul searching - network, talk to people and find something that will give you the kick.
This may even help you become self employed.

Not having a job / not going to work / living off of savings are all unnecessary pressures.
You're right, been there recently when I switched to Debian as main OS on my iMac, dealing with proprietary drivers (iMac mounts a bc) was the hardest part indeed.
> I don't buy it, by calling that function, the caller is saying the value won't change underneath you

You really do not understand what "const" means in C++.

If what you said were true, a whole class of optimizations would be possible that are not currently possible. For example, consider this silly function:

void f(const int *x) {
int y = *x;
g();
if (y == *x) h();
}

If what you said were true, this would be able to optimize away the call to h() completely, but if you compile the function with maximum optimization you will see that this is not the case. Why not? Because the caller could look like this:

int val = 0;
void g() { val = 1; }
int main() { f(&val); }
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Parse the sentence above in the context of being a reply to another post, darn it.
Exactly. Just do it, come back when you've got some content, and then ask for help promoting it.
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Displacement isn't inherently immoral in my opinion, but using those people's government to exacerbate the process is.
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I been at this since the mid 90's and I really can't be bothered committing it all to memory every time it changes.

I keep meaning to buy a copy of this - http://www.visibone.com/products/everythingbook.html - although my standard memory jog for web development is still "view source", same as it ever was.
"Amazon has no presence on TV"

Whatever do you mean? Amazon instant video is right up there with Hulu and Netflix for on-line content. There are apps on my iPhone and my Roku. iTunes can't say that.