skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If TFA is meant to say San Franciscans should be grateful for the gentrification of the city, then it's pretty insulting, and frankly, emblematic of the entitlement and lack of awareness in the tech community. If anything, TFA proves that life is getting better for a small segment of the population of San Francisco.

1. Chart does not discuss why unemployment is down. Is it down because there's a ton of tech workers moving in while the unemployed poor are priced out of the city?

2. Same argument for #1

3. Data comes from self-reports on Glassdoor, which polls mostly from white-collar workers. So this chart should really say "Job Satisfaction Scores by City for White Collar Workers."

4. This chart measures against the national income distribution, which is a comparison that makes no sense, given San Francisco's insane cost of living.

5. Yes, San Franciscans should root for sports teams that are given money from municipalities to rich owners to build stadiums. This is money that could have been used to fund initiatives that actually improve the lives of low income families. The chart talks about playoff games that most people can't afford to attend, or if it's on cable, most people can't watch.

10. You can fly to a vacation destination. If you can afford it.

TFA reminds me of the saying, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics."
The price of food will rise only if demand for food increases or supply falls, it won't change just because people have more money.
> Matt Damon: Edward Snowden did a great job translating LPTHW to Ruby
This is why Super Mario Galaxy is a great educational tool!
This was on front-page before.
It's amusing that that kind of is the reason, indirectly. Less gravity means it couldn't retain an atmosphere, and the lack of an atmosphere is why they fall together.
My fellow geeks, we need to have a jobless future

Did everybody see what just happened? The pendulum has swung.

Do You Really Want to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary

Why I won't be your technical co-founder

Killing the Internet to its knees

Hacking the iPod: How I Earned A Lot More on Projects by Changing My Pricing Strategy

YC S12 company refuses to pay for TextMate 2

A Billion Dollars Isn’t Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Paid, Paid Vacation.

Functional thinking: Why functional programming is on the edge, and so is he
Show HN: See what words are trending on HN
Stop Drawing Dead Fish
Thanks. That is a really cool diagram! I had no idea that it varied so much over time.
> Consequently, you would find that the space of possible angles and distances is in fact discrete,

And it is! Angular momentum is quantized. Angle itself probably isn't, but the motion is, and everything is always moving. That's one of the most interesting parts of this theory - as best as we can tell everything is actually quantized, so you can definitely have discrete values for the universe simulation.

> The structure of the coordinate system is implicit in this case.

You misunderstand - the structure of each particle has a lattice I guess, but each particle is randomly oriented relative to its neighbor, so there is no global orientation that we can observer by looking for light preferring one direction over another.
"The policeman's beard if half-constructed"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racter
I like the idea of a basic income but it suffers from the flaw at the heart of democracy: "A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury" -- Alexander Tytler. So say we have a minimum income guarantee that will cover a basic standard of living, and if you want luxuries, you have to work. Every election, that minimum will be ratcheted up, until it's completely unaffordable. This structural flaw needs to be fixed in some way before we can proceed.
How about a Bitcoin ATM machine? https://lamassu.is/
Markov chains were my first foray into machine learning. Painfully simple and accessible. It's a great way to show the power of just a little data.
- A file that's both an acceptable HTML page and a Raspberry Pi;
- My idea to exit – the vi editor;
- Ask HN: How much recurring income do you make in the US on copyright charges;
- Your Username Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed;
- This Google ad has moved people to beat comment spam;
- The DDoS that almost broke the rules;
- Should Quadrotors All Look Like the One in the middle of NYC?
Show HN: I love weird socks and I'm excited about a year & sold a startup...with only 300 lines of Ruby

this is gold :)
While that undoubtedly sounds very impressive, IMO tests should not be what you use to ensure that your software is correct — in my opinion, they can be actively a bit harmful by giving you a wrong impression of correctness.

Just take a look at https://www.sqlite.org/changes.html — after the recent 3.8.0, there were 2 bug fix releases separated by 3-4 days (!), with bug descriptions sounding relatively, hmm, trivial, should I say?

I use SQLite, and consider it a great software; just want to make a point about my own dislike of over-reliance testing. Hight-level languages and strong (automatically) provable invariants should be our basis for writing reliable software, not C with a ton of tests.
That wibble-wobbles around much faster than I would have expected.

It looks like Jupiter is way faster than I thought it was. My guestimate for gas giant orbits was skewed towards Uranus/Neptune (84/165 years), but Jupiter orbits in only 12!. It's crazy how close Jupiter is to us.
This wasn't my intention. Let me know what you need will bring it back, but as far I can see this file is not there.
"AppleCrate II: A New Future"

Fuck the iWatch and iTV -- I want an AppleCrate II.

"The Hacker News is a Work of Art"

Indeed it is.
Returning 0 is technically doing something. It might not be something that you find useful but it is something.
Spike Lee responds to Juan Luis Garcia's letter
Hello. I'm happy to sell bitcoins to anyone who is within the UK. If you're near Brighton we can trade face-to-face for cash. Otherwise just email we and we can do a bank transfer. My email is Shanee753@gmail.com . I have a large number of reviews which I can provide. Personally I normally buy my own from an IRC channel on Freenode called bitcoin-otc-uk. Feel free to ask me any questions. It's not too tricky to trade but can be a bit difficult to get into.
If your scale of Pac-man competence stretches from "my grandma" to "arcade addict", then the AI looks incompetent. But if your scale stretches from "rock" to "human", it looks worryingly competent.
You mean like how AOL anonymized their data? http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/09/your-secrets-live...

The problem with your "choice to share" is that you don't make that choice between whether you share that info or not, you make it between whether this data can come back to haunt me or not. It's a type of self-censoring which is an important goal for any party looking to suppress unwanted ideas.
I believe normal currencies are also a ponzi scheme. A really big one.

Bitcoin isnt a classical scheme like that Maddofs guy. Its already too big for that.
I think the problem is in part due to looking at raw data. In economics, any serious data set for analysis needs to be adjusted for inflation. When talking about bandwidth usage we need to do the same: how do the increases in data compare relative to the increases in bandwidth. Perhaps several graphs (one for mobile and one for desktop infrastructure). I suspect the growth in inflation adjusted terms is probably still significant, but if we're looking at a time period where many users have gone from 3G to 4G on mobile. I suspect the custom font behaviour is driven in part by how easy/inexpensive custom fonts are on native platforms and the fact that brands now try and associate a font as part of their identity in technology. We saw this with Helvetica and other fonts as an expression of corporate identity in the real world in a time period where conformity was more valued, but now the culture is everyone trying to be unique, so it's not surprising to see resources spent on different custom fonts.
Paypal shut-down payments to Bitcoin-related accounts as quickly as they find them.

Per our current Acceptable Use Policy for Money Service Businesses, PayPal may not be used to operate a currency exchange, bureau de change or check cashing business including the sale of bitcoins, bitcoin mining units, and other related bitcoin products.

Via and Mastercard aren't far behind them.
To be fair, your nearest attic might have dust on the walls and ceiling as well, though maybe not as much...
That is a perfect example, I think focusing so heavily on trying to target C++ users has limited D's success. That also gets me thinking about how the other big problem with D is actually a similar issue. Keeping the compiler closed source means D basically does not exist outside of the popular platforms (the herd). People outside of the herd are the ones most likely to try a new language, but they don't have the option. The notion of "we'll just support the major platforms since that's where most potential users are" isn't necessarily true, most of those people are not in fact potential users at all.
> People just DO NOT think.

People think.
They just generally do not think about Physics.
None of the universal income proposals have any math to back them up. Simple napkin estimates show it's nowhere near affordable. "But people are rich!" is not an explanation. "We can draw on labor" is not an explanation. I want an explanation that actually demonstrates the affordability of such a thing. Not hand-waving about how we just aren't trying hard enough.

Can the people proposing a basic income please demonstrate how much they want to give and how much that costs? Then point out how they would fit it into the existing budget?

Also, please explain why prices would not react to a basic income? If $40,000 represents the price of doing nothing, other prices will change to respond to real not nominal costs. It doesn't seem like people proposing the basic income understand how prices are formed.
Sleep is more useful than bash

Changes to my career in magic

The most difficult CEO skill: managing your own #dickbar

Confused by lawsuit, Apple consumers switch to git

Netflix to lose time and money
"PHP Sucks But I Didn't" is pretty hilarious, also knowing what the "most probable" is by year could be a great annual tradition. Did you check 2012 and 2011?
why don't we just give everyone $200,000/year. if this is a good idea, mine must be a great idea.
I have no evidence other than the fact that bitcoin has yet to be mentioned. There was a recent story regarding the american government tracking money transfers though.

One thing that litecoin definitely solves is the mysterious creator problem, which in a market so heavily driven by psychology is more important than bitcoiner's admit.
Marginal taxation rates are even higher for the very poor: well over 90% in some cases.
Well, you are ignoring tides, I'm not. I say that theoretically, you could be at the Roche Limit, and then the pen would stay still. Hypothetical, yet real. So thank you very much but yeah, the thought process stand correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_limit

You can disagree all you want, it's not because things would just fall towards the moon in practice that it's impossible that the pen stand still.
One guess is that you can directly see the blackness of space from the moon (pictures of moon landing) so it doesn't have an encapsulated feel like the earth's atmosphere so one less layer of separation. It feels like (visual perception from photos) it is easier to float off the moon.
Static Prime
Huh, I thought it is obvious from the context but I'll restate my words here: It is easier to make native codes from asm.js code than to make native code with the similar performance characteristics from JavaScript code.

It is always easy to get things just work, even while it may mean that printing "Hello, world!" would take minutes. But it is hard to get things work and fast, and there is a certain threshold that it is much harder to optimize once that threshold has been reached. Asm.js have much higher threshold than JavaScript's (and obviously BF's); you can literally replace each line of the already-verified asm.js code with a direct translation with a simple register allocator and it may occasionally (not always, of course) beat optimized JavaScript implementations. Yes, modern JavaScript implementations can optimize the same JavaScript code to that level once it becomes a hotspot! But having a higher threshold changes the problem, for example, time spent to analyze and annotate JavaScript code with hidden types and guards and assumptions can now spent for other optimization passes (e.g. auto-vectorizations).

And you are seriously wrong with BF JIT, you at least have to merge runs of same instructions. (Not to mention other common optimizations, c2bf has only some of them.) Of course it would only matter if you want BF to be fast...
No, it's not. Not all goods become cheaper over time, productivity gains do not magically make everything cheaper, only some items. Economic growth is not purely based on making stuff cheaper or more efficiently, it is also based on increased economic activity. With a fixed supply currency a hoarder gets richer in the absolute, not just where efficiency gains are made on particular products, they become richer directly because other people are working harder. This is not the case in the situation you seek to describe.

Not something I'm willing to sign up for.
not referring to Germans only here but I find it completely wrong to dub tv and movies. some friend from germany they told me that they dub cinema movies as well. English is not my first language and still i enjoy movies in their original voices even if I have to read subtitles to get by - I watched a lot of French, Spanish and even Korean movies with subs.
This idea is a generalization of Solomonoff's work on induction from the dawn of Computing. Solomonoff was one of the initial 3 discoverers of Kolmogorov Complexity (Chaitin being the other). MDL is an attempt at a computable Kolmogorov Complexity, however creating a codebook is difficult so MDL is no panacea. Hutter's work is more broad, being interested in the intelligence of an Agent and uses ideas like MDL and compression.
It depends on how much the browser caches have grown to compensate for page bloat. Ie8 and below had a limit of 50 mb for all sites, ie9 upped it to 250 mb.
In the USA, credit cards don't do anything protect anybody from fraud.

However, they have extremely robust mechanisms in place for shuffling around the consequences of all the rampant fraud that results from their complete failure to offer even the barest minimum of fraud protection. So as a consumer I get to feel protected all the same.
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History made in under 1K of javascript
Firefox build times are much faster than that. My MacBook Pro can build Firefox in 12 minutes, but other people can build everything in less than 8 minutes! :)

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.platform/HdXdNdf...
You've made several leaps that do not necessarily follow.
I suspect you are referring to my use of the words "sit on their ass and eat mcdonald's all day"? Read Rayiner's post - the phrasing is his. He just uses it as reducto ad absurdum, which is not actually so absurd.
'Compile, conform, perform'
I wonder how much of this growth is due to retina images. A consequence of the page bloat is that the ipad 1 has become almost unusable to browse the web because it has only 256 mb ram. If the current page doesn't fit in ram, safari closes down. I remember at one point that browsing slashdot and amazon on a machine with 128 mb ram worked just fine. There's no reason for the current bloat aside from simply not caring about efficiency.
This is really disappointing. You would hope after reading the letter Lee takes responsibility for his employees and/or contractors and pays the original designer for his work since the work was in circulation promoting his film.
> This somehow makes Google like 90's Microsoft?

You should have stopped there. Removing Cyanogenmod may not be it, but the rest of your post just opens it up for pointing out how Google is just like Microsoft.

> How many operating systems or web browsers did Microsoft open-source?

Red herring. Selling software and Operating Systems is Microsoft's core business, and you expect them to give it away? How much software that is the core of Google's business has Google given away? I see nothing of the search, advertising and distributed systems infrastructure being open sourced.

> How many forks of their software did Microsoft tolerate?

Hah, why don't we ask Acer that? The moment there's any leverage at all, Google will use it to squash forks. Conversely, has Microsoft ever tried to stop WINE or ReactOS? (Honest question, actually, I don't know.)

Now let's ask some more relevant questions:

1. How many times has Google been investigated and fined by the FTC and DOJ for illegal business practices?

2. How many times has Google been investigated by US and EU government agencies for privacy breaches?

3. How many times has Google been investigated for anti-competitive behavior in the US and the EU?

4. How many times has Google been accused (and sued) by smaller companies for unfair business practices?

5. How many times has Google been accused of intentionally providing poor support for a competitor's product?

6. How many times has Google been sued for infringing somebody else's IP?

7. Has Google been sued by Sun for "hijacking" Java?

8. Has Microsoft been made to pay damages for abusing standards-essential patents?

9. Has Microsoft been sued for colluding in anti-poaching agreements?

Some things Google has escaped (e.g. antitrust in the US), and some don't apply to Microsoft (abusing FRAND patents, anti-poaching collusion, illegal pharma ads), but most apply to both: investigations, settlements and fines in the US and EU for anticompetitive conduct, privacy breaches and illegal business practices; accusations of crippling competitors' products (Netscape etc. for Microsoft, competing service providers like Yelp, YouTube/Maps on Windows Phone for Google); accusations of stealing IP and unfair business practices (e.g. Apple's UI lawsuit and i4i for Microsoft, Author's Guild and SkyHook for Google); and so on.

Anecdotally, having been privy to some negotiations with Google in two separate companies, they very much throw their weight around.

> I wouldn't even bother responding to stuff like this, but it's getting upvoted on HN which is depressing.

As much as you'd not like to admit it as an employee -- and it may not be apparent to the rank and file from inside -- there are very clear parallels in how both companies behave. Google is certainly throwing their weight around these days, which is precisely why Microsoft was hated in the 90s.
I hate myself for posting these, but I cannot resist (I am silently shaking from laughter fighting hard not to wake up my newborn):

Show HN: Let's Be Civil (I think his was a real post but with Tell HN -- the small change is hilarious)

Jordanian citizen was denied re-entry to the Post PC Era

Firefox now only has one big flaw

I feel I am a programmer

Web Intents - the future of spam in Windows

A new Python web framework for Haskell
Remember this: the startup failed, but you're not a failure, and you'll start another company again in the future. I'll bet you learned a hell of a lot this time around, and you'll be in a much better position to succeed NEXT time!

And you're not the opposite of everyone here. Two weeks after I soft-launched my startup in 2012, my wife and I separated. This is my _2nd_ divorce, by the way, at age 37. Boy, did I feel like a failure! I was financially ruined, and my startup was put on ice for nearly a year as I battled depression and got back on my feet. I had some dark, dark days, believe me.

Now, though, I have a terrific co-founder (and no, it's not wife #3. Learned my lesson!), and while we're just getting started with sales, things are looking great and I couldn't be happier. Draw on your family for energy and support right now. Make sure you have someone to talk to, be it your wife, a friend, or a therapist. Give yourself permission to put the startup dream on hold, and work at an office for a while.

Finally: Read 'Feeling Good' by David Burns. This book really, really saved my ass. Best of luck, happy holidays, and keep fighting the good fight!
To start on this you would want a system that got rewarded based on how well it was able to predict aspects of its environment. This would have to go in hand with preferring stimulation, so you would need something like preference for inputs which maximize relative entropy with respect to its thus far learned model.
How Lantern Works
Spike Lee not taking responsibility? I'm shocked.
Reading that response hurts me. Disparity in language of both parties, not even reading Juan's letter and understanding its intent, and using condescending verbiage like "cheap trick". Movie/music industry funds MPAA/RIAA to go after piracy, but somehow is flooded by people who hoard other's rights.
Legendary Akihabara Radio Store closing its doors after six decades
I would love if someone make it to work by using oAuth in js.
You are asking a layman for a layman's explanation.
I am not sure. I have seen funny MC generated text before, but I think headlines are short and their structure plays well with the Markov Model.
OP seems to fail to grasp the fact that bitcoin is not issued by some bank, but rather individuals in the network.

So to avoid the pitfall of "going to the bank to buy foreign currency" would be buying bitcoin from the individuals. There's #OTC and LocalBitcoins.com and the like that put individuals together to figure out best means of transfer. It carries risks, or course, but what doesn't?
But is possible to create very serious bugs even with high level languages, and proving software in a way to provide good coverage is extremely hard.
"Let me ask you something... If you start a new business, and let's say you take out a huge loan to pay your startup expenses, and you have a huge pool of qualified workers fighting to work for you for 10 dollars per hour, are you going to pay them any more? Knowing full well that that's a shitty wage, but that if you pay them any more you might go out of business and have a huge debt burden... Or do you pay them 20 dollars per hour out of generosity, and risk going bankrupt, with repercussions that could follow you for years?"

This calculus does not apply at all to the companies currently turning record profits. That's not to say that there's necessarily no important reason those companies should be choosing to keep their profits high as opposed to paying out higher salaries, but this manifestly isn't it.
I guess that the reward systems that humanity has evolved are complicated and numerous. We've got the basics (food, shelter), the more complicated basics (sex with a suitable mate, companionship) and the million other factors - curiosity, intellectual challenge, positive and negative feedback, power, agency etc, etc....

My thoughts are that if they were to take such a direction with this AI, they'd give it the basics and let it evolve and learn its own complicated reward structure. When you're trying to get a monkey to play pac-man, you bribe him with a capful of ribena - he doesn't care about fun intellectual challenges, but sweet liquids motivate the hell out of him.

(This is the state of actual monkey research - ribena is monkey crack)
> humans evolving to the point where you could not kill one by shooting it in the head with a bullet.

If there were billions of bullets flying around, and humans reproduced by the billions in a matter of hours with a generation-to-generation gap of minutes, this would happen in short order.
That article on entropy minimization also claimed that a single equation could be the basis of a wide range of intelligent behaviours.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5579047