skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Statistically, it compares the single case of Nadella to the statistical blob of people that is the "Indian system". Tough comparison when there are a billion of Indians, and the other dozen examples given don't change that.

Politically, it calls the US not being nationalist (or at least hostile towards Indians in particular) in this case a "slap in the face".

Just no.
77 square kilometres of land

From the picture 75% of it is occupied by solar cells.

54 square kilometres of solar panels that need cleaning maybe once a month.

So 1.8 square kilometre for solar panels cleaning per day.

That's a square 1.34 km on each side.

The panels look 2m by 1m.

So that's 670 x 1340 panels = 897,800 panels that need cleaning every day.

At least India has enough cheap labour atm. to just throw people at it.
Love him or hate him, this list of reading he's providing looks pretty good.

Time for me to write the 2 Hour Body or the 1 Hour MBA.
Yes, taxes on businesses are a proxy for taxes on individuals. But business tax does not necessarily pass along to the consumer - that only happens for businesses with pricing power, i.e. with leverage. For companies with less pricing power, e.g. a small commodity processor, a business tax will more likely pass along to owners via a hit on margins.
With arrow function syntax, extra `maxBy` and `filter` methods on promises for arrays, and nicer file/dir libraries:

Dir.glob('*').filter(f => File.isFile(f)).maxBy(f => File.size(f));

Asynchronicity isn't the issue there, the issue is that most JS / node libraries are minimal, not optimized for ergonomic (and of course the verbose lambda syntax)
George Carlin eh?
There is an implicit assumption that he was chosen because he is brilliant. Shouldn't we wait for a couple of months at least?
It's actually as objective as you get, if there is such a thing as "rational".

Rationality is the main principle of "exact" science too, and is a good tool to work within what we know.

Unfortunately, it's also a limitation, and maybe what's preventing us from transcending our bonds[1].

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/
This makes me wonder if we are just children of some of the earlier species. If not, did life spontaneously come to existence here, on our lump of rock in space?

In any way, as someone already had said, we're a bit late for the show now.
Drive Capital announces $250M fund focused on Midwest invesments
If you take the existence of God as one of your foundational assumptions, then evolution is a fairly reasonable theory.

Therefore any debate on creationism is really a debate on whether this foundational assumption is valid. Otherwise you're just talking past each other.
Sometimes when all of the businesses (PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, AMEX, Amazon, etc.) in a particular industry behave the same way, it is for good reasons.

What's the alternative? For them to err in favour of the merchant, occasionally screwing consumers? When bad stuff happens in transactions (online or offline) merchants should be prepared to sometimes take the hit. It's so much better than loss of consumer confidence.

Look at the general willingness of large retailers to accept returns. They do it because they want consumers to buy without second thoughts.
I strongly agree with this. Nationalist pride is the Kool-Aid peddled by government and society to get you to conform to their respective agendas and keep you from questioning the stupid shit they get up to.

And I really don't mean to come off as a pothead going "It's all a giant conspiracy man!"...
Show HN: iOS app generates trendy posters on the fly
RESTful Static Site
Causality (in which most people believe, even though they never abstracted it far enough to realize the implications)
Newark is an instructive geography. The ambitious head to New York or San Francisco out of tradition. For the same reason, they avoid Newark. It’s off the map...

That's not why people avoid Newark. Plenty of people are moving to Jersey City and Hoboken which have the same "bridge&tunnel" stigma.

People avoid Newark due to legitimate fear of being robbed, raped or murdered.
You're getting unfairly voted down rather than responded to.

A reasonable disagreement is pointing out you're assuming zero randomness in the universe (which includes in your head, and everyone elses head, I'm not a mind-body dualist) so no development of unique new ideas, or having unique new experiences or perceptions, both of which feed on each other to generate new echos of randomness long after something interesting happens. Also it assumes no social interaction with others however distantly linked to "interesting random people" even if the individual and their direct contacts are in fact really boring (aka effect of arts in general).

That is a much more productive form of disagreement than hitting the down button.

(Edited to add I think you're getting downvoted because of a cultural-linguistic meme or bug that whenever someone in the USA spins a story with "can't or don't judge" that usually means its a known and obvious statement of fact that they did something they and everyone else knows is wrong, and they have no better spin option. Last (modern) refuge of a scoundrel. Thus the downvotes)
Understanding Procrastination [pdf]
IPhone lights girl's pants on fire
It definitely looks like quite a good chunk of links. I never really delved into the traditional publishing route until after I had already self-published and I'm particularly interested to read about some of that stuff.
Why, yes, there is.

Go run strace on ps or top and see what they call.

I'll save you some time: it turns out to be stat() and open() on things in /proc.
Android used by 71% of app devs – iOS follows with 55%, Windows Phone at 21%
Design of posters needs some serious working on!
Sounds like a very hypothetical idea, and a bad reason to call one country a "parasite" because they choose to make things a bit better for businesses. Note also that I'm not agreeing with the various loopholes, just the idea of lower corporate taxes.

Should other EU countries have to import Italian bureaucrats just to even the playing field some? I bet the Germans wouldn't be so competitive with the addition of a good selection of public employees from Rome.
Author here. Originally I had a lot of blather in that section, but given:

1. It's a long post
2. Most of my readers are presumably >15 yrs old
3. I honestly think most people up to age 15 have limited control over their lives

I decided to trim it down. Obviously I am not literally saying that a 14-and-11-months year old has no influence over their destiny but a 15 year old does. But superfluous precision is the enemy of effective writing; you end up with a legal document.
All you are saying is that the transition to 30kW of ASICs will not happen overnight. If you stopped at 1W, you would quickly find that you are making less money than you were before -- your competitors will also switch to ASICs, and will consume more than 1W because they want to make more money.

To put it another way, not going to 30kW of ASICs is equivalent to taking 30kW of PC mining hardware and turning some of it off (in a pre-ASIC world where PCs are the most efficient mining hardware available).
Yup. Locked up firefox for me for quite some time. Was compiling at the time, so didn't think too much of it..
What U.S. Really Did to Us Iranians.
That's what screen readers do; a popular one is JAWS: http://www.freedomscientific.com/products/fs/jaws-product-pa...
I would add to that that the only part that requires this proof of work when decentralized is the timestamping. We can have a system where everything is decentralized with a timestamping subsystem (that can also be composed of many computers for a balance of power) that blindly timestamps transaction hashes without even knowing what it is timestamping so that it cannot censor it. This would be a perfectly reasonable system for me and one that would spare that huge cost of electricity burned on proof of work.
Its like he's never even been to Newark.
Check out Zabbix or Icinga
Why not XP? The have no interest in supporting it. And millions of people still want to use it.
Glucose-based battery has 10 times energy of lithium
Isn't Microsoft in the business of solving technical challenges?
Despite Taxi protest, the "15-Minute" law against Uber suspended in France
Do you have to record each song separately?
> I am strongly biased because I don't like articles about this topic, the vultures should stay away. Yeah, you'll all freeze in the snow, so best not come here. Nope we don't have any money or quality of life, I advise staying away, LOL.

Ah, if only that worked. Austin, Dallas, Seattle, Portland, Nashville, Kansas City...all of their residents have said the same thing and the "vultures" keep on coming. It's the circle of life, my friend.
I would say "pay attention to the tutorial missions. The main game assumes you completed all the tutorials well."
Code and Test Coverage
Is this a "me, too" kind of thing? Or is it different than Sound Hound or Shazam in some way?

Edit: ah, now I see. It syncs up video, not just scrolling text lyrics.
Really? So what happens if I shut down the central authority?
First, I applaud David Ball for doing this and sharing his results!

Second, one of the first web application projects that I was a part of I was assigned as the "accessibility expert". At some point during that project I was told that the reason it is termed "accessibility" is because it makes the resource (e.g., website, print page, whatever the resource) more accessible for everyone, not just for people with physical limitations. The development version of that application lived on an unmanaged, but live server for more than a decade before it disappeared; up until its disappearance the application was still functioning, and could even be used on a mobile phone. Most of the recommendations I made, all those years ago, went uncontested by my teammates, but every now and then I had to fight for some aspect and I would make the "accessibility benefits everyone" speech. The last teammember to visit our application before it disappeared admitted that it wouldn't have been able to run on the latest technology if I hadn't been so adamant about accessibility all those years ago.
You could levy that same criticism on any company who leveraged an existing success to market and sell a less than stellar product or service.

Many times people will see a product or company and think "how simple, I could have made that ... why did they succeed?" Everyone has assets they bring to the table that help them succeed. For some it means they can create and sell a less than stellar product because they have existing leverage in a market that give them an advantage an average "Joe" wouldn't.
> Did France offer to send its industries to Ireland to help out, and avoid competing?

You can read up on the history of Arianespace and Airbus to see how France did play the Europe game.

But that was in another era, at a time where EU countries were trying to integrate their economies rather than directly compete against each other.

Apart from that, the "within limits" part of your comment is exactly what I've been talking about all along our discussion.
Anyone else getting annoyed by these YAASVAs (Yet Another Anti-Silicon Valley Article)?
Ask HN: How can I encourage my co-workers to grow further as engineers?
I am an engineer at a small software/systems engineering firm in the midwest. In terms of competency, I've noticed 3 types of engineers:

1. Those who need direct guidance. They perform one task and stop. They don't follow through on their analysis of issues or dig deeper to find underlying cause of problems. There's no high level thought process or context; rather, high level analysis is limited as they don't have the domain knowledge to understand the full system they're working on (they don't care to find out or don't realize the value in understanding the entire system).

2. Engineers in between the above and below groups. Usually fairly technically savvy -- can handle typical engineering tasks with competency, but lack motivation or don't actively seek out how to grow as an engineer. They stagnate without a great manager/tech lead pushing them to the boundaries.

3. Engineers who are extremely proficient. Implementing features and finding the cause of problems is not an issue for them -- regardless of the feature, language, framework, whatever. These engineers go and figure out how to get it done. These engineers are only limited by their dependencies and business requirements. If you told them to implement a time machine in software, they would figure out the closest possible way to do it, and provide you with a full technical analysis of how it works -- and what the shortfalls are.

As a fellow engineer, how do I encourage my coworkers to move from groups 1-2 into group 3?

There is little in the way of technical training at the workplace; if there were, it wouldn't teach the core skill of just plain getting on with it -- dig as deep as you can, find core problems, understand your system, grow as an engineer. In general there is a sense of laziness among engineers and a "wait to be told what to do" mindset.

Any thoughts or advice?
I think that this is not about national pride or nationality. OP is lamenting about lack of opportunities that all Indians face in their country. It's about improvement of quality of live of 1.x billions of people.
What frame rate can I get playing Portal on a bitcoin mining ASIC?
Oh.
Well, I am not impressed then.
Irrespective of his performance as CEO, his past performance has been brilliant, otherwise MSFT wouldn't have promoted him to vice president of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise group. The point raised in article is still valid. I am from India and I know we don't value time, become lazy in our own country. However we become punctual and productive in western countries. Strange but true.
How to Stay Motivated When the Going Gets Tough
The relevant part:

These updates address a critical vulnerability that could potentially allow an attacker to remotely take control of the affected system. Adobe is aware of reports that an exploit for this vulnerability exists in the wild, and recommends users update their product installations to the latest versions.
High rents drive gang members out of LA
This is some serious issue. Many people have their bank accounts/paypal frozen and closed only due to having access the site through an IP from Iran.

Personally, I don't live in Iran and during christmas I was traveling there to visit my family. I basically didn't have the guts to even go near my bank website or use my credit card without making sure I'm using a VPN.
Dogecoin random block rewards are NOT actually random and people are "cheating"
Microsoft wanted to destroy the web, and they lost.

They tried to destroy linux, and they lost.

They tried to destroy apple, and they lost.

They tried to destroy android, and they lost.

That's why we, web, linux, apple, android fans hate microsoft with a passion.

While they succeeded in destroying so many other companies and technologies, we were there and we fought those fights.

We never forget.
Thank you. I would love an article about accessibility for people who must use voice commands or those who cannot use a pointing device. Dragon is fine with spoken keyboard commands, but much of the JavaScript out there borks site navigation by keyboard and control of normal browser functionality by keyboard.
Things that are popular are incendiary to those who don't like them.

If an obscure artist makes some music you don't like, nobody cares. But if that artist sells a million records, you'll see an online explosion of rage.

It seems we're wired to react when our tastes don't match those of the groups we hang around in.
I think this is a problem that's inherent in "the modern web". Trusting part of your business process to a SaaS application is always going introduce risk. Sometimes it's a calculated risk, and if you have contingency plans in place then it's acceptable. But in most cases, users simply aren't prepared for the day that a critical part of their workflow changes or disappears.

I know it's not a popular opinion here, but using SaaS is no different from outsourcing part of your operations. If it's a small part and there are plenty of direct competitors, the risk is minimal. However, if it's a critical part of your system and there are no direct alternatives, you really are putting the safety of your business in the provider's hands.
I buy Windows computers from HP and Dell and hardly notice the difference between the two companies. I don't worry that they might stop producing PC's, because I am sure somebody will.
Kansas bill would bar cities from selling Internet services
I think it works like this:

- A government agency or government contractor notes a new threat to the status quo

- Question: Can we use technology to track, prevent, hinder or prosecute?

- If answer is 'yes' then invest large sums of public money to effect the plan

- If answer is 'maybe' then invest large sums of public money * 10 to evaluate and effect the plan

- If answer is 'no' then invest large sums of public money * 100 to evaluate and attempt and evaluate multiple possible solutions.

Therefore I believe that the underlying cause is money. Agencies and more often than not, third party companies who are trying to make a profit from government agencies are out there coming up with new ways to oppress the public. As a result the public fights back against the oppression. They can then be targetted as dissidents and the cycle ups a beat and continues round the merry-go-round. The sums of money getting higher and higher each time.

Invent the problem, sell the solution, profit, repeat.

It somewhat reminds me of the old idea that as a department (either of a private company or government) you should never ask for a new yearly budget lower than the year before. You always ask for more.
Azure is ramping up towards something like that.
I think most people would be happy to have a single idea that provided the basis for a multi-million dollar business. Have you had better luck?
Should be an option for pip itself.
Why? Why? Why the fuck?
Nerdie homes must make a buck.
Have a need? Scratch that itch.
Take a break to hack that bitch.

People hurt & need more meds,
Hacker rather show his creds.
Breakthrus needed by a sage,
But iphone apps r all the rage.

Enterprise really sucks
Hackers never get those bucks.
Web apps used to be the hack
But mobile's got a "craftsman's" back.

Analysis!
Paralysis!
Algorithms!
Distillation!
Interpretation!
Compilation!

Deployment to the cloud.
Disruption now allowed.
Users need a good solution
But all they get is more polution.

Something no one ever needed.
HN front page: he succeeded.
Nerdie homes must make a buck.
Why? Why? Why the fuck?
My experience with the Vaio brand is pretty much the polar opposite from yours. I bought a high end 1.5 kEUR Vaio laptop a few years ago and it's still with me. It had the best perf/EUR when it comes to CPU, GPU and memory out of the options I had back then and the monitor resolution was good.

But the build quality is just crap. The case is cracked, the touchpad is just awful, the connectors are in silly places. Now the battery has died so if you unplug it, the machine powers down immediately.

And the cooling is just inadequate for the CPU + GPU, albeit it has a Sandy Bridge and a Fermi and neither of those are known for their power efficiency. The fan is yelling like hell all the time, despite the fact that the interior of the machine is just a huge copper heat sink that weighs a ton.

I wouldn't buy another Vaio.

But all our experiences can really be taken as evidence of is that they had a huge lineup of different models.
The article was very good. This situation is disturbing to Iranians.
If we had true access IP competition, then we wouldn't need FCC NN actions...the market would determine what the access ISPs could do and not do...
While an interesting idea, I have the same objection to that idea that I have to the idea that life in general is abundant today, which is that we should see the evidence of it. Any truly long-lived society is going to have to engage in some cosmological engineering to survive, and we don't see it.

Furthermore, while any given species might not have survived from so long ago, life itself should never have died out, if intelligent life was common and abundant. The challenges of surviving that era are such that even we can plausibly imagine being able to meet the challenges in a century, or less if we were concentrating.

It's a poetic idea, but the universe does not look like one in which we are some last dying ember living in the carcass of past giants; it looks like one in which there's little-to-no intelligent life in our past light cone.
These three people cry blood instead of tears
A few years ago I was wondering what this would look like and (less accurately) modeled it in 3d: http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2630/4085959963_8dc8217283_o.j...
Racist Revolt As CocaCola Airs Multilingual‘America the Beautiful’ SuperBowl Ad
Sure, it's inconvenient for the end user. But as someone who's started a few projects myself, I would hate to think that starting something means you vow to support it until the end of times no matter what happens.
Show HN: Create Natural Language Forms using i4.ms
> Is it really possible that not a single person at Microsoft tried changing a setting on their Windows machine and realized how difficult it was to even find the setting?

Reportedly Bill Gates was one such person: http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2008/06/24/full-text-an-...
A slap in the face indeed, but not in the way it's presented. I admire the Indian people, and what prompted me to respond here were the comments below that article more than the article itself.

They were what I expected to find, "We are pathetic, we are whiners, we are losers.". I used to think the same about my country. Until I realized that decades and centuries of exploitation at the hands of malicious outside forces are what brought us to it. And then it became obvious it was not our fault.

I suggest reading "Das Kapital" or even "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism". Hopefully it will help you realize why and how are other nations collecting your intellectual and other assets.
How about: you win just by playing.
Seems specious to me. SV is a centre for innovation because of two major things: Funding and Talent.
So firstly, it's unlikely that any VC's are going to move out because their personal rents are too high, while there's still the high concentration of talented people in the area. They might branch out to other locations, but personal choices over where to live are usually about far more than just money. So the Funding is unlikely to relocate.

It's possible they might start encouraging businesses to move further afield to increase their survivability, but ultimately a lot of founders will take <$30k salary when starting a company and accept any hardship in order to succeed. So suggesting that corporate finances at startups are suffering because of high rent is also a shaky premise. There may be a few borderline companies that fail "just before" they "would've made it big", but that'll be true at any burn rate.

If anything, investors probably like high rents because it forces higher burn rates and hence encourages startups to generate revenue or flip quickly. Either of which is preferable to a long, drawn out investment with no end in sight.

It's not like Detroit where a combination of cheaper manufacturing elsewhere and a lack of demand for US cars, led to necessary relocation/offshoring/downsizing.

I can't see there ever being a lack of demand for what SV produces. Businesses. Unless people start running out of ideas in and of themselves, I can't see how it'll die any time soon.