skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe there is a God.
I've got the music in me.
nature. mehh, theres an app for that
You're trying to force it. That's not going to work.

Stop. Get a job. A job that you like.

Then just be good at it. Better yet, be the best at it, and make sure it is something you are passionate about and talented in.

It really is that simple.

Nobody wants to invest in somebody with a bunch of failed entrepreneurial ventures. But if you sit back, take a check, work on cool shit and build an impressive body of work, well then perhaps people will be more willing to invest in you.

And for god's sake, go bang your girlfriend and give her a massage.
Good point to the use of lower case. Not sure that making a statement of fact qualifies as "derogatory". Perhaps the specific examples could be considered so.
Yeah, it even made it to the TI-92 calculator (a beast of a machine)
Two big problems with the market:

- Shutting down overnight, lots of schemes happen after hours or pre-market, why don't we have an always on market?

- HFT has run amok and they aren't that smart yet or they are too smart: http://buzz.money.cnn.com/2014/03/26/whoops-shares-named-ocu... + http://kotaku.com/people-are-accidentally-buying-stocks-with... (people aren't buying these, machines did)

It is no longer a market a small investor can make money in except for buying after bad news and long term. Investors need HFT to compete now.
Movie Recommendations with k-Nearest Neighbors and Cosine Similarity
Civilization's Starter Kit
I thought this was going to be interesting but it turns out it was just an advertisement for IEX. They brought out a) guy selling a book about IEX (Michael Lewis) b) CEO of IEX (Brad Katsuyama) c) Chief Strategy Officer of IEX (Ronan Ryan) and d) IEX investor (David Einhorn). No shit they are going to make it sound like the markets are rigged and IEX is the answer.
Your approach seems very sensible and the data you provide is in support of this. I do hope you stick with this, and more importantly, your data drive meta-methodology, and not let an HN post who don't face the use cases etc. drive you to abandon this.
What's WP?
The letters "VR" aren't even relevant to a belief that two-way 3D video chat is practical today, and will become more practical in the future.

You've bound yourself by artificial limitations on your thought process. Please do not act as if people who do not share those boundaries must be idiots.

Edit: By the way, since you brought it up, I've never read Snow Crash. I really don't know anything about it other than a brief synopsis I read at some point years ago. It's unwise to assume anything about my opinions comes from pop culture, as I'm largely disconnected from it.
I understand and believe in the science - so why does this article trigger my suspicion I am being sold something. I know balance has gotten a bad name with because the crackpots in the global warming denier camp but this just seems so one-sided that it strains credibility.
What are your thoughts on the candidates in the upcoming mayoral election?
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Microsoft is hell-bent on market domination, it's just they're failing to capture emerging markets. Their attempt at creating tablets, smartphones, music players, etc have all flopped. Yet each attempt all have the traits of classic EEE.

Getting office on the iPad isn't an example of Microsoft fighting for relevance, it's an example of them ensuring market domination at the office.
Chapters 9 and 10 of this:

http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfi...

Make a pretty damning indictment of my argument.

Although I never really liked the patent system, I believed that it was ultimately "the best system given the alternatives" because I believed that in the absence of patent protection, pharmaceutical output would be reduced from lack of incentive. Historically, this has not been the case.

Although the authors do agree that abolishing the system in one fell swoop would be a bad idea because it would be politically untenable, prevent the reformation of certain institutions e.g. The FDA, and adversely affect medical researchers and pharmaceutical companies. They instead propose a phased reformation process which includes but is not limited to reducing the costs of phase II and phase III clinical trials (via NIH support / reformation), deregulating patent enforcement and instead affect private contract machinery, and ultimately phase out patents entirely.

My argument largely rested on my assumption that pharmaceutical companies were spending their money in a socially optimal way and that pharmaceutical output would be reduced in the absence of trade protectionism. It seems that empirically, the pharmaceutical industry is not an exception to the "trade protectionism is a bad idea" rule-- like I previously tried to argue.

They propose a series of reforms to the patent system (with the eventual goal of phasing it out) that would reduce costs.

I over estimated the amount of R&D money that was being properly spent. I did not realize how effective certain parts of the global industry have been in the absence of patents. And I did not account for the fact that the patent system incentivizes copy cat drug design. I look forward to finding out where else I'm wrong about healthcare economics.
I am pretty surprised that the price of BTC fell after the IRS issued guidance. Like asperous mentioned, most people with tax knowledge (myself included) expected Bitcoin to be taxed this way, and this is what we were hoping for. The author discusses how people now have to "decide whether to report the income and pay steep capital gains tax, or submit fraudulent tax returns." But the thing is, we knew all along that tax would have to be paid. It was simply a matter of whether it was taxed at higher ordinary income rates, or lower capital gains rates.
Keep in mind, my kids are riding with me walking right next to them. They are still using training wheels.
This a huge accounting nightmare for businesses and individuals to deal with. It is also likely to act as a precedence for other tax authorities. The real value of bitcoin is in the low transaction friction (in theory more than practice for most non-tech people). All this accounting is basically undermining this.
They were raising their baby...their dream. Working for someone else, you don't have as much of the dream. Expecting others working for you to work as hard as you is not going to work out well in the long run. I live in Silicon Valley and I have seen the burn out. It's prudent to not expect this over long term.
I've got a PRS 950. Back when I bought it was really good. Bigger screen, supporting SD cards and reading ePub and PDF. The other options like the Kindle were very locked-up.
A little older but "The Magic Garden Explained: The Internals of UNIX System V Release 4, An Open Systems Design" is a really well written book for the core UNIX concepts.
I find myself not using extension methods so much these days unless I want behavior for a specific instance of a generic type. The problem is state and polymorphism, which can be handled well enough via delegation to a nested mixin object + an interface to tag objects that have this nested mixin object.
I like the direction that this author is going. He's certainly not the only person to be thinking along these lines. The Long Now Foundation in particular seems to be invested in pursuing answers to some of the overarching questions posed by this column.

One recent post on the Foundation's blog caught my eye: "Kevin Kelly’s Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" (http://blog.longnow.org/02014/03/18/kevin-kelly-books/), in which Kevin Kelly (author of Cool Tools) offers his additions to the Foundation's growing "corpus which could sustain or rebuild civilization."
I, too, dislike the ever-present possibility of me being banned and not knowing it, causing me to waste time writing earnest comments that go into a black hole. I’ve thought of a change that might assuage fears like mine while still allowing you to use hellbans to deter trolls: using separate types of bans depending on the likelihood of a user’s troll-ness.

I don’t have any data about trolls, but perhaps if you looked at your data you might find that people rarely turn into trolls if they have at least a certain amount of karma points, or if they have been on the site for at least a certain amount of time. If you find such a pattern, you could make it so that when those users write a trollish comment and should be banned for it, they are actually informed of the ban instead of silently hellbanned. But if you ban a user whose karma or time-on-site suggests a higher chance of being a troll looking for a reaction, you can still hellban them silently.

This policy would mean that long-time users would know not to fear hellbanning after they pass the publically-stated point. It would let them interact with the site without that slight fear that their comments are going to waste, because they know the site would visibly prevent them from writing comments if they’ve been banned. But the policy would still let you use hellbanning, which is supposedly very effective, as a deterrent for trolls. I hope that there actually is a correlation between likelihood-to-be-a-troll and some combination of karma and account age that you can base this policy on.
Space versus Time
We usually just add "[video]" when a video autoplays

Fair enough, I couldn't remember if the usual tag for this was "video", "audio warning" or something else.

Do I detect an annoyance with autoplaying videos with accompanying audio in your suggestion?

Indeed. I don't care about silent video, but when I've scrolled halfway down the page and then the video at the top of the page starts making noise...
To be fair, having a single face of the company being enforced constantly is probably an intentional PR decision. And it is quite effective from my perspective.
Yeh you're right. It's similar to front running, but not illegal.
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You remember incorrectly, to some extent.

http://tidbits.com/article/14557
Hello.

Both. I learnt to program at 15 when I taught myself PHP to set up an eCommerce site that could automatically create new voice server instances when a user placed an order. I guess you could say that was my first startup.

Since then I've worked with a few different companies on eCommerce sites doing a bit of everything including marketing. I have quite a lot of experience with SEO, pay-per-click and social media marketing. One of my failed startups was a social media marketing startup.
Kickstarter is only 5%... though Amazon payments is also 3%-5%. I hope the 10% isn't before payment fees.
"Hardened" was the first term that jumped to mind, though the more I thought about this, and after reading the police report, the more I understand the police's motives and generally agree with their response (it might be they were too harsh physically, but they had good reason to be physical, and the guy fully deserved to be arrested).

While I feel bad for the guy for getting himself into trouble, we had a situation where a guy called 911, the first responders showed up, and the guy had such a sense of entitlement that he acted like he was still in charge of the situation, and because of that misbehaved in a few serious ways. Probably the fact that he was drunk played into his foolishness, but by his own account and the account of the police report, the cops had a drunk guy and his friend interfering with the first responders' work, the police asked them to step back, they were belligerent to the police about it and refused to step back, when the police tried to move him he resisted physically, so the cop put a lock on him, cuffed him, and arrested him. When a drunk is interfering with first responders, disobeying lawful orders, and physically resisting efforts to move out of the scene what else are they going to do? They ordered him to leave, he was belligerent, they pulled him away, he resisted, so they pinned him, cuffed him, and off to jail he went. Maybe they were too forceful, but all we have are the memories of the angry drunk guy prone to fits of screaming by his own account - no medical records or corroboration, and the cops actually made sure there was surveillance of the incident preserved.

They treated him pretty harshly in the jail, but by his own account he was screaming and acting out. It's not a real shocker that the drunk screaming guy misbehaving in jail is going to suffer for it.

There are legitimate cases of serious police abuses. This is more a case of a drunk fool getting himself in trouble by acting like an entitled clown and not complying with the officers' requests to give the first responders space to work.

Even with his annotations, the police report shows what was missing from the story:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/779439/police_report_ann...
Keep going. Keep going. Go to bed too when your gf looks at you and says "I am going to sleep." Next morning, Keep going.
Do you mind if I ask where you're located? These sort of skills are definitely in demand in plenty of early stage startups that have a toehold, but not a solid position, in a business environment. I'm shooting from the hip based on other responses you've mentioned so far, but it sounds like you've never really had a "real job", where you're putting your skills to work for someone else. Would it be so crazy to suggest you try working for someone else's startup before going off all on your own? That takes a lot of the pressure off of you to have all of the big ideas, but still allows you to work on plenty of interesting problems and see how a business is built.

It sounds to me like you've got plenty of technical experience and might need a little more of the business side of things - how to show the things you've built are valuable. I'm in Cambridge, MA, and I can say with certainty that there are plenty of software shops around here that would claw over each other to get to someone with your skillset.

I'm the least experienced entrepreneur on this website, but if it's help of that sort you need, you've definitely come to the right place.
Doubt many of those supporters were in china.
What Games Are: Virtual Reality, We Hardly Knew You
>It is no longer a market a small investor can make money in except for buying after bad news and long term. Investors need HFT to compete now.

How is this a bad thing?

A person is still quite able to invest, in the sense of buying an index fund. Why does it matter if a small investor can't profit by trading on news? Isn't this a sign that the market is efficient?
Yeap, boxing means the same in Kiwi English as it does in American English.

The point is to get away from the cotton wool or 'Helicopter Parenting' model. If we don't allow kids to do the risky stuff then they don't until they reach adolescence. I am firmly of the opinion we have to get them doing it while they are young; while they still listen to us (parents, adults, etc) and while they are small and less strong.

When we wrap them in cotton wool they reach adolescence with no understanding of risk but plenty of testosterone. Then they start to experiment without years of experience in informal risk assessment.

I have also read of a school that is achieving higher academic results by encouraging Bullrush. Think rugby without a ball - tackling, running, dodging, actual physical contact (or American Football but without the stopping and without any pads, etc.)
*Lastly, some tone stuff: Function pointers have nothing to do with functional programming. And why hate on a language you haven't studied? And why does there have to be a TLDR version of a mind-expanding experience like learning a new programming style? ....

I'm loving Haskell and am using it for all sorts of things now. I think this confusion deserves to be addressed though. When people first spoke to me about functional programming, they would say things like: "It's a paradigm shift because everything is based on functions and functions are first class citizens, you can pass them around just like anything else"

Unfortunately this description of functional programming only makes sense to functional programmers. As a C programmer (what I consider myself primarily) I was inclined to simply say: "So what? Functions are perfectly easy to use in C and I can also pass them around provided I'm willing to stomach a little indirection, why do I need the unfamiliar syntax of Haskell to do something I can already accomplish in C?"

So I can see where the function pointer remark is coming from. It might represent a misunderstanding of functional programming, but it's a misunderstanding potentially created by uncareful exposition. In my case I was thinking exactly the same thing before I started to understand the value of FP, and having approached FP many times in the past and failed to understand the point of it, could easily lead to an attitude of: "This is needlessly complicated, time to give up."
I very much agree with you: energy companies and other auto manufacturers will get into the charging business. They have to!

But I defend my point based on this: Would you buy a car that has an established charging network, or a car with only a few chargers nationwide? Of course, the established network since there is less worry about "filling up". This is a direct mirror of today's issue with electric vehicles: there isn't a large charging network. Tesla has been competing against other vehicles that have no range anxiety. Similarly, if GM produces a car to use only a GM charger buyers will feel this anxiety and tend toward an easier solution. Therefore, it would only make sense for GM to license the rights to use Tesla chargers since GM can quell range fears and still make money off the car sale.

As for a standard in charging. This is going to be a long fight. The energy and auto industry (minus Tesla) has the political power and money to force a standard many times over. The question becomes: accept a standard because it exists and was funded well (feature phones), or choose something new because it is supremely better (iPhone 1).

Who knows, I enjoyed your response. It made me rethink about this.
Was Apple involved in the death of Pear OS?
I saw this when he teared up in the 60 minute interview last year when talking about how crushed he was that his childhood heroes (Neil Armstrong et al) attacked him and his company (wasn't personal, they just thought space exploration should be the sole domain of NASA, and not corporations)
We love to hear feedback from customers because it allows us to refine the product. From our internal metrics we know that providing an automatic snapshot recovery function is essential given the number of times its been implemented but we can also understand this customers issue with data being destroyed.

The data is destroyed securely, but not as immediately as they would have liked since the default behavior is to preserve a snapshot until it automatically expires.

These discussions are great for us because they allow us to refine the user experience and ensure that we can provide a great service. As we've been doing a tremendous amount of work on the backend code this is a great time for this customers concerns to be discussed as we are knee deep in large rewrites at the moment and its the perfect time to address this, rather than deploy to production and then have to go back and retool.

Given that we've been working on the secure destroy all the time having that be an option doesn't make sense and instead we can use that UX/UI real-estate to expose the temporary snapshot issue but again would love to hear more feedback on whether that's necessary.

We would of course love to please every customer but then we would have a platform with 1,000 features so sometimes you have to politely decline a request because it doesn't fit in with the general use cases, but it doesn't mean that we shouldn't engage in a discussion as that is always helpful.

Even if action isn't immediately taken it often leads to us asking numerous questions that are always great that can lead to new product and feature ideas that may not be tied to the original question in mind but still can move the product forward in other areas.

Thanks!
Bitcoin will always have value as a new way to think about money. It has started some really smart people thinking about the next system - this is really the norm for any major breakthrough. Nothing is ever perfect the first time or doesn't evolve as things change. I think that given how good bitcoin is has led some people to believe it is perfect.
The sound is definitely from the vehicle which is doing the filming. The Tesla Model S does not sound like that.
From a practical point of view, mixing in behavior and implementing via encapsulation is usually easier to maintain and extend than inheritance.
And one death is visible. A generation lacking risk analsis skills, physical activity and knowledge of how to be rough but not aggressive is harder to see. SO harder to sue to prevent.

I think the sue for visible problems approach is one of your bigger problems in the USA. And in your current society until someone can sue for making Playstation more acceptable than Playtime I don't see any easy solutions.
Moisey - Hat tip definitely due, you've been nothing short of responsive about the concerns raised and I can completely understand what led you down this train of thought, although I continue to think it presents an unwelcome surprise to customers thinking about their data security.

Destroyed should mean destroyed and if the outcome is a UX/UI change to remove the 'Scrub Data' (making it default) box and replace with a 'Temporary Snapshot' box (along with accompanying tooltip for explanation) then I think that would be a perfectly great way to assuage my concerns, and a positive development to the DigitalOcean platform.

Obviously there remains a question of how best to tackle this from an API perspective, perhaps you can consider adding a new parameter to /droplets/:id/destroy along the lines of 'temporary_snapshot' (bool) or similar, with a well-documented default behaviour if not passed in.
Kudos all around! To those within the government with the foresight to bet on Musk (or those like him) and to Musk for actually pulling off something great with the opportunity.
It's worth reading chapters 9 and 10 of this:

http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfi...

I just came across it, and it makes a pretty damning indictment of my premise that patent incentives enable advancement in experimental science in the pharmaceutical industry. To be clear, pharmaceutical companies do play a crucial role in the drug discovery process, clinical trials do provide positive scientific externalities, but my assumption that patent protection is a necessary catalyst for risk taking appears to be incorrect (if you take seriously the very compelling case the authors make in the linked book chapters.) My argument is flawed. Elaborated in full here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7499328

I still kind of like my part in this comment about distinguishing experimental science and theoretical science. Otherwise, I'm walking home with my tail between my legs.
Show HN: I hope you are getting fed up with speed readers for browser
Now, it's mobile's turn. Here's the speed reader for iPhone and iPad with pocket integration.

https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/id846709169?mt=8

Give it a try, i think you won't be disappointed.
Feedback/suggestions are highly appreciated.
As well as considering just health care costs also consider health care versus income. E.g. if a parent had to pay for a broken arm in the '80s US did they risk bankruptcy more or less then now?
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