skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry about the late reply, I was gone for a few days. I know this would work on any batch of content such as my HN postings, but it's an extra step you take as an individual. In the context of Facebook there seems to be a much greater possibility of it becoming infrastructure - 'rate your friends!'
> you acknowledge that it is the individual behaviors that are necessary for the complex structures to exist.

Monopoly pricing and price fixing are not any of the individual behaviors necessary to get a market price, and that's all I was arguing.

In the absence of monopolies and cartels, market prices will emerge from individual behaviors, without any one individual having the power to set the price.

> a competitive market is a meaningless phantasy that cannot possibly exist.

If competitive markets don't exist empirically, that's not a flaw in the theory of Classical economics, it is merely a symptom of corrupt culture and politics. It means we don't really have a free-market system---

What we have today is more akin to Mercantilism. And with income inequality increasing at an accelerating rate, our society will soon devolve back into Feudalism.

> Your attempted counter-argument...

My argument isn't with you. My argument is strictly anti-monopoly and pro-competition.
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Ah yes, sorry, I'm an idiot. I read your original 'rather than' in reverse.
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I think that there may be ONE option. RMS probably has it...
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Created a small bash script to display the current match scores as part of the terminal prompt : https://gist.github.com/abiyani/34f25dc8ed2a862517e7

Sample output:
abiyani@vaio:~ [BEL-2-1-ALG, RUS-1-1-KOR, BRA-0-0-MEX]
It really depends on the mental illness. Most mentally ill people could do something, most of the time. What exactly they could do would depend on the particular illness. Many are not currently hireable because even one episode a week is enough to get them fired. Some are not currently hirable because they have been out of the workforce for so long, that they have lost a bunch of habits. I think that could be remedied.

But, as I said, if they are really incapable of any possible employment, then they should get treatment and supportive housing.
This appears to be unrelated to the Kuro5hin derived CMS named Scoop?
I remember it having a nice subtle balance - you couldn't afford to just let terror missions go unmolested because you would quickly lose funding. On the other hand, you couldn't just grind soldiers out because you needed them to progress with skills, etc. for the endgame... although there was a sort of plateu around when you got armor and psi-ops where things got boring between, say the 70% and 95% where you were just waiting to capture that one thing you missed in the earlier missions... from what I remember, that was the worst thing; There were like 2 or 3 things you needed for your tech tree that only appeared in early missions and they were really difficult to get after that.
Note that the original X-Com always played on Beginner difficulty. The developers never found out about this bug, and so may the sequel extremely more difficult, thus making it not at all fun for all but the most hardcore strategy gamers.
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Any input folks?
Hopefully helpful feedback from someone interested in this kind of thing:

1) I was assuming "Get Started for Free" means there's a free trial followed by a subscription fee type service.

2) It would go a long way to have a little more content (in terms of pics or specifics about the program) to tease sign-ups. The sign-up wall came a little too soon, before I felt interested enough to continue.
Jason from filepicker here, Its not going anywhere, we are expanding the service rapidly and have a full featured roadmap. I'm glad you can see the value!
I only see navigation at the bottom, and it's less than 1/3 of the screen, though that may depend on your screen height as it has a fixed height.
Where have the new team come from? Were they staff? Or did they buy it when the founders wanted to quit? What was Ink? Was that by the original founders or the new team?

Maybe the new team could list their full names? Bit strange to have "meet the new team" but not have their names and where they've come from.
I think he was referring to the negative effects of technology such as global warming, pollution from fertilizers, chemicals and plastics, poor farm conditions, tainted food supplies, weapons, citizen spy technology, etc.

That was beside the point though because your point is still valid that the "good" technology, which is hopefully the point of most technology, should not be held back for such superficial reasons. As someone smart once said, why should we build single man operated bulldozers when we can hire 10,000 men with spoons to do the digging?
"The WebAudio API does provide a ScriptProcessorNode for JS processing, but it appears to suffer from the problems I described."

Yup. That is being worked on by W3C and the WebAudio committee as we speak. WebWorker based JS processing is something being considered.

https://github.com/WebAudio/web-audio-api/issues/113

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-audio/2013OctDec/...

I am expecting this to be resolved in a few months. (hopefylly?)

If the threading issues are resolved, then real time audio rendering doesn't take that much processing power and can be easily done in JS.

Infact if there is nothing else contending for the EventLoop (like in this example of WavPot) the ScriptProcessorNode is able to meet the real-time guarantees pretty well, while still doing decent processing.

Also going forward, with Technologies like SIMD.js and asm.js more can be done within a single onprocess callback.
As someone paying for Filepicker/Ink, it's been great to me ... but ... I've got to ask, as a customer...

If I see rebrand, then all founders removed, why should I have confidence that this company is going to be sustainable and not just live off VC funding?
People are now managing to segment parts of the scene by motion, so that moving cars and pedestrians, for example, are known to be distinct from the camera's ego-motion. The static scene assumption is not strict any more.
At least someone is asking good questions.
Safety issues aside (as has been well-discussed by others already), the accelerometer won't report more than ~8G. Going any higher than that (which is not hard to do even with a moderately slow rotation) won't be very useful for testing out your app.
> a way of representing the underlying data in which writers and editors can designate certain paragraphs or sentences or phrases as more important than others

Doesn't HTML do this? <h1> is more important than <h2>, etc.
It's the "few regulations as possible" part of neoliberalism that has, for me at least, been the unquestionable failure.

The following could all have been avoided or had the scope of their damage drastically reduced had better regulation been in place:

LTCM and the Asia crisis in the 90s, the flood of bad IPOs in the dotcom era, the subprime and CDO disaster that sparked 2008, the asset bubbles over the last three decades (e.g. the UK housing market after mortgage LTV regulations were relaxed), the extreme widening of the gap between rich and poor.

A more nuanced and sensible approach to regulation than neoliberalism promotes doesn't (in my opinion) mean we'll suddenly see a reversal of all the good bits a very lightly regulated, market orientated economy has brought us and the return to inefficient, planned economies. It just means removing the shocks, excesses and some (by no means all) of the inequalities an uncompromising belief in 'free market economics over everything else' appears to invite.
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This is beautiful. I was looking for an API to do just this exact thing the other day. Thank you sir.
typically plugs are not welcome. I'm happy to chat though.
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Wow.. So is Wavepot.com by substack too?
It was. They could have signed any phone application to pretend like it was developed by Nokia, and therefore could have done anything to the phones (hence the malware angle).
prototype! There's so many tools out there now that it's so easy to create a prototype that is just images and need 0 lines of code. Flinto is a great tool for this and how I pitch a lot of my ideas to friends/strangers with very little effort production side.
> it is quite contrary to normal raves due to the fact that the music can be very stop-and-start and the ingestion of MDMA, ketamine or other illicit drugs does not usually happen

- wikipedia
This sounds horribly like the old Soviet Union, where everyone had a right to a job, whether you liked it or not.
I have one of those too, and for the price I've been very happy with it. My only real objection is the amount lag, but it's only really noticeable when web browsing, and even then it's just a little annoying at first.

In case you haven't already, make sure to turn the sharpness and noise cancellation down. It'll make it look a lot better. Also, if you look online, there are other firmware versions you can flash to speed it up.
Notch: Anyone want to buy my share of Mojang?
Is anyone supposed to take this seriously? it seems like the author realised he didn't have the evidence to support outright accusations so he opted to scribble a few paragraphs of innuendo.
I answered that same question here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7907937 I think most people are not natural aristocrats. They are not going to be tinkering in their home laboratories, crafting programming languages or writing ebooks. I fear that most people will degenerate in every manner if not subjected to the discipline of work. They will end up drinking and playing video games all day long. Furthermore, I think most people want to work, it provides purpose and fulfillment.

That said, as long as I'm social engineering a solution to the nation's problems, why not try an A/B test? Try giving the money away with no strings attached in one city or state (far away from me please) and see what happens. I am just more pessimistic about human nature than you are, so I do not think it will end well. I think there is a lot of evidence about the problems of idleness from the history of welfare and housing projects.

A compromise would be to make one of the "make work" options be an artistic or technological fellowship. So if you went to your employment office for your make work, and said you were working on an art project or new programming language, they would pay you to do that, you would just have to show some progress along the way.
Democrats Unveil A Bill To Ban Internet Fast Lanes
Worth watching the talk by Carl Bass, Autodesk CEO, during last SXSW. The interesting part starts at 20:30s, when he talks about the impact of technology on our economy and society.

He's not against technology or robots. Quite the opposite; he's a maker, geek and technology enthusiast. But he still raises good points of what will happen with jobs and wealth distribution, due to technology growth.

We're on a one-way street, and yes, this is completely different than what what happened 50, 100 years ago. We'll have significant changes in our society as we all learn how to live in a world with less jobs, explosion of technology, increasing wealth concentration, and fast gentrification of main cities.

Kudos to Al3x for bringing light to these important topics.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npYV5bzy7ug
It isn't that simple. Like real estate agents, they only get paid for a placement. Numbers wise, they are motivated to place you any way they can. They don't have much more to gain from getting you another $10K. They risk not placing you if you are too expensive.

I don't have anything against recruiters but one should be realistic as to how things actually work.
The key difference is that said startups use technology to cut out the middle man in a way that is transparent or even beneficial to the consumer. The cabbie, on the other hand, grumpily tries to pass the inconvenience onto the consumer.
No, we know the data is being examined by Google.
The speculation is about whether it's accessible to US agencies.
I appreciate the point you are trying to make, but maybe if you said something more like "its not just open source, but also free software" it would have come across as less hostile.
Hi Jason, What happened to the old team? Why did they quit? What happened to INK?
We see around 200K uniques per month. This month will be a bit higher due to HN traffic. We're running this on a Digital Ocean droplet and AWS for our media. It's a surprisingly simple set-up, really.
After you give up your citizenship you are still required to file with the IRS for the following ten years, correct? (Assuming you ever want to enter the US again.) What are your tax obligations during that time, though?
Almost none of it is open source.
Some points in Andreesen's post were eerily reminiscent of Keynes' musings about the fifteen hour work week. See link http://georgemaciunas.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Economi...
Yeah, I feel like I've read only the epilogue to a long story. Would love a quick rundown of what lead to this anouncemnt.
Im very interested in this. Which countries are best for expats from a quality of life and ease of obtaining citizenship standpoint?
That said, you just need to live in pretty much any decent-sized city to have access to good ingredients, and especially if you're comparing a major metro area with a suburb 20 years ago, it's an unfair comparison, as food has become more of an obsession across broad swaths of the culture.

I'm farther from an Indian grocery store today living in a core neighborhood of Brooklyn than when I grew up in Milwaukee or went to school in Pittsburgh. And when I went home to visit Milwaukee, the local food coop had ramps available, just like any hip store in Brooklyn.
> tried this trick before

The Littoral Combat Ship is the exact same trick being played right now! It's pretty much useless as a naval war fighting platform against a serious enemy, but some thin claims that it's a multi-mission platform got it the go-ahead.
Psychotherapy is not the same as physical medicine.
You should understand that your blog post makes us filepicker users nervous. Please tell us more about what it going on. This is normally the feeling I get when I have to start planning a transition. Give us some fact, or plans even.
As an adult-life on-boarding process, why not compulsory service? At least then, every person is guaranteed to have contributed at least something to society.
That sounds better and I'd be more likely to be on board with the program if I knew nobody was being prosecuted solely on the information gathered from the sting operation. I'd still have 2 worries: 1) that the Sweetie organizers might accidentally (or purposely) leak the information of the alleged pedophiles to the public, potentially shaming and humiliating an innocent party, and 2) that other organizations might run their own sting operations but fail to do so in an ethical, responsible manner.
"Ink" was a rebranding they did when they were attempting to move the service beyond just FileUploadingAsAService.
You do realize that every time minimum wages are raised like this the cost(s) are simply passed on through to the consumers. The net effect is that the cost base rises with the wage base, so no one actually gets ahead - the nominal price point is just set to a higher figure.
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This is a silly idea that continually gets reinvented.

The people who reinvent it think "Wow! How can this not exist? It's such a good idea and we're first to market!", failing to realise that they didn't find another competitor because so many other people have built the EXACT SAME THING and failed and shut it down.

Here's the last time I said the exact same thing:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7631094

about this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7628532

My personal version of this stupid concept was http://www.jobbountyhunter.com (hey the domain is available! snap it up!) and here was our version two - even better! http://web.archive.org/web/20090317010055/http://jobbountyhu... which I failed at about six years ago. We even went back for a second bite, rebuilt it and wasted more money thinking it would work if third party website published the job ads and collected some of the bounty. Strike two!

In my hometown, in my personal network of connections alone I know of two other people who built the EXACT SAME THING too, and also failed. I am certain there have been many other attempts and others will continue to build this thinking it's a good idea.

It's a stinky idea at its core because people don't like selling their friends and acquaintances. If you are the entrepreneur who built this then save your time and money, shut it down now and build something else whilst you have the time and energy and money.
Automatic’s Smart Driving Dongle Just Got Even More Powerful
More info here, this has been known for some time already:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53391745

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2395007

Fortunately the solution is pretty simple, as these generic MTK devices are all easy to root and reflash with new firmware.
What a great idea. I want to make synthesized sound effects for a game I'm making, and building them algorithmically in Javascript would be great. My alternatives have involved twiddling a zillion predefined knobs in a overwhelming UI, but as a developer this is far more appealing.

If only I could export the generated sound!
It sounds like Apoorva was rejected several times in the same time frame before anyone actually bothered to look at his product, and now it's an iconic YC company.

The key lesson for entrepreneurs is: Even if you actually build it, investors and accelerators (YC included) are still likely to be wrong and/or not care about it. Shockingly wrong.

(It also sounds like Garry deserves a significant chunk of that 7% for uncovering that diamond)
I believe that's Singapore. Albeit, the rules are being changed due to rapid influx of rich foreigners into Singapore causing social issues. https://sg.news.yahoo.com/ferrari-crash-fuels-singapore-anti...
I've been strongly considering expatriating, either to Canada or even more exotic locations such as Dubai/UAE. I have no real intentions of breaking from the US as a citizen, but perhaps you could clarify for me.

1. I've heard that under a certain tax bracket this does not happen. Is that true?
2. I hear Canada will actually let you write off taxes you've paid to the US.
Strategically, how did you approach the rewrite? It sounds like you had a significant amount of frontend code; replacing everything at once can be risky. Did you choose specific pages and work your way in, or scrap everything and work your way from the inside out?
You're missing the mark of this scenario — the headings are all more important than paragraphs, but maybe a summary or "background info" paragraph is clearly less integral than its nearby paragraphs, or maybe the second half of an intro feels a bit "fluffy" but still adds. If you have space constraints, they'd be the first priority to go.
After you give up citizenship you file a tax return for that year.

After that you only file income tax returns if you have income from US sources or you become a US resident.

The 10 year rule was repealed in 2008.
A basic law of economics is that whatever you spend money on you get more of. Spending money on paying for the abuses will only get you more abuses.
"The point is to spend money. That is the mission of the airplane...is for the US Congress to send money to Lockheed Martin."
<p><span class="cut-me-first">Well, </span>yes, but <span class="essential">in only the broadest sense possible.</span> <span class="cut-me-next">For the purposes of an op-ed piece <span class="nice-to-have">or a feature story</span>, though, you'd need to have much more control.</span></p>

<p class="normal-priority">Actually, this comment illustrates that such a system might not be as easy as you'd think. Some natural-language processing/generation would come in handy to ensure the following <num-of-bullets> things:</p>

* proper capitalization
* subject/verb agreement
* proper punctuation
<span class="cut-me-first">* number agreement</span>
Uncompressed code export with convenience methods like .play() is planned for milestone I. This exact use-case is what I had in mind.
>"U.S. citizenship is the most coveted citizenship in the world. To give it up, it has to be pretty serious,"

It's pretty serious to give up your birth citizenship no matter where you're from. But, as someone with American citizenship, this doesn't ring particularly true for me. There are a number of passports I would trade, today, right now, for the one I currently hold. Anyone claiming American citizenship is the most coveted in the world is saying a lot more about themselves than they are the US.
>When you need the absolute best for something, you need to specialize.

It would be interesting to hear the thoughts of the engineer in the video on the F/A-18. From what I've read about the Joint Strike Fighter project, from which the F-35 was borne, it seems like they were trying to recreate and expand upon the success and versatility of the F/A-18. I've always heard that the F/A-18 is one of the most useful planes in our arsenal, but it isn't highly specialized to one specific purpose.

As far as the F-35 goes, it seems like its yet another example where America is perfectly capable of building something better* than the rest of the world has, if it weren't for all of the corrupt politicians that are willing to trade real progress for personal gain.

*not that we are inherently better than everyone, its just that we poured an enormous amount of resources into this project
From the article

> Intel really doesn't want its client SSDs to be used after the flash has exceeded its lifetime spec. The firm's enterprise drives are designed to remain in logical disable mode after the MWI bottoms out, regardless of whether the power is cycled. Those server-focused SSDs will still brick themselves if data integrity can't be verified, though.
No. Or rather; that would be pretty horrible html from a semantic standpoint -- and perhaps more importantly, it would need parsing into text anyway -- so might as well be more explicitly different from html.

That said, html5 is pretty free in terms of what you put in the document -- personally I'd probably prefer a "weight" or "weight-group" attribute applied to elements and/or set on span-elements. Weight might be a float between 0.0 and 1.0 (pick one to be most important, maybe let "heavy" weights "sink to the bottom", and "fall off"... ?) -- the idea of a "weight-group" would be to group headers and/or phrases/paragraphs to be dropped together -- eg for this comment, you might want to drop all references to "weight-group" -- if you wanted a shorter, simpler version.

Too far down this path and you're square in natural language processing territory -- but it should be easy to mock up a web app that lets the author/editor preview how different versions would render/look -- and allow adding/removing tags/weights to the text(s) as appropriate.

Perhaps one useful extension would be auto-promoting a paragraph and/or (depending on format/space) part of a paragraph, or just a header -- to be used as a "deck" and/or summary (for eg rss feeds) etc?
I bought the domain along with webhook.org awhile ago. They were surprisingly inexpensive. If you'd like to get in, just send me an email dave@webhook.com and reference this post.

Atom stuff sounds like a neat idea, but I'd rather not tie us to any specific editor. Obviously people can write whatever they want though. We plan on open sourcing most of the code.
I like the idea of using trains (and track switches) to represent a state machine to kids. I can think of lots of fun puzzles using that form that would be fun for adults too.