skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was wondering this too. I expect/hope the answer would be "we're working on it" in most cases, but I worry it would be "it simply isn't possible" in some or most scenarios.
"The whole point is that a robot is going to be so much more efficient than a human, that for less than 1/50th the cost of a median house a human could buy a robot that could create enough economic production for his whole life."

I don't think economics works that way.

If the robot can "create enough economic production for his whole life" then either the robot will cost as much as the (present value of the) economic production for his whole life, or the cost of everything else will rise until the production capability of the robot is roughly equivalent to 1/Nth of her life. [Edit: Where 1/N is the proportion of 1/50th the cost of a median house to the current economic production of one life.]

"The rich just want the poor out of the way while they become more rich / powerful. The most effective way of doing that is to just pay the poor people off while they start organizing greater and greater things."

That's not how the psychology of power works, either. Or wealth. (You're not "rich", you are "richer than someone else"---wealth is only a goal when it is relative.) The rich don't have power unless there are poor handy to make do stuff. And historically, "just pay the poor people off" is the last option that anyone tries. Consider the French revolution and the 19th and 20th century class wars that resulted in the 40-hour workweek and unionization. (Hiring mercenaries to break strikes is cheaper than paying off poor people.) What's your opinion of unionization? Satisfactory way of balancing economic inequality issues, or economic atherosclerosis?

"The real thing I'm worried about is actually hard AI."

Actually, that's one thing I'm not particularly concerned about; I am familiar with computational complexity.

"backed on land taxes, ideally"

That is a brilliant idea! The economic value of the property I currently own is essentially nil. So, either my tax burden (such as it is) drops dramatically, or the price of property nearby does, as the skin-of-their-teeth farmers around get taxed out of business. I'd be able to buy my own fiefdom!
> You can always buy a rootable android phone, or a Firefox phone.

The relevant party is not "you," it's the typical consumer. They can't just buy a rootable phone and root it because they don't know what it would gain them. The opportunity to exploit this (very understandable and reasonable) gap in their knowledge falls, as it always seems to, with the people who own the means of production.

> This is like complaining that your newspaper already has ink on it stating someone else's opinion.

No, it's like saying that the fact that Rupert Murdoch has veto power over all stories with a national audience might have a negative impact on political discourse.

> If you want it to be blank, buy a pad from an art store.

Have you not heard of the concept "barrier to entry" or are you being disingenuous?
The IDC analysis report was based on market share of revenue, which placed IBM at the top of the list because IBM has done a great job finding customers to buy their product for more money than Jive & Yammer (aka: Microsoft).

Because social products are much more about engagement and usage vs sales, it would be applicable for IDC to include that metric and weight it heavily in rankings of social enterprise software packages.
The fact that we are comparing all of this with java makes me so sad.
Option #4, All of the above.

Many of these issues are both technological problems and political problems. Neglecting either is not a particularly good strategy.
I really wish there was a kg/lbs toggle
And another correction: given a vector<int> bar, "std::swap(bar[0], bar[1])" does compile fine. All vectors other than vector<bool> return modifiable references when elements are accessed with square brackets.

I'll stop it now.
Ask HN: You hire an agency to design your mvp, what percentage should you give?
Not much more to add: i'm curious to your views on how you would determine what percentage you should give an agency and/or freelancer that helps you build an mvp for stock and later on for a (cheap) fee.
I agree with you. This introduces race and sex into a topic that requires neither, benefits from neither, and doesn't explore either in a useful way.
> 5-4 decisions tend to be the ones that make news.

Decisions on issues that have high political salience tend to be the ones that make news; there is currently something of a correlation with political salience and 5-4 split decisions on the courts, since Justices positions are most ideologically (rather than legally) consistent on points that were politically salient at the time of their appointment, and the issues with the strongest political salience also are often relatively consistently salient over an extended period of time, and since the court splits at or close to 5-4 on a lot of enduringly-salient issue areas.

But plenty of 9-0 issues on issues that have current salience make news, and 5-4 decisions on which the justices are split but there isn't a great deal of political salience often aren't treated as any more newsworthy than any other decision.
It doesn't matter whose fault it is. It really hurts Android. I think phones are replaced often enough that the old OS will be replaced. However, people keep tablets for much longer.
Just because we aren't near a given unprecedented extreme doesn't mean that we can't talk about the effects of movement in that direction.
>Erlang will need to market itself once you start seeing unemployed Erlang programmers. All marketing Erlang does for Erlang programmers at this point is create competition for them

I think you're getting at the idea that marketing a language stimulates demand for programmers or it stimulates the supply of programmers. If there's a fixed number of positions for Erlang programmers more proficient people to fill those positions will lower wages. However, if the marketing convinces people who have problems to solve, that Erlang and the work Erlang programmers can do is the solution then demand will increase.

However, whereas econ 101 helps identify some of the central concepts, later courses would explore the dynamics in greater detail. For example, languages derive value from their communities and the network effects. Or, someone who is called a Erlang programmer could program in many other languages, but may enjoy Erlang more, or believe they can be more productive if they're able to use Erlang.

Anyway, it makes me think of open source projects where there are difficult people. You can tell non-paying, non-customers they don't have to use the work you've publicly released for free when they find problems, but presumably you're deriving some utility from releasing the software, and your utility function probably isn't served by getting your work ignored.

Even if advocacy only encouraged new programmers rather than marketing the language to people who have problems to solve, I think that advocates for the language want its usage to grow. There are language communities where people talk about proficiency as some sort of secret gold mine, but I think those 'secret' high-paying jobs are probably involve a lot of uninteresting maintenance of legacy code.
Free2Play marketing insider speaks up (German)
Author here. I know that treating the L^2 ball as somehow equivalent to binary vectors is invalid - I even say so in the post. If it helps, I explicitly point out the place where the real work for the binary vector would have to go.

The basic idea is I think is to use the central limit theorem on dot(u,d) and dot(p,d) - but unfortunately the CLT does not show that these two dot products are independent.
And carriers -- I got an HTC One M8, and about two weeks after I got it, it auto-updated and installed (without my consent) a bunch of Sprint bloatware apps that I cannot delete.

So, because of this - I've decided ill root it.
75% as good... 100% not good enough
Three justices disagree with you.
I use this (and the services of the Crow's Nest as mentioned). It's a neat little app, built to be mobile-friendly. They're probably charging too little for it. (paging patio11...)
As someone with experience in both implementing and bypassing spam protection, this idea makes no sense to me. Let's say it takes the user 30 seconds to calculate proof-of-work. 30 seconds per sign up (at effectively no cost) is quite good compared to current solutions spammers use to bypass CAPTCHAs - third-world sweatshops with people solving CAPTCHAs for <$1/hour. What's stopping a spammer from implementing your algorithm in more efficient C? Still assuming the algorithm takes ~30 seconds, all this does is limit the user/spammer to 172,800 sign-ups per CPU core per day, making it (much) less effective than rate-limiting sign-ups coming from the same IP address. Increasing the difficulty of the proof-of-work would just frustrate real users and make them leave your page for a competitor. I know cryptocurrencies are hip and all, but the problem space for proof-of-work algorithms is much smaller than some people here seem to think.
Why is an `/admin` area password protected if it's on the public internet?
Unfortunately that may no longer be an option.
So the author thought, "I'll make an article about pro/con lists", but he thought he'd make it sexist and racist while he's at it. That's hilarious.

Couldn't you pick something less controversial, like say, comparing religions, political parties or sports teams?
:'a,'bg/fred/s/dick/joe/igc : VERY USEFUL

Wow, thanks for the tip, any ideas on what it does?

A lot of these seem to be learn to use regular expressions and not really vim related other than vim supports regular expressions. I.E. the 4 or 5 different ways to find an exactly 4 digit number that mostly seem to boil down to '/' does search by regular expressions and here is a regular expression that finds 4 digit numbers.
This is the key point I think. From my desktop (Intel Xeon CPU E5-1620) the example takes 12 seconds to run, on my phone (ARM Cortex-A7 MPCore) it's taking about 120 seconds to run.

If you don't want to annoy your visitors you're going to need to have the max runtime on any device at around 25 seconds.

Now you can't scale this per device, because you can't rule out devices spoofing what they are. So this means you're looking at barely a few seconds to break it on any sort of desktop hardware, and even less on any dedicated server.

Spammers are probably waiting longer than that to just load the page they want to spam, so it wont slow them down. For this to work you need to solve this issue, and I hope you can, but I don't see how.
Bitly's Practical Strategies for Building Distributed Systems
My understanding is that 3.8 is a backport of Juno (AKA 4.2) features on the 3.x platform.
...and sell the applications you write to whom? And how?
A shame that people downvote because they disagree with an opinion.
Taylor: experimental CLI build tool and package manager for Swift
She mentioned being evicted, so probably housing.
Author expresses confusion about why people are offended in 3, 2, 1...
Everything Is Bullshit: A Book by Priceonomics
Polymer core elements based on Google's Material Design
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7944893.
"I think, the Court got it right in the end"

I don't see how this really differs from a person setting up recording equipment in his/her own home to capture that OTA broadcast for later viewing—which itself is legal.
feel like its not enough work on the battery life.
So by JDT you mean something other than the Java Development Tools of Eclipse, I guess.

To me, Eclipse has been mostly stable/stagnant for many years (4.2 has actually felt like a regression from 3.x, in that the UI lots some features, like how/where to position views).

NetBeans had been lacking, but the current version seems to have improved lot for Java development (I last tried it several years ago), and it has always looked much better than Eclipse, IMHO. (Ironically, the fake-native Swing looks much nicer than Eclipse with native scrollbars+buttons, but non-native everything else like the tool-, sorry, "Coolbar" and its weird tabs (incredibly ugly, esp. the "new" ones).)

The interesting changes to Eclipse to make it more future-proof have been under the hood, I think, like a more modern plugin runtime (but I don't really know details on that one).
I'm somewhat amused that both women get +1 for great legs and both get 0 for "not letting me work", heh.

It's also interesting that white Svetlana gets +1 for being smart, while black Elise gets +1 for being black but isn't smart. Interesting little Freudian slip (is that the right term?) there, I guess.

I also agree with other commenters that introducing sex/race into this discussion seems completely unnecessary. A better example might be cars, comparing a minivan vs a convertible or something less... politically charged.
Plenty of people in India do this.
If Your REST API Is Fine, Can You Get Away Without Having An SDK?
"Google's Sundar Pichai said, adding that it was "designed for form factors beyond mobile.""

"ART: ... Truly cross platform: ARM, x86, MIPS"

Sounds like they may be setting up to make a proper run at the desktop market? Now that all these Windows 8 machines are out there with cheap touch panels, it's shown that cheap desktop/laptop computers can exist with the necessary interface bits to work.

edit:and watches and cars apparently
Will definitely use this to learn web dev. Thank you!
The extra byte he needed to shave off was in the 8086 assembly language brainfuck interpreter (in hex on the right of the letter) so it would fit nicely in a rectangle.
But we aren't moving in the direction of less regulation. Take a step back and look at the big picture and it's obvious. The size and scope of the State, and the amount of red-tape and regulation, is pretty much always growing in general.

What all these anti free-market people are missing (intentionally or not) is that it makes no sense to watch the State create 20000 pages of regulations, and then yell "de-regulation" when they remove 7 of those pages. Especially when 4 years later they turn around and add another 3377292751 pages of regulation and the cycle repeats itself.
I realize talk is cheap... here's a link:

http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/facebook-finally-adm...
I'd appreciate it if you could post this as a comment to the Dev FAQ page :)
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We're based in Minsk, Belarus. I was in Karlsruhe on SotM-EU'14 recently, and I like shape of the city centre. It's looks beautiful on map. :)
Those are strange examples of "less controversial."

A "less controversial" topic of comparison would be boxers vs. briefs.

EDIT: I'm bad at sarcasm detection.
The most interesting component of this was the healthcare drag in the revisions taking it down from the initial ones.

While a large element of this was the affordable care act, it is also notable that healthcare inflation went negative for the first time in 20 odd years last quarter (education did too, but thats another story).

Given the US currently spends twice the amount of other countries on its health care as a % of GDP (14%) for similar health outcomes and individuals are being significantly disincented to spend on healthcare via subsidies and high deductibles respectively, I think we will see increasing normalisation of healthcare spend to levels under 10% of GDP, a huge drag on GDP.

This will be further accelerated by smartphone and biometric proliferation allowing for easier and more reliable diagnosis and treatment choice.

Interesting times.
We should all endeavor to guard the memory of the double-sided peanut butter jar, lost in a tragic speech recognition accident on June 25, 2014.
Including speed of adoption?
This is a fascinating article, thank you.

When I was a freelancer the goal was always to set up small recurring tasks with a number of clients to smooth the peaks and troughs of work and bring in a regular income. These examples are a great way of showing how this idea can be marketed and scaled without having to rely so heavily on word of mouth or existing relationships - though I'm sure they do still play a part.

The change in approach from 'See what I've done for others', to 'Here's specifically what I can achieve for you' is key.
Is there some particular reason why the LateX stuff is untransformed?
Captchas are Becoming Ridiculous
Retort removed. No point arguing semantics with someone who doesn't know how to use a comma.
I haven't noticed that about Chinese. Pinyin and Bopomofo are useful input methods but I hardly ever see material actually written in pinyin other than children's books. My kids have never really complained about having to learn characters and find a lot of pleasure in being able to read and write characters.

Most people I hear calling for the eradication of Chinese characters are just a few non-native speakers. Of course, that is just anecdotal, I am sure there are also a few native speakers that hold that view but it seems to be a very small minority.

Post-education most people hand write characters a lot less, but they are still reading characters and producing texts with pinyin/bopomofo/cangjie, etc. There are huge amounts of information being written Chinese with the increase of internet usage in China and increase in education. Unless there is another massive education reform in China, I don't see Chinese characters going anywhere.
There is nothing sexist or racist about this article, unless you believe that stating a black person is black is somehow offensive towards black people.
For three years I worked for a company that actually created and distributed the fake download button ads (along with a wide variety of other "interesting" projects). I even designed some of the creatives during early A/B tests. And even I still click the wrong link on occasion.
React.js with Angular 2.0 di.js
It's still you who are recording, not the 3rd party. If I purposely hit someone with my car, the car manufacturer can't be blamed, but if I tell my driver to hit someone and he does, shouldn't he be blamed?
SF housing problem. Why do they protest at Google? It's the local government fault. Let Google and the rest build some flats.
Your mileage will vary depending on the browser. If you really care (as in profiling identified this as a hotspot) you should measure the alternatives you're considering.

But note that in your specific case chances are the cost of a bunch of console.log() calls completely swamps the cost of either a for loop or a forEach call. console.log() has _incredibly_ complicated behavior.
Well, for the first time in a long time I agree with something Scalia says...Congress is the body that opens loopholes in the law, and it's their job to close them. Not the court's.
Nothing new under the sun. We've been using box shadows on the web for years.
> 'a,'b

Between mark `a' and `b'

> g/fred

If the line contains the pattern Fred, execute the following command (s/dick/joe/igc)

> s/dick/joe/

Replace dick with joe

> /igc

i: Case insensitive

g: Replace multiple occurrences on the same line

c: Ask for confirmation on each substitution

I may be wrong about some detail, but I believe that's it.
'Material Design' primarily diverges from Metro around the use of drop shadows, gradients and lighting effects. Where Metro avoids these 'fake' effects as part of it's authentically digital mantra, Material design is embracing them as natural cues that we're pre-programmed to recognize.

I won't disagree with the Metro influence but I think this separation in design philosophy is incredibly important.

The Material approach has sometimes been called 'almost flat' design, and I think it really embraces the criticisms raised in articles such as:
http://www.matthewmooredesign.com/almost-flat-design/
http://gizmodo.com/designers-shadows-are-totally-fine-in-a-f...
And of course don't be friends with anyone who has you in their contacts then install the facebook mobile app.
I hope I understand your question.

I think the court has found that the "distribution for pay", i.e. "Cable TV" aspects of aereo's service outweighs the "antenna rental" aspects, and that makes it charging for a public performance.

If you rent an antenna on top of the Empire State Building, digitize the signal, and set up your own means to stream it over the internet to your house in Peoria, that is probably a private performance. If you effectively sell someone access to the stream (like a Cable TV company), that is a public performance.
http://thenextweb.com/google/2014/06/25/google-io-2014-inter...
Doesn't look free to me. It appears to be $150/month.
And in particular, citing them as "in the know" (as hilarious as it may be to do so).
Also a very important lesson regarding the dangers of poor user interface design. It's a little bit crazy that in 2014 we still have a significant amount of serious work being done on systems where a slip of the finger or a one-character typo in a script can literally destroy whole systems with no confirmation and no reliable recovery mechanism.
Do you mean the checklists or the stereotyping / judging on superficial attributes?
Exactly! I've read a lot of posts recently claiming the 'free-market' is the problem.

Yeah, it's a symptom of the kind of elitism that modern day "leftish wing" / "liberal" types (as opposed to classical liberals) are infected with, where they believe that if only we'd let them micro-manage every little detail of society, the economy, culture, etc., then we could live in a "perfect" world where everyone is uniformly happ and "none suffer".

The thing is, that's never been possible and I don't think it'll ever be possible... and if it were possible, it's not desirable. "Uniformly happy" also means "uniformly sad" and "uniformly oppressed". None for me, thanks.
I did that a few times, but it was a pain. I strongly prefer using the apt repositories since things integrate well.
What browser do you use? Are the files from cdn.mathjax.org not loading?
You didn't really phrase it as an opinion, more as a statement of fact.
The switch to Android-first development hasn't happened yet (YC + GV analysis)
The Internet of Weed (YC W14 Edyn)
Given the Chicago reference (fellow Chicagoan here), do you view this as a Midwest problem? I feel like a lot of the companies here tend to lowball on salaries / benefits. I did a study on this for the VC / startup communities in the Midwest, and we think we have enough data to back it up.
Thank you for making it. (I'll beg you for an invite later.)

I'd experimented with embedding Javascript Bitcoin miners in my website as a means of monetization without ads. I see this as a more intuitive version of that which restricts the user based on usage (posting rate) instead of on viewership.

The issue I encountered was a miniscule rate of return on the JS-based mining. Do you think that if HashCash integrates with BitCoin for monetization/mining purposes, JS speed will be a limiting factor?
At first I thought along with others that they're probably relying on some combination of Bluetooth and Wifi. When I launch FireChat though, it tells me that to use the chatroom that does not require Internet, it only works "up to 210 feet." Well, that's interesting because Bluetooth LE should work up to over 300 feet. If we're talking about two users on the same WiFi, they should be able to chat for as far a distance as that WiFi network, which again should be greater than 210 feet, depending on the system. So, if they're using a combo of WiFi and Bluetooth, how do they end up with a shorter distance?
Curious about "huge problems". Is there must be some data you could share to demonstrate this?

(ie: conversions dipped x% when we didn't use a server-side implementation)
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Is there an obvious reason for drawing vectors from the Dirichlet distribution?