skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's possible to meaningfully take salaries into account unless they also have a database with salaries for each profession. In my opinion, it's much better to leave that adjustment to the user.

E.g. if you compare median salaries in San Francisco and Tokyo, you might get similar numbers. But if you're an ESL teacher, you might get paid quite a bit more in Tokyo, whereas if you're a software engineer you'll get paid a lot more in SF.
I started my career in IT at P&G a long time ago. One of my mentors got me started on a few business books, and worked Deming into the equation. An interview with Robert Reich (yes, the same one) and him was included in a training class there too. The writing resonated quite a bit then.

Who am I? That's a much deeper question. :-) Someone who has drifted between data, technology and finance over a 20some year professional career.
Very much so. New and bigger roads cause all kinds of associated growth. New businesses and home pop up because it's now practical to get to them in those locations. This increases demand for the roads, so they eventually become congested again. But not just because people like to go from place to place for no reason other than to go.
They also promote economic activity (people can get to work and spend less time commuting). Even cities in red states are striving for more of that (though to be fare, even those cities are mostly blue).
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As someone who mostly agrees, and has found other posts you've made to be a useful contribution, I think this one strays from that.

Even if it's personally satisfying, no minds are being won here.
You know, the last thing I care about is whether hello world is a one liner. I care whether I can maintain my large code base with dozens of other developers.
Roads have to be maintained, the cost is non-trivial.

The roads in the US are absolutely a dream compared to say Indonesia, or even China where new roads tend to crumble after a few years of iffy maintenance.
Ask HN: What do you think of this Hacker News app?
I've been testing out different Hacker News app on AppStore, there are 21 of them and I still haven't found the solution to: 1. Information overload problem - love the content and esp. reading the comments section but I couldn't find that many extra hours a day! 2. Having to read the same topics day in day out - it annoys me that I've to scroll through and read the same topics again and deciding whether I've read it or not before scrolling on.

So I propose a solution as to how I would like to use it if I were to code the app myself. I love reading highly upvoted topics with plenty of comments and I fear that I will miss out on future comments which may be insightful in a life-changing kind of way. So in Version 1, the Hacker News app would: 1. Be able to highlight "peaked" topics by level. Just imagine the WiFi signal strength bar but for how peaked a topic has reached. To measure how peaked it is, there is a calculation for each topic whereby the comments posted per day is measured relative to the previous day. Sort of like measuring the deceleration of comments. 2. Grey out topics that I've read 3. Ability to Upvote and in my case also send the topic URL or the comments URL to Pocket

More features to come but that is what I would build first to save myself (and hopefully other passive consumers of information like me) tonnes of time. I hope Paul Graham and team is OK with it, since you could tell there is a small group of users who rarely posts comments unless we have a great gem to share.

Since I plan to learn RubyMotion, I was wondering if anyone is interested to join me in building this open source app? I've coded several Websites in RoR and my next frontier is RubyMotion.
Nah, not really. A closer analogy is Ford shutting down all of Tesla's charging stations because the chargers had a nasty habit of attempting to bazooka any Ford cars that drove past.

The competition from no-ip to Microsoft from this is virtually zero. Any serious hoster will have a static IP, or own their own domain.
Watching the Quake video brought back memories of playing the Action Quake 2 mod, where the entire gameplay mechanics revolved around jumping and shooting.
This discussion should probably start from commercial rather than passenger vehicles. In the latter category the driver is usually the owner as well as the cargo and the principle agent (my driving pleasure). There is an inherent distortion in the discussion around what the current drivers imagine they'd want.

Commercial vehicles live or die on their economics alone. Separating concerns in this way makes the issues clearer. Assuming they become established in the commercial market, producers can then address the consumer market. At that point, car drivers may rationally decide whether they'd prefer to pay the prevalent market premium for not using a self-driving vehicle.

Amazon might never deliver by drone, but the market for micro-deliveries by autonomous, wheeled vehicle could be huge.
I'm not sure why, but I struggled with the concept of randomness in my algorithms class. On the last day of class, the professor signed his book, "May you one day explain randomness to all of us"
I'm also in Australia and use the same DNS tricks to access Netflix. A couple of days ago I started watching Orange is the New Black and am enjoying it immensely so far. House of Cards is also on My List too but I need a few more hours in the day to get to it.

The most frustrating thing about Netflix is that so often I hear of a movie I'd like to watch but it's not on Netflix so I often download it instead. Sometimes it will be available via Roku's movie service (M-Go), but even then sometimes the movies are Buy only with no option to rent. Why do the studios make it so hard to give them money?!@?
Doesn't really mention what it was specifically that was against the terms of service for the different providers. I can venture a guess and say that you are providing people cash from a purchase on credit card (sort of like an ATM but, allowing people to use their credit cards instead of debit cards).
I was under the impression that Bohmian mechanics were known to be equivalent if and only if hidden variables were strictly non-local

Correct. The same is true of Bell's theorem; it shows that no local hidden variable theory can reproduce the predictions of standard quantum mechanics. It's true that the "local" part often gets left out in pop science treatments of Bell's theorem; but Bell himself was quite clear about it, and about the fact that Bohm's pilot wave theory is nonlocal. The article completely fails to mention this, which IMO is a huge omission.
"you can probably figure it out if you bing around a bit.."

I can't tell if this really happened or the person was pseudo-cheating because he worked for MS.
This doesn't seem to be the curse of smart people. Many bureaucrats don't care if a project succeeds, instead focusing on whether or not it is approved and who's name is attached. That isn't because they are smart. It's because their environment rewards this behavior.

People can rationalize anything. It has nothing to do with intelligence, merely experience and current environment (which is most of what's written in the article).
There's plenty of tricks to allow you to watch Netflix outside their official countries, like the DNS services. But I agree with you that I'll first look if something is available on Netflix and only then look for alternative options.
Ask HN: how to work faster when building a product?
I am building a SaaS product and basically I find a lot of time going back and forth the website, the backend, javascript, and so on.

Even stuff that I thought was completely built and satisfied with ends up changing as I change other bits of the equation.

The most frustrating part is when I can't figure out the wording on a website, or playing with icons that ends up eating up a lot of time (but I gotta have it perfect)

Is this normal or are some people just able to do one thing once, and move on and never come back to it?
spacehome suggested reading Elizer's posts on quantum physics precisely to not bother to deal with outdated statements like "the most popular interpretation, Copenhagen". Afaik, no serious physicist uses this any more, not even to explain quantum theory. To use wavefunction collapse to "explain" QM is like invoking "God" to explain the universe - i.e. it is not much of an explanation, and it raises more questions than it answers.

Text books ought to be rewritten to teach decoherence instead of outdated stuff like wave-particle duality, wavefunction collapse and such. That is the history of the development of QM and not QM as it is known today, in my limited knowledge.

If you get decoherence, much of the "mysteriousness" and "spookiness" that's talked about in such magazines just disappears and you find them all, every one of them, shallow.
I'm not usually a big fan of this sort of stuff (firearms marketing), but this is hella cool tech
I want to upvote out of agreement, but I really, really hate when people recommend a very long work they expect me to read on faith without a summary of what it offers so I can know Of it's worthwhile.

Here's what I would have added: Yudkowsky explains quantum mechanics in terms of the decoherence interpretation and how it makes logical sense as following from a simple rule that nonetheless contradicted widely held philosophical assumptions that kept its simple truth from being appreciated.
if i auth to hypem via twitter credentials, i have to pass those via plug?
Xsecurelock: X11 screen lock utility with security in mind
When did Font Awesome become part of a technology stack?
Interesting fact - a healthy person's kidneys can excrete 25 litres of water a day. Drink more than this, and you expand your total body water volume to dangerous levels, which can lead to swelling in soft tissues and lungs (which can be life threatening). This happens in patients with psychogenic polydipsia.

Of course, drinking anywhere near 25L is not 'safe' either, and can still cause electrolyte abnormalities, neurocognitive dysfunction, seizures... Stick to the recommended intake, adjusted for water losses during significant exertion or high temperatures.
This is a vitally important point. Many people still naively believe entanglement allows communication. Simultaneous randomness doesn't permit a signal.
Ugh, no. Ask anyone who has used both Xcode and Visual Studio. I used it once for porting a C/C++ project to OS X - it crashed a ton, the debugger integration was sub-par, the new window for everything thing was annoying. It did not really feel like a superior experience. If there's anyone delivering superior tools - it's Microsoft hands down.
Having submitted myself through the same process but with modern tools (see DoomBuilder and XWE) and Google, I can only concur. Anything more complicated than room-corridor-room winds up being a major pain in the ass. :)
It's not like the effort to make a good tool scales proportionally to your user base or anything. Besides, the developer tools for Mac are the same used for iOS, which is a lot more than 5% of it's market. Microsoft could easily put out tools and frameworks on par (and do in some cases, VS is amazing) and would only do better if they'd drop support for OSes that have been obsolete for decades. There's no reason to have 16bit calls available any more.
Why would anyone care about curing your fatal disease if they are profit driven? They should be able to make more money working on widespread non-fatal problems, like erectile disfunction or baldness.
They have developer hangouts? Where?
FWIW, I didn't think it was ridiculous.

However, I'm a little surprised that switching payment processors would be ridiculous.
> Within moments, you’ll wish you had whipped out something less offensive, like your genitalia instead."

I am intrigued, what happened? Did they verbally insult him?
i completely disagree. its not just politics as mentioned bellow, which is a very key point. The us government couldn't just keep printing money to pay for all of its deficit. the money would become worthless, and at a point it would be like breathing in a bag, but that doesn't matter as it would have collapsed before that ever happened.

the dept to GDP ratio (as well as printing money) has a huge effect on a countries ability to issue bonds, just ask the PIIGS. interests rates on bonds would rise very quickly making the annual deficit larger and since all interest rates in the country are based off the US treasury interest rate (the risk free rate), they would rise too, even if the US' interest rate was at 0. that'd make any recession get out of control as credit froze up.

it'd be the fed's worst nightmare. they would loose control of interest rates during a recession while the central government would loose its ability to borrow money.
so funny
People were starting to forget why everyone hates Microsoft. Even on this site, I see a lot of comments about how Microsoft "isn't so bad" anymore. Hopefully this will lay that and similar naive comments to rest.
You're not answering my question. I have a bunch of numeric code where I have dense matrices, sparse matrices, diagonal matrices, etc.

I have heterogenous priority queues where I want to push in JSON data and plain strings, I have custom iterators, concurrent data structures, default dictionaries, etc.

Seriously, look up Python's itertools and data structure modules and realize that there's a wealth of things that are useful and practical and, above all, reduce code size while preserving interface contracts and semantics. Go is completely unsatisfactory in this regard.
I'm intrigued by optionals, but I feel like returning nil for objects in ObjC - a pattern I've always used - is kind of the same thing in a different like. Do you have experience with returning nil instead of objects? How does that compare to optionals?
I did not miss that, nor did I make any comparisons to car dealers. In fact, I've been to seven ICANN meetings and have participated in the debate on the proper role of law enforcement and civil seizure in policing the namespace.

Microsoft presented evidence to the court that No-IP domains were being used to facilitate real crimes against real people, and the court acted. I think there is an interesting debate to be had on venue and the level of malicious activity that needs to happen before a domain is seized, but instead all I see is standard HN smashing of the keyboard and "Microsoft Bad!"
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If the way to prevent malware is by blocking domains (which only prevent a few of them), with the same logic another great solution would be blocking Microsoft's operating systems (which would prevent most of them).

Ubuntu should ask the government the same power and show how little malware Ubuntu users has and how much Windows users has to suffer.
He works for Google, I believe.
Taxing the rich simply incents them to behaviors that avoid the tax. Government revenues increased dramatically when the high marginal tax rates were cut. Unfortunately government expenditures increased even more dramatically.
Not just impostor syndrome, but the willingness to see what is actually there.

I think this is why art (particularly drawing classes) can be so hard for most people starting out at a later age. One of my teachers would constantly say 'don't draw an eye - draw what you see'. While well baked into our "memory" and knowledge sphere, our mental model of what is an eye or a human head isn't actually what is there.

See also "Gorillas in our midst: sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events"

http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~cfc/Simons1999.pdf
>the new window for everything thing was annoying

This hasn't been the case since XCode 4, which was released in 2010 and introduced a single-window for everything.
What you're pointing out is that Star Trek makes no sense. The original Star Trek technical manual stated that they had what Neal Stephenson would later call "matter compilers" and used them for everything (the same technology that allows transporters to work creates food and clothing and recycles waste).

And Star Trek only gets more contradictory baggage as it goes on (in one episode of TOS they essentially resurrect the bridge crew using transporters; so I guess they could replace all the dead security officers too). It's explicitly stated, many times, that there's no money. But none of the implications of this are followed through.

And this nonsense suffuses the entire show, not just the economics. The new J.J. Abrams movies manage to be even worse, but at least they're fast-paced and the actors are trim. (Why does the Federation need to make deals with Khan when Spock just gave them interstellar transporters that can penetrate shields and target starships moving at warp?)

About the only thing that makes sense in Star Trek is that their security teams are utterly incompetent. In a world with infinite wealth and resurrection machines, there's little incentive to stay in shape and learn difficult (and painful) combat skills.
I don't think cigarettes are the best example because there is no use for them that doesn't potentially invoke the harmful effects for every single user. YouTube, ISPs, and dynamic domain providers have valid, widespread, legitimate, harmless uses, so YouTube is a better analogy IMO.

If one accepts the idea that courts should be seizing entire swaths of domains just to fight malware, it's still absolutely bizarre that Microsoft themselves should be given control of them, rather than an independent policing body. If there are to be Internet police, they should be independent of any one corporation, industry group, or government.
So, the excerpt here is chapter 3, section 1. The actual definition happens in chapter 3 section 5 ("What Is a Random Sequence?"). I have the book at home, though, so I can't quote it here. Sorry. But the intuition is, if you have an infinite sequence of random numbers, then the numbers in all infinite subsequences should be equidistributed. So, like, if you a stream of random 0's and 1's, then if you pick only every other number, the 0's and 1's have to be equiprobable, and if you pick every third number, they still have to be equiprobable, etc. This is slightly wrong, but it's on the right track to the actual definition.

re: Pseudorandomness, the point of pseudorandomness is the following.

1. A lot of algorithms use randomness to make pathologically bad cases extremely unlikely. For example, choosing a random pivot in quicksort makes the worst case very unlikely.

2. But in a lot of cases, this leads to huge amounts of space consumption. For example, most frequency moment estimations involve a matrix of random numbers. So if you're getting those numbers from a "truly random" source, then you have to store the entire matrix, which can be huge.

3. So, a better solution is to use a pseudorandom number generator! That way you can store a seed of s bits, and do something clever, like deterministically re-generate the matrix as you need it, rather than storing it outright.

Notice though, that this is not independent of the notion of randomness! In fact they are quite intimately tied together.
How does missing the 'car analogy' help at all? Analogies are only ever useful to explain to those who do not understand the first case - trying to draw parallels otherwise inevitably leads to gross simplifications, and they're incredibly frequently abused to try and make another point.
Analogies are great if John Oliver, or you're at the bar and talking to Erv the local HVAC guy - but this is hacker news, we normally understand this - and trying to port it to a completely different legal framework is probably disingenuous.
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I was disappointed to learn that the article wasn't about a living fossil fish.
Why would you describe your project as open source if you didn't have the rights to release it as such?

Nothing on that page or their Kickstarter says that Almond+ is meant to be OSH.
Court gave NSA broad leeway in surveillance, documents show
This comment (and its siblings in the thread) suggest that Microsoft got this order without prior notification to NoIP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7968762
This reads a whole lot like an industry that has lost touch. If you read some of the stories out of SpaceX when they talked about Aerospace companies quoting 6 months and hundreds of thousands of dollars to develop a part, that SpaceX turned around and did in a few weeks, you realize that there is the status quo, and the folks who don't accept the status quo, and the people who try to enforce the status quo but have forgotten (or never knew) why it was that way in the first place.

Self driving cars are sexy and all but there is so much that could be done with a much simpler system.

The old 'personal rapid transit' ideas come to mind. For those too young to remember, that was a system where the cars would show up at the station when paged. The cars were on tracks but travelling either on a 'through' track (no stops) or pulling into the station when passengers enter/exit. Built using rubber wheels on a paved "track" such a system could be built more cost effectively than highways (no trucks) and with much better efficiency than metros (your car stops at your entry station and exit station only.). All the technology to build that exists today, and it would be massively more efficient than BART, but it isn't even being advocated.
Nope. We don't support the twitter/fb OAuth login right now. Just plain old username/password. The token we get back is a Hype Machine proprietary thing.
Just in case the parent is being down-voted for saying 'loser feel'... I think he meant 'looser feel'.
Nice. Glad I stumbled on to this. Definitely bookmarking this one. Thanks!
I may not have a right to "pound" your site, but I certainly have a right to keep whatever I find on your public webserver, regardless of whether you decide to pull it down later.
The browser version has shortcuts for next track (n/j/b), prev track (p/k/z), play/pause (x/c/space), stop (v), and heart (l/h/f). I use Plug regularly but does it add anything in that regard?
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Ask HN: Why are there no programming books on Brainfuck?
Or am I missing the point?

Is it meant to be just a hilariously difficult and esoteric language to learn? Just to say you know it?
Your definition relies on the notion of probability though. So I'm not sure why you seemingly view Knuth's work as more fundamental than Kolmogorov's, etc.
Small web world. I just spent the last two weeks integrating Marketo into a website at work.
I'd like to see photos too
It is obviously Google.
Grellas wrote a very informative series of "Startup Law 101" posts. Well worth reading:

http://www.grellas.com/faq_business_startup.html
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