skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, I get it. The hashing would become slow on each file (especially large ones). And given that git is designed to give you the whole repo history, yes, cloning would be slow with repos with a lot of history.

It seems like 2 of the main reasons Perforce works better with binary files is that when you sync, you only get the version you're requesting, thus resulting in faster downloads and there's an option to disable compression.

According to their website: http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/manuals/p4guide... Binary files are stored compressed as well. (I assume that there's an option to disable this)

Thanks for the response and information.
That's only true if the Fed's hand isn't forced and the QE equation can remain the same in regards to both the results they get per dollar of QE and the inflation they cause per dollar of QE.

However that's not how it works. The Fed is in a downward spiral scenario, in which their policies have ever less of a positive impact and ever greater of a negative impact, and that's what arbitrarily low interest rates also function based on: the longer you hold them low below absolute optimal, the greater the damage as a result at an accelerating rate.

The cheap money party is very likely to destroy itself in a way that is both hard for the Fed to predict and control. Just like it did the prior two times the Fed made the mistake of unleashing a wave of cheap money. You can read their minutes and speeches, they were so oblivious they (supposedly) had no idea the real estate bubble was underway or about to implode (true for both Greenspan and Bernanke).

What ends the cheap money is the asset bubbles get so large their downside poses a threat to the integrity of the entire economy. They have to raise interest rates to stop the extreme asset bubbles that cheap money causes. We're at that line right now, which is why they keep pushing headlines about raising interest rates, it's meant to artificially hold down asset prices without the Fed having to actually raise rates.

The stock market is already approaching the highest valuation it has ever had in a 'bull market' outside of the dotcom era and maybe 1929x. Real estate has almost entirely recovered, and in many markets is now higher than the peak of the bubble of 2005/06.

You throw another 30% gain on the stock market, and 20% on the real estate market, with continued mediocre earnings growth and 1% to 2% GDP growth, with little to no wage growth or full-time employment growth, while Europe is in a continuing depression, Japan is in a recession, and China is melting toward zero real growth, and you're priming for a crash across numerous asset classes that will send the US into a true depression.

15 years of horrifically bad monetary policy has yet to be paid for. They keep trying to prevent recessions from happening. The price for that bad behavior will keep climbing day by day.

If they don't raise rates, they crash the economy as asset bubbles become increasingly unsustainable. And even though the Fed will attempt to keep the cost of money low in that scenario, nobody will be able to get access to that cheap money (ala 2009/2010 but far worse).
Does anyone have any recommendations for legal advice for startup employees? Specifically, I've been offered equity in the startup I work for and would like a professional opinion on the stock grant contract they're offering etc.

Any links to blog posts, recommended lawyers, or fixed fee services would be appreciated!

(Throwaway account as my colleagues know my real one)
If you read between the lines, notice how the "Palantir Gotham Appliance" for 151,042.82 includes "Palantir recommended...database software licenses."

I would bet Oracle (or MS/IBM) is getting a hefty chunk of that.
Yep, absolutely. This is a perfectly reasonable price for good enterprise software that actually adds value to an organization. (God, I feel like a middle manager just by typing that...).

My company spends tens of millions per year on some really awful enterprise software unfortunately.
So sad, RadioShack is still somewhere to go and get components if you need something not too exotic in a hurry, they have a respectable supply of arduino stuff in most stores too. Bricks and mortar sources for this stuff will be hard to find soon.

This article also explains to me why RadioShack was called Tandy in the UK
I feel like the most popular hardware upgrade would be 'making it thinner'...
“Dude, Who Stole My Cryptocurrency?”
That's a good review. It seems like the product is unfinished, though:

" Disappointingly, though Garten and Muse Calm both promised me these “additional features and special insights into my brain”, once I unlocked the screen, I got simply a blank, broken page:blankbonus"
The person I have the highest assimilation score with is someone who I've never talked to in my life, and I only accepted his friend request(really recently) because we had a few mutual friends.
Long term, because it can monitor way more world state and be designed with as much processing power as necessary; you have one brain and don't want to spend 100% of your time working out if someone is talking to you.
Not sure if anyone else encountered this, but some of the data listed for mutual friends is wrong. It often listed less mutual friends than I had in common with many people, sometimes by 10+ people.
Stamina.
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I have fond memories of Radio Shack from when I was younger, and it would be a shame to see it die out.

So ... is there anyway to reverse its course?

Well, If I'm Radio Shack's CEO, here are the facts I need to face:

1) Radio Shack cannot compete based on price or breadth of selection against big-box stores, let alone the Internet.

2) The initiative a few years ago to hire highly knowledgable staffers who could offer expert advice didn't work. It's just not economically feasible to employ people with those qualifications in a retail store, and anyway, that alone isn't going to keep the store afloat.

But I think there's still a way for Radio Shack to be a viable company; it would just require some radical changes.

Look at Build-a-Bear, across the mall corridor. The experience of building your own bear from scratch can't be replicated online. Sure, you can order a custom bear online, but kids love Build-a-Bear because they get to witness the stuffed toy's construction from start to finish. Build-a-Bear is as much an event as it is a store.

I think Radio Shack could fashion itself into something similar, but for electronics and gadgetry.

Remember those popular Radio Shack 50-in-1 science project kits? Imagine a Radio Shack where you come in, choose a project, and then build it right there in the store. A kid might come in and buy a robot kit, or a solar-powered race car kit, and they'd be able to assemble it there, with all of the tools (soldering irons, etc.) provided, and with assistance from trained (but not necessarily expert) staffers. STEM is really big in schools right now. Maybe Radio Shack could market itself as a place to pick up STEM skills, and even partner with schools.

But it wouldn't have to be limited to kids stuff. An adult might come in and participate in a DIY electronics workshop: "How to replace an electrical outlet" or "How to work on a circuit board."

Along the same lines, imagine if every Radio Shack had a 3D printer available to rent. You can upload a 3D model to its website, or choose a model in store, come in and watch the printing process, and eventually (yes, I know, it takes hours!) take it home.

With this sort of strategy, Radio Shack wouldn't necessarily need to recruit domain experts, because what would be needed is not a wealth of general knowledge, but some very specific knowledge about a relatively small number of specific projects. A highly motivated high-school or college student could be taught how to lead people in constructing the projects or running the workshops.

That is a Radio Shack I would totally patronize, and it's a strategy that shields the store from needing to compete solely on price or on breadth of selection.
Learned from the best! Inside joke alert: Chris Williams (aka voodootikigod) wrote Tapster's dance code at the JSConf EU 2012 Saturday night party before my talk -- when I was rewriting all the Python code to JavaScript...
Still lacking is consensus on why violent crime has declined. Depending on who you ask, reasons cited include:

- Mass incarceration (usually credited with about 25% of the crime decline)

- More gun control (e.g., the 1994-2004 assault weapons ban)

- Less gun control (e.g., the rise of "shall-issue" concealed carry permits)

- Cultural change

- Banning of lead in automotive fuel [Nevin 1999]

Perhaps all of these mattered; perhaps none did. We don't really know.
Office Lens Update Makes Pictures into Office Docs
Funny, but necessary. The Zaentz company is notoriously litigious. From Zaentz' Wikipedia article: "In 2011, Zaentz's company began several legal actions against small businesses in the UK to enforce their "Hobbit" trade mark, including the Hungry Hobbit cafe in Sarehole, near Birmingham[13][14] and a pub in Southampton, England, which had traded as The Hobbit for twenty years.[15] This raised the ire of many British correspondents such as Stephen Fry, who described it as "pointless, self-defeating bullying."
Don't forget that the B in IBM stands for business. It took æons for the PC world to realize that graphics mattered for more than pie charts and other “serious work”. Sound was similarly AWOL for a surprising amount of time other than for basic alerts.
That's why I imagine Apple will somehow market a trade-in program. As Gruber writes, the gold watches will retain a lot of their value just from the metals in the case and bracelet.
Armoured vans used by banks are highly dangerous on the roads, so are just regular armoured cars.

Putting a MRAP into the hands of people who do not routinely drive them is just gross negligence. If the drive hits anything at road speeds and they're killing it. This is not a vehicle that should be put anywhere near children, it's just negligent.
Assault rifles, trucks, night-vision equipment supplied to schools by Pentagon
another great information..cool post!
It has both a speaker and a microphone!
Yes it has a speaker.
Would love to see examples of the engine working. Poked around a bit and couldn't find any demonstration games. Am I missing something?
Add legalization of abortion to that list.
Check out:

- https://angel.co/salaries. It includes equity and salary info.

- http://avc.com/2010/11/employee-equity-how-much/
The agency...required electronic information systems in all cabs and encouraged the use of dispatching apps. Most cabs now use electronic hailing apps similar to what the ride services offer.

So it took some healthy competition from startups to get the Taxi industry to actually improve their product? Next, I'd like startups to tackle banks, insurance, hospitals, airlines, and nearly every other established industry.
Show HN: Airborne, a Ruby RSpec driven API testing framework
The Boring Designer
This pair of rhetorical questions actually has a non-rhetorical answer, and it is far more interesting (though less precious) than the one implied here.

This being the internet, the serious answer is a mouseclick away: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_%28psychometrics%29
> Remember those popular Radio Shack 50-in-1 science project kits?

You know...that's a great idea. I'd go to RS to sit through a Saturday Arduino kit class or something.
I haven't been able to figure out how to get this to compile on Windows. It seems to have something to do with its dependency on GTK.
Thanks for the links! I was meaning more to check over the draft of the contract they've prepared (type of stock units, terms and conditions related to vesting, etc) rather than what's a reasonable equity expectation.

In any case, I just created an account and sent a message through LawGives. If anyone else has any other links they'd be much appreciated.
http://officialandroid.blogspot.com/2014/09/android-wear-mov...

I feel like a lot of people haven't seen this recent announcement.
"The iPad/iPhone is soooo egalitarian!"

"Is Apple losing the egalitarianism it never had? No, it had Macs, it was never egalitarian!"

Why was this in the article at all then? Using an analogy that in the end the author itself destroys is bad writing, or at worst extra reading for the reader for no gain. In his own article he never considers Apple egalitarian, yet he is asking a hypothetical question as though Apple was considered egalitarian to begin with.

PS. I'd have to disagree with even the statement that iPhone is "egalitarian" I would argue, there are tons of people in the world that buy Android because it's good enough, and cannot afford the cachet of Apple.
Thought Journaling app
Even though I wish it were true, I'm not sure the decline in crime really indicates greater safety. For instance, one major contribution to the decrease in the murder rate is that people survive gunshot wounds much better than they used to. In terms of the human cost of violence that's actually great, but it's not exactly safety. And of course people have become much more safety conscious now, we drive safer cars, we walk around less, we don't let our kids out unattended, etc. All those things actually do avoid crime, and so reduce the amount of crime, but they don't increase safety.

Which is to say: our tolerance for risk has gone down, and behavior has changed because of that, but that doesn't (and rationally shouldn't!) affect our concern about crime. And perceptions are really about the concern about crime (something that actually affects the person being surveyed), not the belief in what crime exists (which only abstractly affects someone) – and it is not irrational that the concern remains steady or goes up even as actual crime rates go down. It may not be good or healthy that the concern remains steady, but it's not irrational.
Searching for "thrust bearing" came back with mostly teddy bears...
You're comparing a trained athlete against a person who is untrained. It is not surprising that fitness related tasks are very amenable to training in a way that is not quite so clear with intelligence. A more interesting comparison would be between a sedentary Dieter Schmieter who worked as a computer programmer (or a Dieter Schmieter who had trained purely for strength) and a random member of the population who was trained by Dieter Schmieter's coach for 10 years.

Amongst the general untrained population you will see very large variance between performance on different fitness tests. Lots of broadly built overweight people who are very strong despite never having done any weight training but can't walk up a flight of stairs without breaking a sweat and skinny people who can run well without much training but barely lift anything. So I would doubt that there would be a strong general factor for physical tasks.
This article is submarine PR for Boeing.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Crow documentary: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/a-murder-of-crows/fu...
Throwing out guesses:

- It's harder to avoid being caught now. Could a 70's style Mafia survive today? I doubt it. I think we can give some credit to better police techniques. Before DNA testing it was probably way easier to get away with murder (literally).

- Absolute wealth has risen (although inequality has risen as well). The magnitude of crime you need to commit to survive without "real" income is lower than it used to be.

- Probably something to do with wealthier people migrating towards cities again. Although that could be the effect of lower crime and not the cause.

- Some crime has moved online, which can't be violent.
I have no interest in the exclusive "I make more money than you" objects so let's talk about that digital crown instead.

I think Apple messed up here. I might be proven wrong after millions of people are joyfully spinning their little digital crowns between their thumb and forefinger a couple of years from now, but I would wager a small sum that I'm not wrong.

Would it not have been better to put a touch-sensitive pad along the whole side of the Apple Watch and/or give it the same pressure sensitivity as the front screen? Or if they chose a circular watch, give it a spinning band around the whole face of the watch. Much bigger controller, much more comfortable and better precision.

Perhaps there's some use case where the digital crown is a preferable method of input (setting a very exact numerical value for example), but I have a feeling those use-cases will be few and far between, and even then, the set-up to use the crown will require some form of touch and/or voice input.
Hell I remember reading an interesting study posted on here correlating leaded gas to crime rates. According to the study elevated ambient lead levels correlated with higher crime rates. Though in all likelihood there's probably a multitude of reasons.
Nice, but, very few of those individuals have started a startup in the past five years, or even ten years. What exactly do they KNOW that is going to help you, the founder?

I don't think this is the ideal lineup for a day of talks about How to Start a Startup in the fall of 2014. The past few years have been particularly brutal for starting a startup. Mostly because there are so many others doing the same thing, and most of them are vying for the same funding dollars you're vying for.

Thousands upon thousands of people are trying and have tried, and most have failed, and all have stories to tell. That is the norm, that is the most likely outcome: failure. Instead, you'll hear from billionaires and superachievers and tech celebrities none of whom have been hungry, driven with a vision, struggling to build something new, fighting the good fight, any time recently. They're disconnected, imho.

Go ahead and downvote, I know, it's YC heresy, but so be it.
Re your first point: every other category of violent crime has fallen as well.
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Even 10 years ago I remember walking through Fort Worth, TX looking at their headquarters and thinking. "This thing is dying". I am even surprised it lasted this long.

> It could have been Amazon.

That is a bit of a stretch. Maybe it could have been Newegg.

Yeah it made bad decisions but along with other brick and mortar electronics stores it was competing with online stores.

You can see them trying. I guess this:

http://dit.radioshack.com/ (Do It Together)

is their attempt to attract the new maker and tinkerer crowd. That is a cool idea but it is probably too late.
I meant porting it away from C, the repo in the OP is in C.
Here is a citation to support this:

http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/ResponseToFoot...
Count me among the people sad to see this once-awesome company decline. My dad was a mechanical engineer, and built our first stereo set and television from Heathkits. He used to take my brother and I to Radio Shack on weekends and the place was always buzzing.
Don't get offended! I abused the word "ugly", I apologize, but Telescope is unlike the minimalistic looks of Hacker News, Lobsters, Monocle (http://monocle.io/), Reddit, and Product Hunt. The looks of up/down arrows are inconsistent between homepage and comments. The buttons on the homepage on the right are too big and not modern-looking. Background of a comment and page should not differ (unless you have a fix width design - then what's beyond the fixed width is acceptable to in high contrast.
> put a touch-sensitive pad along the whole side of the Apple Watch

That's exactly what I thought when I first saw it explained. Coming from the iPod and all this touch sensitive stuff (and then the "hard tap" being introduced here) a physical thingamabob to fiddle with seems really odd.
Kevin Drum has been making the case for lead quite passionately. Some interesting articles:

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/02/lead-and-crime...
Well, since most of the Android devices have been released and are out there, not sure what they are waiting for in releasing whatever they have?
I'm sure. By the way, this is the second time I'm bringing this on Hacker News - it's Meteor, not MeteorJS. Please, honor the branding that the authors have chosen (after a careful consideration).
I wondered if population growth also accounts for some of this, though by rough math, the US population has grown by 25% in the last 20 years... and this assumes that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes.
That was what I expected in the most amazing way.
Meanwhile, outside the Valley, across the ocean, five years ago, some regular taxi companies where I lived launched hailing apps, all on their own. No startups required. Maybe the competition was stronger?
I don't know how accurate this data is, but I looked around and it seems to match the numbers that other sites listed:

http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Santa-Cruz-California.h...

It doesn't show any major trends upwards (or downwards) in the crime rate for Santa Cruz. Are there other sources of data on which you are referring?

I ask because it looks like you are being downvoted (I didn't downvote you), perhaps because your comment didn't come across like one with data behind it.
Ask HN: What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
Gruber deserves a prize of some sort of most concentrated example of cognitive dissonance ever put into writing for this post. It's really one of the worst of the worst I've seen.
I remember looking through the RadioShack catalogs all the time... Sad to see it now, but I recall an Onion article with the headline to the effect of "RadioShack CEO can't figure out how stores make money". I think it may be too late.
For the downvoters (3 of you): it's perfectly reasonable to ask for a TLDR, so STOP FUCKING DOWNVOTING.

The article was quite long. I may be interested in reading it, but I didn't have time (actual work and life stuff to do, you know). However if I can read an abstract of the study (or at least a TLDR) I can get the info and decide whether I want to read the full article.
Our hosts are betting that Michael is right about part of this, the part that is far enough removed from their lives that they might be considering it objectively.

http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/#science
I've always felt that Radio Shack at this juncture would be more profitable if they created locations that would serve as ad-hoc hacker spaces. Kinda like SF's Tech Shop but for the consumer. I imagine it as a mini Akahabara in your own town, with 3D printers, CNC machines, micro-controllers and SoCs all available to use/purchase, has lessons and other community events and staffed by capable people. Unfortunately I see it only as a maker's utopian pipe dream.
Interesting that you'd create a new account, which parrots a commenter in the previous ticketmaster thread about them buying a YC alum. The only positive comment in the thread, in fact.

What you are saying flies in the face of what bands said when they testified before congress about Ticketmaster [1]. I'll believe the people who swore under oath, thanks.

1. http://www.fivehorizons.com/archive/articles/testimon.shtml
Although I rarely see it considered, one factor that may contribute to a decline in crime rates is flight. When people flee crime-ridden areas, crime rates should go down, but mainly as a side-effect of a worrisome trend. Might this be part of the explanation for the drop in crime? It seems plausible, but I've never seen a careful evaluation of the hypothesis.
I guess it depends to what extent you think TV drives culture versus reflects it.

It is kind of amusing to look at certain old movies and see how much less-believable they've become, particularly the ones that implied urban crime was going to get much worse before getting better (if ever.)

Ex: Robocop, Judge Dredd, Escape from New York, the introductory portion of Demolition Man...