skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In mid 30s, spending $35k / year, have about $400k saved (of which I made about 25% by hard work and 75% through dumb luck). Mostly saved in a rather randomly picked stock portfolio. I am making more than I spend ATM, but I guess if all income stopped, I could survive... ? Around 13 years?

Not sure if I'm doing this wrong: http://pastebin.com/H18JijjM
When you run a job advert don't ask for "recent graduates" because that discriminates against older people. Instead make clear that the job is an entry level position with little responsibility or pay.

When you run a job ad don't talk about how you all go to the beach every Wednesday and then say you're looking for a close cultural fit. This probably discriminates against people in wheelchairs (and probably several other groups).

When you run a job ad don't have a photo of your team (all male, all age 18 to 26) and then talk about cultural fit.

Mentioning "cultural fit" is sometimes a huge fucking flag that you're doing something wrong.

As an aside: "do we have to employ dumb people so our company has more black or female or disabled employees?" is a remarkably offensive thing to say. It's pretty close to what you're asking.
"The US has too many people who were actually better off in the past."

Most insightful comment on here.
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Fusion power is quite a bit further along than 45 years ago. We're in the process of building ITER, with ignition expected in 2020. The main problem for fusion power is the utter lack of funding it receives:

http://i.imgur.com/sjH5r.jpg
AFAIU, Thiel doesn't say monopolies are good. He says the pursuit of monopolies drives progress:

“Monopolies drive progress. The promise of years or even decades of monopoly profits provides a powerful incentive to innovate.”
http://www.technologyreview.com/review/531491/the-contrarian...
Wow, someone that understands capitalism. :)
I would do a dual boot with the default boot being dummy Windows XP without a password. Throw some "whatever" information on there. Put your secure OS on partition 2 and make it so you have to select it on boot to get into it.
Hey I saw all the videos you mentioned and they look pretty awesome :)
I'll check out Epipheo and CommonCraft they both look great :)
Let me know if you come across or hear of any more.
Thanks Schabes
One of the killer features of Cortana is that she gets back to you if she wants additional information. You can almost have something like a dialogue. I don't think that test has taken that into account at all.
com.com must be worth a lot.
The Cube File is stored on HBase now, it could be extend to otehr KV value system.
Yea I'm with you. I do voice searches/typing CONSTANTLY when I'm at home, particularly on weekend mornings when I'm checking my schedule/weather/texting friends to organize my activities for the day while getting ready. Barring the occasional query when I'm on the sidewalk and not too near anyone, I don't really use them outside much.
Well, sure, but how do bitcoins look if you go back two years?
Each and every government on the planet would ask that their public key is inserted on each device/server. Even if you naively trust your present and future government, do you trust all the others?
This. The Target breach cost me a late fee. I have numerous things on reoccurring subscriptions. When I was sent a new card I remembered most of those subscriptions, but it only took forgetting one. Only a few months later did I realize I hadn't updated that account.
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When you're looking for the answer to something quickly why would you want to have a back and forth game vs. just getting the answer immediately?
Russia is a second world country because its economy is bad and corruption and cronyism run rampant.
Self-reliance of toddlers? I guess you mean that they learn self-reliance faster by being less obedient? Not sure I follow the reasoning.
> Its in their wheelhouse more so than Apple's.

This is exactly why I'm shocked that Cortana's accuracy is so much lower than Siri's (under the assumption that this test is reasonably valid). They've got a world-class research arm and they've run a search engine for yeaaars, and somehow they dramatically underperform a company whose biggest fans would even admit has a spotty record when it comes to services. I guess the "time on the market" advantage is a lot more dramatic than I would've thought.
Re your last sentence: That might only reflect your personal opinion. I didn't even mention any particular gender or ethic group.
I haven't used Siri in ages; what kind of context does it keep? I know that Google Voice Search will do coreference across consecutive queries (i.e. resolving "it" and "him" accurately).
the document will coming soon, there are many stuff we have moving from internal wiki to kyliy.io now.
A company is free to care about users who want dog porn. That company should not be surprised when other users, or advertisers, steer clear of that company or its brand.
>All I can do is scratch my head, wondering what the reporter isn't saying. Just what is it that Firestone is doing differently? It sure appears to be working, so it would be great to replicate if possible.

They are doing nothing different than what has worked in all the other Ebola outbreaks which is catch the outbreak early and implement effective infection control.

A better question is why did this outbreak get out of control? The sad reason is incompetence. The WHO staff in west Africa appointed to watch out for Ebola outbreaks were, to quote Peter Piot [1], “[not] the most capable people but ... political appointees”. Some genius had also decided that gutting the department for hemorrhagic fever and the one responsible for the management of epidemic emergencies at the WHO was a great idea. This meant that there was no one around to respond. The outbreak was allowed to run wild for six months until it got so big that it overwhelmed the local health authorities (this occurred around August) and the case numbers took off exponentially.

[1] http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-with-pet...
Oh, I was hoping for some crash effects!
The Bitcoin Economy Is Collapsing with No Sign of Recovery (2011)
It may be the same debate, but that doesn't mean the war is over, if that's what you're saying.
Questions are often ambiguous.

"What's the population of New York?"
That means e.g. Venezuelans would be able to instantly drop out of the Bolivar and get into a stable currency, therefore instantly bringing about the tail end of hyperinflation, which drops the value of the Bolivar to zero - because now not only does no one want it (as is the status quo in real life), but also no one has it, which is what Venezuela currently has control over (by not letting people freely get out of the Bolivar).
But the incremental advances in rocketry all started with the dream of going to the stars. The Verein für Raumfahrt, the society for space flight, which von Braun joined when he was 28, was founded after Oberth's book on space travel using rockets. Oberth himself was inspired by Verne.

We just got lucky because the military thought of another use for rockets and provided the insane amounts of funding necessary for the development. We very nearly would have had space ships powered by nuclear bombs that would have been able to reach Jupiter in months, but unfortunately the military's interest in space waned and the test ban treaty precluded nuclear pulse propulsion for the foreseeable future.
From what I have seen, top players in the field do use gender neutral language in their job posting. Regarding point 2, I think the point is the number of candidates. Even if all the groups are uniform in terms of skill, the larger group will end up getting more offers.
...Of course deep learning is not voice recognition. But the most recent advances in speech recognition have been from deep learning models, which have come from academia.

The system in the video you link is single speaker, closed vocabulary. You need massive training data for multi-speaker, open vocabulary.
For me Poland is like Japan of Europe. The most critique, offensive and judgemental against Poland are Poles themselves. Honour, self-criticism and nationalism is what are key points to Polish identity.
The idea is that hypervisor is significantly smaller than the OS/kernel, so there will be less bugs. Not that they never happen, Xen had one recently.
I think Peter Thiel's Zero to one does not specifically lament that the hoi polloi do not dream of space elevators. To me the core concern was a general risk averseness among investors, who prefer to diversify their portfolio among established investment products rather than figure out things from first principles and start up on new and better things. I read it as a critique of establishments where economists run things just by the accounting books instead of engineers who start from first principles and want to get things actually done.
It's really great that the item size can now be up to 400KB.

However without corresponding increase of Read/Write Capacity, how practical/cost-effective is it to store objects of that size?

Afaics it seems capacity billing is still counted in 1KB chunks? :(
I'm becoming less a fan of Thiel as time goes on, his ideas seem to be superficial and often harmful.

Saying that google is an ad company is a mistake. Just because that's where the revenue, the sustenance comes from as a primary source. But that revenue exists because of google's market domination in search and other services. If google stopped being a search company their ad revenue would dry up overnight. Saying that google is an ad company is like saying that a particular software dev. is not a "software person" but a "burrito person", because they happen to eat burritos a lot.

At the end of the day google's revenue comes about because they provide something of value to their users, and advertisments are a way to monetize that value effectively. No different than broadcast tv or radio. But it's the value which is the foundation of the company, the revenue is merely a consequence of that value. Thinking that the revenue stream is an intrinsic part of the company is a mistake that has doomed many companies before. Think about newspapers, I'm sure many of them thought of themselves as advertising companies to a substantial degree, and when that revenue dried up because the value of the newspaper changed, many of them were left wondering what to do, many of them have already gone out of business, many more still will. Hopefully google won't make the same mistake and alienate its users more than it has already or ignore competition before it's too late.
The first time I went to pay something via online banking, I was stunned to discover that it meant that the bank would mail out a cheque on my behalf!
"The first time Saki ate the fermented soybean dish called natto, she was 7 months old. She promptly vomited."

Yes, that sounds about right. Natto is the single most disgusting food I've ever eaten. It looks like snot and smells like some kind of animal vomit.

One nitpick with the article: I know that the food was put out to be photographed, but seriously - Oyku Ozarslan from Istanbul has eleven dishes put out before her on the table for breakfast? Are her parents doing anything else but preparing and then washing dishes?! If I did that in my house we would have FIFTY FIVE dishes to clean before 8:00am :-)
It seems that you're missing the fact that the reason outsourcing to India is less profitable is that wages in India have increased enormously.
I've thought about the feasibility of such a service for a long time, but I always figured you'd run out of numbers. If there are nine digits available (16 - 6 - 1), that's 1,000,000,000. If you have, say, 100,000 customers, that's 10,000 per customer, which would quickly get used up if they're using one per transaction.
Ask HN: Work from home Daddy
I have plenty experience (decade+) in SDLC, dev and am looking at new gigs. My wife is looking at going back to work and I want to then be home in the afternoons for my kid.

I am not in US or Europe, but am on GMT + 2. Locally there appears to be no end of gigs wanting me to be in the office all day long, plus evenings regularly.

So with years of .net, c#, python, sql, asp.net ,some slighly forgotten php, mysql skills.., some java (jax-rs,jetty,maven, win services), linux, windows, bash, batch, CI (Team City / Jenkins).. what are my options?

Start my own business or freelance on elance (is that really gonna coin?) or just suck it up and carry on in the rat race?
> "weak typing" usually means a type system (static or dynamic) where there are many implicit coercions going on. "strong typing" requires these casts to be written explicitly.

This makes no sense, because both of those definitions assume the runtime and/or compiler has the same amount of type information available to it, and the only difference is what the runtime and/or compiler chooses to do with it.

Weakly typed languages have less type information, either because they never had it or because they allowed the programmer to throw it away.

Casts and conversions are not the same thing: A cast throws away type information so the same data can be used in a different way, a conversion uses the type information to change the data (or prove no change is needed) in order to use it in a different way.

C has casts, Javascript has conversions. C is weakly typed, Javascript is strongly dynamically typed.
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"We're in an unreal world now where the concept can get you $25 million -- where revenues and business plans, you don't need to have those," said Hagen

Nice to be in a world before business model.
A patent has a life of 19 years and after that companies use to revive a patent to block the competition. I dont think IBM or AT&T or any company will lose hold on any of their patents
Yo App in IoT, wearables and beyond
"They grabbed a bunch of hazmat suits for dealing with chemical spills at the rubber factory and gave them to the hospital staff. The suits worked just as well for Ebola cases."

I suppose having a rubber factory nearby helped a lot. Not to diminish their managerial achievement, but I imagine getting proper equipment might be a major obstacle in other parts of the country.
It's the difference between conversion and casting:

Casting, explicit or implicit, throws away type information, and reinterprets the same data in a different way. Data, here, is bytes, or some other low-level representation that makes what the types apply to.

Conversions, explicit or implicit, uses type information to either change data, or prove that no change is needed, in order to use the data a different way.
They also sent an email to their users - This piqued my interest

"You decide when your content goes. If you delete something from our platform, we won't use it anymore."

it doesn't say that when someone deletes a content, linked will also delete it from their servers, just that they won't use it. seems a bit fishy to me - or am I just paranoid...
lennart poettering is the santa claus politician of *nix , well just Linux because none of his garbage ports.

He promises stuff that does magic and its free, but the reality is hey can deliver, nor his sycophants and minions, anything that works.

He is poetter-izing linux, making it suck in the same ways as many commercial OSen.

I have to say systemd is the crappiest rip off of SMF I have ever seen.
You can use longer passwords now!
Can someone tell me which Android phone they used in the video?
> JavaScript, also being weakly typed, will opt to perform string concatenation, so 1 + "1" = "11".

How is this an example of weak typing when type information is essential to doing it?

> In strongly typed languages, you can expect an exception rather than an implicit type coercion, when you pass an argument or operand of the wrong type.

That's static typing, which is orthogonal to what we're talking about.
Most real-world economic systems aren't anywhere close to linear.

Economists do love their toy models, and some of those are linear. They also make wrong predictions.

Anyone who thinks economics has useful, reliable mathematical models akin to those in physics is fooling themselves.
Unix always ruled because it sucked simply. Now with lennart crapperings rubbish, unix can now suck the same way big fat stupid commercial bloated OSen suck.

Simple elegance vs bloat and complexity. Welcome to Lennarts world.
I can't find the app in the Danish App Store. :-/
I don't think they're literal sweatshops as they usually have air conditioning. :P
Dutchie here, can confirm just as shitty if not even more.
Those eleven dishes belong to: Oyku Ozarslan, 9 years old, Istanbul
yeah, systemd and friends (biosdevname, etc) changed eth0 into ens1295683290163-082.

tcpdumps are so much more fun.

EFF lennart, he is a scourge and a scum!
You know, Rome around 300AD was top notch in science, technology, military achievements, art, political power and philosophy. It was also very obviously in decline. Just as we are. It's as obvious as a wart on a bald head.

For that matter, the Soviet Union was considered unstoppable by most people in the 1980; Samuelson predicted we'd soon be speaking Russian in that very year. Ever look at the ruins of the Soviet Union? The ones I looked at in Sevastopol look a lot like Detroit.

Read some history: it's good for you. You can start with the Kenneth Clark documentary on Western Civilization I linked above if you like.
I'd like to beta test your app as well! meng.tan [at] gmail. Thanks in advance!
It's where I go to look for videos in category (X) because it's the best.
I can only say this from experience traveling around the mediterranean, but this seems to be a pretty common breakfast.

Some olives, feta cheese, a boiled or fried egg, some sliced tomatoes and cucumber, fresh brown bread with butter and some jam or honey. Once prepared you can quickly make little sandwiches, and is quite tasty!

These meals are pretty easy to put together, when tomatoes are good my wife and I often switch off on making breakfast and can whip this up for ourselves pretty quick. It's much more enjoyable than our normal greek yogurt, granola, and fruit.
45 years ago the internet was in it's infancy, only available to people at selected institutions. Why not count the internet as a great piece of progress?
> In reality automation seems to be a source of widespread immiseration beneficial to only a few.

Are you serious?

The printing press alone has benefitted humanity as a whole immensly over the last centuries.

And there were piles and piles more of automation necessary for us to be able have this discussion right now - on a global scale and at virtually no cost to either of us.
Copying a comment of mine from a few days ago, seems relevant:

I encourage everyone to watch Humans Need Not Apply, a mini-documentary by the excellent CGPGrey:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

I suspect most of what is said in there is well known to the HN crowd, but it's all put together in a very pleasant video and is a nice thing to link to people who don't understand just how far along we are in the process of automating a lot of people's jobs.
I don't have any extended experience with non-game programming so I may be completely delusional but it appears to me that the most of non-game programming is not as much about programming as about solving some problem with a computer. E.g. there are programmers working for Coca Cola, Match.com or FedEx. But these companies don't sell any programs and none of their customers really care if their business involved any computers at all. I am pretty sure about this because some businesses that hire programmers today had existed since before computers had been invented.

Game programming, on the other hand, is exactly opposite. The game does not solve any problems at all. Its value is in itself. It's not just gameplay experience or art, it's the binary code and data: there are quite a few cases when a game with the same gameplay and art but running on a different platform does not sell nearly as well. Of course, the gameplay and art are vey important factors in the game's success and the reasons the sales of the ports vary so much are not related to the particular code as much as to the competition and consumer preferences. The point is that the game companies literally sell binary executables that the game programmers create as opposite to the other businesses that sell services or products, which are not binary executables.

So my answer to your question is that no, it is not "good programming" in the mainstream sense of solving a problem with the help of a computer. It is, however, pretty awesome programming in the literal sense of making a computer do what you want it to do.
I'll also add that other banks, I think Chase, also had this feature. But they stopped doing it because I guess not enough people were using it.

So yea, while I am happy for Final, as someone who has used disposable numbers for years, I am having one of those "I listened to their music way before they were cool" moment.
Wow. Even just this little summary had me hooked, you should write the whole tale up in full, you'd get readers in droves.
You mentioned dversity. That is usually interpreted to mean "protected characteristics". While these are different in different countries they usually include:

• Sex and gender identity; sexuality

• age

• race

• religion

• disability

• parenting status

and others.

You also asked about lowering the bar to employ these people - the clear implication being that a worker with a protected characteristic is of a lower standard than a worker without a protected characteristic. You might want to add a clarification if that's not what you meant.
Isn't there a 5-year limit on the extension?
If the key is stolen, there's a good chance nobody will realise for months/years. Nobody will issue an update either. Also if some key is compromised, there's a good chance some organisations would rather keep that secret rather than announce the fact.
I think this kind of eating really follows from having a partner and a family. It is much harder to have the kind of motivation to do this on your own. In many cases however I think these are idealized meals, not necessarily everyday meals.

I imagine if they did a photo series on what the worlds bachelors ate for breakfast it would look much different.

P.S. Sorry to assume bachelor status.
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Russia is a second world country because the terms "first world" and "second world" originated during the Cold War, with first world countries being aligned with the US and second world countries being aligned with Russia/the Soviet Union by definition. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World

The common use of these terms has since shifted in meaning. To be honest, I haven't really heard people use the term "second world" in a long time.
This seems to be a very biased article to me, almost like advertising.

"Chromebooks are certainly perfect devices for small and medium businesses ..."
I guess that depends on what perfect is for one.

"They don’t need to deal with overly complicated technologies with limited shelf life, or uncertain future (Microsoft can’t even decide the UI of its operating system), and expensive upgrades."

If Microsoft Windows future is uncertain, then what is Chromebooks future? And where are the arguments?

"What is the cost of running a Windows machine, per user? Go figure it out keeping in mind the cost of all the components you may need – OS licence, office suite, anti-viruses, custom applications and what not."

Windows OS license for small laptops is free.
You can use Google Docs or every other web service with Windows as well. There are very affordable Windows Laptops like the HP Stream for $299.
I also wonder what custom application you would need for Windows that otherwise is only available on a Chromebook?

Don't get me wrong, i think Chromebooks can be great devices. But this article doesn't really reflect reality.