skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But, I will tell you this: don't you see that start-ups and innovation happen around things that are the least regulated by the Government.

How would you know? Everything is regulated by the government.
Only the interface is the same (RAM bus) otherwise it's completely different, AP not having the CPU as we are used to.
Even back then people hardly ever said it. You used to hear "first world" and "third world" a lot, but most people said "the Soviets" in lieu of "second world".

Never really thought to wonder why at the time.
How about the Combine Harvester?

This talk about technology taking jobs from people is utter nonsense. This has happened before - the Industrialization. People are freed from unnecessary chores like harvesting or standing at the cashier, for example. Soon enough new types of jobs were in high demand - mathematicians, engineers, professors. This enabled further development in other professions - more doctors, teachers, historians, etc.

Same thing will happen now. Just look at the education landscape. Data science is taught EVERYWHERE.

Industrilization made humanity able to focus on exact sciences. The advancement in exact sciences will enable us to focus on social studies, philosophy, history, ecology, medicine, law, system design.
I'm taking your use of "collapse" too literally, probably. I do expect a decline and possible deflation.

Several troubling indicators exist:
- US employment rates are only now on par with pre-2008 crisis levels
- Current new job creation tends to be in low-income employment
- Margin debt in equities has been touching historic highs
- Household debt, particularly among new graduates, is also at or approaching historic highs
- Oil and other commodities prices are falling, representing declining demand for goods created with such resources
- Political risk is rising and US capacity to deal with it effectively is, in my estimation, limited

Taken alone, these are all concerning indicators. Taken together, they have prompted economists and, recently, the IMF to issue strong warnings about exposure to equities and the upcoming US economic climate.

However, I wouldn't say this constitutes a near-term "collapse". The US will likely go into recession, or stagnate for the coming two or three years. Much of the growth in the past six years has been on the back of Federal Reserve management, so when the support ends, the economic cycle will continue a downward course. This in turn will make it cheaper to resume manufacturing in the US, compared to other countries, and production of a number of new technologies and components being developed now (solar energy, semiconductors, autonomous vehicles) may grow in the US, leading to wider growth and recovery. US infrastructure is also due for a makeover, so programs investing in the restoration of roads and bridges will also lead to improved employment and growth.

Of course, several of these factors require government action, rather than trust in market actors, so it's really a matter of personal politics whether you expect collapse, decline, or growth. Still, as I pointed out, the indicators are difficult to ignore. I personally pulled a lot of cash out of equities and decided to build a cash base to insulate me from a stock market correction and provide liquidity for either buying after a correction, or investing in real estate. Or maybe I'll be able to get a boat on the cheap... always wanted a boat. All of this is to say, you can't predict the future, but I'm expecting a decline and I've created options for myself to deal with what I expect.
Acton + co have years and years of experience with hardware-conscious development. They are masters at their craft.

I don't think someone starting with data driven design would necessarily need to understand as much as they do. Mastery is impossible to acquire in an instant. If it is Acton's belief that all of these concepts need to be understood at once, even by a beginner, he is going to find that he has a very thin following.

Furthermore, if you take things at an even more fundamental level than Acton is suggesting the hardware becomes irrelevant. Computer Science stemmed from Mathematics and is as such an application of Mathematics. This is especially relevant when you look at what Carmac did all those years ago by using some clever math to create a 3D shaded game.

When you look at it that way, what is the ultimate goal of Mathematics? To find an answer. Indeed, we are working with "Computer Science" and part of science is finding an answer.

Given that, all data driven development really boils down to is:

f(x) => ...

In his specific area of the science, he cares about the cost of the "=>," however, other areas might value the "f(x)" more. In the startup industry the answer is finding out whether the answer to "f(x) => ..." is something that should be solved in the first case.

Therefore, I would say, a well designed piece of software is thus because it finds a suitable answer. In game development part of the suitability of an answer is how quickly you can arrive at that answer. This also applies to, say, the stock market. With something like the first version of Facebook, the suitability of an answer is that it gives you insight into the viability of your idea.

Your software has achieved a goal, within certain constraints, and therefore is successful. Even "Hello World" holds value because it has achieved the goal of getting a newcomer's feet wet.
> What about ending anonymity?

Congratulations, now you've opened up a lot of trans, gay, and other minority-status people to endless physical harassment every time they use the Internet in their preferred personae.

> We need to end anonymity while making privacy the default.

The only way I can understand this is if it's like the postal service without postcards: Senders and recipients are known, but message contents aren't. This... works, I suppose, but it removes nearly all the benefits the Internet provides.
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That's Not My Problem – I'm Renting Them
> This is about toddlers

I agree with the parent comment on this. Toddlers need to be given room to explore who they are even at a very young age. And yes, even at 2 you can see personality shining through.

For anyone who has not experienced it, watching a child born and then staying with them in the first few hours is mind expanding. His/her core personality will jump out at you. Then all you have to do is try not to crush it based on what you want them to be.

> They aren't making good decisions yet.

Yes and no. The key is not to make decisions for your toddler, but to help them learn how to make decisions. It's a process to be sure. As they get older, a parent simply helps them improve their decision making skills.

> Yes adults ... flawed in some way

I get the sarcasm, but yes adults are flawed. I think the parent comments point on this is that your problems/issues/worries should not rub off on the child. This is a perfectly valid point.
How fast is Africa really growing? Hint: Very
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Yes, if you look at something from one angle and don't consider the others you will come to this conclusion. But there is a reason there is regulation in things like finance and health care. It is to protect people. Unfortunately there are people who lack the correct knowledge in certain areas to make smart decisions so we collectively help them through regulation. It also prevents companies from causing harm to people by cutting corners.

I'm not sure what 'fee to the government' for opening a shop in Paris was for but I'm guessing it's a tax. And in many European countries taxes pay for things like free health care and education. Both of these are things which I'm sure that fashion designer took advantage of but now that it's time to pay towards them through taxes he isn't happy?

'The web' doesn't need regulated. But startups in certain industries do. I want to be sure that a health care startup is providing me with safe equipment/drugs/advice and regulation is the only way to do this. Unfortunately the world is full of shitty people who would take advantage of others and ruin lives without it.

Now. I'm not saying loads of regulation is good but your idea that it is all bad isn't correct imo. It's necessary in certain areas. Maybe not in an ideal world, but we don't live in one.
Now I'm consistently getting this:

502 Bad Gateway: Registered endpoint
failed to handle the
request.

So, still not working for me.

Edit: In fact, entering someone else's username worked, and another, but mine continues to fail. Is it just me?
I guess I could be accused of using technical language with an audience that does not have an biology background. "Selection pressure" means something specific in biology and I used it in that manner.

To put what I said in layman’s terms an Ebola viral strain that has by chance a mutation that results in slower disease progression will have more opportunities to infect people than one that kills people faster. If out of the trillion and trillions of new Ebola viral particles being created every second in west Africa one viral particle were to be randomly created that happened to kill people slower, then anyone infected with this new strain would be more likely to live longer than if they had been infected with an original virus particle. This person would then have a greater chance to infect new people and so on. Such a strain would be more contagious, and depending on the exact properties of the strain it may be able to spread even in western countries.

I am not saying that this is likely (nobody know), but I would prefer we stop generating all those trillions of random Ebola viral particles and so end this rather dangerous experiment.
You're overcomplicating things... Really. That's like saying "I want people to be able to call me without my phone number"

You already give your acc number for your job.

I do that (sending and receiving money) and guess what, most of the people never changed bank acc numbers (including me). If it changes it's a non-issue.

Especially because payments either happens frequently (paying rent, for example) or it's a one-off thing.

I don't get why should I have to write a check to a landlord when they could give me they account number and let me set up a recurring payment (that's exactly what happens in Europe)
that's what it feels like is going on in the japanese example, and I have trouble believing donatello's angel isn't supposed to look that off-balance and dynamic.

also the french figure looks like he's doing something weird with a stick, and only the center, standing figure on the new yorker cover is "homolateral", which I think adds to the intended effect.

one could say it appears that "Rose Eveleth" enjoys writing more than critical research.
I gave this some thought, and it occurred to me that smallpox, even after co-evolving with humans for at least 10,000 years, still had a mortality rate comparable to Ebola today, a similar incubation period, and a similar amount of time before the patient was incapacitated.

edit:

It seems that this wasn't accurate. From wikipedia:

>In the United States and South Africa a much milder form of smallpox, variola minor, was recognized just before the close of the 19th century. By the mid-20th century variola minor occurred along with variola major, in varying proportions, in many parts of Africa. Patients with variola minor experience only a mild systemic illness, are often ambulant throughout the course of the disease, and are therefore able to more easily spread disease. Infection with v. minor induces immunity against the more deadly variola major form. Thus as v. minor spread all over the USA, into Canada, the South American countries and Great Britain it became the dominant form of smallpox, further reducing mortality rates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox#Other_history
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It is very interesting that - he uses Yahoo layoffs as an example. Because from what I know, by and large Yahoo hires better engineers than Outsourcing firms. And since I have friends who have worked for Yahoo India, the kind of jobs they did - are not going to be automated away until we invent software capable of writing complex programs. In other words - can a robot write/maintain Yahoo maps? Something tells me - we are not there yet.

Overall the article is load of bull. and I don't think author has expertise required to judge what kinda of IT jobs are going to be automated away and what kind don't.
You will always find some developers who disagree with the status quo - don't let it turn you off.

Fragments have their place. They're not a silver bullet, and they're by no means perfect, but they do a job adequately. Some people will struggle more with fragments, it depends on what you're trying to achieve really.

Fragments are just the current 'Android way' of handling this type of scenario. It doesn't mean you have to do it that way, or that there's no other way to do it. It's just a convention and one which you're free to use or lose as you see fit :) The fact that fragments exist at all is at least some kind of help - imagine how shitty support for different form factors would be without them.

As for my own experience, I don't particularly LOVE working with Android UI, but it's not like it's the worst thing in the world. It's bearable.

Basically I think the issue is that by its nature, Android UI is going to be difficult. The Android devs have to support a huge variety of form factors, and they have to make some effort to abstract all of that so that app developers don't have to worry so much about it. It's a fundamentally difficult thing to achieve - there's never going to be a 'one true way' that works for all scenarios.
Here's the version used in OS X. It's a bit bigger but not GNUishly big.

http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/text_cmds/text_cmds-8...
Breakfast in San Salvador, El Salvador, means
. Hot tamales - usually with salty with chicken or sweet.
. Fried eggs and beans with cheese
. A side of plantains and a toasted tortilla
. Hand crafted hot chocolate and coffee
. Mango juice with a speck of pinnaple

Glad we live in a world so diverse in even the little things we eat in our mornings.
This is alredy possible with https://dnt.abine.com/#dashboard
looking at google images results [1] it seems like most paintings get it right, although it might be a biased sample

update: searching for "running cartoon" the number of wrong poses increases significantly(I guess unsurprisingly)

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=running+painting&tbm=isch
[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=running+cartoon&tbm=isch
So... my question is: How does this work with things like games or other hardware-acceleration-intensive programs?

If there's no performance loss, great.
Too late, this is the century of Bitcoin.
Putting commentary on things like this is always tricky. Reality is complicated and perspectives tend to be more impoverished.

I think part of this is actually a narrowing of gaps between middle classes in large cheap labour markets like China and the working poor in Europe and the US, mostly due to the rising middle class wealth in the former.

A second major cause is progressing technology and culture.

"Automotion" is not always this literal version of machines directly replacing humans. A website where you can renew your insurance, buy plane tickets, make a complaint or order a pizza is automation of a sort. It's not necessarily a self driving scooter deliver that pizza.

This is harder to fetishize as an ideology. We are not replacing hand looms with steam powered looms. It's more like we decided to just be naked instead.
They were at some point?
The typical breakfast in England is a cooked breakfast? Mmmnope.
You're really arguing against a straw man here. Thiel was talking about the motivations monopolistic companies have to obfuscate how people view their market.

If Google is a search company, it holds 2/3 of the market. If it's an ad company, its revenues are equal to ~1/10 of global ad spending. Therefore, if Google doesn't want to be seen as a monopoly, it is in its interest to have the public face of an ad company, even if it views itself internally as a search company.

Which to me is an interesting, subtle point.
>The most depressing thing is that our generation can achieve so much more. We have more scientists, more engineers and much larger economies than babyboomer generation.

You're proceeding from a false assumption here. The quality of your scientists matters far more than the quantity. The tail end of the curve is where you get the big breakthroughs, and those people are no more likely to be scientists than ever. Maybe less, since there's so much money to be made in Wall St.

And research was much more efficient back then. You could mix a bunch of nasty stuff together, get your results, and then dump the rest down the sink. It may not have been a good idea, but that's a whole lot cheaper than wading through the hazmat bureaucracies we have today today.

There are all kinds of ways a larger and more intrusive government "taxes" efficiency. Each regulation makes sense on its own, but add them all together and you have a big drag on progress. As the writer says, it's easier just to write software than to do anything in the physical world.

And the military spending point really favors the present. During the cold war we spent as much as 10% of GDP on the military trying to contain the Soviets. The Iraq war was nothing compared to that - we haven't spent more than 5% GDP on the military since the 90s.
Way to over simplify things. Present-day Venezuela is very far from being communist even though the current government likes to market itself as such.

The reason Venezuela is like it is now is an incredibly complex subject spanning several decades of bad governments, corruption, oil money dependency, social inequality, etc ... accelerated by a particularly disastrous current government.
The churn in the top .0001% means basically nothing as to how serious wealth accumulation is. It's a horrible indicator.

Looking at the world cup results of 1982 (Italy, W. Germany, Poland, France) and 2014 (Germany, Argentina, Netherlands, Brazil), you could assume that there is a healthy amount of churn happening, so there's not really an accumulation of medals happening. Every country has a chance! In reality, there are only 8 winners and maybe 12 who have ever had a chance to win (out of 24 who have ever even made it to the top 4). There are ~196 countries in the world. The wealth distribution of FIFA medals is not good if you haven't already been a winner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup#Teams_reaching_t...
> no matter where you host it, The Lawyers will come
Thanks for reminding me of simit, used to be the thing I'd have between breakfast and lunch when I was working in Istanbul. The weird thing is I could probably get something very similiar in London but I never even bothered to, it just doesn't feel the same having it out of that context (of all different flavours). It's completely psychological (and wrong). I miss Istanbul.
>what rationale there is for distributing it (other than the implicit acknowledgement that the alternative is civil unrest)

So that we can reduce work pressure and people can have fun with their lives instead of struggling for a living in a world of plenty. I mean, DUH. Why does this even need to be stated in the first place?
>No one knows. It's a black swan. It's not predictable as a rule.

As an Australian I always have found the term black swan amusing as all our swans are black - I would actually be shocked to see a white swan.

More seriously why do you think 30 years?
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You know there is already something called "Show HN", right?
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I've been eating bread with butter and chocolate sprinkles and a glass of milk for over thirty years. When I was in school in the 1980s/1990s almost everyone would regularly eat bread with sprinkles.

I looked up the ingredients of the package with sprinkles in my fridge and per 100g, 66g are sugars. I just made one serving (two slices of buttered bread sandwiched with one layer of chocolate sprinkles) and the sprinkles weigh about 23g. So, for me, per day, that'd be about 50g of sprinkles, or 33g of sugar.
I don't think this is relevant on the classical food expenditures of the average family. At least in Europe.
I live in France, I'm middle class (~50k€ income/year before tax with my wife and 1 child), and we spend around 400-500€ __per month__ for food, including meat and organic vegetables. We drink bottled water.

This is way far from the French family presented in the pictures.

> Food expenditure for one week: 315.17 euros

1200€ / month on just food? This is more than my mortgage.
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Really? And who, exactly, said that they were sure to work, and how, exactly, were the ideas implemented (that is, how loyal were the implementations to the proposals)?
Judging from the breakfast, it is easy to understand, why japanese are less overweight than americans.
UCL's 26,000 students suffer 'reply all' email thread dubbed #BelloGate
Time to Market, Agile, Ditigalisation
Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates Don't Talk Anymore
"Move fast with stablity"

That's why small companies have a chance.

The big ones get slow and focus on different things. They have to change their maxims and their customers don't necessarily like that.
We're still thirty years away. Just like we were back then.
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That's only true in the first hour or two or a comment's existence. If you wait until most active HNers have had a chance to weigh in, it's almost always only the content-free, Reddit-style (eg., "that's true!") or blatantly offensive comments that are downvoted below 0.
> In fact, for all the studying of the human form we humans do every day, we’re terrible at replicating and identifying the correct walking or running posture.

There may very well be unique difficulties with running too, but I'd argue that what we are terrible at is replicating and identifying 3D scenes from 2D in general (and vice versa), to the point where it takes a great deal of attention to detail to create 2D representation of 3D that most people can easily relate to.

My goto example is Lego. Lego gets usually gets it right in their build instructions. Most of their competitors don't. Find some build instructions from any of the second-tier brand of building blocks, and it's often _far_ harder to relate the depictions in the instruction booklets to the in-progress models even if the sets are simple.

Part of this is probably that most people are really bad at actually watching mundane stuff with sufficient focus, even when drawing it right then and there, and instead tends to draw (usually inaccurate-but-good-enough) abstractions, and it's not surprising people get this wrong.

Another example of what people often get wrong which is trivial to get "right" if you actually look: Draw a sunset over water, with the sun still above the horizon, with the suns reflections. This is a thing we've almost all seen lots of times - at least in pictures. Yet people often gets the reflections entirely wrong (compare a google image search for sunset photos vs. sunset drawings; on the other hand the paintings mostly get it right) even though this is down to recognising and remembering a trivial geometric layout.
It wasn't a coincidence you heard about the hamburger making machines when people were trying to organize fast food workers a few months back.
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That used to happen but I haven't experienced that in a while. Even before the introduction of multi usage virtual cards.