skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The simple answer is no. The more complex answer is still no. The simple reason is the grayhairs are already deadwood. The more complex answer is the funding system has already destroyed science so it really doesn't matter how old the scientists are.
My first reaction to this was: you can't put "how to" in front of that. A lot of it is trial-and-error, timing (luck), and unfair advantages (luck).

If there were a simple formula, VCs would be starting businesses themselves (or paying people to do it) rather than rolling dice on startups.

My next reaction: anyone who recommends "The 4 Hour Work Week" is not worth listening to.
One can argue that Slack is overpriced, but writing like this is silly:

"To put it another way, if Slack had the same annual revenues as LinkedIn at $1.5 billion in 2013, it would be valued at almost $140 billion and become one of the most valuable technology companies in the world."

The Price to Sales ratio doesn't stay constant. It's out of whack in startups on the assumption that the startup grows into it. Comparing Price to Sales of a startup versus a mature firm is just plain stupid.
> Three minutes of fulmination, no technical detail, no actual argument

Welcome to CNN.
This is brilliant. Loved the entire experience. Well done.

For Netflix I have built, www.flicksery.com to solve my own problem of searching for good movies. Unfortunately the API is going to shut down soon. :(
Your inflationary expectations point makes sense. Considering the US economy is in a period of low to zero inflation at this point, it is fair for bond yields to be low for 3-year terms and so. I completely forgot about NuDollars, hehe.

The bit I know about the '70s is also the US going off the gold standard, with Nixon putting the then Fed Governor, Burns, under immense pressure to keep interest rates low in the face of high inflation. Not to mention going off the gold standard altogether.

Much of my reading on economic growth has been rather lopsided on the side of monetary economics. I'm looking to pick up more on the influence of government policy such as tax cuts, etc.
> and doing so for nearly the same money as if you buy real book or CD!

A lot of e-books are either half off or more than their physical counterparts. Also when you're buying technical books, their electronic versions will get updated and you buy and get access to e-books in draft form which is pretty useful for bleeding edge tech.

It's also pretty cool to be able to fit your entire library in your pocket.

Everything said, I still would never buy the digital version of art books and coffee table books and I still own the physical copies of the books I really like. I tend to buy digital copies more as an accessory.
The only caveat with FreeBSD's implementation of PF is that it's now effectively been forked but hasn't been appropriately renamed. They're still using OpenBSD 4.6 and earlier configuration syntax, and have added some non-portable SMP functionality. FreeBSD PF and OpenBSD PF will be unlikely to share much if any code moving forward.
Prostitution in India: Make it legal
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This probably depends on the regulation of the country.

For example, in India, by LAW, all domestic online transactions go through two-factor authentication. For one of my cards, I need to enter a secondary password while for another I need to enter a pin texted to my mobile. The second option is a hassle though, especially when I am travelling abroad and my standard mobile number is not functional.

For international transactions, this does not apply and the card details are enough for the transaction to go through. I guess there is no standard agreement between countries which Visa, MasterCard or Amex can implement (these are the only payment networks I use).
> I come away from this thinking that Omidyar doesn’t have any particular expertise or insight about running a journalism startup.
> He seems like a dilletante, trying to improve the world perhaps, but mostly trying to live an interesting life. Which is fine but not a recipe for success.

That's for sure the impression that the article wants us to have. I certainly don't know Omidyar, but I want to read a more neutral article (or at least other viewpoints, including Omidyar's himself) about him to form a clearer opinion.
The rental stores are still around, and still see business.
Lol. It's pretty obvious that they're just claiming such to expand their powers even further.

The US already makes the USSR look like amateur hour...
Imagine if this was the meaning of the "Do Not Track" switch in OS preference panes. (And that the OSes that had it enabled by default, continued to do so.)
Individuals contracting private security firms is rarely cost effective: For armed response to be effective, they need to be fast. So the firm needs a high geographic concentration. If they achieve that, they have a monopoly and can charge what they want.

Paying collectively for security is much better.
I've used Windows machine and every type of mouse from logitech trackballs (loved those for FPS games and Warcraft too bad they don't make good ones anymore), include the ones you could clip to the side of a laptop, to nubbins, and of course trackpads of every sort for about two decades.

I also lean more to using the keyboard vs. the mouse. As I spent more and more time developing software I become more adept at not using a mouse to the point where I could pretty much avoid touching it for most of the day. In Windows, this really was much better than using the mouse most of the time.

When I first got a Mac I found myself using the trackpad again for the first time in a long time. It was a huge improvement, the responsiveness of the trackpad and utility of many multi-touch gestures were quite surprising. Because it was so close to the keyboard I could easily use the gestures in place of keyboard commands, without slowing down. When it came time to get an external keyboard I actually bought a trackpad, not a mouse to go with it. It is honestly that good, at that's what I've found.
I've always run as non-admin, what OS X calls a Standard user.

When I first started doing this (about 10 years ago) I ran into some problems if I attempted to authenticate from a standard user to an admin user when trying to do sys admin stuff. I'd get weird permission errors.

So now when I want to do admin stuff like install software, I don't attempt it as a standard user. I simply log in to the admin account and install from there. Also I always log in to admin account when doing software updates such as for Firefox.

If you adopt this mindset it's really very simple to stick to it, and it's hardly much of an inconvenience. At least not for me, I'm not installing software every day.

Also when I'm about to visit a dodgy website or run some suspect software I log in to the Guest user account. That doesn't protect against local root escalation, but at least it's something. Then when I log out, I hopefully leave my problems behind.

Finally I maintain yet another account solely for accessing my financial sites. That way if my day-to-day account gets compromised, I still have a modicum of protection.

I really should use a separate machine solely for financial transactions. But I don't. I doubt if even 1% of people do. Any old machine should work, no matter how slow, because it's not used very often.
Great comment. The standard argument given by capitalists is that the "pie" will keep on growing, so while the existing owners of capital will get richer, it will also lift others out of poverty. Why is this not happening any more? Is it because earlier automation used to create "new" jobs which require labour, while now automation is removing the need for labour at all?
I created a profile in the above mentioned sites and posted the job requirements. I mentioned that I was very disorganized and needed help to keep me on track. All I needed was someone who would check in on me every hour on Skype/SMS for a few hours every day. Basically, they would enquire about my progress and how far I have come in the last 1 hour on a particular task.

As soon as you post the job, you get responses within 30 mins. Now, most applicants won't even care to modify their prebuilt response templates or even read the requirements properly. These are easy to weed out. Now, the single most important characteristic of the person you hire is that they should care about your success. You don't want someone who just goes through the motions. You want someone who is assertive and will be your help mate.

After that I made a list of 4 to 5 most important things I wanted to achieve in my life. (Source: Think and Grow Rich) Then made a list of things I wanted to achieve in the next 10 years. 5 years. 1 year and 6 months. I emailed these lists. Then, I made daily, weekly, monthly actionable plans to propel me towards my goals.

This will give them ( and you ) a rough picture of what it is that you are trying to do. The thing is that you can ignore a software reminder but it is difficult to ignore a reminder from another person.

At the end of the day, I get an email report listing all the tasks that I did and those I skipped.
Really? This part of the thread looks like Reddit trolling, but you're right, it is hard to tell, could be serious. That probably scares me more.
Very ironic given that McDonalds was an early investor. I find them similar to Starbucks - not the best out there, but they've driven a lot of mediocrity out of the market. And I used to eat there more than weekly when it was walking distance.
So You Want To Fix The Housing Crisis
15 of the 30 cities with the highest rents in the US are all in the San Francisco Bay Area.
> ...charged for anything applicable

I don't know if it's similar enough, but, a good extreme example is Al Capone. He wasn't charged with organized crime, but I don't think you could argue he wasn't jailed for it. Conversely (although that may be the wrong operation) and by design, you can do a Wrong Thing and not be jailed because it's a new Wrong Thing and thus there's no law against it - there's actually a technical term for this, and AFAIK it's one of the basic principles of our judicial system.

> Not viable...

I think you're reading in that I think we shouldn't have bailed out those institutions, since you're using examples with emotional impact.

And actually, there may be an interesting correlation here... What do you think of the "Right to Die"? To continue with the medical analogies, if you have someone in a vegetative state (for the purposes of the analogy, they are no longer a viable person), you don't pull them off life support immediately, because it IS about more than just them. But you do let them die, eventually.

So let's say you have this retirement and mutual fund that has - by virtue of a CONTINUED need for financial life support - demonstrated that it has entered a zombie state. Well, if you consider the invested funds as the organism's energy... redistribute that energy to new organisms (aka, break up the company). Energy still exists, energy is still invested - and yes, of course I'm simplifying this and it could be non-feasible due to the effort involved in that break-up, but the idea remains.

> Where all those...

...Protesting? :D
Joking aside, well - again, that energy isn't lost. Where does it go? I'm very much not enough of an economist to say what circumstances money is actually destroyed, but... as Lewis CK put it: nothing's on fire and nobody's dead.

Now, want to say that energy doesn't go someplace appropriate? We could go the angry route and say it's going to the wall street bankers that caused the collapse, which in turn then looks like a whale eating krill. At some point the whale needs to die so there can be nourished krill, and the Cycle Continues, as they say.

I'm OK with more than old corporations dying but I don't think either of these positions have anything to nihilism. Then again, SMBC is my understanding of nihilism. (http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2394)
I sidestory to this is the one about kleinbl00, who was an awesome redditor who had a bunch of people on the site seemingly turn against him.

He was basically driven off of the website, and almost never posts anymore.

It's kindof a bummer, actually. That guy posted really good comments.
Those figures made me realize how incredibly skewed the income distribution in the US must be, police in Germany is payed pretty much the same everywhere and nowhere near that much, especially patrol officers.
One thing to note about FreeBSD is the new pkg-ng package management system is a big step forward in terms of usability vs the old pkg_ commands. It does not lose to Debian's apt in any way when it comes to binary packages, and FreeBSD's ports system are still second to none when it comes to source based packages. I had been avoiding making the switch, having been used to using portupgrade since 2001, but as soon as portupgrade began supporting pkg-ng I started using it, and have found it a pleasure to use. I now do a pkg upgrade first, to pull all available binary packages from the official repositories, before doing my own upgrades from ports using portupgrade.
"we do know enough to say that the modern default is bad."

Could you articulate why this statement is even plausible?
+1, the custom domains for outlook/ms is a loss, I still haven't moved my personal domain off, and am not sure where I'm going to move it to... I just don't wan't to run my own mail server again... took forever to get a combination of filters that were even reasonable without excess false positives or negatives in the mix.
They were marketed for embedded control and data acquisition in laboratories and factories. See the
text on page 5, in "The hardware", where it tells how
you can send your program on paper tape to DG and they send
you back a read-only memory you can plug in - so your
program begins running on power-up without help from an operator.

I recall seeing a Nova used in an experimental psychology lab. The first production medical CT scanner included
a Nova, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_computed_tomography.
How can this possibly be?

How is it possible for the leftists to have an absolute stranglehold on San Francisco politics, especially for so long?

Is there not even a moderate wing, here?
I know that, but the OP didn't seem to. He claimed consumption "has to" match production.
I don't have a specific model to recommend, but keep in mind the three key variables: The pixel density of the monitor versus its physical size versus the PPI settings available in your operating system.

On a Mac, you have 1x and 2x, which means a 27" 4K monitor will either show everything too small at 1x or too big at 2x, so go for a 24", which will be like a Retina version of the older 24" Cinema Display. On Windows 8, you have 1.0x, 1.4x, and 1.8x, so you'll probably be fine with 1.4x on a 27" or 1.8x on a 24".
It is super easy to get sidetracked.
http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-4k-monitor-doesnt-exis...

tl;dr: "we don’t think it’s the right time to buy one."
The original ARM was inspired by and designed on the 6502 (in the sense of they visited Western Digital and realized the designing a CPU was actually feasible for a small team, them emulated the design on a BBC Micro with 2nd processor) but IIRC Sophie Wilson stated they have no actual technology in common.
Original source regarding the Matt Taibbi debacle: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/30/inside-story-m...

kinda-sorta-disclosure: it includes a quote from a high school friend of mine, who also happens to be the executive editor of Racket:

We were successfully working to address those
issues when First Look once again stepped in
to fuck things up. I regret that the world
won’t get a chance to see Matt Taibbi’s Racket.
Wow what a great history lesson. I had no idea HTTP 1 (or .9) was basically an "idea framework" for the www. Sounds like this will help solve some major issues and organize the interwebs a bit better.
This was a painful read.

He says he "doesn't want to be educated about bitcoin" because "he's heard all the arguments", while at the same time claiming it's a "terrible currency (or not a currency at all)" without any further reasoning.

This poor guy needs to be educated if he thinks that avoiding taxes, regulations, and credit card fees are the only applications.

Common decency dictates that if you openly state you are unwilling to learn about something, you should refrain from posting opinionated articles about that thing.
Self-marketing suggestions:

- Boil down your copy. A lot of people won't get through this much text. Figure out what you're good at and focus on it. Don't mention spreadsheets. This looks like you pasted your resume, and resumes suck at getting attention, holding attention, and making you stand out. They're a terrible marketing tool.

- Take out the jargon. Use real, human language, especially somewhere like HN. (Side note: I can't imagine what "best practices" for QAing video products might be or why I need them. Try to be specific and concrete.)

- Tell us what your skills are. What can my company do with you on the team that it can't do now? Tell us about what other companies have accomplished that were only possible because of you. If you can't do that, you're not a superhero, and you should change your pitch.

- Appeal to our problems. A pitch for an interview isn't about you. It's about us. Tell us what problems you'll solve for us. A lot of people on here feel like marketing is fluffy, time-wasting, and difficult. Tell them how you're going to make those feelings go away and decrease their costs of customer acquisition.

- Finally, be very persistent (you may already be doing this). You often feel totally hopeless right before you find something awesome. Always follow up after a rejection and find out why you didn't get the job, no matter how awkward or painful it's going to be. You'll never learn what to fix if you don't ask, and the interviewer will be impressed.
I know this doesn't answer your question, but The Wirecutter believes that the best 4K monitor doesn't exist yet.

http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-4k-monitor-doesnt-exis...
IQ (g) is just a statistical correlation between different specialised intelligences. It is very useful as it allows you to predict, knowing a persons g, how they are likely to perform on a range of tasks. Treat it as a tool.
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This is great however I cannot help wondering if there will be any unintended consequences of extensive uptake of this technology. For example could this increase levels of O2/CO2/N2 dissolved in the worlds oceans upsetting the balance in an ecosystem? Even with the 20th century's long track record of unintended consequences this conversation still seems to be a rarity and when it happens is minimised by stakeholders.
All this seems to show is that people don't understand what IQ tests
Most of them don't. They use a drop, or a combination of other methods. One of which is find a random street person to walk into a UPS store and grab a PO Box and pay for the month. At that point you have an "untraceable" box. When it is time to do the pickup you can do it yourself or pay someone else to do the pickup, choice is yours. I am not a buyer on any of these buy from reading these posts long enough I know of at least 5-6 other methods where you never have to use your own address and as long as you deal in small quantities never get caught.
If you are using roundcube what is so good? Is it the email service?
Let's see how many downvotes I get. The capitalism is no longer what it used to be due to the separation of ownership from control. IBM and Ford started as family businesses, passed from father to son. Who owned IBM 100 years ago? Watson did, then his son was a CEO. Who owns it now? Nobody, "shareholders", with an affirmative action hire guiding this mess as a CEO. Toyota was a family business too, largely owned by Toyoda family.

Why did the separation of ownership from control happen? Primarily due to the widespread use of birth control among whites. Franchised women consistently vote for the big government, for regulation and for the safety net. Big government actually disfavors small and hereditary businesses, since they are harder to control than a few concentrated anonymous conglomerates without real owners. Plus there are fewer capable sons in a nuclear family to pass a business on than a 100 years ago (also think about single moms here).

Reduced white fertility also led to replacement of the bulk of white work force with a lower IQ non-asian minorities (NAM) workforce. In the age of hi tech and automation, such work force is largely useless. They are kept occupied however, to reduce crime rates (think of Detroit riots of the 60s).

Additionally, the overall effect of women in the workforce is also counterproductive- more workplace drama than actual creative work.

Now let the downvotes roll in!
This is a good point. I've also heard stories of cops busting people and then forcing them or strongly encouraging them to leave a review to keep the ball rolling.
IPv6 doesn't work like IPv4. In IPv4 Parlance, you would be given a CIDR block which you could then subnet as you saw fit. I.E. The ISP might give you a /19, which you could then turn into 32 /24s (or 64 /25s, etc...)

With IPv6, /64s are the basic unit, and you don't further subnet the network. So, instead of thinking of "addressable space", you should now think of "deployable networks." . An ISP that hands out a /64 is basically just giving the customer a single network.

The smallest network any ISP should hand out to a customer is a /48, which lets the customer deploy up to 2^16, or 65K networks as they see fit.
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"[...] technology has become the tool of choice for some very dangerous people"

As opposed to what? Carrier pigeons?
Thanks for the detailed response. I think I am going to try it.
Havent seen reviews but its $575. Pixel density seems pretty low @ ~ 157+ ppi vs Apple 27" Retina @ 217+ ppi

28" UHD LED CrystalPro 4K 60Hz DisplayPort, HDMI/MHL, DVI Monitor (Picture In Picture |Picture By Picture) - Black / Aluminum Bezel

http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=113&cp_id=11307&cs_id=...
We do have a model that has successfully demonstrating certain principles which may be capable of addressing this problem: Burning Man. Bear with me for a second.

I'd say (and then pointing out my lack of formal or amateurish study of economics) that the issue you're pointing at is that capitalism doesn't function well in a post-scarcity environment, which we're entering. This is because our means of determining value is primarily based on supply/demand dynamics - aka, scarcity. As scarcity goes away, our ability to determine value goes away, and with it, our ability to distribute energy throughout our civilization.

Burning Man (which is definitely NOT a viable economic model and I am NOT aruging that) demonstrates the viability of a new principle: YOUR value is based on what you give away.

Which gets really interesting when you look at economics as a sort of directed thermodynamic problem: What defines where energy (aka money) goes? Right now, it's defined by supply/demand dynamics and wants and needs - what if it were primarily defined by altruism?

You can come at this from a different angle, going back to that grade school career question: If you had a million dollars, what would you do? Or to rephrase, if all your needs were taken care of, what would you do?

Blah, blah, blah, I'm throwing out a bunch of ideas to see how they react. What're your thoughts, given what I've described?