skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We truly believe in storytelling, but we don’t see a working long-term business here.

Lots of thoughts on this one point. Could they not have done some market analysis beforehand? Given the pace of change over the last decade, when you see something with lots of competition and still no one having an actual viable business with profits yet, what drives someone to think they can just "make it happen" (yes, obviously with a lot of work)?

If it's a "highly competitive market" there should be some profitable company by now that you can simply copy. There isn't. I sort of suspect there won't be for a long time - perhaps ever. Or... at least not 'profitable' to the degree that VC/investors want to see.

Why should storytelling have a business model? We have business models around 'storytelling' in the form of book and music publishing, and they're going through dramatic changes. Loads more people can self-publish - very few are profitable, and most aren't really doing it to be profitable in the first place - they're doing it to express themselves.

One of the few ways to do storytelling on anything other than a very local scale had to involve those with access to the publishing tools, and therefore many more 'stories' (music, books, poems, etc) had to fit within the business model of a publishing middleman. That's model is dying/morphing, and 'storytelling' facilitators may never be the business model that it once was.
I don't think that's the point, given that the article is talking about tagging the Christmas tree in your living room.
Actually sometimes a person is stopped just so the officer can beat the person up. And many times people are stopped because "they look funny." Yes most cops are good and wouldn't stop someone without a reasonable suspicion. But not all cops are that way.
Glad to know the police allowed some people their constitutional right to protest.
Hacker News is far, far less of an echo chamber than Reddit or Product Hunt.
I am learning J for about a year now, and I will try out the examples in it to see how it goes. Memory-mapped files, and quick array operations. It is APL based, and J has been around since the 80s, and is open source. Wes McKinney seems to think it is a good way to go:

https://twitter.com/wesmckinn/status/341317411607293953
But let's not romanticize Native American culture either. The Comanche formed a barrier between the Spanish and the French/British Americans through most of the 1800s, and they did this by subjugating the other tribes around them and by maintaining a war-like stance at all times. There was simply no way that they could co-exist with a European culture. It's very easy to sit here with our 21st century morality and say what we did was wrong, but we have no idea the kind of hardship that people on both sides were living through and trying to make a life for themselves. We simply don't have the context to judge them. It was what it was.
Check out python blaze:
Pandas and linq style frontend to lots of different backends.

Soon there will be OOC array ops.
http://blaze.pydata.org/docs/dev/index.html
http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/blaze.pydata.org/notebooks/t...
Glad to hear a good story on Xmas day :) Well done you!
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>But 95% of natives didn't die of disease.

Do you have any sources for that. The hypothesis that disease was primarily responsible for wiping out Native Americans is far older than Jared Diamond's book.

It wouldn't have been possible for white colonists to completely destroy Native American civilization if smallpox hadn't devastated them first--there were just too many of them.

Just look at the population of white settlers at the time. The number of Native American murders committed per settler you're proposing are simply too high to be plausible.
Struck me that it's like a physics flash game (a la Blosics).
You can't. If you create a dynamic work environment with a constant influx of interesting problems to deal with, you lose the 8-by-5 solid employees with families you make up the framework of lots of successful companies. If you optimize for them, you can't get the spotlight rangers looking for hot problems to work on and recognition to go along with it.

If you cater meals, some employees will want to skip out and take the salary bump instead, others don't mind losing out on pay for free weekly massages.

Free beer? Non-drinkers feel left out. Game room? non-gamers hate it. Ping-pong, foosball, pool tables, free gym? You'll find somebody who it alienates.

You have to pick what you want your company to be and commit to it. Where would you want to work? Build that. You'll find the right people to populate it, but try to keep it open to diversity of styles and ideas.

Your best employee will probably be somebody completely different than you.
The filter works both ways. Why would an employer want to leave a bad impression on someone who could potentially work there?
You can also look north the the Thule (Inuit) and Dorset cultures. The Thule expanded to Canada and Greenland in the middle ages, and in a very short time they completely wiped out the dominant Dorset culture that had existed for thousands of years.

The modern day Inuit are descendants of conquerors in exactly the same way that descendants of European settlers are.
One thing I want to comment on here is a mistake I often make myself, which is to focus on the language/compiler/interpreter/jit/translators/etc. and to loose sight of the platform APIs -- user interfaces, input devices, OS services, data sources, and so on. As fun as it is to talk about languages on HN, APIs are arguably a bigger part of the big picture in many platforms. LLVM itself doesn't come with any platform APIs, so it's typically just one part in a larger and much more complex system.
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I understand you, java-man, but happily there are a lot of people that also understand. Check out git-annex[1], it is the best solution I've found until now for managing all my notes, uncomplete written things, pictures, audio recordings, chat logs, everything.

[1]: http://git-annex.branchable.com/
I don't know. Some of those countries have minimal natural resources and small fractions of the pop of Russia yet, they enjoy relatively disproportionate economic success.

Maybe you have a point, but it's not the whole point. I think they wear a heavy shackle of ancient culture. One which has acclimatized them over centuries to a serf-state mindset they have not broken out of. It's very patriarchal (or statist). The state is their master in more ways than one. It'll take a cultural shift in the newer generations to shake it and allow them to achieve their potential.
Just atom-shell, it ended up being easier all around and no compelling reason to keep Python in the mix for this particular app.
I agree and didn't mean this as a criticism of HN (there is indeed a lot of variety here compared to other online communities). My question was more along the lines of: "Is there anything of value to be learned from the enterprise software world?"
This was a delight to read. The nostalgia and writing style combined to let me feel the author's excitement about the emulator. Great work.
The point isn't just identifying where you live. It's where you go. If the crowd you move in exists in some anti-them ecosystem, perhaps it is guilty by suspicion or retroactively.
Yes please, culture fits are terrible ways to hire. You end up with lots of carbon copy version of what you wish you were.

It usually degenerates into a bunch of hip young guys with lots of hair product and eclectic playlists.

Build for diversity and you'll get surprisingly awesome skillsets on your team.
He touched on that - about how much it is to get a car and drive it for uber for X years, but i had trouble following what his ultimate point was around that - i think he was inferring it was hard to make money at the end of all that.
Frankly, I'm willing to enable the cult of Assange if it furthers the free spread of information. He's clearly a megalomaniac, but he provides a very useful bulls-eye for those governments wishing to oppress the free flow of information. While he is serving as the sacrificial pig of Wikileaks, the information is getting out and it's being publicized. Snowden did it without WL, but I don't think it's reasonable to expect all leakers to become info-martyrs like him.
Woa, when I visited the link Chrome downloaded a file called FQwWHM735zm and then prompted me "this site is trying to download multiple files". ???
And I am telling you that is not the part I said is a lie.
Fantastic and engaging read! Such a rare insight to have into a public figure.
Just curious, so this is a university staff position or are you enrolling in a business school as a student? Either way, congrats!
Just what I needed to hear! Thanks!!
No, they say, we killed way more buffalo than whites ever did.

In total over time, maybe. However, it is pretty clear who got the number of bison to less than 600 in the 19th century.
Civilizations south of the modern day U.S. were far larger. That means more people to begin with, but also there is a theory that their immune systems were better prepared to deal with European diseases because they lived in large cities like Europeans.
He's hiding out from a regime that has demonstrated a willingness to torture him and violates the Geneva convention and other international law with impunity. I'm not sure where you have gotten the idea that he is a coward. Clearly, he is braver than me, you, or most of the other posters in this thread.
Have I told you about the Jenga block catcher© I'm building?
Alas, times have change, and St Louis (for example) had its peak population in the mid 50's. We use trucks to move things, now, rather than rivers.
This is truth.

I have seen this from both sides, and it is something you _need_ to know if you are interviewing people. The very best people for the job will have options. The very best hires don't _need_ your job. Not considering that your organization is being evaluated by the same folks you want to hire is not smart.
> I think the guy forgot that for most of its existence,
> the British empire was powered by slave labor, and that
> the cotton plantations of the US were also powered by
> slave labor.

True, but the industrial section of the US was not in the slave states, it was in the Northeast. The majority of industrial labor was free men. I would imagine working conditions varied greatly, but interpreting things through a modern lens is fraught with problems.

I do think people overlook the importance of the Mississippi in the growth of the US. It is an amazing route for goods right in the middle of the country. Even today, barge traffic is a huge driver of export goods.

// on a side note - I am pretty sure I will disagree with this book if the article is any indication, although I will have to read the book first. The 1800s (laws & transportation) were very important for the US and it could be said the early 1900s did a number on economic freedom. The one line in the article can be argued. Also, 1945 was not as important as 1946-48 for the baby boom.
While reading this comment, all through it right until the last word, I thought you sounded like an accustomed Windows user fresh into Linux territory, wayward and misguided by some unknowledgeable sources.

Every single pain point you listed can be summed up simply by, as you said, "I have no idea how they work".

At that last word: it all went further confusing. I don't see how FreeBSD doesn't have a permissions model, or text-edited configs, or has installer wizards (yuck!). Did you mistype 'OS X' as 'FreeBSD'?
They could have a legitimate concern for rogue wifi networks that use the same SSID as their legitimate wifi network. But that's the only legitimate concern, and it can be stopped by allowing hotels to _only_ block wifi networks that use the same SSID.

But they want the ability to block any and all wifi networks, which is BS.
It is possible to include python with this? That is interesting
If you've not seen any of Jason Scott's other work, I personally recommend his talks on the Prince of Persia[0], Mario 64[1], and crackers fighting crackers via crack screens[2]. [3] This one is just funny.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnEWBtCnFs8

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wz7_-WXwFg

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5AceLYWE1Q

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r65WwO1-uA
First, let me state this clearly and for the record: fuck the PPA with a bag of rusty dicks.

But I think you're right. PPA will need to change and that will not come easily. They will react though - but it will very likely be too little too late.

I think the number of cab companies will go down and medallions will drop in value; if i recall NY has already gone through this. Or there will be pressure from cab companies to change the rules.

I think ultimately Lyft and Uber and such can bring about positive change and disrupt shake things up in an industry that has gotten a little too cozy.

interesting bits from the PPA site:

> Recent legislative changes have altered the composition of the Parking Authority’s Board of Directors, with a majority of Board members now appointed by the Governor of Pennsylvania.

and

> In July 2004, the Authority assumed responsibility for the regulation and enforcement of taxi cabs and limousines operating in Philadelphia.
Is cyanogenMOD OS making vast difference in Android
Japan gets Fx0–Mozilla Firefox OS-powered transparent smartphone
This site pairs geotagged photos with Google Street View. It's heartwarmingly creepy. By default, right now it's following #christmas, but here's the view of #tree:

http://sm.rutgers.edu/thebeat/?q=tree
Out of curiosity, why would an existing employee think anyone would be interviewing him?
What's really cool is that this is his hobby. He was an early BlackBerry employee. He retired to do this full-time.
"Culture fit" is quite stupid. A fair amount of conflict is key to fiery technical debates and keeping out the complacency. Imagine if the parliament worked like that. Hire people who would own a responsibility and have the ability to execute it too. Everything else needs constant gardening.
Net Neutrality:Airtel (Asia's 2nd largest telco) wants you to pay extra for VoIP
It's a little unfair. Uber drivers get screwed over by wages, but taxis are a miserable affair. Every company has their own hailing app; even though drivers are required by law to offer credit card charges, I've been forced multiple times to get cash out of a machine because the machine doesn't work. One time it was even blatantly unplugged.

Both sides are fucked, in their own way; the taxi companies will need to come together and figure out something aside from a lawsuit to survive uber (and uber's successors).
Google does the same. I'd much rather have Instagram do it than Google.
This makes me think of the economic prediction from the start of Snow Crash:

Why is the Deliverator so equipped? Because people rely on him. He is a role model. This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them.

As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world. When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here — once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel — once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity — you know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else:

music

movies

microcode (software)

high-speed pizza delivery

I especially like his use of the Invisible Hand in that. Of course these days (courtesy of Sterling), it is the Invisible Crazy Robot Hand - http://www.wired.com/2010/05/the-invisible-crazy-robot-hand/
I would like to see where you get your statistics since barge traffic on the Mississippi is very strong. Trucks get it to the elevators and the barges get it to the ocean. A bump in the road occurred during the drought of 2013, but barge traffic seemed to recover.

http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_26504408/mississippi-...
As far as I am aware (I use uber quite a bit), Uber X is only available in the suburbs. In the city, it's not available; I've only ever gotten the Uber black sedans.

EDIT: This is no longer true, apparently my statement about using uber quite a bit is also no longer true.
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"I think the guy forgot that for most of its existence, the British empire was powered by slave labor, and that the cotton plantations of the US were also powered by slave labor."

The US cotton plantations were part of a primarily agricultural economy, which is arguably a different thing than an industrial economy. There was industry, but it was mostly not slave based.
Yup, and does Slur take a fee from each transaction.. ?
Another vote of confidence for GEB
That benchmark is only for joins? That's a pretty small part of analytic workflows in my experience.
What's wrong with Rcpp?

And what's wrong with GPL? Unless you're planning on distributing your code, you shouldn't even need to think about it.
From the symptoms you're describing, it sounds like you're using Flash with Firefox on Linux. I had the same issue as you until I switched to Google Chrome. Firefox is stuck at 11.2.202.425, while Chrome is using the latest 16.0.0.235
But you can use your own vehicle, unlike in the taxi industry.
actually, it's really easy to avoid publishing your location. Turn off GPS.

This precludes Google Maps usage, though, which is frustrating to say the least.

I share frustrations with Facebook pinging for my location on my phone when I'm not doing anything linked to my location. But here, on Instagram, there's a very obvious "Add to Photo Map" button (which is off by default!), so these people opted in to this.
Interestingly, this leaves out any mention of what all of these systems entail: global state shared between all users of a currency.

Expecting every user to perform all calculations on the system is a rather tall order, and one that will influence investment dynamics far more than any of the factors looked at in this MBA analysis of the space.
I've got a friend who works as a correctional officer in a German "open prison". When the inmates leave for home on weekends some of them are forbidden from consuming alcohol, drugs, contact certain people, visit certain areas.

According to my friend the most effective tool to check up on those inmates is Facebook. Quite a few of them just can't resist to post drunk party pictures, brag about stuff they shouldn't be doing, etc.

Another way they use Facebook is to detect if someone's using a mobile phone - which are forbidden on the compound: Simply check the inmates' profiles and see which inmates who are not on leave are online.

There's that quote that says that Facebook made possible what KGB, Stasi and the likes couldn't ever dream to achieve. So yeah ...
Wouldn't work. Shotgun shells spray in a cone shape.
You clipped that in the middle and left a statement that doesn't make any sense. "...as illegal" can't be true, false, or even meaningful without the comparison that comes after. And with that comparison -- the comparison to forms of discrimination (such as racial) that are permitted only when the standard of strict scrutiny are meet, it's a simple statement of the fact of well-established constitutional case law. And is one of the motivations for the ERA, whose advocates argue that it is necessary to subject sex discrimination to the same degree of scrutiny.

Next time read a whole sentence before accusing someone of lying.
Books I imagine will have 'tremendous' (what a prior, lol) effect

Non-fiction;

Slavoj Zizek's Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism

Evgeny Morozov's To Save Everything Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism

Fiction;

William Gibson's Neuromancer

Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought)
I plan to read this:
"If Truth Be Told: A Monk's Memoir" http://www.amazon.in/If-Truth-Be-Told-Memoir/dp/9351368068/

"
In the 1990s, an eighteen-year-old headed to Australia to realize his worldly dreams. With little money or support, he struggled to survive there. Two
years later, he was earning an annual income of $250,000; by the age of twenty-six, he was a multimillionaire. Yet, worldly success was merely a way station
on a journey that began years ago. As an eight-year-old, he saw a vision of God in a dream, an experience that left him with a sense of deep joy and peace.
The dream triggered off his desire to meet God, to see a manifestation of the Divine. He practised astrology, intense meditation and tantra, yet God was
nowhere in sight. Deeply frustrated, he dived into materialistic pursuits to distract himself from the restlessness within. After years of living the good
life, he found he could no longer ignore the old restlessness; worldly pleasures just couldn’t fill the void within. He moved back to India and finally
did what he had always yearned to do: renounce the world and become a monk. In the Himalayas, in terrifying silence and solitude, Om Swami practised intense
meditation. Death was always close as he confronted starvation, the fierce elements and wild animals. Finally, his sadhana brought him to the ultimate
"
I don't think it is reasonable to expect a Google interviewer to ask you about your "stories ... from travelling around the world." Their primary reason for hiring you is for your ability as (I'm assuming) a developer. Although your travel experience may make you a more interesting person, that isn't altogether the point of the interview.

I guess you could say that measuring the "likeableness" and culture-fit of a potential employee is important, but that can definitely be derived from the interview in general rather than from your life stories.
The US likes to fake the statistics and often revises them down later.

The US might have REAL GDP growth. It's population grows about 1% per year. How much more GDP above this 1% does the US really have?

This being said. How do you measure GDP growth? In money? Your would have to subtract inflation. How do you measure inflation? Increase in money supply?

Would be interesting to see the GDP growth based on energy consumption:
http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/01/wealth-and-energy-...

Maybe someone has the statistics for the last 100 or at least last 20 years.
You wouldn't need to render the whole frames. You'd get even better results from randomly sampling over a number of frames to contribute to nearby pixels. In effect you're trading less work for more noise, and noise is kind of what you want here (so long as it accurately reflects what is happening).

So, you could render 16 samples, but only do 1/4 of the pixels on each so you'd get better motion blur for only a small increase in work over doing 4 temporal samples. The extra work corresponds to a bit of bookkeeping and the tweening of 16 frames instead of 4 and you'd still be rendering the same number of samples overall.
Oops! I read the 3 alternatives and didn't see self-signed certs, which seemed sorta obvious to me. Then skimmed a bit further and saw all sorts of other things and not really any specific mention of self-signed certs. My bad.
It might be interesting to create some sort of Markov chain startup generator putting together random sets of social features on RoR. Not to denigrate their business but that occurred to me.
I might get downvoted for a reply that essentially says "this". But I strongly agree with everything you wrote. It has been my experience as well.