skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this contradicts the point I was making though. If inflation was set at 50%, the total amount to redistribute would be (100+1+1 * 0.5) 51 units and each person would get and additional (51 * 1/3) 17 units. So the amounts after the first inflation cycle would be 18, 18, 117. The richest person, who was 100 times richer than the poorest before inflation, is now only 6.5 times richer. Do this a couple of times and the relative difference between the amounts become smaller and smaller.
Vincent Van Der Heyde to Richard Feynman, July 3, 1986 and Richard Feynman Reply
A command-line weather app built using Elixir
Wake up sheeple! Isn't this exactly how the Arachnids of Klendathu came into being?
Once upon a time Apple did try to make their own UNIX, A/UX.
I suspect that the average coder will find Python-style iterators much easier to read.

def fibo():
a, b = 1, 1
while True:
yield a
a, b = b, a + b
Take a look at either the Vortex Poker (POK3R as the current iteration) or the Atomic/Planck.
Tesla's New Battery Doesn't Work That Well with Solar
Really interesting post; the Mac Mini rack looks insanely cool.

This has myself and a colleague wondering what Apple run in their data centres. Can anybody hazard a guess? Is it Apple hardware with OSX? Is it custom/third-party hardware running *nix? I seem to remember somebody mentioning Azure not too long ago.
Also, the billion-dollar, one-person startup
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Well, my machine has a i7 4930k, which has no on-board GPU, I use an nvidia K2000 for displaying video.

in the laptop even the old GMA500 drivers are enough for 2D render, if you're playing games then don't use on-board graphics?

Onboard graphics are "good enough" for most scenarios, less so in graphics production and gaming- which only leaves onboard (or on-die) in the mobile platform. And AMD simply isn't competitive there due to power consumption.
Oops I forgot to add <sarcasm></sarcasm> tags around it. My bad.
Restaurant pricing. The "posher" end of the market go for whole numbers (e.g. £10) . Whereas the cheaper end focuses on charm pricing (e.g. £9.99).
It looks amazing - almost too good to be true. The low lighting in the video make me feel like there is some kind of trickery happening here. I don't find it is surprising that their indiegogo campaign has been started without revealing technical details. It all just makes me a bit suspicious about the technology... I would love to be told otherwise.
Only governments can do that make making saving compelling. But they want people to spend so make saving poor value for money.

We did this in the UK, Wonga.com/samedaycash firms everywhere and the government had to legislate to stop them exploiting the poor.
What was the obvious countermeasure?
Apple didn't invent the tablet or mp3 player, they brought both to the mainstream with a better product.

Tesla didn't invent the electric car. They make the best electric car, and will have a huge role in making them mainstream.

That's what Tesla is going to do with home energy storage.
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...you're a virgin, right?
You can actually stop and look at Ötzi in Bolzano/Bozen if you're ever in the area. The museum is very nicely done, and of course the area is gorgeous (Italy is overflowing with 'gorgeous') and interesting because 100 years ago, it was still very much part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and culturally, still is in many ways.
Less interesting to hear about the call from Twitter (hardly unexpected in the context) than about plans for the future. Given Twitter's dislike of external applications, giving Meerkat a decent API and dev platform could make a difference in usage compared to Periscope which may end up too tied to Twitter.
I'll be 52 this November. Have been coding mostly as a hobby since '83, with peaks in programming intensity at different stages of my life: sometimes to scratch an itch and sometimes doing some contract/consulting work. Still try to hit the computer whenever I can, but my health's been letting me down lately - nothing too bad, but it's been affecting the focused time I need to do programming right.

So now when I sometimes think of my mortality, the thing I regret is the programming I can't do when I'm gone. Or maybe there is programming after death? I'm hopeful. :)

In the meanwhile, the free time that's opened up from not programming as much is being wisely invested. I'm working hard on my guitar, and before I go dammit, I'm going to shred like a pro!
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IBM Type F or M - which r3minds me must build that Aurduio Base USB converter of my Type F
Thanks for the comments so far. We're aggregating and tracking them.

I should have mentioned - The app has a Pro unlock, but TestFlight betas builds don't actually charge anything to you when you 'purchase' the unlock. We're also going to try and make sure out Beta testers get to keep the Pro unlock even when installing the App Store version
Its a multi-million dollar industry. Musicians are everywhere. There are a lot more hobbyist synth players than "professionals", although there seem to be a fair few of those too.
It's definitely real. I've seen it, and no doubt so have many many others. As someone else here speculated it's a transparent screen moving up and down over a projector. It's pretty cool and worked in a reasonably light environment.
Yes indeed. And new tools are being written - see the Adam project for an interesting example: https://github.com/bigdatagenomics/adam and the associated variant caller Avocado: https://github.com/bigdatagenomics/avocado. Others are also trying to get the old tools working on Hadoop, for instance Halvade: https://github.com/ddcap/halvade/wiki/Halvade-Manual, Hadoop-BAM https://github.com/HadoopGenomics/Hadoop-BAM, SeqPig: http://seqpig.sourceforge.net/, and the guys at BioBankCloud: https://github.com/biobankcloud. It's going to take quite a while for this stuff to get fleshed out, and for researchers to adopt it. But the sheer weight of data is going to force things in the Hadoop direction eventually. It is inevitable.
While this may become possible, it will never be desirable or smart (outside of some far-off futuristic scenario involving AI and or robotics perhaps).

Humans must sleep; humans get sick; humans have families; humans need vacations; humans can only rationally work so many hours per day; humans have emergencies; etc. If you're running a billion dollar company, by yourself, you're doing something incredibly stupid.

Having 10 or 20 employees on a billion dollar startup? Maybe that will make sense, depending on the business in question (a photo start-up like Instagram is certainly an ideal candidate). The cost of having those employees is extraordinarily low in comparison to the value of the business, and the benefit they bring. It'd be the cost equivalent of forgoing storage backups on data worth $100 million, because the backups cost $100,000 per year.
IR-blocking glasses or contact lenses. If the adversary used lasers in the visual range, the beam (and source) would be clearly visible. Still, you could counter that with photochromics or active defenses similar to auto-darkening welding masks.
Welcome to the new world of closed ecosystems. May be a wakeup call for others who think they can directly compete with those who actually pull the strings of the ecosystem.

When the TA from my university told us updates for the laboratory will be on facebook, I told him I want them on email. Everyone in the room looked at me like I was a dinosaur who doesn't have a facebook account.

TA was surprised too as well, until I asked rhetorically "why facebook? Why not Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter, Snapchat, Kik, DropBox etc?". The TA then understood my point and updates were sent on email.

Although Meerkat vs Periscope is not exactly the same thing, but its problems are from the same reasons, open vs closed ecosystem.
You mean the professional market that that Apple is abandoning in favor of consumer devices.

I look after a mostly MAC environment and OX server is hopeless no migration from stand alone MAC's to Networked was the first shocker I found

And our Mac's are less stable than our windows 8 Box used for running hyperv VM's
http://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/1409200736/
It is true that the common wisdom says Hearst destroyed Welles' career as revenge for Citizen Kane, but I'm not sure it's that cut and dried. For example, Robert Wise (who worked with him in his early career and eventually went on to surpass him in terms of success and output) disagreed with the idea that Welles was held back:

"Not true there was a cabal preventing Orson from making more films. He simply never fulfilled himself after that magnificent start; his own fault - lack of self-discipline."[1]

See also this comment[2] right here in this HN story which goes into some more detail about Welles' chronic string of failed projects.

While Hearst may have done some damage, I think ultimately it was possible to Welles to recover, but he unfortunately spiraled down the drain instead.

[1] http://imdb.com/name/nm0936404/bio
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9503266
Actually there are armies of experts keeping this all up to date, and some companies make a lot of money selling this as a service. The name of the role is "curator", and they basically map research to genetic variants, keeping a giant library up-to-date.
Thanks for the clarification.

I do use on-board graphics on my travel netbook for 3D programming on the go (just as hobby), and Intel on-board GPUs were never a match, specially given their OpenGL drivers.
That'd be pretty cool actually. I write quite a bit of Ansible, and having someone to talk to about Python could be really useful. I'm a ruby/js guy myself and have started writing react-primer-draft on github. Feel free to reach out via my email in my profile.
In case you don't remember, the then CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, has spread more FUD than the Linux community combined. Microsoft has also funded the SCO lawsuits against Novel, IBM and Linux in general.

And even now Microsoft is threatening Android phone makers for things such as the FAT patent. Microsoft is extracting more money from Android through extortion than what they earn from Windows Phone. The new Microsoft that people are talking about apparently has a personality disorder, since they are also a patents troll.

So no, it wasn't a witch hunt.
Yep, Django (or anything equivalent) will give you much more productivity in the real world than any of that functional style.
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I'll buy Intel next time just because my impression is that their motherboards play nicer with Linux. If you run Linux, intel+nvidia seems unavoidable.
Given the proportion of the populations of the occupied countries that ended up collaborating, I'd say that while it was an unnecessary statement, it's probably correct in a "given a sufficiently large set of people...." sense.
Only because the rest was already optimized.
Unity3D Dark Theme Request Gains Critical Mass
Reflective sunglasses, maybe
My concern is with your general concept of:

> Memory usage isn't that big of a concern anymore
Can a human actually break such a tiny web?
You can't cache JITted code (so JIT produced by pypy.js) because it'll be different each time.
Are you able to break their spidereb with your hands?
Yes, I agree the report was pretty bad.
Amsterdam startup the Cloakroom wants to help men dress better [video]
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Lots of people are and have been "productive" in Haskell, various Lisp dialects, O'Caml, and so on.

I worked at a startup whose Haskell backend was quite pleasant to work with and served them very well. This site itself is written in Arc, as you probably know, and Paul Graham has written several essays about the "productivity" he and his team achieved using Common Lisp.

People can work productively with software using all kinds of tools and languages. As you mention, a lot of it might come down to taste, likes and dislikes, habits, etc. Of course you're going to be more productive if you're familiar with your tools. So your experience with productivity isn't really an objective indicator for anyone else.
Maybe on Windows, on Linux the Intel drivers are best by far.
Google will eat itself: buying Google shares via their own advertisement (2005)
is Elixir a new trend? Because it seems I'm completely out of the loop here.
Coinado.io – cloud torrenting for command line fans; just wget your torrent
So cool! This is perfect to show off on Glitch Club, want to record a quick little explanation of how it works here? http://glitchclub.com
Does that take into account computation speed per synapse/memristor?
Does the world really need a “Tinder for Jobs”?
According to some of the open positions listed at http://www.jobsbcn.com 60K-70K for an engineering position seems realistic.

Disclaimer: I am the jobsbcn startup jobs list maintainer.
Interesting. Wasn't something like this in the undercover used car salesman article a while back as well? You should always come up with weird numbers so the customer doesn't think you made it up.
Minsky (economic simulator)
Is the goal simulation or functional equivalence?

For example, to simulate a horse, is it necessary to create legs, or is it okay to build a road and use wheels?
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This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper.

T. S. Eliot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollow_Men
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Bill Gates's Quest to Determine Why Children Are Dying
Dear Greg,

Please fix the payments industry by building something that just plugs into a site without having to care if it's Stripe/Datacash/Paypal/Sagepay et al.

The costs of switching are too high in this industry and a "nicer API" isn't a good enough feature for any of my clients to want to switch. A product which lets customer failover and chase competitive pricing is what's needed.
Devart Released New SecureBridge Components with Support for RAD Studio XE8
French Intelligence Law: OVH's Point of View
So basically they have many websites, serve advertisements on them, and then buy Google stock with them? I don't see how this is special.
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she didn't do jack shit, spent tax dollars buying a new Gucci bag and vacationing in luxury, showing up on Remembrance Day pretending to be the queen and getting paid for it, she couldn't be bothered with actual work.
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New AlphaCrypt ransomware, the new threat in the criminal underground
I recently needed a new home/carry-around laptop, and got myself an HP Elitebook 725 which has AMD A10-7350B CPU. It cost me 900€ (incl. 24% VAT) with 8G RAM and 256G SSD.

At work, I have used Elitebook 820 which is Intel i5 with otherwise similar configuration. That costs 1350 €, with similar RAM and SSD.

The two machines are completely identical in appearance and behaviour. So far I am very happy with the AMD version - no perceivable difference in performance. It could be that the 725 with AMD CPU eats the battery somewhat faster, but when the Intel version of same hardware is almost exactly 50 % more expensive, I'm not complaining.

If I'd need i7 performance, then the AMD offering wouldn't be there.
Conversion rate of 2 --> 2.39%

Converison rate of 1.99 --> 5.2%

Mind = Blown. I mean, I knew the *.99 affected the consumer perception about the price, but not in such a huge way... Fantastic article (and blog).

PS: The "leaving know" modal is annoying, I was just trying to switch tabs
Is running imagemagick really that intensive?

Isn't running shaders intensive as it needs to be compiled on the fly and handed off to the GPU driver?
I know (and worked with) the founder and inventors, who are based in Adelaide.

It's a real system, works just like the videos. They have been working on this for years, since at least 2008.

Well done Will and Gav!

Plenty more videos available from https://youtu.be/hi1UiGr6Iow
I got the A10-7850K APU on release and I couldn't be happier. I built my main dev PC with it. The integrated graphics adapter is more than enough to drive 3 monitors (it can do 4 as well) running Gnome Shell. All that using the free drivers, which is important to me because I need it to be hassle-free.

I've never noticed any slowness but then I don't do heavy video processing or hours of compiling C. Light gaming and WebGL demos are no problem either.
This doesn't mean anything if you've decided never to have children yourself. The 'legacy' ends with you regardless.
Didn't read the article yet, but I tried this: 2 euro vs. 1.99 euro and it made 0 difference in conversion rates. I guess it depends on the product. Maybe I should repeat the test, too.
I guess you don't spend too much time on OpenGL developer forums.
Merci Capitaine's French startup is now international
I guess there are a few people out there who would claim a "One True Way," but mostly that seems to be a stereotype?

As for me, I get a little tired of these pseudo-objective "debates" trying to decide which programming language is "better" by evaluating bullet lists, trends, and so on.

It seems pretty clear that different people can be very productive in different languages and using different techniques. Different projects and companies use different language; that's a plain fact.

For someone who's working with a happily functioning system written in, say, Haskell, it's a little weird to go on discussion forums and see people arguing over whether or not Haskell is a "productive" language.

In almost every HN thread about something related to Haskell, there'll be a few comment threads started by someone who claims that "functional programming doesn't work in the real world" or that "laziness is only good for research papers" or something like that. That's frankly flamebait by now, and I'm generally saddened by how much of the discourse about functional programming (on here, specifically) becomes this kind of groundless fight about whether or not it's possible to build real software with it.

Yes, of course Haskell, as a real-world thing instead of a perfect Platonic idea, has flaws, things that could be improved, problems one has to work around, and so on. That is inevitable and it is true for all programming systems ever!

It's always interesting to hear from people who have made good-faith efforts to use functional programming techniques and systems, and failed. Specific complaints, even feelings and vague opinions, are useful information—when they come from experience.

Anyway, that's my rant for today about the discourse on functional programming...
> why mercury apparently isn't commonly used to extract gold anymore.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. Out of sight out of mind. But maybe not out of your personal electronics.
I think given my background I'm a better match for AI, than for mass fabrication. That's what I'd really enjoy working on.
You mistake news sharing platform for social media. Please don't.
The most interesting part of the article for me was:

"Nobody has discovered an efficient way to harvest spider silk, although not for lack of trying. "

I would love to know more about these attempts. Searching google brings up doesn't help much as the keywords "mine" and "web" can have a wholly different connotation.
Ask HN: Why do many people assume there's no such thing as programming talent?
It seems to me rather ludicrous to even think that every single human being is born with the same exactly amount of neurons and everyone has the same exact levels of plasticity in their brain, but that's exactly what's being assumed when people say there's no "talent" involved. Or am I missing something and there's actually no such thing? Wouldn't it be logical to assume that if just those two cases are true, then there indeed can be gaps in learning speed and upper bound levels of comprehension on not just programming, but learning everything else in general?

Isn't it rather logical to assume that we all didn't take care of ourselves as good as possibly others either due to laziness or unfortunate environmental factors? And if that's the case, isn't it logical that that too would have a role in the development of our brains, our ultimate potential as to how "plastic" our brains could be, among other factors? We see immediate differences in people being born with different heights, doesn't it make sense to assume not all brains are created and raised equally?

Just wanted to see what everyone's thought was on this since I practically never see this side of the argument when it comes to topics like "programming talent" and such.
Can you clarify the essential difference between Haskell's and Agda's versions of monadic I/O?

Or are you talking about divergent side-effects like bottom and exceptions?
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An API with merely a "one-sided" legal contract is not an API.
> In what way would Linux be a better choice?

Well, it's a supported operating system on machines that aren't cylindrical.
Is web book better solution than epub3
I don't plan on taking uber, but if I did, I got average service I would probably dare the driver 3 stars, because that is what 3 stars mean.... Average. And yet I would unknowingly be hurting the driver. And that is just stupid
Key functions outsorcing requires extremely smart, accurate and precise planning. One must be very talented and experienced in techincal requirements specifications composing and validating and analyzing feedback. Feedback not from clients but from outsorced staff.

And then will be feedback from customers...
I hate SPAM and promise to keep your email safe.

Then why are you asking for my email? I hate it when they ask for your email for something can be provided without. And the worst part is that it doesn't tell you if it's going to send more emails.
I have a daughter with Nephroblastomatosis, a super rare kind of kidney cancer that often lasts for years before just naturally going away (no one knows why), and dealing with the treatment options is agonizing.

For example, she's been on 3 different kinds of chemotherapy for 12+ months. 2 of the chemotherapy drugs don't seem to do anything. The 3rd kind seemed to result in an immediate reduction of the nephroblastomatosis, but unfortunately this chemo drug is very harmful to your body and there is a limit to how much of the drug you can receive. Now, she is not on chemo anymore.

Every 1.5 months we go in for a checkup, alternating between an MRI and sonogram.

2 times they have found "spots" on her kidneys. But, what to do about them? Additional chemo? Surgery? Wait and see? This is what I want a computer to tell me. What are the risks of surgery? What are the risks of losing more of your kidney? What are the risks of additional chemo? What are the risks of doing nothing? I would rather a computer had this information and gave its recommendation, rather than a group of doctors and us, the parents. We would be using the same logic in our decision, so it seems like the computer could do it more accurately and with zero bias.

I welcome Watson into our health care system. Anything that takes some of the agony out of very very difficult treatment decisions will be a good thing.
Company culture can be the biggest influence on how your code ends up looking
They also have much better GPUs. I've been playing quite a few games on one with few issues.
You've used this term 'medical emergency' an immense number of times in this thread.
Is this another anti-"secret" propaganda piece.. Jesus!
Well, it will use much less than that.
The real "memory cost" of decompression will be :
+ compressed size

and that's it. Decompression doesn't use any memory, only the I/O buffers.

On the compression side, the memory cost is :
+ buffer for compression (typically == size of data to compress)
+ 16 KB for tables

And that's it.

We are very very far from the 12 MB mentioned.