skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still have my old Compaq Presario 1210 sitting in my bedroom. It's been with me for a good 15 years. Was originally my mom's, but she pretty much abandoned it and eventually said "here, son, it's yours if you can get it working".

So I did. Upgraded from Windows 95 to Windows 2000. Saw that the modem broke (was some cheap WinModem that Win2000 didn't support anymore), but was happy that it ran a somewhat-modern operating system at the time. Then switched to Win98SE to get the modem working again (which not only failed at that task, but also caused the sound to not work). Switched back to Win2000, then DOS 6.22 + Win3.1, then Win2000, then DOS + Win3.1, then Damn Small Linux, then FreeDOS, then Softlanding Linux System.

During that time, the power supply partially failed (would hang if taken off AC power, even with a healthy battery), the CD-ROM drive got buggy, and the lid had a hard time staying up. It finally died a few months ago (fans spin, but nothing on the screen and no floppy drive initialization; perhaps the BIOS went kaput for some reason?). It's like your dog dying; it's something that you come to expect as the years add on, yet you're never really prepared for it. Yet, unlike the death of a pet, at least there's some hope of figuring out which part it is I need to replace.

Thus, it's only a matter of time before I fix it again. I'll never give up on you, buddy, 'cause you never gave up on me.
^^^

It's more the mentality to keep right
> Visual Studio, still a considerable distance behind even Linux, to say nothing of OS X.

Which wonderful Linux and OS X tools offer the debugging and profiling capabilities of Visual Studio, specially for multi-threaded code?

Which wonderful Linux and OS X tools offer code navigation across large scale enterprise projects and architecture design?

Which wonderful Linux and OS X tools offer UI tooling like XAML and Blend?
Building unsuccessful businesses wouldn't automagically add to the list. Perhaps building somethings that scrapes the net for relevant blogs may.
Google might also consider what else they can suggest to the in car captive audience that they know all about. Imagine this scenario:

Google Now - In car edition: "Since we have plenty of time before your appointment, press 'accept' to stop at the showroom for those soft-furnishings you searched yesterday, and receive a credit towards this ride".
These are very salient points, especially given that right now many of the advancements (from a technical and methodological perspective) established from GiveDirectly's early Kenya and Uganda programs are furthered by a spin-off known as Segovia (http://www.thesegovia.com/product/). Perhaps this is the startup behind the scenes that's more inline with the startups brought up on HN.
You know, I think maybe this taxation system is a part of why US companies become so successful. It basically forces any US company that sells overseas to become a multinational.
I get a certain amount of joy in the terms in which these products are referred to due to the background of the founder as an engineer and, I assume, the audience that seems to champion it.
Something about referring to a food product in terms of version 1.3 vs. 1.4 or a forked (heh) version always gives me a bit of a laugh.
>So the question is, if a country (like Spain or Greece)

>If, say, European Union provides better shield, would Apple move its HQ to Germany or Spain?

Two words. Labor laws.

http://www.businessinsider.com/ceo-employee-lawsuits-killed-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9663421
I can get a Win 7 laptop for $150. Win 7 retail is 150 CAD. I would not spent 80CAD on the upgrade. I spent 400 on my Mac Mini.
When people expect you to pay far below market rates for management (and sometimes expect it to be volunteer only), it is inevitable that you will suffer massive mismanagement. Even organizations with great management make massive expensive blunders.
Web company says judge's ruling turns it into 'copyright police'
Watsi is a startup, the first funded by YC.

https://www.ycombinator.com/nonprofits/

> We’d been thinking about this for a while. We had a hypothesis that many newly founded nonprofits could benefit from the same techniques we use to help startups. We tested this with Watsi in the Winter 2013 batch and it worked wonderfully. They did all the same things as the other startups, including present at Demo Day (which is after all a room with lots of rich people in it).

> Since some people were confused when we funded Watsi, I’d better clarify that the money we’re putting into the nonprofits will be a charitable donation, rather than an investment in the narrow sense. We won’t have any financial interest in them.
I think a person eats 2,000 kilocalories a day and 2,000,000 calories per day.

When one person eats 2M calories a day, selling trillions of calories is suddenly not so hard!
Yeah, different term for the same thing. The technical term is government bond (as opposed to corporate), but most people call the US bonds Treasury notes or T-notes for short.
You should check out Gattaca [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/]. It's a great movie that explores some of the negatives that crop up from a society that genetically sequences all citizens from birth.
Regarding bullets: respect your audience, and certainly don't just read or repeat what you've written, but do remember that many people will probably read your slides later. There's nothing more frustrating than clicking onto a slide deck and just seeing lots of beautiful stock photography with 'Why?' and 'But then...' written over it in large type.
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Consts have other purposes: Speeding up global constants using fixed field optimization https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/05/20/delivering-fa...
My first computer was a Casio calculator (so, basically not a computer) with monochrome screen. It was programmable in BASIC and it came with a 500 pages manual. I loved that thing. I spent months playing with it!
http://sharetv.com/shows/nash_bridges/trivia?mode=desktop

He also made Nash Bridges with Don Johnson.

America had largely turned its back on this brilliant writer. He also wrote for ESPN, I think? He should have been able to do whatever he wanted by the end of his life. Instead...ESPN and Nash Bridges.
yup. webstorm thnx bye.
Why can't inmates purchase anything? It might be more difficult for them to express demand for merchandise, but all of my tertiary and quaternary research suggests markets thrive within inmate facilities.
Show HN: Create lists of your favourite websites, add tags, share online
I've always had problems with presenting in front of a crowd (it's pretty much my #1 fear) and I find the best way to improve is to practice. Presentation is really a form of performance art. It's easy to go down a checklist of things to do/not to do, but during the presentation it's difficult to keep it all in mind.

Some stuff I've learned in toastmasters that's not in the article:

- consciously avoid filler words (um, ah sounds)

- maintain eye contact with the audience

- speaking with volume and authority
Name: Insightico (http://getinsightico.com)

Elevator Pitch: Helping businesses get new insights and understand the markets their in.

Stage: MVP - 2 founders and 0 employees

Looking for: Feedback and Investment

Sign up on our home page and we'll send you a link to test things out (We just wanted to respect those who had previously signed up). We've had several users tell us it's useful so far but we would like to build out more functionality.
Maybe they are using the physics definition of calorie rather than the dietary definition of calorie (a 1000x difference).
It looks like the real issue is the high corporate tax rate in the US then. Are there not double-taxation treaties to avoid overtaxing otherwise?

On the other hand, the scenario of a UK company owning a company in a tax-free zone in dubai and thus paying 0% taxes anywhere doesn't sound fair either.
I have. It works as well or better than on Windows. College freshmen, most of whom have never seen a Linux machine manage it.
Imo compilers should only optimize specific functions which are known to be a code hotspot.
8 million is not a lot. There are >7000 million people in the world.

It takes the two richest people to provide for 0.0022% of the people on the planet.

Too high of a cost for too low of a return. I believe those men think they can solve more than 0.0022% of a problem with their fortunes.
Bonds, billions, taxes, loopholes, Ireland, Dr Dre and BEATS, blah blah blah.

Let's put this all into perspective shall we?

Apple is drowning in cash yet takes a 30% cut from developers and charges developers $99 to join the iOS developer program. You also have to pay $99 to join the Mac developer program, even if you don't want to sell in the Mac App Store, because you need to codesign your application with an Apple certificate so that GateKeeper doesn't scare users away from your software.

Yes, Apple, business, shareholders, not a charity, blah blah blah. So what happened to "THINK DIFFERENT"?
Was just going to post that myself. I think this is the first time they've published a report of all of the accidents their vehicles have been in.
I think it does, although you're always free to hack it :P I've definitely thrown some ternary operators in my render methods for simple conditionals in order to avoid heavier solutions.

Re: time;
The team is me and my cofounder. I'm full time dev, my co-founder splits his time between ops, dev, and business stuff. First commit was March 18, but we were splitting time with our previous product attempt for about a month of that. So maybe call it 3 months of full time dev work? That included quite a bit of learning beyond React; the whole stack is new to us (Node/Express, Neo4j, Socket.io, ShareJS, SimpleWebRTC).

For coming up to speed on React, I definitely spent a lot of time with the Facebook documentation, which is decent. For flux I hit pretty much every resource linked on the flux github repo, but I think the best overview I came across was this video by Jing and Bill from FB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i__969noyAM

This thread (which they both participate in) is also helpful for thinking about your server communication. : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/reactjs/QQ-0dJ4eYUc
I feel like that's a topic not well covered elsewhere in docs

Also, keep an eye out on Stack Overflow. It looks like Bill spent a lot of time answering flux questions. You might find it worthwhile to read through his answers to flux things: http://stackoverflow.com/users/395379/fisherwebdev

Hope that helps!
Before drastic action, I recommend living a month away from the environment that engenders these feelings. It's a plane ticket and extended hotel stay away. Don't go thinking you must come back. Go looking for excuses to stay.

I hope this little sliver of advice can help. Good luck, from all of us who've felt pain. You're not alone.
I believe one of the only ways to do that is with a constitutional amendment. Those are hard to pass.
4 Reasons Exercise Makes Your Relationship Better
I came here to mention exactly this.
A lot of the comments on this thread also seem to corroborate their general reaction to it (assessment of taste, bodily response, etc.).
Their launch comments on hn explained why they believe that using whole foods is a lower risk way to get 'everything the body needs' to actually end up in the body - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7314183
How a Supreme Court case killed off usury laws for credit card rates (2010)
I think the real question is WHO should be liable. If the car is in an accident that is for some reason deemed that car's fault. Is the passenger / owner at fault, or is the manufacturer? Will you buy a vehicle and Google be liable for the damages?
I wonder what Hunter would have said about the difference between fear of missing out vs staying for excitement of what might come. I honestly believe using the "well I get it and there's nothing else here" point of view is the ultimate arrogance in a way. In reality you have no idea.
There's numerous equities (safe and not) to invest in; usually the higher the risk the better the payout. This is really the only choice you get to try and make is how much can I try and save up?
See my comment about Nash Bridges.talk about legends dying hard...
I hope that you at least think about donating back.
No real estate broker gets the absolute best possible deal for a client. They get a small percentage of any deal. A slightly better deal might be worth thousands of dollars to the client but only a few hundred to the broker. It's not worth the broker's time to spend a full week looking for the absolute highest buyer. It's in the broker's interest to process more deals more quickly than to squeeze that last little bit out of every property.

That's just the way it is.
In development that's true. When it comes to natural disasters, though, the problem is not just that the people don't have money, but that they also don't have anything to buy even if they had money. It's hard to grasp for us living in a developed country, but it is possible for everyday things to just not be available.
Get whatever you want, that's the truth. I'm currently on a 3 years chromebook that I bought for $150. It works great for me, but you will probably hate it. I added 8gb of ram to it for a total of 10gb. It has 16gb drive. I installed crouton on it, still have 2gb free and I do plenty of dev on it. Pretty much everything you do plus more. :-) I don't do OSX or iOS but if I did, I do probably get an old apple Box, and use it as a headless workstation.
HN, you are adorable sometimes.
This is pretty interesting. Functionally, I think it would cover most people's needs.
A few points to start you off.

Randomised Controlled Trials aren't at all novel or unusual in international development, despite what the article says. (though some of the parties conducting them aren't particularly inclined to share the data, especially the microfinance guys...)

The survey referenced is here
http://www.princeton.edu/~joha/publications/Haushofer_Shapir...

The margin for error in these studies is high. The study notes that their relative measure of "women's empowerment"[1] for women whose neighbours received money increased by a similar degree to the food security of people that actually did receive money. Plausible? The only viable causal mechanism the survey authors and I can think of that leads women who haven't received any money to be more "empowered" as a result of a few neighbours receiving it is the spreading of rumours that aid money is linked to people treat their women (something randomised study authors would really prefer didn't happen. Subjects trying to second-guess the surveyors' intentions is a big problem) The only other hypothesis that seems to fit is secular trends or differences in village behaviour contaminating the study results, despite the best efforts to control for them. Either way that result is unhelpful, not least because it puts into perspective the surprisingly small proportionate increase in food security

Taking the statistics at face value, they strongly suggest the recipients don't waste the money and don't have it stolen from them, but the non-cherry-picked stats aren't as spectacular as the article makes out

Ultimately, it shows that households receiving $287 in cash had $278 more in wealth later on. Their businesses are larger but generate no more profit than before. People receiving a total of $1085 are only $531 better off in assets and actually have slightly worse returns on the businesses than the people who received lower handouts[2]

The one thing this wealth does enable people to do is consume more, quite a lot more ($40 more for people previously spending presumably because they have less need for savings or debt repayments. Whether this pattern continues further into the future (and how that affects their income/assets) isn't studied.
Effects on the other villagers' income and wealth appeared negative, but not to a statistically significant degree.

I'm reasonably convinced that at this end of the scale the cash transfers are better than the more fashionable approach of loaning the small amounts of money (with high overheads and commensurately high interest payment burdens on the recipients) but the study supports the view that its a band-aid rather than a solution.

[1]which, reading the full text, is actually a measure of reduced domestic abuse
[2]whilst not statistically significant, the result that larger handouts resulted in a smaller increase in revenue is unhelpful
Exactly. My current team uses TFS for source control, ci builds, tests, work item tracking and reports.

When I first joined, I couldn't believe what a cumbersome mess it was but as I've had to work on some of the infrastructure from time to time I am really impressed how it all fits together and how much can be surfaced right inside Visual Studio. (A separate team maintains our actual instance, thank god.)

The true pain as a developer comes from the poorly thought out UI which makes every little task click heavy. To make things worse, the UI is poorly threaded and seems to prefetch nothing. This means that drilling down into any area, especially the source control view leaves you waiting 1-3 seconds per item you expand.

There's also some weird usability holes, like why after 5+ years is undo unchanged a command still only found in the optional power tools utility?
"just the tip, I promise!"
- a guy
Little surprised to see no comments on the car's aesthetic design. My first thought was "ew". At least with Tesla they tried to go with a design that was very appealing to the eye. This car looks like an ugly, mass-produced POC. My better senses tell me it is a prototype unit that was built for function over form. Just saying, if you want to get the public behind your idea, better put together something that is a little more sexy.

Then again, Smart Cars are equally ugly and they have gained some huge traction, at least with car2go, so what do I know.
You could change the amendment process at the same time the amendment was amended that you don't want repealed.
By discipline, I mean the willpower to go on when all motivators have failed but the logic still says that the current path is correct.

When you know that a task needs to be done, yet your body and your brain tell you to leave it for later, that they're too tired, that it's not worth it, etc.

When you know a task needs to be done to achieve the goal yet most of your colleagues and even part your own brain tells you to stop because... reasons, excuses.

I don't know how else to explain it, you just don't stop until the goal is reached, and long before that, motivation, excitement, curiosity, drive, and whatever else emotional factors people have will most likely have stopped...
True, but most startups don't get as far as AirBNB have, either.
IMHO, fully autonomous cars for the general public are at least 10+ years away.

What I'm excited about is how we will soon see more and more autonomous 'features' i.e. lane changing, smarter adaptive cruise control and parking lot mode.
I've tried this out in a meeting with a couple of other people. It worked pretty well! I work remotely and this is definitely shaping into something really great.
You're putting a lot of faith in the ability to solve a very difficult problem. Computer vision has made huge strides in recent years, but it's still far behind the capabilities of the human visual cortex. It's not just a matter of building a simple model and training it until it achieves arbitrarily high accuracy. ML encompasses a powerful set of tools, but it's not a magic black box that eats data and spits out AI.

We don't yet know how the human brain processes images at a detailed level, and it's too complex of a system to optimize by brute-force. The best ML image processing systems still rely on a lot of pre-encoded assumptions, and require huge amounts of training data/computational resources, and don't perform as well as humans even on simple tasks.

For now, autonomous vehicles "cheat" a lot by using sensor technologies like lidar and radar -- techniques that produce spatial data that can be interpreted more easily than raw imagery. That adds a lot to the hardware costs, but it's currently the only way we can make them perform acceptably well in real-world scenarios. And conditions that interfere with those technologies more severely, like fog or snow, are still crippling.
That's the premise of Gary Vaynerchuck's book, "The Thank You Economy"[1], for those interested in this topic.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Thank-You-Economy-Gary-Vaynerchuk/dp/0... (non-affiliate link)
I was also disappointed that Soylent doesn't ship to Europe.

So, I have been drinking Ambronite [1]. It has a similar idea, but it is a bit more expensive, because it is made of real food ingredients.

[1] http://ambronite.com
Vision algorithms are pretty shaky to begin with. We've made leaps and bounds of improvements but they're still pretty far behind what people are able to do. In inclement conditions I think humans still out perform machines pretty handily. Eventually it'll be an even field or there will be sensors added to cars that can just see through the snow/rain but that's not where we are.
You could change the world with $500 billion if you spent it effectively. Unfortunately, Google is the only company doing moonshot projects. I hope Apple adds a few more products to their lineup.
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What's important is that it be an unconditional donation, not that it not be recurring. Yes, a one-time gift is (usually) not contingent, but you can also have recurring unconditional income that's not means tested.

Take out the means testing, and you remove the incentive not to work. They can still work, and, if anything, it lets people get out of the psychological hole where they have to make decisions that aren't utility-optimizing in the long term just in order to survive.
When I first land on your homepage, the first words that stood out were "What I Offer" and "Experience". I would recommend replacing those words with the details found in your paragraph summarized to maybe 5-6 words.

You also mentioned you have experience with a variety of platforms and programming languages. I would list them out specifically - list your strongest ones first. It might help with SEO but more importantly, help me as a reader understand what your skillset is.
http://www.mealsquares.com/nutrition-facts.html

2000 calories of it is 130% of your daily saturated fat...and 126% of total fat.

Eh. Soylent you could get away with eating it all day [theoretically]. MealSquares you need to supplement with other foods due to the fact content or you'll end up screwing your health with that much saturated fat.

http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/GettingHealthy/NutritionCenter...

Additionally:

> The American Heart Association recommends aiming for a dietary pattern that achieves 5% to 6% of calories from saturated fat. That means, for example, if you need about 2,000 calories a day, no more than 120 of them should come from saturated fats. That’s about 13 grams of saturated fats a day.

Its 6g per square, so you really shouldn't eat more than 2 and get the rest from other sources. At which point, its a minority of the calories you consume.
Thanks! What's missing from your current toolset, and what would you like to see here?
calories vs kilocalories, I suppose.
I think that's how most people do it, and the founder has implied in the past that it's kind of how he intends/expects it.

The biggest criticism of Soylent seems to be "Who would ever want to give up food for all meals forever?" when that's not really what the point is.
I was looking for a way to purchase Soylent in Europe. Thanks for the link!

I must say though, their videos make me a bit worried, I can understand they are trying to make them fun and entertaining but to me they just come off as unprofessional.