skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Seriously? You honestly think that the political landscape is anywhere closer to accepting that kind of socialism?

If businesses start automating everything, unemployment skyrockets, they're going to be pushed there. They won't have a choice. What do you predict? Half the country is unemployed, poverty is rampant, chaos in the streets, the fatcats in Washington and 1% just sit back and do nothing?

>And even if that automation happens, it's not going to change anything regarding UBI.

It has to.

>Here's the problem: If the automation happens before UBI gets into place, you are condemning those people to incredibly poor lives, and possibly homelessness and starvation.

Here's the problem: UBI won't get into place without automation. If it were up to me, I'd have it right now. But it's going to take motivation by SELF-INTEREST for people to realize that it HAS to happen. That self-interest? The generally deplorable state of their country.

I just want society to progress, that's all. If we were running this country effectively many of the inventions we are only seeing come to market today would have been here long ago. Greed holds us back, greed drives us forward. So let's stop letting it hold us back, let's push for automation, and then watch the chips fall from there.

If you don't think automation will change anything, how do you think it will change without automation? Isn't that what you're proposing?
Don't worry. Linux is slicker.
Interestingly, Cuba has developed an alternative network for the distribution of many types of digital content: people with access to content download it and distribute it using portable hard drives and usb sticks. A friend of mine recently visited Cuba, and according to him, these "paquete shops" are everywhere. There are standard bundles of content (tv shows, movies, viral videos, news, music, etc), and a la carte service. According to him, the content is consistently up-to-date (the latest Game of Thrones episode is available within 2-3 days). The shops themselves have developed brands, part of the value they provide is curatorial, as each bundle is different. Some of them have even branched out into adding their own bundled content, including neighborhood classifieds (craigslist, anyone?).

Information really only travels in one direction, so it is not even close to the real internet, but we could image an enterprising paquete shop bundling in some encryption software and forum software to enable two-way communication.

More here: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/23/cuba-offline-in...
Because you may not easily convert all users to download your native app(s) across various app stores. Mobile Web can address the LCD, regardless of device (assuming your users have phones with browsers).
Ha, thanks, I figured you'd be on here. Yes, I really do believe it's a tough problem. I'll vote in favor of any solution that allows people to get their affairs in order more easily. Hope it happens.
This is why we used an legal-sized PDF infographic for our initial pitch document. We only raised 400K...but the round was full in 20 days.
I wish they would give us the specs for the actual oven hardware ... as opposed to the specs for the computer in it.
Why would we want feedback from laymen on an untestable, and mostly-dismissed, theory of mind? It's an interesting idea, but that's it.
hilarious and true.
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> kilograms aren't a measure of weight.

True, but irrelevant to the comparison of pounds to kg since pounds are both a unit of force (sometimes disambiguated as pound-force) and a unit of mass (sometimes disambiguated as pound-mass), with the former equal to the force due to gravity on an object with the mass of the latter in a 1g field.

So, kilograms are directly comparable to pounds (in fact, the pound is defined to be 0.45359237 kg -- and previously, in the US, the kg was defined in terms of the pound as 2.20462 lb -- so its clear that they are measuring the same thing.)

Better pedants, please.
Great stuff.

I think the author would have been better suited without mentioning HFT, maybe algo trading model?, as its a lighting rod for controversy.

If anything I thin this is useful to illustrate just how hard it is to write a full blown trading system.

So maybe we could look at what you could add to this to make it something you could use in production(Note, please don't use this in production).

1) Risk system, before you write any algos, before you learn how to ingest market data, before you write anything else, you write the risk system.

in a true trading system because you always have orders flying between you and the exchange you never really know what your positions is. The Risk system allows you to deal with this uncertainty by giving each algo rules as to how many shares its allowed to be offside.

If you only ever take away one thing let it be this:

Trading Rule #1 Sooner or later your algo/code will make a mistake, it's your risk system that determines if you have a job tomorrow or not.

2) The system has no rate limiter, what do you do when the quotes come in too fast for you to deal with?

3) Locking the world, the system retrieves a quote and locks up the entire system while the quote is acted on. Essentially the very design of the system means you can only ever run one strategy for one set of tickers at a time.

If you wanted to tackle this start by looking at this data structure/library:

https://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/

4) Back testing, no HFT trade idea's go into production without backtracking, Every HFT firm is different but I think they'd all adhere to this rule.

5) Closing positions, every algo gets offside at some point. How do you notify a trader to close out a position? How does the trader close the position and notify the algo?

6) Multiple algos over multiple symbols.

7) Real time PnL. Your PnL is everything, it means you get paid, it means you can do this again tomorrow. it is the single most important piece of information(Risk metrics are a close second) that you can track. This is probably my only quibble with the demo.
Richard Feynman provides a little color to Bohr's visit.[0]

[0] https://books.google.com/books?id=7papZR4oVssC&pg=PA132&lpg=...
Experimental Music Notation Resources
I believe the PS4 does this too.
That tells you something about the target market.
I'm exactly the target market for this. I never learned how to cook meat growing up (I got by with sandwiches and salads and the like), but now as an adult I find myself in situations like the following:

Last week my significant other and I decided to cook dinner together (for a change; usually we don't). We were both interested in salmon, but neither of us knew how to cook it, so we ended up doing something else.

My status quo options are: (1) don't cook salmon, (2) cook salmon and most likely screw it up—hardly the best way to start an evening together, or (3) take cooking classes.

An appliance that unlocks option (4) cook salmon and have it most likely turn out delicious on the first try? Yes. I will eagerly pay money for that.

Even assuming over time I no longer need the device, the reality is that I'd much rather pay this one-time upfront cost than expend a bunch of time trying and failing or taking classes in order to develop a skill I'm not passionate about.
It depends on how much data you can include in the prediction phase. If you train with karma earned right at the time of the article submission, and then predict with the exact same methodology, it will work fine. If you put in a "fake" karma value when predicting, then it will of course not work well.
My 'jobs are being replaced faster than created' has an implied 'and our economic model doesn't otherwise change' to it when I state that it is a problem.

Now you can disagree with the notion that jobs are being replaced faster than created and even take the stance that such a thing will never happen. But assuming you don't disagree that this will eventually happen (eventually here meaning in our lifetime or maybe our children's; not counting thousands of years down the road), then it is going to be a problem. Yes, it is only a problem because of how our economic situation is set up, but all of that isn't the bit that changed that created our problem. And yes, changing the economic set up can resolve the problem. But the problem itself remains the same (unless you disagree with it ever happening).
I recently visited the island. Foreigners are prohibited from providing internet access to Cubans. Jail time for the offense is in the order of 30years+.
I don't want to read too far into your comment, but if the intent was similar to: "Interracial children don't fall into classical racial categories and, as such, are proof that racial categories don't exist," that's fallacious. The fact that a lab and poodle can produce a labradoodle doesn't negate the fact that labrador and poodle are dog breeds. The spaniards had a system that classified people by percentages of ancestry, e.g. quadroon, octaroon. Today we have more modern technology and ancestry can be determined though the analysis of genetic markers. The usefulness of race can be (and is) debated. Its existence is hardly debatable.
Part of me wants to say yes, but part of me wants to say no.
I also don't understand how they where able to go 2 years without pay and still be able to live. You need to pay for rent, food, etc. Something doesn't add up.
Thank you. I actually had an email exchange with the WashPo reporter whose extremely click-baity title was submitted (and rapidly disappeared) a few days ago. I find the Times head far less offensive, yours is better.

Then as now: the article and topic are actually quite good. The contemptuous headlines do them a disservice.
Many would argue the golden age of OS X and nix compatibility has already passed. The last time I seriously used OS X was 10.4, but every release I hear about another set of nix compatibilities getting chipped away.
Thanks. The code is 1.2, but the Xcode references are out of date. I'll update soon, I'm also going to update the whole thing to Swift 2 when it's released.
CFO - Current user of zenefits & ADP here

I authorized Zenefits to look into our data. ADP's feelings on how Zenefits looks and grabs that data are moot (also, how would they know if they are unsecure).

This is not an "unauthorized_ integration" because I specifically signed Parker Conrad to be my broker of record.

I understand where ADP is coming from (they tried to sell us PEO a month ago, at at crazy high price) because they can't compete on price or product. So they compete on access.

However, they messed with our Zenefits Sync without my permission, so now I will simply replace ADP with Zenpayroll or Wagepoint, or the one people seem to be throwing around here "justworks".

I will take my $13,000 in payroll fees somewhere else.
Designing Zachtronics' TIS-100
Hey, that's really interesting! Is that laravel specific or is that general with PHP (frameworks) in general? Would love to know more about that and your setup/tuning.

(Also wonder how well php7 will help that out).

I think at that scale, it's certainly reasonable to try getting away from PHP.
Thanks dang, I wasn't really happy with the article title but I didn't want to rewrite it myself.
The precedent is already set. iOS is underlain by the same components, but the end user has no access.

We have also seen an incremental approach in the gradual replacement of open APIs/components with closed ones.
I've made that too: https://github.com/vagrant-ops/vagrantops (although work in progress, and I have some sneaky/evil/delicious plans for it)
Little radar pod was a defense program done right
Because it's a theory of the mind that was discussed on HN recently. ;)
The min / max specs are copied from GTA V min specs.

http://www.geforce.com/games-applications/pc-games/grand-the...
I'm not really sure what you mean about in parallel or in series. There's only one resistor endpoint, the speaker. Then there are 3 speakers, each in a different room.

There are two black and two red wires going into each speaker. I don't really understand why one red and one black doesn't suffice, but anyway the two red ones are next two each other and the two black ones are next to each other at the two points where they connect to the speaker. These four wires are connected to two red and two black wires coming out of the wall. I just labelled the eight wires so I could match them up again later and undid the four nuts, leaving one nut on each end of the live wires coming out of the wall. Then I just shoved the speaker assembly back in place, and you can't tell from the outside that it's disconnected. I hope that was clear? I didn't short any wires together, I put the wire nut back on a live end to be paranoid.

One speaker is apparently wired like this:

RWin - Rnut - RSin - speaker - RSout - Rnut - RWout
BWin - Bnut - BSin - speaker - BSout - Bnut - BWout

where R = red, B = black, W = wall, S = speaker. But I don't think you can tell about series vs. parallel from that relative to the other speakers.

Except this: it's perhaps in parallel since there are two red and two black; in series you would only need one red and one black, right?
I've never heard of a slug in my life.

Pound by itself usually means mass, but it's interchangeable. Pound-force is a common term. Pound-mass can disambiguate.
http://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/appstore...
>"Design is nothing, content is what matters..."

If this were true, we wouldn't need to be constantly reminding people to not judge a book by its cover. That said, great novels have been judged so by their content, not their cover. So it seems that the whole of it is more complicated than any part.

Maybe something like: It must look good to get attention. It must be good to keep it. But if something that looks better comes along, it will steal attention, at which point you can only recover it if you remain better.

But that doesn't make a snazzy saying.
On Swifts birthday – where do we go from here?
Ah, l33t for system architects.

A few days ago, the CTO of Soylent, the food drink, was describing their elaborate computer infrastructure. They have one (1) product and a simple web site. Based on their sales volume, they do about two sales a minute. That could run on a HostGator "Hatchling" account for $4/month, using one of the seven off the shelf shopping cart/payment programs HostGator offers.
Just to be clear, I think that interviewing with Triplebyte was the best experience in interview I've done so far, and I would definitely recommend Triplebyte impromptu for anyone looking for job. I vow to never interview with Google again, and I'd definitely try again with you guys if I bombed the interview.

The questions, despite certain drawbacks, are quite reasonable in term of scope and requirement. And I guess the biggest difference is in the interviewer attitude: "finding strengtha rather than weaknesses" and actually care about the interview itself. I don't know if it will translate into successful hire, but certainly leave a much better impression on the candiates.
33 000 sculptures in one temple? See this architectural marvel
You probably know the joke (from popstar Zizek) :

When a friend of Niels Bohr (quantum theory) goes to his house in the country side he's bewildered by a horse shoe hanging on the great scientific genius's door. When Niels opens the friends asks : "but truly a rational man like you, how could you give any credit to such superstitions" and Niels Bohr answers : "Well I heard that superstition works even if you don't believe in it"

Yes I'm amazed by the power of placebo because "it works even if you know its a one/don't believe in it."

I actually wrote in the placebo field : "Give me a break". And my God it worked. I felt relieved. Like that weight on my chest just faded away. Although I suspect the fact the button/pill is blue has something to do with it.

Anyway who cares... "Give me a steak"
In my experience they just act as a mediator. I haven't seen them really do anything other than nag - it's all up to the developer to be compliant. However, these were cases where it wasn't a clear right and wrong. In OP's case, they might be quick to do something.
"Oh yeah, I was just working on this spreadsheet." Those were the days...
I'd have to recommend the Manifold trilogy by Stephen Baxter. I know it's not a book, but as a whole entity, it deserves to be looked at.
Self-driving cars hacking, a real scenario
Is a site truly responsive if it delivers a lesser experience on mobile, even if it does happen to change the layout so that the experience it delivers, regardless of the lack of content, does work on mobile?
Any look at an OS that doesn't consider the platform's usability is pretty suspect, and this article doesn't even mention TempleOS' usability. It really doesn't matter how many good ideas an OS or any other platform has if it isn't at all usable. And TempleOS is the most unusable platform I've ever seen.
They ended up getting sued later on. Thankfully, they had the money to afford the legal cost.

I think you're right, they aren't a great example, but many 'big' companies did questionable things that paid off in the end.

Of course, had this not worked everyone would call Tim a moron...but since it worked it's pretty awesome.
When you load the page, the iPhone spins in slightly.
Yeah, this is the first time I've seen anything about mortgages on HN. It's surprising considering the enormous amount of technical opportunity in the mortgage world right now.

At Blend (https://blendlabs.com/), we're working on a modern mortgage lending platform. For anyone who is interested in this, I'd love to chat!
Oh one other thing I forgot: it shows how to implement full-word (or less) flags in C for simulators:

http://sourceforge.net/p/exorsim/code/ci/default/tree/sim680...
A deal implies ownership. Ownership requires force. Try again.
ARC was short lived and is deprecated.
Yeah, it was weird to keep hearing about the Nvidia whatever which to me seems totally irrelevant to anything (and super un-Apple/Path-like).
I hate to be that guy, but the people he'll be condemning are most likely the exact same people so opposed to UBI. I have never seen so many "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" as I have in American trailer parks. The most vocal "anti-socialism-anything" crowd is the exact same crowd that would benefit from UBI.

And honestly, that America deserves a rough wake-up call more than any other group. And the sooner it happens, the better.
It really is striking how products like Docker, even while delivering incredible value, continuously fail to message themselves in an intelligible way. If you go to https://www.docker.com, you see:

"Build, Ship and Run. Any App, Anywhere."

Jesus Christ. I get that you're The Future, but make the value prop for me here, at least. Why should I use Docker? What parts of my stack does it replace? When does the cost-benefit make sense? What new things can I do that I couldn't do before?

They made a separate page just to address this giant "Huh?": https://www.docker.com/whatisdocker, which I feel is equally obtuse.

Luckily, the product itself is fantastic, so that gives you a lot of wiggle room on your website and documentation. Like, a lot.
I don't want to get on bad terms with him, plus I don't want him to find it. I really hate the noise, it's awful. I think he has to give me 24 hours notice before entering to fix it if he does find it at the next fire drill test, since it isn't an emergency. In this case I can reconnect it all. Still, I would rather avoid that, that's all!
Only made it about a third of the way through but it seemed like latter day Xtra Normal MongoDB/web scale shtick[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
Thanks. This is exactly what I was wondering.
This is exactly how I feel whenever people start talking about this stuff. Is that bad? I know this is a satirical post but it seems like a pretty faithful depiction of reality.
Rails? That's so yesterday. New hotness is React!

React? I thought we were doing Angular?

Come on man, you're stuck in the past!
NSA spying is going to cost the tech sector much more than we thought
Just downloaded and tried the app. This is great for v1.0!

That being said, here's a bug report:

1) There's a typo in the "transfer details" card where it lists "adjustements"

2) Bitcoin payments don't show any info about the bitcoin transaction (or the fact that it's a bitcoin payment) in the payment details card.

3) The "payment details" card cuts off longer descriptions after about 30 characters

4) it would be nice to see logs via the app to track errors "on the go".
Try Blue Apron for a week. Without a "smart" pan, you'll probably be able to get pretty good results just following the easy-to-follow recipe. I'm not sure how valuable the "better" results are going to be.
Maybe it's for internal apps, managing production of soylent, inventory
I'm getting really tired of hearing Basic Income cited to handwave away the real problems of economic dislocation. Look, I support the idea of a basic income, but when your simple solution is a radical top-to-bottom change in the entire economic system then I can't take you any more seriously than someone who thinks that communism would make all our problems go away if only every country would adopt it at once.

I mean we can't get single-payer healthcare going in this country, despite the numerous models of it working quite well (and at lower cost than our system) in a number of other developed countries that are glad to share their experience with us. UBI is a fine idea, but proponents are awfully short on specifics. It would be very nice if people would cite a particular scheme or gameplan they consider to be credible when they mention the topic.
Could you tell us how the notions of processes, configurations and events are formalized? it seems there are a lot of axioms in your development. Are they needed?
How would a decentralized method of preventing double-spending have protected them from that fine?

It seems like the only way to protect yourself from this would be to have no money in the first place, or to have no fixed address.
The script is apparently ~450,000 words! I have 28 hours of playtime but the game only shows me at 17% completion - its massive and detailed open world is stunning.
What else would the Soylent team do with all the free time not spent preparing and chewing their food like neanderthals?
What is the coating of that pan? It looks like some non-stick thing, which I won't allow in my kitchen. Either cast iron (which this device would never survive my seasoning process), or 18/10 | 18/12 stainless steel.

Also, love the intro video, has a nice punchline.
I'm not sure I'd call a $3,000 counter over a "gadget".
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Economics 101. Both parties are supposed to gain additional utility from any trade. I'll wait while you do the math.