skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In private setting — yes, if you please. Having a tattoo is not a constitutional right. Did you notice how smoking in places like cafes is discriminated against? This is not considered unacceptable.

To make this point a bit more clear, let me quote a bit of Scott Alexander:

--

The Emperor summons before him Bodhidharma and asks: “Master, I have been tolerant of innumerable gays, lesbians, bisexuals, asexuals, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, transgender people, and Jews. How many Tolerance Points have I earned for my meritorious deeds?”

Bodhidharma answers: “None at all”.

The Emperor, somewhat put out, demands to know why not.

Bodhidharma asks: “Well, what do you think of gay people?”

The Emperor answers: “What do you think I am, some kind of homophobic bigot? Of course I have nothing against gay people!”

And Bodhidharma answers: “Thus do you gain no merit by tolerating them!”

-- (http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything...)
It's not just the German Greens. There is a consensus on shutting down nuclear pants among basically all political parties in Germany. A conservative coalition was at power when Fukushima happened and the early shutdown of the plants was decided.
> There is no library (promises, fibers) that alleviates the simplicity of being able to do: users = User.objects.all()

As an counter-example, Sequelize offers both callbacks/promises so you don't have to wrap the query function manually. In fact many libraries provide promise interface or can be promisified with bluebird.

Using ES7 async/await and babel you just write:

let users = await Users.findAll()

Async/await syntax was the feature that made JS development pleasant for me. Brackets and parentheses soup that tends to be produced by callbacks/promises made my pattern recognition sick.
How does increasing freeloaders decrease bureaucrats? The two are mutually independent. Either way I'm on your side.

Please read my comment again. I suggested a method similar to a guaranteed base salary which eliminates freeloaders: Guaranteed work.

Think about it: If you can't find a job, you're down on your luck, the government can guarantee that you will have a job and have a wage during such times as part of some public works administration. The skills of the unemployed will be put to good use AND they will be helped.

Please note the hoover dam was the result of such an endeavor.
So everyone agrees that the tech market is overvalued, but there's a pointless semantic argument over calling it a "bubble"? There's always going to be a downturn coming and it will always take some companies down with it. That's why it's called a business cycle.
Really? Scammers could do that ten years ago.

I assumed Germany was more organized than that.
Lol. I do bring my own resume with me at interviews, but I've never been in the need for that. If they don't have one, they usually have me that can narrate it. Otherwise they should have done their homework.
You can't understand statistics with arithmetic. At least, not any more than you can understand quantum mechanics or tensor algebra.
Like this idea too - kind of like how sprint estimation should be done when using poker cards.
I'll second Jaynes. I re-read it from time to time, and afterwards, feel like I understand what is actually going on in the world, briefly. Maybe if I read it back to back with "The City and The City"..? Or, maybe that's ill advised.
location, location, location...

Basically you need to invest in fundamentals while the asset itself is at its cheapest, and "not yet existing" may happen to be among the cheapest states of the asset
I was responding specifically to your "trivial to implement" comment.
Agreed. It ran for 30 years and hasn't had problems (other than the radio interference issue). Anything that has lasted for 30 years has had nearly every bug worked out or worked around. The only things that survive for 30 years are systems that do the job.
The browser isn't exactly wrong for triggering those 'terroristic' behaviors. If there is one single http bit being included and rendered on the https web page then the entire security of the page is rendered useless if there is a MITM attacker between you and the source. That single http bit can include whatever the attacker needs in javascript to redesign the page to steal content and provide tampered content.
That's their fault. Sometimes their sites go down because of someone attacking them (intentionally or not).
That was my experience. I was quizzed about Java, no questions about my background. Maybe life is better when you aren't living on the farm.
The ironic part about bubbles is that, necessarily, +80% of people believe we're not in a bubble just before it pops. After all, this is the primary reason for a bubble. This means that asking people if we're in a bubble is sort of a measure of the inverse.

It is possible that we are just below the top of the 8 (not 7) year cycle (see my explanation boom / bust cycles @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9565624).
I think most of the major embed providers support https.
In my opinion the bubbleness will be reflected when the music stops. Back when the dot com bubble burst, the thing I found amazing was that people who had been customers just a month before, vanished. Not into chapter 11 (reorginizational) bankruptcy, but chapter 7 (liquidation). I vividly recall showing up for a meeting with a customer's VP of sales at their fancy downtown San Francisco office and getting off at the elevator to an empty floor with a broker taking pictures to put it on the market. From the previous wednesday, "Oh sure, lets talk monday." to Monday's "The previous tenant isn't here anymore." was really startling to me. Almost like the movie trope where the shadowy agency removes its front company over night.

For those companies, it was the fact that they were "pre-revenue" and so the only way to keep the lights on was to raise money. And right up until every investor said "No" and they couldn't make payroll with the money left in the bank, they operated like a company, and then they weren't, For companies these days that do have revenue, they basically have to try to shrink into a profitable place, which is keep as much of the revenue as possible with the fewest possible people / computers / real estate etc. Then they have a shot of surviving. But contracts like leases you can't get out of, can bite you and force you to go into Chapter 11 briefly to renegotiate those contracts.

What is unique I think to tech bubbles though is that the developers are often fine when the bubble bursts, they just go to companies that are built on better financials, its the executives that pay the price and have a harder time finding a new job.
I guess that we are and if this bubble burst, it will start a rally in all countries to replace SV apps.
What Shape Is Your Competitive Advantage?
> We are at a time in history where unprecedented amounts of money are sloshing around at the top and it isn't 'trickling down' much via ordinary routes like wages.

Not sure I would say 'unprecedented' as this has happened before [1]. Perhaps it's time for another New Deal-style intervention.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_Unite...
You're conclusion rests on the numbers you start with, those aren't a given.
Leak reveals $1bn Uber investment in China
Was hoping it would be an Amiga, and wasn't disappointed. Though it seems like this particular system is ripe for replacement because of the issues mentioned, I have a lot of respect for staying with old soft- and hardware instead of chasing something new and shiny when the old system still gets the job done.

A few years back a seller came to my workplace to ask if we wanted to advertise at our local cinema. We didn't, but I had a chat with the guy and was pleasantly surprised to discover that he was still creating and showing the ads using an A1200 with a genlock card running Scala (25 years old this year, real popular in the nineties with cable companies and broadcasters as big as CNN and BBC). Reason for not upgrading? "It still works great." Put a big smile on my face for the rest of the day.
Related link

http://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-y-combinator-talks...
"This is supposed to be an introduction just to the abstract concept of code"

Are you sure that's what it's supposed to be? I mean, the author didn't supply unit tests, all we have to go on is the specification, which was that the editor of BusinessWeek asked Paul Ford "Can you tell me what code is," and Paul Ford said "No", and instead wrote this.
The signup form definitely has some user experience fail in it. I give an email address and password, click the "sign-up" button, and... nothing. Absolutely nothing. No page load, no progress indicator, nothing.

Pull up developer tools, turns out there is actually a POST going on behind the scenes, which is getting a 503. So, there's probably overloaded servers, but it should would be nice if that were exposed anywhere besides the developer console...
A Look at HubSpot's First Year on Mesos
>I wonder the same things about cancer and I believe that in the past 50+ years we have identified more types of cancer.

I wrote a long post about this a few weeks ago but the long story short is YES! We absolutely have detected more (asymptomatic) cancers with increased screening of healthy people.

Here's my previous post - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9621249

Here's some random links:

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/screening-for-disease-i...

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/a-skeptical-look-at-scr...

>Prostate cancer is very common but isn’t always harmful. It is found in 80% of autopsies where the men died of something else. Many more men die with prostate cancer than because of it.

>The screening test for prostate cancer is a blood test for prostate-specific antigen (PSA). This is not a yes-or-no test. It must be interpreted in the context of the patient’s age and risk factors and the rate of rise, and any cut-off level is arbitrary and will miss some small percentage of cancers. If the PSA test is positive, the next step is biopsy. Typically, 12 needle biopsies are done, 6 on each side. They find cancer in 25% of patients. But if you go back and do more biopsies, you’ll find cancer in 25% more patients. Theoretically, if you could see every cell in the prostate, you might be able to find a cancer cell or two in almost everyone, most of which would never progress or kill the patient. So you have to decide how many biopsies are reasonable. If you find cancer on a biopsy, the next step is treatment, and treatments for prostate cancer are not benign.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/11/overkill-atul-g...

>we’ve assumed, he says, that cancers are all like rabbits that you want to catch before they escape the barnyard pen. But some are more like birds—the most aggressive cancers have already taken flight before you can discover them, which is why some people still die from cancer, despite early detection. And lots are more like turtles. They aren’t going anywhere. Removing them won’t make any difference.

>Over the past two decades, we’ve tripled the number of thyroid cancers we detect and remove in the United States, but we haven’t reduced the death rate at all. In South Korea, widespread ultrasound screening has led to a fifteen-fold increase in detection of small thyroid cancers. Thyroid cancer is now the No. 1 cancer diagnosed and treated in that country. But, as Welch points out, the death rate hasn’t dropped one iota there, either. (Meanwhile, the number of people with permanent complications from thyroid surgery has skyrocketed.) It’s all over-diagnosis. We’re just catching turtles.
Absolutely - numerically is they way to go in some fields, but without a deep understanding of the underlying limitations there will be no expansion understanding/knowledge. It's the old academic vs. practitioner argument.
The print edition has landed!

https://twitter.com/ftrain/status/609388625596416001
For those in the States interesting in finding Club Mate: http://club-mateusa.com/
Stitch – The app for visual storytellers
Yes, they will, but they're an improvement over script tags (which will also result in a mixed-content warning).
How would you write it? Creating a pair does seem weird, unless those two values are going to be passed around through multiple method calls together for use in multiple locations.
I could be convinced either way.
I think you're employing an extremely narrow definition of critical thinking.

The ability to question everything you read, hear and learn in search of the truth (what is), or, most likely, of more accurate or useful representations of it, is not dependent of your math or even science knowledge.

At the end of the day, intellectual curiosity and a willingness to understand things are what you need to get ahead.
NAFTA's Chapter 11 Makes Canada Most-Sued Country Under Free Trade Tribunals
I'd say we are.

One definition of a bubble that my colleges use is an external force that artificially props up values, or put another way a force that if it was removed would see prices crash.

Now consider silicon valley, what happens when a 2001 scenario happens and venture capital money dries up. Ask your self the question, if there was no vc money tomorrow would valuations remain the same, probably not.

Now that's not entirely fair as vc money won't just all go away, but then ask is there more vc money now that before, the answer is yes to to tune of about 5x-10x(estimates differ) more than there was in 1999.

So a more realistic question would be to ask what happens if we removed 5x-10x the funding that we currently have, would prices go down?

The startup market looks alot like the junk bond market in the Milken days. Junk bonds are very risky bonds but they can pay out alot and as long as there is money to roll the debt over into new debt everyone is happy. However, if the market gets jitters then suddenly you go from a scenario where everyone can roll their debt to a scenario where almost no one except for hte "best" junk bonds can get rolled( similar to getting vc in 2001-2004).

ie a bubble doesn't go down gradually, it goes down hard.

Another scary thing for valuations that doesn't get enough air time is the percentage of gains made when a company is private vs when its public. I saw a great tweet when Larry Ellison retired that said something to the effect of final score Oracle shares up 32,000% since it when public. It will be hard for a facebook to return that kind of return to investors over the next 25 years.

It used to be the case that the public markets got alot more of the stock gains than they are getting now. This should scare people as its the public markets that give companies their valuations. If the public markets find that stocks aren't going to have the 20 year gains that they used to have, then money, being like water, will flow to where it can make better gains, which will depress public market prices, which in turn, will push down private market valuations.

This isnt' a short term trend but one to watch, over the next 10 years. I know of a few macro based funds that are very concerned about this.

BONUS off the cuff prediction

We will see a private company start to pay dividends rather than go public in the next 3 years.

TL/DR
- private markets value growth, public markets value profits. You've hit a bubble when you have the largest private companies not being able to produce profits that the public markets expect. Once that happens everything gets "messed up" with the chain of:

- the largest private companies can't go public at their expected valuations leading to

- lower valuations for private companies, leading to

- existing companies not being able to get teh vc capital they were expecting, leading to

- private companies going out of business, leading to

- vc losses, leading to less vc money in the system,
leading to

- a "virtuous" cycle that deflates the bubble.
At my first job, we built I/O cards that did stuff like the Amiga in the article does. The cards used adapters so they could run on anything from TRS80's to PC's because at the time the system was conceived, the IBM PC hadn't emerged as the dominant desktop yet.

The company is long out of business, but every so often someone finds some of their products at a garage sale or industrial auction or it comes in a box of other things on eBay. When they search for manuals on the product they often find me because by coincidence someone asked about those products on a forum I frequent and that conversation tends to come up in the first page on google.

It's amazing how many really old systems are still running after decades without change and no one gives it a thought until something breaks. I've often wished I had a list of their old customers so I could contact them and offer my services to upgrade old controls.

[sigh] another business opportunity missed.
> I find the links that I know how to handle (YouTube, Bikely, etc) and embed third party content in iframes.

Ah, that makes sense. From your previous comment, I didn't realize you were recognizing and explicitly handling sites like Bikely.
I cited an example, http://www.bikely.com is used by users on the forums I host and does NOT support https.

Neither do several other embedded route/map providers like gpsies.com and so on.
> who had “ever been prescribed anything by a psychiatrist more than once”

Fucking bigots.
There's a difference between firing someone in a company and simply removing the position through attrition when someone leaves. This is no different than the later.

Should we continue to overwhelm a physical system we require to survive? I don't advocate killing people whatsoever; I advocate incentivizing people to have less children (or no children, if they prefer). What's wrong with that?
The "decent living" of past generations is still available today, but past generations were poorer than you think they were, particularly for those who don't come from white and privileged backgrounds.
Looks like everyone is worried. It's possible that many of us reading this could lose our jobs if there's a large crash.

Maybe I should start saving up and make a back up plan for life outside tech. But I have none. Ah well , that's life.
Similar to sports agency and drafting young athletes. Will tech hiring become televised events with sideline commentary?
My method does not lead to any temporary commits.
The paper you mentioned reduces memory consumption hugely and averages out the query and insertion time. It's a good improvement.
Develop storm topology using csharp
http://Gamedevr.com - Links and resources for game developers.

Im trying to get into game development, and decided to create a website listing alot of tools and resources that i think are usefull.

The main objective is to be community curated, by adding your own links via Github. The problem is that im also a newbie webdeveloper and havent spent alot of time learning about source control and Github especificaly.

Im learning as I go, thats why i havent realy posted it anywhere.

Im planning on adding alot of resources, fix alot of stuff and then realy tell people about it.

Ill just leave it here, for some feedback from you guys.

Ps: Sorry for my terrible english.
Yep, you want the whole thing to act like a system not a bunch of parts. Energy savings and a comfortable environment really depends on this. A poorly setup system can be a nightmare for the maintenance staff.
What's a "modest effort"? And when did we have an economy based on a "modest effort"?

Work has never been easier in the US than it currently is. Record number of office workers, minimal number of farmers, factory workers, and manual labor in general.
Actually, I had a laugh. It's not every day you see grammatical corrections on HN. You earned my upvote
Fugue – Continuous Cloud Ops
Uh huh, but it's interesting to think about the question from different angles than the one taken by the literal definition given by Wikipedia.
Two hours from both Detroit and Chicago isn't far. A city of 180,000 isn't low; it's the largest city in the state behind Detroit.
It's much easier to cheat on traditional voting system. You can just make a pre-made box filled with fabricated votes, turn off (or pause) recording, befriend(bribe) those inspection-related personnels, etc.
From what I've learnt, with methods like mix-nets, you can be probabilistically sure that a person has voted, and there are no 'false' votes
Right. Sure. Guaranteed pay is good to help people during hard times, I totally get and agree with that and I agree with you.

But please read the second paragraph of my original post. I suggest Guaranteed government WORK as a better alternative to Guaranteed PAY. Freeloading may be a small sacrifice that is the result of base income, BUT freeloading is virtually non existent if you change base income to guaranteed public work.

The unemployed can be set to work on community projects that benefit the entire economy. The hoover dam was built using this technique during the great depression.
Yea. Just hit the limits of a single dyno in Heroku! :/

Issue should now be resolved.
This article doesn't attempt to answer the dull, dry, boring, well-understood question "What is code?" in the sense of "What is it that computers use to make them do what they do?". It tries to answer the much more interesting, intangible, existential question "what is code?", in the sense of what does it mean for the world to depend on a culturally isolated priesthood of technologists who control what computers do? How does that work?
> Why do you think these industries will evaporate?

The primary ingredient in a 'hit' will be energy, and there is already a very well established system for delivering energy to individuals in the economy. The devices themselves will essentially be consumer electronic type devices so that demand will be filled by various factories that produce gadgets. Just as heroin use doesn't really change the spoon or syringe markets as those markets are already so large that carrying along the heroin users doesn't really impact them in any meaningful way.

> Who will make, distribute, and manage the demand
> for these devices?

Those folks will still be around, look at your typical smoke shop for a good corollary. But it is a smaller part of the drug industry than the production and distribution of the product.
I too wish that. We are just going to have a huge backslash eventually and that will prevent us from advancing humanity.

And while I think their chosen axises of discrimination are pretty stupid I can see what they were trying to do - keep out the kind of people nobody wants to spend time with anyway - and that is something everybody does.
There won't be a problem if the string happens to be e.g. "toString", I guess. Although they added a 'Map' for that, too.
I don't want to be too down on peoples' beverage or anything. I enjoy a decent cup of coffee myself now and then. But... yeah, I'm also a little distressed at the culture of heavy drug use to get through the working day.

"In crunch time I've had like 10 bottles in a day", says the Wikimedia engineer. Ugh. What other unhealthy habits should we start to be more productive at our jobs? Most of us probably have plenty of free sugary snacks in the office already, so perhaps we can start smoking or become alcoholics to relieve stress on the job?
Ron Carter, who played with Shorter and Hancock in Miles' second Quintet, is still active. Mid '60s, though.
Modern climate control systems are quite nice if setup correctly and do a very good job. Probably save them quite a bit of money over the 30+ year lifespan of the new system.
Not exactly related , but my grandmother often tells my parents :

Pray to god that you and your children have long lives. Whatever comes afterwards , we can endure.
How 'Diet Gurus' Hook Us with Religion Veiled in Science
I'm a lazy user and you lost me at the "sign-up" process.

Would be great if it was possible to auth via Google, Facebook
I too would like to see the details of the whole thing, including using docker in your docker so you can integrate while you integrate as appropriate.