jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>obscene pension liabilities

What seems that way to you has turned out to not even be as much prosperity as it should have been for those having the most effective inflation-calibrated plans.

There was no other way to even come close to what employers had intended for their people when they granted these benefits in lieu of full market pay. That's how destructive inflation was.

And of course for the vast majority of retirees it has always fallen far short of what could have been since inflation has been calibrated over the years to continually bring the buying power of gains downward the more that accrue regardless.
Yes, you're right and I wish your thoughtful approach was the norm. But what I see is mob like behaviour where "the science" is presented as irrefutable fact with heaps of scorn piled on anyone who dares question the orthodoxy. I just wish there was more general acknowledgement of our limitations and vulnerability with regard to the scientific process and its current conclusions.

As for global warming, your acceptance of it makes sense. We do have to proceed in life without 100% clarity in anything at all. We can only make our best assessment and then proceed in good faith.

But i'm reminded of a story about ancient astronomers who held closely guarded knowledge not known by the masses -- such as being able to accurately predict eclipses. Unscrupulous actors of the time could perform miracles by telling everyone that they were going to shut the sun off in the middle of the day. Witnesses to such an event might start off as a skeptic, but be brought around as they saw evidence of this miracle man's ability to control the sun. The moral of the story being that even when we see evidence for ourselves, the explanation we're given about why it is happening should not necessarily be accepted without skepticism.
What you are describing could be achieved with asm.js, together with threading as proposed here:

https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2015/02/26/the-path-to-p...
You had me convinced at 'real solution is to not have children'. While this is a compelling social message, I don't believe Amazon would knowingly, consciously, commit to such a message.

Quod erat demonstrandum ... it's an April Fools'.
Something clear from Stadia is that the prices are not real.

You or I could rent a server for games and make a service like Stadia on top of Gcs/Aws/Azure -- but the pricing would be constrained by the factors you mention.

The one time purchase might change things a little -- some of the controller will be bought for Christmas and never played, others will play just a little, so you might be able to pay for 40 hours of gaming or so at market rates.

Google doesn't pay market rates, but it has the opportunity cost of not selling servers to customers that will pay more.

The business doesn't have to work financially for Google since they have "more money than God" and because they might be happy to kneecap EA, Msft and Sony the same way that Xbox was insurance for a home computing transition away from Windows.

Of course there will be a day that the bean counters take a look at how much cash it is bleeding and decide to axe Stadia. Most likely it will be a rounding error for GCS.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21597763
> Hoodlum!

I think there's a valid concern that we would be seen this way if we contacted our reps.

This is why I think it's important that you present and carry yourself well, be prepared about what you want to talk about, and anticipate questions by having well-thought-out answers ready. These people consider themselves professionals, so despite our views of them, we will better communicate our points if we demonstrate professionalism and respect.
Technically, we spend a bit less on SS than defense spending, as this nice visualization tool shows[1]

1: https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/budget_function
We (StatsBomb) make a bunch of stuff available at:

https://github.com/statsbomb/open-data

Interesting stuff from Metrica too:

https://github.com/metrica-sports/sample-data

There are other less legit sources that you may be able to work out for yourself. :)
Neither of these were EU countries, but both of our exchanges had KYC. I don't believe there was anything illegal about what we did.

And I'm not libertarian (I'm far too socialist), but I do believe that there are problems with the extent to which we are being tracked by governments, especially because I have a lot of issue with various laws around the world (see: criminalizing homosexuality, drugs, sex toys, women driving) I do believe controlling the methods by which people pay for things extends government control, and having more freedom there allows more personal freedom in general. Perhaps surprisingly, I do support paying due taxes (when it's often what funds social services and social programs).

Actually, speaking of money laundering, I learned recently that you can pay taxes on illicit income and the IRS won't have any issue with you. However, I don't trust that this isn't used to track down criminals by criminal agencies. Money laundering allows people to pay their taxes without implicating themselves, so in many ways it's something I support.

I'm not in any way suggesting cryptocurrency is a good way to get around government tracking. Cash might often be better. I don't particularly support KYC, so I'm excited to see the development around decentralized exchanges. And I think painting all "crime" with the same brush is quite reductive. Yesterday's crime is too often tomorrow's activism: Breaking an NDA to expose human right's abuses, using a VPN to browse wikipedia, the list goes on.

But yes, I 100% agree about PoW being problematic, and have frequently posted on HN about how the only way it will be solved is through government intervention. I guess I'm not much of an anarchist either.
Yep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfuKRdgnmO8 - this is the best version in my opinion (aside from the "classic" version with Natalia O'Shea as Takhisis)
Issues of whether this is prescriptive or not aside, I think this hits close to a paulg tweet: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1378646213113868289

Of course, I think this whole idea is basically flirting the same thoughts as "sensible defaults" and "paradox of choice". Which is somewhat of an ironic fight between having all of the options, but not requiring all of the options. A hedge, if you will, around what you may want to do in the future.
Exactly. And us Europeans just got our collective ass handed to us, realizing that our new shiny planned rockets wont cut it in direct competition even if us tax payers shoulder the development costs.

Elon says stupid things sometimes, but I would rather have most of the time, than more stupid manager talk from our German companies with their 'electrified intelligence' and AI in our dashboards (because they bind a GPS coordinate to a setting like Tesla).
Nah, bentley, aston martin, and the other british car companies simply make bad cars in comparison to competitors.

It wasn't unions that killed them
> Atomically replacing the whole file instead of updating the data in-place, and using a checksumming filesystem like ZFS should give you such guarantee, no?

No. You need to use fsync to ensure the file is flushed to disk. Also careful not to rename the file across mount points (/tmp is often a different mount and the most common location for people trying this.)

> Well, yeah. A daily cron job that `scp`s the data to an offsite location. Personally I don't really see much problem with that? It's easy to backup, and easy to restore.

That's fine, but your backup and restore granularity is daily. If you introduce a bug that writes the wrong / partial data, you can't recover anything that isn't in the previous day's backup.

With a typical database you have a transaction log and you could restore back to any point during the day.

This has been necessary about a dozen times during my career (once every two years or so on average.)
Because they use Signal to secure work comms, and it's a steal even with a donation of n amount?

Or was this snark?
No need for scare quotes around insurrection dude, this fits the textbook definition
he deleted his account. it's absolutely not reasonable to accept my message without informing me the user I'm sending to is not on the platform anymore
If you do not know how to build a bridge you should not be in charge of taking the decision of howto build it
As can someone pretending to be a child. And they can make 5 accounts pretending to be different people. If it is revealed that they take money from Big Toy then, provided they protected their identity enough, they can just move on to another account.

Our mindset is based around a form of discourse where we stop listening to people when we discover they're using their free speech to lie. Now you don't know who the liars are.
Do you mean literal "paper" (which is irrelevant) or M1, which is largely electronic?
Can someone mirror the content for those of us without a facebook account?
Cool. That said this guy is basically describing a notebook. No computer necessary. If his goal was a 1000 year computer that would be something.

Unless every person on earth wants to become a PHD in CS this is a dead end. How do you fix this computer otherwise, hire someone? Yeah its called the market and it sells $150 replacement computers when yours dies. Exactly 1 person on earth would use this and its the author.

It always bothers me a bit when tech people get so wrapped up in a rabbit hole of a pointless obsession. His skills/time could be used much better elsewhere.
I still don't get the practical advantage of this. As someone said below he/she wrote one and running similar setup in production. Just why? Typicall you access internal stuff over intranet over VPN. How is running both 22 and 443 on 443 in this multiplexing way help security?
> at this point it's widely agreed that the image it projects is that of a Narcissistic Douchebag Glasshole.

If you read the comments carefully, you will realize that I explicitly stated that the current devices would be too obtrusive for this purpose. It is possible that there would be a negative backlash over the use of such a device, but it would not be caused by the appearance of the device, if properly executed.
Sorry but forming hypothesis based on observations, which is what assumptions means to me, is induction.
They are fallible so they need to be proven in order to be accepted. Usually that's done by proof of contradiction.

But you don't need to prove them to use them. Many people go around believing unproven theories.
In the sciences the preference is for verified theories(and theorems in math) and we prove them by deduction.

But it seems that you know that. I don't understand why you don't like induction in a general algorithm. We don't have to restrict ourselves to a single type of reasoning. Induction, deduction, abduction are all valid and used by humans for generating new knowledge.

I might be misunderstanding something in which case please correct me.
Real artists ship. Microsoft obviously has plenty of good ideas but their execution is always lacking. I see nothing different about what Nadella is doing. If anything he seems more inclined towards flashy bs and talk over shipping.

Microsoft:

> "You could be one of the first to experience Skype Translator. All you need to do is sign up to be a preview user and we will keep you posted on what comes next."

http://www.skype.com/en/translator-preview/

Google:

> "What's New in Version 3.1.0
• Word Lens: Just point your camera to a sign or text and the Translate app will instantly translate the text, even without Internet/data connection.
• Automatic language detection in speech/conversation mode - start translating with speech input and Translate will recognize which of the two languages is being spoken, allowing you to have a more fluid conversation with another person."

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-translate/id414706506...
Summer and winter according to whom?
I'm hard of hearing, and to first order I cannot ever hold a conversation in public in a city: outside it's cars, inside it's crowds and music. Once upon a time I looked forward to electric cars taking over; now I expect this regulation to persist long after there are good other solutions for safety.
I suspect you simply haven't found the right subreddits yet.
I'd pay $20/month or more for a service that:

* had high quality streams

* had gigantic library

* _biggest of all_ cracked the 'discovery' nut.

I listen to music all day, I don't like to listen to the same tracks more than a few times so I have a hard time keeping my queue full.

I'm a Spotify subscriber so I'll find an artist I think is interesting, play their whole discography and then start digging into 'related artists' to find new stuff.

This is a bit of a drag and is hit or miss. I don't necessarily want to find related music, but music that I might like. Spotify's radio feature is just about useless. Voting one way or the other will skew it to play pretty much _only_ the thumbs up'ed artist or avoid a genre entirely if you thumbs down a particular track.

I still think there is a killer music service waiting to be born. I don't think Tidal will be it.
I don't get one thing. Isn't CNAME also bad for "them". I mean with CNAME, they can serve adds, cookies ... from site subdomain, bypassing blockers. But how will they track users on different sites, like user vising website1 and then website2? Since their tracking cookies are now part of website1, they won't be sent to website2.

I mean is there any replacement for them, not using cookies? Because cookies seems to be the only global storage for user identification data. Since tracking script was hosted on their domains (and included into websites with script tag), cookies were shared across all site, that included that tracking script. IMO when they switch to CNAME trick, they will loose this capability.
This would be a killer app on Google Glass.
A friend of mine has said that there are three things someone can bring to a startup

- The ability to build a product

- The ability to bring in money (either VC or sales)

- The ability to tolerate risk

As a technical founder who has worked with many non-technical people, I have found it quite rare that a non-technical founder can bring in much on the product side. Almost every non-technical founder I have worked with claims that he is a "product person," but I have found that pretty much none of them are.

Some non-technical founders are good sales people, and can bring in either VC, customers, or both. Some technical founders can do this too, but if you are good enough at this, you will be pulling your weight.

The final thing is the ability to tolerate risk. If you can keep the team motivated and on-target even when things are going badly, that is almost enough in many cases. Very few technical founders can do this well (since most engineers are pretty risk averse), so this is an opportunity to distinguish yourself.

In summary, if you can raise money AND keep everyone else happy and productive, you are pretty much doing your job at the early stage.
Adjusting for inflation or calculating debt as a percentage of GDP allows you to say it has decreased, yes.

In either case, the number of dollars owed has not decreased under Clinton. http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/history.gif
Correct, this concept even has it's own wiki page, the "economic majority": https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Economic_majority
Please have a look at:

http://www.cloudsigma.com/en/our-cloud/how-we-compare (feature comparison)

https://cloudsleuth.net/web/guest/global-provider-view (select Europe for a comparison of our cloud performance against other providers)
If you're making $47K in IT in USA, you're doing something very wrong. If you actually have skills, you could be making $70K.

Salary depends on

1) Previous salary

2) New title/rank

3) The industry (and how well it's doing)

4) Years of experience

5) Previous salary

6) Negotiation skills

7) Education

8) How well you interview

9) Skills (if the interviewer cares)

10) Your age and gender (sad but true)

11) References

12) How hot the market is (if there's a lack of developers in your area of expertise, you can get some crazy raises every year by switching jobs)

> All in all I consider myself a very good programmer (Honestly I'd guess in the top 80% of programmers, I haven't met one that's better than myself, but I don't consider myself nearly as experienced as a lot of the people here)

There are many horrible developers out there. Being the top 20% is really not a big deal. If you want to make real money, try to be the top 1%.
What's quite funny is that back then Java was still almost exclusively an "applet" or "desktop application" thing. Choosing Java for a server application was quite unusual.
You know, I almost wonder if it's intentional. Using an image-based seizure page with a very generic image name prevents search engines from having any content to spider (and thereby prevents people from searching for seized sites).
Maybe they're doing something to minimize the amount of data that needs to be transferred when a file inside a TC image is changed.
That's an incredibly badly written article. I fail to discern any intelligible point of view from the author.
Weren't most of them moved to other jobs at Yahoo?
Congrats on the new app :)

I'll share a few things:

I'd suggest revising/rethinking your one sentence pitch that, "Encode is an online video converter built for people who don't care about conversion details." The "conversion details" would be what exactly? To me, I interpret that to me "what format the output file is". If that's the case, then every single user/person is interested in the "conversion details". If you meant something else, then I didn't get it.

Also, I don't guess that I understand who would use this. When you buy almost any video camera, digital camera with video, or even video phones, almost all of them come with a way to convert/output the video into multiple formats. There are several open source converters as well and even iTunes can do some conversion. Maybe this is what you mean by "conversion details"?

I would also agree with lukeinth that pricing seems "off". But... what startup web app ever gets that right anyway!?!

Enjoy the journey and congrats again for putting it together
And what of the "unuseful successful innovation"?

1) Android is growing like wildfire-- contributes over a billion to revenue last year it was claimed.

2) Google App Engine serves over a billion page load a day.

3) Google Apps? I love it--

etc etc.

Spin-off is a technique, but I don't think it's the only way to go.
I think lonely people crave companionship more than sex - given the choice. Society has formed in a way where "beautiful people" tend to get the breaks, get the sex and generally have a better quality of life. I understand a big part of this is also down to evolution and reproduction, but we have entire industries built on sexual aspiration such as fashion, advertising and porn.

I understand people crave sexual gratification, that's human nature, but I think products like this will only serve to compound the problem, make more people who feel this way look inward and ultimately more unfulfilled and lonely.

Would research and technology not be better served if it was used to help break these barriers and bring people together - rather than isolate them in their own lonely existences.

I am aware a lot of this is my own opnion, I just think it's pretty disgusting that this could be a possible future.
I think you're going insane.

I just looked up all the smartphones in both my family and my girlfriend's family, and they're all compatible (BlackBerry 5 (9650), iPhone 3GS & 4 (iOS 4 for both), and Android 2.1 (Ally, Droid, Droid Incredible).
I completely agree with @evilmushroom and strongly disagree with the article. Especially about the "That allows the company to encourage engineers to waste 20% of their time on "projects", like Google Wave."

Maybe I was the one user that really enjoyed using wave, it is a great collaboration tool if you have between 2 and 8 people working on one thing. We wrote entire(60+pages) of design documents in wave. Its also a great note taking tool since for example in class, especially if you have many people working together on the same set of notes.

And now to get to the "20% of wasted time", this time is NOT wasted. It is an investment in the companies ability to innovate and also in their employees themselves. Without time to spend on other projects, one starves the creative mind, which is bad for the individual and especially bad for the company as a whole.
In my spare time I've been working on an apache weblog rollup for piwik. I wonder if this one has something like that... or even if it'd be a little easier in OWA? Piwik has made a number of choices that prevents the rollup of logfiles (for now) - I'd be happy to abandon the heatmap and screen resolution metrics for historical data ... just so long as it meant I was able to add my historical data to the system.
Relevant research:

* Cold acclimation recruits human brown fat and increases nonshivering thermogenesis
http://www.jci.org/articles/view/68993

* Calorie-burning triggered by cold temperatures can be achieved biochemically – without the chill
http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2014/06/114951/immune-system-molecu...
> Doesn't the xfinitiwifi inject ads MITM-style?

No.

I feel like this post should be longer, but I can't think else to say. The answer to your question is: No.
Here's what it used to look like, for those who had never heard of this product: https://i.imgur.com/uIHcEN4.png
I'm not sure if you meant to convey a judgement relative quality. I think that the this video is more impressive than 8 floppy drives. I never thought a single printer would be capable of that tonal quality and that range of polyphonics. I don't mean to hate on MrSolidSnake745 though, his videos are dope.
I might gave to go that route. Thanks for reminding me.
> The only way it would increase bandwidth is if it evades artificial throttles.

Well obviously. They give you a specific bandwidth for your house, you can buy more or less bandwidth if you want.

> Having two connections to the same (neighborhood) pipe seems useless.

The neighborhood pipe can probably do 100 to 1000 times the bandwidth to each individual house. So how is that useless?

Plus with xfinitywifi they allocate double bandwidth to the house, so the wifi bandwidth doesn't slow down the purchased bandwidth. (The cable modem can easily handle 10 times the bandwidth typically allocated to it.)
This is actually true. Since moving the last time, I've found that a weekly trip to the farmer's market a few blocks away from home, with a stop in the butcher on the way back, solves 90% of my grocery needs. Beer, cleaning supplies, and grains I get monthly from the supermarket one block away.

Before moving here, I spent a long time making silly plans like carpooling with friends/relatives to shop in huge outlet centers away from the city centre, or looking for web sites where you can shop for groceries online. Living in a walkable neighborhood really changed my sense of perspective.

I live in São Paulo.