jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Leaving a subsidy on the table is not exactly like leaving money on the table for either party. They lower costs and lower the tax revenue from a business, but they don't represent a cost (outside of the cost to negotiate and write the deal). It seems like calling the people involved idiots (or suggesting the entire company is...setting itself up to fail to execute?) requires knowing internal details of Foxconn's financials.

A $1bn increase in revenue would be less than a 1% increase for Foxconn overall. That suggests they're probably willing to bear extremely high costs to establish new sites, as long as those sites will eventually yield significant revenue. Their negotiating tactics here seem short sighted from my point of view, but when you're as large as they are you create your own conditions.

Edit: Like...this deal seems to allow them to operate any of their businesses in Wisconsin. If they decide not to, they burn bridges in Wisconsin, but they wouldn't care about burning those bridges because burning them means they don't want to do business in the state. It seems like all they lose is their negotiators' salaries, small (for them) facilities costs, and whatever general goodwill they lose.
LinkedIn is a ghetto with no redeeming value.

It has close to 0 value for job seekers. In the past year I’ve received 5 real contacts from hiring managers (sadly all of whom wanted SRE, not DevOps. I find sre dull and I would rather be on the dole than waste my life in performance analysis).

I also received over 1,500 connection requests and 5,000 InMails from parasitic headhunters. None of those had jobs amenable to my location or skillset. 75% of them were from spam houses in India. The other 25% were from generally incompetent headhunting sweatshops in the usa.

I don’t give a crap about inspirational stories frok the head of DailyMail (I Hired a FELON), or other social media garbage. I just wanted a job.

I gave up on my search and deleted my linkedin protile for good this week. It was the most freeing feeling since deleting pagerduty and facebook.

I worked for Reid Hoffman about 20 years ago. If I could get him on the phone I would ask him if he had any idea what a piece of trash linkedin has become.
Even though Google’s not bulletproof, I don’t think any search engine that indexes literally every page could be created to block all abuse.
Much of that's historical reputation, though. Netflix actually underpays compares to some of its peers in the valley now. As of early 2020 my perception (somewhat based on levels.fyi data, as well as personal & friends' salary data) is that the ordering is roughly FaceBook > Snap > AirBnB > Google > Lyft > Stripe > Uber > Netflix > Microsoft > Apple > Amazon > (old-line tech like IBM, Oracle, HP, Juniper, Cisco). This was pre-COVID and tends to move around a lot with stock prices though.
It's bizarre that in this tread, the US dollar is treated like an immaculate flawless tool for transferring value. But in every thread about economics, its agreed the US dollar lacks trusts, is being manipulated by the fed, and is the leading cause of gross wealth inequality.
And that is why there is only one real threat, if it is even real, from Apple.

If Apple actually makes a half decent EV, it will put a massive dent in Tesla..
link is too strong a word. He draws a parallel between the situations, but doesn't say the one is causing the other, just that they have some similarities.
I have done a few tests on this brand bidding thing.

A couple of writeups can be found at:

http://www.eanalytica.com/blog/unforseen-risks-when-stopping...

http://www.eanalytica.com/blog/Richard-Fergie-at-Biddable-Wo...
That’s not the only thing that paying for content gives you, though. Paying for content gives you a right to the content, it gives you a power over the content, just like paying taxes gives you a vote and power over the country’s governance. If you don’t pay for it, then you can’t really expect the website to be working for you.
Meh.

At one point, I'd have said, "Yes, I would prefer that." And I think in the long run we'd be better off. People love pointing out how much of the internet is available because of ads, but they don't point out how much of it is shitty and difficult to use because of ads. I can do without clicking through 5 pages of useless blog spam looking for a real article, and stories with seven paragraphs split up over 14 pages for ad purposes. Those are business models that deserve to die, IMO.

I think a big chunk of the internet knows that going ad-free would mean they'd go from making small amounts of money off of ad clicking suckers, to making no money from anybody.

But, that said, adblocking software is so good lately, I don't mind keeping the current setup. I'm not paying, and I'm not seeing the ads, so I get the best of both worlds.
Articles like this sadden me deeply. There are too many Java programmers who are misinformed about the merits of their language and the supposed weaknesses of other languages—especially C++. I've worked extensively with Java and C++ for nearly twenty years, so I know the ins and outs of each. I have never understood why people would say that the performance of Java has "caught up" with C++. It's not even close. When you use Java, you don't use it for speed. You want C++ for that. As for safety, C++ has made major strides in the last few years and is now, by virtue of features like std::shared_ptr<>, as safe as you want it to be. But that leads us to "simplicity." There's no question that Java wins here. C++ is an incredibly complicated language—a federation of languages, as Scott Meyers says. The benefit of C++ is that it can (as of C++11, anyway) marry both extreme speed and excellent safety—but to do so you either have to really know what you're doing or abide by a strict subset of the language. Java holds you to a stricter subset to begin with. There's a loss of power but a gain in simplicity.

Of course neither language is terribly safe as compared with a modern functional language, but that's not on the post author's radar.

Frankly, if I were choosing a set of languages to work with now I would not choose Java and C++. I'd choose C++ and Haskell, or some such highly pure language. Java provides a "blue collar" level of safety, but I find in general that the gains over modern C++ in this area are not worth the costs. If I really want a clearly safer language than C++ (or C), I want something a lot safer (and, preferably, faster) than Java.

But those whose careers are tied to Java will keep beating these drums. Sad.
I'm a HEMA practitioner from The Netherlands

> I doubt it has close resemblance with medieval long sword fighting, though :-)

It does actually resemble it very much, but medieval longsword fighting was probably very different than what you think it was.

> It must have been a lot slower fighting in leather, chainmail or plate armor than in this ultra light modern equipment.

Not really. The main difference is visibility. First, the modern HEMA equipment is a lot heavier than e.g. standard fencing gear. It's a lot thicker (like those dog attack suits) and often have steel or kevlar plates in the inside. Second, medieval gear wasn't all that heavy. I have a full suit of maille (as it's really called) and it weighs less than 15 kilos, helmet included. A full steel plate armour shouldn't weight more than 25 kilos. That's less than modern soldiers have to carry around on the battlefield.

The biggest difference is that a fencing mask gives you better visibility than a historical closed helmet.

> these guys fight one on one

That's what happened in medieval times too most often. The original medieval books were written mostly for one-on-one combat, either for dueling or trial-by-sword. That happened a lot more than being caught in a war on a battlefield. Swords have little use on a medieval battlefield anyway. You use different weapons and tactics.

> And fighting on some uneven, damp meadow [...] would be hard compared to fighting indoor on a floor.

My HEMA group trains for this as well, and I suspect many other groups too. It is also mentioned in the medieval books. I have trained in loose sand, in the surf on a beach, in deep snow, etc. It's true that competitions are usually held indoors on an even ground though.
Let's be honest here, you didn't read the article.
Here's some links on average returns for the Dow Jones (ie, top public companies in the US): [1][2]

I appreciate the links, but didn't find information about the extremes. What I'm looking for would be something more like this paper [1] on Extreme Value Theory but with more pretty pictures.

I got lost in this one soon after the introduction, but was interested in their statements "cross country evidence that the tail behaviour of returns is leptokurtic" and "the tail distribution is of the Fréchet type, hence fat-tailed". I was hoping for a cartoon graph showing just how fat that tail is.

I think you are saying that you think 1000% per year returns are normal for the top 0.1% of companies.

Essentially, but subtly different. Saying that I "wouldn't be surprised" was more to express the degree of my uncertainty than to state my belief. And I posited .01%, rather than .1%. To put numbers on it, it strikes me as plausible that 3 out of the 2700 listed Nasdaq issues would be up 10x for the year.

Occasionally you may get a smaller resource oriented company that fids oil, gold reserves or something and sees a 1000% increase. Or a small drug company that has a successful trial. These are very unusual too though

How unusual? I'd like to put a number on it. Is a gain of 10x over a year a 1 out of 1000 event, which would make it likely for a couple Nasdaq stocks a year? What about 100x returns over a larger number of years? I'd guess that it's happened at least a few times, but don't know.

My instinct would be that it's a fat tail, but not as fat as the VC market. Rather than hoping for 10x over 10 years (26% year-over-year) with carefully chosen startups, with a broad market index you'd probably lucky to hit 3x (12% compounded).

But what would the long term expected returns be for a broad portfolio of mining companies, pre-trial pharmaceuticals, and internet IPO's? And how would it compare to an average VC firm? I have no idea.

[1] http://www.hec.fr/var/fre/storage/original/application/3b27b... (PDF)
I'd recommend Cory's latest book: "Information doesn't want to be free" where he addresses the problems presented by DRM and other copyright issues. It's a short read but hugely valuable for folks creating digital content. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00R4ZJTMO?btkr=1
Why does the title say Apple is shutting down OpenNI, then link to a page that says nothing about it? Furthermore, how do you shut down someone else's company, and how do you shut down a project whose code is freely available? This doesn't make sense.
Kinda looks like the opening to A New Hope.
Xi: Obey our nine dashed line or no power for you.

China is being very smart here, they have leverage in this over the Philippines. The Philippines will eventually accept the nine dashed line and obey China on it. I mean they even won at The Hague and it changed nothing.
Exactly, here's the direct link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHI5-ne2F2I&feature=youtu.be...
Depends where. This is treasure trove, (the discovery, or trover of treasure cache, deliberately hidden goods that can be classified as treasure, especially gold/silver) and the laws around that are a bit of a mess in a lot of places (particularly in the US, where most states opted to receive common law and there are several contradictory precedents).
Link to the source: http://www.pnas.org/content/110/46/18442.abstract

Relevant quotes from the abstract:

Adults with lower family income at age 9 exhibited reduced ventrolateral and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex activity and failure to suppress amygdala activation during effortful regulation of negative emotion at age 24. ... The findings demonstrate the significance of childhood chronic stress exposures in predicting neural outcomes during emotion regulation in adults who grew up in poverty.
how can you read that? I look at your comment and look at the HUD and can't match up any of the numbers and axis to your observations? how do you read this?
Do you program in - or what do you prefer - right to left as in Arabic or left to right as in Latin ?
edit: I see now that the image was taken through a mirror, I thought it was right-to-left programming.
Fortunately in the US, it's democracy all the way down (up?). The issue is that while municipal zoning boards are great at producing good outcomes for homeowners they are terrible at producing good outcomes for the region's residents. Unless we're going to start arguing for the abolition of state / federal governments then it's perfectly reasonable to discuss which democratic body best encompasses all the stakeholders. We don't let towns vote to secede from the US either.
The short and true answer is that it sucks, but it gets better as you get older.

I ended up going shaved head at 25, late twenties were better than early twenties (also I think that's just generally true for men and dating).

The other bit I found is that the decision to shave it and accept it lead to an increase in overall confidence which also helped.
I guess that makes sense. The quality of their support is probably directly correlated to the level of internal tooling to help diagnose issues. For more popular/older services that tooling is probably better.
definitely not relevant to all web-dev, but Discord found that the garbage collection in go was causing bad performance spikes and switched to go for one of their read-state services: https://blog.discord.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to...
As an Israeli who was involved in Gaza Sky Geeks but didn’t get to follow up with mentees I just wanted to share that your story is inspiring and encouraging and congratulations on your hard earned job.

It’s shameful we have so many bright Gazans but stupid politics prevents the natural technical collaboration that could arise. I work with many Arab developers (in a big company) here and the divide between Gaza/West Bank/Israeli Arabs is so frustrating and upsetting to me.

Best of luck and keep inspiring!
Can confirm - in a large React app, SVG Font Awesome icons constituted a disproportionate amount of time spent rendering. Switching to the icon font dramatically improved performance.
No idea about the rest of the comments, but in this particular case it's probably just the lack of value for the others. It's a musing on your experiences with bitcoin, but doesn't help or inform anybody else.
Sounds okay to me.
How these polls are made by the way?
Reminder: BLM protests had wide-scale looting. Looters breaking into luxury stores and hauling off with anything not bolted down. Not the same scope. Not the same standard.
I had almost the exact opposite experience. I was in a typing class, but I'd been typing for several years (programming c/c++ on an old 286). I breezed through the typing portion, then started messing around with the computer itself. The teacher caught me, and said "You know what? I know how to handle this.". He handed me a copy of something called "Visual Basic version 4". The rest is history.
Eminem has written some really good lines. His play with words is just fantastic.
It's not bitcoin, greed is rampant - pocketing cash is a lot easier than pocketing bitcoin. Bitcoin has traceability, and you would assume the average LEO wouldn't have a wealth of knowledge to steal and launder it without getting caught.

Cash on the other hand, they can take out of the brown paper bag, shove in their jacket and it's essentially theirs.
Forgetting that Chemists and Apothecaries existed hundreds of years ago or did I mis-interpret?
This article is a good starting point to talk about technology choices. But there are many issues with applying the advice in the real world.

First, he is intertwining two seperate issues, limiting tech choices in an organisation, and incorporating new technologies. Keep in mind that you can have seperate strategies for both.

Secondly, there is no notion as to how big a change a token is worth. Obviously switching languages is a much bigger change than switching caching libraries.

Thirdly, there is no mention of project size. Should a 3 month project get the same tokens as a two year project? This year we have created ~300 microservices. If each was allowed 3 tokens we would have 900 new tech changes in this year alone. That's unmanageable.

Fourthly, what is your organisational strategy and culture? If an engineer prototypes in a new language is that a problem because it is seen as wasteful? Perhaps it is something that will make the other devs jealous? Or is it considered an investment in the company and a risk mitigation strategy? Do you have the kind of engineers and tech leads who will do a lot of this prototyping and experimentation on their own time?
No. Advancements in science are where you show that it's possible to do something in particular, like control the level of HIV in someone's bloodstream or make a better airbag. Wonderful! But turning that knowledge into a technology that can be deployed to the people that need, and then actually deploying it, involves a lot of resources - both material and and labor - and those resources come with a price tag.

It's not like once we learn something in the lab we can just make it available to everyone for free. I mean, you could go to Wikipedia right now and read about, say, aeronautics and all the theory of how air flowing over a wing can provide lift, and articles on structural engineering and so on. But having that knowledge is not the same thing as having a plane, or having access to a plane ticket. If you would like to fly from A to B, you need a functional aircraft first.
Minnesota was second to last, I like to think that being slow to adopt the law also means that the aggregate rate of people carrying concealed weapons is lower, or will at least take longer to reach the levels of southern states.

To the point of cops however: All cops get a 50 state exempt conceal and carry permit for life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_Enforcement_Officers_Safety...
Lots of comments not wanting to give away full Gmail access to use this tool. Could this be done as a desktop app, which you can sandbox and ensure it isnt uploading your data off your computer
I guess the question is, given perfect information, can we get the probability of a decision given a brain state? What does it mean for "free will" (whatever that means) if the answer to that is YES? What about NO?
> Olson says you are twice as likely to choose from the very top or very bottom of the menu – because those areas first attract your eye.

Unless you're a vegetarian and there's one option tucked away on page 2.

Which illustrates one way of countering these sorts of manipulation tricks: a very slight offset from the mainstream.

If you find that when you're looking for a product you only end-up with one option that meets your requirements, or perhaps even only one that only partially meets them, then you're pretty much unsusceptible to 'buy this now' pressure.
Fortunately, there are other large organisations employing decision-makers which understand the business value of type systems.

Apple: https://developer.apple.com/swift

Facebook: http://flowtype.org + http://hacklang.org + http://hhvm.com

Microsoft: http://fsharp.org + https://haskell.org + http://typescriptlang.org

Mozilla: http://rust-lang.org

Google: The jury is out on this one.
And no multiprocessing is not a solution, as it does not allows to share memory between processes.

You actually can. multiprocessing defines a few classes (e.g. Array) that store their data in a mmap kept in the module. Data there will be visible to all processes, and you can even have a numpy array as a view to this data.

That said, my attempts at working with this recently have been pretty painful. multiprocessing tries, but at least in Python 2.7 does not succeed in abstracting away the differences between Unix forks and Windows spawns. This results in a lot of weird issues: things running differently in command line vs. console IPython vs. IPython notebook; the need to structure your code to avoid pickling errors; etc. This is probably the biggest portability issue I've encountered with Python thus far (using it mostly for scientific problems.)

I'm aware that there are solutions to some of these issues out there, but it's too bad that the standard library implementation has these issues.
Inside Google we do that as well, but it's actually distinct from bazel. Bazel is a build language, and I believe they provide a reference implementation. It's not unimaginable (and as I mentioned, it has been done internally) to use caching, incremental, distributed builds. In fact, it was originally designed with those goals in mind.
IDK if you noticed, but half the population watches brainwashing "entertainment" disguised as "news", which actively pushes conspiracy theories and disinformation down their welcoming throats.
Can I subscribe to the Economist without having to call them to cancel the subscription?
is this something along the lines of multinational companies requiring multinational government/governance?
Trip-dub!
I didn't say it was illegal, just dickish.

Fraud... maybe. It might possibly qualify as an attempt to deceive. I think it would be a very weak case and practically impossible to make that argument.

That dynamic reactive 2nd attempt to trick you, which is only invoked if you caught and declined the first, is materially different from the first attempt, and different from if the installer always presented both extras.

The special difference is just that it exposes the intent which was theoretically deniable otherwise, even if everyone "just knows" what's really going on.

If an installer always proposes an extra, or 2, or 13, then the vendor can claim "I'm just offering this extra that I honestly and sincerely believe the user might be interested in and might benefit from".

We "just know" that's bs, but it's possible and it's hard to disprove purely on the face of it.

You could try by pointing out things like how the outer packaging only said that the contents would be Product not Product+OtherProduct, and how the checkbox for the non-advertized and un-expected extra was pre-selected and visually tiny. But that just doesn't quite add up to proof of anything.

But offering one extra, and then only trying again with another if the user declined the first, THAT exposes that the only intent of the extra was to get the user to take it any way they can manage to do it, and not a sincere "offer" of something the user might have actually voluntarily sought otherwise.

It's not that it's 100x more evil. The norm is already bad, and this is just a little more of the same.

It's that it exposes the true intent in a way that can't be denied.

It also invalidates any arguments based on "the user accepted" something. You'd never actually win in court, but in plain conversational argument, if say the crapware caused some damage, the vendor could't claim that the user voluntarily accepted the risk of damage by voluntarily installing the software. But like I said that's just fantasy academic theory. You'd never actually make that stick in court.
That point is super weird, because the court has a tendency to make the narrowest ruling that is able to resolve the case in front of them. Clearly the fair use question is more narrow than the question of copyrightability of APIs.