skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Their "value" is just a function of the job, not a measure of its worth.

There are two kinds of value. The first is economic, and is measured in money. In a market economy, where scarce resources are allocated to the one who values them most (and therefore will pay the most for them), that is the definition of value.

The second kind of value is social or moral. People have value or worth by virtue of being human, completely apart from their economic value. (For example, this is why it's illegal to murder poor people.) And jobs have value in this sense, too, that is different from their economic value. (Perhaps one sees the difference most starkly in the social value vs. economic value of elementary school teachers.)

I think you are comparing salary to social or moral value, which is not just a slippery slope, but is a meaningless comparison - a category error. Comparing salary to economic value, on the other hand, is completely reasonable.
No, editorial independence means that it's up to Dan to decide whether Michael's unbanned presence makes HN more like the site he wants to create, or less like the site he wants to create.

I don't know Michael, but my impression from his writing is that if one could pick and choose just his best comments, he'd be a valuable asset to the site. But if it's "all or nothing", I'm not sure.

I am getting to know Dan a bit, and I feel confident that his choice will be based on what he feels best for the site and the users as a whole, and that he will neither accept nor reverse previous decisions simply due to failure to reconsider.
I've only really known about OneNote since it came bundled with Windows 8/on the Surface RT I got at work.

It seems like a fairly good product, although I really only use it for bookmarking tabs that Chrome seems to lose when it crashes/updates itself and nukes the "recently closed tabs" list.
UK Pricing seems to be £339/£379 (5X) - £449/£499/£579 (6P)

That's the same numerical point, but gouged for living in the UK. The cheapest phone to purchase in the UK is about $515 dollars. Yeah, no thanks Google.
> This type of question gets asked a lot on the net and as someone with experience I can say it rarely matters what language you know its what you have built, can build and your architectural skills that matter

He's asking what his next language should be. I don't get the vibe here of a new programmer thinking he's staking his entire future on what programming language he decides to learn.

It's entirely possible to understand that the programming languages you know aren't as important as what you've built along with your knowledge of software engineering and computer science fundamentals, and yet still want input on the next PL you'll learn in your free time.
What makes them an "unreliable mess that cause more problems than they solve"? I've never had a single problem with an SD card. I put files on it, sometimes I read those files.
What excites you so much about the Gopher protocol? It's very boring (less interesting than e.g. FTP) and scarcely in use. If you're looking for a JS client for the Gopher protocol use OverbiteFF or something.
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Vouching seems to be more about people who are unfairly hellbanned being helped, rather than increasing the discussion quality. From what I have seen, a large amount of hellbanned users are trying to contribute, even if they do have slightly deviant opinions. As long as they are cordial, they should be able to take part in discussion.
the hardware has never been a problem, it was the terrible tablet apps. Seems to be getting better.
More so, VC funding and the push to become highly valued (gotta win that unicorn lottery) drives scope and feature bloat. Every company has to grow, grow grow. Every product has to expand and scale up until it's everything to all people.

Compare and contrast this with, say, craigslist, which still only has a few dozen employees. There's nothing wrong with keeping a product tightly scoped and keeping a business highly efficient and consistently profitable year after year, decade after decade. Maybe you don't get to ride the unicorn train, but maybe instead you get to work on something that you own (or own a big part of) and can enjoy your job consistently.
I replaced my Nexus 5 battery last night. It cost very little, took about 15mins and so far the battery life is looking great.

I followed this guide (without their tools):
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Nexus+5+Battery+Replacement/260...
Whoa, I’m pretty surprised. I thought Omni abandoned OmniWeb quite a long time ago, but it seems to still be getting updates!

http://omnistaging.omnigroup.com/omniweb/
Car companies already travel all over the US to test varying parts of the vehicle, with individual teams ending up in places like death valley, alaska, or north carolina's tail of the dragon. Why would they not do the same for autonomous testing?
Well they are using some nanotechnology which I interpret as that you can pack much more cooling power into a pretty small cube. And they themselves say that the cooling concept is old, but if the small cube can cool as well as a 1 m^3 old school cooler, I'm very interested.
Now you've got me wondering if that was intentional symbolism in the book or not. :)
Unless their copy on the website is a lie, the rates they're offering for courier jobs is actually quite competitive in the Seattle area. It's probably more about being able to control their own delivery experience than it is about cutting corners.
to take that commercial license you have to fly hundreds of hours. with and without instructors.

guess how much those hours cost.

i lost count of how many times I've flown just for the hell of it with friends getting those hours for a few hundred bucks.
Twitter's core product is still useful for a lot of people, it's just never going to be Facebook. It will eventually be bought by someone, probably Google.
It's a query language. Every database supports at least one query language. It's certainly reasonable to argue that natively implementing multiple query languages is "bloat" or "feature creep" (as some in the comment thread point out and suggest alternate approaches to avoid), but I don't think it's silly.
Replying to myself since I'm past my edit window.

Thanks everyone for chiming in and taking time to write your answers! I did know the general concepts behind O-notation, but no doubt I now understand it even better :).
On the other hand, I use https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc... and collapse comment threads daily. I find it to be very helpful to track of what I've read.
APIQL would have been a better name
I suppose it can mean that, but in practice, it doesn't. Being fired and being laid off are very different things in this year's English.

So different, in fact, that I have been "laid off" when the employer really had a mind to fire me for poor performance but wanted to avoid hurting my future prospects.

Here, don't take my word for it:

https://www.google.com/search?q=fired+laid+off
I stayed in a squat that came about the same way a few years back, and thought it was just a weird one off occurrence.
I have a setup in my apartment with speakers running throughout. The system is hooked up to a rack that contains a CD player, record player, and amplifier. For quite a while I've wanted to stream media to it but I haven't found a good way to do it that is also cheap.

I might not be the norm but I certainly have a good use for this.
Large companies appear to like to use common terms as product names for some reason... e.g.: plus, alphabet, etc...
Upgrades generally not just(or possibly even) safety software, will have an assigned value of the developer hours assigned to creating and maintaining upgrades and will be built into the cost of cars. Unlike 4 wheel drive, which legitimately needs to be more expensive having much more hardware, software releases can leverage pre existing APIs and hardware interfaces.

If we assume that either all cars have the software priced in, a "good actor" would allow you to pay less for "blizzard navigation software" if you lived in S. California.

At this point, Tesla is so new that they will make it as attractive as possible and push all of their updates for free. I also have a high degree of trust, at least relative to other auto companies, in Tesla. One would imagine GM, or another less scrupulous company would try to do something like this if they were the front runners.

edit: Point taken though. I am also not keen on some of the other car and boat manufacturers producing identical engines, and then having you "pay" to unlock more horepower.
It's only got a single front facing speaker too.
"Their "value" is just a function of the job, not a measure of its worth."

I think we need to be careful with terminology here. I'm defining value as return on investment (and sometimes I'll be using the expected return on investment interchangeably).

An employer hires an engineer because they want product x. If the employer thought they could receive $100k selling product x, they'd be silly to pay >= $100k to the engineer. So at the very least, we can agree that the upper bound for salary depends on the value the employee provides.

Salespeople in particular are great at capturing the value they produce. It's extremely easy to measure the production of someone in sales. This is why it's common in many industries for the compensation of a salesperson to be an extremely high percentage of the margin on a sale. By virtue of their value being so easily measurable, salespeople are able to capture a much greater amount of their value than many other professions.

All I'm saying is that comparatively, software engineers do a poor job of capturing their value.
The first two charts in the "Growth" section has significantly different scaling!
From the FAQ:

> Can I post a job ad?

> Please do not post job ads as story submissions to HN.

> A regular "Who Is Hiring?" thread appears on the first weekday of each month. Most job ads are welcome there. (But only an account called whoishiring is allowed to submit the thread itself. This prevents a race to post it first.)

Remember to repost in two days in the official thread.
Disagree about a lack of improvements. Some recent ones I'm a fan of: better handling of multimedia, better "quote tweet", polls, engagement metrics, and a bunch of UI improvements.
Unlocking your phone is done so frequently that many people opt not to secure it. The best security is one that you use. It's arguably more secure than a 4 number passcode, which someone can easily watch you enter over your shoulder.

Buying things on the App Store requires you to type in a password for the first purchase every so often. Then you use your finger print.
I have a Nexus 7 which was completely bricked by the "upgrade" to Android 5. I'm so furious I will never buy another Nexus device again.
(I made the same promise about Nike shoes 20 years ago and so far haven't bought anything elseby that brand).
This is basically social security. Less well known as Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance. Which is funded by the Federal Insurance Contributions Act tax. Careful readers will note the word 'Insurance' because that's what social security is. Insurance against living longer than your savings hold out.

Economists are funny. Soon as something is a government run program they're dead set against it.
They're saying that the odds are stacked against people born into less well-off backgrounds. A lucky few might have the natural ability or freak opportunity to increase their livelihood; that doesn't justify environmentally influenced wage inequality.
I think it's more about the police not wanting the public to know that iMessage is owned; having trusted-but-broken communication services is a serious advantage for them.
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This might be veering off topic, but I never really bought the argument that currying is important to FP. It seems more like a toy that makes some code marginally shorter, but interferes with other useful things (like named or default arguments). Or is there something fundamental that I'm missing?
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I do wonder though, given the outcome, whether they did get a knock from the wolf.
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Another reason people are reluctant to use annuities is they don't trust the companies selling them to remain in business for 10 years or more....
> Luckily, the author sounds almost as confused, since you couldn't have a handle on economics and write this:

Indeed. The author only has degrees in Mathematics and Economics from MIT.
My worry is that this is a gateway drug to "Fingerprint protect all the things!"

My bank emailed me the other day with an announcement that I could access my account through their app via my fingerprint. WTF? My text messages are one thing by now my money is protected by just my fingerprint? I took my bank to task because they allowed my username to be twice as long as the allowed characters in my password. Someone at the bank said, "Hey, all these new-fangled phones have fingerprint readers, why don't we tap into that and sell it as a feature?" When everyone is doing it, no one is going to stop and ask if they should, it's just a race to incorporate the newest features. Normal people aren't asking if this is secure, they are buying into the marketing copy pushed on them, so they start thinking that it has to be secure, because why would my bank not have my interests in mind?
Why is there a special Hong Kong version of the 5X? Specwise it's missing a couple bands the rest-of-world version supports.
This is fascinating - it's like Pornography and erotica. I can tell the difference between a ride share and an airline when I see it, but writing it down ... No.

I mean, if Uber drivers were forced to state where they were travelling from and to at a certain time, and only if users entered that route was the ride share matched, their model would collapse (ie I see pornography)

But do that for aircraft, and ... It's totally indistinguishable from an airline schedule.

But yeah. It's not a rideshare, you are floating the rules, get wrists slapped.
Sorry, let me confirm this. You can get a ticket for driving slower than traffic, despite driving at the speed limit?

Could you, in the same situation, also get a ticket for following the traffic—i.e. breaking the speed limit?
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You're probably right that it's some kind of historical reference that I didn't catch, but I still think it's ill-considered.

I will email in future. Thanks!
as an enthusiastic spotify user and chromecast user, thank you!
There was a point in 2013 when if you weren't doing something related to messaging and chat, you couldn't be one of the cool startup kids
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Here ya go, citation!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_pill#Examples
Agreed. I saw most of the technology pretty matured in Japanese automotive almost 10 years ago.
I answered that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10299788.

Based on everything we know about HN it's unlikely that such threads would be any good. HN discussions are good when there's a specific story or idea to discuss.
DxO seems to think that it is very good : http://www.dxomark.com/Mobiles/Google-Nexus-6P-review-Seriou...
It seems that Google has really worked on the camera module this time around.
There is a discussion group at Apple where lots of people seem to have the same problem with various different USB audio devices.
I haven't got anything to back it up, but I've always assumed it was Dave McClure. I'm much more curious about who FAKE GRIMLOCK is.
Yes, the added "in that regard" makes that clear.
The main problem is that upvotes and downvotes are devalued because they are essentially unlimited. What if karma behaved more as a currency and the costs increased as you used it repeatedly in the same comment thread. First one is free, then it costs you 1, then 5, etc.
> Google, Microsoft and Amazon

For me, the key part of Dropbox isn't first-party support, it's that a bajillion third-party apps have cross-platform support for it where availability of other services is rather more piecemeal.
But those are Google cars. Why aren't we hearing reports of sightings of Tesla's self driving cars? If they are so close then by now there should have been many stories about them, just like there are about Google's cars. Instead all we have is Elon Musk talking about them.
If I could sit back and read, or sleep in the back, then I'd consider that.
Hm, I'm surprised they don't have the iPhone 6S on there. Maybe it's coming.
Great article.

When an indie developer does an HD remake, it's a labor of love. Each sprite is scaled up meticulously and a lot of thought is put into how to make the game look the best.

When a big company like Squeenix does an HD remake, they toss it to a third party, who will do...well, pretty much what you see here. FFV has never been a big moneymaker for Square (wasn't even originally released in the US, so the nostalgia factor isn't even there for many of us who grew up with their games), so I'm guessing "cheap and good enough" trumped "actually good".

What's funny is that those who are nostalgic for these games (or who just think they're better than most of the stuff on the market today) are willing to work long and hard with no monetary compensation to produce actually good versions of the game in question. I wonder if there's some way for Square to work with these folks to produce a legal, well-done version of the game for Steam. Probably too risky, but it's a shame.
Since Amazon is using Lasership rather than a higher-priced, more competent carrier, it's Amazon's problem. It will certainly be Amazon's problem when their customers switch to competitors because Amazon is cheaping out and using Lasership.
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I am sure. However, like evernote the difficult problem they solved several years ago is no longer difficult, but quite easy and become much more cheap. Couple that with security and privacy risks and the value proposition changes quickly.

Maybe they are gearing up for a google merger or something. They are doing their mailbox app which looks cool and integrates storage and syncing. However, once again

1. Why would I use a mail client that only interfaces with gmail and outlook?

2. What is the point of the sync, this is default by most mail providers and clients?

3. Why would I want mail storage? I actually don't know what my mailbox limit is, but I certainly would not want to have the amount of .txt documents that could fill that up. Also, this is basic functionality. You can't pull me on your platform, google has the users you want and are better positioned, I still don't understand how you make money as a company.
Pilot here, I can assure you that a "puddle jumper" being flown by a certified commercial pilot is way more dangerous than a commercial flight. The certification necessary for an airliner is miles above (no pun intended) the certification for a GA (general aviation aircraft).

An airliner's resistance to weather, its ability to out-climb (it's pressurized) turbulence and ice, its ability to still fly with half of its engines destroyed, is something that doesn't exist in general aviation aircraft. An airliner can only be flown with 2 crew members, pilot and copilot, so that one being incapacitated doesn't end the flight right there. Such measures don't exist in general aviation.

Even airports are different. Big airports have control towers and radars to avoid midair collisions, excellent weather reports. The places I go to sometimes don't have either, I have to overfly the runway at 500 feet to look at the windsock and make an informed guess.
Yes, my Samsung Smart TV supported this, and while it'd be great to do that, but I just disliked the idea of taking another long cable and make it reach my wall socket. :(
What valuable product that's easy to fence are the masses ordering from Amazon on launch day? Amazon isn't the Apple Store.
Sounds like you need to contact the vendor that supplies your 2FA since it is misconfigured/incorrectly implemented.

I've seen this before with people who try to roll their own Google Authenticator/TOTP implementation.

What they do is they read the standard, note the 30 second default step size, and entirely ignore the window. If you look at Google Authenticator while the steps are 30 seconds, the window is +1 or -1, so you can enter three different valid codes at any one time (for three different steps: 0, +30, -30).

But don't take my word for it, Google has Authenicator source code available here:

https://github.com/google/google-authenticator/blob/master/l...

Look at "window" or "window_size" options. To quote Google's own comment:

> By default, tokens are good for 30 seconds and in order to compensate for possible time-skew between the client and the server, we allow an extra token before and after the current time. If you experience problems with poor time synchronization, you can increase the window from its default size of 1:30min to about 4min. Do you want to do so

So as I said, your 2FA is incorrectly done.
Same here. They throw the shit on my doorstep on the street in London, ring the doorbell and walk off.

One day I lost a 512 gig Samsung 840 Pro to this as someone walked off with the package as I was out. Amazon sorted it next day but that's not the point.
I tried Google Drive when it was launched. Used it a lot, but had tons of syncing issues. I ended up losing quite a bit of data.

Switched to Dropbox and haven't had a single sync issue since.

You're right that it's a service that is ridiculously simple in what it does, but right now, I can't imagine moving my 10GB+ of data to another platform.
Minecraft already has a theoretical land size that's larger than the landmass of earth.

Interestingly, the defacto behaviour with players is to start brand new maps every once in a while, even though only the barest fraction of the available space has been used up.
I think the point is ... With friends. Who almost always return to the same airfield as you both took off from.

But this is a fascinatingly grey area. If you were to fly from airfield A to B and back, taking a different passenger each time, how would you characterise the transaction?

I can see taking my kids up in an airplane of a friend of a friend, and handing over a hundred or whatever for fuel. But "some guy". Hard to imagine.
People who make that mistake are just outing themselves as newbs. Not that there's anything wrong with newbs, but it is useful to be able to just ignore their opinions about how HN should be.
I was paying for prime but dumped it. Turns out if you pick the free option and the stuff is dispatched by amazon it tends to turn up within 48 hours anyway so fuck it.

Also, I live 100 yards from Currys/PC World and they're actually cheaper on a lot of things (which was a bit WTF when I discovered it)
There is an entire chart devoted to this question in the article.
If you feel uncomfortable with your Uber diver, you can tell them to stop, and you can get out of the car.

What happens in the sky?
I read somewhere that they're trying to add realtime support to GraphQL, but the problem which GraphQL solves is only an issue if you use HTTP as a transport.

If you use a pub/sub realtime layer on the frontend, you don't need all the complexity which GraphQL introduces - You can make each component bind itself to a pub/sub channel which publishes changes to the resource which that component is interested in. It's a lot simpler and more direct.