skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to evaluate it hard for some B2B work I'm doing in the foodservice sector.

Under FDA/HACCP guidelines (that may someday morph into requirements), restaurants need to track and log things like operating temperatures, cycle times, and holding temperatures (setpoint and observed). Everything needs to be on record for a very long time in case of an outbreak.

There are some sites doing moderate IoT hosting and analysis, and some do whitelabel work which is nice. AWS will be another service to consider now.
MMM has at least two rental properties and is a phoney.

He can teach his kid to be a rentier by borrowing long and taking advantage of the separation between the value of labour vs assets when fiat money is over-issued by private banks.

And how to run a web-site about being frugal whilst deriving rental income from three families who cannot save because they are busy working hard to keep MMM pumping out half-truths on the internet.

Can we all take up three times as many houses as we need and live off the rental income siphoned off from the labour of others? No.
Interesting data, but it seems like the CRA could use some data visualization help.

Instead of a rich gradient of color to indicate percent, it chooses a small subset of shades (and texture). I know- this is common, but since many percentages are close to 50%, it makes them stand apart too much. And then there is the mostly useless indicator of metric distance: the U.S. uses miles as the standard not km, and if you don't know how big the U.S. is, then the data in this map is probably of no use to you. Finally, a dotted texture was used that looks pretty 1990s, so it stands out too much with the others being solid colors. The colors aren't even in the same palette or color family. And the orange dots seem too fat and clash with at least one of those greens.
Like NASA, auto companies like VW produce a TON of documentation on all phases of design and engineering. This is especially true when it comes to regulation-sensitive processes like emissions testing.

As someone who has worked in a comparably highly regulated industry (pharma) I can state with full confidence that Mr Horn is a lying bastard.
Seems hugged to death already, sorry.

Wayback machine link:

http://web.archive.org/web/20151008102734/http://www.preinin...
Another way to look at it is the following. Many Americans (but fewer than 38% I'm sure--to be fair) have more than $1000 sitting around earning minimal or no interest--but also fully liquid at zero to minimal risk of capital loss--as part of a diversified portfolio strategy.
When this CEO of a company with 600k employees says "it's some software engineers", I assume he might actually be honestly referring to what we would call engineering managers, perhaps with hundreds of indirect reports, 2-3 levels down from the CEO.

I find this plausible...

(Particularly since these hearings seem designed to score political points rather than to find out what actually happened.)
How many rental properties does he have? Think he just survives on being frugal and dollar cost averaging? Think again.
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That's really, really not what I said.
What would you actually want to use the UI for? For my part, all interactions with the registry are entirely automated. We set it up, and I forgot all about it. It's low level plumbing.
There was a joke in the Stanford economics department a few years ago: "There are two American professors in the department, and one of them is named Bhattacharya"
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I can't imagine you're this obtuse for real but I'll bite.

Pretty sure the backlash is against the "kids" part of rich kids - as the phrase "rich kids" insinuates second-gen wealth, a mass of money without having the responsibility or maturity to have earned it.

Very different story than for many of us self-made engineers, coming from the lower end of the economic bracket and taking advantage of scholarships and financial aid to get the skills that have now landed us well-paying jobs as adults, which we've worked 8-12-hour days to earn and keep.

We may be "rich" but we're not spoiled "rich kids", that make more sense?
I expect this is mostly because there is less funding available for students pursuing a Masters. If you can get funded by doing research or teaching, then the ROI of a masters is not bad for US students. It is typically 2 years and many employers treat it as work experience.

This is different for PhD students because you are talking about a potentially much longer period of time and much less ROI. This is especially true given the oversupply of PhDs in most fields relative to the number of actual tenure-track positions. If you can't get a tenure-track position, then you are probably over-qualified for most industry jobs and wont get much more compensation that someone with a masters.

For non-US students, the return is getting into the US on a visa and getting a post graduate technical degree from a US institution, both of which are much more likely to land you a US job (and probably wont hurt your chances in academia / industry in India / China either).
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>> John Criscitello placed posters in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood proclaiming “Welcome! Rich Kids,” and “Wish you weren’t here.”

Don't hate them, cash in on them. Start a high-end or artistically product and sell to the 'rich kids'.
Definitely had to take an ethics course when I went to Waterloo (in Ontario, Canada). I believe it's a requirement for a university's program to receive Engineering accreditation. At any rate, all engineers took it.
This is because of the field itself more than any other policies. I have an undergrad degree in Computer Information Systems. That was VERY appealing when I knew nothing about programming, the field, etc.

After having been in the field for 15 years, there are a few things that become very clear:

1. I did not need an undergraduate degree to do this. Some fields you need formal education in a controlled setting. This isn't one of them.

2. There is virtually nothing in this field that I feel I couldn't learn given books and free time

3. I am married with 2 kids and a good job. To pursue a PhD I've got to either put my job and my income on hold to go pursue it (while taking on the expense) OR pursue it in my spare time and encroach on my children's childhood. Neither are worth it.

4. Virtually nothing to gain FROM the PhD

I also have a Master's but I got that in a business field instead, which is tremendously harder to just get from books. Experience and connections in business are huge and that degree was worth every penny.

At this point, if I went back to school for anything it would probably be Law, Statistics or Finance. There's just nothing in the field of computing that I believe couldn't be better learned by experience.
I want to be like him.
You have to have a large number of individuals cooperate (agree not to use credit cards) in order to gain a group benefit (lower prices because the merchant isn't paying transaction fees). Any one person can defect (use a credit card) to get their cash back, for personal benefit to the detriment of the group.

If I was a merchant, I'd solve the problem by passing on the credit card fee to consumers who use the card (or equivalently, offer cash discount, if my marketing department tells me consumers hate surcharges but love bargains).
Really, really unconvinced that's the case for computer science. Graduate level classes are definitely yet another cut above undergrad classes, and a lot of the sub-fields that are heating up right now are currently graduate-level only, and in many cases, likely to stay that way. You just aren't going to get into serious machine learning or computer vision in an undergrad course, without rewriting the entire required curriculum for that explicit purpose. (The prerequisites for those things are already considered senior-level courses.)

Disclaimer: I have one, but they paid me for it. I got it 2000-2002; a moment's thought will reveal why I thought that was a good way to spend those years.... (Spoiler: Which is better, being paid to get a grad-level degree or unemployment?)
OK, in the 90's I interviewed at this company, and had not thought of them since. Basically (according to a guy I interviewed with) they looked for patterns in stock prices and then tried to predict when to buy based on similarity to past patterns, independent of knowledge of world events etc. I don't know if that was all they did at the time, or just a part of it. Anyway, I had been a SCO Unix and Linux admin and they were looking for someone to manage their laptops, which they had Solaris on at the time (but were unhappy with). I had done some fractal analysis in my grad work and they were at least passingly interested in that ... I'm really happy I didn't go that route.
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So I've lived in Seattle my whole life. In the last 5 years the locally operated grocery store near my house was torn down and replaced with a Whole Foods while my favorite movie theater (the only theater I've ever known to provide a sound-proofed room for small children) has become a 21+ reserve-your-seats $80 movie night ordeal. I don't really have a problem with new people moving in and some of my best friends work at Amazon, but you can't really classify all these "new amenities and attractions" as a positive, most of them are just overpriced crap targeted to a demographic I don't belong to. It's not like Seattle was bereft of services and entertainment before you showed up.
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Not surprising. I went to a public (UC) school for undergraduate and a private school for a graduate degree. > 90% of my TAs (who were on the PhD track) in both programs were from abroad.
The average standard of living is going up. Things get better all the time. Many people in debt have nicer cars than people did 20 years ago.

The sad thing is people choose to buy new cars rather than the perfectly functioning old ones and higher quality food. Or people without large families choose bigger houses rather than perfectly acceptable ones that two generations ago couples with 7 kids would fit in.

A very good standard of living in America can be had for well under $20k a year in family spending given smart decisions. The problem is people don't make those smart decisions. Maybe the government needs to step in - or maybe those people prefer their decisions to the ones other people think they should decide.

I chose healthcare and an eight year old car and $100+ in savings a month whereas my similar earning coworker chose a new car payment.

Also people spend lots and lots of money on alcohol I notice - and the % of that spending doesn't change much with income - they just buy higher priced drinks.
I found products made by car companies to be in general more reliable than those made by software companies (either in Silicon Valley or not).
I trust my life to my car (software included) every day. I wouldn't do that with any software of my smartphone, not even the OS.
Expect VW US to play dumb until something out of Germany is officially done. VW wont go out of business, but they are 10 years from growth in the US and probably most other markets. I think the real fallout will come if the prestige brands are made to look bad. Audi and Porsche have much more to lose, and those are the profit centers for VW.
> Agreed, but it's a lot easier + quicker for PhDs to obtain permanent residency as opposed to non-residents having undergraduate or Master's degree.

Perhaps. I think that's arguable, though. The only difference it might make is in the initial petition stage. The only situation in which I see holding a Ph.D makes any difference is if, for example, the applicant petitions for residency by claiming they are an "Alien with an extraordinary ability". This is rare enough that I feel it's probably no easier.
I think anon4 was playing devil's advocate.
The article says that MUBI is a London based company. Does that mean it is available in the UK? I would guess that is highly probable.
in my experience the grad classes are whatever the professor can slap together at the last minute. the reason to get a graduate degree is for the research and mentorship and maybe you can get that out of a masters degree but probably not most of the time.

edit: if you can get paid to get a masters, then why not. support is usually tiered so that phd students are covered and whatever is left over can go to masters students though...
Most of my savings is invested in index funds. Pretty much all of them allow you to withdraw the full amount in 3 days or so.

Granted, do you have any idea what such a scenario might look like? Odds are, it can wait. Even large medical operations if you don't have medical insurance (where I live), simply require a modest deposit before they start the operation or expensive procedure. Though I do think they ask for some sort of proof that you have the money on hand.

But, again, most people here have enough money to pay for private healthcare insurance, or they rely on the free state hospitals.

Car, insured. Medical, insured. Bond payments, predictable.

So, I'm trying to figure out a valid plausible scenario where a large amount of "cash" is required in a very short amount of time. Any ideas?
http://xkcd.com/1367/

"Why not skip installing things and make a phone that has every app 'installed' already and just downloads them and runs them on the fly"

What! This is a browser!
I've known PhD friends that will straight up lie on their resumes when applying to places and only list that they're a masters student. I'm fairly sure this is legal since they technically did graduate with a master's degree.

Regardless, it really shows how screwed up things are that you have PhDs that have to do this in order to find work. These are STEM majors, mind you -- to any naysayers.
What do people use to save? I use Qapital, I know a lot of people like Digit. I know they can't foundationally help the problem but they can help a lot of people who are capable of saving but aren't - which I would suspect is probably close to the majority of these folks.
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"Social Justice Warrior"

Really? That's the level of discourse the author is gonna set the bar at? At least I know that I'm not missing any substance by having just skimmed the post.

Seems like a cheap scramble for pageviews with an incredibly biased article, starting with the title.
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This. Now real interest rates are negative as inflation stats don't reflect reality. So 0.5% when prices are rising well above this.

Almost nobody on hear is speaking of "real" rates. Disturbing.
I can't speak to every demographic, but I've lived and worked on the Eastside as a software dev for 15 some years now, and I've never had that reaction from anyone. Far from it, probably a third or better of the households I go to church with, or who my kids go to school with, have at least one engineer in the household, sometimes more.

That said, Woodinville and Bellevue are not Capitol Hill, which has a very different vibe. I'm as uncomfortable in that neighborhood as they would be in mine, I expect.
I recently saw a picture of first ladies Jackie Kennedy and Mamie Eisenhower together, and was thinking what a massive generational change JFK was and what a comparative lightweight. Think of his predecessors going back almost 30 years:

* FDR was of course a giant, leading the nation through the Great Depression and most of WWII, and through 4 terms.

* Truman finished WWII, ordered the atomic bombing, led the transition to peace, established the great post-war institutions both nationally (CIA, etc.), and internationally (UN, etc.), laid the foundations of the Cold War, including the containtment strategy, and started the Korean War.

* Eisenhower was supreme uniformed commander of European (and Pacific?) allied forces in WWII, leading them to victory and defeat of the Nazis in the largest war in history.

JFK commanded a patrol boat (about 15 sailors), was 28 years old when WWII ended, and was a 1.5 term Senator. What was Mamie thinking, seeing these comparative children take over the nation and the world? What did the Soviet leadership think?

(I don't say that to denigrate JFK; thankfully there were no such calmaties after WWII for him and the world to experience, and eventually the next generation had to take over.)
You're talking about undergrads. PhD foreign students are paid by the university, not payers into budgets. So it's actually the opposite effect.
To be fair, Amazon doesn't directly or indirectly employ half the population of Seattle like Walmart does in northwest Arkansas.

Plus, it's apples and oranges. Seattle attracts counter-culture folks, and has for a long time. They tend to be assholes in general in my opinion.
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I have never heard that analogy but it is a very strong and succinct argument. Thanks.
Well, the folks behind Vimperator sound optimistic at least.

https://github.com/vimperator/vimperator-labs/issues/264
That's just giving oneself an excuse for lying. "It's ok if I lie, because everyone else does it, even unconsciously".

Lying is one of the most insidious form of harm one can inflict on another human being - poisoning their ability to reason about the world. Lies add up, and also deal recursive damage - people spread them believing they've been told the truth, and spread inferences based on them.

Lies should never be treated lightly and excused with trivialities.
I don't agree! I think much worse things would have to happen to dissolve the FDIC than would have to happen to lose a significant portion of your investments in the bond/stock/real estate markets.
I don't know if I ever really saw Seattle's 'soul' when I lived there for 3 years. Granted, I lived in the North part. I saw a lot of white and asian people (mainly dudes) looking at their feet or looking at their phones. Seattle is one of the most difficult places to strike up a conversation with strangers or get people to actually want to hang out (worse if they are locals).

South Seattle, on the other hand, truly has 'soul'. Rainier Beach at one point was the most diverse zip code in the entire USA. You got to a coffee shop there and you'll see groups of east africans, latinos, all mixes of asian, white, african american, you name it. It's got gritty parts, nicer parts, and all sorts of interesting restaurants and grocery stores. The Amazon people don't tend to live or congregate down there as much.

As far as cap hill, fremont, wallingford, u-dist, you can keep it. A bunch of bland ass wealthy white/asian dudes looking at the ground.

I moved to SF and lived there for a couple years. The gentrification and rent is bad but the diversity and mix of people across most of the neighborhoods still beats north seattle hands down. It was a way more eclectic interesting experience than anything my Seattle time could offer.
This is very much my version of the rant, too. Today it would be absolutely unspeakable for a computing device to boot up for the first time without a web browser installed. Microsoft may have jumped the gun by a half-minute or so, but they saw that future coming.

Of course, I get even rantier about the "antivirus" companies blocking Microsoft from including Defender (nee Security Essentials) out of the box with XP and Vista, under similar reasoning to the Netscape decision. How is antivirus not an Operating System feature (system protection)? I'm glad that decision has finally passed and I really hope that people stop paying for the security theater "antivirus" programs that remain out there as OEM bloatware and those "products" will finally die a long, much deserved death.
Rational people can't improve decision-making ability by losing information, but irrational people can. For instance, I may be less likely to do the dishes if I'm keeping score and realize I do them much more than my roommate, but if I don't keep score, I might only consider whether or not they need to be done when making the decision.

Of course, you can't really justify such a thing if you're trying to make a rational argument.
You mean a place once known as "Catholic Hill" was built and populated by gays and the creative community? Or do you mean that the current moment in time, which through the ongoing process of migration, renovation and economic activity just happens to have a particular demographic that this guy found appealing.

For every buyer, there is a seller and if he doesn't want the neighborhood to change, he should be speaking with the sellers rather than the buyers.
Oh yes definitely. I don't mean a bunch of gay artists came and built it in the 30's or postwar period. But the reinvention of the place, in the 70s and 80s as you say, was what helped make it distinct culturally. That's now coming to an end and a new era is starting - but lots of people would rather it didn't, myself included. Not much we can do though.
I think Kubernetes is a good example of the right way to go about things. It gives a taste of what's possible on Google infrastructure and lowers the migration cost if you decide to move to Google (from what I understand).

Both Google and Amazon will hugely benefit just by making the internet more ubiquitous (all roads lead to Rome). Google seems to realize that providing great open-source tools and systems is a good way to bolster their business. Amazon, on the other hand, provides great infrastructure but doesn't seem to be incredibly interested in anything that doesn't increase lock-in.
> But then the goalposts shifted...

The goalposts didn't shift. High priority complaints just tend to get more visibility than low priority complaints. Each iteration of the Surface Pro has fixed a high priority complaint, shaving it off the queue and revealing the rest of the queue. But the entire queue was always there from the beginning.

In other words, the issues that are now primary were previously secondary or tertiary in prior iterations of the Surface Pro. They existed, but there was little reason to focus on them because of other, more glaring problems that had to be fixed first.
The headline is "Homosexuality may be caused by chemical modifications to DNA" and yet there is zero evidence of causation, merely preliminary data showing a correlation. Science should be above this.
The comments in this discussion that talk about how foreign nationals look at a PhD as a short-cut to getting permanent residency infuriates me.

I have a CS PhD from a reputable mid-west school. I am also not a US citizen. When a person is considering investing 5-7 years of his/her life into a PhD program, I am quite certain the US immigration policy is not a motivating factor by any measure. You can apply for permanent residency under the EB-2 quota even with a Masters. The EB-1 quota is for "outstanding researchers" with truly exceptional skills, and who have made significant impact in their field of research. All the non-American PhD students I have met in my life (and I have met a LOT of them) have a real drive to innovate and be someone in their field of research. Sure, higher salaries (if they decide to enter the industry, as opposed to academia) are a strong motivation to some of them, but I doubt if permanent residency is.
> There is something wrong with that.

To your employer the system is working as designed.
Well, is there any surprise they've chosen a couple of fall guys to blame it on?
I agree with you on the first point, but:

> where people and areas that don't, for example, vote "correctly" have their police protection largely withdrawn.

The NYPD has actually done this in NYC more than once in recent memory.
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